ADAM STEIN - 3 yo - Apex (nr Raleigh) NC

Apex NC ---- Police have charged an Apex woman with felony child abuse after
her 3-year-old adopted son was hospitalized with severe head injuries.Apex police charged Michele Andi Stein, 39, of 121
Homegate Circle with one count of felony child abuse, severe bodily
injury, according to an arrest warrant.Apex investigators
have accused Stein of assaulting her son Adam so severely March 19 that
he is in a coma at Duke University Hospital.The child has a
fractured skull and large bruises on the frontal region of his brain,
police reported.In a court affidavit
made public earlier this month, police said that Stein and her husband
adopted Adam from an orphanage in China in November.Police began investigating the Steins when a Duke
physician reported that the child's head trauma was inconsistent with
his parents' account of how he was injured, court records show. Stein
told medical workers that the child had fallen down stairs on March 19
while her husband was at work. She said she thought he was okay and put
him down for a nap.Records also show Wake County Child
Protective Services has previously investigated abuse and neglect
reports concerning the child.Adam had been admitted to the
UNC-Chapel Hill Burn Center in January with second- and third-degree
burns to both hands.Michele Stein told authorities that she had
turned on hot water in the bathtub to give Adam a bath and had left him
briefly unattended while she went to get him clean pajamas.
Investigators with the county's child protective services suspected
abuse, but determined the incident to be more consistent with "poor
supervision and neglect," police reported.In February, workers at
the day care Adam attends noticed bruises on his back and leg. They
also noticed that the child had lost weight since enrolling.Michele
Stein was released from the Wake County jail Friday on $100,000
bondbail.

there should be absolutley no bond for suspected child abusers of any kind until they are brought to court for the crime if tougher sentences imposed upon these people then maybe just maybe the next one will think about themselves its horrible because all along they should be THINKING ABOUT THE WELFARE OF THE CHILD but maybe theyll be worried that they might go to jail for a long time and maybe walk away from the child i dont know something has to happen i cant believe shes out of jail she should be beaten black and blue

RALEIGH -- An Apex woman will spend at least
six years in prison after she pleaded guilty today to abusing her
adopted son.
Michele Andi Stein of 121 Homegate Circle in Apex
was sentenced to between six and eight years in prison after she pleaded
guilty to one count of felony child abuse inflicting serious injury,
said Melanie Shekita, a Wake County prosecutor.
Apex police in
April charged Stein with felony child abuse after her 3-year-old adopted
son was hospitalized with severe head injuries.

Apex investigators accused Stein of assaulting her son, Adam, so
severely on March 19 that he was in a coma at Duke University Hospital.
The child suffered a fractured skull and large bruises on the frontal region of his brain, police reported.
Police said that Stein and her husband adopted Adam from an orphanage in China in November.
Police
began investigating the Steins when a Duke physician reported that the
child's head trauma was inconsistent with his parents' account of how he
was injured, court records show. Stein told medical workers that the
child had fallen down stairs while her husband was at work.
Before
the March incident, Adam had been admitted to the UNC-Chapel Hill Burn
Center in January with second- and third-degree burns to both hands.
The boy was removed from the home and is now living at a residential treatment facility, Shekita said.



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