"Toddler Jane" STANTON - 3.5 yo - Kansas City MO

Poster's Note: Different sources are reporting differing ages for the victim. Hopefully this will clarified in future reports.

A Kansas City woman has been charged with child abuse for allegedly
fracturing her infant daughter’s skull.Jackson County prosecutors
also charged Sandra V. Stanton, 30, with first-degree assault and
endangering the welfare of a child.

Stanton called an ambulance to
her home in the 1800 block of Askew Avenue on Thursday after she said
she woke up and realized the baby, who was born May 2, was not
breathing, according to court documents.The baby began breathing
again but was taken to Children’s Mercy Hospital, where doctors
discovered the skull fracture and bleeding in her brain, the court
documents.Stanton denied injuring the little girl.

A Kansas City, Missouri, woman faces felony child abuse
charges after her young daughter was hospitalized with multiple skull
fractures and other injuries, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Sandra Stanton, 30, has been charged with assault, endangering the
welfare of a child and felony child abuse after ambulance crews and
police officers found her three-and-a-half year old daughter
unresponsive in the woman's home in the 1800 block of Askew on May 27th.

According to police, Stanton told authorities that she had fallen asleep
with the child in her arms, and woke up to find the child on the
carpet, not breathing. She told police her other children, a 3-year-old
boy and a 1-year-old boy were there in the house as well.

Later that day, officers were called to the hospital where they were
told the child had two skull fractures, retinal hemorrhages, and
bleeding on the brain. According to the probable cause statement, a
social worker told police that Stanton had told her that she the only
adult in the house with the children.

Police arrested Stanton the next day. She told police she had only one
beer between 8 & 9am, and had taken Zoloft around noon. Later,
officers say that she admitted to have two "tall beers" starting
around 5pm, and that she was drunk and passed out. She told police she
regularly drinks about two tall beers a day.

Stanton has denied causing any of the injuries to the child. She is
currently in custody in the Jackson County Jail in lieu of $250,000
cash-only bond.