Child abuse is a serious issue. There are many children who suffer abuse daily, and the parents never get caught. Then there are times when children are thankfully taken away from their abusers. Unfortunately, there are child abuse cases that don’t enough attention, and the end result is tragic.
Seth Welch and his wife, Tatiana Fusari, placed a call to emergency services and were then escorted to the police station in King County, Michigan, to answer questions what about happened to their youngest child, Mary Anne Welch, and how she had starved to death.
During their first interviews, the parents were both there voluntarily and not officially under arrest. The husband and wife were put in two separate rooms, each with bare gray walls, two uncomfortable chairs, and a table.
At the beginning of the interview with the mother, the detective starts off slowly by telling her that he would like to fully understand the whole situation as to why they are all there. The detective asks Tatiana how many children she has, and she immediately breaks down crying.
Between Seth and Tatiana, Seth shows zero emotion about his child dying, unlike Tatiana, who shows signs of shame and embarrassment. They are both being questioned as to why they didn’t seek medical help for their baby, who weighed only 8 pounds at the time of her death at 10 months old.
One of the detectives interviewing Seth says, “I’m telling you right now, I’ve been doing this job for a long time, OK? And he’ll tell you when I walked into that bedroom today, I started crying. And I looked at her for a millisecond. And I knew she wasn’t right.”
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Tatiana claims the reason for not getting Mary the help she needed was because she was afraid the doctor was going to call child protective services on them again, which had happened with their older children, and that she thought Mary would get better. She didn’t think she would die.
After the detectives were done with their questioning, they let Seth and Tatiana sit in the same room together. The conversation between the couple is gut-wrenching, showing the little remorse they had for their child who had died only hours before.
The couple was sent home, but the next day they were officially arrested. During their next round of interviews, the horrible truth as to what exactly happened to Mary started to come out.
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