The NELSON Triplets - 3 Months - Charlotte NC

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are investigating a case of child abuse involving triplets.
Investigators say the infants are just three months old and they lived in a home off Dapple Court in northeast Charlotte.
"When they were expecting the babies a lot of family members came, so we
didn't think anything was going on," said Kevin Williams who lives next
door.
He was surprised to see emergency vehicles at the home Friday night,
"One night all the emergency vehicles was outside. We were out when
they brought one of the babies out carried him out to the ambulance,"
said Williams.
Court documents say that three-month-old Cymone Nelson had head trauma,
facial bruising, and a hemorrhage around the left eye usually associated
with suffocation. Her sister had similar, though not as severe injuries
and her brother was not injured at all.
Police say the injuries are not accidental and they are looking at this as child abuse. Williams said he was surprised.
"I'm shocked. I’m shocked they had a big baby shower when the babies were born."
The warrant references a witness seeing the father taping pacifiers.
When we asked investigators if that had something to do with suffocation
type injuries they declined to comment. The children are at
Presbyterian Hospital and family members say the most seriously injured
is still in intensive care.
Police have not made an arrest yet, but they are optimistic they will be able to solve the case.
http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/police-investigate-a-case-of-child-abuse-involving-triplets-130234263.html

Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Father Charged with Felonious Child Abuse

Terrell Nelson, 27, was arrested early this morning and charged with two counts of felony child abuse- inflicting serious injury. Nelson is accused of abusing his two 3-month old daughters.

CMPD says the investigation into the child abuse started on Friday after the baby girl's mother, LaShonda Young, found her child unresponsive and called 911. The baby, Cy'mone Nelson, was taken to Presbyterian Hospital where she was diagnosed with head trauma, facial bruising, left eye damage and a subdural hemorrhage.

After this incident, DSS interviewed the father and checked the other two children for injuries. Doctors found non-accidental injuries on both of the girls, Caileigh & Cy'mone Nelson but the boy was left unharmed. According to a search warrant, the injuries to both girls were consistent with "felonious assault" and "non-accidental trauma."

LaShonda Young, the mother of the triplets, told police that she witnessed Terrell Nelson "place tape on the infants pacifiers on more than one occasion," During a search of the home, police took pacifiers and roll of tape on the loveseat.

Terrell Nelson is being held in the Mecklenburg County Jail on a $70,000 bond and the two infant girls remain in the hospital.

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