Missing Florida Baby Investigation Now Focused on Sitter, Who Wrote Warning Letter to

[Billnew]

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Authorities confirmed to the News Herald Wednesday that they are investigating Baker to see if she is the same Susan Baker implicated in a 26-year-old missing child case that never has been solved.
After the disappearance, the couple's 6-year-old daughter was removed by state social workers who discovered broken bones and sores on her body."
Susan Baker was convicted of beating the little girl and sentenced to 10 years in prison, the case documents say.

Seems like a t.v. show plot.
She sees abuse, tries to get authorities to protect these kids, and when they don't, she takes them and finds a new home for them?
Because I don't see a person harming a child when they were motivated to prevent harm to the babies.

Does the baby sitter have a son? Maybe she had the child stashed long enough to not be suspected of the kidnapping, than move to a new area, and raise the child as her own.

If there was abuse, I hope the family faces the judge. I do hope they find the child.

Don't understand why she worte a letter to the Governor. Child protective services(or local equivalent) is the people to call.

 

[Billnew]

Baby found.
Police say The babysitter, her husband, and the babies mama will be charged.
But would not announce charges.

Kidnapping is wrong. But maybe something good will come out of this.

I assume the mother will be charged with abuse, unless she was in on the kidnapping, then they all could only be charged with filing a false report. Since the mother can take the baby and leave it with anyone she chooses.
If this is the case then I would assume the father was the abuser, or the wife was planning on divorcing him and didn't want to chance loosing custody.

 

[Billnew]

Last week, baby sitter Susan Elizabeth Baker asked the infant's mother Chrystina Lynn Mercer to give her custody and Mercer agreed, Washington County Sheriff Bobby Haddock said.
The sheriff said Baker and Mercer both were charged with several felonies, including interfering with child custody, false report of a crime, false report of a missing child and contributing to the delinquency of a child.

It will be interesting as to why the mother would give the baby, and then file a report.
If the husband abused the baby, the easy thing would have been to report him.
If the mother was the abuser, then simply transfer custody to the babysitter.
This story just doesn't make since.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

It will be interesting as to why the mother would give the baby, and then file a report.
If the husband abused the baby, the easy thing would have been to report him.
If the mother was the abuser, then simply transfer custody to the babysitter.
This story just doesn't make since.

Or the mother could have been manipulate by the baby sitter,To believe she and her husband were so bad that it would be better to give her the baby to raise.Maybe the mothers instinct went in,Or her husband talk some sense in the mother and that's why she reported her kid missing.Also if CPS was checking out those abuse claim,Who knows what the baby sitter was telling the mom.I'm sure she or the county didn't tell her,she turned them in.
Also the baby sitter has a history of abuse on children.Also she had a 3 year old stepson that went missing like 20 years ago.A very good reason to do a background check on the people you hire.

 

[suzybeezy]

I am so outraged by this story, it makes me sick! Just to think of that little baby in what was essentially a coffin is just horrific. And i note that Baker makes mention in her letter to the governor that the baby has mental disabilities. I haven't heard the news reporting on this and I wonder what kind of impact this will have in the long term on this child.