Dad is identified as SAMUEL WHITE.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/07/17/5050502/father-who-suffocated-baby-while.html#.U8mC7NfD-S1
Father who suffocated baby while drunk sentenced to prison
By Andrew Dys
Posted: Thursday, Jul. 17, 2014
YORK On Dec. 2, when Samuel White was supposed to be watching his “miracle baby” Ja’Leyah who had survived her mother’s leap from a burning building before Ja’Leyah was even born, White got drunk instead.
White left the baby alone for hours at a stretch that December day. He made two trips to the liquor store, knocking back a fifth of E&J gin and a 12-pack of Bud as a chaser.
He bought a cellphone and hung out with his buddies in the parking lot of the Oak Hollow Apartments, as Ja’Leyah cried, alone, in the playpen in the apartment.
He smoked marijuana joints and washed it down with more gin and a couple extra beers as Ja’Leyah’s mother worked the second of two full-time minimum wage jobs to support the family.
Then White finally passed out drunk in the bed with Ja’Leyah right next to him. White then killed her when he rolled over on her.
The “miracle baby”, a name that White called Ja’Leyah after the apartment fire, suffocated.
Ja’Leyah White, born Sept. 2, 2013, was exactly 3 months old.
Thursday in court, White admitted it all and was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter and unlawful child neglect. The sentence handed down by Judge Frank Addy was the maximum allowed under South Carolina law after prosecutors agreed to drop the initial charge of homicide by child abuse. All sides agreed that while White was drunk and high, and had been day in and day out instead of caring for his daughter, he did not intentionally harm Ja’Leyah.
But the result was the same, said Addy, as social services agents had already banned White from being alone with his daughter because of his well-known drunken episodes and penchant for hanging out with his pals instead of watching his tiny daughter.
Prosecutors were “extremely generous” in dropping the homicide charge because of the lack of intent, said Addy, but that didn’t mean that White was any less responsible for Ja’Leyah’s death. White, a two-time convicted felon, could have faced life in prison if convicted of homicide by child abuse.
More, White had signed an agreement with the S.C. Department of Social Services weeks before Ja’Leyah’s death, that stated he would not be alone with the baby because of several reports and complaints from neighbors about White’s constant drinking and leaving Ja’Leyah unattended.
“The first obligation of this state is to protect the people who can’t protect themselves,” Addy told a trembling and sobbing White in court. “I have to try to send a message so that other people do not suffer as your daughter suffered. You weren’t even supposed to be around that child. You posed a clear and imminent danger to that child just by being around her.”
White expressed remorse, saying he is “sorry” and that he will live with the guilt for the rest of his life.
“I would do anything to bring my daughter back,” White said in court. “I wish it could have been me. My daughter had her whole life ahead of her.”
Despite losing her only child, Mandi Coley, Ja’Leyah’s mother, defended White in court and asked for leniency. Coley, who was seven months’ pregnant in July 2013 when she and White had to leap from the second floor of the burning apartment building, had to climb in through the window the night her daughter died because White was so drunk he could not answer the door. Coley had worked 16 straight hours at Bojangles’ and Wal-Mart on Dec. 2 and told police she had to physically beat White to get him off Ja’Leyah that night.
Yet, Coley said in court, White was “an amazing father,” who “would not intentionally hurt his child.”
White’s lawyer, assistant public defender Phil Smith, described White as a “severe alcoholic” who was so wasted on booze and dope the day of Ja’Leyah’s death that White’s memory of the day is hazy. Yet, Smith said, White has “overwhelming grief” and admits responsibility.
A cousin of White’s broke down in court, saying he and others should have intervened before White’s drinking and neglect turned deadly.
Yet prosecutor Willy Thompson described Samuel White’s daily drunken binges as White’s choice, where White chose to leave Ja’Leyah crying in the apartment while White drank and hung out and made trips to the store.
White did not shake Ja’Leyah to death, said Thompson the prosecutor. White did not beat his child. But what White did do was get high and drunk on Dec. 2 with his buddies instead of watching his daughter.
White’s constant neglect was “a loaded gun waiting to go off,” Thompson said.
The gun finally went off Dec. 2. The bullet was the gin and pot, the beer and the disdain.
Ja’Leyah White, the “miracle baby,” of Rock Hill’s apartment fire, ran out of miracles when her drunken father rolled over on her in bed and the child who wasn’t even yet 10 pounds died gasping for air.
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Friday, July 18, 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
"Caretaker" dad neglects kids while mom works (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
Contrary to the warm and fuzzy articles you see in your Sunday paper, there are too many "stay-at-home" dads who sound just like this one--unemployed/unemployable deadbeats with drug/alcohol problems. Mom is forced to work to support the family while Daddy does nothing but f*** up (at least this one didn't kill a child because he was "frustrated".) Meanwhile, she can't kick him out or he'll get joint custody (if she's lucky) or even full custody.
Dad is identified as STEPHEN ANTHONY FELTS.
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20140422/LOCAL07/304229939/1043/LOCAL07
Published: April 22, 2014 3:00 a.m.
Neglect charged in toddler case
The Journal Gazette
A Fort Wayne man who left two toddlers outside and his infant in an apartment alone was charged Monday with neglect of a dependent.
According to court documents, a woman called police about 8 p.m. Nov. 28 and said she found two toddlers out in the cold crying in front of a home.
The woman took the children inside and waited for police.
Officers could hear a child crying inside, according to court documents.
After entering the home, officers found an infant on the couch crying and no adults in the apartment.
While police waited for the Department of Child Services to arrive, Stephen Anthony Felts returned to the apartment and told officers he had gone out for a cellphone charger.
Felts, the father of the infant, was responsible for watching the children while their mother was at work, court documents said.
Felts, 28, told police he went next door to get the charger and when he returned he saw police and thought he might be arrested for trespassing. Officers said
Felts smelled of alcohol, the documents said. Felts said he had been drinking earlier in the day, but refused alcohol or drug testing.
Felts, of the 900 block of Lincoln Avenue, had not been arrested Monday.
Dad is identified as STEPHEN ANTHONY FELTS.
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20140422/LOCAL07/304229939/1043/LOCAL07
Published: April 22, 2014 3:00 a.m.
Neglect charged in toddler case
The Journal Gazette
A Fort Wayne man who left two toddlers outside and his infant in an apartment alone was charged Monday with neglect of a dependent.
According to court documents, a woman called police about 8 p.m. Nov. 28 and said she found two toddlers out in the cold crying in front of a home.
The woman took the children inside and waited for police.
Officers could hear a child crying inside, according to court documents.
After entering the home, officers found an infant on the couch crying and no adults in the apartment.
While police waited for the Department of Child Services to arrive, Stephen Anthony Felts returned to the apartment and told officers he had gone out for a cellphone charger.
Felts, the father of the infant, was responsible for watching the children while their mother was at work, court documents said.
Felts, 28, told police he went next door to get the charger and when he returned he saw police and thought he might be arrested for trespassing. Officers said
Felts smelled of alcohol, the documents said. Felts said he had been drinking earlier in the day, but refused alcohol or drug testing.
Felts, of the 900 block of Lincoln Avenue, had not been arrested Monday.
Friday, March 28, 2014
Dad charged with killing toddler son (New London, Wisconsin)
Sounds like a "stay-at-home" father situation. Too often fathers who are at home are merely thugs who can't/won't get a job.
Dad is identified as LANCE S. VANDENBUSCH.
http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20140328/APC0101/303280188/New-London-father-charged-toddler-s-death?nclick_check=1
Police quickly focused on New London father in toddler's abuse death
Mar. 28, 2014 2:18 PM
Written by Holly Meyer
Post-Crescent Media
WAUPACA — The little boy prosecutors say was killed by his father was playful and cuddly the morning he suffered traumatic brain injuries, his mother told investigators.
New London police found their No. 1 suspect once they discovered the toddler's ultimately fatal injuries were inflicted after his mother left him home in his father's care.
The Waupaca County District Attorney’s Office filed a first-degree reckless homicide charge March 21 against 36-year-old Lance S. Vandenbusch. The boy’s father is now in the Waupaca County Jail on a $200,000 cash bond after making his initial court appearance Tuesday, court documents state.
The criminal complaint says the toddler died Dec. 9 — just weeks before his third birthday — at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee after a massive brain injury that was consistent with child abuse.
The criminal complaint details the events leading up to his death. Emergency room staff at New London Family Medical Center suspected child abuse soon after Vandenbusch and the boy’s mother brought him to the hospital on Dec. 3. The New London Police Department was called and an emergency room doctor showed the investigating officer images of the child’s brain and said the injuries did not match the parents’ stories.
The child’s mother told police her son was in good health on the morning of Dec. 3. They had eaten breakfast and he crawled into her lap to watch cartoons at their New London home before she left him in Vandenbusch’s care while she went to work. The mother left work early after Vandenbusch sent her text messages about the toddler throwing up.
The boy was sleeping in his bed when she arrived, but started making noises. When his parents checked on him, he was in his bed with clenched fists and stiffened body, and they couldn’t wake him. They took him to the New London emergency room, he was transfered to Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah for emergency surgery, and then to Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee for post-operative care.
A doctor from Children’s Hospital told police the primary diagnosis was child abuse because his injuries were consistent with being shaken, thrown or slammed. She said his injuries were so severe that their effects would have been immediately obvious. The doctor looked at a photograph and said the marks on the left side of the boy’s face were from a slap. The doctor who performed surgery on the boy at Theda Clark said even if the boy survived, he would have had permanent severe brain damage.
Vandenbusch told police he had no idea where his son’s injuries came from and that maybe the boy slapped himself during his seizure.
A preliminary hearing is set for 1 p.m. on April 17 in Waupaca County Circuit Court.
Dad is identified as LANCE S. VANDENBUSCH.
http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20140328/APC0101/303280188/New-London-father-charged-toddler-s-death?nclick_check=1
Police quickly focused on New London father in toddler's abuse death
Mar. 28, 2014 2:18 PM
Written by Holly Meyer
Post-Crescent Media
WAUPACA — The little boy prosecutors say was killed by his father was playful and cuddly the morning he suffered traumatic brain injuries, his mother told investigators.
New London police found their No. 1 suspect once they discovered the toddler's ultimately fatal injuries were inflicted after his mother left him home in his father's care.
The Waupaca County District Attorney’s Office filed a first-degree reckless homicide charge March 21 against 36-year-old Lance S. Vandenbusch. The boy’s father is now in the Waupaca County Jail on a $200,000 cash bond after making his initial court appearance Tuesday, court documents state.
The criminal complaint says the toddler died Dec. 9 — just weeks before his third birthday — at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee after a massive brain injury that was consistent with child abuse.
The criminal complaint details the events leading up to his death. Emergency room staff at New London Family Medical Center suspected child abuse soon after Vandenbusch and the boy’s mother brought him to the hospital on Dec. 3. The New London Police Department was called and an emergency room doctor showed the investigating officer images of the child’s brain and said the injuries did not match the parents’ stories.
The child’s mother told police her son was in good health on the morning of Dec. 3. They had eaten breakfast and he crawled into her lap to watch cartoons at their New London home before she left him in Vandenbusch’s care while she went to work. The mother left work early after Vandenbusch sent her text messages about the toddler throwing up.
The boy was sleeping in his bed when she arrived, but started making noises. When his parents checked on him, he was in his bed with clenched fists and stiffened body, and they couldn’t wake him. They took him to the New London emergency room, he was transfered to Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah for emergency surgery, and then to Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee for post-operative care.
A doctor from Children’s Hospital told police the primary diagnosis was child abuse because his injuries were consistent with being shaken, thrown or slammed. She said his injuries were so severe that their effects would have been immediately obvious. The doctor looked at a photograph and said the marks on the left side of the boy’s face were from a slap. The doctor who performed surgery on the boy at Theda Clark said even if the boy survived, he would have had permanent severe brain damage.
Vandenbusch told police he had no idea where his son’s injuries came from and that maybe the boy slapped himself during his seizure.
A preliminary hearing is set for 1 p.m. on April 17 in Waupaca County Circuit Court.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Attempted murder charges dropped against stay-st-home dad, to be charged with "child abuse" for leaving infant on permanent respirator (Montgomery County, Maryland)
Poor mom had to work and support the family while this useless piece of crap played at being a stay-at-home father. Again, we have a sperm donor with no nurturing skills or patience--and the usual horrible results.
Some idiots claim "shaken baby syndrome" doesn't exist. In the real world, most of these babies don't just have brain damage. They have cracked ribs and other signs of abuse as well.
Dad is identified as ADOU L. KOUADIO.
Permanent brain damage, a lifetime on a respirator, and this is dismissed as just "child abuse"?
Daddy coddling at its finest.
http://www.gazette.net/article/20140320/NEWS/140329813/1022/attempted-murder-charge-dropped-against-silver-spring-man-in&template=gazette
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Attempted murder charge dropped against Silver Spring man in ‘shaken baby’ case
But child abuse charges against Adou L. Kouadio will proceed
by Tiffany Arnold
Staff Writer
The Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office has dropped an attempted murder charge against a Silver Spring man who police accused of abusing his infant son so badly the boy needed a respirator.
But child abuse charges will proceed against the baby’s father, Adou L. Kouadio, 25, of the 9700 block of Dilston Road. Kouadio was indicted on charges of first- and second-degree child abuse, the county state’s attorney’s office said Thursday.
“The elements of attempted murder were not quite met and our office decided not to go forward on that charge,” said Ramon Korionoff, a spokesman for the office.
On Feb. 4, police learned that the boy, Amir Iman-Kouadio — who was born on Dec. 14 — was in Children’s National Medical Center in critical condition.
According to records filed in District Court, Amir was bleeding from his brain, had fractured ribs, was hemorrhaging in his eyes and had ligament damage in his neck.
The injuries were so severe, doctors told police the boy would have to be on a ventilator the rest of his life if he survived. On Thursday, Korionoff said Amir was “alive and surviving well.”
Doctors told police that Amir’s injuries did not align with the explanation Kouadio gave.
The boy’s mother, Asli Iman, said she left the family at home to go to her job in Virginia. She left the baby in Kouadio’s care, according to an account of her interview filed in court. Kouadio is a stay-at-home dad, Iman told police.
When she came home from work, she fed the boy, bathed him and prepared him for bed. She told police that he didn’t show any signs of medical distress when he fell asleep at around 9 p.m.
Later, Kouadio changed the baby’s diaper and fed him a bottle, putting him back to sleep at around midnight. He told police he didn’t see any signs of medical distress.
But he was awakened by the Amir’s cries at around 2 a.m.
He tried to give him a bottle, but the boy would not take it. Louadio changed Amir’s diaper and put him back in his bassinet. He checked on the baby 20 minutes later and found blood coming from his nose, according to court records.
That’s when he woke up Iman and they called 911.
When emergency rescuers arrived, Amir didn’t have a pulse and wasn’t breathing.
Police said it appeared to be a case of “shaken baby syndrome.”
Kouadio turned himself into police and is being held in Montgomery County Detention Center on $500,000 bail.
Online court records show he is being represented by the public defender’s office.
Some idiots claim "shaken baby syndrome" doesn't exist. In the real world, most of these babies don't just have brain damage. They have cracked ribs and other signs of abuse as well.
Dad is identified as ADOU L. KOUADIO.
Permanent brain damage, a lifetime on a respirator, and this is dismissed as just "child abuse"?
Daddy coddling at its finest.
http://www.gazette.net/article/20140320/NEWS/140329813/1022/attempted-murder-charge-dropped-against-silver-spring-man-in&template=gazette
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Attempted murder charge dropped against Silver Spring man in ‘shaken baby’ case
But child abuse charges against Adou L. Kouadio will proceed
by Tiffany Arnold
Staff Writer
The Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office has dropped an attempted murder charge against a Silver Spring man who police accused of abusing his infant son so badly the boy needed a respirator.
But child abuse charges will proceed against the baby’s father, Adou L. Kouadio, 25, of the 9700 block of Dilston Road. Kouadio was indicted on charges of first- and second-degree child abuse, the county state’s attorney’s office said Thursday.
“The elements of attempted murder were not quite met and our office decided not to go forward on that charge,” said Ramon Korionoff, a spokesman for the office.
On Feb. 4, police learned that the boy, Amir Iman-Kouadio — who was born on Dec. 14 — was in Children’s National Medical Center in critical condition.
According to records filed in District Court, Amir was bleeding from his brain, had fractured ribs, was hemorrhaging in his eyes and had ligament damage in his neck.
The injuries were so severe, doctors told police the boy would have to be on a ventilator the rest of his life if he survived. On Thursday, Korionoff said Amir was “alive and surviving well.”
Doctors told police that Amir’s injuries did not align with the explanation Kouadio gave.
The boy’s mother, Asli Iman, said she left the family at home to go to her job in Virginia. She left the baby in Kouadio’s care, according to an account of her interview filed in court. Kouadio is a stay-at-home dad, Iman told police.
When she came home from work, she fed the boy, bathed him and prepared him for bed. She told police that he didn’t show any signs of medical distress when he fell asleep at around 9 p.m.
Later, Kouadio changed the baby’s diaper and fed him a bottle, putting him back to sleep at around midnight. He told police he didn’t see any signs of medical distress.
But he was awakened by the Amir’s cries at around 2 a.m.
He tried to give him a bottle, but the boy would not take it. Louadio changed Amir’s diaper and put him back in his bassinet. He checked on the baby 20 minutes later and found blood coming from his nose, according to court records.
That’s when he woke up Iman and they called 911.
When emergency rescuers arrived, Amir didn’t have a pulse and wasn’t breathing.
Police said it appeared to be a case of “shaken baby syndrome.”
Kouadio turned himself into police and is being held in Montgomery County Detention Center on $500,000 bail.
Online court records show he is being represented by the public defender’s office.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Chronically unemployed violent dad kills two children despite being granted SUPERVISED visitation; idiotic reporter praises killer as a "loving father" (New Zealand)
This is how an FR-sympathetic reporter spins the story of a killer dad.
Lots of over-the-top drama, how a "loving father" became "a killer." Lot of handwringing pontification as to whether he was really "a monster" given the Latin etymology. What a bunch of convoluted, irrelevant garbage. Has nothing to do with what this dude really was.
In reality, ONCE AGAIN, we have a chronically unemployed (now called "stay-at-home") dad who had to have total power. That this Mom--especially in a traditionally patriarchal country like New Zealand--was able to get an PERMANENT order of protection AND supervised visitation says A LOT. But notice that our reporter refuses to fully explain the circumstances behind this. After all, that wouldn't fit the preconceived Grand Narrative he presumed from the start: the "loving father" and his fall from grace. It's all total bullsh**.
The only thing he grudgingly admits to is some controlling behavior after the separation--not letting the mother leave the house, that sort of thing. Which I'm sure was just the tip of the iceberg, but the reporter is not interested in what this guy was really like with his wife and family. Nah. We're just given this unfathomable mystery: that this "loving father" was suddenly and inexplicably limited to supervised visitation. There HAD to be a reason for this, but apparently the reporter is too lazy to find out.
So he spends more time with the Clueless Neighbors, who really have no idea what he is like beyond Nice Bloke platitudes.
Any expert in domestic violence could have told you that the Nice Bloke impressions mean nothing. Sociopathic violent men are TYPICALLY adept at putting on the charm when it suits them. It is totally irrelevant to how or why this piece of crap killed two children.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11208525
How a loving father turned into a killer
5:30 AM Monday Feb 24, 2014
The death in Dunedin of two young children at the hands of their father sent David Fisher in search of a monster. He found something more unsettling - a man.
Part one of a two-part series
Monster. There's that word. Peter Scott says it when speaking of Ed Livingstone, brother-in-law, mate and killer-of-children.
"People will make him out as a monster," he says of the father who killed Bradley, 9, and Ellen, 6, on January 15 before shooting himself.
"And probably, in the last minutes of his life, he was. But the guy we knew? Absolutely not."
It was a monstrous act. That final hour of Livingstone's life would eradicate any good he had ever wrung from his existence, including the lives of his children.
"Monster" comes from a Latin word which describes a disruption of the natural order - some perverse malfunction of nature.
Livingstone was unrecognisable at the end. In a corruption of nature, he killed the children he raised.
Left alone was the woman he fell in love with at first sight. Katharine Webb - she uses her maiden name now - was robbed of everything except that which would torture her.
Life.
'See that girl there? I'm going to marry her.'
If he was a monster, Ed Livingstone was one whose roots were Kiwi. He was born in Christchurch in 1962 and moved to Australia when very young. His father, Duncan Livingstone, a Scottish merchant seaman, went to New South Wales with his son and daughter Suzanne (Suzie) in search of work in the mid-1960s. Edward Livingstone. Edward Livingstone.
There is no record of the children's mother travelling with them and he wasn't long settled in Australia before marrying Shirley Crease, whose daughter Karen Scott expanded the family to five.
"He was part of a family," says Pete Scott, who married Karen years later. He remembers a young Livingstone leaving school, working as an unskilled labourer or office worker, before shifting to running pubs.
"We all showed each other respect. There was nothing out of the ordinary way back then," says Mr Scott, a train driver. They rocked around the Central Coast, north of Sydney, socialising together, even after the marriage with Mrs Crease dissolved. "Life was pretty good." Considering how it ended, looking back is like "putting a jigsaw puzzle together" but none of the pieces fit. "We just knew him as Ed," says Mr Scott, a little helplessly.
Livingstone's best mate - really, now, his only mate - was Rob McFarlane.
They met in 1984 and worked together at clothing chain David Jones. Livingstone was assistant office manager while Mr McFarlane, another Kiwi, worked as assistant loss prevention manager.
They had a solid foundation for friendship. "At one stage, he saw me having a bit of a hassle with a client. He dumped everything and came to give me a hand. In the process, he almost got stabbed with a paper spike." Others piled in to help but the bond forged lasted. They would work together three times, twice with Livingstone as Mr McFarlane's boss.
Livingstone worked at David Jones for several years, then turned to working in pubs. He was still doing that more than a decade later when he met Katharine Webb, the woman who became mother to Bradley and Ellen. She caught his eye as she entered the pub. "He actually turned to one of the bar staff there at the time and said: 'See that girl there? I'm going to marry her'."
Until then, no relationships had really stuck. This did. Bradley was born and New Zealand beckoned.
For Livingstone, the appeal was simple.
"It was all about bringing Bradley up in a quieter atmosphere ... Plus, all of Katharine's family are here and Ed doesn't have much of a family."
They started in a rented house on Franklin St, high on the hills in the north of Dunedin, an easy commute for Ms Webb to her public service job in the centre. Her parents lived just up the road. "I don't think there was a lot of love lost there," Mr McFarlane says of Livingstone's relationship with his in-laws.
It was a big shift, not just geographically but in lifestyle. "It was very late for them to have children, both of them. They were both in their forties when Bradley was born."
For Livingstone, the move was the beginning of an isolation which lasted until he died. As Mr McFarlane says: "He was fairly much a loner. He didn't have a lot of mates down there."
Across the fence at Franklin St was Geoffrey Vine, retired Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Gillian, who also worked in social services. They recall the family of three, as it was then, moving in about nine years ago. Livingstone, who wasn't working, would farewell Katharine each morning and turn to caring for Bradley. The Vines watched him grow into fatherhood and, when thinking on it after the killings, were confounded as news reports wove the threads of January 15 into a horrifying tapestry. "It was a totally alien picture," says Mr Vine. "It was hard to believe that someone could have changed and become diametrically the opposite of what you know.
"He was a lovely man. He was just the sort of neighbour you hope to get."
Livingstone was a "firm father", says Mr Vine, but not in a restrictive or rough way. Mrs Vine: "He was an absolutely devoted father and that's why what he did is incredibly inexplicable. One wonders what pressures drove him to do what he did."
Mr Vine: "The only thing I could think of when this happened is he couldn't handle being separated from Bradley because he'd been so devoted to him."
They would chat over the fence, share a cuppa, watching Bradley growing. There was a dog, Spencer.
"He always had to be busy," says Mr Vine. They watched Livingstone spend hours in the garden of the rented house, learning about local plants and growing conditions from green-thumbed Mrs Vine. He pruned with vigour - and having pruned his side, asked if he could hop the fence and do the other. He was quick to help out - and good with computers. When the Vines got a new one, he came up with training videos to help them navigate new software. It became a project, eventually stretching beyond their capacity to keep up.
Bradley grew and Livingstone gloried in it. Far too early, he was trying to teach his son how to kick a football. For Guy Fawkes, he delighted Bradley with a stack of fireworks, although the Vines suspected it was Livingstone who drew the most joy from fireworks, which are banned in Australia. "He was really so excited about it," recalls Mr Vine.
It was a bright point among mundane daily tasks, with Livingstone preparing meals, often as not, doing housework and shopping.
"Edward didn't have a lot of friends," says Mr Vine. He didn't know anyone locally and as a stay-at-home parent, had limited opportunities to meet new people. "He didn't know anyone here," says Mr Vine. And, says Mrs Vine, it's different for men - dads at home don't slot into the coffee groups and social circles mothers enjoy.
Asked if he was clever, Mr Vine said Livingstone "persevered with things". "He was prepared to give anything a go. He had a curiosity about things. He wasn't intellectual but neither was he a dummy. He was a good conversationalist."
He hunted for work, says Mr Vine, straining against his inability to find a job in New Zealand. "When he was looking for work, he wasn't the type who sat around twiddling his thumbs. He really did want to work. One of the things that delighted him about the job at Milburn [at the prison] was that he was going to have people to socialise with." Not even that, adds Mrs Vine. "Contact with adults," she says.
Court documents list Livingstone as earning $58,000 at the time of his death, working as a property officer on reception at the Otago Correctional Facility about 30 minutes south of Dunedin.
The job came about the time Ellen was born and about the time they bought a home. Property records show the Livingstone family buying the house on Kiwi St in 2008 (the listed settlement date is June 17).
They had a home. Livingstone had a job. The children had the rest of their lives. Their mother still does.
Mr Vine: "The big unanswered question for me is what drove the transition from a thoroughly nice man to a monster. You don't become that overnight."
Monster.
There's that word.
The house on Kiwi St
The house on Kiwi St is plain to look at. Like many in Dunedin, it sits hunched into the land, braced against the weather. One storm blew in late on January 15, 2014, through the back door, bringing with it fatal results.
But before then, the bungalow offered hope and opportunity. Seen in the media images that followed, the pale blue house looked as if it were shrinking from the violence that had happened inside.
But turn the other way and there were wonders to behold. Livingstone's friend Rob McFarlane captured the best of it when visiting. His photograph looks across Otago Harbour, the sea calm and still, stretching off towards the distant harbour mouth. Above, a wide sky is azure-blue fading to white-blue on the horizon. McFarlane posted it to Facebook and Livingstone wrote on August 2: "Rob, what made you post a photo of my front garden, nice isn't it :-) You are making me home sick."
By then, it was no longer his front garden. He was banned from the St Leonards home he once lived in, with only supervised access allowed to his children.
The relationship ended in early 2013. Livingstone moved next door to Chris and Mel Foot's home for a few weeks but it didn't work. He'd pace and mutter, eyes turned to the house just up the hill.
Ellen's bedroom looked down on his temporary exile. As in the bedroom of any girl just starting school, a mosaic of stickers climbs up glass.
The separation escalated on May 27, when Livingstone visited the house, an argument followed and he tried to stop Ms Webb from leaving.
The court was later told "he would not let the victim take the family vehicle when she became concerned for hers and her children's safety due to the defendant's behaviour".
Livingstone was put in the care of Southland Health Board's Emergency Psychiatric Service. It was here a protection order was actually served on May 31.
The temporary protection order was made permanent on June 18.
Three days later, Livingstone made contact with Ms Webb through her Facebook site. "Your are beautiful [sic]," he wrote at 11.14pm, tagging the comment to a picture of her with her arms around their children.
Livingstone's access to his children was now restricted to visits supervised by Barnados.
Lots of over-the-top drama, how a "loving father" became "a killer." Lot of handwringing pontification as to whether he was really "a monster" given the Latin etymology. What a bunch of convoluted, irrelevant garbage. Has nothing to do with what this dude really was.
In reality, ONCE AGAIN, we have a chronically unemployed (now called "stay-at-home") dad who had to have total power. That this Mom--especially in a traditionally patriarchal country like New Zealand--was able to get an PERMANENT order of protection AND supervised visitation says A LOT. But notice that our reporter refuses to fully explain the circumstances behind this. After all, that wouldn't fit the preconceived Grand Narrative he presumed from the start: the "loving father" and his fall from grace. It's all total bullsh**.
The only thing he grudgingly admits to is some controlling behavior after the separation--not letting the mother leave the house, that sort of thing. Which I'm sure was just the tip of the iceberg, but the reporter is not interested in what this guy was really like with his wife and family. Nah. We're just given this unfathomable mystery: that this "loving father" was suddenly and inexplicably limited to supervised visitation. There HAD to be a reason for this, but apparently the reporter is too lazy to find out.
So he spends more time with the Clueless Neighbors, who really have no idea what he is like beyond Nice Bloke platitudes.
Any expert in domestic violence could have told you that the Nice Bloke impressions mean nothing. Sociopathic violent men are TYPICALLY adept at putting on the charm when it suits them. It is totally irrelevant to how or why this piece of crap killed two children.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11208525
How a loving father turned into a killer
5:30 AM Monday Feb 24, 2014
The death in Dunedin of two young children at the hands of their father sent David Fisher in search of a monster. He found something more unsettling - a man.
Part one of a two-part series
Monster. There's that word. Peter Scott says it when speaking of Ed Livingstone, brother-in-law, mate and killer-of-children.
"People will make him out as a monster," he says of the father who killed Bradley, 9, and Ellen, 6, on January 15 before shooting himself.
"And probably, in the last minutes of his life, he was. But the guy we knew? Absolutely not."
It was a monstrous act. That final hour of Livingstone's life would eradicate any good he had ever wrung from his existence, including the lives of his children.
"Monster" comes from a Latin word which describes a disruption of the natural order - some perverse malfunction of nature.
Livingstone was unrecognisable at the end. In a corruption of nature, he killed the children he raised.
Left alone was the woman he fell in love with at first sight. Katharine Webb - she uses her maiden name now - was robbed of everything except that which would torture her.
Life.
'See that girl there? I'm going to marry her.'
If he was a monster, Ed Livingstone was one whose roots were Kiwi. He was born in Christchurch in 1962 and moved to Australia when very young. His father, Duncan Livingstone, a Scottish merchant seaman, went to New South Wales with his son and daughter Suzanne (Suzie) in search of work in the mid-1960s. Edward Livingstone. Edward Livingstone.
There is no record of the children's mother travelling with them and he wasn't long settled in Australia before marrying Shirley Crease, whose daughter Karen Scott expanded the family to five.
"He was part of a family," says Pete Scott, who married Karen years later. He remembers a young Livingstone leaving school, working as an unskilled labourer or office worker, before shifting to running pubs.
"We all showed each other respect. There was nothing out of the ordinary way back then," says Mr Scott, a train driver. They rocked around the Central Coast, north of Sydney, socialising together, even after the marriage with Mrs Crease dissolved. "Life was pretty good." Considering how it ended, looking back is like "putting a jigsaw puzzle together" but none of the pieces fit. "We just knew him as Ed," says Mr Scott, a little helplessly.
Livingstone's best mate - really, now, his only mate - was Rob McFarlane.
They met in 1984 and worked together at clothing chain David Jones. Livingstone was assistant office manager while Mr McFarlane, another Kiwi, worked as assistant loss prevention manager.
They had a solid foundation for friendship. "At one stage, he saw me having a bit of a hassle with a client. He dumped everything and came to give me a hand. In the process, he almost got stabbed with a paper spike." Others piled in to help but the bond forged lasted. They would work together three times, twice with Livingstone as Mr McFarlane's boss.
Livingstone worked at David Jones for several years, then turned to working in pubs. He was still doing that more than a decade later when he met Katharine Webb, the woman who became mother to Bradley and Ellen. She caught his eye as she entered the pub. "He actually turned to one of the bar staff there at the time and said: 'See that girl there? I'm going to marry her'."
Until then, no relationships had really stuck. This did. Bradley was born and New Zealand beckoned.
For Livingstone, the appeal was simple.
"It was all about bringing Bradley up in a quieter atmosphere ... Plus, all of Katharine's family are here and Ed doesn't have much of a family."
They started in a rented house on Franklin St, high on the hills in the north of Dunedin, an easy commute for Ms Webb to her public service job in the centre. Her parents lived just up the road. "I don't think there was a lot of love lost there," Mr McFarlane says of Livingstone's relationship with his in-laws.
It was a big shift, not just geographically but in lifestyle. "It was very late for them to have children, both of them. They were both in their forties when Bradley was born."
For Livingstone, the move was the beginning of an isolation which lasted until he died. As Mr McFarlane says: "He was fairly much a loner. He didn't have a lot of mates down there."
Across the fence at Franklin St was Geoffrey Vine, retired Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Gillian, who also worked in social services. They recall the family of three, as it was then, moving in about nine years ago. Livingstone, who wasn't working, would farewell Katharine each morning and turn to caring for Bradley. The Vines watched him grow into fatherhood and, when thinking on it after the killings, were confounded as news reports wove the threads of January 15 into a horrifying tapestry. "It was a totally alien picture," says Mr Vine. "It was hard to believe that someone could have changed and become diametrically the opposite of what you know.
"He was a lovely man. He was just the sort of neighbour you hope to get."
Livingstone was a "firm father", says Mr Vine, but not in a restrictive or rough way. Mrs Vine: "He was an absolutely devoted father and that's why what he did is incredibly inexplicable. One wonders what pressures drove him to do what he did."
Mr Vine: "The only thing I could think of when this happened is he couldn't handle being separated from Bradley because he'd been so devoted to him."
They would chat over the fence, share a cuppa, watching Bradley growing. There was a dog, Spencer.
"He always had to be busy," says Mr Vine. They watched Livingstone spend hours in the garden of the rented house, learning about local plants and growing conditions from green-thumbed Mrs Vine. He pruned with vigour - and having pruned his side, asked if he could hop the fence and do the other. He was quick to help out - and good with computers. When the Vines got a new one, he came up with training videos to help them navigate new software. It became a project, eventually stretching beyond their capacity to keep up.
Bradley grew and Livingstone gloried in it. Far too early, he was trying to teach his son how to kick a football. For Guy Fawkes, he delighted Bradley with a stack of fireworks, although the Vines suspected it was Livingstone who drew the most joy from fireworks, which are banned in Australia. "He was really so excited about it," recalls Mr Vine.
It was a bright point among mundane daily tasks, with Livingstone preparing meals, often as not, doing housework and shopping.
"Edward didn't have a lot of friends," says Mr Vine. He didn't know anyone locally and as a stay-at-home parent, had limited opportunities to meet new people. "He didn't know anyone here," says Mr Vine. And, says Mrs Vine, it's different for men - dads at home don't slot into the coffee groups and social circles mothers enjoy.
Asked if he was clever, Mr Vine said Livingstone "persevered with things". "He was prepared to give anything a go. He had a curiosity about things. He wasn't intellectual but neither was he a dummy. He was a good conversationalist."
He hunted for work, says Mr Vine, straining against his inability to find a job in New Zealand. "When he was looking for work, he wasn't the type who sat around twiddling his thumbs. He really did want to work. One of the things that delighted him about the job at Milburn [at the prison] was that he was going to have people to socialise with." Not even that, adds Mrs Vine. "Contact with adults," she says.
Court documents list Livingstone as earning $58,000 at the time of his death, working as a property officer on reception at the Otago Correctional Facility about 30 minutes south of Dunedin.
The job came about the time Ellen was born and about the time they bought a home. Property records show the Livingstone family buying the house on Kiwi St in 2008 (the listed settlement date is June 17).
They had a home. Livingstone had a job. The children had the rest of their lives. Their mother still does.
Mr Vine: "The big unanswered question for me is what drove the transition from a thoroughly nice man to a monster. You don't become that overnight."
Monster.
There's that word.
The house on Kiwi St
The house on Kiwi St is plain to look at. Like many in Dunedin, it sits hunched into the land, braced against the weather. One storm blew in late on January 15, 2014, through the back door, bringing with it fatal results.
But before then, the bungalow offered hope and opportunity. Seen in the media images that followed, the pale blue house looked as if it were shrinking from the violence that had happened inside.
But turn the other way and there were wonders to behold. Livingstone's friend Rob McFarlane captured the best of it when visiting. His photograph looks across Otago Harbour, the sea calm and still, stretching off towards the distant harbour mouth. Above, a wide sky is azure-blue fading to white-blue on the horizon. McFarlane posted it to Facebook and Livingstone wrote on August 2: "Rob, what made you post a photo of my front garden, nice isn't it :-) You are making me home sick."
By then, it was no longer his front garden. He was banned from the St Leonards home he once lived in, with only supervised access allowed to his children.
The relationship ended in early 2013. Livingstone moved next door to Chris and Mel Foot's home for a few weeks but it didn't work. He'd pace and mutter, eyes turned to the house just up the hill.
Ellen's bedroom looked down on his temporary exile. As in the bedroom of any girl just starting school, a mosaic of stickers climbs up glass.
The separation escalated on May 27, when Livingstone visited the house, an argument followed and he tried to stop Ms Webb from leaving.
The court was later told "he would not let the victim take the family vehicle when she became concerned for hers and her children's safety due to the defendant's behaviour".
Livingstone was put in the care of Southland Health Board's Emergency Psychiatric Service. It was here a protection order was actually served on May 31.
The temporary protection order was made permanent on June 18.
Three days later, Livingstone made contact with Ms Webb through her Facebook site. "Your are beautiful [sic]," he wrote at 11.14pm, tagging the comment to a picture of her with her arms around their children.
Livingstone's access to his children was now restricted to visits supervised by Barnados.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Dad charged with murder in death of 3-month-old daughter (Lawrenceville, Georgia)
After a while, dads like REUBEN VALRIE start to sound all alike.
Often the mother appears to be the only one who works for a living, with Daddy being appointed the "stay-at-home" parent. This is often because Daddy is unemployed/unemployable for any number of issues--lazy/irresponsible, drug and/or alcohol addicted, criminal record--none of which are explained in this particular case.
It is also common for Daddy to make up all kinds of (multiple) bullsh** explanations, none of which begin to explain the extent of the child's injuries. The baby "fell out of bed"--and got multiple rib fractures, a lacerated liver, internal bleeding in her head AND abdomen. Or she tipped over her car seat and got all these fatal injuries? Oh puleeeze....
And finally, I can't figure out why these dimwits either A. Don't call 911 and/or take the child to the hospitals for HOURS after the so-called "accident, or B. Wait till Mom gets home and discovers the "accidentally" injured child. This daddy opted for B.
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2014/feb/19/testimony-slain-infant-was-home-alone-with-father/
Testimony: Slain infant was home alone with father
By Tyler Estep
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Gwinnett Daily Post
LAWRENCEVILLE — By his own admission, Reuben Valrie was alone all day with Aliyana, his 3-month-old daughter. They ran errands alone. There were no guests after her mother went to work and her older siblings went to school.
Sometime on Jan. 15, Aliyana Valrie died.
A preliminary hearing held Wednesday morning offered more insight into why her father has been charged with murder.
Upon returning to the family’s apartment on Lawrenceville’s Sweetwater Road on the evening in question, Kedre Nix reportedly found her young daughter unresponsive. She and Valrie called 911 and paramedics responded, but revival efforts both there and at Gwinnett Medical Center were unsuccessful.
No external injuries were visible at the time, Gwinnett County police Det. Cole Crosby testified Wednesday, but the medical examiner’s office contacted authorities the following day — the autopsy reportedly revealed “indications of significant trauma.”
Aliyana, who was born prematurely and had spent a long stretch of time in the neonatal intensive care unit, had suffered multiple broken ribs, a lacerated liver and damage to her adrenal glands, Crosby said. There was also internal bleeding in her abdomen and head.
Crosby said he wasn’t sure if the medical examiner had determined a specific cause of death yet, but original arrest warrants charge Valrie with “grabbing and shaking the child, causing internal injuries that led to her death.”
#The 28-year-old suspect sat quietly in court Wednesday, hands clasped together, eyes closed and nodding to himself as Crosby went through several different versions of the story he allegedly told police.
According to Crosby, Valrie initially outlined his activities on Jan. 15 without suggesting any “significant event” that could have led to Aliyana’s death. Once confronted with the girl’s internal injuries, however, he offered multiple explanations.
Valrie allegedly told police that Aliyana had been in her car seat when it “fell over,” then posited that she had fallen out of bed. He then claimed he had picked her up and almost dropped her, resulting in a “quick, harsh motion” that snapped her head back.
“He said she was different after that,” Crosby said.
Gwinnett County Medical Examiner Dr. Carol Terry reportedly told police that wouldn’t have been enough to cause Aliyana’s extensive internal injuries. According to Crosby, Terry was not able to provide police with a specific time frame for the infant’s death but said that she “wouldn’t have lived long” after sustaining those injuries.
No alleged motive was offered in court Wednesday. Nix, the mother, told police that Aliyana “had trouble sleeping the night before and had kept them up.”
The medical examiner’s investigator that originally responded to Gwinnett Medical Center told authorities that Valrie appeared to be “acting sad” when compared with Nix.
Despite the objections of defense attorney Wesley Person, the charges of murder and second-degree cruelty to children filed against Valrie were bound over to superior court Wednesday. Person called the allegations against his client “pure speculation.”
“We have no cause of death,” he said, pointed out that CPR could have been performed improperly. “We have injuries that could be attributed to life-saving procedures.”
Often the mother appears to be the only one who works for a living, with Daddy being appointed the "stay-at-home" parent. This is often because Daddy is unemployed/unemployable for any number of issues--lazy/irresponsible, drug and/or alcohol addicted, criminal record--none of which are explained in this particular case.
It is also common for Daddy to make up all kinds of (multiple) bullsh** explanations, none of which begin to explain the extent of the child's injuries. The baby "fell out of bed"--and got multiple rib fractures, a lacerated liver, internal bleeding in her head AND abdomen. Or she tipped over her car seat and got all these fatal injuries? Oh puleeeze....
And finally, I can't figure out why these dimwits either A. Don't call 911 and/or take the child to the hospitals for HOURS after the so-called "accident, or B. Wait till Mom gets home and discovers the "accidentally" injured child. This daddy opted for B.
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2014/feb/19/testimony-slain-infant-was-home-alone-with-father/
Testimony: Slain infant was home alone with father
By Tyler Estep
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Gwinnett Daily Post
LAWRENCEVILLE — By his own admission, Reuben Valrie was alone all day with Aliyana, his 3-month-old daughter. They ran errands alone. There were no guests after her mother went to work and her older siblings went to school.
Sometime on Jan. 15, Aliyana Valrie died.
A preliminary hearing held Wednesday morning offered more insight into why her father has been charged with murder.
Upon returning to the family’s apartment on Lawrenceville’s Sweetwater Road on the evening in question, Kedre Nix reportedly found her young daughter unresponsive. She and Valrie called 911 and paramedics responded, but revival efforts both there and at Gwinnett Medical Center were unsuccessful.
No external injuries were visible at the time, Gwinnett County police Det. Cole Crosby testified Wednesday, but the medical examiner’s office contacted authorities the following day — the autopsy reportedly revealed “indications of significant trauma.”
Aliyana, who was born prematurely and had spent a long stretch of time in the neonatal intensive care unit, had suffered multiple broken ribs, a lacerated liver and damage to her adrenal glands, Crosby said. There was also internal bleeding in her abdomen and head.
Crosby said he wasn’t sure if the medical examiner had determined a specific cause of death yet, but original arrest warrants charge Valrie with “grabbing and shaking the child, causing internal injuries that led to her death.”
#The 28-year-old suspect sat quietly in court Wednesday, hands clasped together, eyes closed and nodding to himself as Crosby went through several different versions of the story he allegedly told police.
According to Crosby, Valrie initially outlined his activities on Jan. 15 without suggesting any “significant event” that could have led to Aliyana’s death. Once confronted with the girl’s internal injuries, however, he offered multiple explanations.
Valrie allegedly told police that Aliyana had been in her car seat when it “fell over,” then posited that she had fallen out of bed. He then claimed he had picked her up and almost dropped her, resulting in a “quick, harsh motion” that snapped her head back.
“He said she was different after that,” Crosby said.
Gwinnett County Medical Examiner Dr. Carol Terry reportedly told police that wouldn’t have been enough to cause Aliyana’s extensive internal injuries. According to Crosby, Terry was not able to provide police with a specific time frame for the infant’s death but said that she “wouldn’t have lived long” after sustaining those injuries.
No alleged motive was offered in court Wednesday. Nix, the mother, told police that Aliyana “had trouble sleeping the night before and had kept them up.”
The medical examiner’s investigator that originally responded to Gwinnett Medical Center told authorities that Valrie appeared to be “acting sad” when compared with Nix.
Despite the objections of defense attorney Wesley Person, the charges of murder and second-degree cruelty to children filed against Valrie were bound over to superior court Wednesday. Person called the allegations against his client “pure speculation.”
“We have no cause of death,” he said, pointed out that CPR could have been performed improperly. “We have injuries that could be attributed to life-saving procedures.”
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Killer dad ruled insane in decapitation of 7-year-old son (Thibodaux, Louisiana)
Insane? I'm not sure about that. Past postings have clarified that dad JERMIAH WRIGHT was an unemployed, "stay-at-home" (i.e. deadbeat) dad who was supported by the mother. Yet all he did was whine and complain. Notice that Daddy didn't kill the boy till the mother announced she was leaving--the telltale sign of a domestic violence retaliation murder.
http://www.sunherald.com/2014/02/14/5341046/lawyer-father-ruled-insane-in.html
Lawyer: Louisiana father ruled insane in child's decapitation
ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 14, 2014
NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana father accused of cutting off the head of his disabled 7-year-old son has been ruled not guilty by reason of insanity, his defense attorney said Friday.
Kerry Cuccia said the ruling by state District Judge John LeBlanc came Friday in the case against Jeremiah Wright, 32, of Thibodaux.
Cuccia said Wright will be returned to the state mental hospital in Jackson where he had been held.
Wright has been in custody since August 2011, when Jori Lirette was killed and his head left in the yard of the home Wright was sharing with Lirette's mother, Jesslyn Lirette. The boy had required around-the-clock care and was fed through a tube.
Cuccia said prosecutors agreed to the ruling.
A call seeking comment from District Attorney Cam Morvant was not immediately returned.
Wright faced a first-degree murder charge in the Aug. 14, 2011, death. The boy's head was found in the driveway. His other body parts were found in nearby trash bags.
According to a sworn police statement, Wright told investigators he had recently seen signs that made him believe he was living with a CPR dummy rather than his son.
Those signs, he said, included being defecated and urinated on the morning he decapitated and dismembered the boy, whom he referred to throughout the statement as "the dummy."
He also told police he and Jesslyn Lirette had fought the evening before, and that she had told him she was moving him out of the house.
http://www.sunherald.com/2014/02/14/5341046/lawyer-father-ruled-insane-in.html
Lawyer: Louisiana father ruled insane in child's decapitation
ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 14, 2014
NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana father accused of cutting off the head of his disabled 7-year-old son has been ruled not guilty by reason of insanity, his defense attorney said Friday.
Kerry Cuccia said the ruling by state District Judge John LeBlanc came Friday in the case against Jeremiah Wright, 32, of Thibodaux.
Cuccia said Wright will be returned to the state mental hospital in Jackson where he had been held.
Wright has been in custody since August 2011, when Jori Lirette was killed and his head left in the yard of the home Wright was sharing with Lirette's mother, Jesslyn Lirette. The boy had required around-the-clock care and was fed through a tube.
Cuccia said prosecutors agreed to the ruling.
A call seeking comment from District Attorney Cam Morvant was not immediately returned.
Wright faced a first-degree murder charge in the Aug. 14, 2011, death. The boy's head was found in the driveway. His other body parts were found in nearby trash bags.
According to a sworn police statement, Wright told investigators he had recently seen signs that made him believe he was living with a CPR dummy rather than his son.
Those signs, he said, included being defecated and urinated on the morning he decapitated and dismembered the boy, whom he referred to throughout the statement as "the dummy."
He also told police he and Jesslyn Lirette had fought the evening before, and that she had told him she was moving him out of the house.
Friday, January 31, 2014
"Stay-at-home" dad found guilty of murder in death of 4-month-old daughter (Orlando, Florida)
Yet another "stay-at-home" dad who bashed the baby. This one succeeded in killing her. Too often these guys become "stay-at-home" dads because they are unwilling/unable to get a job--sometimes because of a past criminal record. So desperate working mothers put them in charge of infant care. Not a good idea. It's too bad we don't have paid maternity leave in this country, and way to get violent moochers like this one into the labor force and away from young kids.
Dad is identified as LUIS OMAR RIVERA.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-child-murder-luis-omar-rivera-20140130,0,2602881.story
Father guilty of murder, aggravated child abuse in daughter's death
By Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel
6:23 p.m. EST, January 30, 2014
A stay-at-home father left to care for his 4-month-old daughter the day she died is responsible for the "catastrophic" injuries that killed the little girl about three years ago, a jury decided Thursday afternoon.
Luis Omar Rivera, 29, was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse charges after his infant daughter Jaliya Rivera died of blunt-force head trauma which caused multiple skull fractures in November 2010.
Jaliya's mother, Sadie Diaz, and her family sobbed silently as the verdict was read.
"I died on November 19, 2010," Diaz said to Rivera before he was sentenced to life in prison for his daughter's death. "You were a heartless monster who couldn't just love your own daughter. My heart is completely broken."
According to prosecutor Pam Davis, Jaliya was a "bubbly" baby who was still too young to roll over on her own. Rivera cared for the child while his wife worked.
Every morning the couple would wake up about 6:30 a.m. so Diaz could prepare for work and Rivera could feed their daughter. That's how the day started on Nov.18, 2010.
When he was interviewed by police, Rivera said he fed his daughter early that morning then went back to bed. When he woke up a short time later to change the little girl's diaper, that's when he realized his daughter wasn't breathing.
Rivera told police he called his mother instead of 911 because he didn't have the money to pay for an expensive ambulance. His daughter spent the night in the hospital and was pronounced dead the next day.
Since that day, Rivera has maintained that he was not responsible for his daughter's severe injuries.
Rivera's attorney, Gerod Hooper, called the police work that let to Rivera's arrest a "make-it-fit" investigation.
"The facts don't fit, so you make it fit," he said to the jury during his closing statement.
Although he agreed with doctors who said Jaliya's wounds were not accidental, he said there was no way to know for sure if Rivera was responsible for inflicting them or if she died from injuries that were inflicted on Nov. 18 or another day when someone else was caring for the infant.
But after 5 hours of deliberation, those seeds of doubt did not resonate with the jury. Rivera said nothing as his sentence was handed down.
Dad is identified as LUIS OMAR RIVERA.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-child-murder-luis-omar-rivera-20140130,0,2602881.story
Father guilty of murder, aggravated child abuse in daughter's death
By Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel
6:23 p.m. EST, January 30, 2014
A stay-at-home father left to care for his 4-month-old daughter the day she died is responsible for the "catastrophic" injuries that killed the little girl about three years ago, a jury decided Thursday afternoon.
Luis Omar Rivera, 29, was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse charges after his infant daughter Jaliya Rivera died of blunt-force head trauma which caused multiple skull fractures in November 2010.
Jaliya's mother, Sadie Diaz, and her family sobbed silently as the verdict was read.
"I died on November 19, 2010," Diaz said to Rivera before he was sentenced to life in prison for his daughter's death. "You were a heartless monster who couldn't just love your own daughter. My heart is completely broken."
According to prosecutor Pam Davis, Jaliya was a "bubbly" baby who was still too young to roll over on her own. Rivera cared for the child while his wife worked.
Every morning the couple would wake up about 6:30 a.m. so Diaz could prepare for work and Rivera could feed their daughter. That's how the day started on Nov.18, 2010.
When he was interviewed by police, Rivera said he fed his daughter early that morning then went back to bed. When he woke up a short time later to change the little girl's diaper, that's when he realized his daughter wasn't breathing.
Rivera told police he called his mother instead of 911 because he didn't have the money to pay for an expensive ambulance. His daughter spent the night in the hospital and was pronounced dead the next day.
Since that day, Rivera has maintained that he was not responsible for his daughter's severe injuries.
Rivera's attorney, Gerod Hooper, called the police work that let to Rivera's arrest a "make-it-fit" investigation.
"The facts don't fit, so you make it fit," he said to the jury during his closing statement.
Although he agreed with doctors who said Jaliya's wounds were not accidental, he said there was no way to know for sure if Rivera was responsible for inflicting them or if she died from injuries that were inflicted on Nov. 18 or another day when someone else was caring for the infant.
But after 5 hours of deliberation, those seeds of doubt did not resonate with the jury. Rivera said nothing as his sentence was handed down.
Monday, December 2, 2013
"Stay-at-home" dad pleads guilty to assaulting 6-year-old son; gets probation, anger management classes (Westfield, Massachusetts)
Contrary to the fluffy PR put out by the FR movement, "stay-at-home" dads are often short-tempered, easily "frustrated" deadbeats who cannot/will not hold a job. This one certainly looks the part.
Dad is identified as JASON D. WOODY.
And notice the kid-glove treatment for this jacka$$. Typical.
http://www.wwlp.com/news/local/hampden/father-pleads-guilty-to-assaulting-his-son
Father pleads guilty to assaulting his son
By Carl E. Hartdegen
Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 12:01 PM EST
Published: Monday, December 2, 2013, 12:01 PM EST
WESTFIELD, Mass. (The Westfield News) - A father will be on probation for two years after he pleaded guilty last week to a charge of assault and battery on a child with injury. Jason D. Woody, 30, of 40 City View Boulevard, was also ordered to make no threats or violence toward the victim, his six-year-old son, and to strictly abide by all abuse prevention orders.
Westfield police became involved with the family when a five-year-old boy was treated at Baystate Medical Center after arriving with an almost completely bruised face with one eye swollen almost shut, ears which had been bruised inside and out and red marks and bruises on his back and torso.
Dets. Roxanne Bradley and Daniel Gustafson were notified of the boy’s injuries and went to the hospital. Bradley reports that when they initially spoke with the boy’s mother she appeared to be upset when she realized that there was official interest in her son’s injuries. The detective reported that the woman immediately said that she didn’t hit her son and didn’t think her husband hit him either.
Bradley said that she was told that the little boy had been beaten up on the school bus the day before. The woman said that she had slept with her son the night before because she feared he might have a concussion and had taken him to her pediatrician who referred her to the hospital.
The boy was interviewed and said that he had been hit on the bus. He denied that his injuries happened at home but said that his father had helped him clean up after the bus. Bradley reports that the bus driver said that she took particular notice of the boy when she brought him home on the day in question because his father, a stay-at-home dad, was not at the bus stop when she got there so she kept him on the bus. The bus driver said that the little boy was cheerful and showed no signs of injury while he waited for her to contact her dispatcher to obtain permission, per policy, to keep the boy on the bus and return later on her route.
She was allowed to do so but, before she could leave, the boy’s father came on the run and the boy went home with him.
When Woody was interviewed he said that his son looked like he had fallen down when he got him from the bus and said that a girl hit him. Woody said he did not want to make a fuss about the boy being punched by a girl and let the matter drop.
He also told the detectives that his son wet his pants but he said he does not spank the boy.
The detectives and a Department of Families and Children investigator were also able to interview the boy’s three-year-old sister who told them how her brother got his “boo boos”.
The girl said that her daddy squeezed her brother and gave him boo boos in the bathroom because he “peed his pants” on the bus.
Bradley reports the little girl said that “Her daddy doesn’t give her boo boos because she doesn’t pee on the bus.”
Bradley said Woody “denies and denies and denies, even after what his daughter said” but she said that the investigators had other evidence. Not only had the bus driver paid attention to the boy before she let him off the bus but the principal spoke with the other kindergarten pupils who had been seated with him that day. The principal told the investigators that the children denied there had been any physical altercation that day but said that one of the five-year-old girls acknowledged that, on the day before, she had playfully slapped the boy’s arm.
Bradley reports that the detectives completed their investigation into the boy’s injuries which were far in excess of what a five-year-old girl could have inflicted and which could not have been missed by the bus driver. She said the detectives had planned to arrest Woody but, when they went looking for him, they found he had checked himself into the psychiatric unit of a local medical facility.
Within days of the incident, Woody and his wife had agreed to DCF service plans which included stipulation that Woody “reside outside the home” and that he have no unsupervised contact with his children.
Woody was charged with assault and battery on a child with injury. When he appeared before Judge Philip A. Contant in Westfield District Court on Nov. 25, the judge found that the evidence would support a guilty finding and allowed him to plead guilty.
Woody was placed on probation for two years, ordered to comply with DCF service plans, to submit to a mental health evaluation and to complete treatment prescribed, and to complete an anger management program. He was assessed $90.
Dad is identified as JASON D. WOODY.
And notice the kid-glove treatment for this jacka$$. Typical.
http://www.wwlp.com/news/local/hampden/father-pleads-guilty-to-assaulting-his-son
Father pleads guilty to assaulting his son
By Carl E. Hartdegen
Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 12:01 PM EST
Published: Monday, December 2, 2013, 12:01 PM EST
WESTFIELD, Mass. (The Westfield News) - A father will be on probation for two years after he pleaded guilty last week to a charge of assault and battery on a child with injury. Jason D. Woody, 30, of 40 City View Boulevard, was also ordered to make no threats or violence toward the victim, his six-year-old son, and to strictly abide by all abuse prevention orders.
Westfield police became involved with the family when a five-year-old boy was treated at Baystate Medical Center after arriving with an almost completely bruised face with one eye swollen almost shut, ears which had been bruised inside and out and red marks and bruises on his back and torso.
Dets. Roxanne Bradley and Daniel Gustafson were notified of the boy’s injuries and went to the hospital. Bradley reports that when they initially spoke with the boy’s mother she appeared to be upset when she realized that there was official interest in her son’s injuries. The detective reported that the woman immediately said that she didn’t hit her son and didn’t think her husband hit him either.
Bradley said that she was told that the little boy had been beaten up on the school bus the day before. The woman said that she had slept with her son the night before because she feared he might have a concussion and had taken him to her pediatrician who referred her to the hospital.
The boy was interviewed and said that he had been hit on the bus. He denied that his injuries happened at home but said that his father had helped him clean up after the bus. Bradley reports that the bus driver said that she took particular notice of the boy when she brought him home on the day in question because his father, a stay-at-home dad, was not at the bus stop when she got there so she kept him on the bus. The bus driver said that the little boy was cheerful and showed no signs of injury while he waited for her to contact her dispatcher to obtain permission, per policy, to keep the boy on the bus and return later on her route.
She was allowed to do so but, before she could leave, the boy’s father came on the run and the boy went home with him.
When Woody was interviewed he said that his son looked like he had fallen down when he got him from the bus and said that a girl hit him. Woody said he did not want to make a fuss about the boy being punched by a girl and let the matter drop.
He also told the detectives that his son wet his pants but he said he does not spank the boy.
The detectives and a Department of Families and Children investigator were also able to interview the boy’s three-year-old sister who told them how her brother got his “boo boos”.
The girl said that her daddy squeezed her brother and gave him boo boos in the bathroom because he “peed his pants” on the bus.
Bradley reports the little girl said that “Her daddy doesn’t give her boo boos because she doesn’t pee on the bus.”
Bradley said Woody “denies and denies and denies, even after what his daughter said” but she said that the investigators had other evidence. Not only had the bus driver paid attention to the boy before she let him off the bus but the principal spoke with the other kindergarten pupils who had been seated with him that day. The principal told the investigators that the children denied there had been any physical altercation that day but said that one of the five-year-old girls acknowledged that, on the day before, she had playfully slapped the boy’s arm.
Bradley reports that the detectives completed their investigation into the boy’s injuries which were far in excess of what a five-year-old girl could have inflicted and which could not have been missed by the bus driver. She said the detectives had planned to arrest Woody but, when they went looking for him, they found he had checked himself into the psychiatric unit of a local medical facility.
Within days of the incident, Woody and his wife had agreed to DCF service plans which included stipulation that Woody “reside outside the home” and that he have no unsupervised contact with his children.
Woody was charged with assault and battery on a child with injury. When he appeared before Judge Philip A. Contant in Westfield District Court on Nov. 25, the judge found that the evidence would support a guilty finding and allowed him to plead guilty.
Woody was placed on probation for two years, ordered to comply with DCF service plans, to submit to a mental health evaluation and to complete treatment prescribed, and to complete an anger management program. He was assessed $90.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
While Mom works, Dad abandons 4-year-old son at home to play video games at friend's house (Rock Hill, New York)
Sounds like another useless deadbeat "stay-at-home" dad who can't bother to find a job--or take care of his kids.
Dad is identified as ANTWAIN SUTTON.
http://www.heraldonline.com/2013/11/19/5423982/father-charged-after-boy-4-found.html
Father charged after boy, 4, found alone outside Rock Hill apartment
By Jonathan McFadden
November 19, 2013 12 minutes ago
ROCK HILL — A Rock Hill father who went to a friend’s house to play video games while he was supposed to watch his 4-year-old son has been charged with neglect after police say a neighbor found the child wandering at an apartment complex without any clothes or supervision on Monday.
Police were sent to Market Place Apartments off Heckle Boulevard at about 11:35 a.m. after a neighbor reported finding the boy walking around in the area, according to a Rock Hill police report. The neighbor took the child to his apartment and notified apartment management.
The apartment’s manager gave police the boy’s address, where he lives with both his parents and a 2-year-old sister, the report states. The manager had been unable to contact either parent. Police found the apartment’s front door open. Officers reached the mother by phone. She told them she left for work in Charlotte at about 9 a.m., leaving the boy with his father, Antwain Sutton, 24. Typically, the boy goes to daycare but he was not able to attend on Monday.
Police spoke with Sutton, who claimed he was unaware the boy did not attend daycare that morning and left the house at about 10:30 a.m. to play video games in Rock Hill’s Sunset Park neighborhood, the report states. Officers wrote in their report that they believed Sutton was “well aware” that the boy was inside the house and deliberately left him.
Police arrested Sutton, charging him with unlawful neglect of a child, the report states. He is held at the York County Detention Center on a $10,000 bond. The child was given to his grandmother until his mother returned home from work.
Dad is identified as ANTWAIN SUTTON.
http://www.heraldonline.com/2013/11/19/5423982/father-charged-after-boy-4-found.html
Father charged after boy, 4, found alone outside Rock Hill apartment
By Jonathan McFadden
November 19, 2013 12 minutes ago
ROCK HILL — A Rock Hill father who went to a friend’s house to play video games while he was supposed to watch his 4-year-old son has been charged with neglect after police say a neighbor found the child wandering at an apartment complex without any clothes or supervision on Monday.
Police were sent to Market Place Apartments off Heckle Boulevard at about 11:35 a.m. after a neighbor reported finding the boy walking around in the area, according to a Rock Hill police report. The neighbor took the child to his apartment and notified apartment management.
The apartment’s manager gave police the boy’s address, where he lives with both his parents and a 2-year-old sister, the report states. The manager had been unable to contact either parent. Police found the apartment’s front door open. Officers reached the mother by phone. She told them she left for work in Charlotte at about 9 a.m., leaving the boy with his father, Antwain Sutton, 24. Typically, the boy goes to daycare but he was not able to attend on Monday.
Police spoke with Sutton, who claimed he was unaware the boy did not attend daycare that morning and left the house at about 10:30 a.m. to play video games in Rock Hill’s Sunset Park neighborhood, the report states. Officers wrote in their report that they believed Sutton was “well aware” that the boy was inside the house and deliberately left him.
Police arrested Sutton, charging him with unlawful neglect of a child, the report states. He is held at the York County Detention Center on a $10,000 bond. The child was given to his grandmother until his mother returned home from work.
Saturday, October 19, 2013
"Primary caretaker" dad charged in death of 3-month-old son; apparently "headbutted" baby (Aurora, Colorado)
We have seen this so many times here at Dastardly Dads. Mom is the only one employed, so the unemployed/unemployable deadbeat father (who often can't get a job because of a criminal history) gets drafted to play "primary caretaker" and "stay-at-home dad."
And as is often the case, these guys f*** it up miserably. They are too easily "frustrated" and too volatile to deal with the stresses of infant care.
Dad is identified as MARTIN FERNANDO HOLQUIN JR.
http://www.9news.com/news/article/360647/339/Affidavit-Headbutt-leads-to-babys-death
Affidavit: Headbutt leads to baby's death
6:05 PM, Oct 18, 2013
AURORA - The last thing the father of two told his 3-month-old baby was, "I'm sorry buddy. I didn't mean to headbutt you," according to court records obtained by 9Wants to Know.
The father, a 22-year-old Aurora man, has been charged in the death of his infant son. The Adams County District Attorney's Office charged Martin Fernando Holguin Jr. with one count of child abuse resulting in death. He called 911 Sep. 16 to report something was wrong with his baby.
According to the affidavit, Holguin told several differing stories about what led up to the 911 call. After the baby died, police say he confessed saying, "I just grabbed him and headbutted him." Records show Holguin told police, "He didn't headbutt Aiden on purpose."
According to Holguin's arrest affidavit, his infant son Aiden Martin Holguin died from a skull fracture. Doctors from Children's Hospital told investigators he had a "Y" shaped fracture over his right ear and said the baby suffered from an "acute subdural hemorrhage."
The baby lived for 6 days after that 911 call. Court records state Aiden died "peacefully in [his] mother's arms."
The baby's mother, Tailem Reyes, was at work when Holguin called paramedics. Holguin was the main caretaker of the baby and his 2-year-old brother. He was unemployed and she is a manager at a Denver retail store.
Holguin, who is being held on $100,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in court Dec. 10. He has a criminal drug and traffic history.
And as is often the case, these guys f*** it up miserably. They are too easily "frustrated" and too volatile to deal with the stresses of infant care.
Dad is identified as MARTIN FERNANDO HOLQUIN JR.
http://www.9news.com/news/article/360647/339/Affidavit-Headbutt-leads-to-babys-death
Affidavit: Headbutt leads to baby's death
6:05 PM, Oct 18, 2013
AURORA - The last thing the father of two told his 3-month-old baby was, "I'm sorry buddy. I didn't mean to headbutt you," according to court records obtained by 9Wants to Know.
The father, a 22-year-old Aurora man, has been charged in the death of his infant son. The Adams County District Attorney's Office charged Martin Fernando Holguin Jr. with one count of child abuse resulting in death. He called 911 Sep. 16 to report something was wrong with his baby.
According to the affidavit, Holguin told several differing stories about what led up to the 911 call. After the baby died, police say he confessed saying, "I just grabbed him and headbutted him." Records show Holguin told police, "He didn't headbutt Aiden on purpose."
According to Holguin's arrest affidavit, his infant son Aiden Martin Holguin died from a skull fracture. Doctors from Children's Hospital told investigators he had a "Y" shaped fracture over his right ear and said the baby suffered from an "acute subdural hemorrhage."
The baby lived for 6 days after that 911 call. Court records state Aiden died "peacefully in [his] mother's arms."
The baby's mother, Tailem Reyes, was at work when Holguin called paramedics. Holguin was the main caretaker of the baby and his 2-year-old brother. He was unemployed and she is a manager at a Denver retail store.
Holguin, who is being held on $100,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in court Dec. 10. He has a criminal drug and traffic history.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Trial for deadbeat dad accused of beating, choking, and torturing 3-month-old son (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
Sounds like this deadbeat dad with a drug problem ended up as a "stay-at-home" dad since he couldn't/wouldn't get a job. Of course, he f***ed that up too, torturing his infant son for a solid month before he was caught. Seems like a real worthless sh** to me.
Dad is identified as DEREK BULLARD.
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/allentown/index.ssf/2013/06/trial_begins_for_allentown_man_1.html
Trial begins for Allentown man who allegedly 'beat, choked tortured' three-month-old son
By Colin McEvoy | The Express-Times on June 18, 2013 at 4:01 PM, updated June 18, 2013 at 4:03 PM
Just two days after Father's Day, the trial began today for an Allentown man accused of beating his three-month-old son until he suffered a leg fracture and broken ribs.
Derek Bullard, 24, allegedly abused his son over a one-month span last year, including an instance where he became enraged as he was changing the boy's diaper and twisted his leg until it popped.
"Father's Day is a day we remember the bond we share with our fathers," said Lehigh County Assistant District Attorney Anna-Kristie Marks.
"For (this child), as he gets older, Father's Day will only remind him that this is the person who beat, choked and tortured him for one month of his short existence at that time," Marks said.
Bullard eventually confessed to police, but first tried to blame the abuse on his 18-month-old daughter, saying she must have accidentally hurt the baby, Marks said.
His trial began today for charges of aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The alleged abuse occurred between May and June 2012.
Bullard previously told police he twisted his son's leg "in a fit of rage," Marks said, and that he would also choke, bite and punch the boy and throw him forcefully into his bassinet.
But during opening arguments today, Bullard's attorney John Baurkot said Bullard was innocent and falsely confessed to police in an attempt to keep his children out of foster care.
Baurkot said Bullard had a past substance abuse problem and was unable to find work, leaving his ex-wife to support the family, which was a source of frustration for Bullard.
Bullard had previously gone through foster care and had bad experiences there, so when his children were hurt, he took the blame so they could stay with their mother, Baurkot said.
"He couldn't take responsibility for his kids, so he felt the one thing he could do was prevent them from going through the trauma he went through himself in foster care," he said.
Bullard had pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in March, a plea that could have resulted in six to 20 years in prison. But he withdrew that plea in April and decided instead to face trial.
Bullard sat silently in court today, wearing black pants and a white dress shirt that barely concealed tattoos on his wrists and neck. Baurkot said he plans to take the stand in his own defense.
The baby was taken to an area hospital last year with a spiral femur fracture, a leg injury often associated with child abuse because it can be inflicted by twisting the leg, Marks said.
Upon further investigation, authorities discovered the child had also had two broken ribs and bruises on his right arm that made him cry hysterically when touched.
After Bullard initially confessed to police, he demonstrated on a doll how he hook the baby, twisted his arms and pressed down on his chest with a fist. That video will be shown to the jury during the trial.
To demonstrate the force with which Bullard pressed the baby's chest, Marks punched the jury box with her fist so hard during opening arguments that her wristwatch broke.
"This defendant tortured his child," she said.
Testimony will continue throughout the week before Judge James Anthony.
Dad is identified as DEREK BULLARD.
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/allentown/index.ssf/2013/06/trial_begins_for_allentown_man_1.html
Trial begins for Allentown man who allegedly 'beat, choked tortured' three-month-old son
By Colin McEvoy | The Express-Times on June 18, 2013 at 4:01 PM, updated June 18, 2013 at 4:03 PM
Just two days after Father's Day, the trial began today for an Allentown man accused of beating his three-month-old son until he suffered a leg fracture and broken ribs.
Derek Bullard, 24, allegedly abused his son over a one-month span last year, including an instance where he became enraged as he was changing the boy's diaper and twisted his leg until it popped.
"Father's Day is a day we remember the bond we share with our fathers," said Lehigh County Assistant District Attorney Anna-Kristie Marks.
"For (this child), as he gets older, Father's Day will only remind him that this is the person who beat, choked and tortured him for one month of his short existence at that time," Marks said.
Bullard eventually confessed to police, but first tried to blame the abuse on his 18-month-old daughter, saying she must have accidentally hurt the baby, Marks said.
His trial began today for charges of aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The alleged abuse occurred between May and June 2012.
Bullard previously told police he twisted his son's leg "in a fit of rage," Marks said, and that he would also choke, bite and punch the boy and throw him forcefully into his bassinet.
But during opening arguments today, Bullard's attorney John Baurkot said Bullard was innocent and falsely confessed to police in an attempt to keep his children out of foster care.
Baurkot said Bullard had a past substance abuse problem and was unable to find work, leaving his ex-wife to support the family, which was a source of frustration for Bullard.
Bullard had previously gone through foster care and had bad experiences there, so when his children were hurt, he took the blame so they could stay with their mother, Baurkot said.
"He couldn't take responsibility for his kids, so he felt the one thing he could do was prevent them from going through the trauma he went through himself in foster care," he said.
Bullard had pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in March, a plea that could have resulted in six to 20 years in prison. But he withdrew that plea in April and decided instead to face trial.
Bullard sat silently in court today, wearing black pants and a white dress shirt that barely concealed tattoos on his wrists and neck. Baurkot said he plans to take the stand in his own defense.
The baby was taken to an area hospital last year with a spiral femur fracture, a leg injury often associated with child abuse because it can be inflicted by twisting the leg, Marks said.
Upon further investigation, authorities discovered the child had also had two broken ribs and bruises on his right arm that made him cry hysterically when touched.
After Bullard initially confessed to police, he demonstrated on a doll how he hook the baby, twisted his arms and pressed down on his chest with a fist. That video will be shown to the jury during the trial.
To demonstrate the force with which Bullard pressed the baby's chest, Marks punched the jury box with her fist so hard during opening arguments that her wristwatch broke.
"This defendant tortured his child," she said.
Testimony will continue throughout the week before Judge James Anthony.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Stay-at-home dad with history of DV charged with killing 6-month-old daughter (Yonkers, New York)
Most of the time, scratch any violent abuser/killer and you'll find a family enabler. And most of this article is devoted to the delusional blatherings of an enabler.
For all of the enabler crap, a couple of facts stand out.
1) Dad CLARENCE THOMAS has a history of domestic violence against the mother.
2) He managed to get custody of a child from an earlier relationship--despite what is likely a long history of abusive behavior. This is a big red flag, because securing custody (control) and punishing the mother for leaving him is typically a key motivator for these guys. Once again, we see a killer dad who got custody.
3) He was a "stay-at-home" (i.e. deadbeat) father. This is also a common pattern, despite all the warm fuzzy articles you've seen in your Sunday paper. Abusers like to call the shots and manipulate those around them. How better to do that than to make Mom work and support your lazy @$$ while you sit around and do nothing but beat the baby to death for annoying you by crying.
4) Statistically, the perpetrator most likely to shake and brutalize a baby like this is THE FATHER, followed by boyfriends and steps. These are typically dudes with short tempers and poor impulse control. In other words, we're talking about the guys who beat their partners. Guys like this one.
5) And finally, is it any big surprise that this "good guy" has a pending weapon-possession case against him? Duh....
http://www.lohud.com/article/20130409/NEWS/304090086/Mother-Son-father-held-shaking-death-innocent
Yonkers baby-shaking suspect's mom: Son 'devastated' by girl's death
Apr 9, 2013
Written by Will David
YONKERS — The mother of a 31-year-old Yonkers man who is being held in the repeated shaking of his 6-month-old daughter — who later died — said Tuesday she is standing by her son.
“There is real trash in this world,” Patricia Nelson, 54, the mother of defendant Clarence Thomas told The Journal News. “He is not in that category.”
Thomas, of 121 Ludlow St., is charged with second-degree assault, a felony. His daughter Natalia’s March 19 death has not yet been ruled a homicide.
The assault happened in Thomas’ fourth-floor apartment between Feb. 1 and Feb. 28, according to court papers.
“He’s a good guy,” Nelson said, in tears, after her son appeared briefly in City Court on Tuesday. “My son is devastated over the death.”
Nelson, a Bronx resident, said she was in Florida visiting her daughter who has an infant around the same age as Natalia when she heard of the death. She said her son and his wife had two other children in their home: one of them Thomas’ from another relationship and the other his with his wife. Both were taken away and put into foster care, she said.
Thomas and his wife had another infant, younger than Natalia, who died of sudden infant death syndrome several years ago when the couple lived in New York City, his mother said. Nelson, an artist of P. Nelson Art Studio in New York, said her son is a twin who hasn’t seen his dad since he was 6 years old.
She described Thomas as a happy person who was in the Police Explorers as a youth in the Bronx. He is an activist who has been involved in protests for various causes and a member of the NAACP, Nelson said. She said he decided to stay home and take care of the three children so his wife could go to work.
Although Nelson described her son and daughter-in-law as a “loving couple,” his wife has not been to his two court hearings.
Nelson said she could not explain why. Nelson said she was told that the child fell and died days later. She says that police forced her son to confess to an assault.
Thomas was arrested by Detectives Christine Donaghy and Dean Remzi of the Yonkers police Child Abuse Investigation Team.
At his arraignment last month, Assistant District Attorney Owein Levin said Thomas at first claimed the baby fell off a bed, but later admitted to shaking her “because she would not stop crying.”
Levin also said Thomas had a history of domestic violence with his wife.
An autopsy showed the child had suffered brain damage and intracranial bleeding consistent with being shaken.
Thomas has a pending weapon-possession case in Westchester County Court. He is due in court on that charge Wednesday and is being held without bail.
For all of the enabler crap, a couple of facts stand out.
1) Dad CLARENCE THOMAS has a history of domestic violence against the mother.
2) He managed to get custody of a child from an earlier relationship--despite what is likely a long history of abusive behavior. This is a big red flag, because securing custody (control) and punishing the mother for leaving him is typically a key motivator for these guys. Once again, we see a killer dad who got custody.
3) He was a "stay-at-home" (i.e. deadbeat) father. This is also a common pattern, despite all the warm fuzzy articles you've seen in your Sunday paper. Abusers like to call the shots and manipulate those around them. How better to do that than to make Mom work and support your lazy @$$ while you sit around and do nothing but beat the baby to death for annoying you by crying.
4) Statistically, the perpetrator most likely to shake and brutalize a baby like this is THE FATHER, followed by boyfriends and steps. These are typically dudes with short tempers and poor impulse control. In other words, we're talking about the guys who beat their partners. Guys like this one.
5) And finally, is it any big surprise that this "good guy" has a pending weapon-possession case against him? Duh....
http://www.lohud.com/article/20130409/NEWS/304090086/Mother-Son-father-held-shaking-death-innocent
Yonkers baby-shaking suspect's mom: Son 'devastated' by girl's death
Apr 9, 2013
Written by Will David
YONKERS — The mother of a 31-year-old Yonkers man who is being held in the repeated shaking of his 6-month-old daughter — who later died — said Tuesday she is standing by her son.
“There is real trash in this world,” Patricia Nelson, 54, the mother of defendant Clarence Thomas told The Journal News. “He is not in that category.”
Thomas, of 121 Ludlow St., is charged with second-degree assault, a felony. His daughter Natalia’s March 19 death has not yet been ruled a homicide.
The assault happened in Thomas’ fourth-floor apartment between Feb. 1 and Feb. 28, according to court papers.
“He’s a good guy,” Nelson said, in tears, after her son appeared briefly in City Court on Tuesday. “My son is devastated over the death.”
Nelson, a Bronx resident, said she was in Florida visiting her daughter who has an infant around the same age as Natalia when she heard of the death. She said her son and his wife had two other children in their home: one of them Thomas’ from another relationship and the other his with his wife. Both were taken away and put into foster care, she said.
Thomas and his wife had another infant, younger than Natalia, who died of sudden infant death syndrome several years ago when the couple lived in New York City, his mother said. Nelson, an artist of P. Nelson Art Studio in New York, said her son is a twin who hasn’t seen his dad since he was 6 years old.
She described Thomas as a happy person who was in the Police Explorers as a youth in the Bronx. He is an activist who has been involved in protests for various causes and a member of the NAACP, Nelson said. She said he decided to stay home and take care of the three children so his wife could go to work.
Although Nelson described her son and daughter-in-law as a “loving couple,” his wife has not been to his two court hearings.
Nelson said she could not explain why. Nelson said she was told that the child fell and died days later. She says that police forced her son to confess to an assault.
Thomas was arrested by Detectives Christine Donaghy and Dean Remzi of the Yonkers police Child Abuse Investigation Team.
At his arraignment last month, Assistant District Attorney Owein Levin said Thomas at first claimed the baby fell off a bed, but later admitted to shaking her “because she would not stop crying.”
Levin also said Thomas had a history of domestic violence with his wife.
An autopsy showed the child had suffered brain damage and intracranial bleeding consistent with being shaken.
Thomas has a pending weapon-possession case in Westchester County Court. He is due in court on that charge Wednesday and is being held without bail.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Dad due in court after 18-month-old daughter found in dog cage (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Previous reports indicated that UNNAMED DAD was a stay-at-home father (i.e. deadbeat who couldn't get/hold job because of previous drug convictions). Notice that the mom has lost custody for Daddy's bullsh**.
http://www.connectamarillo.com/news/story.aspx?id=836410
Tulsa dad due in court after 18-month-old daughter found in dog cage
Posted: 55 mins ago
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A Tulsa man facing a child neglect charge after police found his 18-month-old daughter locked in a metal dog cage in November is to have a preliminary hearing.
The Associated Press is not naming the father, whose hearing is Wednesday, to protect the identity of the children.
Police also found the man's naked 4-year old daughter outside on a cold afternoon and him asleep in a drug or alcohol "induced stupor" after a neighbor called authorities. A third child was asleep in another room.
The children were placed into the custody of the Department of Human Services.
A man by the same name and the same birth date was given a suspended sentence in August after pleading guilty to possession of a precursor to manufacture methamphetamine, court records indicate.
http://www.connectamarillo.com/news/story.aspx?id=836410
Tulsa dad due in court after 18-month-old daughter found in dog cage
Posted: 55 mins ago
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A Tulsa man facing a child neglect charge after police found his 18-month-old daughter locked in a metal dog cage in November is to have a preliminary hearing.
The Associated Press is not naming the father, whose hearing is Wednesday, to protect the identity of the children.
Police also found the man's naked 4-year old daughter outside on a cold afternoon and him asleep in a drug or alcohol "induced stupor" after a neighbor called authorities. A third child was asleep in another room.
The children were placed into the custody of the Department of Human Services.
A man by the same name and the same birth date was given a suspended sentence in August after pleading guilty to possession of a precursor to manufacture methamphetamine, court records indicate.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
"Stay-at-home" dad arrested for assaulting infant son; baby has fractured skull, multiple fractures (New Castle, Pennsylvania)
Like so many cases, the "agreement" that turned Daddy into a "stay-at-home" (i.e. deadbeat abuser) wasn't much of a free choice. He was in the country illegally and would have had a hard time getting a job "on the books." So Mom worked a paying job, while the scumbag dad nearly killed the baby.
Too many young men are just too volatile and violent to deal with babies. Dad CRAIG UNDERWOOD appears to be one of them. Multiple broken bones and a fractured skull were the result for this poor infant.
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2012/11/13/father-behind-bars-in-alleged-assault-of-young-son/
Father Behind Bars In Alleged Assault Of Young Son
November 13, 2012 8:55 PM
Reporting Brenda Waters
NEW CASTLE (KDKA) — A father is behind bars facing charges in the alleged assault of his infant son. The child sustained a fractured skull, multiple broken ribs and a fractured tibia.
The 3-month-old little boy also had two black eyes and bruises on his face.
Police say 27-year-old Craig Underwood is facing charges in connection with the case. He’s the infant’s father.
Investigators say the baby’s mother, Danielle Gallentine, had the full time job. She and Underwood agreed that she would go to work and he would stay home and take care of the baby.
Underwood lived in a house in New Castle with Gallentine, who is his girlfriend, their baby and Gallentine’s aunt and uncle.
The uncle did not want to appear on camera, but told KDKA’s Brenda Waters that Underwood came to the area from England, adding that his niece met him online.
William Gallentine says they didn’t really get along, but he wanted to take care of his niece.
Police first learned about the problem last week, and when they went to the home to talk to Underwood, he was gone.
Police later found him at the city mission in New Castle and arrested him for assault.
Turns out, officials say Underwood was in this country illegally. According to police, both his passport and his visa had expired.
The baby is doing well and is home with the rest of its family.
Underwood was scheduled to have his preliminary hearing this Thursday, but Neshannock Police and the Lawrence County District Attorney say they need more time to prepare the case, so the hearing has been continued.
Too many young men are just too volatile and violent to deal with babies. Dad CRAIG UNDERWOOD appears to be one of them. Multiple broken bones and a fractured skull were the result for this poor infant.
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2012/11/13/father-behind-bars-in-alleged-assault-of-young-son/
Father Behind Bars In Alleged Assault Of Young Son
November 13, 2012 8:55 PM
Reporting Brenda Waters
NEW CASTLE (KDKA) — A father is behind bars facing charges in the alleged assault of his infant son. The child sustained a fractured skull, multiple broken ribs and a fractured tibia.
The 3-month-old little boy also had two black eyes and bruises on his face.
Police say 27-year-old Craig Underwood is facing charges in connection with the case. He’s the infant’s father.
Investigators say the baby’s mother, Danielle Gallentine, had the full time job. She and Underwood agreed that she would go to work and he would stay home and take care of the baby.
Underwood lived in a house in New Castle with Gallentine, who is his girlfriend, their baby and Gallentine’s aunt and uncle.
The uncle did not want to appear on camera, but told KDKA’s Brenda Waters that Underwood came to the area from England, adding that his niece met him online.
William Gallentine says they didn’t really get along, but he wanted to take care of his niece.
Police first learned about the problem last week, and when they went to the home to talk to Underwood, he was gone.
Police later found him at the city mission in New Castle and arrested him for assault.
Turns out, officials say Underwood was in this country illegally. According to police, both his passport and his visa had expired.
The baby is doing well and is home with the rest of its family.
Underwood was scheduled to have his preliminary hearing this Thursday, but Neshannock Police and the Lawrence County District Attorney say they need more time to prepare the case, so the hearing has been continued.
Monday, November 12, 2012
Dad arrested after 18-month-old daughter found in dog cage covered in feces (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Yet another case where it seems Mom was working while UNNAMED DAD played "stay-at-home" (i.e. drugged out deadbeat/child abuser).
http://www.kotanow.com/story/20075874/tulsa-dad-arrested-after-toddler-found-in-cage
Tulsa dad arrested after toddler found in cage
Posted: Nov 12, 2012 3:49 PM CST Updated: Nov 12, 2012 3:49 PM CST
By KEN MILLER The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A Tulsa man was arrested after police found his 18-month-old daughter locked in a metal dog cage, his naked 4-year old daughter outside on a cold afternoon and him asleep in a drug or alcohol "induced stupor," police said Monday.
A neighbor called police after finding the older child outside the family's home and getting no response when he knocked on the door around 4 p.m. Sunday, as temperatures dropped to the low 40s. Officers' knocks also went unanswered, "then one of the officers looked inside and saw a small child in a dog cage," Tulsa police spokesman Officer Leland Ashley said.
After forcing their way inside, police discovered the toddler was covered in feces and that a 3-year-old child was asleep in another room. Their father was found asleep on a bed, "in an alcohol- or narcotics-induced stupor," Ashley said.
The three children were placed into the custody of the Department of Human Services, and the father was arrested on a child neglect complaint. The Associated Press is not naming the father so to protect the identity of the children, who showed no sign of physical injury, Ashley said.
Their mother had been at work and arrived as officers were preparing to leave the scene. She was not arrested and her name was not released, Ashley said.
"A citizen was concerned, he heard a small child crying outside for about 20 minutes. He went outside to investigate and found the 4-year-old child," he said. "You have to give credit to that neighbor who acted and did not ignore the situation."
Messages left for the department and the Tulsa County District Attorney's Office went unreturned Monday, a federal holiday.
The father was being held in the Tulsa County jail on $50,000 bond and his court date of Nov. 19, according to online jail records. No attorney was listed for him. He also had no listed telephone number.
A man by the same name and the same birth date was given a suspended sentence in August after pleading guilty to possession of a precursor to manufacture methamphetamine.
http://www.kotanow.com/story/20075874/tulsa-dad-arrested-after-toddler-found-in-cage
Tulsa dad arrested after toddler found in cage
Posted: Nov 12, 2012 3:49 PM CST Updated: Nov 12, 2012 3:49 PM CST
By KEN MILLER The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A Tulsa man was arrested after police found his 18-month-old daughter locked in a metal dog cage, his naked 4-year old daughter outside on a cold afternoon and him asleep in a drug or alcohol "induced stupor," police said Monday.
A neighbor called police after finding the older child outside the family's home and getting no response when he knocked on the door around 4 p.m. Sunday, as temperatures dropped to the low 40s. Officers' knocks also went unanswered, "then one of the officers looked inside and saw a small child in a dog cage," Tulsa police spokesman Officer Leland Ashley said.
After forcing their way inside, police discovered the toddler was covered in feces and that a 3-year-old child was asleep in another room. Their father was found asleep on a bed, "in an alcohol- or narcotics-induced stupor," Ashley said.
The three children were placed into the custody of the Department of Human Services, and the father was arrested on a child neglect complaint. The Associated Press is not naming the father so to protect the identity of the children, who showed no sign of physical injury, Ashley said.
Their mother had been at work and arrived as officers were preparing to leave the scene. She was not arrested and her name was not released, Ashley said.
"A citizen was concerned, he heard a small child crying outside for about 20 minutes. He went outside to investigate and found the 4-year-old child," he said. "You have to give credit to that neighbor who acted and did not ignore the situation."
Messages left for the department and the Tulsa County District Attorney's Office went unreturned Monday, a federal holiday.
The father was being held in the Tulsa County jail on $50,000 bond and his court date of Nov. 19, according to online jail records. No attorney was listed for him. He also had no listed telephone number.
A man by the same name and the same birth date was given a suspended sentence in August after pleading guilty to possession of a precursor to manufacture methamphetamine.
Friday, November 2, 2012
Stay-at-home dad high on methadone arraigned in fatal car crash (Suffolk County, New York)
It appears that this is not only a "stay-at-home" dad but a CUSTODIAL DAD. Notice the telltale signs: the reference to the "girlfriend," the reference to "his four children."
So how did this paternal disaster get control of these kids? What happened to their mother? As usual, we have total silence.
And what a disaster dad WILLIAM SLATTON appears to be. A drug user (methadone), unspecified felony and misdemeanor convictions. And now charged with killing a bicyclist while the unlicensed Daddy was high with four kids in the car.
Contrary to all the warm and fuzzy articles in your Sunday newspaper magazine supplements, this kind of stay-at-home dad is pretty common. The drug addicted, criminal sperm shooter who can't/won't hold a job, so we exalt this deadbeat into a "stay-at-home" father. Unfortunately, this type typically screws up the "stay-at-home" gig as well. Too often--at BEST--it just means that the exhausted working mom or girlfriend cleans house, makes dinner, sees to the kids' homework after she gets home while Daddy has been getting high and/or playing video games all day. And at worst, these guys beat up babies because they can't tolerate crying or "frustration."
http://riverhead.patch.com/articles/stay-at-home-dad-arraigned-in-fatal-crash-case
Stay-at-Home-Dad Arraigned in Fatal Crash Case
William Slatton, 30, remains in custody after cops say he was high on methadone in a crash that killed a bicyclist.
By Joseph Pinciaro
Appearing at Riverhead Justice Court on Friday morning, Middle Island resident William Slatton will remain held on bail at Suffolk County Jail in Riverside after police say he struck and killed a bicyclist Thursday afternoon while high on methadone, with four children in the car.
Judge Allen Smith set bail for Slatton at $50,000 cash and $100,000 bond, and said Suffolk County's Major Crimes Bureau is reviewing the case and considering levying more charges against the 30-year-old. Slatton remains charged with all misdemeanor crimes currently – DWAI drugs, four counts of endangering the welfare of a child, and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree. The charges could result up to a year in jail.
Slatton, who is reportedly on probation until Nov. 18, pleaded not guilty to all charges.
In court on Friday, Judge Smith appointed Legal Aid lawyer Daniel Ginty to Slatton's defense after he told the court he has about $1,900 in savings and is a stay-at-home father.
Slatton said he lives at home with his girlfriend, who Ginty said after the arraignment was present along with someone else, as well as his four children. He told the court he has lived at his current address for about three years.
Ginty requested Slatton's entire $1,900 savings as bail, though Smith denied the request and accepted an assistant district attorney's call for $50,000 cash or $100,000 bond.
According to the ADA, Slatton has been convicted on felony and misdemeanor charges in the past, though did not specify. He also added that Slatton has three notices of failure to appear before courts.
Riverhead Police released a statement Thursday evening alleging that Slatton was driving westbound on Route 25 on Thursday afternoon in the vicinity of Calverton National Cemetery when he veered off the road, into oncoming traffic heading eastbound, and into bicyclist Steven F. Kane, who authorities said was pronounced dead on the scene.
The incident occurred just after 1:30 p.m. police said, and despite efforts to revive Kane on the scene by passing motorists and a Ridge fire chief, the man was pronounced dead at the scene by Wading River Fire Department paramedics. He was transported to the Suffolk County Medical Examiner's Office in Hauppauge.
So how did this paternal disaster get control of these kids? What happened to their mother? As usual, we have total silence.
And what a disaster dad WILLIAM SLATTON appears to be. A drug user (methadone), unspecified felony and misdemeanor convictions. And now charged with killing a bicyclist while the unlicensed Daddy was high with four kids in the car.
Contrary to all the warm and fuzzy articles in your Sunday newspaper magazine supplements, this kind of stay-at-home dad is pretty common. The drug addicted, criminal sperm shooter who can't/won't hold a job, so we exalt this deadbeat into a "stay-at-home" father. Unfortunately, this type typically screws up the "stay-at-home" gig as well. Too often--at BEST--it just means that the exhausted working mom or girlfriend cleans house, makes dinner, sees to the kids' homework after she gets home while Daddy has been getting high and/or playing video games all day. And at worst, these guys beat up babies because they can't tolerate crying or "frustration."
http://riverhead.patch.com/articles/stay-at-home-dad-arraigned-in-fatal-crash-case
Stay-at-Home-Dad Arraigned in Fatal Crash Case
William Slatton, 30, remains in custody after cops say he was high on methadone in a crash that killed a bicyclist.
By Joseph Pinciaro
Appearing at Riverhead Justice Court on Friday morning, Middle Island resident William Slatton will remain held on bail at Suffolk County Jail in Riverside after police say he struck and killed a bicyclist Thursday afternoon while high on methadone, with four children in the car.
Judge Allen Smith set bail for Slatton at $50,000 cash and $100,000 bond, and said Suffolk County's Major Crimes Bureau is reviewing the case and considering levying more charges against the 30-year-old. Slatton remains charged with all misdemeanor crimes currently – DWAI drugs, four counts of endangering the welfare of a child, and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree. The charges could result up to a year in jail.
Slatton, who is reportedly on probation until Nov. 18, pleaded not guilty to all charges.
In court on Friday, Judge Smith appointed Legal Aid lawyer Daniel Ginty to Slatton's defense after he told the court he has about $1,900 in savings and is a stay-at-home father.
Slatton said he lives at home with his girlfriend, who Ginty said after the arraignment was present along with someone else, as well as his four children. He told the court he has lived at his current address for about three years.
Ginty requested Slatton's entire $1,900 savings as bail, though Smith denied the request and accepted an assistant district attorney's call for $50,000 cash or $100,000 bond.
According to the ADA, Slatton has been convicted on felony and misdemeanor charges in the past, though did not specify. He also added that Slatton has three notices of failure to appear before courts.
Riverhead Police released a statement Thursday evening alleging that Slatton was driving westbound on Route 25 on Thursday afternoon in the vicinity of Calverton National Cemetery when he veered off the road, into oncoming traffic heading eastbound, and into bicyclist Steven F. Kane, who authorities said was pronounced dead on the scene.
The incident occurred just after 1:30 p.m. police said, and despite efforts to revive Kane on the scene by passing motorists and a Ridge fire chief, the man was pronounced dead at the scene by Wading River Fire Department paramedics. He was transported to the Suffolk County Medical Examiner's Office in Hauppauge.
Friday, September 28, 2012
"Stay-at-home" dad charged with felony assault against infant daughter (Stow, Ohio)
Seems to be a case of yet another short-tempered deadbeat dad (i.e. a "stay-at-home") who assaulted the baby, probably because the poor thing was "frustrated."
So many moms in this economy no longer have the privilege of staying at home with their babies. They have to work. And this is what happens when unemployed/underemployed men take their place....
This one is identified as JOHN F. CARLOW.
http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5218649
Stow police arrest father of infant in alleged abuse case
By Holly Schoenstein | Stow Sentry
A Stow man is facing two felony charges following a police investigation into a brain injury suffered by his infant daughter.
Stow police recently arrested John F. Carlow, 29, at his Waterford Circle residence on a warrant for charges of felonious assault and endangering children, both second-degree felonies.
According to a police report, a social worker told Stow police on Sept. 15 that the infant had bleeding in her brain, possibly the result of "shaken baby injuries" that occurred sometime that day or the day before.
Police did not release any further information regarding the baby's injuries or condition.
Stow police Lt. Anne Stirm said the baby was brought to Akron Children's Hospital by a parent for treatment.
"We were contacted by a social worker who is employed with the hospital," Stirm said, adding that no other details were available because of the ongoing investigation.
Carlow is being held on a $250,000 cash bond, according to the Summit County Sheriff's Office.
Police reports indicates Carlow is a stay-at-home father. The child's mother is listed as a witness.
So many moms in this economy no longer have the privilege of staying at home with their babies. They have to work. And this is what happens when unemployed/underemployed men take their place....
This one is identified as JOHN F. CARLOW.
http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5218649
Stow police arrest father of infant in alleged abuse case
By Holly Schoenstein | Stow Sentry
A Stow man is facing two felony charges following a police investigation into a brain injury suffered by his infant daughter.
Stow police recently arrested John F. Carlow, 29, at his Waterford Circle residence on a warrant for charges of felonious assault and endangering children, both second-degree felonies.
According to a police report, a social worker told Stow police on Sept. 15 that the infant had bleeding in her brain, possibly the result of "shaken baby injuries" that occurred sometime that day or the day before.
Police did not release any further information regarding the baby's injuries or condition.
Stow police Lt. Anne Stirm said the baby was brought to Akron Children's Hospital by a parent for treatment.
"We were contacted by a social worker who is employed with the hospital," Stirm said, adding that no other details were available because of the ongoing investigation.
Carlow is being held on a $250,000 cash bond, according to the Summit County Sheriff's Office.
Police reports indicates Carlow is a stay-at-home father. The child's mother is listed as a witness.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
"Primary caretaker" dad claims he doesn't know why twin infant sons had multiple fractures (Prattville, Alabama)
Dad MOHAMAD OSMAN is the king of denial. We're told that this is "stay-at-home" (i.e. deadbeat) dad was the "primary caregiver." That he "never" left the babies "unsupervised."
But he has no idea how they got hurt? With at least 10 fractures between the two of them? Bull malarkey.
I know it is politically incorrect to say so. But as a group, stay-at-home dads are not the same as moms. The dads are very often losers who can't or won't hold a job, so in desperation, they are drafted into doing child care so they have some function in this world. But because these idiots often have short fuses and can't tolerate "frustration," they typically f*** up child care too.
Notice that the working mom is being charged as well. Had this been an abusive stay-at-home mom with a working father, he NEVER would have been charged. It would have been assumed and accepted that he was clueless and blameless. But it's assumed--rightly or wrongly--that moms are responsible for what goes on with the children, whether they are present or not. Unfortunately, moms are not granted the maternity leaves and economic support that would allow them to do the job themselves. Now days, mothers of newborns are expected to get off the delivery table and go out and get a paycheck. So they are forced to "outsource" infant care to deadbeat boyfriends, fathers, and others. The result has been an explosion in child abuse committed by "male caregivers."
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20120913/NEWS01/309130014/Prattville-father-denies-abusing-twin-sons?odyssey=nav%7Chead
Prattville father denies abusing twin sons Hospital found twins with broken bones
11:48 PM, Sep. 12, 2012
Written by Marty Roney
PRATTVILLE — A father facing child abuse charges took the witness stand Wednesday afternoon to deny he harmed his twin sons.
Mohamad Osman, 21, of Prattville said other people are to blame for the abuse that resulted in his son, Jamil, suffering at least seven fractures over a period of time, and son Jacob having two broken bones. He is facing charges of aggravated child abuse and child abuse.
The twins were a little more than 1 year old when the abuse came to light in March 2010 following examinations of the boys at Children’s Hospital in Birmingham. Jamil had been taken to Children’s Hospital to be treated for a broken arm.
Officials at the hospital told Osman and his wife, Brittany, that they would not be able to take their children home because of the apparent abuse.
“It’s a hurting feeling to lose your child in that manner,” Osman told the jury. “That’s been two and a half years, and they haven’t made it home since.”
On direct examination, Osman told his attorney, Heather Dixon, that he was a “hands-on father” who never left his children unsupervised. He said he was the primary caregiver since he wasn’t employed at the time and his wife worked.
“I was the father. It was up to me to protect the children,” Osman said during direct testimony.
Osman does admit to grabbing Jamil by the right leg when the child was 6 months old in an effort to keep him from falling off Osman’s chest and hitting the floor. Osman testified to hearing the leg “pop” and said he took the child into the emergency room for treatment.
“Aside from the leg, I couldn’t tell you about the broken limbs,” he said. “My son has pale skin. He never bruised or showed any marks.”
In earlier testimony, the prosecution entered medical forms into evidence from Children’s Hospital that showed Jamil had a minimum of seven broken bones — right collarbone, two breaks to the upper left arm, two breaks to the lower left arm, and two breaks to the lower left leg. The forms could not confirm a break occurring to the upper right leg, the leg Osman said he heard pop when he grabbed the child.
Jacob Osman has two breaks to the lower left arm, the forms showed. The breaks showed various stages of mending in both babies.
On cross-examination, Assistant District Attorney Brandon Bates became combative with Osman.
“You said it was your job as the father to protect the children,” Bates said, pointing at a screen that was displaying the medical form cataloging Jamil’s injuries. “How bad did you fail at your job?”
“Miserably, sir,” Osman answered.
Bates singled out each fracture on the display and asked Osman how they occurred.
“I don’t know, sir,” Osman answered each time.
Osman said that he carried the infants to their pediatrician in Selma for all required visits and the doctor didn’t discover the fractures.
“How am I supposed to know the fractures occurred, sir, when the doctor couldn’t find them?” he responded.
He then cast suspicion on relatives of his wife who were living in the home when the abuse occurred.
“I was living in the home with four other beings, sir,” he said. “All I know is I didn’t hurt my child.”
Brittany Osman also faces charges of aggravated child abuse and child abuse, courthouse records show. Her trial date hasn’t been set.
Aggravated child abuse is a Class B felony punishable by a sentence of two to 20 years in prison if convicted. Child abuse is a Class C with a punishment range of one to 10 years in prison.
Testimony in the case wrapped up about 5 p.m. Wednesday. The trial will resume this morning with closing arguments from both sides, and then jurors will begin their deliberations.
But he has no idea how they got hurt? With at least 10 fractures between the two of them? Bull malarkey.
I know it is politically incorrect to say so. But as a group, stay-at-home dads are not the same as moms. The dads are very often losers who can't or won't hold a job, so in desperation, they are drafted into doing child care so they have some function in this world. But because these idiots often have short fuses and can't tolerate "frustration," they typically f*** up child care too.
Notice that the working mom is being charged as well. Had this been an abusive stay-at-home mom with a working father, he NEVER would have been charged. It would have been assumed and accepted that he was clueless and blameless. But it's assumed--rightly or wrongly--that moms are responsible for what goes on with the children, whether they are present or not. Unfortunately, moms are not granted the maternity leaves and economic support that would allow them to do the job themselves. Now days, mothers of newborns are expected to get off the delivery table and go out and get a paycheck. So they are forced to "outsource" infant care to deadbeat boyfriends, fathers, and others. The result has been an explosion in child abuse committed by "male caregivers."
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20120913/NEWS01/309130014/Prattville-father-denies-abusing-twin-sons?odyssey=nav%7Chead
Prattville father denies abusing twin sons Hospital found twins with broken bones
11:48 PM, Sep. 12, 2012
Written by Marty Roney
PRATTVILLE — A father facing child abuse charges took the witness stand Wednesday afternoon to deny he harmed his twin sons.
Mohamad Osman, 21, of Prattville said other people are to blame for the abuse that resulted in his son, Jamil, suffering at least seven fractures over a period of time, and son Jacob having two broken bones. He is facing charges of aggravated child abuse and child abuse.
The twins were a little more than 1 year old when the abuse came to light in March 2010 following examinations of the boys at Children’s Hospital in Birmingham. Jamil had been taken to Children’s Hospital to be treated for a broken arm.
Officials at the hospital told Osman and his wife, Brittany, that they would not be able to take their children home because of the apparent abuse.
“It’s a hurting feeling to lose your child in that manner,” Osman told the jury. “That’s been two and a half years, and they haven’t made it home since.”
On direct examination, Osman told his attorney, Heather Dixon, that he was a “hands-on father” who never left his children unsupervised. He said he was the primary caregiver since he wasn’t employed at the time and his wife worked.
“I was the father. It was up to me to protect the children,” Osman said during direct testimony.
Osman does admit to grabbing Jamil by the right leg when the child was 6 months old in an effort to keep him from falling off Osman’s chest and hitting the floor. Osman testified to hearing the leg “pop” and said he took the child into the emergency room for treatment.
“Aside from the leg, I couldn’t tell you about the broken limbs,” he said. “My son has pale skin. He never bruised or showed any marks.”
In earlier testimony, the prosecution entered medical forms into evidence from Children’s Hospital that showed Jamil had a minimum of seven broken bones — right collarbone, two breaks to the upper left arm, two breaks to the lower left arm, and two breaks to the lower left leg. The forms could not confirm a break occurring to the upper right leg, the leg Osman said he heard pop when he grabbed the child.
Jacob Osman has two breaks to the lower left arm, the forms showed. The breaks showed various stages of mending in both babies.
On cross-examination, Assistant District Attorney Brandon Bates became combative with Osman.
“You said it was your job as the father to protect the children,” Bates said, pointing at a screen that was displaying the medical form cataloging Jamil’s injuries. “How bad did you fail at your job?”
“Miserably, sir,” Osman answered.
Bates singled out each fracture on the display and asked Osman how they occurred.
“I don’t know, sir,” Osman answered each time.
Osman said that he carried the infants to their pediatrician in Selma for all required visits and the doctor didn’t discover the fractures.
“How am I supposed to know the fractures occurred, sir, when the doctor couldn’t find them?” he responded.
He then cast suspicion on relatives of his wife who were living in the home when the abuse occurred.
“I was living in the home with four other beings, sir,” he said. “All I know is I didn’t hurt my child.”
Brittany Osman also faces charges of aggravated child abuse and child abuse, courthouse records show. Her trial date hasn’t been set.
Aggravated child abuse is a Class B felony punishable by a sentence of two to 20 years in prison if convicted. Child abuse is a Class C with a punishment range of one to 10 years in prison.
Testimony in the case wrapped up about 5 p.m. Wednesday. The trial will resume this morning with closing arguments from both sides, and then jurors will begin their deliberations.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Stay-at-home dad to stand trial for decapitation murder of 7-year-old disabled son (Thibodaux, Louisiana)
We've been following this case since it first broke, but somehow I missed this update when it came out last month. What is not mentioned here is that JEREMIAH WRIGHT was a "stay-at-home" dad (i.e. worthless deadbeat) who was financially supported by his wife. But all he ever did was whine and complain. And then he "allegedly" murdered this poor boy in an utterly vicious manner, and left the mutilated body where the mother would see it.
http://www.nbc33tv.com/news/crimetracker/judge-jeremiah-wright-is-competent-to-stand-trial-for-decapitation-of-son
Judge: Jeremiah Wright is competent to stand trial for decapitation of son
Andrew Capasso Executive Producer / Reporter
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 6:00pm
•Jeremiah Wright transfered to state mental health facility
•Wright cannot stand trial in 7 year-old son's murder case
•Wright found unfit to stand trial for murder of disabled son
•Family reacts after Wright declared unfit for trial
•Balloon-release for boy decapitated by father
THIBODAUX, LA (NBC33) — The man accused of decapitating his 7 year old son is competent to stand trial, according to court documents.
Jeremiah Wright is charged with First-Degree murder in the death of his special needs son, Jori Lirette. The incident happened on August 14, 2011.
Sources tell us that doctors have been treating Wright at the Feliciana Forensic Facility in Jackson for the past nine months. Those doctors say Wright is competent enough to go to trial.
Jori's head was found on the road by someone driving by. The rest of his body was found in a garbage bag. Wright will be back in court for a competency hearing in September.
http://www.nbc33tv.com/news/crimetracker/judge-jeremiah-wright-is-competent-to-stand-trial-for-decapitation-of-son
Judge: Jeremiah Wright is competent to stand trial for decapitation of son
Andrew Capasso Executive Producer / Reporter
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 6:00pm
•Jeremiah Wright transfered to state mental health facility
•Wright cannot stand trial in 7 year-old son's murder case
•Wright found unfit to stand trial for murder of disabled son
•Family reacts after Wright declared unfit for trial
•Balloon-release for boy decapitated by father
THIBODAUX, LA (NBC33) — The man accused of decapitating his 7 year old son is competent to stand trial, according to court documents.
Jeremiah Wright is charged with First-Degree murder in the death of his special needs son, Jori Lirette. The incident happened on August 14, 2011.
Sources tell us that doctors have been treating Wright at the Feliciana Forensic Facility in Jackson for the past nine months. Those doctors say Wright is competent enough to go to trial.
Jori's head was found on the road by someone driving by. The rest of his body was found in a garbage bag. Wright will be back in court for a competency hearing in September.
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