Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans posted a photo of her baby son Kaiser with what looks like a black eye, which of course prompted cries of child abuse online.
Someone even called Child Protective Services on her over the image below, which did not sit well with the Carolina Hurricane and sparked a Twitter rebuke:
Jenelle leaves Kaiser, three months old, in the care of her mother-in-law (or her baby daddy's Nathan Griffith's mom, since they're not married) while in school.
Often, she posts pictures from their day to day adventures in parenting, but someone actually reported Jenelle to the state agency after this photo.
Anyone with little kids knows that they get bonked, bruised and scratched on a routine basis, figuring out how to crawl, walk and roll over, et cetera.
That, combined with the fact that no one was there to see what (if anything) happened to the youngster makes the call to CPS a pretty crazy move.
Not surprisingly, Jenelle was fuming about it:
- U guys r seriously accusing me of giving Kai a black eye?! Wtf is wrong with all if u. CALL CPS again. I dare u, idiots.
- Me and Nathan's mom just got finished laughing at u haters. She's like "even if Kai did have a black eye.. Would u REALLY be posting it ?!"
She makes a good point, even it does look like he suffered a bonk of some kind. Attributing that to abuse you assume took place is pretty absurd, though.
Jenelle Evans, who appeared with Leah Messer, Kailyn Lowry, and Chelsea Houska on this week's reunion show (watch Teen Mom 2 online) is a lot of things.
Abusive is not one of them. In fact, she posts almost daily pics of all the cute things she and her little family do together, from the benign to the adorable.
We know Jenelle has had a tough past and that haters will always assume the worst, and she may be guilty of oversharing and giving them too much ammo.
She's not a child abuser though. Move on.
