Eddie Runyon of New Athens remembers happier times when Amanda Lynn Runyon, his two-year old daughter was born. Today, Amanda is in Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis in critical condition from a beating sustained from her mother’s boyfriend, Kraig Monroe.
Monroe, 24, is being held in the St. Clair County Jail charged with aggravated battery of a child. Bail has been set at $500,000. He reportedly punched the baby in the stomach for crying.
Eddie Runyon, 23, is a coal miner working out of state since 2008. He was working in Kentucky at the time of the beating. He grew up in Marissa.