Sandra Bullock and her husband of nearly two years, Jesse James, are fighting for partial custody of James’ third child, three year old Sunny. James left Sunny’s mom, his second wife porn star Janine Lindemulder, while she was seven months pregnant. Lindemulder claims that until this January James only saw his daughter on the day she was born for half an hour.

James has filed court papers claiming that he suspects his ex of abusing toddler Sunny, and says the girl has suspicious bruises and seems to be troubled. If his ex-wife grants him 50 percent custody, he’s willing to drop the abuse charges:

[Sandra Bullock] is rallying behind hubby Jesse James in his fight to win custody of his 3-year-old daughter Sunny from his ex-wife, porn star Janine Lindemulder, say sources.

But Janine is not giving up easily – and insiders say she blames the 42-year-old “Miss Congeniality” beauty for pushing Jesse to snatch Sunny away from her.

Jesse, host of TV’s “Monster Garage,” filed an emergency child custody order against Janine on March 15. He asked the court to award him temporary custody of Sunny pending a child welfare investigation.

In court documents, 37-year-old Jesse claimed that Sunny was scratched and bruised when she visited him and Sandra recently – and the child blamed “mommy’s chair” for her injuries.

“Sunny had small scratches and what appeared to be broken blood vessels and a bruise on her left cheek and a few bruises around her left and right eye,” Jesse said in papers filed in California’s Orange County Superior Court.

“When my wife gently asked her if it hurt she said: ‘Yes, but the bleeding stopped.’ She just said ‘mommy’s chair’ when we asked how it happened.”

The papers also state Janine “was to pick her up on Saturday afternoon when she arrived (an hour late), Sunny screamed and cried she didn’t want to go.

“My wife and I let Sunny stay with us in bed Saturday night. We didn’t think she should be alone. During the night she was very restless and seemed to be angry and crying off and on, but clearly cried out: ‘don’t touch me’ and ‘don’t do that.'”

[From The National Enquirer print edition, April 9, 2007]

It could be true that he suspects his wife of hurting the girl, but you never know with toddlers. They get into a lot of scrapes and often cry when they have to leave a place they’re comfortable with, even if they’ve only been there an hour. The article goes on to quote a source that says that Janine is a good mother and that it’s not fair to judge her because she’s earned a living in the adult film business.

Janine is said to think that Bullock is behind James’ custody and abuse claims, and the source says she doesn’t have an issue with Sandra, but believes that it was her idea to get Jesse more involved in his youngest child’s life.

Bullock’s recent statements about being a step-mother to James’ three children seem to support that. She told People Magazine “I have children, amazing children. My love and my hopes for their future and their happiness, for their homework to be done and for them to know how smart and beautiful they are is no less than if they were my own biological children.” She said she does want a biological child but only if it happens naturally for her. If not, that’s ok too.

James has two other children with his first wife Karla James, Jesse James, Jr., 7, and Chandler James, 9.

Sunny’s mom Janine was the naughty nurse on Blink 182’s album cover for Enema of the State. She’s a well known porn star and adult movie producer and is next appearing in “Janine loves Jenna [Jameson],” which will be released on DVD on April 13th.

Here are pictures of Janine Lindemulder. She was in a Pirates of the Caribbean porn spoof, and there are two images from that. Header picture from Bastardly.