No bond for dad charged with murdering 3-year-old son, raping and assaulting mom (Chicago, Illinois)

Dad GREGORY D. SANDIFER has been charged with murder, aggravated domestic battery, and criminal sexual assault. The mom is in critical condition.

http://www.suntimes.com/7462789-417/no-bond-for-father-charged-with-fatally-stabbing-son-raping-mom.html

No bond for father charged with fatally stabbing son, raping mom September 4, 2011 8:48AM

Updated: September 5, 2011 2:07AM

A 27-year-old man was ordered held without bond Sunday after being charged with fatally stabbing his 3-year-old son and raping and stabbing the boy’s mother in the Friday morning in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.

Judge Peggy Chiampas ordered Gregory D. Sandifer was held without bond on Sunday, according to a Cook County Criminal Court clerk. Sandifer is scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, according to the clerk.

Sandifer, of the 900 block of Bowling Green Drive in Homewood, was charged with murder, aggravated domestic battery and criminal sexual assault, according to police News Affairs.

He remains hospitalized Sunday, according to News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak, who said the suspect is the boy’s father.

After stabbing the child in the 5000 block of West Division Street about 11:15 a.m. Friday, Sandifer allegedly pushed the boy’s 25-year-old mother out a window before fleeing, police said.

The boy -- identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office as Jaivon Sandifer -- was pronounced dead at 12:18 p.m. Friday at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. A Saturday autopsy determined he died of multiple stab and incise wounds and the death was ruled a homicide.

According to the report, Sandfier and the woman were arguing when he allegedly displayed a knife, sexually assaulted her and then stabbed her multiples times in the chest, neck and arms.

The woman wrestled the knife from him and threw it out the window. She tried to flee from the window, but Sandifer allegedly punched her in the head and body, picked up a television and hit her with it before pushing her out the second-floor window, according to the report.

When police got inside the apartment and saw the suspect holding a knife, Sandifer fled to the back of the residence, jumped off a second-floor rear porch and fled northbound, the report said.

The woman told officers the man who attacked her was her boyfriend.

Officers found the suspect inside a garage in the 5000 block of West Crystal Street, the report said.

Sandifer allegedly told officers: “I’m tired and thirsty from fighting,” the report said. He was arrested after police positively identified him as the suspect and other officers found the boy’s body, the report said.

The woman was taken to Stroger Hospital, where she was initially listed in critical condition, the report said.

Sandifer is hospitalized at West Suburban Hospital Medical Center in Oak Park for an ankle injury he suffered when he jumped from the second-floor, according to a police report.