2 Investigators: No Charges Filed In Abuse That Left Baby With Head Injury

October 17, 2012 9:30 PM " WOODSTOCK, Ill. (CBS) - A young child was abused, suffered a head injury, and spent nearly a week in the hospital; two adults were home with the girl at the time, yet no one has been criminally charged.

There was only an Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) case on the incident.

The victim’s frustrated family agreed to talk to CBS 2′s Dave Savini.

Now, at three years old, the little girl is cute and full of energy. Two years ago, pictures show a hospitalized baby with a swollen head and blackened eye, at the age of 14 months.

Her grandmother, Jennine Manarpaac, had received a call the baby was rushed to the hospital in Woodstock. Manarpaac said, When she arrived, she was horrified.

“When I saw her, I screamed. She was almost unrecognizable. Her ear was sticking straight out. Her head was out to here, and she was crying,” said Manarpaac who wants someone to help her granddaughter get justice.

The girl had been with her mother, Brittney McElman, and McElman’s boyfriend at the time.

According to court records, McElman said she did not know how the baby was injured, and gave stories that were “inconsistent” "

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