This is such a disgusting story. How could anybody do such a thing.
Father to be arraigned in toddler's lip biting
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Globe Staff / November 19, 2007
LOWELL - A man arrested after he allegedly bit off the lip of his 22-month-old son Saturday morning will be arraigned today.
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Lowell police say they received a 9-1-1 call from an apartment on Middlesex Street at about 9:30. They arrived to find the boy's mouth bleeding, and his detached lip on the floor.
Thy Chan, 26, faces charges of assault and battery, assault and battery on a child, and mayhem, Sergeant Mickey O'Keefe said yesterday.
The boy was rushed to Children's Hospital Boston, where his condition was not available. Chan was taken to Saints Medical Center of Lowell for unspecified injuries.
He was listed in stable condition yesterday.
"It's an unfortunate circumstance," said Ton Chan, Thy Chan's brother, at his home in Lowell. "I really don't want to go into detail about it. We'll see what the outcome is."
No one answered the door at the duplex on Middlesex Street where police say the biting occurred.
Police Superintendent Kenneth Lavallee told the Lowell Sun that Chan was covered in blood and acting erratically in an upstairs bedroom when officers arrived.
Alison Goodwin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Social Services, said yesterday that the agency is investigating the case.
The family has had no prior contact with the agency, she said. She would not comment on whether DSS had placed the boy in another relative's custody.
Officials did not name the child, but Goodwin confirmed that Chan is the father.
The gruesome case is similar to the mutilation earlier this year of a 3-year-old girl from New Bedford who police say was bitten and battered by her mother's live-in boyfriend.
Bryan M. James, 35, was arrested July 4 on charges of abusing the girl so severely that she was left permanently disfigured.
Investigators said the child suffered human bites to the face and lost part of her upper lip.
In that case, police said James and the woman's mother, Jessica Silveira, 26, attempted to hide the abuse from DSS investigators.
James and Silveira, who pleaded not guilty, were indicted in August.
John C. Drake can be reached at
jdrake@globe.com.
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