CLEVELAND -- An 11-month-old is awaiting surgery at MetroHealth Medical Center after having her ear cut off.
Thursday evening, Cleveland police received a call from a woman saying her child's father beat her up, and then ran off with the baby.

Soon after, the man showed up at the Huron Road hospital, saying that the mother cut the child's ear off.

Investigators say the mother took a large kitchen knife and cut a large part of the 11-month-old's ear off.

Tonya Edwards, 35, was arrested for felonious assault, child endangering and domestic violence.

The child was taken to MetroHealth Medical Center by lifeflight helicopter where he is awaiting plastic surgerysource

i hope she gets what she deserves

Bloody animal!

And is the child going back to these parents?

Good grief! Why in the world would she do such a thing???? People are sick!

Now that's just sick this lady needs to be sent to prison for this!

They shouldn't punish the mother for punishing her kid. Shoot her?

in this case I think an ear for a ear type of thing, plus jail time the mother new better and if she didn't ,lock the crazy b**** away and take her right to reproduce away. The girl was 11 months old for christ sake.

... I forgot the roll eyes smilie at the end of that quote. ...Sorry bout that. *goes to edit*

thats sick... I say throw her into molten iron, but lower her into it slowly!

Yes!

Holy crap. What kind of mother would cut their child's ear off? She must be one messed up person to do that!

crypto

She deserves to be shot, and the baby should live with the father.

She deserved to be "beat up" by the dad in my opinion.

The baby should live with the father if he beats on the mother!

The baby needs to live in a loving home.

i would stab the the mother and take the baby to the father!

Mrs. Blonde?

As long as it's not Mr. Brown that's too close to Mr. Sh....you know....

I'm sure, but that was priceless!

The topic title says it all.

Well... What if she cut the kid's ear off as to get at the father? You know, reverse psychology.

But, of course, if she had cutten the man's ear off and not the infant's, you would all be saying the bloke got what he deserved.

Well, um...no 11 month old deserves to be treated that way.

And if she cut off the kid's ear to get at the father, she's even crazier than anyone probably initially thought.

that's sick

He probably would have.

wait...so....why the hell did she cut the childs ear off

The short article doesn't say why.

You know when you are pregnant you have all kinds of exams, maybe they should start including a psych exam, to see if these parents are fit to parent. Clearly there is some crazy s**t going on. They are live human babies, not puppets.

Mothers are responsible for most child abuse in America that ends in death. The third National Incidence of Child Abuse and Neglect report numbers as high as 78%, and according to Dr. Joseph Deltito, a professor of psychiatry at the New York Medical College, mothers outnumber fathers in the deaths of biological children by seven to one. Often they claim to be victims of a range of disorders from postpartum depression to post traumatic stress to outright psychosis, and they're supported by a wealth of mental health agencies and social groups.

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Very sobering information.