Mom who referred to infant as 'a potato' and 'sack of flour' while giving her baby injuries akin to 'a very bad car accident' will not serve any jail time

A 21-year-old parent successful Arkansas won't service immoderate clip aft abusing her 6-month-old baby truthful severely that doctors said the child's injuries were akin to being successful a "very atrocious car accident."

Ryanne Foster, of Jonesboro, pleaded blameworthy this week to second-degree battery and was sentenced to 36 months of probation, according to section media outlet Jonesboro Right Now.

Foster has been ordered to enactment distant from her kid and indispensable get a GED portion connected probation. If she violates the presumption of her plea deal, she volition look up to six years successful prison, Jonesboro Right Now reports.

As antecedently reported by Law&Crime, prosecutors had accused Foster of abusing her kid successful July 2024 aft officers with the Jonesboro Police Department responded to a telephone regarding an babe being hospitalized with traumatic injuries. The babe had been admitted to St. Bernards Hospital, but owed to the severity of the baby's condition, they were transported to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital successful Memphis, Tennessee, for much specialized care.

At the hospital, constabulary spoke to Foster and her hubby astir the circumstances that led to their infant's injuries. The parents explained that the kid had been calved prematurely and suffered seizures since returning from the neonatal intensive attraction unit, according to tribunal documents.

The begetter allegedly noted that the seizures took spot erstwhile helium was not with Foster and the baby, and that each clip the seizures occurred, Foster refused to question aesculapian attention.

Prosecutors and constabulary said the begetter claimed Foster did not person an affectional transportation with the kid and repeatedly referred to them arsenic "a potato" and "sack of flour," Jonesboro Right Now reports.

Foster alleged that her baby's injuries occurred during the astir caller seizure, which ended with the kid falling from the couch. Police noted that the sofa Foster claimed the babe fell from was nary higher than her knee.

Doctors who treated the kid told investigators the babe was suffering from "mixed bleeding connected the close and near brain, micro-bruising connected the beforehand and backmost brain" arsenic good arsenic limb and limb fractures.

"When I asked the doc astir what could origin injuries similar this successful a 6-month-old child, I was told that it would person to beryllium a precise atrocious car mishap oregon carnal abuse," constabulary wrote successful a probable origin affidavit.

During the investigation, the child's begetter told constabulary helium had near Foster and moved retired of the home, explaining helium was acrophobic that if helium and the babe stayed with her past the babe "could upwind up dead," section tv presumption KAIT reported.

Referencing the "sack of flour" and "potato" statements, the begetter said Foster had much of an affectional transportation "to their canine than baby."

Jerry Lambe contributed to this report.