Parents were accused of abusing their infant, but jailers took them to see her final moments

[DonViejo]

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Not yet 6 months old, a once-battered and beaten Dinah Paige Whited lay motionless in a Georgia hospital bed, where her parents — accused in the abuse that put her there — were allowed to say their last goodbyes before their baby girl took her last breath.

Her parents, Justin and Jamie Whited, were granted permission to see her Monday morning before doctors in Atlanta removed “Baby Dinah” from the machine that had been keeping her alive.

Police said Tuesday that the pair have been charged with felony murder in a child abuse case that left her small body full of broken bones and a bleeding brain and, ultimately, led to her tragic death.

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Friends and family members said the couple, who had been together since their teen years, struggled with drug abuse and domestic issues, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Jamie Whited’s mother told the newspaper that her daughter had been in legal trouble for possession of methamphetamine and, police said, Jamie later admitted that she was on prescription painkillers the day her child nearly stopped breathing on her own.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/09/parents-were-accused-of-abusing-their-infant-but-jailers-took-them-to-see-her-final-moments/?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

[CurtEastPoint]

1. This brought me to tears to read keep up w/this local story.

And of course, we have this:

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/gay-couple-s-dream-of-adopting-ends-in-bias-charge/article_9dde90ec-45d7-5734-82cb-81f0c0f18e17.html

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. Good God.

Child abuse of infants has just got to be the hardest of all abuse for me to understand. Children and animals.

The horror of this story leaves me absolutely stunned.

[cali]

3. How awful.

I am reminded so often, reading stories like this one, of a poem by William Carlos Williams:

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/to-elsie.html

[MFM008]

4. Bless the beasts and the children