{"id":2251,"date":"2011-06-16T20:32:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T02:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2011-06-16T20:32:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T02:32:59","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-june-16-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2251","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For June 16, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Chewed Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Missouri couple was charged on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 with endangering the welfare of a child after a pet ferret allegedly chewed off most of their four-month-old son’s fingers while he was left home alone. \u00a0Ryan R. Waldo, 33, and Carrie R. Waldo, 25, were each charged in Jackson County on Wednesday and have not yet entered a plea. \u00a0Documents filed as part of the charges state that the Waldos told police they were asleep when the ferret attack occurred on January 10 in their home in Grain Valley, Missouri. The couple said they awoke to find the boy screaming and bloody and that Ryan Waldo threw the ferret against the dishwasher, killing it. \u00a0The infant was taken to the hospital, where seven fingers were amputated because they had been chewed down to the knuckles. \u00a0Grain Valley police investigated cell phone records and used GPS technology to determine that the Waldos were exchanging text messages from various locations at the time of the ferret attack, when they had said they were at home. \u00a0The Waldos told investigators the ferret had never bitten anyone, but a person with a ferret rescue organization told their landlord the couple wanted to give up the animal because it had bitten the infant twice. \u00a0Ryan and Carrie Waldo face one felony count each of endangering the welfare of a child. Their infant son and a sibling have been removed from the parents’ custody while the case proceeds.<\/p>\n

Culled from: Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Chewed Yet Truly Morbid Fact! A Missouri couple was charged on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 with endangering the welfare of a child after a pet ferret allegedly chewed off most of their four-month-old son’s fingers while he was left home alone. \u00a0Ryan R. Waldo, 33, and Carrie R. Waldo, 25, were each charged in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}