Parents Arrested For Abuse Say Baby Has ‘Brittle Bone’ Disease
BRENTWOOD, Pa. — A French teacher at Brentwood High School and her husband have been charged with abusing their infant son, but their defense attorney said the boy merely suffers from a condition that makes his bones brittle.Stephanie Faust, 31, and her husband, Scott, are charged with aggravated assault and child endangerment because of broken bones and head trauma Children’s Hospital doctors discovered in June when their son was just 10 weeks old.The couple also has a 2-year-old daughter who has no injuries.Their attorney, Patrick Thomassey, said the baby has a rare brittle bone disease and hasn’t been abused. The attorney said the condition “always ends with these unexplained injuries, and people will go to jail.”
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Keri Says:
I posted this message to another article you have up about the Fausts. There are a number of flaws in the police report. For example this child had absolutely no lacerations to him anywhere, and the supposed head trauma turned out to be grey matter… which is very normal…
I am a friend of the Faust family. I find it very chilling that the doctors at UPMC no nothing about Brittle Bone Disease… medical term; Osteogenesis Imperfecta. Also, I’m very disappointed with how many actual facts the Baldwin Police Department have wrong with their investigation compared to the doctor’s reports. Justice will prevail, and I hope Scott and Stephanie can finally move forward with trying tofind out what’s truely wrong with their baby. They deserve justice andto have a CHANCE to find out what’s wrong with their little one. Theyare great parents who love their children dearly! Here is a link you might be very interested in.
http://www.oif.org/site/DocServer/_Child_Abuse__Child_Abuse_or_Ostegenesis_Imperfecta.pdf?docID=7189
Posted on November 14th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Annette Deane Says:
Hi keri, I feel for your friends, as the exact same thing happened to my son. Unexplained fracture, distorted doctors reports, accused of abuse etc etc. I managed to get my son back from foster care just before he was adopted, only because he (fortunately) had another fracture whilst in care. He didn’t have any more for a furter 12 months, so the fracture in care happened just at the right time. Its been absolute hell, I have now sued Social Services in the European Court of Human Rights, and am attempting to have the inept doctors struck off. I can;t believe this is still happening…
Posted on December 18th, 2010 at 4:00 pm