Custodial dad on trial for starvation death of 11-year-old son; grandfather testifies (Dallas County, Texas)

This is typical killer daddy bullsh**. Can't tell you how often these custodial fathers blame the step, claiming they were powerless under her Evil Influence. I'm starting to think this is written down somewhere in the Abuser Daddy Custodial Playbook. It's one thing for a mother to "fail" to protect her children against a man who has threatened to kill her and outweighs her by 100 lbs. It's another for one of these @$$ hole fathers to play victim. Sorry, doesn't pass the smell test, dude.

Of course the unacknowledged elephant in the room is the following unanswered question: How did AARON RAMSEY get custody and who gave it to him? The fact that a piece of crap like this was able to get and retain custody--only to slowly torture the child to death--shows how easy it is for fathers to strip mothers of their children these days. Notice the efforts to restrict family contact with the child. This is a typical abuser daddy move as well--one that non-custodial mothers often experience.

http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2013/04/trial-for-father-accused-starving-son-to-death-hiding-the-11-year-olds-body-scheduled-to-begin-today.html/

Updated: Defendant’s father testifies in trial for man accused starving son to death and hiding the 11-year-old’s body

By Christina Rosales 9:12 am on April 17, 2013 Update, 12:15 p.m.

Just before the lunch break, defense attorneys were cross examining Edward Ramsey, grandfather of Johnathan Ramsey and father of the defendant, Aaron Ramsey.

The grandfather described Johnathan as “a regular little boy,” who loved airplanes and cars and playing catch.

The man, a pastor from Ennis, testified this morning that he became concerned when his son moved with his new wife, Elizabeth to Dallas in January 2011.

He said he didn’t say any goodbyes because “with the close proximity, I knew I’d see them again soon.”

It would be the last time he saw his grandson, he testified.

For more than a year, he had asked to see his grandson, he testified. Instead, he spoke to Johnathan on the phone and could sense that his stepmother was “over his shoulder making sure he said the right things.” He exchanged texts with Johnathan but “sensed” the stepmother had a hand in those words, too, he said. The couple claimed Johnathan was busy with church or extended family and didn’t have time to see his grandfather.

In March 2012, he decided he had had enough and demanded he see his grandson. The couple told him it would not be possible. The grandfather began his search on his own, first going to his son’s father-in-law, asking if he could provide a good phone number and address for the Aaron Ramsey.

The man told the grandfather he had heard that Johnathan was tested and was not in fact Aaron’s biological son, Edward Ramsey testified. “And he said Johnathan moved to New Mexico” with his biological mother and “he might have died.”

The grandfather said he felt “sad, very upset and lost,” after hearing that. He called police and an investigation began days later, he said. According to prosecutors, Johnathan Ramsey had been dead for more than six months, his body lying in a creek bed in Ennis, and found by police after Aaron Ramsey pointed the location out to officers, prosecutors said.

The defense cross-examined the defendant’s father and asked if Aaron Ramsey’s personality changed after he married his second wife, Elizabeth Ramsey. He replied no, but said his son was at times “easily manipulated.”

Testimony is scheduled to resume at 1 p.m.

Original post: The trial for a father accused of starving his son to death and dumping the boy’s remains in Ennis is scheduled to begin in a Dallas County courtroom this morning.

Aaron Ramsey, along with the boy’s stepmother, Elizabeth Ramsey, was charged with injury to a child and faces up to life in prison. Her trial has not yet begun.

Extended family of the boy, Jonathan Lloyd Ramsey, reported him missing when they didn’t hear from him for months. An investigation began in late March 2012. Authorities questioned his father and stepmother after his remains were found the next month in a creek bed in Ellis County.

Both Elizabeth and Aaron Ramsey confessed to locking Johnathan — or JL, as his family called him — in a bedroom for months, police said. He was fed mostly bread and water, and he became so frail and hungry that he ate his own feces, court documents show. Police believe the boy died in August 2011.

The lead prosecutor in the case is Eren Price, and the trial is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. in Criminal District Court 2.