How could a mother do something like this? Violence from the FASD brain is more prevalent in males, but the brain damage in a female can lead to violence as well. This behavior fits the profile of a female who does not have the capability to manage her behaviors due to brain damage. Ask the question and there is a high probability you will find this woman is prenatally exposed to alcohol.

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AUSTIN — A woman has been charged with child endangerment, a state jail felony, for beating her 4-year-old daughter before throwing her into the path of an oncoming vehicle, police said.

The driver of the brown Suburban braked and did not strike the child.

Aurelia Gallardo, 24, could face up to 20 years if convicted. Bail was set at $25,000.

Lt. Dana Brockington with the Austin Police Department told The Associated Press early Friday he did not know whether Gallardo had an attorney.

When the incident happened Tuesday, Gallardo and her three children were waiting for a city bus.

A witness at the bus stop told police he saw Gallardo lift her daughter by the arm so forcefully that he thought the girl's arm "was going to dislocate out of the socket." The witness told police that Gallardo then violently threw the girl into the street and pulled her by her hair before throwing her into a parked vehicle, according to an arrest affidavit.

The witness said Gallardo told her daughter, "You are dead to me" and "You are a slut."

"It's pretty outrageous when a parent loses composure to that degree," said police Sgt. Brian Loyd of the child abuse investigation unit in a story for Friday's online edition of the Austin American-Statesman. "We see some bad stuff on our unit, but this is new for us."

Once Gallardo boarded the bus, according to the affidavit, the bus driver said the woman was "yelling every four-letter word known" at the 4-year-old and was telling the girl that "CPS would take her away and that no one would want her."

Police stopped the city bus and took Gallardo into custody, Loyd said.

Loyd said the three children are in the custody of Child Protective Services.

Ask the Question. He fits the profile of brain damage from prenatal exposure to alcohol.

NEW YORK — Prosecutors say a homeless man told them he killed a New York City college student because he was bored and had nowhere to go.

Prosecutors filed a signed statement in court in which Jeromie Cancel admits killing 19-year-old Kevin Pravia in the victim's Manhattan apartment last month. But Cancel pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday on a second-degree murder charge.

The 22-year-old Cancel is being held without bail.

Cancel's statement says he killed Pravia by stuffing a plastic bag in his mouth while holding his nose and choking him with a cord around his neck.

The statement says Cancel was leaving the apartment but didn't have anywhere to go. It says, "I was bored, so I decided to go back into the apartment and kill him."

The Two Faces of FASD

A headline story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune shows the two faces of FASD. A vulnerable young man, identified as FAS by his adoptive mother, was viciously beat by four men and a woman. The vulnerable FAS man is easily identified because the damage to his brain was clearly evident and his adoptive mother knew and understands the devastation of FASD. The other face of FASD is the violent acts of the five individual who attacked him. While I do not have any evidence of the mothers of these five drinking while pregnant, the acts of violence and other evidence of dysfunction of these individuals all point to the exhibition of brain damage from prenatal exposure to alcohol. Unfortunately, this face of FASD is not easily recognized and, in almost all cases, the mother will not tell the truth about her level of drinking during the pregnancy. Our jails are full of this face of FASD.

Prosecutors: Lie prompted attack on vulnerable man

A teen-age girl allegedly told her boyfriend that the victim from Lakeville had hit her, and then she encouraged the four suspects.

By JOY POWELL and ABBY SIMONS, Star Tribune staff writers


A 16-year-old girl lied to her boyfriend that a mentally disabled Lakeville man had hit her and helped lure the man to a remote location, where she egged on her boyfriend and three other men as they beat and tortured the man, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Natasha Dahn of Lakeville was an instigator of the weekend assaults on Justin Hamilton, which left him with broken ribs, burns, cuts, bruises and other injuries, Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom said.

She was charged with kidnapping, aggravated robbery and other crimes Wednesday, when prosecutors also brought additional charges against three of the four men accused in the abduction and beating of Hamilton, 24, of Lakeville. The men are accused of kidnapping Hamilton and taking him to a remote area of southern Dakota County, where he was assaulted over several hours Friday and Saturday nights.

Another FASD Inmate in Crow Wing County Jail

Please, Brainerd Dispatch, ask the question. You will find out this person was prenatally exposed to alcohol. His behaviors are directly linked to the brain damage he sustained in his mother's womb.

Stabbing leads to man's arrest
By MATT ERICKSON
Staff Writer
Police believe a fight over a woman led to the stabbing of one man and the arrest of another for attempted murder early Saturday in southeast Brainerd.

Brainerd Police officers were dispatched about 1:43 a.m. Saturday to St. Joseph's Medical Center in Brainerd after receiving a report of a stabbing victim at the hospital.

The victim, Jeffrey Ryan Bock, 27, Brainerd, suffered numerous stab wounds, police said. He was reported in stable condition Sunday at St. Joseph's Medical Center.

The suspect, Dominic Donald Duane Dubois, 23, Brainerd, later turned himself in at the Brainerd Police Department. He was arrested for attempted murder and first-degree assault and is being held in the Crow Wing County Jail pending formal charges.

Brainerd Police Chief John Bolduc said the stabbing was believed to have happened in a vehicle on the 1200 block of Rosewood Street. Brainerd Police and Crow Wing County Sheriff's deputies located the vehicle involved in the stabbing north of Brainerd.

Bolduc said Bock and Dubois were acquainted with each other.

"It's sounds like it was a domestic type situation," Bolduc said. "The two males had some type of relationship with the same female."

No other suspects are being sought, police said, but the incident is still under investigation.

Dubois' criminal history dating back to 2003 includes charges for DWI in Carlton and Cass counties; disorderly conduct, theft, careless driving, driving with no proof of insurance, underage consumption and driving after license cancellation in Crow Wing County and felony damage to property in Mille Lacs County