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[Guest Verbal Kint]

Today's "front page" news story, on CNN.com...

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New Year's baby's death shatters family, relationships

Story Highlights

• 2008 New Year's baby of Summit County, Ohio, shaken to death
  
• Father confessed to police, but attorney fighting murder charge
  
• Autopsy on 12-week-old infant indicates earlier injuries
  
• Tragedy destroys family, ruins relationships
  

Camryn Jakeb Wilson was the first baby born this year in Summit County, Ohio, arriving at 12:33 a.m. January 1.

Camryn's brain, eyes and ribs were severely injured when someone violently shook him. He died March 25.

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio (CNN) -- Camryn Jakeb Wilson was bathed in TV lights the day he was born, celebrated on the local news as Summit County's 2008 New Year's baby after his arrival at 12:33 a.m. on January 1.

Just 12 weeks later, he was bathed in warm water minutes after he quietly died in his mother's arms, the victim of shaken baby syndrome. Camryn's 9-year-old sister, Tabatha, asked why he needed a bath now.

"We have to get him ready to go to Jesus," a nurse softly replied. Tabatha took up a sponge to help.

Camryn's father, Craig R. Wilson, 28, of Cuyahoga Falls, is scheduled for a pretrial hearing on murder and other charges August 20. Police say he confessed to shaking and squeezing the infant after arguing with his wife, Crystal Wilson.

But he has pleaded not guilty to all the charges and faces trial in September.

"There are no excuses for this to happen to any baby," Crystal Wilson, 26, told CNN. "This is murder. He had no reason to die. He died because he cried."

An innocent infant's violent death has destroyed a family. Watch the family celebrate Camryn's birth »

"It really is a tragedy," said Craig Wilson's defense attorney, Jonathan T. Sinn. "I mean, not only did Crystal and Craig lose a son, but Crystal lost a husband, and Craig's parents lost a son and a grandson. ... One day this was a happy, perfect family, and the next day it's been devastated."

The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome estimates as many as 1,400 babies annually are injured or killed by shaking.

According to the center, 70 percent to 79 percent of people convicted of killing or hurting babies are men. The average age of perpetrators is 24, and 82 percent are either the parent of the victim or the live-in boyfriend of the mother.

Craig Wilson and Crystal Twiddy, both recovering alcoholics, met about four years ago in a softball league popular with Alcoholics Anonymous members. The couple beamed in engagement photos shot in a garden setting before they were married last September. It was the first marriage for both. See photos of the family »

Craig, the machinist son of the Cuyahoga Falls High School wrestling coach and a former Mat Cats wrestler himself, became a father figure to Tabatha, Crystal's daughter from a previous relationship.

The newlyweds also became frequent caretakers to 1-year-old Corrine, a daughter Craig had with another woman. Family members said the couple's only source of conflict was Craig's interactions with Corrine's mother.

On March 12, the topic sparked a heated quarrel, according to a police report and family accounts. The couple hurled their wedding rings, along with profane insults, at each other. Crystal left with Tabatha to attend one of her regular A.A. meetings, leaving baby Camryn in the care of his father.

"Maybe they both could have used a meeting that night," Sinn observed.

When Crystal and Tabatha got home from the meeting on March 12, Crystal immediately noticed Camryn didn't look right in his baby swing. He was gasping for air but couldn't be wakened. After briefly speaking with an on-call doctor at Akron Children's Hospital, she scooped him up and rushed him there.

Camryn was critically injured, with bleeding inside his head and in the backs of his eyes, and several broken ribs -- some of which, according to the autopsy, turned out to be older injuries. Medical personnel at the hospital determined the combination of injuries could only mean abuse.

When rib fractures are seen in a 10-week-old infant, "it's beating up," said Dr. Nicolas Krawiecki, a pediatric neurologist and faculty member at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. He is not involved in the Wilson case. Watch a doctor explain shaken baby syndrome »

Craig Wilson was summoned to the hospital, where police questioned both parents separately. Early on March 13, the 5-foot-7-inch, 190-pound father was arrested after admitting he had shaken and squeezed his baby out of frustration and anger toward his wife resulting from the argument over Corrine's mother, according to the police investigators' report.

The bleeding inside Camryn's head was catastrophic. The two sides of his brain were "like two telephone poles with the lines between them cut," a family member said a doctor told them. Camryn was blind and incapable of feeling someone touching him, he could not breathe on his own, and if he lived he would never be aware of his surroundings or even be capable of thinking, family members said. Learn about shaken baby syndrome »

After almost two weeks of waiting for a miracle that would never come, Crystal Wilson decided to withdraw life support. She gave friends and family -- including everyone on Craig's side -- time to gather to say goodbye to the tiny boy with the big, sightless eyes. Various relatives took turns holding him as he gradually slipped away.

"They pulled together, they prayed together, they took baby Camryn off life support together," said Sinn, the Wilson family's longtime lawyer. "And that was a wonderful thing, that they were able to pull together like that despite Craig being alleged to have done these things."

Camryn's father was not among them as he remained in jail. Sheriff's deputies took Craig Wilson to the funeral home for a brief, private viewing of the infant's body the night before the funeral.

But the family unity would not last. Buried with Camryn were multiple relationships that could not survive the grief, recrimination and legal machinations that have followed his death. Watch how Camryn's death has ruined relationships »

Crystal Wilson intends to divorce her husband of 11 months and is at odds with her in-laws.

"My anger is kicked in full load," she wrote on her private MySpace page. "I don't care what Craig's family members think. He did this to my son. May he get what he deserves! Maybe people should talk more about Camryn than Craig. Craig's name has no worth to even be mentioned."

Through their attorney, Wilson and his family declined to comment to CNN.

Sinn said the autopsy on Camryn raises questions about whether Craig Wilson or someone else might have injured the infant on previous occasions.

The autopsy report, obtained by CNN, found Camryn had multiple rib fractures -- including several that apparently were incurred on one or more previous occasions.

"The question becomes: If that autopsy is accurate, if this child has been severely injured to the point that his ribs were fractured on prior occasions, multiple occasions, how come no one knew that?" Sinn said.

If Camryn's caregivers didn't pick up on his earlier rib fractures, neither did medical personnel trained to look for signs of child abuse. Camryn had been to Children's Hospital several times during his short life -- including earlier on the day he was fatally injured -- for well-baby checks and immunizations. No doctor or nurse ever noted broken ribs or signs of unusual pain in the infant, family members said. Watch how to avoid hurting a baby »

Cuyahoga Falls police have said there are no suspects besides Craig Wilson, and Summit County Children Services removes children immediately from a home investigators consider dangerous. Crystal Wilson's other child, 9-year-old Tabatha, is still at home with her mother.

Sinn conceded that his client belatedly admitted to police having squeezed Camryn on previous occasions.

"He only made the confession after the detectives involved started talking about other possibilities of how this child could have been injured, what other folks in the household could have injured him. Then Craig quickly took responsibility," Sinn said.

Sinn said his client would accept "today" an offer to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter, saying Craig Wilson had no intention to kill Camryn that night, making a murder charge inappropriate. But prosecutors say there will be no deal.

"No matter what happens, Craig is going to very likely spend the majority of his adult life in prison," Sinn conceded. "We are talking massive numbers here."

John Saros, executive director of Summit County Children Services, said crime within a family can bring long-lasting hardship, especially when a family member goes to prison.

"If that's the breadwinner or the main breadwinner, then you've got some serious financial problems right off the bat," he said.

Crystal and Tabatha can attest to that. They can no longer afford to live in the charming little house they once shared with Craig on a peaceful Cuyahoga Falls street. Watch how bad things happen in good families »

"I lost my job because of this, because I couldn't work enough hours. Now I have to move into a smaller place," Crystal said. "It's horrible. It's a whole life change."

And the consequences in such circumstances extend beyond the immediate family, Saros said.

"It will be the basis for divorces, it'll be the basis for the kind of family conflict that then brings into play maternal and paternal grandparents and the extended family on both sides, and we end up with a lot of conflict," said Saros, who has been in the family services field for 40 years.

Crystal Wilson's mother -- Camryn's grandmother, Laura Twiddy -- is angry at Craig but is trying to keep perspective.

"I can't have HATE eat me up and beat me down. I can't live like that," she wrote on her MySpace page. "I will have to one day forgive him so that I might find peace."

Peace of a sort can be found near the back of Stow Cemetery, where birds chirp in the trees above a freshly carved marker bearing a photograph of a big-eyed baby boy.

The plot where Camryn now lies beneath that stone was donated to Crystal Wilson by a kind relative: Janet Wilson, Camryn's great-grandmother.

On his father's side.

And the charming son of a bitch that took the life of his son, and ruined every other life connected to him...

Crystal and Craig Wilson beamed in their engagement photo in June 2007 and were married in September.

[Guest eyebedam]

Now Im pissed too! Hang that SOB

[dralarms]

Now you gon e and ruined my good mood this morning. The SOB needs to be hung up and beat, then shot with small caliber until dead.

[Guest jackdog]

hanging is way to fast for this POS

[Guest nraforlife]

Fire up the chair, strap his ass in and send him stright to hell. But nooooo, Ohio will end up paying millions between prosecution and jail.

[Guest Verbal Kint]

Saw this over on another forum, in regards to a thief robbing one of the members. I think it's a pretty accurate start to what I'd do to this guy...

"Burn off every inch of his skin with acid and a small paint brush. Cut his nose off, swab the cavity with acid, cut off his tongue, puncture ear drums, remove the eyes, and limbs. Then drop him at a hospital so he can live the rest of his life in darkness not knowing if he is alive or dead."

However, I'd test the theory of him not knowing if he's dead or not... for the rest of the time on this planet.

[TGO David]

All I need is guaranteed immunity and I would walk to Ohio to end this mother****er's life.

[Magiccarpetrides]

Wow...what a dirtbag...I hope he gets what he deserves. It takes a real coward and piece of sh*t to beat a defenseless child.

[Smith]

Still not as bad as the lady who killed her 2 mo. old in the microwave! I'll try to find the story. What's wrong with these people.

http://www.startribune.com/nation/26829449.html

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080812/NEWS0107/308120039

http://www.click2houston.com/news/13329125/detail.html

Edited August 15, 2008 by Smith

[dunndw]

All I need is guaranteed immunity and I would walk to Ohio to end this mother****er's life.

I'd go along and carry the ammo...knives, screwdrivers, hammers, etc

[ShaunM]

I hope he feels every flame in hell.

[dralarms]

All I need is guaranteed immunity and I would walk to Ohio to end this mother****er's life.

I'll go with you.

Still not as bad as the lady who killed her 2 mo. old in the microwave! I'll try to find the story. What's wrong with these people.

http://www.startribune.com/nation/26829449.html

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080812/NEWS0107/308120039

http://www.click2houston.com/news/13329125/detail.html

I'm mad enough right now, I'm not reading this. What is wrong with people?

[Guest GT_Rat]

An aluminum bat and a plane ticket.

[TGO David]

An aluminum bat and a plane ticket.

Home run!

[bubbiesdad]

All I need is guaranteed immunity and I would walk to Ohio to end this mother****er's life.

Nah! I'll give you a ride.

[bubbiesdad]

An aluminum bat and a plane ticket.

Start at the ankles and work slowly upward.

[memphismason]

Sickening.....Very Sickening.

[Guest Major Pain]

At least 6 months in the electric chair.--MP

[Guest Hyaloid]

I still say, if they want to behave like animals, then we treat these SOBs like labrats. Use them as living human experiments, AIDS vaccines, Hepatitis and Cancer treatments, the effectiveness of different torture/interrogation techniques... they could actually be useful to the rest of society that way, and they get to live in a prolonged hell on earth!

WIN-WIN!

Edited August 15, 2008 by Hyaloid
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[memphismason]

I still say, if they want to behave like animals, then we treat these SOBs like labrats. Use them as living human experiments, AIDS vaccines, Hepatitis and Cancer treatments, the effectiveness of different torture/interrogation techniques... they could actually be useful to the rest of society that way, and they get to love in a prolonged hell on earth!

WIN-WIN!

Great Idea

[Guest tlondon]

As much as we want to do these things to this pathetic excuse of a human being, we know we cant. So lets all do something that we can. Pray for the young mother that just lost her son, the little girl that lost her baby brother, the grandparents that lost their grandchild. That we can do. There will come a day when this "man" (and I use the word man loosly) will have to answer for what he has done.

[Guest gunslinger707]

Take this POS out and stake him over an ant hill then pour syrup over him paying careful attention to inserting the syrup into body cavitie's I E eye's ear's nose mouth and other opening's and let the ant's go to work !!!!!!!

[Guest grimel]

All I need is guaranteed immunity and I would walk to Ohio to end this mother****er's life.

If you get the immunity, I'll carry you. Don't want you tired when you get there.:mad:

[Guest 45AUTO]

the bad thing about this will be the pos lawyer will try to tell us that the guy was not at fault because he is in aa. if this happens the lawyer is just a pos .the guy may get 10 or 20 years be out in 5 to 10 . what is wrong with the people today?

[dralarms]

If you get the immunity, I'll carry you. Don't want you tired when you get there.:mad:

I'll provide the gas, guns and ammo.