Repeat After Me: Babies are not Footballs
Cardell Gallagher, a former minor-league football player for the Racine Raiders, had been taking a shower one morning and left his daughter in her bassinet with a 17-month-old also in the room. He heard his daughter crying, then heard a thump followed by more crying. He came into the room and saw that the bassinet had tackled his infant daughter.
Gallagher poured some Gatorade on his daughter’s head and told her to walk it off. He said “the infant behaved and ate normally the rest of the day.” That is, until his wife came home around 3 PM and she took the baby to the hospital. Indeed, there was bleeding on her brain and she began to have seizures. Gallagher was subsequently charged with child abuse.
How unfair! It’s not his fault the furniture decided to play a little game of touch football and things got out of hand! If you want to blame anyone, why don’t you blame the ref — she was 17 months old and should’ve called the bassinet for holding!
Tags: Abuse, baby, daughter, father, football, parents+behaving+badly, racine, Wisconsin
8 opinions for Repeat After Me: Babies are not Footballs
Charles LaFever
Feb 20, 2006 at 9:54 am
This is a rebuttal to the article about repeat after me babies are not footballs how classy of a indivdual are you to write a story that you made into a football game maybe you should also seek mental help yourself right along with the father of the children this is not a game that you made it out to be there is a infant baby 7 weeks old who was seriously injured and because of this attack yes the father needs to go to prison for a long time but you need to wake up get the real facts and get in the real world know person in their right mind would write something so far out as you did the family has suffered enough this is not football this is child abuse.
Uncle Chuck
Charles LaFever
Feb 20, 2006 at 9:57 am
This is a rebuttal to the article about repeat after me babies are not footballs how classy of a indivdual are you to write a story that you made into a football game maybe you should also seek mental help yourself right along with the father of the children this is not a game that you made it out to be there is a infant baby 7 weeks old who was seriously injured and because of this attack yes the father needs to go to prison for a long time but you need to wake up get the real facts and get in the real world know person in their right mind would write something so far out as you did the family has suffered enough this is not football this is child abuse.
Uncle Chuck
Charles LaFever
Feb 20, 2006 at 9:58 am
This is a rebuttal to the article about repeat after me babies are not footballs how classy of a indivdual are you to write a story that you made into a football game maybe you should also seek mental help yourself right along with the father of the children this is not a game that you made it out to be there is a infant baby 7 weeks old who was seriously injured and because of this attack yes the father needs to go to prison for a long time but you need to wake up get the real facts and get in the real world know person in their right mind would write something so far out as you did the family has suffered enough this is not football this is child abuse.
Uncle Chuck
Charles LaFever
Feb 20, 2006 at 9:58 am
This is a rebuttal to the article about repeat after me babies are not footballs how classy of a indivdual are you to write a story that you made into a football game maybe you should also seek mental help yourself right along with the father of the children this is not a game that you made it out to be there is a infant baby 7 weeks old who was seriously injured and because of this attack yes the father needs to go to prison for a long time but you need to wake up get the real facts and get in the real world know person in their right mind would write something so far out as you did the family has suffered enough this is not football this is child abuse.
Uncle Chuck
Charles LaFever
Feb 20, 2006 at 9:59 am
This is a rebuttal to the article about repeat after me babies are not footballs how classy of a indivdual are you to write a story that you made into a football game maybe you should also seek mental help yourself right along with the father of the children this is not a game that you made it out to be there is a infant baby 7 weeks old who was seriously injured and because of this attack yes the father needs to go to prison for a long time but you need to wake up get the real facts and get in the real world know person in their right mind would write something so far out as you did the family has suffered enough this is not football this is child abuse.
Uncle Chuck
Charles LaFever
Feb 20, 2006 at 10:00 am
This is a rebuttal to the article about repeat after me babies are not footballs how classy of a indivdual are you to write a story that you made into a football game maybe you should also seek mental help yourself right along with the father of the children this is not a game that you made it out to be there is a infant baby 7 weeks old who was seriously injured and because of this attack yes the father needs to go to prison for a long time but you need to wake up get the real facts and get in the real world know person in their right mind would write something so far out as you did the family has suffered enough this is not football this is child abuse.
Uncle Chuck
Charles LaFever
Feb 20, 2006 at 10:00 am
This is a rebuttal to the article about repeat after me babies are not footballs how classy of a indivdual are you to write a story that you made into a football game maybe you should also seek mental help yourself right along with the father of the children this is not a game that you made it out to be there is a infant baby 7 weeks old who was seriously injured and because of this attack yes the father needs to go to prison for a long time but you need to wake up get the real facts and get in the real world know person in their right mind would write something so far out as you did the family has suffered enough this is not football this is child abuse.
Uncle Chuck
Charles LaFever
Feb 20, 2006 at 10:01 am
This is a rebuttal to the article about repeat after me babies are not footballs how classy of a indivdual are you to write a story that you made into a football game maybe you should also seek mental help yourself right along with the father of the children this is not a game that you made it out to be there is a infant baby 7 weeks old who was seriously injured and because of this attack yes the father needs to go to prison for a long time but you need to wake up get the real facts and get in the real world know person in their right mind would write something so far out as you did the family has suffered enough this is not football this is child abuse.
Uncle Chuck