Slap Crappy Alaskan Pappy
This tip comes to us from Lori. Clayton Phillip Allison, 26, has finally been arrested and charged in the death of his 15-month old daughter, Jocelynn Renee Allison, which occurred in September of 2008 at an Alaskan hospital. She died from a traumatic brain injury.
As an infant, Jocelynn had been considered a ‘failure to thrive” baby. She had a lower than normal weight for her age, and her muscle development was poor, causing her to have trouble standing on her own. Clayton had trouble getting the baby to eat, so he began smacking her around some. He would slap her forehand and backhand, first causing her head to bounce off of the plastic tray, and then causing it to hit the side of the high chair. He said these slapping sessions got more forceful over time. Yeah….because we all know that the best way to encourage your child to eat is to slap them. I’ve never really thought about it, but I kind of doubt that slapping a child would help the child to eat. I imagine it would make the child’s face and head hurt and make it less likely to want to eat. That’s just my opinion, though.
The day the baby died, the sperm donor said he had been doing physical therapy with Jocelynn in the living room, while the mother was at work. Is that what they’re calling it now?!? Slapping = physical therapy. So, I guess punching your kid would be considered athletic training then, right? Clayton tried to convince authorities that the baby had fallen down a carpeted flight of stairs, but the doctors called him on his lies. She had blood around her brain, two dislocated vertebrae, and a bruised lung. How freakin’ hard do you have to hit a child in order to dislocate their vertebrae? The force of the blows must have been astounding in order to cause such damage.
The excuse the father is trotting out now is that the baby would refuse to eat, and would throw the food on the floor, making him feel like a failure as a father. So he did what all concerned and conscientious fathers do – he slapped her to make her stop throwing the food. No, wait….my mistake….good fathers love their kids, they don’t beat them to death. FYI – it wasn’t the refusal of food that made him a failure….it was the abuse and murder.
And why is it that the most vulnerable of the children are so often beaten to death because of their disabilities? She was killed because she wouldn’t eat….and now she will never get to eat again. This guy should be slapped every single time he is given anything to eat in prison. The entire time he’s trying to eat it. I bet he’ll lose some weight too.
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November 23rd, 2009 at 3:03 pm
My oldest son is autistic and has sensory issues with food. He was really bad as a baby. He took forever to get onto food. I literally tried every hour to feed him with very little success. Never once while I was wearin his food, wasting countless jars of food did it occur to me to slap him. He’s the love of my life. Even past my dear husband. Both of my boys are. And guess what? My husband is totally cool with that. I’m really tired of crappy parents. I do my best everyday with 2 boys under 4. One typical one not so typical. EVERYDAY is a CHALLENGE! It never occurs to me to beat my kids. What the hell is wrong with people?
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Wow, when my kid won’t eat his food, I try to find something he will eat, and if he doesn’t want to eat, I don’t try to force him too, he knows when he’s hungry.
Was the mom not there at mealtimes ever? Or did she just think it was normal to bounce the baby’s head off the high chair during a meal? I bet he did more than slap her on the day she died. It would take a lot of force to dislocate vertabrae by slapping, but not as much as by shaking. I bet he finally reached a point where “he couldn’t take her willful disobedience any more” (not trying to defend him, but merely imaging the excuse he’d try to come up with, as if a 15 month old could be willfully disobedient, they have to have an understanding of what rules are to break them intetntionally, and totally snapped.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Have there been any charges against the mother? and other family members? Also at 15 months, plus failure to thrive, this baby should have been seeing Drs, therapists, nutritionists regularly.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
FTT is rare in children that are not abused/neglected. So, the kids that need the medical help the most don’t get it. Poor baby.
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:43 pm
He deserves a very long sentence. Hmmm, wonder if you can play Christmas Bells off the bars by slapping his head against them.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:07 pm
This is horrible – I had a physical response to this story. I wonder if the “failure to thrive” had to do with all the emotional/physical abuse the poor baby experienced in her short life.
What a despicable loser. May he rot behind bars.
November 24th, 2009 at 1:12 am
I can’t fathom ever hitting a baby / toddler for anything, let alone not eating. Just dumb-ass humans (not parents); not capable of rational thought.
I have two little ones … I just can’t wrap my head around the abuse sometimes.
November 24th, 2009 at 1:22 am
Sorry , delete the word ’sometimes’ from above post.
November 24th, 2009 at 2:02 am
Rotting behind bars is too good for this guy. No. He needs to be strung up, skinned alive, boiled in brine before being burned at the state.
Just my opinion.
November 24th, 2009 at 7:28 am
If people don’t have any patience, they shouldn’t be having children. This guy should suffer BIG TIME for what he did to this innocent child.
I have an autistic child and it can be very trying. It takes A LOT of patience and I need it every day. I love my son dearly,and can’t imagine life without him… autistic or not.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:06 am
I disagree with your first sentence. I have very little patience, but I have six children. I used to pray for patience, until I realized that every time I prayed for patience, God gave me another baby instead.
Patience is a good thing to have, but even if you are short on patience, you can be a good parent. The issue is not patience, it is self-control. When you lose your patience, the self-control should kick in, and say, “Hey, wait just a blessed minute! You can’t beat this kid just because he smarts off to you every time his lips move,and he is a freakin’ brat! Back off and calm down!” My little helper rides on my shoulders constantly, to tell me to back off when one of the little ones has started strumming on my last nerve.
You, however, must have EXTRAORDINARY patience! I commend you. Having an autistic child is sometimes enough to test the patience of a saint. Or as my little sister says, “It’s enough to make a preacher cuss!” She has an autistic son, too. And she is an outstanding mother. She was blessed with about a thousand times more patience than I was.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Well, you know, maybe he gave you the babies to teach you patience, lol. But yeah, it is a lot more about self-control, which is sorely lacking in so many people today. I know my little guy tries my patience and self-control from time to time, and he’s basically normal, just the normal rtoddler stuff (curiosity outweighing sense by a long shot)
November 24th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Jenn said:
“maybe he gave you the babies to teach you patience, lol.”
Yeah, too bad that didn’t work, huh?
November 24th, 2009 at 7:31 am
P.S. I love the title you chose for the story…it brought a smile to my face but the creepy baby killer didn’t.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Thanks…I try.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Angel , just curious about how praying for ‘patience’ caused more babies … is that what people are calling it these days ? heh heh
My wife calls him Mr Happy.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:26 am
JohnQ:
Praying for patience didn’t cause the babies, sex did. But I’m sure Jenn from NM was right in her comment above…..that God gave me the babies to help me learn patience. I’m stubborn though….I still have a problem with patience. None of my kids are sporting bruises or any other intentionally inflicted injuries, though. They beat the crap out of EACH OTHER when they get too rough in the backyard, but nothing the average child doesn’t get in the course of a lifetime.
I did, however, have my doctor fix the ‘baby’ issue. I won’t be having any more, lol.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
My 2 year old is skinny and tall (since the day she was born). I’ve never had her not eat because she eats like a large, active, grown man. However, her height is in the 120% for her age and her weight is in the 35%. Her doctor told me as long as she eats some (not a problem) and is active (can you say energizer bunny), then she is fine. I asked if I should offer her more, and he said ‘You cannot make a child to eat, she will eat when she’s hungry’ (seemed like a no duh to me). Too bad this moron didn’t ask someone with a brain (I already figured he does not have one).
November 25th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
My little guy started on the small side (but he was 5 weeks early) at 22% height and 8% weight (but this was compared to full term babies of his chronological age). Now at almost three he is about 45-50% height and around 35% weight. I consider it good that he has cuaght up with the charts, and for the part of the country I live in , he looks really big (except weight-wise). He usually eats breakfast and lunch real good, with several snacks, and sometimes eats dinner, sometimes not. Latelt though, it has been seconds at most breakfasts, seconds sometimes at lunch, wanting more snacks, and eating dinner very well, sometimes getting seconds there as well. I think we’ll be having to buy him some new clothes soon.
Does make it hard to find clothes for him though, since he can wear 3T-4T in shirts, and is just now able to fit into the smaller cut 3T on pants (and actually fits into 24 mo. to 2T pants a lot better, except for length). But he’s a solid active little guy, bright and curious, and reasonably well-behaved (age appropriate standards used of course, he does try to be good), so he’s doing good.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:46 pm