Son's death didn't stop "party dad" from living it up (Charleston, South Carolina)

We posted on dad ROGER "TONY" WILLIAMS earlier today, who has been charged in the death of his 2-year-old son who had been "visiting" Daddy. Now we find that the child had apparently been dead for quite some time before the bogus "disappearance" which was staged shortly before the child was supposed to return to his mother. We also see that Daddy was apparently not very wracked by grief over his son's death given his non-stop party activities. So why did this @$$wipe have visitation and/or custodial rights? Who gave it to him? Especially when earlier reports mention his outstanding warrants?

http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/07/10/1579287/sons-death-didnt-stop-party.html

Saturday, Jul. 10, 2010
Son's death didn't stop party
Website shows father lived it up
By Glenn Smith - The (Charleston) Post and Courier

CHARLESTON -- In the days after he allegedly let his son die, Roger "Tony" Williams promoted late-night parties at local nightclubs featuring scantily clad women and cash give-aways, his Facebook page shows.

Williams, 29, is accused of refusing to get medical care for his 2-year-old son after the boy's health failed on June 7 in Summerville. When little Rodricus Williams died, investigators said, Williams and girlfriend Grace Trotman dumped him behind an abandoned house in Bowman in a garbage can filled with 400 pounds of cement.

Authorities said the pair then concocted a story about the toddler falling into Charleston Harbor on Tuesday while walking along The Battery sea wall.

A man and his girlfriend were charged Thursday in the death of a South Carolina toddler whose remains were found buried in 400 pounds of concrete in a trash can, two days after police said the couple concocted a story about the boy falling into a harbor near a popular tourist destination.

Roger Williams, 29, and Grace Nichole Trotman, 24, were charged with homicide by child abuse. An autopsy revealed the concrete held the body of a young black boy who matched the description the couple had given Charleston police for Williams' missing son, Rodricus Williams, said Berkeley County Sheriff Wayne DeWitt.

Rodricus had been staying with his father and Trotman when his mother unexpectedly called wanting to see her son, police said. Rodricus' mother was told she could pick him up Tuesday at the Battery in Charleston, a tourist area and Civil War site on the city's peninsula about 20 miles from where police believe the boy was killed.

As the fruitless search was on for a missing 2-year-old boy with an infectious smile, authorities believe that all along he was buried under 400 pounds of concrete in a trash can.

The boy's father and his girlfriend were arrested Thursday, two days after the couple concocted a story about the boy falling into the Charleston Harbor near a popular tourist destination, authorities said.

On Wednesday, human remains were found that matched the description of the boy the couple had given. The body was wrapped in 32-gallon trash bags encased in concrete in a bin so heavy a farmer had to hoist it onto a county vehicle using a backhoe.

As the fruitless search was on for a missing 2-year-old boy with an infectious smile, authorities believe that all along he was buried under 400 pounds of concrete in a trash can.

The boy's father and his girlfriend were arrested Thursday, two days after the couple concocted a story about the boy falling into the Charleston Harbor near a popular tourist destination, authorities said.

On Wednesday, human remains were found that matched the description of the boy the couple had given. The body was wrapped in 32-gallon trash bags encased in concrete in a bin so heavy a farmer had to hoist it onto a county vehicle using a backhoe.

South Carolina police have charged a man and his girlfriend with homicide by child abuse in the death of a toddler whose body was found encased in concrete in a trash bin.

Berkeley County sheriff's spokesman Dan Moon said 29-year-old Roger Williams and Grace Nichole Trotman were charged Thursday.

Investigators were awaiting results of a DNA test to determine whether the body found Wednesday was that of Rodricus Williams.

That led to an exhaustive, 12-hour search by police, fire and Coast Guard personnel that cost nearly $58,000 to conduct, according to city officials.

Charleston police released a tape Friday of the 911 call Trotman placed that night. In a calm voice, she is heard telling a police dispatcher that the boy simply disappeared when she was walking with her children.

"When I turned back around, he wasn't there," she said. "Um, I have some people right now that's helping me try to look for him, but we don't seem to find him."

That was because he had been dead about a month at the point, according to arrest affidavits.

If the couple was plagued by guilt, Williams gave no indication of that on his Facebook page, which he used to promote events for Pipeboyz Entertainment. He was busy hawking one event just two days after his son reportedly died. The page, on which he goes by his middle name, shows a shirtless Williams hoisting a middle finger to a camera.

The events pitch "Wasted Wednesday," "Wet Bikini Wednesdays" and "Hypnotic Exotic Fridays" at Skyy Lounge in Goose Creek and other locations. In expletive-ridden posts, Williams boasts of having naked and near-naked women on hand, cheap drinks and cash give-aways.

"WE ARE A MAN OF OUR WORD," Williams wrote in a June 20 post. "WE DROPPED A 1000 DOLLARS LAST NIGHT, WE PARTIED TILL 5, WE HAD NO DRAMA, AND NO POLICE!

WHO ELSE DOES IT BIGGER! PIPEBOYZ ENT. FELLAS WE GOT BIKINI NITE 2NITE, SO CME ENJOY URSLEF AND RELAX LIKE SME REAL PIMPS!!!"

Trotman, who worked part-time at a Dorchester County fiberglass plant, wrote on her Facebook page that she is a 2005 graduate of Summerville High School and has two children, ages 2 and 9 months. Rodricus reportedly died in her home on Longbourne Way in Summerville, and investigators have credited her statements with helping lead them to the concrete-filled trash can on Wednesday.

Berkeley County detectives are awaiting DNA tests to definitively identify the body chipped from the cement.

In the meantime, Trotman and Williams are being held without bail in the Berkeley County jail on charges of homicide by child abuse.

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