Grand Rapids, Michigan (The Weekly Vice) – Brett Walsh, 21, and Suzanne Fox, 25, were arrested Thursday when authorities learned Walsh had abused his baby over 50 times while Fox, the mother, stood idly by hoping he’d stop.
According to authorities with the Grand Rapids Police Department, Walsh admitted to abusing the child over 50 times since the 3-month-old’s birth. Fox stated she was aware of the abuse but did not intervene.
Detective Kristen Rogers says Walsh called 911 on Thursday and, when police arrived, he exited the apartment declaring he “screwed up” and that he had shaken baby. He later admitted to police that he had shaken his infant son “over 50 times” between September and October.
According to arrest reports, Walsh had shaken the baby for 10 to 15 seconds on Wednesday. The day before, the child was shaken for five minutes. When the baby stopped breathing on Thursday, provoking the 911 call, he was hospitalized for a traumatic brain injury. The infant is in critical condition and is currently on life support.
Authorities say Fox admitted to having witnessed Walsh shake their child, but simply hoped he’d eventually stop. Neither parent every sought medical treatment for the baby.
Neighbor Heather Brenner, who is a friend of the couple’s, stated she never saw anything that would indicate the infant was being abused. Walsh admitted to Brenner that he would get frustrated with the baby, and she offered to let him bring the little boy over if he needed help. Brenner further stated that the baby had been born 2 months premature, but that he seemed to be catching up well and was in good health.
Walsh was booked in to Kent County Jail on first-degree and second-degree child abuse. He is being held on $1 million bond.
Fox was also booked in to Kent County Jail on second-degree child abuse charges. Bond information was not available.
Rebecca Diamond
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This story literally made me nauseous. How can a mother stand by and let her child be abused and do nothing but 'hope' for it to stop?! Un-freakin-believable!
Strap both their heads into one of those paint mixers you see in hardware stores.
Leave it running a few days. Check for signs of life. If they're still alive, repeat!
wtf? This is just so sad but as we know it isnt the 1st nor going to be the last story like this. I have two kids of my own and my 1st I had at 18. I was a young mother raisng my child by myself and no matter how much my baby cried I never have thought "maybe if I shake it, it will shut up" Imagine being picked up and shaken by someone 10 times your size. would you stop crying? really...damn...also this mother is an idiot. I would never let something like this happen.
Wonderful. Now we have a brain dead child to match the brain dead parents. Child abuse of this type needs to be a capitol crime.
If i ever saw anyone beating my children my first thought, naturally, would be to stand there like a dumb ass and hope it stops. what a dumb bitch, her charges should be the same as his. fry both of their asses.
Remember folks, gay marriage should be banned because children need a male and female role model!
With all of the effort it took to shake that baby he could have stood there and rocked it to sleep.
And what a P.O.S the mother is! Jesus, how can you just stand there? I would have snatched my baby and ran to the nearest neighbor to call the police on that bastard! Well, that's what I would logically do, anyway....
I'm thinking as soon as Vega and Carter get out of jail, they need to be dispatched to the Walsh/Fox residence.
...just sayin'.
+1 on that one Rebecca!
I don't feel like making an account, but my name is carolyn, and im a personal friend of brett , not suzan. But i've known brett for almost 10 years and you don't even know how he grew up, what he went though, im not justifying what he did to viktor by any means.... he does deserve to serve time, but what you guys don't know is that he has things he should have been on medication for and he wasnt ( totally his fault, not making light of this) but people need to stop saying he needs to die, suzan knew he had problems and he wasnt on meds for it and she should have interveiend to help her baby too. But honestly i understand how some people feel, when i saw the article about how the 19 year old father down south raped his 6 day old baby, now that fucked up. Brett shook viktor in the past and he fell asleep and woke up happy and alert so it didn't click in his mind it wasn't right, he didn't show he was hurt the first times, and the media is saying some bull shit, they haven't known him and his family personally, he isn't that kind of person, he is on suicide watch right now, he feels like shit and loves his son, read his fb or myspace he LOVES his son, he doesn't know what came over him, he is a new time father, he and suzan got pregnant a few days after meeting, he was tryin to be a man and help her out and he wasn't capable but he didn't want to leave her with the baby alone. SO STOP SAYING HE SHOULD DIE OR BE TORTURED, JAIL IS BAD ENOUGH HE'S GOING TO BE THERE 15 YEARS!!! he should be in an institue for that long.
~Carolyn~
Anon, I can appreciate where you are coming from. I am sure this guy needs to be on some sort of medication, but he shook that baby SO MANY TIMES! EVERYONE knows what happens when you shake a baby. It is no mystery. He may say he loves his son, but on some level he wanted to kill that baby. How could he not have? He would shake the baby until it passed out? What did he think that was doing to the baby? Did he live on a desert Island somewhere? Don’t shake the baby… it is common knowledge. He purposely shook that baby what, nearly every other day… every three days? No I am sorry, but attempted murder should have been in the court docket. How is the boy? Is he still in critical condition, on life support? I think 15 years is an extraordinarily light punishment. That poor baby was helpless to his fits of rage.
I know both parents really well, and they were together about 3 or 4 months before getting pregnant. Also you should know that the media twists the truth and don't report all the facts. So Brett shaking the baby is completely out of character for him. I know the mother didn't stand by and do nothing...I know her nature. Not to mention the mother is being treated like shit when (I personally believe) that she did nothing wrong. I also know that she is having some serious health problems which she was trying to taken care of when all this went down. All of you saying that they need to die or be sterilized really makes you all look like total morons just because not all the facts are being reported and as adults, and I hope that we are all adults here; should know this and take what the media says when a grain of salt..
~close friend of the accused
I was 22 (and single) when I had my 1st child. He screamed non-stop. He had colic and later intestinal bleeding due to severe milk protein and soy allergies. Did I shake him when he screamed and screamed (even before I knew his medical issues) NO I didn't, I called for help. In my case I was able to call my mother at 1, 2, 3 am or when ever I couldn't handle the screaming anymore. These people had someone willing to help, the neighbor. Ignorance is no defense. Both belong in jail, and if he kills himself while there, all the better!! That just means the tax payers don't have to pay for his ass, and he gets the punishment he deserves.... Death and an after life in HELL!! Which is exactly where both of these sorry excuses for parents belong!! Children are blessings, when are people going to stop and realize what a precious gift they have been charged with raising!!
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