Friday, August 15th 2008, 8:51 PM Ganelis Jimenez The Brooklyn father accused of beating his 3-year-old daughter to death said he went berserk after she "misbehaved." Her crime: soiling her underpants. "She was toilet trained and she had an accident and her father said he lost it," a police source said. Michael Jimenez, 25, allegedly grabbed and shook little Ginelis while trying to clean the girl up in the bathtub on Tuesday. She hit her head on the side of the bathtub and convulsed until she passed out. At some point, he punched her in the chest with a closed fist, cops said. When Jimenez couldn't shake life back into Ginelis' broken body, he told cops he felt so guilty he tried to hang himself in the family's apartment, but the pain made him stop. The fatal attack on Ginelis was just the latest in months of violence inflicted on the child, authorities said. "He can beat a 3-year-old girl and let her suffer in pain for months before ending it with a punch in the chest, but he can't take any pain himself. Animal," another police source said. Medical help for Ginelis came only after her mother, Kimberly Cantos, 23, got home from work hours later at midnight and called an ambulance to the family's Ocean Hill brownstone. Ginelis was declared dead about 1 a.m. Wednesday at Interfaith Medical Center. Her year-old brother, Hezekiah, also showed signs of abuse. Jimenez was under police guard Friday in Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric ward, his arraignment delayed by his suicide attempt, police and law enforcement sources said. Cantos was charged with multiple counts of endangering the welfare of a child because she never took Ginelis to the doctor for the previous abuse. At her arraignment Friday, Brooklyn prosector Roger McCready said Cantos had long ignored her daughter's pain: She told cops she heard Ginelis' arm "pop" when Jimenez snapped it and saw the girl's clavicle poke through her skin. Cantos was held on $25,000 bail. Cantos' lawyer countered that his client was as much a victim of Jimenez's rage as her daughter. "She was controlled by fear. She was rendered powerless. He beat her. He choked her," said defense lawyer Barry Deonarine. agendar@nydailynews.com I
am concerned that this kind of report occurs much more frequently throughout
the nation than is commonly realized. I use Google alerts for any reports
relating to soiling, bowel, bladder, etc. that occurs in the popular press.
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This is the first major publicity release for Soiling Solutions and comes at a time when the first publication of its history and theory for treating encopresis over 10 years has just appeared in a major medical quarterly journal. Stay tuned as we see press and media reactions. Please advise me of any that you see or hear. DrC. Soiling Solutions®: An Internet and Manual Based Approach to Treating Encopresis or Fecal Incontinence in Children Spring Lake, Michigan, Soiling Solutions®, 12 April, 2009 Sooner or later frustrated parents find their way to the Soiling Solutions® website, http://www.soilingsolutions.com to finally free their children from fecal incontinence or encopresis. “Poop” is an extremely offensive body waste and disease carrying product causing great distress. Psychologist Dr. Robert W. Collins reported on the history and theory behind the unique Soiling Solutions® approach in the Spring 2009 issue of “Digestive Health Matters”. This is the quarterly publication of the International Foundation of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (http://www.iffgd.org). The Soiling Solutions® approach uses the first treatment manual written for encopresis. It was introduced by Dr. Collins in 1998. It is controversial because it employs suppositories and enemas in a bowel retraining program. Many physicians and parents alike find this very distasteful. A majority of pediatricians now avoid even doing an adequate physical examination because of societal sensitivities about this area of the body. Two earlier pediatric journal articles established the preferred “top down” use of oral stool softening agents in use today. The authors of these two articles referred to the use of “bottom up” suppositories and enemas as “anal assault.” Their approach has been called the “soft” approach. Dr. Collins has reviewed evidence that this approach works in only 40-60 percent of cases, http://www.soilingsolutions.com/references.htm. Orally ingested stool softeners are supposed to allow easier bowel movements. Dr. Collins argues that for too many children they only promote confused and ill-timed voiding signals because they have to work through the entire length of the GI tract. In addition, they frequently liquefy the stool so that there is even more stool leakage. Indeed, the children may only practice greater stool retention out of fear of accidents making success less likely and intensifying family conflict. This holding response can become so over learned that it has been demonstrated to occur under anesthesia. Thus, the standard pediatric protocol may even paradoxically cause a more resistant form of encopresis! The Soiling Solutions® “bottom up priming” approach heightens voiding urge signals and assures a successful voiding reflex with feelings of relief and lowered bowel pressure. The children delight in their success and success builds on success. Soiling accidents cease in 90% of children within two weeks, more success! Over time and conditioning trials the children can more readily detect well-formed stools without the softening agents and can more reliably sit and release their stool without needing the suppository or enema primer. The Soiling Solutions® protocol is detailed in the step by step Clean Kid Manual allowing self-treatment using easily available and safe over-the-counter agents. Another innovation of the Soiling Solutions protocol is that it provides a parents forum on the Internet where the parents, all using the same treatment manual, can advise and support one another. The forum is very active and even includes physicians and psychologists, who have discovered the Clean Kid Manual and are using it with their own children. Dr. Collins views it as a “clinical lab” and it has been instrumental in revising 4 editions of his manual. Dr. Collins does strongly recommend that parents inform their physicians of their intent to use the Clean Kid Manual. He provides free consults for physicians who contact him. Physicians should purchase their own copies to better support their patients. He does view his protocol as a default treatment approach when the standard “top down” approach fails. About Soiling Solutions®: Soiling Solutions® is registered internationally and it is a “doing business as” professional corporation registered in the state of Michigan. Robert W. Collins, PhD, PC is its founder and president. His biography is available at www.soilingsolutions.com/doctor.htm. Contact: |
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