By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 20-year-old Stillwater woman accused of jerking her four-month-old baby girl by her arm and causing a fracture has been ordered to appear in court Tuesday afternoon with an attorney on a child abuse charge.
Brianna Leigh Miller later “admitted to being stressed out and frustrated due to family situations and not having the help she felt she needed with the children,” Stillwater Police Detective Cody Manuel alleged in an affidavit.
In an interview at the hospital, Miller said she grabbed the baby up from the couch by her upper arms and “jerked her up in a rough manner causing the spiral fracture,” to the baby’s right arm, the affidavit alleged.
Police had been called to the Stillwater Medical Center emergency room at 4:24 pm on Aug. 31 regarding possible child abuse, the affidavit said.
“The attending doctor’s opinion was that the sequence of events given by the mother were not consistent with the child’s injury,” the affidavit said.
Miller “had told staff two similar but slightly different stories about how the arm injury occurred,” the affidavit alleged.
In a third story, Miller told Officer Cory Westbrook that she felt the baby’s arm pop as she picked her up roughly, the affidavit alleged.
“The child began to cry and her arm was limp. Brianna Miller then called her husband home from work and took the child to the emergency room,” the affidavit alleged.
The baby’s mother was arrested at the hospital at 6:40 pm and later freed on $5,000 bond, court records show.
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