Newborn Dies With Cracked Skull, More Than 90 Fractures; Parents Arrested

In a shocking and disturbing case from Houston a city in Texas, parents of a newborn have been arrested in their daughter’s death. The newborn baby suffered a cracked skull and more than 90 fractures just days after being brought home from the hospital.

According to police and Harris County prosecutors, the baby has been identified as Jazmine Robin, who was born prematurely. She was 10 weeks old when she died on July 15, 2018 which was 12 days after leaving the hospital.

As per Associated Press report, the baby's father, 24-year-old Jason Paul Robin, is charged with murder. Her mother, 21-year-old Katharine Wyndham White, faces a count of injury to a child by omission. "The evidence shows that Baby Jazmine fell victim to the very people who were supposed to protect her the most in this world,”

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said. “After a full and thorough investigation of the facts, we have filed charges, and will seek justice for young Jazmine." Detectives last July were called to a Houston hospital after staff there found “clearly inflicted head trauma,” according to a Houston police affidavit.

Media reports say that, an autopsy that was completed last month determined the girl’s death was caused by blunt force trauma to the head. Investigators believe Jazmine’s crying would anger Robin and he violently shook the newborn, according to the affidavit. The child suffered multiple fractures to several ribs — 71 rib fractures in all — and 23 “long bone” breaks. "It is concluded that a minimum of two traumatic events resulted in 96 fractures,” the affidavit said.

It took several months to complete the autopsy because those done on infants, and related testing, generally take much longer than ones done on adults, authorities said.

Robin told an investigator that he read psychology books in an effort to control his anger and said Jazmine “is too beautiful to hit.” White blamed the child’s brain injury on hospital personnel who administered CPR on Jazmine for an hour, the affidavit said.