U.S. Marshals Arrest Man On Federal Child Abuse Charges
U.S. Marshals arrested a Fort Yates man on Monday who has been charged in U.S. District Court of North Dakota with child abuse and assault. Waylon Jason Pumpkinseed, 29, is accused of repeatedly shaking and squeezing a 4-month-old child, with one incident resulting in the child’s hospitalization at CHI St. Alexius Medical Center. Katherine Ludewig, a special agent for the FBI, wrote that the case came to her attention on Sunday, after Pumpkinseed brought the child to the emergency room at Fort Yates Hospital. READ MORE HERE
---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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