I sure hope his fellow inmates show him the treatment he deserves.

It takes a real man to beat a woman holding an infant! Hope he likes salad, tossed salad that is!

Isn't the old saying, "An eye for an eye"?

Court records also show Mr. Taylor has been arrested several times for drugs, last year. Had he been in jail where he belongs, this doesn't happen. When are our police, district attorneys, juries and judges going to wise up?

19. "god" help us all

Some folks are not going to like me saying this. But, I would tell this young mother that there were some indications early on that this was not a person to be father of her child. Now that is reality.

It is inappropriate to characterize this as "fight" between the parents. A fight suggests some kind of mutual affray. Clearly, this was not a "fight" but an assault on both the mother and the child.

Police said that the mother and father had a fight earlier in the evening, things then calmed down, and then another fight erupted. It's unclear to me whether a more appropriate term would be "argument," and for now I'm going to stick with what police used. -Justin

I hope they serve his azz good on prison in every mentionable way. Lord I pray this baby survives.

When are young women going to smarten up? If you're going to have sex use a condom. Having a baby with a 19 yr old drug pusher/user is just stupid.

Maybe this is the "slap in the face" this foolish young mother needs to straighten her life out.

I would bet the mother has had arrests or has a drug problem also. Nice girls simply don't have relations with drug addicts/dealers and criminals. And good parents don't allow their child to share a home with druggies and criminals. As sad as it is I would imagine if this child does recover he will probably end up in trouble with the law too. Bad parents lead to the development of bad people.

This animal will be in the slammer for some time and he better be hoping he never drops the soap in the shower.
Indeed!

This headline is misleading, as is the introductory paragraph. This child was not injured during a "parents' fight." Only later on does it become clear this was a one-way assault by the father. Not a fight. Not a dispute. Stop writing misleading articles on domestic violence and child abuse.

As I said to another commenter, police said they were fighting but I don't think they meant that in a hand-to-hand combat sense, but instead an argument sense. I think I'm going to amend the wording to better reflect that.

Are women now responsible for men's violence? Every poster who has blamed this women is in deep denial of men's use of violence-- it's not the woman's fault. Many men can be quite charming initially. Many men can save the drug use and bawdiness for when they're around other men. These guys don't have signs on their foreheads. Men are responsible for and accountable for their actions - - this is what we should be teaching our youth --- as long as we keep making excuses for their behavior or placing the blame on women, we will keep having men use violence against women - - you are complicit to this crime by offering such impunity to the perpetrators - from their assaults to their choosing also to bring a child into this world.

Okay, I can understand hitting the woman in question.... if she started hitting first.

But not the baby..... I wonder if the stupid woman in question was using the baby as a 'shield' while raining down blows on her husband.

Don't laugh, my one friend had his step-sister's brothers wife do that where they could see it.

To Jo, people are not SOLELY blaming this woman....... but the fact is that women DO instigate violent encounters, and MY parents taught me "Male or female, if they hit you first, you PUT THEM DOWN FOR THE COUNT!"

I've only had to do that twice in my entire life, because the two times I did that taught people that I was NOT to be messed with and I would not just stand there as a target of violence.
I would try to get away.... but if I couldn't, I would put you down hard.

Sad, sad, sad

Justin, an "argument" is when people use their words. A "fight" is a mutual affray. If a man hits a woman during an argument, regardless if they know each other, sleep together, have a child, or are married, it is an assault. It's a crime to put your hands on someone or to hurt someone, even if you are in an argument, and even if it's domestic. Look at how the posters here want to blame this woman for what happened to her child. That attitude is in part due to the notion that domestic violence is consensual or even instigated by the victims. Your words matter.

This the same ponk who didn't do nothing 2 a boy who banged him in the mouth but he is fast 2 put his hands on a female and a baby

Remember that there is two sides to a story. And the fate you wish on my nephew might just be the one GOD has in store for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think all this could have been prevented i knew the mother at one point and she should have left this boy alone a long time ago she was abused by him before ever even getting pregnant and she only got pregnant to keep him. and when she stayed with him after learning about the pregnancy she was a fool but im not to worried about her it was her stupid decision i feel sorry for the baby he was already born premature and we believe it was because of abuse through out the pregnancy. i believe people need to grow up and realize who they are involved with before bringing children into the world all this could have been prevented.

Men like this need somebody bigger than them to beat on them and see how they like it!