Leaving an abuser is the most dangerous time for women and children, especially when authorities do not take women's concerns seriously. This could have been prevented.
Dad is identified as JASON HAGAN DEJ-OUDOM.
http://nbc4i.com/2016/06/30/bystander-tries-to-save-woman-from-husband-who-killed-3-kids/
Las Vegas police: Father kills wife, three children before turning gun on himself
By Associated Press
Published: June 30, 2016, 7:41 pm | Updated: June 30, 2016, 8:25 pm
LAS VEGAS (AP) – A good Samaritan could not save a Las Vegas woman screaming for help as her gun-wielding estranged husband chased her from their home to two drug store parking lots in a chaotic murder-suicide that left a family of five dead, authorities said Thursday.
The man gunned down his wife outside a business and killed their children, ages 9 to 15, at their apartment before shooting himself at the residence, police said.
Homicide detectives are investigating what drove him to kill his family.
“It’s really hard to understand how this could happen, how somebody could do that to children,” police Lt. Dan McGrath said.
Court records show that Phoukeo Dej-Oudom filed for divorce May 25 from her husband, Jason Hagan Dej-Oudom.
No attorney is listed in the petition, which said they were married in July 2000 in Columbus, Ohio.
The document asked a judge to consider domestic violence when considering custody.
It didn’t provide any detail, but noted the involvement of Clark County Child Protective Services.
Police said they aren’t releasing any details of a domestic violence call earlier this month because detectives are looking into it as part of the murder-suicide investigation.
No one appeared for a June 22 hearing in the divorce case.
The Clark County coroner’s office identified the couple’s children, including 15-year-old daughter, Dalavanh Ariel Dej-Oudom, and sons, Xonajuk J.J. Dej-Oudom, 14, and Anhurak Jason Dej-Oudom, 9. The youngest child died of a gunshot wound to the head. The coroner hasn’t released the cause of death for the 35-year-old woman or the other children.
A driver spotted Phoukeo Dej-Oudom waving her hands and screaming for help in the street near her home and picked her up Wednesday night.
Jason Hagan Dej-Oudom chased them to a CVS drug store two blocks away, where he dragged his wife into his car at gunpoint.
As he drove off, his wife partially hung out the window and eventually escaped and started running.
Witnesses saw Jason Hagan Dej-Oudom chasing her in his car while she fled toward a Walgreens about a half mile away.
Witnesses outside the store reported hearing four gunshots, and a bystander rushed to help the woman but she was already dead, with least one gunshot wound to the head, McGrath said.
Jason Hagan Dej-Oudom fled. A relative called police half an hour later saying the man was at the apartment and suicidal.
A SWAT team responded and found the bodies of the father and three children in a bedroom, though authorities were not sure if he killed the children before or after his wife.
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Monday, July 11, 2016
Protective mom: custodial dad, girlfriend killed 7-year-old daughter (East Point, Georgia)
The custodial dad is identified as MICHAEL WASH.
http://www.wtvm.com/story/32360641/mother-of-missing-child-i-believe-they-killed-my-baby
Mother of missing child: 'I believe they killed my baby'
Published:Saturday, July 2nd 2016, 8:28 am EDT
Updated:Saturday, July 2nd 2016, 11:49 am EDT
By Julian Johnson EAST POINT, GA (CBS46) - A mother is demanding answers now that the search for her missing 7-year-old daughter has turned into a homicide investigation.
East Point police say a father and his girlfriend are in custody in connection to a homicide investigation that was launched after a 7-year-old girl was reported missing.
27-year-old Michael Wash has been charged with aggravated assault, cruelty to children, giving false statements and concealing the death of another.
In addition, 30-year-old Lasherae Davis was charged with party to aggravated assault, party to cruelty to children, giving false statements and concealing the death of another.
Kamaire Wash's father, Michael Deon Wash, and his girlfriend, Lasherae Davis, remain in custody facing several charges.
However, none of the charges include murder.
CBS46 found Kamaire's mother in Illinois and she told us without a doubt, she believes Kamaire's father and his girlfriend were involved in her death.
"Yeah, I believe they killed my baby. I do, I sure do," said Kashira Pettigrew.
As a mother, they're words she likely never thought she'd be saying, but now she's faced with the fact her daughter is missing and presumed dead.
"They found the body the day before. They didn't even know who it was, they just so happened to be saying the baby was missing yesterday," said Pettigrew.
East Point police are still awaiting confirmation a body found in Lake Allatoona on Wednesday afternoon is in fact Kamaire. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is conducting an autopsy.
CBS46 has confirmed police believe Wash and Davis drove Kamaire's body up to the lake and dumped it.
"Why would they do a baby like that? She was only 7, had a beautiful heart, beautiful spirit," said Pettigrew. "It's not adding up to me. I want answers for my baby. She deserves justice.
We're told Kamaire had only been living with her father for about a year.
Wash is charged with aggravated assault, cruelty to children 1st degree (2 counts), cruelty to children 3rd degree, giving false statements, and concealing the death of another.
Davis is charged with party to the crime aggravated assault, party to the crime – cruelty to children 1st degree (2 counts), party to the crime – cruelty to children 3rd degree, giving false statements, and concealing the death of another.
They both both waived their first appearance Saturday. Their next appearance is July 15 at 9:30 a.m. No bond was granted.
http://www.wtvm.com/story/32360641/mother-of-missing-child-i-believe-they-killed-my-baby
Mother of missing child: 'I believe they killed my baby'
Published:Saturday, July 2nd 2016, 8:28 am EDT
Updated:Saturday, July 2nd 2016, 11:49 am EDT
By Julian Johnson EAST POINT, GA (CBS46) - A mother is demanding answers now that the search for her missing 7-year-old daughter has turned into a homicide investigation.
East Point police say a father and his girlfriend are in custody in connection to a homicide investigation that was launched after a 7-year-old girl was reported missing.
27-year-old Michael Wash has been charged with aggravated assault, cruelty to children, giving false statements and concealing the death of another.
In addition, 30-year-old Lasherae Davis was charged with party to aggravated assault, party to cruelty to children, giving false statements and concealing the death of another.
Kamaire Wash's father, Michael Deon Wash, and his girlfriend, Lasherae Davis, remain in custody facing several charges.
However, none of the charges include murder.
CBS46 found Kamaire's mother in Illinois and she told us without a doubt, she believes Kamaire's father and his girlfriend were involved in her death.
"Yeah, I believe they killed my baby. I do, I sure do," said Kashira Pettigrew.
As a mother, they're words she likely never thought she'd be saying, but now she's faced with the fact her daughter is missing and presumed dead.
"They found the body the day before. They didn't even know who it was, they just so happened to be saying the baby was missing yesterday," said Pettigrew.
East Point police are still awaiting confirmation a body found in Lake Allatoona on Wednesday afternoon is in fact Kamaire. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is conducting an autopsy.
CBS46 has confirmed police believe Wash and Davis drove Kamaire's body up to the lake and dumped it.
"Why would they do a baby like that? She was only 7, had a beautiful heart, beautiful spirit," said Pettigrew. "It's not adding up to me. I want answers for my baby. She deserves justice.
We're told Kamaire had only been living with her father for about a year.
Wash is charged with aggravated assault, cruelty to children 1st degree (2 counts), cruelty to children 3rd degree, giving false statements, and concealing the death of another.
Davis is charged with party to the crime aggravated assault, party to the crime – cruelty to children 1st degree (2 counts), party to the crime – cruelty to children 3rd degree, giving false statements, and concealing the death of another.
They both both waived their first appearance Saturday. Their next appearance is July 15 at 9:30 a.m. No bond was granted.
Protective mom: custodial dad, girlfriend killed 7-year-old daughter (East Point, Georgia)
The custodial dad is identified as MICHAEL WASH.
http://www.wtvm.com/story/32360641/mother-of-missing-child-i-believe-they-killed-my-baby
Mother of missing child: 'I believe they killed my baby'
Published:Saturday, July 2nd 2016, 8:28 am EDT
Updated:Saturday, July 2nd 2016, 11:49 am EDT
By Julian Johnson EAST POINT, GA (CBS46) - A mother is demanding answers now that the search for her missing 7-year-old daughter has turned into a homicide investigation.
East Point police say a father and his girlfriend are in custody in connection to a homicide investigation that was launched after a 7-year-old girl was reported missing.
27-year-old Michael Wash has been charged with aggravated assault, cruelty to children, giving false statements and concealing the death of another.
In addition, 30-year-old Lasherae Davis was charged with party to aggravated assault, party to cruelty to children, giving false statements and concealing the death of another.
Kamaire Wash's father, Michael Deon Wash, and his girlfriend, Lasherae Davis, remain in custody facing several charges.
However, none of the charges include murder.
CBS46 found Kamaire's mother in Illinois and she told us without a doubt, she believes Kamaire's father and his girlfriend were involved in her death.
"Yeah, I believe they killed my baby. I do, I sure do," said Kashira Pettigrew.
As a mother, they're words she likely never thought she'd be saying, but now she's faced with the fact her daughter is missing and presumed dead.
"They found the body the day before. They didn't even know who it was, they just so happened to be saying the baby was missing yesterday," said Pettigrew.
East Point police are still awaiting confirmation a body found in Lake Allatoona on Wednesday afternoon is in fact Kamaire. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is conducting an autopsy.
CBS46 has confirmed police believe Wash and Davis drove Kamaire's body up to the lake and dumped it.
"Why would they do a baby like that? She was only 7, had a beautiful heart, beautiful spirit," said Pettigrew. "It's not adding up to me. I want answers for my baby. She deserves justice.
We're told Kamaire had only been living with her father for about a year.
Wash is charged with aggravated assault, cruelty to children 1st degree (2 counts), cruelty to children 3rd degree, giving false statements, and concealing the death of another.
Davis is charged with party to the crime aggravated assault, party to the crime – cruelty to children 1st degree (2 counts), party to the crime – cruelty to children 3rd degree, giving false statements, and concealing the death of another.
They both both waived their first appearance Saturday. Their next appearance is July 15 at 9:30 a.m. No bond was granted.
http://www.wtvm.com/story/32360641/mother-of-missing-child-i-believe-they-killed-my-baby
Mother of missing child: 'I believe they killed my baby'
Published:Saturday, July 2nd 2016, 8:28 am EDT
Updated:Saturday, July 2nd 2016, 11:49 am EDT
By Julian Johnson EAST POINT, GA (CBS46) - A mother is demanding answers now that the search for her missing 7-year-old daughter has turned into a homicide investigation.
East Point police say a father and his girlfriend are in custody in connection to a homicide investigation that was launched after a 7-year-old girl was reported missing.
27-year-old Michael Wash has been charged with aggravated assault, cruelty to children, giving false statements and concealing the death of another.
In addition, 30-year-old Lasherae Davis was charged with party to aggravated assault, party to cruelty to children, giving false statements and concealing the death of another.
Kamaire Wash's father, Michael Deon Wash, and his girlfriend, Lasherae Davis, remain in custody facing several charges.
However, none of the charges include murder.
CBS46 found Kamaire's mother in Illinois and she told us without a doubt, she believes Kamaire's father and his girlfriend were involved in her death.
"Yeah, I believe they killed my baby. I do, I sure do," said Kashira Pettigrew.
As a mother, they're words she likely never thought she'd be saying, but now she's faced with the fact her daughter is missing and presumed dead.
"They found the body the day before. They didn't even know who it was, they just so happened to be saying the baby was missing yesterday," said Pettigrew.
East Point police are still awaiting confirmation a body found in Lake Allatoona on Wednesday afternoon is in fact Kamaire. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is conducting an autopsy.
CBS46 has confirmed police believe Wash and Davis drove Kamaire's body up to the lake and dumped it.
"Why would they do a baby like that? She was only 7, had a beautiful heart, beautiful spirit," said Pettigrew. "It's not adding up to me. I want answers for my baby. She deserves justice.
We're told Kamaire had only been living with her father for about a year.
Wash is charged with aggravated assault, cruelty to children 1st degree (2 counts), cruelty to children 3rd degree, giving false statements, and concealing the death of another.
Davis is charged with party to the crime aggravated assault, party to the crime – cruelty to children 1st degree (2 counts), party to the crime – cruelty to children 3rd degree, giving false statements, and concealing the death of another.
They both both waived their first appearance Saturday. Their next appearance is July 15 at 9:30 a.m. No bond was granted.
Protective mom: custodial dad, girlfriend killed 7-year-old daughter (East Point, Georgia)
The custodial dad is identified as MICHAEL WASH.
http://www.wtvm.com/story/32360641/mother-of-missing-child-i-believe-they-killed-my-baby
Mother of missing child: 'I believe they killed my baby'
Published:Saturday, July 2nd 2016, 8:28 am EDT
Updated:Saturday, July 2nd 2016, 11:49 am EDT
By Julian Johnson EAST POINT, GA (CBS46) - A mother is demanding answers now that the search for her missing 7-year-old daughter has turned into a homicide investigation.
East Point police say a father and his girlfriend are in custody in connection to a homicide investigation that was launched after a 7-year-old girl was reported missing.
27-year-old Michael Wash has been charged with aggravated assault, cruelty to children, giving false statements and concealing the death of another.
In addition, 30-year-old Lasherae Davis was charged with party to aggravated assault, party to cruelty to children, giving false statements and concealing the death of another.
Kamaire Wash's father, Michael Deon Wash, and his girlfriend, Lasherae Davis, remain in custody facing several charges.
However, none of the charges include murder.
CBS46 found Kamaire's mother in Illinois and she told us without a doubt, she believes Kamaire's father and his girlfriend were involved in her death.
"Yeah, I believe they killed my baby. I do, I sure do," said Kashira Pettigrew.
As a mother, they're words she likely never thought she'd be saying, but now she's faced with the fact her daughter is missing and presumed dead.
"They found the body the day before. They didn't even know who it was, they just so happened to be saying the baby was missing yesterday," said Pettigrew.
East Point police are still awaiting confirmation a body found in Lake Allatoona on Wednesday afternoon is in fact Kamaire. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is conducting an autopsy.
CBS46 has confirmed police believe Wash and Davis drove Kamaire's body up to the lake and dumped it.
"Why would they do a baby like that? She was only 7, had a beautiful heart, beautiful spirit," said Pettigrew. "It's not adding up to me. I want answers for my baby. She deserves justice.
We're told Kamaire had only been living with her father for about a year.
Wash is charged with aggravated assault, cruelty to children 1st degree (2 counts), cruelty to children 3rd degree, giving false statements, and concealing the death of another.
Davis is charged with party to the crime aggravated assault, party to the crime – cruelty to children 1st degree (2 counts), party to the crime – cruelty to children 3rd degree, giving false statements, and concealing the death of another.
They both both waived their first appearance Saturday. Their next appearance is July 15 at 9:30 a.m. No bond was granted.
http://www.wtvm.com/story/32360641/mother-of-missing-child-i-believe-they-killed-my-baby
Mother of missing child: 'I believe they killed my baby'
Published:Saturday, July 2nd 2016, 8:28 am EDT
Updated:Saturday, July 2nd 2016, 11:49 am EDT
By Julian Johnson EAST POINT, GA (CBS46) - A mother is demanding answers now that the search for her missing 7-year-old daughter has turned into a homicide investigation.
East Point police say a father and his girlfriend are in custody in connection to a homicide investigation that was launched after a 7-year-old girl was reported missing.
27-year-old Michael Wash has been charged with aggravated assault, cruelty to children, giving false statements and concealing the death of another.
In addition, 30-year-old Lasherae Davis was charged with party to aggravated assault, party to cruelty to children, giving false statements and concealing the death of another.
Kamaire Wash's father, Michael Deon Wash, and his girlfriend, Lasherae Davis, remain in custody facing several charges.
However, none of the charges include murder.
CBS46 found Kamaire's mother in Illinois and she told us without a doubt, she believes Kamaire's father and his girlfriend were involved in her death.
"Yeah, I believe they killed my baby. I do, I sure do," said Kashira Pettigrew.
As a mother, they're words she likely never thought she'd be saying, but now she's faced with the fact her daughter is missing and presumed dead.
"They found the body the day before. They didn't even know who it was, they just so happened to be saying the baby was missing yesterday," said Pettigrew.
East Point police are still awaiting confirmation a body found in Lake Allatoona on Wednesday afternoon is in fact Kamaire. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is conducting an autopsy.
CBS46 has confirmed police believe Wash and Davis drove Kamaire's body up to the lake and dumped it.
"Why would they do a baby like that? She was only 7, had a beautiful heart, beautiful spirit," said Pettigrew. "It's not adding up to me. I want answers for my baby. She deserves justice.
We're told Kamaire had only been living with her father for about a year.
Wash is charged with aggravated assault, cruelty to children 1st degree (2 counts), cruelty to children 3rd degree, giving false statements, and concealing the death of another.
Davis is charged with party to the crime aggravated assault, party to the crime – cruelty to children 1st degree (2 counts), party to the crime – cruelty to children 3rd degree, giving false statements, and concealing the death of another.
They both both waived their first appearance Saturday. Their next appearance is July 15 at 9:30 a.m. No bond was granted.
Dad pleads guilty to aggravated manslaughter in death of 6-year-old son; what happened to mom? (Sarasota, Florida)
Notice there is mention of dad's girlfriend, but not the mother. What happened to mom? Did dad JAMES "RICK" DEARMAN have full custody? Joint custody? What? As usual, there is no explanation.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/father-accused-squishing-child-death-pleads-quilty/nrqzz/
Father pleads guilty to killing son by 'squishing'
Published: Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 1:42 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 2:30 p.m.
SARASOTA COUNTY - An Englewood man pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the death of his 6-year-old son.
During a plea hearing on Thursday, James “Rick” Dearman pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter of a child under the age of 18.
His son Jimmy died Christmas Eve 2015 after authorities say Dearman and his girlfriend, Ashley Cole, sat on him.
That night, Jimmy and his sister were heard making noises in their bedroom, Assistant State Attorney Art Jackman said. They were then told to put their noses against the wall as a form of punishment.
The boy did not, instead watching Cole and Dearman play video games. After this, Cole brought the boy to the couch where he sat on his side, his face against the rear cushions, Jackman said. Cole sat on his back, and Dearman sat on his shoulder.
“They had previously used this as a form of punishment,” Jackman said. “They called it 'squishing.'”
Despite the boy's protests of needing to use the bathroom and being unable to breathe, the two remained on the boy.
After approximately five minutes, he stopped moving. After Cole and Dearman left the room to smoke in the garage, they came back about 10 minutes later and called police after finding the boy unresponsive.
At the time, Jimmy weighed about 45 pounds. Dearman weighed about 279 pounds and Cole about 170 pounds. According to the medical examiner's report, Jimmy's death was ruled a homicide by asphyxiation.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/father-accused-squishing-child-death-pleads-quilty/nrqzz/
Father pleads guilty to killing son by 'squishing'
Published: Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 1:42 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 2:30 p.m.
SARASOTA COUNTY - An Englewood man pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the death of his 6-year-old son.
During a plea hearing on Thursday, James “Rick” Dearman pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter of a child under the age of 18.
His son Jimmy died Christmas Eve 2015 after authorities say Dearman and his girlfriend, Ashley Cole, sat on him.
That night, Jimmy and his sister were heard making noises in their bedroom, Assistant State Attorney Art Jackman said. They were then told to put their noses against the wall as a form of punishment.
The boy did not, instead watching Cole and Dearman play video games. After this, Cole brought the boy to the couch where he sat on his side, his face against the rear cushions, Jackman said. Cole sat on his back, and Dearman sat on his shoulder.
“They had previously used this as a form of punishment,” Jackman said. “They called it 'squishing.'”
Despite the boy's protests of needing to use the bathroom and being unable to breathe, the two remained on the boy.
After approximately five minutes, he stopped moving. After Cole and Dearman left the room to smoke in the garage, they came back about 10 minutes later and called police after finding the boy unresponsive.
At the time, Jimmy weighed about 45 pounds. Dearman weighed about 279 pounds and Cole about 170 pounds. According to the medical examiner's report, Jimmy's death was ruled a homicide by asphyxiation.
Dad, girlfriend suspected in death of 7-year-old daughter; is he custodial? (Atlanta, Georgia)
Dad is identified as MICHAEL WALSH. At minimum, he had out-of-state visitation. Or he may have had full custody. Notice we are not told the details about how and why this father had access to this child.
http://www.wandtv.com/story/32364452/7-year-old-found-in-lake-in-georgia-could-have-ties-to-champaign
7-year-old found in lake in Georgia could have ties to Champaign
Posted: Jul 03, 2016 1:39 PM EDT Updated: Jul 05, 2016 5:23 PM EDT
ATLANTA – WANDNews has word from an NBC affiliate near Atlanta, Georgia, that a seven-year-old girl found dead in Lake Allatoona could have ties back here in Central Illinois.
Our partners at WXIA report a seven-year-old was killed this past Sunday or Monday, and police in East Point, Georgia, say they believe her father and his live-in girlfriend had a hand in her death. Authorities tell
WXIA they believe 27-year-old Michael Wash and 30-year-old Lasherae Davis drove 7-year-old Kamaire Wash to the lake and left her in the water. WXIA reports boaters found a young girl’s body, Wednesday afternoon, that they believe is the missing girl. She had been in the water for around 48 hours.
This story has connections back to Illinois, with WXIA sources saying the girl’s mother is from Champaign, Illinois. WAND News has reached out to the woman believed to be the victim’s mother and will report any further developments.
In the meantime, WXIA reports the father faces charges of aggravated assault, child cruelty and concealing the girl’s death, and his girlfriend could be charged with being a party to the assault and cruelty, along with concealing the child’s death.
East Point Police tell WXIA they are not ready to charge them yet. Both suspects claim they put the girl to bed on Wednesday night, and she was missing with the door left open when they woke up.
Details are still developing in this case, with police not yet ready to confirm where, how and why Kamaire was killed.
The earliest the public will positively know the identity of the child, as well as the cause of death, would be Tuesday, after the Fourth of July holiday.
http://www.wandtv.com/story/32364452/7-year-old-found-in-lake-in-georgia-could-have-ties-to-champaign
7-year-old found in lake in Georgia could have ties to Champaign
Posted: Jul 03, 2016 1:39 PM EDT Updated: Jul 05, 2016 5:23 PM EDT
ATLANTA – WANDNews has word from an NBC affiliate near Atlanta, Georgia, that a seven-year-old girl found dead in Lake Allatoona could have ties back here in Central Illinois.
Our partners at WXIA report a seven-year-old was killed this past Sunday or Monday, and police in East Point, Georgia, say they believe her father and his live-in girlfriend had a hand in her death. Authorities tell
WXIA they believe 27-year-old Michael Wash and 30-year-old Lasherae Davis drove 7-year-old Kamaire Wash to the lake and left her in the water. WXIA reports boaters found a young girl’s body, Wednesday afternoon, that they believe is the missing girl. She had been in the water for around 48 hours.
This story has connections back to Illinois, with WXIA sources saying the girl’s mother is from Champaign, Illinois. WAND News has reached out to the woman believed to be the victim’s mother and will report any further developments.
In the meantime, WXIA reports the father faces charges of aggravated assault, child cruelty and concealing the girl’s death, and his girlfriend could be charged with being a party to the assault and cruelty, along with concealing the child’s death.
East Point Police tell WXIA they are not ready to charge them yet. Both suspects claim they put the girl to bed on Wednesday night, and she was missing with the door left open when they woke up.
Details are still developing in this case, with police not yet ready to confirm where, how and why Kamaire was killed.
The earliest the public will positively know the identity of the child, as well as the cause of death, would be Tuesday, after the Fourth of July holiday.
Dad, step charged with abusing 2-year old; dad had previously served time for killing, sexually abusing 18-month old. Why was he allowed access? (Fayetteville, North Carolina)
Where to even start with this story? Many unanswered questions.
Why was a man who murdered and raped an 18-month-old child not behind bars permanently? Only 10 years served? Pretty outrageous.
Why was a father with this kind of history allowed any access to a child at all? Who allowed it or ordered it? The family courts?
Of course, the custody/visitation angle to this story was buried when the step was misidentified as the mother. Happens a lot.
Dad is identified as JIMMY TYRONE BALDWIN.
http://www.wral.com/nc-man-imprisoned-for-child-abuse-previously-charged-again/15838367/
NC man imprisoned for child abuse previously charged again
Posted 4:32 p.m. Friday Updated 4:35 p.m. Friday
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A man who served time for the death and sexual assault of an 18-month-old faces charges of abusing his own child, as does the toddler's stepmother.
Fayetteville police said in a news release Friday that 38-year-old Jimmy Tyrone Baldwin and 25-year-old Chaka Baldwin are each charged with felonious child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury.
Police say the child's biological mother brought the 2-year-old to a hospital on June 11 after she received the child back from Jimmy Baldwin, the child's father. The child has been released from the hospital.
Jimmy Baldwin was released from prison in 2008 after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the 1998 death and sexual assault of a child.
He remained in custody Friday under a $250,000 bond. Chaka Baldwin was released on bond. It wasn't clear if either has an attorney.
___ This story has been corrected to show that Chaka Baldwin is the child's stepmother, not the mother.
Why was a man who murdered and raped an 18-month-old child not behind bars permanently? Only 10 years served? Pretty outrageous.
Why was a father with this kind of history allowed any access to a child at all? Who allowed it or ordered it? The family courts?
Of course, the custody/visitation angle to this story was buried when the step was misidentified as the mother. Happens a lot.
Dad is identified as JIMMY TYRONE BALDWIN.
http://www.wral.com/nc-man-imprisoned-for-child-abuse-previously-charged-again/15838367/
NC man imprisoned for child abuse previously charged again
Posted 4:32 p.m. Friday Updated 4:35 p.m. Friday
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A man who served time for the death and sexual assault of an 18-month-old faces charges of abusing his own child, as does the toddler's stepmother.
Fayetteville police said in a news release Friday that 38-year-old Jimmy Tyrone Baldwin and 25-year-old Chaka Baldwin are each charged with felonious child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury.
Police say the child's biological mother brought the 2-year-old to a hospital on June 11 after she received the child back from Jimmy Baldwin, the child's father. The child has been released from the hospital.
Jimmy Baldwin was released from prison in 2008 after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the 1998 death and sexual assault of a child.
He remained in custody Friday under a $250,000 bond. Chaka Baldwin was released on bond. It wasn't clear if either has an attorney.
___ This story has been corrected to show that Chaka Baldwin is the child's stepmother, not the mother.
Friday, June 10, 2016
Dad refuses to return child to mom for 7 months; police, CPS do nothing, then child ends up in hospital with fatal injuries (Independence, Missouri)
This is why single mothers need to have custody rights automatically. And why we need to have police and CPS START PAYING ATTENTION TO MOTHERS.
And mothers need to have resources to support their kids. It's ridiculous that we have tons of corporate welfare and virtually nothing for struggling moms and kids.
UNNAMED DAD.
http://fox4kc.com/2016/06/09/mother-ends-life-support-for-daughter-found-abused-wondering-why-no-one-is-in-custody/
Furious metro mom: ‘Someone beat my child to death’
Posted 5:23 pm, June 9, 2016, by Robert Townsend, Updated at 05:56pm, June 9, 2016
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- A child is dead and a grieving Independence mother is left to wonder why. Myra Price made the most difficult decision a parent can ever make: she told doctors to take her daughter off life support.
FOX 4's Robert Townsend spoke with the heartbroken mother about her decision, and what led the family to such dire circumstances.
"I'm mad as hell right now. The crying is over. I've cried a lot and I've prayed a lot," a fuming, grief-stricken Price said.
"My baby was always smiling. She was always joyful. She loved to dance and she should be here with me right now," the 23-year-old mother said as she fought back tears.
Price is convinced someone severely beat her little girl.
"I had a feeling something was going on with her. Didn't nobody believe me, the police, asking them, asking DFS," Price said.
On Oct. 22 of last year, Price said she took her daughter, 3-year-old Honesty Sanders, to the child's paternal grandmother's home.
Price said she wanted her child to stay for a while with her ex-boyfriend's mother.
"I was off work for a couple of weeks. I asked her, 'Right now I'm struggling. I really need your help," Price explained.
Price said the grandmother took Honesty to the child's father's home in Kansas City, Kan.
During the last seven months, Price said she never saw her child again, and only spoke to Honesty on the phone three times.
"He would let me talk to her for a little bit or I be like, 'Honesty, are you okay?' He'd take the phone from her and that's how you know something was wrong," Price said.
More than a week ago, on May 27, Price said a KCK police detective called her from the University of Kansas Hospital, saying that her child was in the Intensive Care Unit.
A police spokesperson said earlier that morning, officers when to an apartment on Vermont Street in KCK and found Honesty was unresponsive.
Price said she rushed to the hospital and learned her child suffered critical injuries.
"If a baby comes in the hospital by themself unresponsive, brain-damaged, crushed lungs, that's showing bruises all over her body, that's abuse so I don't understand why there's nobody in custody," Price said.
Police said right now they're still interviewing people about the child's injuries.
On Monday, Price simply couldn't bear to see her child in such a state any longer, and the heart-wrenching decision to let Honesty go.
"Basically, she was a vegetable," Price explained. "I wasn't going to her hurt like that."
Although Honesty is now gone, her mother is not giving up the fight to find the person who injured her, promising, "Justice is going to be served for her."
And mothers need to have resources to support their kids. It's ridiculous that we have tons of corporate welfare and virtually nothing for struggling moms and kids.
UNNAMED DAD.
http://fox4kc.com/2016/06/09/mother-ends-life-support-for-daughter-found-abused-wondering-why-no-one-is-in-custody/
Furious metro mom: ‘Someone beat my child to death’
Posted 5:23 pm, June 9, 2016, by Robert Townsend, Updated at 05:56pm, June 9, 2016
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- A child is dead and a grieving Independence mother is left to wonder why. Myra Price made the most difficult decision a parent can ever make: she told doctors to take her daughter off life support.
FOX 4's Robert Townsend spoke with the heartbroken mother about her decision, and what led the family to such dire circumstances.
"I'm mad as hell right now. The crying is over. I've cried a lot and I've prayed a lot," a fuming, grief-stricken Price said.
"My baby was always smiling. She was always joyful. She loved to dance and she should be here with me right now," the 23-year-old mother said as she fought back tears.
Price is convinced someone severely beat her little girl.
"I had a feeling something was going on with her. Didn't nobody believe me, the police, asking them, asking DFS," Price said.
On Oct. 22 of last year, Price said she took her daughter, 3-year-old Honesty Sanders, to the child's paternal grandmother's home.
Price said she wanted her child to stay for a while with her ex-boyfriend's mother.
"I was off work for a couple of weeks. I asked her, 'Right now I'm struggling. I really need your help," Price explained.
Price said the grandmother took Honesty to the child's father's home in Kansas City, Kan.
During the last seven months, Price said she never saw her child again, and only spoke to Honesty on the phone three times.
"He would let me talk to her for a little bit or I be like, 'Honesty, are you okay?' He'd take the phone from her and that's how you know something was wrong," Price said.
More than a week ago, on May 27, Price said a KCK police detective called her from the University of Kansas Hospital, saying that her child was in the Intensive Care Unit.
A police spokesperson said earlier that morning, officers when to an apartment on Vermont Street in KCK and found Honesty was unresponsive.
Price said she rushed to the hospital and learned her child suffered critical injuries.
"If a baby comes in the hospital by themself unresponsive, brain-damaged, crushed lungs, that's showing bruises all over her body, that's abuse so I don't understand why there's nobody in custody," Price said.
Police said right now they're still interviewing people about the child's injuries.
On Monday, Price simply couldn't bear to see her child in such a state any longer, and the heart-wrenching decision to let Honesty go.
"Basically, she was a vegetable," Price explained. "I wasn't going to her hurt like that."
Although Honesty is now gone, her mother is not giving up the fight to find the person who injured her, promising, "Justice is going to be served for her."
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Dad with full custody found guilty of "corpse abuse" after decomposed body of 21-month-old daughter found in crib (Medina, Ohio)
We have followed this case for three years, and there has been NO EXPLANATION in the media as to how a homeless, dysfunctional, child-neglecting, cocaine-using father got custody. Who was responsible for this decision?
Dad is identified as ERIC WARFEL.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/dad-ohio-girl-found-dead-crib-guilty-corpse-39696585
Dad of Ohio Girl Found Dead in Crib Guilty of Corpse Abuse
By The Associated Press
MEDINA, Ohio — Jun 8, 2016, 11:19 AM ET
A man whose daughter's decomposed body was found in a crib by a cable television worker was convicted Wednesday of corpse abuse and tampering with evidence.
Investigators were unable to determine how 21-month-old Ember Warfel died last summer because her body was so badly decomposed. Prosecutors argued that her father, Eric Warfel, did not report his daughter's death because he did not want an autopsy performed.
A judge also found the 35-year-old Warfel guilty of child endangering.
Warfel, who was found competent to stand trial after pleading not guilty by reason of insanity, will be sentenced next month and faces up to six years in prison.
Ember's body was discovered last July in a Medina apartment, south of Cleveland.
Another daughter of Warfel's, a 5-month-old, died in 2013. A medical examiner ruled that case as a "sudden unexplained infant death."
Warfel's attorney has said Ember was born with severe medical problems. He also said Warfel's failure to report his daughter's death was not enough reason to convict him on the corpse abuse and tampering charges.
While the cause of the girl's death hasn't been determined, an autopsy did find traces of cocaine in her hair samples.
Warfel was arrested after a cable technician went into an apartment to upgrade the service and found the toddler's body in her crib.
Warfel, who was divorced from the girl's mother, had full custody of the child. He told investigators Ember died about a month earlier and he hadn't informed family members or anyone else about her death, according to a police report.
Warfel was arrested while he and his 7-year-old daughter were at a mall near Cleveland. He said they were living at a motel, and investigators found cocaine in his motel room, police said.
Dad is identified as ERIC WARFEL.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/dad-ohio-girl-found-dead-crib-guilty-corpse-39696585
Dad of Ohio Girl Found Dead in Crib Guilty of Corpse Abuse
By The Associated Press
MEDINA, Ohio — Jun 8, 2016, 11:19 AM ET
A man whose daughter's decomposed body was found in a crib by a cable television worker was convicted Wednesday of corpse abuse and tampering with evidence.
Investigators were unable to determine how 21-month-old Ember Warfel died last summer because her body was so badly decomposed. Prosecutors argued that her father, Eric Warfel, did not report his daughter's death because he did not want an autopsy performed.
A judge also found the 35-year-old Warfel guilty of child endangering.
Warfel, who was found competent to stand trial after pleading not guilty by reason of insanity, will be sentenced next month and faces up to six years in prison.
Ember's body was discovered last July in a Medina apartment, south of Cleveland.
Another daughter of Warfel's, a 5-month-old, died in 2013. A medical examiner ruled that case as a "sudden unexplained infant death."
Warfel's attorney has said Ember was born with severe medical problems. He also said Warfel's failure to report his daughter's death was not enough reason to convict him on the corpse abuse and tampering charges.
While the cause of the girl's death hasn't been determined, an autopsy did find traces of cocaine in her hair samples.
Warfel was arrested after a cable technician went into an apartment to upgrade the service and found the toddler's body in her crib.
Warfel, who was divorced from the girl's mother, had full custody of the child. He told investigators Ember died about a month earlier and he hadn't informed family members or anyone else about her death, according to a police report.
Warfel was arrested while he and his 7-year-old daughter were at a mall near Cleveland. He said they were living at a motel, and investigators found cocaine in his motel room, police said.
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Baby suffers "brain shift" during visitation with dad, dies in hospital (Staten Island, New York)
Not clear if the visitation was court-ordered custody time. But it doesn't really matter, as young mothers are under tremendous pressure to "involve" the father, even if their relationship didn't survive the pregnancy.
Dad is identified as THEODORE RICKS.
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/06/mother_wants_justice_after.html
Mom 'wants justice' after baby's death is ruled homicide
By Maura Grunlund on June 06, 2016 at 8:09 PM, updated June 06, 2016 at 8:15 PM
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Little Morgan Ricks was born premature, but the 3-month-old had been doing well since her birth, the child's mother said Monday.
"Even though she was a premie, she was still gaining her weight," said Shanera Flicklin.
But things suddenly turned tragic on Aug. 30, when the child was found unresponsive in an apartment at 81 Jersey St. in the Richmond Terrace Houses, New Brighton, police said.
The NYPD launched an investigation into Morgan's death after a physician told cops that night that the child had suffered a "brain shift" and bleeding to her brain while in the care of a family member, police said at the time.
Morgan Ricks, a 3-month-old girl hospitalized on Aug. 29, died Friday. A doctor told police she suffered a "brain shift" while in a family member's care on Staten Island, cops said.
On Friday, the city medical examiner ruled the child's death a homicide caused by "abusive head trauma." The determination came nearly 10 months after she died on Sept. 11 at Richmond University Medical Center in West Brighton.
Police have yet to make any arrests.
A law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said the child was with her father the night of the incident, but could not say if anyone else was in the apartment with them.
A woman at the apartment, who identified herself as a relative of Morgan's father, Theodore Ricks, said Ricks was not at the apartment Monday night.
On Monday, the child's mother tearfully discussed that fateful day.
Flicklin said she dropped Morgan off at the infant's father's home around 3 p.m. Aug. 30.
When she went to pick her up five hours later, "She wasn't responding to me," Flicklin said.
Morgan was stiff when Flicklin picked her up.
Flicklin opened the infant's eyelids and said her pupils were still; she had drool on her face.
"I had to pry her mouth open," the mother said, adding that she called for the ambulance.
Medical staff at Richmond University were able to briefly revive Morgan -- "She opened her eyes, she was crying" -- before the baby slipped into a coma, Flicklin said.
"I just want justice," Flicklin said of the tragedy.
Dad is identified as THEODORE RICKS.
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/06/mother_wants_justice_after.html
Mom 'wants justice' after baby's death is ruled homicide
By Maura Grunlund on June 06, 2016 at 8:09 PM, updated June 06, 2016 at 8:15 PM
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Little Morgan Ricks was born premature, but the 3-month-old had been doing well since her birth, the child's mother said Monday.
"Even though she was a premie, she was still gaining her weight," said Shanera Flicklin.
But things suddenly turned tragic on Aug. 30, when the child was found unresponsive in an apartment at 81 Jersey St. in the Richmond Terrace Houses, New Brighton, police said.
The NYPD launched an investigation into Morgan's death after a physician told cops that night that the child had suffered a "brain shift" and bleeding to her brain while in the care of a family member, police said at the time.
Morgan Ricks, a 3-month-old girl hospitalized on Aug. 29, died Friday. A doctor told police she suffered a "brain shift" while in a family member's care on Staten Island, cops said.
On Friday, the city medical examiner ruled the child's death a homicide caused by "abusive head trauma." The determination came nearly 10 months after she died on Sept. 11 at Richmond University Medical Center in West Brighton.
Police have yet to make any arrests.
A law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said the child was with her father the night of the incident, but could not say if anyone else was in the apartment with them.
A woman at the apartment, who identified herself as a relative of Morgan's father, Theodore Ricks, said Ricks was not at the apartment Monday night.
On Monday, the child's mother tearfully discussed that fateful day.
Flicklin said she dropped Morgan off at the infant's father's home around 3 p.m. Aug. 30.
When she went to pick her up five hours later, "She wasn't responding to me," Flicklin said.
Morgan was stiff when Flicklin picked her up.
Flicklin opened the infant's eyelids and said her pupils were still; she had drool on her face.
"I had to pry her mouth open," the mother said, adding that she called for the ambulance.
Medical staff at Richmond University were able to briefly revive Morgan -- "She opened her eyes, she was crying" -- before the baby slipped into a coma, Flicklin said.
"I just want justice," Flicklin said of the tragedy.
Monday, June 6, 2016
Dad convicted of murdering two children during court-ordered visitation (Yashresh, Israel)
Another father who was given court-ordered visitation despite a history of domestic violence. And two children paid for that decision with their lives.
Dad is identified as AVI LEVI.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/father-who-murdered-us-israeli-kids-given-2-life-sentences/
Father who murdered US-Israeli kids given 2 life sentences
Court finds Avraham Levi killed his son and daughter, visiting from US, as revenge against ex-wife
By Stuart Winer and Times of Israel staff
June 5, 2016, 5:49 pm
The Lod District Court on Sunday handed down two life sentences to a father who killed his two children by slitting their throats to spite his ex-wife.
Avi Levi, 43, was convicted two weeks ago of murdering his 12-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter while they were visiting him from their mother’s home in the US in 2014. He will serve the sentences back-to-back and was also ordered to pay NIS 500,000 to his ex-wife.
Levi, from Yashresh, an agricultural community near Ramle, killed the children in order to exact revenge on his former wife for divorcing him, the court found.
He was convicted two weeks ago after the court rejected a defense claim that he was unfit to stand trial, and ruled the murders were premeditated.
The trial revealed that Levi blindfolded his 12-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter on June 11, 2014, and then slit their throats with a knife he had purchased a day earlier.
Afterward, Levi walked into the police station in the nearby city of Ramle and admitted that he had killed the kids, reportedly to torment his ex-wife, saying he did it “so that their mother’s life would be over.”
Before sentencing Oren Aduhan, a childhood friend of Levi’s, told the court that the father gave his all for the children, Channel 2 reported.
“No one would believe that Avi would to something like this, but it happened. Only Avi knows what brought him to that point when he did what he did, but the regret is the most important thing,” Aduhan said.
His family and his defense attorney had claimed that being so far from his children and the fact that his ex-wife occasionally failed to send the children on twice-yearly visits to Israel as agreed had left him showing signs of depression.
However, he refused to be tested by a psychiatrist, the report said.
The mother and the children were dual US-Israeli citizens. The two children arrived for a visit in Israel a day before they were killed.
The children’s funeral took place in Columbus, Ohio, where the mother resides.
Domestic violence complaints were lodged against Levi in 2005 and in 2009, before the couple divorced.
The wife had also spent time in a battered women’s shelter before the divorce was finalized.
The ex-wife gained main custody of the children and, because the husband could not provide child support, decided to move to the US. The suspect was unsuccessful in fighting his ex-wife’s intention to leave the country but succeeded in securing twice-yearly visits.
While searching the man’s residence, police discovered a journal in which the suspect had “obsessively” recorded his feelings and actions, especially in regard to his ex-wife.
Dad is identified as AVI LEVI.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/father-who-murdered-us-israeli-kids-given-2-life-sentences/
Father who murdered US-Israeli kids given 2 life sentences
Court finds Avraham Levi killed his son and daughter, visiting from US, as revenge against ex-wife
By Stuart Winer and Times of Israel staff
June 5, 2016, 5:49 pm
The Lod District Court on Sunday handed down two life sentences to a father who killed his two children by slitting their throats to spite his ex-wife.
Avi Levi, 43, was convicted two weeks ago of murdering his 12-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter while they were visiting him from their mother’s home in the US in 2014. He will serve the sentences back-to-back and was also ordered to pay NIS 500,000 to his ex-wife.
Levi, from Yashresh, an agricultural community near Ramle, killed the children in order to exact revenge on his former wife for divorcing him, the court found.
He was convicted two weeks ago after the court rejected a defense claim that he was unfit to stand trial, and ruled the murders were premeditated.
The trial revealed that Levi blindfolded his 12-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter on June 11, 2014, and then slit their throats with a knife he had purchased a day earlier.
Afterward, Levi walked into the police station in the nearby city of Ramle and admitted that he had killed the kids, reportedly to torment his ex-wife, saying he did it “so that their mother’s life would be over.”
Before sentencing Oren Aduhan, a childhood friend of Levi’s, told the court that the father gave his all for the children, Channel 2 reported.
“No one would believe that Avi would to something like this, but it happened. Only Avi knows what brought him to that point when he did what he did, but the regret is the most important thing,” Aduhan said.
His family and his defense attorney had claimed that being so far from his children and the fact that his ex-wife occasionally failed to send the children on twice-yearly visits to Israel as agreed had left him showing signs of depression.
However, he refused to be tested by a psychiatrist, the report said.
The mother and the children were dual US-Israeli citizens. The two children arrived for a visit in Israel a day before they were killed.
The children’s funeral took place in Columbus, Ohio, where the mother resides.
Domestic violence complaints were lodged against Levi in 2005 and in 2009, before the couple divorced.
The wife had also spent time in a battered women’s shelter before the divorce was finalized.
The ex-wife gained main custody of the children and, because the husband could not provide child support, decided to move to the US. The suspect was unsuccessful in fighting his ex-wife’s intention to leave the country but succeeded in securing twice-yearly visits.
While searching the man’s residence, police discovered a journal in which the suspect had “obsessively” recorded his feelings and actions, especially in regard to his ex-wife.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Custodial dad gets 40 years for murder of 2-year-old son (Searcy, Arkansas)
The "ex-girlfriend" mentioned towards the end is not the mother of the murdered child. According to one of our earlier posts, the mother lived elsewhere. In other words, killer dad JEFFERY CLIFTON was custodial.
See the Killer Dads and Custody list for Arkansas.
http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/ark-father-gets-40-years-for-sons-death/219170660
The Searcy father accused of killing his two-year-old son, Malik Drummond, gets 40 years in prison
Marielle Mohs , KTHV 10:23 PM. EST May 27, 2016
SEARCY, Ark. (KTHV) – The Searcy father accused of killing his two-year-old son, Malik Drummond, received a sentence of 40 years in prison on Friday.
Attorneys struck a deal for a lower sentence and Jeffery Clifton took advantage of it. Clifton avoided a murder trial, and the possibility of a life sentence or death penalty.
He was charged back in December 2015 with capital murder and abuse of a corpse.
On Friday, he pled ‘no contest,’ settling for two consecutive sentences, adding up to 40 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections.
He agreed to a second degree murder charge and abuse of a corpse.
“It's treated as a guilty plea for purposes of the law,” said Ronald Davis Jr., defense attorney. In the eyes of the court, he's found guilty, but he's not saying he did anything wrong.
“He's not admitting or taking responsibility for those actions in terms of if he actually committed them or not,” said Davis.
Prosecutor Rebecca McCoy and Davis struck a deal.
“He admitted that we had enough evidence to find him guilty,” said McCoy.
Two-year-old Malik Drummond disappeared November 23, 2014.
Hundreds of people statewide joined in on the search.
“The whole community was involved and got emotionally involved in this case,” said McCoy.
Clifton was arrested a year later in December 2015.
The only thing he admits to is burying Malik’s body in rural Jackson County.
“There’s a difference in disposing of a body and causing the death of a body,” said Davis.
McCoy satisfied with the settlement, but doesn't want this case to be forgotten.
“I hope that it's not the end. I hope the community is always aware of child abuse and hopefully can step in and prevent things like this from happening in the future,” said McCoy.
Clifton will be eligible for parole, but details as to when are unknown at this time.
His ex-girlfriend, Leslie Marcotte was also arrested and charged with helping covering up Malik’s death.
Her pre-trial starts in June. Stay with THV11 and THV11.com for more details as this story develops.
See the Killer Dads and Custody list for Arkansas.
http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/ark-father-gets-40-years-for-sons-death/219170660
The Searcy father accused of killing his two-year-old son, Malik Drummond, gets 40 years in prison
Marielle Mohs , KTHV 10:23 PM. EST May 27, 2016
SEARCY, Ark. (KTHV) – The Searcy father accused of killing his two-year-old son, Malik Drummond, received a sentence of 40 years in prison on Friday.
Attorneys struck a deal for a lower sentence and Jeffery Clifton took advantage of it. Clifton avoided a murder trial, and the possibility of a life sentence or death penalty.
He was charged back in December 2015 with capital murder and abuse of a corpse.
On Friday, he pled ‘no contest,’ settling for two consecutive sentences, adding up to 40 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections.
He agreed to a second degree murder charge and abuse of a corpse.
“It's treated as a guilty plea for purposes of the law,” said Ronald Davis Jr., defense attorney. In the eyes of the court, he's found guilty, but he's not saying he did anything wrong.
“He's not admitting or taking responsibility for those actions in terms of if he actually committed them or not,” said Davis.
Prosecutor Rebecca McCoy and Davis struck a deal.
“He admitted that we had enough evidence to find him guilty,” said McCoy.
Two-year-old Malik Drummond disappeared November 23, 2014.
Hundreds of people statewide joined in on the search.
“The whole community was involved and got emotionally involved in this case,” said McCoy.
Clifton was arrested a year later in December 2015.
The only thing he admits to is burying Malik’s body in rural Jackson County.
“There’s a difference in disposing of a body and causing the death of a body,” said Davis.
McCoy satisfied with the settlement, but doesn't want this case to be forgotten.
“I hope that it's not the end. I hope the community is always aware of child abuse and hopefully can step in and prevent things like this from happening in the future,” said McCoy.
Clifton will be eligible for parole, but details as to when are unknown at this time.
His ex-girlfriend, Leslie Marcotte was also arrested and charged with helping covering up Malik’s death.
Her pre-trial starts in June. Stay with THV11 and THV11.com for more details as this story develops.
Dad murders 8-year-old son during out-of-town visitation/custody time (Winnebago County, Illinois)
The mainstream media is loathe to admit that there are dangerous, mentally unstable fathers who get custody/visitation, and that there are judges and various other officials in the family courts who are responsible. So the reporting tends to be vague and getting vaguer.
How do we know this was a custody/visitation situation? Easy. Dad and the murdered child live in different cities. But you have to pay attention to catch it, so they are figuring that distracted readers won't pick up on that.
Dad is identified as GLEN FLEENER. See the Killer Dads and Custody list for Illinois.
http://www.mystateline.com/news/father-son-found-dead-in-car
UPDATE: Father, Son Found Dead in Car Investigated as Murder-Suicide Victims' identities released; autopsies pending.
By Josh Vezina
Published 05/30 2016 01:51PM Updated 05/31 2016 10:25AM
UPDATE (5/31/16): The deaths of a father and son, found inside a car in Rockford on Monday, are being investigated as a murder-suicide.
The Winnebago County Coroner's Office released the names of the victims. They are Glen Fleener, 37, of Rockford and Kier Fleener, 8, of Chicago. There was no trauma noted to either victim. Autopsy results are expected later today.
On Monday at 820 am, the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department received a report of two bodies inside an automobile on the property at 8819 S. Main Road in rural Winnebago County.
Deputies discovered the bodies of an adult male and a male child inside of an automobile parked on the property.
Sheriff's detectives are investigating this as a homicide, although details on the manner of death were not released.
Their identities are being withheld pending notification of family members.
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The Winnebago County Coroner's Office is reporting that a father and son were found dead in a car at the back of their property on South Main Street Monday.
Details are not being released at this time, including the specific address where the pair were found, or any indication of how they died.
An autopsy is pending.
How do we know this was a custody/visitation situation? Easy. Dad and the murdered child live in different cities. But you have to pay attention to catch it, so they are figuring that distracted readers won't pick up on that.
Dad is identified as GLEN FLEENER. See the Killer Dads and Custody list for Illinois.
http://www.mystateline.com/news/father-son-found-dead-in-car
UPDATE: Father, Son Found Dead in Car Investigated as Murder-Suicide Victims' identities released; autopsies pending.
By Josh Vezina
Published 05/30 2016 01:51PM Updated 05/31 2016 10:25AM
UPDATE (5/31/16): The deaths of a father and son, found inside a car in Rockford on Monday, are being investigated as a murder-suicide.
The Winnebago County Coroner's Office released the names of the victims. They are Glen Fleener, 37, of Rockford and Kier Fleener, 8, of Chicago. There was no trauma noted to either victim. Autopsy results are expected later today.
On Monday at 820 am, the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department received a report of two bodies inside an automobile on the property at 8819 S. Main Road in rural Winnebago County.
Deputies discovered the bodies of an adult male and a male child inside of an automobile parked on the property.
Sheriff's detectives are investigating this as a homicide, although details on the manner of death were not released.
Their identities are being withheld pending notification of family members.
-------------------------------------------
The Winnebago County Coroner's Office is reporting that a father and son were found dead in a car at the back of their property on South Main Street Monday.
Details are not being released at this time, including the specific address where the pair were found, or any indication of how they died.
An autopsy is pending.
Friday, May 27, 2016
Dad tortures, murder 13-month-old son during first custody visit (Brisbane, Australia)
UNNAMED DAD.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/man-sentenced-for-manslaughter-following-horrific-torture-and-killing-of-toddler/news-story/bf9ee4e0c908e666fdd21320f50103e4
Man sentenced for manslaughter following ‘horrific’ torture and killing of toddler
May 26, 2016 12:11am
Vanda Carson
The Courier-Mail
A BRISBANE father-of-two has been sentenced to up to eight years behind bars for the brutal and “horrific” torture and killing of his vulnerable 13-month-old son.
The 29-year-old storeman appeared in the Supreme Court this morning before Justice Roslyn Atkinson.
He had earlier pleaded guilty to torture and manslaughter charges, but only after he initially lied to police, claiming the boy had slipped in the bath.
Crown Prosecutor Danny Boyle told the court the man had deliberately burned his son’s left foot on the kitchen stove after he “threw” the boy across the lounge-room into a wall, causing head injuries he would later die from.
The man tortured the child at Beenleigh between 12.43am and 8.20pm on December 28, 2012, when he had temporary custody of the child for two days.
A doctor told the court that the child would have suffered “severe physical pain and suffering”.
A paediatrician said “a lot of force” was required to cause the head injury.
The man also attempted to get his girlfriend to lie on his behalf and hide his crimes, asking her to tell police the child was “dopey and kept falling over all the time” and the child had “walked over the stove” after sitting on the kitchen bench.
He told his girlfriend in a recorded phone call: “I’ve got no remorse for nobody’s passing. I just got no feeling”.
Mr Boyle told the court that what “sets this case apart” from other parents who had killed their children was that this man continued to physically abuse his son “not withstanding” repeated protestations by his girlfriend and others, telling him to stop and go to hospital.
Mr Boyle said the man also failed to take his son to hospital even when his girlfriend’s sister commented the tot “did not look right”.
After he threw his son violently against the lounge room wall, and when the child was suffering swelling of the brain, he burned the child’s foot on the stove while his girlfriend was out getting dinner at McDonalds.
“(This) can only be described as a callous and deliberately cruel act toward the child, given the child had already suffered the injury which led to the child’s death,” Mr Boyle said.
The man threatened to kick his girlfriend in the face after she tried to shield the child, begging him to return the baby to his mother.
She told police the baby “looked miserable and not right” before she left the home to go to McDonald’s.
She later called an ambulance and the baby died in hospital on December 30 after his life support was switched off. An autopsy showed he was bruised from head to toe.
The man killed his son during his only ever custody visit.
The mother allowed the boy to stay with his father in the hope they would “bond” and build a trusting relationship.
The man contacted the mother via Facebook when the baby was one year old, asking to see photos of his son.
During the two days the boy was in his father’s care, the child’s mother repeatedly called the man on his phone and sent him texts, demanding he return child.
The man replied “No he’s alright”. He refused to tell the mother where he was staying and on one occasion told her “I’m the biological father you can’t do anything”.
The mother also contacted the police, asking them to check on her baby son.
She told the court that no jail term could take away the distress she feels when she thinks of the pain suffered by her “precious innocent boy” in his final moments.
The man has been in prison on remand.
A psychological report tendered to the court states the man has a “high risk” of killing again.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/man-sentenced-for-manslaughter-following-horrific-torture-and-killing-of-toddler/news-story/bf9ee4e0c908e666fdd21320f50103e4
Man sentenced for manslaughter following ‘horrific’ torture and killing of toddler
May 26, 2016 12:11am
Vanda Carson
The Courier-Mail
A BRISBANE father-of-two has been sentenced to up to eight years behind bars for the brutal and “horrific” torture and killing of his vulnerable 13-month-old son.
The 29-year-old storeman appeared in the Supreme Court this morning before Justice Roslyn Atkinson.
He had earlier pleaded guilty to torture and manslaughter charges, but only after he initially lied to police, claiming the boy had slipped in the bath.
Crown Prosecutor Danny Boyle told the court the man had deliberately burned his son’s left foot on the kitchen stove after he “threw” the boy across the lounge-room into a wall, causing head injuries he would later die from.
The man tortured the child at Beenleigh between 12.43am and 8.20pm on December 28, 2012, when he had temporary custody of the child for two days.
A doctor told the court that the child would have suffered “severe physical pain and suffering”.
A paediatrician said “a lot of force” was required to cause the head injury.
The man also attempted to get his girlfriend to lie on his behalf and hide his crimes, asking her to tell police the child was “dopey and kept falling over all the time” and the child had “walked over the stove” after sitting on the kitchen bench.
He told his girlfriend in a recorded phone call: “I’ve got no remorse for nobody’s passing. I just got no feeling”.
Mr Boyle told the court that what “sets this case apart” from other parents who had killed their children was that this man continued to physically abuse his son “not withstanding” repeated protestations by his girlfriend and others, telling him to stop and go to hospital.
Mr Boyle said the man also failed to take his son to hospital even when his girlfriend’s sister commented the tot “did not look right”.
After he threw his son violently against the lounge room wall, and when the child was suffering swelling of the brain, he burned the child’s foot on the stove while his girlfriend was out getting dinner at McDonalds.
“(This) can only be described as a callous and deliberately cruel act toward the child, given the child had already suffered the injury which led to the child’s death,” Mr Boyle said.
The man threatened to kick his girlfriend in the face after she tried to shield the child, begging him to return the baby to his mother.
She told police the baby “looked miserable and not right” before she left the home to go to McDonald’s.
She later called an ambulance and the baby died in hospital on December 30 after his life support was switched off. An autopsy showed he was bruised from head to toe.
The man killed his son during his only ever custody visit.
The mother allowed the boy to stay with his father in the hope they would “bond” and build a trusting relationship.
The man contacted the mother via Facebook when the baby was one year old, asking to see photos of his son.
During the two days the boy was in his father’s care, the child’s mother repeatedly called the man on his phone and sent him texts, demanding he return child.
The man replied “No he’s alright”. He refused to tell the mother where he was staying and on one occasion told her “I’m the biological father you can’t do anything”.
The mother also contacted the police, asking them to check on her baby son.
She told the court that no jail term could take away the distress she feels when she thinks of the pain suffered by her “precious innocent boy” in his final moments.
The man has been in prison on remand.
A psychological report tendered to the court states the man has a “high risk” of killing again.
Protective mom speaks out after custodial dad sentenced in murder of 2-year-old son (Canada)
Just repulsive. Besides the killer custodial daddy, we need to hold Justice John McCarthy responsible for this murder.
Dad is identified as MARIO WINT.
http://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/6692201-mother-of-newmarket-boy-ty-wint-2-shares-her-story-after-boy-s-father-sentenced-for-murdering-him/
May 26, 2016
Mother of Newmarket boy Ty Wint, 2, shares her story after boy's father sentenced for murdering him
Toronto Star
Newmarket Era
By Jeremy Grimaldi
The young mother’s face brightens as she recalls the tiny son to whom she used to read goodnight stories.
“He was the best of all of us; he always did what he was asked,” she said “He was full of life and had the biggest heart, the brightest smile.”
But it didn’t take long for two-year-old Mathias “Ty” Wint’s flame to be snuffed out.
He was killed after being struck by his father, Mario Wint, the man Simcoe Children’s Aid Society workers — the agency meant to protect our province’s most vulnerable children — deemed best to care for him.
“(Ty) was not cut out for this world,” she adds, her eyes now cast downward. “He was too good for this world.”
It was on Jan. 22, 2015 when Ty was struck in the stomach so many times with such force that his liver and pancreas were split in two, resulting in his death.
Ty’s mother, Melissa, (not her real name), along with many in the community have been left deeply disturbed by the details of Ty’s story.
How Ty ended up in the care of Mario, who has a lengthy criminal history, is a question Melissa can’t answer, noting social workers delivered Ty to Mario’s house 41 days before the toddler’s death.
Given the private nature of the case, the agency, now named Simcoe Family Connexions, would not comment directly on its role in the affair.
Melissa’s story begins in Simcoe County, where she, herself, was in the care of the CAS from an early age.
She met Mario, who was born in Jamaica and grew up in Newmarket, about a decade ago in a Barrie nightclub.
Mario, now 30, was quiet, sweet, soft-spoken and a talented spoken-word musician.
“We became very close, very quickly,” she said. “We began dating and moved in together. That’s when the abuse started. You name it, he did it.”
The physical and psychological abuse and controlling behaviour, would carry on for many years.
“It was a nightmare… It became so bad I had to leave,” she said.
It didn’t take Melissa — by then in her early 20s— long before she discovered she was pregnant and Mario was nowhere to be found.
After eight months, he showed back up and said he wanted to be a dad.
This was the couple’s first child, a six-year-old whose identity is protected by the courts.
“The abuse started again almost immediately,” she said. “A week later, he threatened to leave with my baby. Three months later, he forcibly confined me.”
On Dec. 31, 2008, Wint kneed Melissa in the stomach and, about one month later, he kneed her in the rib-cage.
Melissa called the police and Mario was charged.
He pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm.
The next few years involved Mario leaving and then re-entering Melissa’s life, repeatedly promising things would be different.
“I loved him. I saw goodness, through all his bull****,” she added. “So I fought for what I believed in.”
Despite Mario’s promises, the abuse continued, often targeting Melissa’s stomach.
Often, his physical abuse was followed by threatening and harassing messages to her phone, leading to a criminal harassment conviction.
After having a second child, Ty, the abuse reached new heights.
One night, in 2010, after showing up at Melissa’s apartment, Mario grew enraged.
When she asked him to leave, he agreed, on one condition — he would be taking the couple’s son with him.
Melissa refused and picked up Ty. Mario came at her with a knife, threatening, “I’m going to cut you”.
“He said if I put him in jail again, he would do whatever he could to ensure I didn’t have my kids,” Melissa said.
She called police, who in turn notified CAS. Mario was arrested again and convicted of assault with a weapon and handed a six-month prison sentence.
In all, he has 12 convictions, five of which involve domestic abuse.
Soon after his incarceration at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Mario called CAS to complain about Melissa, she said.
“He made the most unthinkable, outlandish allegations,” she added.
Her file was soon closed, Melissa said, after the social worker found no truth in the allegations.
However, the case was re-opened when Melissa’s father-in-law was murdered in Barrie.
She continues to maintain it was her own upbringing with the CAS and this murder that acted as the catalyst for the children’s removal from her home.
In November 2013, Ty, his older brother and a child from a former relationship were all taken from Melissa and given to foster parents.
When Mario was released from prison, he began weekly supervised visits with the boys, which eventually grew into unsupervised visits and then overnights once a week. Meanwhile, Melissa was still restricted to supervised visits.
“The (CAS) deemed him fit to be alone with those children even with his huge violent domestic abuse record,” Melissa said.
Mario then sought custody of the boys, landing a job at a factory and completing a number of courses to show his worth to the CAS and the courts, Melissa said.
“I fought for a year for those boys,” she added. “He’s a smooth talker and comes off as caring.”
On Dec. 14, 2014, Mario was granted temporary custody of the boys in Barrie by Justice John McCarthy to live at his basement apartment at 136 Longford Dr., in Newmarket.
Soon after this legal victory, Mario quit his job and went back on welfare, Melissa said.
Despite being required to check on the boys’ welfare, Melissa insists that CAS did not conduct a required check after 30 days.
The CAS could not comment, by law, on the allegation. Nonetheless, Mario was on his very best behaviour, Melissa said.
During this time, she was secretly checking for bruises, but found nothing on the boys.
“I didn’t notice any problems, not one,” she said.
By January 2015, Mario was having money troubles, so his mother, Valerie, was helping him out financially and Melissa was buying diapers for Ty.
The specifics of what happened between Mario and Ty on Jan. 22 remain unknown.
Mario pleaded guilty to striking Ty “more than once with significant force”, breaking the toddler’s back, while in a rage, according to court documents.
“He hit with significant force. I have been hit by Mario with force. I was in bed for one month,” Melissa said. “No child could survive that.”
Melissa still blames herself for Ty’s death, in part because she said she refused to see Mario after he texted her the day Ty died, begging her to visit him.
She continues to believe that it was Mario’s anger over her relationship with another man that led to Ty’s death.
“I wonder, if I had of gone (to visit him), would he still be here?” she said. To this day, it remains an open question whether Ty was even alive as Mario walked around town with him in a stroller, running errands.
In one surveillance image, Ty’s 23-pound frame was seen to be lying motionless in the buggy, arms extended outward.
Valerie, a nurse by training, told Mario to take the boy to the medical clinic when she saw him, but he ignored the advice, too scared of the consequences.
He not only lied to her about what had happened to the boy, but he also lied to the 911 operator, paramedics, police and friends who supported him.
When Melissa got to the hospital, she felt her boy’s body and he was cold, signifying to her that he’d been dead for hours.
When Mario walked in, she said he tried to talk to Ty, before falling to his knees and crying.
He told Melissa that Ty was sick, wouldn’t eat or drink and just died.
“He could have got help for my boy. He did nothing. He hid,” Melissa said, referring to Mario’s failure to call 911 for hours. “He’s a wolf in sheep clothing.”
Weeks later, as Melissa continued to mourn the loss of her son, she felt another blow to her gut.
She believes the CAS wanted to adopt out the two remaining boys.
“You’re not my mommy; I’m getting a new mommy,” Melissa said one of her boys told her.
About a month ago, Melissa lost all her sons, after they were adopted by another family.
Although covered by a publication ban, a victim impact statement read in court showed the two boys, who lost their baby brother, experienced severe psychological anguish.
After pleading guilty to manslaughter, Mario was handed a 10-year sentence by Justice Nathan Dwyer on Tuesday, minus time served.
If he achieves parole at the earliest opportunity, Mario will be out in 32 months.
Melissa wants a coroner’s inquest into Ty’s death and plans to sue the Simcoe CAS.
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Dad is identified as MARIO WINT.
http://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/6692201-mother-of-newmarket-boy-ty-wint-2-shares-her-story-after-boy-s-father-sentenced-for-murdering-him/
May 26, 2016
Mother of Newmarket boy Ty Wint, 2, shares her story after boy's father sentenced for murdering him
Toronto Star
Newmarket Era
By Jeremy Grimaldi
The young mother’s face brightens as she recalls the tiny son to whom she used to read goodnight stories.
“He was the best of all of us; he always did what he was asked,” she said “He was full of life and had the biggest heart, the brightest smile.”
But it didn’t take long for two-year-old Mathias “Ty” Wint’s flame to be snuffed out.
He was killed after being struck by his father, Mario Wint, the man Simcoe Children’s Aid Society workers — the agency meant to protect our province’s most vulnerable children — deemed best to care for him.
“(Ty) was not cut out for this world,” she adds, her eyes now cast downward. “He was too good for this world.”
It was on Jan. 22, 2015 when Ty was struck in the stomach so many times with such force that his liver and pancreas were split in two, resulting in his death.
Ty’s mother, Melissa, (not her real name), along with many in the community have been left deeply disturbed by the details of Ty’s story.
How Ty ended up in the care of Mario, who has a lengthy criminal history, is a question Melissa can’t answer, noting social workers delivered Ty to Mario’s house 41 days before the toddler’s death.
Given the private nature of the case, the agency, now named Simcoe Family Connexions, would not comment directly on its role in the affair.
Melissa’s story begins in Simcoe County, where she, herself, was in the care of the CAS from an early age.
She met Mario, who was born in Jamaica and grew up in Newmarket, about a decade ago in a Barrie nightclub.
Mario, now 30, was quiet, sweet, soft-spoken and a talented spoken-word musician.
“We became very close, very quickly,” she said. “We began dating and moved in together. That’s when the abuse started. You name it, he did it.”
The physical and psychological abuse and controlling behaviour, would carry on for many years.
“It was a nightmare… It became so bad I had to leave,” she said.
It didn’t take Melissa — by then in her early 20s— long before she discovered she was pregnant and Mario was nowhere to be found.
After eight months, he showed back up and said he wanted to be a dad.
This was the couple’s first child, a six-year-old whose identity is protected by the courts.
“The abuse started again almost immediately,” she said. “A week later, he threatened to leave with my baby. Three months later, he forcibly confined me.”
On Dec. 31, 2008, Wint kneed Melissa in the stomach and, about one month later, he kneed her in the rib-cage.
Melissa called the police and Mario was charged.
He pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm.
The next few years involved Mario leaving and then re-entering Melissa’s life, repeatedly promising things would be different.
“I loved him. I saw goodness, through all his bull****,” she added. “So I fought for what I believed in.”
Despite Mario’s promises, the abuse continued, often targeting Melissa’s stomach.
Often, his physical abuse was followed by threatening and harassing messages to her phone, leading to a criminal harassment conviction.
After having a second child, Ty, the abuse reached new heights.
One night, in 2010, after showing up at Melissa’s apartment, Mario grew enraged.
When she asked him to leave, he agreed, on one condition — he would be taking the couple’s son with him.
Melissa refused and picked up Ty. Mario came at her with a knife, threatening, “I’m going to cut you”.
“He said if I put him in jail again, he would do whatever he could to ensure I didn’t have my kids,” Melissa said.
She called police, who in turn notified CAS. Mario was arrested again and convicted of assault with a weapon and handed a six-month prison sentence.
In all, he has 12 convictions, five of which involve domestic abuse.
Soon after his incarceration at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Mario called CAS to complain about Melissa, she said.
“He made the most unthinkable, outlandish allegations,” she added.
Her file was soon closed, Melissa said, after the social worker found no truth in the allegations.
However, the case was re-opened when Melissa’s father-in-law was murdered in Barrie.
She continues to maintain it was her own upbringing with the CAS and this murder that acted as the catalyst for the children’s removal from her home.
In November 2013, Ty, his older brother and a child from a former relationship were all taken from Melissa and given to foster parents.
When Mario was released from prison, he began weekly supervised visits with the boys, which eventually grew into unsupervised visits and then overnights once a week. Meanwhile, Melissa was still restricted to supervised visits.
“The (CAS) deemed him fit to be alone with those children even with his huge violent domestic abuse record,” Melissa said.
Mario then sought custody of the boys, landing a job at a factory and completing a number of courses to show his worth to the CAS and the courts, Melissa said.
“I fought for a year for those boys,” she added. “He’s a smooth talker and comes off as caring.”
On Dec. 14, 2014, Mario was granted temporary custody of the boys in Barrie by Justice John McCarthy to live at his basement apartment at 136 Longford Dr., in Newmarket.
Soon after this legal victory, Mario quit his job and went back on welfare, Melissa said.
Despite being required to check on the boys’ welfare, Melissa insists that CAS did not conduct a required check after 30 days.
The CAS could not comment, by law, on the allegation. Nonetheless, Mario was on his very best behaviour, Melissa said.
During this time, she was secretly checking for bruises, but found nothing on the boys.
“I didn’t notice any problems, not one,” she said.
By January 2015, Mario was having money troubles, so his mother, Valerie, was helping him out financially and Melissa was buying diapers for Ty.
The specifics of what happened between Mario and Ty on Jan. 22 remain unknown.
Mario pleaded guilty to striking Ty “more than once with significant force”, breaking the toddler’s back, while in a rage, according to court documents.
“He hit with significant force. I have been hit by Mario with force. I was in bed for one month,” Melissa said. “No child could survive that.”
Melissa still blames herself for Ty’s death, in part because she said she refused to see Mario after he texted her the day Ty died, begging her to visit him.
She continues to believe that it was Mario’s anger over her relationship with another man that led to Ty’s death.
“I wonder, if I had of gone (to visit him), would he still be here?” she said. To this day, it remains an open question whether Ty was even alive as Mario walked around town with him in a stroller, running errands.
In one surveillance image, Ty’s 23-pound frame was seen to be lying motionless in the buggy, arms extended outward.
Valerie, a nurse by training, told Mario to take the boy to the medical clinic when she saw him, but he ignored the advice, too scared of the consequences.
He not only lied to her about what had happened to the boy, but he also lied to the 911 operator, paramedics, police and friends who supported him.
When Melissa got to the hospital, she felt her boy’s body and he was cold, signifying to her that he’d been dead for hours.
When Mario walked in, she said he tried to talk to Ty, before falling to his knees and crying.
He told Melissa that Ty was sick, wouldn’t eat or drink and just died.
“He could have got help for my boy. He did nothing. He hid,” Melissa said, referring to Mario’s failure to call 911 for hours. “He’s a wolf in sheep clothing.”
Weeks later, as Melissa continued to mourn the loss of her son, she felt another blow to her gut.
She believes the CAS wanted to adopt out the two remaining boys.
“You’re not my mommy; I’m getting a new mommy,” Melissa said one of her boys told her.
About a month ago, Melissa lost all her sons, after they were adopted by another family.
Although covered by a publication ban, a victim impact statement read in court showed the two boys, who lost their baby brother, experienced severe psychological anguish.
After pleading guilty to manslaughter, Mario was handed a 10-year sentence by Justice Nathan Dwyer on Tuesday, minus time served.
If he achieves parole at the earliest opportunity, Mario will be out in 32 months.
Melissa wants a coroner’s inquest into Ty’s death and plans to sue the Simcoe CAS.
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Thursday, May 26, 2016
Protective mom files lawsuit against custodial dad for "missing" toddler (Waterville, Maine)
Not made clear in this particular article, but dad JUSTIN DIPIETRO had custody. Interesting coincidence that according to this article, the protective mother had filed for custody just two days before the little girl "disappeared." Seems Daddy also had previous issues with domestic violence, alcohol, assault charges , and probable child abuse. All huge red flags.
See the Killer Dads and Custody list for Maine.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/family-missing-maine-toddler-plans-file-lawsuit-39355813?yptr=yahoo
Family of Missing Maine Toddler Plans to File Lawsuit
By The Associated Press ·
WATERVILLE, Maine — May 25, 2016, 12:20 AM ET
The family of a Maine toddler who went missing five years ago plans to sue the father and other adults who were with her when she was last seen.
The Morning Sentinel reports the mother and her family believe a lawsuit "may be our only hope to bring justice" on behalf of the youngster, Ayla Reynolds.
No one has been charged in Ayla's disappearance. The toddler's father, Justin DiPietro, his girlfriend and his sister were together in the Waterville home before she was reported missing, and police say they know more than what they've told them about the toddler's disappearance.
The sister, Elisha DiPietro, told a TV show, "Crime Watch Daily," this week that her brother is a good father and that no crime was committed.
See the Killer Dads and Custody list for Maine.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/family-missing-maine-toddler-plans-file-lawsuit-39355813?yptr=yahoo
Family of Missing Maine Toddler Plans to File Lawsuit
By The Associated Press ·
WATERVILLE, Maine — May 25, 2016, 12:20 AM ET
The family of a Maine toddler who went missing five years ago plans to sue the father and other adults who were with her when she was last seen.
The Morning Sentinel reports the mother and her family believe a lawsuit "may be our only hope to bring justice" on behalf of the youngster, Ayla Reynolds.
No one has been charged in Ayla's disappearance. The toddler's father, Justin DiPietro, his girlfriend and his sister were together in the Waterville home before she was reported missing, and police say they know more than what they've told them about the toddler's disappearance.
The sister, Elisha DiPietro, told a TV show, "Crime Watch Daily," this week that her brother is a good father and that no crime was committed.
Monday, May 23, 2016
Custodial dad indicted in scalding death of 4-year-old son (Warren County, Ohio)
Evidence points toward ROBERT RITCHIE being a custodial father. There is mention of a step, but no mention of the mother at all. What happened to Mom, as often happens in these accounts, is simply ignored.
http://www.fox19.com/story/32040923/father-of-child-scalded-to-death-indicted-for-involuntary-manslaughter-endangering-children
Dad facing charges in son’s scalding death
Published: Monday, May 23rd 2016, 11:23 am EDT
Updated: Monday, May 23rd 2016, 1:44 pm EDT
Posted by FOX19 Digital Media Staff
WARREN COUNTY, OH (FOX19) - The father of the 4-year-old Franklin boy who died after being placed in a bathtub of scalding water has been indicted, Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell announced Monday.
Robert Ritchie is charged with involuntary manslaughter and endangering children for the March death of Austin Cooper. The boy's stepmother, Anna Ritchie, was charged with murder in the days after his death.
Robert is accused of failing to seek medical treatment for Cooper, thereby resulting in the child's death, according to Fornshell.
The Warren County Coroner's Office ruled the boy died from Hypovolemic shock - the loss of blood and fluid.
The boy should not have died, Fornshell said. If he had received medical treatment, he would have had a more than 95 percent survival chance.
Anna is charged with scalding her stepson to death. She pleaded not guilty to a six-count indictment including murder charges last month.
Franklin police say Anna admitted to dipping Cooper's legs in scalding water as punishment and sending him to bed early on March 15.
Fornshell said investigators believe the boy was in the 134-degree water in a bathtub for 20 to 25 minutes. His skin was falling off and he was bleeding when he was removed.
Anna then dressed the child in pajamas and socks before putting him to bed at 4:30 p.m.
No one checked on the boy until 9:30 a.m. the next morning, when his dad found him, Fornshell said.
In an interview with WDTN, Robert claimed his son was already in bed when he got home from work on March 15.
He said he found Austin unresponsive the next morning and called 911.
Anna's trial date was set for Sept. 26. She faces 15 years to life in prison.
http://www.fox19.com/story/32040923/father-of-child-scalded-to-death-indicted-for-involuntary-manslaughter-endangering-children
Dad facing charges in son’s scalding death
Published: Monday, May 23rd 2016, 11:23 am EDT
Updated: Monday, May 23rd 2016, 1:44 pm EDT
Posted by FOX19 Digital Media Staff
WARREN COUNTY, OH (FOX19) - The father of the 4-year-old Franklin boy who died after being placed in a bathtub of scalding water has been indicted, Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell announced Monday.
Robert Ritchie is charged with involuntary manslaughter and endangering children for the March death of Austin Cooper. The boy's stepmother, Anna Ritchie, was charged with murder in the days after his death.
Robert is accused of failing to seek medical treatment for Cooper, thereby resulting in the child's death, according to Fornshell.
The Warren County Coroner's Office ruled the boy died from Hypovolemic shock - the loss of blood and fluid.
The boy should not have died, Fornshell said. If he had received medical treatment, he would have had a more than 95 percent survival chance.
Anna is charged with scalding her stepson to death. She pleaded not guilty to a six-count indictment including murder charges last month.
Franklin police say Anna admitted to dipping Cooper's legs in scalding water as punishment and sending him to bed early on March 15.
Fornshell said investigators believe the boy was in the 134-degree water in a bathtub for 20 to 25 minutes. His skin was falling off and he was bleeding when he was removed.
Anna then dressed the child in pajamas and socks before putting him to bed at 4:30 p.m.
No one checked on the boy until 9:30 a.m. the next morning, when his dad found him, Fornshell said.
In an interview with WDTN, Robert claimed his son was already in bed when he got home from work on March 15.
He said he found Austin unresponsive the next morning and called 911.
Anna's trial date was set for Sept. 26. She faces 15 years to life in prison.
Trial begins for custodial dad of child found decomposed in crib (Medina, Ohio)
True to the Dastardly Dads axiom, a killer dad's custody status will be "forgotten" by the time he goes to trial. See past posts here.
Here's a quote from a July 2015 article: "A man who told police he put bags of garbage in his young daughter’s room to mask the smell of her decomposing body was granted sole custody of the toddler during a divorce last year."
So who gave this crazy sh** custody? Top secret as usual.
Dad is identified as ERIC WARFEL.
See the Killer Dads and Custody list for Ohio.
http://local12.com/news/nation-world/trial-begins-for-ohio-father-of-child-found-decomposed-in-crib
Trial begins for Ohio father of child found decomposed in crib
By WKRC |Monday, May 23rd 2016
MEDINA, Ohio (WKRC) - A trial is set to start Monday for the father of a 21-month-old Ohio girl whose decomposed body was found in a crib.
Eric Warfel is charged with abuse of a corpse and evidence tampering.
His daughter Ember's body was discovered by a cable worker last July in a Medina apartment.
Warfel had another daughter who died three years ago and it was ruled a "sudden unexplained infant death."
Here's a quote from a July 2015 article: "A man who told police he put bags of garbage in his young daughter’s room to mask the smell of her decomposing body was granted sole custody of the toddler during a divorce last year."
So who gave this crazy sh** custody? Top secret as usual.
Dad is identified as ERIC WARFEL.
See the Killer Dads and Custody list for Ohio.
http://local12.com/news/nation-world/trial-begins-for-ohio-father-of-child-found-decomposed-in-crib
Trial begins for Ohio father of child found decomposed in crib
By WKRC |Monday, May 23rd 2016
MEDINA, Ohio (WKRC) - A trial is set to start Monday for the father of a 21-month-old Ohio girl whose decomposed body was found in a crib.
Eric Warfel is charged with abuse of a corpse and evidence tampering.
His daughter Ember's body was discovered by a cable worker last July in a Medina apartment.
Warfel had another daughter who died three years ago and it was ruled a "sudden unexplained infant death."
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Lawyer: Dad in custody fight who threw infant son off bridge won't be convicted of murder; mom was denied restraining order (Middletown, Connecticut)
We've posted on this case before. True to the Dastardly Dads axiom, lots of backstory is being "forgotten" as this case goes to trial. Namely that TONY MORENO had fought this mother for custody and had a history of domestic violence. And that the judge who denied the mother's restraining order and subsequently set up this murder actually had a name: BARRY C. PINKUS.
Past postings are here.
See the Killer Dads and Custody list for Connecticut.
http://fox61.com/2016/05/17/father-who-allegedly-threw-son-off-bridge-rejects-plea-lawyer-says-jury-wont-convict-him-of-murder/
Father who allegedly threw son off bridge rejects plea; lawyer says jury won’t convict him of murder
Posted 5:47 PM, May 17, 2016, by Samantha Schoenfeld and Laura Roberts, Updated at 12:33pm, May 18, 2016
MIDDLETOWN--The Middletown father who police say threw his son off a bridge has rejected a plea deal offered by prosecutors.
Tony Moreno is accused of killing his 7-month-old son Aaden on July 5, 2015 when he is said to have thrown the child off the Arrigoni Bridge, and then jumped off the bridge himself.
He was charged with murder and murder of a victim under the age of 16 and is being held on a $2 million bond.
Moreno's lawyer, Norm Pattis, met with prosecutors in the judge's chambers on Tuesday to discuss a plea deal, however, negotiations broke down.
Now the case is expected to go to trial in January. Pattis told FOX 61, "The state wants to settle this case on terms we think are ridiculous. We're confident that a jury will not find Mr. Moreno guilty of murder and we'll take our chances at trial."
Pattis could not tell us the terms of the plea because it could be prejudicial during sentencing, but he called the number "obscenely high."
Tony Moreno in court Last July, FOX 61 obtained a series of text messages exchanged between Moreno and the baby's mother, Adrianne Oyola, who had a restraining order out against Moreno weeks before the murder, but it was not extended at a hearing days before Aaden's death.
The text messages showed Moreno's mindset in the minutes before the incident.
Pattis said, "The jury will hear from Mr. Moreno about what actually took place on the bridge that night, not what police officers browbeat him into discussing in the wake of his child's death. No one should be subjected to a custodial interview when they watched their child go over a bridge and tumble to their death, yet this is what passes for law enforcement etiquette in Middletown. I'm looking forward to cross-examining those officers."
"We will unpack in studious detail what happened in the interrogation of Tony Moreno and a jury will decide whether what police got him to say is what happened or whether what Mr. Moreno will testify to is what happened," said Pattis.
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http://fox61.com/2016/05/17/father-who-allegedly-threw-son-off-bridge-rejects-plea-lawyer-says-jury-wont-convict-him-of-murder/
Father who allegedly threw son off bridge rejects plea; lawyer says jury won’t convict him of murder
Posted 5:47 PM, May 17, 2016, by Samantha Schoenfeld and Laura Roberts, Updated at 12:33pm, May 18, 2016
MIDDLETOWN--The Middletown father who police say threw his son off a bridge has rejected a plea deal offered by prosecutors.
Tony Moreno is accused of killing his 7-month-old son Aaden on July 5, 2015 when he is said to have thrown the child off the Arrigoni Bridge, and then jumped off the bridge himself.
He was charged with murder and murder of a victim under the age of 16 and is being held on a $2 million bond.
Moreno's lawyer, Norm Pattis, met with prosecutors in the judge's chambers on Tuesday to discuss a plea deal, however, negotiations broke down.
Now the case is expected to go to trial in January. Pattis told FOX 61, "The state wants to settle this case on terms we think are ridiculous. We're confident that a jury will not find Mr. Moreno guilty of murder and we'll take our chances at trial."
Pattis could not tell us the terms of the plea because it could be prejudicial during sentencing, but he called the number "obscenely high."
Tony Moreno in court Last July, FOX 61 obtained a series of text messages exchanged between Moreno and the baby's mother, Adrianne Oyola, who had a restraining order out against Moreno weeks before the murder, but it was not extended at a hearing days before Aaden's death.
The text messages showed Moreno's mindset in the minutes before the incident.
Pattis said, "The jury will hear from Mr. Moreno about what actually took place on the bridge that night, not what police officers browbeat him into discussing in the wake of his child's death. No one should be subjected to a custodial interview when they watched their child go over a bridge and tumble to their death, yet this is what passes for law enforcement etiquette in Middletown. I'm looking forward to cross-examining those officers."
"We will unpack in studious detail what happened in the interrogation of Tony Moreno and a jury will decide whether what police got him to say is what happened or whether what Mr. Moreno will testify to is what happened," said Pattis.
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Murder charge will stand for joint custody dad in death of 3-year-old son (New Jersey)
We've posted on joint custody dad DAVID CREATO JR. before.
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http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Murder-Charge-Against-Father-Will-Not-be-Dismissed-Judge-379700301.html
Murder Charge Will Stand for David Creato, Jr. in Death of Son: Judge
A judge has refused to dismiss murder charges filed against a New Jersey father accused of killing his 3-year-old son.
State Superior Court Judge John Kelley on Monday rejected a motion filed by Richard Fuschino Jr, the attorney for David Creato Jr.
Fuschino claimed that a medical examiner acted improperly while determining the cause of death for Brendan Creato and later misled a grand jury. But Camden County prosecutors have called those arguments "absurd.''
Prosecutors have said the boy suffered "homicidal violence.'' They say the 22-year-old Haddon Township man killed his son because the boy was impeding his relationship with a teenage girlfriend who allegedly resented Creato's dealings with the child's mother.
Creato remains jailed on $750,000 bail. He has pleaded not guilty to murder and child endangerment.
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http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Murder-Charge-Against-Father-Will-Not-be-Dismissed-Judge-379700301.html
Murder Charge Will Stand for David Creato, Jr. in Death of Son: Judge
A judge has refused to dismiss murder charges filed against a New Jersey father accused of killing his 3-year-old son.
State Superior Court Judge John Kelley on Monday rejected a motion filed by Richard Fuschino Jr, the attorney for David Creato Jr.
Fuschino claimed that a medical examiner acted improperly while determining the cause of death for Brendan Creato and later misled a grand jury. But Camden County prosecutors have called those arguments "absurd.''
Prosecutors have said the boy suffered "homicidal violence.'' They say the 22-year-old Haddon Township man killed his son because the boy was impeding his relationship with a teenage girlfriend who allegedly resented Creato's dealings with the child's mother.
Creato remains jailed on $750,000 bail. He has pleaded not guilty to murder and child endangerment.
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