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September 08, 2004
Terrible Question
The local papers have been following this horrible story all week.
A Lowell man told police four different stories about how an 18-month-year-old child died while in his care, Lowell Police Chief Joe Landers said Tuesday....Zulpo, 25, was arrested Saturday on a count of manslaughter after the death Thursday of Jeron D. McGrew of Rogers. "I don’t think it was an accident," Landers said. "If it was an accident, why would someone tell four different stories?"
Gary Zulpo was the husband of the toddler's babysitter. She had left him in charge of several kids while she went to a doctor's appointment.
At 10 a.m., Zulpo, a J. B. Hunt employee, called 911, saying the boy had fallen and was unconscious.
The boy died at Northwest Medical Center in Springdale. Doctors found a skull fracture but not enough swelling to be the cause of death, according to an affidavit obtained Tuesday from the Benton County prosecuting attorney’s office. An autopsy Friday showed that compressive chest trauma caused a burst heart that killed the boy.
How much force would a grown man have to exert to rupture a baby's little heart?
That's a terrible question to which I wish no one would ever need to know the answer. I don't envy the prosecutor. This is one of those cases that you can't ever forget....no matter how it turns out.
I don't know the parents of this toddler, but they're friends of my daughter & FSIL. My daughter says they're good people, and I would imagine they are absolutely devasted.
Remember them in your prayers tonight, would you?
Posted by Rita at September 8, 2004 04:40 PM
Comments
Think there is a special place in hell for people like that?
Posted by: Stephanie at September 8, 2004 09:23 PM
If this wasn't the result of an accident, yes.
Posted by: rita at September 9, 2004 06:13 AM
Perhaps you know more details, but could the burst heart have come from the guy trying to do CPR on the baby?
Posted by: yayaempress at September 10, 2004 10:27 AM
Nevermind, I just read the story. Certainly sounds fishy.
Our thoughts are with the family.
Posted by: yayaempress at September 10, 2004 10:29 AM