'People do it all the time': Mother justified 'jolting' her 1-week-old daughter like rag doll by saying she's 'not made of glass,' police say

An Idaho parent tried justifying the maltreatment of her infant daughter by telling a witnesser that the child was "not made of glass," according to police.

"People bash it each the time," Brenwyn Richey, 26, told a witnesser astir "shaking and jolting" her babe girl similar a rag doll, according to a probable origin affidavit obtained by Law&Crime connected Thursday.

Witnesses allegedly told constabulary that they saw Richey yanking the miss astir by her limb and bouncing the kid aggressively connected her knee, on with different convulsive acts, connected aggregate occasions. She is accused of doing this portion trying to enactment her girl to bed, arsenic good arsenic different times, erstwhile she was 1 week aged and implicit a span of 2 months aft her birth.

Blackfoot Police responded to a home disturbance telephone connected Dec. 28 astatine Richey's flat successful Blackfoot aft she allegedly roughed up the child. She admitted to cops that she was utilizing excessive force, according to the affidavit.

"Richey admitted to being 'aggressive with her babe sometimes,' specifically stating that she 'bounces the babe connected her limb aggressively' and places the kid connected the furniture with excessive unit oregon speed," the affidavit alleges, citing a speech Richey had with a responding officer. "Richey provided carnal objection of the leg-bouncing, which I observed to beryllium accelerated and forceful vertical motion. She acknowledged this behaviour was a recurring contented and stated she was 'trying to enactment connected it.'"

A witnesser told constabulary that erstwhile the miss was 1 week old, Richey dangled and "yanked" her by the limb without due cervix support. She told the witnesser aft this alleged incidental that the kid was "not made of glass" and "asserted that 'people bash it each the time,'" the affidavit says.

Another witnesser told constabulary that helium saw Richey "shaking the infant" and helium demonstrated the enactment by "extending his arms and jolting them backmost and forth, describing a 'constant jolt' that would past betwixt 5 and 15 minutes, oregon until the babe ceased crying," according to the affidavit.

Police were called to Richey's flat a 2nd clip connected Dec. 29, which prompted cops to notify Child Protective Services. The bureau consulted with the Bonneville County Attorney's Office and initiated an exigency removal of Richey's girl from her home, according to the affidavit.

CPS officials accidental a anterior study was connected record "regarding THC vulnerability astatine birth."

Police were informed connected Jan. 2 that a aesculapian valuation performed connected the miss recovered imaginable interior injuries. "The infant's eyes appeared abnormally 'droopy' for her developmental age," the affidavit says.

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A follow-up valuation was performed connected Jan. 18 and allegedly revealed that the miss was experiencing "persistent interior swelling of an undetermined cause," according to police.

"Based connected the defendant's admissions of assertive carnal handling, witnesser accounts of prolonged shaking and jolting, and consequent aesculapian findings of interior swelling and injury, I find that probable origin exists to complaint Brenwyn Richey with felony wounded to child," an serviceman concluded successful the affidavit.

Richey faces up to 10 years successful situation if convicted. Court records amusement that she is scheduled to look successful tribunal for a preliminary proceeding connected April 9.