We've reported on this father before. He repeatedly abused his infant daughter, causing multiple fractures, and then didn't seek medical care. Total coddling of an abusive father. Dad is identified as JAMES ROBERT HALL.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=11194716
Father released on parole
7:45 AM Friday Jan 31, 2014
A Hastings man sentenced to two years and five months' jail after breaking his daughter's legs has been released on parole after serving just over a year of his sentence.
James Robert Hall, 21, was jailed as a result of a rare Solicitor-General's appeal against the original sentence of 12 months' home detention.
The original sentence was imposed by Justice Mary Peters in the High Court in Napier on August 13, while the appeal was later heard by three judges in Wellington.
Hall admitted causing harm to the child and later pleaded guilty to one charge of causing grievous bodily harm on March 20, 2011, with intent to injure, and a charge of causing grievous bodily harm with reckless disregard for his daughter's safety, representing older injuries.
Earlier reports said a Parole Board decision this month said Hall had "worked hard" to address the issues which led to "his very sad offending".
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Saturday, February 1, 2014
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Convicted killer dad has bail revoked (Carson City, Nevada)
Dad is identified as JAMES MEEGAN.
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/08/06/5628507/parole-revoked-for-father-of-baby.html
Parole revoked for father of baby killed in 1990
The Associated Press
Published: Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013 - 3:24 pm
Last Modified: Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013 - 3:52 pm
CARSON CITY, Nev. -- Parole has been revoked for a 56-year-old Nevada man convicted of killing his 10-month-old daughter, burning the body and burying it in the Arizona desert in 1990.
James Meegan told state parole commissioners that his arrest in May after an argument with his mother at her home in Anaheim, Calif., was a fluke that never would happen again.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1ctYNsv ) that Parole Commissioner Susan Jackson responded that Meegan knew he was on parole, and there should have been no altercation at all.
Meegan will spend at least the next two years in prison before he's allowed to seek parole again.
He was paroled in February 2011 after serving about 15 years of a 10 years to life in sentence for the murder of his daughter, Francine.
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/08/06/5628507/parole-revoked-for-father-of-baby.html
Parole revoked for father of baby killed in 1990
The Associated Press
Published: Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013 - 3:24 pm
Last Modified: Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013 - 3:52 pm
CARSON CITY, Nev. -- Parole has been revoked for a 56-year-old Nevada man convicted of killing his 10-month-old daughter, burning the body and burying it in the Arizona desert in 1990.
James Meegan told state parole commissioners that his arrest in May after an argument with his mother at her home in Anaheim, Calif., was a fluke that never would happen again.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1ctYNsv ) that Parole Commissioner Susan Jackson responded that Meegan knew he was on parole, and there should have been no altercation at all.
Meegan will spend at least the next two years in prison before he's allowed to seek parole again.
He was paroled in February 2011 after serving about 15 years of a 10 years to life in sentence for the murder of his daughter, Francine.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Volatile dad finally jailed--but will he retain his custodial rights? (Australia)
Read this through, and you'll see that dad VALENTINE LESLIE BROWN doesn't just have a lead foot. This guy is a menace. He's also the kind of father that is continuously granted access to the kids, regardless of how unstable, volatile, or violent he is--thanks to a very powerful fathers' rights lobby in Australia. He's going to jail for a year--but what about after that? Will the kids and their mother be subjected to all this crap all over again?
http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/1344046/eaglehawk-father-jailed-for-speeding/?cs=80
Eaglehawk father jailed for speeding
By JOSH FAGAN March 6, 2013, 1 a.m.
AN Eaglehawk man has been jailed after leading police on a high speed pursuit with his two-year-old child in the backseat.
Valentine Leslie Brown, 38, was sentenced to one year and four months in prison over a number of charges, including dangerous driving, assault, and intentionally causing injury to his partner and 12-year-old son.
Brown, a father of three, pleaded guilty yesterday to the offences committed between 2011 and 2012.
The court heard Brown drove at 100km/h through a 60km/h zone along Holmes Road on September 27, 2011 and failed to stop for two kilometres as police cars followed him with sirens.
When police pulled him over, they discovered his two-year-old child was in the back seat and that he had been driving while suspended.
Brown told police officers at the time that it was because of their incompetence he hadn’t been caught earlier.
In separate charges of assault and recklessly causing injury, the court heard Brown “headbutted” his de facto partner because she would not grant him access to their son on September 29, 2012.
Brown was also charged with recklessly causing injury to his 12-year-old son as he tried to grab him.
Appearing in court yesterday, Brown’s partner said the impact of the headbutt had not been severe and that Brown had apologised to her straight after the incident.
Defence lawyer Bob Cameron said his client had difficulty calming himself when he became agitated.
Brown held his head in his hands as he sat in the dock and repeatedly talked to himself during the plea hearing.
As his sentencing was being read out he tried to interject and shouted that he did not want a period of parole.
He then swore at police as they handcuffed him and continued to bang on the door of the divisional van outside.
Magistrate Jennifer Tregent said the number of charges were of a serious nature and that Brown’s careless driving had endangered lives.
“You (Brown) put everybody’s lives at risk and you put your two-year-old child’s life at risk,” she said.
“It seems you have conducted yourself with little regard for others.”
Brown will be jailed for one year and four months, with a minimum non-parole period of 10 months.
He is also set to be sentenced in relation to other charges of aggravated burglary and false imprisonment that he was remanded for last December.
http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/1344046/eaglehawk-father-jailed-for-speeding/?cs=80
Eaglehawk father jailed for speeding
By JOSH FAGAN March 6, 2013, 1 a.m.
AN Eaglehawk man has been jailed after leading police on a high speed pursuit with his two-year-old child in the backseat.
Valentine Leslie Brown, 38, was sentenced to one year and four months in prison over a number of charges, including dangerous driving, assault, and intentionally causing injury to his partner and 12-year-old son.
Brown, a father of three, pleaded guilty yesterday to the offences committed between 2011 and 2012.
The court heard Brown drove at 100km/h through a 60km/h zone along Holmes Road on September 27, 2011 and failed to stop for two kilometres as police cars followed him with sirens.
When police pulled him over, they discovered his two-year-old child was in the back seat and that he had been driving while suspended.
Brown told police officers at the time that it was because of their incompetence he hadn’t been caught earlier.
In separate charges of assault and recklessly causing injury, the court heard Brown “headbutted” his de facto partner because she would not grant him access to their son on September 29, 2012.
Brown was also charged with recklessly causing injury to his 12-year-old son as he tried to grab him.
Appearing in court yesterday, Brown’s partner said the impact of the headbutt had not been severe and that Brown had apologised to her straight after the incident.
Defence lawyer Bob Cameron said his client had difficulty calming himself when he became agitated.
Brown held his head in his hands as he sat in the dock and repeatedly talked to himself during the plea hearing.
As his sentencing was being read out he tried to interject and shouted that he did not want a period of parole.
He then swore at police as they handcuffed him and continued to bang on the door of the divisional van outside.
Magistrate Jennifer Tregent said the number of charges were of a serious nature and that Brown’s careless driving had endangered lives.
“You (Brown) put everybody’s lives at risk and you put your two-year-old child’s life at risk,” she said.
“It seems you have conducted yourself with little regard for others.”
Brown will be jailed for one year and four months, with a minimum non-parole period of 10 months.
He is also set to be sentenced in relation to other charges of aggravated burglary and false imprisonment that he was remanded for last December.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Dad convicted of killing infant daughter in 1994 now charged in beating death of another infant daughter (Greer, South Carolina)
Recipe for disaster:
Mix a deadbeat dad like DUANE DAVIS (who had been formally convicted of KILLING ANOTHER INFANT DAUGHTER) with caretaking responsbilities for a new infant daughter (because Daddy either can't or won't support his family, so the poor mother of a 5-month-old baby is forced to work a second shift job to support his lazy @$$).
Result: Daddy bashes the baby's skull in because she "cries too much," and kills her.
This POS should have never been allowed around children again, much less back in free society in general....
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20110802/NEWS/308020029/Ex-convict-accused-second-child-s-death-awaits-grand-jury-decision?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CGreer/Taylors
Ex-convict accused in second child's death awaits grand jury decision
Daron Duane Davis couldn't give an explanation of how his infant daughter was beaten to death, investigator testifies
5:17 PM, Aug. 2, 2011
Convict awaits grand jury decision: Duane Davis appeared before Judge Diane Cagle for a preliminary hearing on a charge of homicide by child abuse.
A Greer man who had already served time in prison for killing his infant daughter nearly two decades ago was in court today on charges that he abused and killed another infant daughter earlier this year.
Daron Duane Davis, who was released four years ago after serving a ten-year sentence, is charged with homicide by child abuse in the January death of 5-month-old Keris Davis.
Keris Davis was taken off life support days after authorities say her father broke her skull, and her father could give no explanation for how the injury happened, Greenville County Sheriff’s Investigator Chris Miller testified during a preliminary hearing today.
The mother, who was living with Daron Davis, didn’t play a part in the baby’s death, Miller testified.
The girl had been left with Davis when the mother went to work at her second-shift job, Miller testified. The next morning, she awoke and Davis told her the baby wasn’t breathing, Miller testified.
That morning, he testified, Davis had gone to drop another child off at a bus stop and returned 30 minutes later.
An autopsy showed that the baby had suffered severe head injuries that Miller testified a doctor later told him couldn’t have accidentally happened even if the baby had been dropped from a window onto concrete.
Thirteenth Circuit Defender John Mauldin elicited testimony that the baby had showed earlier medical problems of breathing trouble and that Davis’ statements about the timeline of events surrounding the death were consistent with the girl’s mother’s account.
Assistant Solicitor Christy Sustakovitch said that Davis had been evasive with investigators when they asked him to come to the law enforcement center to be interviewed about the death.
The girl’s 6-year-old sibling said in a forensic interview that Davis had turned on loud music to drown out the baby’s crying, Miller testified.
When asked by the interviewer why the baby was in the hospital, the sibling said “because she cried too much,” Miller testified.
An old sentencing law and work credits earned in prison allowed Davis to walk free less than 11 years after pleading guilty to homicide by child abuse in the death of his 11-month-old daughter in April 1994, authorities said.
Truth-in-sentencing laws didn't apply to Davis' first conviction in 1996, but he would have remained in prison until at least 2013 if they had, authorities said.
His 11-month-old daughter, Sondaria, died in April 1994.
Offenders who have been convicted of some of the state's most serious violent crimes have to serve 85 percent of their sentences but only if their crimes were committed in 1996 or later, 13th Circuit Solicitor Walt Wilkins said.
Davis was sentenced in 1996 to 20 years, the minimum for the offense. He worked a variety of jobs to earn credit toward an early, unconditional release.
The state Department of Social Services didn't become aware of the child until after she suffered the injuries that led to her death, agency spokeswoman Marilyn Matheus said.
The agency can step in when officials are made aware that a child is in a home with someone who has a criminal history, she said.
Child protective services rely on family members, medical professionals, law enforcement officers and the public to open investigations, Matheus said.
Greer police Lt. Jim Holcombe said that officers began the investigation into Keris' injuries but quickly asked Greenville County sheriff's deputies to take over because the girl's grandmother works at the Greer Police Department.
Davis entered the state prison system on April 18, 1996, and served most of his first two years at the maximum security Lieber Correctional Institution, Gelinas said.
He was sent to a medium security prison in Turbeville in April 1998, and in October of that same year went to another medium security prison in Ridgeville, Gelinas said.
Davis was transferred to a minimum security prison in Spartanburg in February 2006, where he stayed until his release on Nov. 1, 2006, Gelinas said.
He took anger management and substance abuse classes in his first year in prison and participated in adult education classes, Gelinas said.
Davis worked a variety of jobs, including brick-mason helper, senior warehouse assistant, food service aid, material cutter, custodial worker and ward keeper, Gelinas said.
Davis was rejected for parole four times between 2000 and 2005, according to Pete O'Boyle, spokesman for the state Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.
"He just did his time and maxed out. He was never on parole," O'Boyle said. "He had hearings, but he never did parole."
He wouldn't have been eligible for parole on the 1994 charge of homicide by child abuse if the crime had occurred after 1995, when the state law was changed, O'Boyle said.
"He got in just before the sentencing law was changed," O'Boyle said. "So he was eligible for parole on his prior conviction."
The department doesn't keep written records of parole hearings, he said.
"There's no parole on murder convictions, and there isn't for homicide by child abuse now," he said.
Davis and Sondaria's mother went to trial in Spartanburg County in 1996. The trial ended with plea bargains before it got into the jury's hands. Davis pleaded guilty to homicide by child abuse while maintaining that he didn't kill the girl, The News reported.
Davis wasn't on supervised release or probation when he got out of prison because he had finished serving the required time, O'Boyle said.
Restrictions can be put on convicts only when they are placed on probation, said Assistant 13th Circuit Solicitor Kris Hodge. Judges often split sentences, ordering prison and probation upon release.
Magistrate Diane Cagle passed charges against Davis along to a grand jury for consideration of an indictment.
Mix a deadbeat dad like DUANE DAVIS (who had been formally convicted of KILLING ANOTHER INFANT DAUGHTER) with caretaking responsbilities for a new infant daughter (because Daddy either can't or won't support his family, so the poor mother of a 5-month-old baby is forced to work a second shift job to support his lazy @$$).
Result: Daddy bashes the baby's skull in because she "cries too much," and kills her.
This POS should have never been allowed around children again, much less back in free society in general....
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20110802/NEWS/308020029/Ex-convict-accused-second-child-s-death-awaits-grand-jury-decision?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CGreer/Taylors
Ex-convict accused in second child's death awaits grand jury decision
Daron Duane Davis couldn't give an explanation of how his infant daughter was beaten to death, investigator testifies
5:17 PM, Aug. 2, 2011
Convict awaits grand jury decision: Duane Davis appeared before Judge Diane Cagle for a preliminary hearing on a charge of homicide by child abuse.
A Greer man who had already served time in prison for killing his infant daughter nearly two decades ago was in court today on charges that he abused and killed another infant daughter earlier this year.
Daron Duane Davis, who was released four years ago after serving a ten-year sentence, is charged with homicide by child abuse in the January death of 5-month-old Keris Davis.
Keris Davis was taken off life support days after authorities say her father broke her skull, and her father could give no explanation for how the injury happened, Greenville County Sheriff’s Investigator Chris Miller testified during a preliminary hearing today.
The mother, who was living with Daron Davis, didn’t play a part in the baby’s death, Miller testified.
The girl had been left with Davis when the mother went to work at her second-shift job, Miller testified. The next morning, she awoke and Davis told her the baby wasn’t breathing, Miller testified.
That morning, he testified, Davis had gone to drop another child off at a bus stop and returned 30 minutes later.
An autopsy showed that the baby had suffered severe head injuries that Miller testified a doctor later told him couldn’t have accidentally happened even if the baby had been dropped from a window onto concrete.
Thirteenth Circuit Defender John Mauldin elicited testimony that the baby had showed earlier medical problems of breathing trouble and that Davis’ statements about the timeline of events surrounding the death were consistent with the girl’s mother’s account.
Assistant Solicitor Christy Sustakovitch said that Davis had been evasive with investigators when they asked him to come to the law enforcement center to be interviewed about the death.
The girl’s 6-year-old sibling said in a forensic interview that Davis had turned on loud music to drown out the baby’s crying, Miller testified.
When asked by the interviewer why the baby was in the hospital, the sibling said “because she cried too much,” Miller testified.
An old sentencing law and work credits earned in prison allowed Davis to walk free less than 11 years after pleading guilty to homicide by child abuse in the death of his 11-month-old daughter in April 1994, authorities said.
Truth-in-sentencing laws didn't apply to Davis' first conviction in 1996, but he would have remained in prison until at least 2013 if they had, authorities said.
His 11-month-old daughter, Sondaria, died in April 1994.
Offenders who have been convicted of some of the state's most serious violent crimes have to serve 85 percent of their sentences but only if their crimes were committed in 1996 or later, 13th Circuit Solicitor Walt Wilkins said.
Davis was sentenced in 1996 to 20 years, the minimum for the offense. He worked a variety of jobs to earn credit toward an early, unconditional release.
The state Department of Social Services didn't become aware of the child until after she suffered the injuries that led to her death, agency spokeswoman Marilyn Matheus said.
The agency can step in when officials are made aware that a child is in a home with someone who has a criminal history, she said.
Child protective services rely on family members, medical professionals, law enforcement officers and the public to open investigations, Matheus said.
Greer police Lt. Jim Holcombe said that officers began the investigation into Keris' injuries but quickly asked Greenville County sheriff's deputies to take over because the girl's grandmother works at the Greer Police Department.
Davis entered the state prison system on April 18, 1996, and served most of his first two years at the maximum security Lieber Correctional Institution, Gelinas said.
He was sent to a medium security prison in Turbeville in April 1998, and in October of that same year went to another medium security prison in Ridgeville, Gelinas said.
Davis was transferred to a minimum security prison in Spartanburg in February 2006, where he stayed until his release on Nov. 1, 2006, Gelinas said.
He took anger management and substance abuse classes in his first year in prison and participated in adult education classes, Gelinas said.
Davis worked a variety of jobs, including brick-mason helper, senior warehouse assistant, food service aid, material cutter, custodial worker and ward keeper, Gelinas said.
Davis was rejected for parole four times between 2000 and 2005, according to Pete O'Boyle, spokesman for the state Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.
"He just did his time and maxed out. He was never on parole," O'Boyle said. "He had hearings, but he never did parole."
He wouldn't have been eligible for parole on the 1994 charge of homicide by child abuse if the crime had occurred after 1995, when the state law was changed, O'Boyle said.
"He got in just before the sentencing law was changed," O'Boyle said. "So he was eligible for parole on his prior conviction."
The department doesn't keep written records of parole hearings, he said.
"There's no parole on murder convictions, and there isn't for homicide by child abuse now," he said.
Davis and Sondaria's mother went to trial in Spartanburg County in 1996. The trial ended with plea bargains before it got into the jury's hands. Davis pleaded guilty to homicide by child abuse while maintaining that he didn't kill the girl, The News reported.
Davis wasn't on supervised release or probation when he got out of prison because he had finished serving the required time, O'Boyle said.
Restrictions can be put on convicts only when they are placed on probation, said Assistant 13th Circuit Solicitor Kris Hodge. Judges often split sentences, ordering prison and probation upon release.
Magistrate Diane Cagle passed charges against Davis along to a grand jury for consideration of an indictment.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Dad arrested after 8-hour SWAT team standoff; held son hostage (La Mesa, California)
Daddy Drama at its finest, this time featuring Daddy WILLIAM WARNOCK. No indication of how old the son was, the one who held hostage for 8 hours while Daddy threatened him.
http://lamesa.patch.com/articles/father-arrested-after-8-hour-standoff-involving-swat-team-evacuations
Father Arrested After 8-Hour Standoff Involving SWAT Team, Evacuations
Man had threatened his son with a screwdriver, police said, but officers feared he had weapons.
By Ken Stone
A SWAT action that forced the evacuation of at least a half-dozen homes ended shortly after 6 a.m. Wednesday in northwest La Mesa when a man was Tasered on his porch, police said.
A parolee accused of making threats against his son was arrested following the nearly eight-hour standoff with officers, police said. KGTV Channel 10 News identified the father as William Warnock.
The station quoted La Mesa police Lt. David Bond as saying Warnock is a parolee because of a felony charge of evading police and said Warnock would be booked on charges of making a criminal threat and assault with a deadly weapon.
Police were called to a home in the 6100 block of Blain Place near Dallas Street about 10 p.m. Tuesday after the man, who is in his 50s, made the threats, said La Mesa police Sgt. Ted Fenn.
He refused to come out and speak with officers, prompting the standoff, which involved La Mesa police and an El Cajon SWAT team, Fenn said.
Officers set off flash-bang grenades to coax the man out, but the standoff persisted until shortly after 6 a.m., when the man came out onto a porch and was Tasered by an officer, police said.
He was then arrested without further incident. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Warnock’s wife—who had left the house—told officers that her husband was a Vietnam veteran who had access to a rifle, shotgun and a pistol.
Police took their time with the standoff because they thought the man had access to several weapons, including a pistol, shotgun and rifle, 10 News reported from the scene.
The station reported that the man was a 59-year-old Vietnam veteran with a conviction for evading police. He allegedly threatened his son with a screwdriver.
http://lamesa.patch.com/articles/father-arrested-after-8-hour-standoff-involving-swat-team-evacuations
Father Arrested After 8-Hour Standoff Involving SWAT Team, Evacuations
Man had threatened his son with a screwdriver, police said, but officers feared he had weapons.
By Ken Stone
A SWAT action that forced the evacuation of at least a half-dozen homes ended shortly after 6 a.m. Wednesday in northwest La Mesa when a man was Tasered on his porch, police said.
A parolee accused of making threats against his son was arrested following the nearly eight-hour standoff with officers, police said. KGTV Channel 10 News identified the father as William Warnock.
The station quoted La Mesa police Lt. David Bond as saying Warnock is a parolee because of a felony charge of evading police and said Warnock would be booked on charges of making a criminal threat and assault with a deadly weapon.
Police were called to a home in the 6100 block of Blain Place near Dallas Street about 10 p.m. Tuesday after the man, who is in his 50s, made the threats, said La Mesa police Sgt. Ted Fenn.
He refused to come out and speak with officers, prompting the standoff, which involved La Mesa police and an El Cajon SWAT team, Fenn said.
Officers set off flash-bang grenades to coax the man out, but the standoff persisted until shortly after 6 a.m., when the man came out onto a porch and was Tasered by an officer, police said.
He was then arrested without further incident. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Warnock’s wife—who had left the house—told officers that her husband was a Vietnam veteran who had access to a rifle, shotgun and a pistol.
Police took their time with the standoff because they thought the man had access to several weapons, including a pistol, shotgun and rifle, 10 News reported from the scene.
The station reported that the man was a 59-year-old Vietnam veteran with a conviction for evading police. He allegedly threatened his son with a screwdriver.
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