Toddler Dead Over Dirty Diaper Summary

Toddler Dead Over Dirty Diaper A 2-year-old Utah boy was beaten to death by his mother and her boyfriend on May 14th, 2015. The ABC7 news article goes on to explain that mother Jasmine, 23, and boyfriend Josh, 34, will be facing jail charges. Although each suspect told a different story to the police, the police came to the conclusion that the discrepancy was over a potty-training incident. Josh was upset at the toddler because he had pooped in his diaper. Police described that the couple became furious, and Josh took the toddlers diaper off and smeared the contents in the 2-year-olds face. The beating of the child began when the mother went outside for a cigarette. The mother has previously allowed significant amounts of abuse to happen to

Frustration, according to Meyers is, “The blocking of goal-directed behavior” (Meyers p.360).The goal was to get him to try to use the toilet, not his diaper and he did not reach that goal, causing frustration in Josh. In this case the frustration-aggression theory also could be applied to the incidence. This theory states how frustration triggers readiness to aggress (Meyers p.360). The frustration that Josh had triggered aggression toward the child. Aggression according to Meyers is, “physical or verbal behavior intended to harm someone” (Meyers p.354). The 2-year-old was badly abused due to the physical aggression of both his mother and her boyfriend. The aggression was physical because Josh and Jasmine caused direct harm to the young boys’ body. Not only did they physically hit him, they smeared feces on to his face as a punishment for not using the toilet. They had insufficient justification because they wanted to justify smearing feces in the toddlers face with his failure to not go to the bathroom on the

She was trying to compensate for her actions. It is very possible that she knew her actions were wrong, so she was trying to hide what really happened so she did not have to deal with it and the consequences. According to the hospital records, no one could have cover up the severe bruising and internal bleeding the 2-year-old had.
This was not the first time the little boy has been abused. Family members have spoken out about how they have always believed abuse was happening in the household, but never did anything about it. The diffusion of responsibility theory helps explain why other family members did not intervene. They either assumed that someone else was responsible to take care of the issue or someone else already reported it. It is too easy and never safe to assume that an issue, especially one as serious as abuse, is taken care of and