Boyfriend, dad accused of dumping children indicted (Dayton, Ohio)

This case just goes to show that biological ties don't really mean much when you're basically a piece of sh--. TOMMIE LEE JOHNSON has been indicted for kidnapping a 2-year-old and an 8-month-old and then leaving them in a trash dumpster. One was "his" child, the other was his girlfriend's child (different father). Not much of a difference in outcomes, was there?

http://www.whiotv.com/news/21655384/detail.html

Man Accused Of Dumping Children Indicted
Posted: 4:26 pm EST November 18, 2009
Updated: 5:16 pm EST November 18, 2009

DAYTON, Ohio -- A man accused of dumping a 2-year-old and an 8-month-old in a trash can last summer has now been charged with trying to kill the children.

On Wednesday, Tommie Lee Johnson, 39, was indicted on a number of felony charges.

He was charged with two counts of attempted murder, four counts of kidnapping, three counts of domestic violence, and one count of tampering with evidence.

Investigators said on the evening of July 26, after Johnson got into an argument with his girlfriend, who is the mother of the two children, took the children from their Cherrywood Avenue home and fled.

Johnson is the father of one of the children.

Investigators said the mother then called Dayton police, who then began immediately searching for the two children and Johnson. A short time later, Johnson was found, but without the children.

He refused to tell officers where the children were taken, police said.

On the morning of July 27, a man who works for a company on East Second Street heard the sound of what appeared to be a child crying at the rear of the business. The worker discovered the two children in a trash Dumpster.

The children were covered in dirt and mud and were sweating profusely after spending the hot summer night in the closed trash Dumpster.

Johnson faces penalties of up to 80 years in prison if convicted. He will be arraigned in court on Nov. 24.

Prosecuting Attorney Mat Heck said, “Taking these two very young children from their home and abandoning them in a trash Dumpster is despicable. These children could have easily died from the heat inside the closed container or as a result of being dumped in the back of a refuse truck and taken to a landfill.”