Samuel Harris, Jr. was watching his girlfriend Courtney’s two four-month-old twin boys, Aiden and Braiden, while she stepped out to get a bite to eat. That’s when things got ugly. According to an interview with one of the girlfriend’s relatives Aiden Caro wouldn’t stop crying so Harris picked the baby up and threw him across the room onto the couch. Apparently there was a piece of wood sticking out from under the couch and the baby hit his head on it.
A friend or family member of Harris says that Harris would toss the babies in the air or onto the couch to make them laugh. After three kids I’ve been there and done that. Only difference is I wasn’t fucking stoned when I did it.
Harris realized that the baby wasn’t breathing and picked him up to shake the child. When that didn’t work he squeezed the child’s chest, fracturing his ribs in the process. THEN he decided to run out of the house screaming trying to find help.
Both of the children were taken to Kosair Children’s Hospital where unfortunately Aiden Caro has since died.
Harris, who reportedly just turned 18 himself and was released from Kentucky’s foster care system, moved in with his grandma and since his 18-year-old girlfriend Courtney Caro and her twins had nowhere to go he let them move in.
Harris was arrested and charged with assaulting the two babies. He pleaded Not Guilty this past Wednesday morning to the charges and was being held on $500,000 bond. Since then Aiden Caro has died and Harris was arraigned on murder charges Friday. His bond was then increased to $1 million and the judge denied a request for psychiatric evaluation. Obviously the dude has a few screws loose but that certainly doesn’t keep him from knowing the difference between right and wrong and knowing that you shouldn’t get fucking loaded with children around.
When police questioned Harris and searched the house they found drug paraphernalia and also discovered that Sam Harris had spent most of the day prior to watching the babies getting stoned. Fucking loser. And the stoner girlfriend who allowed the stoned kid to watch her babies too. Of course with her father being in prison she probably hasn’t been taught how to make very good decisions herself.
Braiden has been removed from her care by the state and placed in the foster care system temporarily. Courtney’s latest MySpace update says “Lost. R.i.p. aiden. mommie luvs u nd braiden. i fil like dying. y did ths happen to my bby boy.” I know that the horrific death of a child has to be tearing her apart but that doesn’t preclude her from being culpable for the fact that she left her two babies in the care of an unemployed stoned loser.
Thanks to Trench and Rob for this one.
