Black Listed NewsGEORGIA — The government has refused to compensate grieving parents whose 18-month-old infant was burned alive when a team of SWAT officers threw a flash bang grenade directly into the baby’s playpen.
The incident occurred on the morning of May 28, as parents Alecia and Bounkham Phonesavanh and their three children were sleeping.
Their baby, nicknamed “Bou Bou Jr.” was in his playpen sound asleep.
That’s when the Habersham County Sheriff’s officer performed a SWAT no-knock raid on their home, busting their door open with a battering ram.
The officers claimed that the a nephew in the family was “suspected of selling drugs for $50″ to a police informant.
The nephew was actually not even living in the home, and the family hadn’t seen him in months.
No drugs or weapons were found during the raid.
Yet that didn’t stop the officers from busting into the house with assault rifles and terrorizing the family to the point of throwing a grenade at their infant.
Bou Bou was in his playpen as officers tried to open the door.
Because of the way Bou Bou’s playpen was positioned near the door, officers believed that “resistance” was blocking them from getting inside.
They then pulled out a flash bang grenade, and threw it into the opening in the door, down directly into Bou Bou’s playpen.
The grenade exploded at Bou Bou’s head, leaving the pillows and blankets in the playpen soaked in blood and blackened with burns.
Bou Bou’s face and body were scorched as he screamed in agony.
In an interview with ABC News, medical personnel in the hospital’s burn treatment center said that the grenade blast had “torn down” Bou Bou’s chest wall, stripping it off all the way down to the muscle tissue, and “it tore his face down to bone, down to his teeth.”
The mother, horrified after seeing officers throw a grenade at her child, asked officers what happened to her baby? She was being restrained and the officers would not let her go to her baby.
The officers lied to her, according to reports, saying “your son is fine.”
The truth was, Bou Bou’s skin was literally torn apart and melted by their grenade.
Bou Bou entered a coma and did not come out for more than an entire month.
He has permanent burn scarring on his face and his chest is disfigured, as the police grenade blew off one of his nipples.
To be blown up by police at such a young age, it is unimaginable what kind of psychological trauma the child will suffer as he grows up.
Extremely traumatic events like this can permanently destroy once healthy neural connections in the brain, leading to a life of pain, confusion, depression, and addiction.
Now, Bou Bou’s family is faced with $1 million in medical bills, and they don’t have the means to pay it.
The Habersham County government said it would be “against the law” to compensate the family for their loss, and has so far refused to give any financial aid to the grieving parents.
The family may spend the rest of their lives in poverty.
“Before they did this to us, we didn’t owe anybody anything,” said the mother.
“And now after all this, they have completely financially crippled us,” she continued.
The officers who performed the raid were, of course, not indicted by a grand jury — a situation that has become all too familiar in the US.
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Disgusting. I’m sick of hearing about supposed atrocities committed decades ago by US enemies when sh&t like this is happening here right now. I don’t know what the answer is for this family and that poor, scarred for life child, but I know they deserve compensation more than the illegals waltzing into this country and getting all sorts of financial help from the same government that tolerates atrocities committed against its own citizens.
In my opinion, that family has every right to track down every officer who participated in that raid and send them back to hell via a bullet to the brain. The cops want to know why people hate them so badly and spit on their corpses when they get killed? Go ask that innocent baby why these “legalized” gestapo murdering thugs were justified in destroying his life.
It wont get any better until enough people have had enough and force things to change…that can’t be done between commercials…and that’s the problem.
-flek
It will be better for a millstone to be tied around the cops neck than what is coming for them that did this to a little one. Do not know if it will happen in this life or the next… but it will happen.
The cops are starting to reap what they sow! Incidents like the 2 cops that were executed in New York will begin to happen more frequently as the militarization and federalizing of the police becomes more prominent.
The cops in this instance deserve nothing but HELL here on earth!
I hope these cops that maimed that child reap what they sow soon!
Obviously this family has been lied to and are “buying the bull” they have been told by the respective county. They need to obtain a lawyer to file a claim on their child’s behalf for the rest of his life.
Do we know if the family has asked for any kind of help like with a Go Fund Me account? I think many in the public would help them out somewhat at least.
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Where are the money hungry lawyers when you need them???