Man charged in toddler beating death released on $100,000 bond
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By Jody Barr
WBTW News 13 Reporter
Published: July 21, 2008
On Friday, Horry County Police charged a Galivants Ferry couple in the death of a 17-month-old.
Saturday, a county judge set bond on 37-year-old Julia Shawnette Gorman and her boyfriend, 30-year-old Robert Andrew Palmer.
Gorman faces a homicide by child abuse charge and Palmer faces charges that he knew about the abuse, but failed to report it or failed to get the toddler medical attention for the injuries.
The child died from multiple head trauma at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston last Wednesday.
Both Gorman and Palmer rushed the baby to the Conway Medical Center last Monday night with injuries that ended up taking the child’s life, according to a county police report.
Doctors at the hospital called in a helicopter to fly the child to MUSC to treat the injuries.
County police arrested Gorman and Palmer Friday morning and took them to the county police headquarters at the M.L. Brown building in Conway.
Investigators booked the pair into the J. Reuben Long Detention Center around noon Friday, and officially served both with the charges later that day.
At a hearing Saturday at the jail, a county judge did not set bond on Gorman’s charges because of the potential life sentence the charge carries.
The judge set Palmer’s bond at $100,000 and ordered him to have no contact with his own child, a 5-year-old boy, until the Department of Social Services conducts a home study investigation into Palmer’s home.
The toddler’s parents attended the hearing, but neither addressed the court, but assistant 15th Circuit solicitor, Candice Lively asked the judge to set a high bond on the pair.
Palmer has an initial appearance court date set for sometime in September.
Gorman will face a circuit court judge to have her bond set on the murder charge sometime next month.
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Posted by ( Conway Gal ) on July 24, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Sadly it takes the DEATH of this poor child before anybody does anything about it. I have called DSS on a lady that I know for a fact beats her kids (her son she beat like a grown man and today he is mentally retarded), she sells drugs out of her house, her live in boyfriend is a convicted child molester not once, but TWICE, and yet DSS won’t do anything about it. They went to her house and before making any sort of investigation on her they tell her exactly what was said to them by the complaitant so now she knows what to watch for. Of COURSE she’s going to get the drugs out of her house, of COURSE she’s going to act like the best parent in the world, until this all dies down. Then she’ll be back to doing the same things and sadly her children’s lives are at stake, but does the Department of Social Services? Obviously they don’t or they would’ve taken those children from her long long ago before the damage was done.
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