This article doesn't explicitly address domestic violence and murder, but the same insights apply to boyfriends, husbands, and fathers. How many battered women and children just aren't believed by social workers, the neighbors, the police, the family court judges, etc. because the "alleged" perpetrator is "such a nice guy"? How many women and children continue to be put in harm's way--in fact, at an INCREASED risk of harm--through ill-advised joint custody agreements, orders of protection that are either not issued or enforced, revolving-door justice--all because the man who eventually murdered them all was just so "nice"?
‘Dangerous Instincts’: Ex-FBI profiler explains dangers of that ‘nice’ neighbor
By Monica Hesse, Published: October 24
The man sitting in front of Mary Ellen O’Toole was, she says, a well-mannered guy. “He was low-key. He was nice. He didn’t swear.” He was very proud of his work, which he described in polite, pleasant tones.
His name was Gary Ridgway. His other name was the Green River Killer. His work was killing at least 49 women in Washington state throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He did it all while maintaining marriages, parenting and church-going, and he seemed very much the word neighbors often use to describe men who turn out to have headless torsos in their freezers. Which is to say, he seemed very, very nice.
The niceness paradox. O’Toole worked as a profiler for the FBI for 30 years, headquartered in Quantico. She interviewed the Unabomber. She worked on the Polly Klaas abduction, the Red Lake school shooting and the investigation of David Parker Ray — the Toy-Box Killer who tortured women in a high-tech homemade dungeon. What she found was that the most dangerous criminals were often the ones who came across as the most harmless. That’s how they were able to continue harming people.
“Over the years, I used to hear this all the time.” Other investigators would explain to her why they had disregarded suspects: “I just looked at him, man to man, and I could tell” that he was a good guy.
“Really?” she scoffs. “Really? That’s what you did? I was so put off by this mystical concept” of infallible gut instinct. “It’s a cop-out.”
It bothered her enough that she decided to write a book whose premise goes against everything humans want to believe about their hunches. Your gut instinct? It is wrong.
“Dangerous Instincts,” released two weeks ago, takes anecdotes from O’Toole’s serial killer investigations and exports them to suburbia, reading like a mash-up between a self-help manual and a Thomas Harris novel. What can O’Toole’s experiences with the Baton Rouge Serial Killer teach you about analyzing the effectiveness of your decision-making? What can Phillip Garrido, the man who held Jaycee Dugard captive for nearly two decades, teach you about which sleepover invites your children should accept? Is it possible to tell whether the lawn guy is a psychopath, or just overcharging you on fertilizer? The lambs are screaming, and they are in your cul de sac.
“If there’s a strange, dark figure in your yard, that’s an easy one,” O’Toole says. “You’re calling the police.” But boogeymen are rarely so neatly packaged. People put themselves in physical or emotional danger in dozens of less obvious ways every day, from sussing out an online dating profile to hiring a financial planner.
Reading the book is likely to do one of two things. If you tend to be lackadaisical about things such as door-locking, then the book will introduce you to the deadbolt. If you’re already vigilant, then it will make you purchase a Navy SEAL dog with bionic teeth.
Several years ago, security expert Gavin de Becker found success with “The Gift of Fear,” a book-clubby selection that told readers to be afraid of everything their Spidey Sense told them to be afraid of. “Dangerous Instincts” goes beyond: Those things that didn’t trigger your Spidey alarms? Be afraid of them, too. Abandoning gut instinct is, in itself, a terrifying concept. Isn’t it the very thing that kept our ancestors from eating poisonous plants and petting saber-tooths?
O’Toole, who retired in 2009, lives in Stafford, Va., in a country-cozy home decorated with year-round Christmas trees and comfy bric-a-brac. She is the opposite of what one would expect a serial killer expert to look like, which, if you have read her book, means she’s probably exactly what one should expect.
“They’re low-fat!” she says, carrying a platter of cinnamon rolls onto her porch on a recent Friday morning.
She was raised in an FBI family — her dad was an agent and her mother was an occasional personal assistant to J. Edgar Hoover himself. O’Toole studied psychology in college and grad school; she thought she’d go into marriage counseling, though the humdrum domestic problems of her clients bored her to tears.
Then, while still a student, she took a part-time job as a J.C. Penney floorwalker to make some extra cash, roaming the department store on alert for shoplifters. One day, she watched a man covertly pick up piece of jewelry. And swallow it. Worried that the only evidence had now gone internal, O’Toole coaxed the thief into the back room, where security searched his duffel bag for other stolen goods. There were no other stolen goods. There was, however, a giant butcher knife. And a serial killer was on the loose in the area.
O’Toole was told to stay with friends while they investigated the shoplifter, who ultimately turned out to be guilty of nothing more than petty thievery. But the ordeal lighted up parts of her brain that the bickering couples counseling hadn’t. “This isn’t scary,” she thought. “This is exciting.”
In the past decade or so, criminal profiling has become something of a public commodity. Americans raised on a combo of Fear Porn and Me Porn now believe that casual “Criminal Minds” viewing has made them into psychological experts. (The handyman did it!)
“It’s an unintentional arrogance,” O’Toole says of the amateur gumshoes who ask her opinion, then disregard it and proceed to regale her with their own baseless theories. It’s the assumption that people who conform to societal norms — houses, kids, cars, clothes — must actually be “normal.”
It’s reassuring to think you live in a world that can be visually compartmentalized, where escaping danger is as simple as crossing the street to get away from the tattooed human pin cushion. It’s scarier when the danger is what awaits you on the safe side of the road.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Dad in "contention pending divorce" murders 22-month-old son (Farmington Hills, Michigan)
Once again, a control freak daddy who just had to have the last word--even if that last word was bloodshed. UNNAMED DAD shot his toddler son to death. And that was after beating up the boy's mom, who wanted to divorce his freaking @$$. Imagine that.
More stupid people who thought this looked like a "happy couple." Folks, you really have no idea. It's amazing how many sicko killers come across as "nice" in a superficial way.
http://www.detnews.com/article/20111024/METRO02/110240347/1409/Father--toddler-dead-after-gunfire-at-Farmington-Hills-apartment
Last Updated: October 24. 2011 9:07AM
Father, toddler dead after gunfire at Farmington Hills apartment
Serena Daniels/ The Detroit News
Farmington Hills— A 22-month-old boy and his father died early Sunday morning following an apparent murder-suicide in the family's apartment, police said.
Police suspect a contentious pending divorce is at the heart of the deaths, which occurred just after midnight at the Green Hills Apartments on the 22000 block of Green Hill Road.
A woman at that address called police at 12:11 a.m. to say her husband assaulted her.
When police arrived and tried to enter the apartment, they heard several gunshots fired from inside, a police news release said.
Inside the residence, police found the man, 34, and child dead in the boy's bedroom, with a shotgun lying on the floor next to the man.
Police did not say whether the two had gunshot wounds.
The bodies were taken to the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office. Both had gunshot wounds, the office said. Autopsies are pending.
The names of the man, child and woman have not been released.
"This kind of incident and crime scene has a significant emotional impact on all of the officers on the scene," Police Chief Chuck Nebus said in a statement.
Vanita Hicks, who lives next door to the family, didn't know her neighbors well, but she said the sight of the father pulling his smiling son in a wagon was common.
The small boy would wave to passers-by.
His parents "seemed like a happy couple," said Hicks, who had lived next to them for about six months.
"He was a lively, happy child," Hicks said.
That was all the more reason that Hicks was shocked by the commotion and eventual gunfire that erupted just after midnight Sunday in this otherwise sleepy luxury apartment community.
"Why did he kill the baby?" Hicks said as she began to weep.
She was watching television in her bedroom around midnight when she and her husband, who was in the living room, heard what they thought was a fight. "Next thing I knew, the police were there. ... They announced who they were and that's when we heard the gunshots," said Hicks.
She said she heard the crack of two to three gunshots.
More stupid people who thought this looked like a "happy couple." Folks, you really have no idea. It's amazing how many sicko killers come across as "nice" in a superficial way.
http://www.detnews.com/article/20111024/METRO02/110240347/1409/Father--toddler-dead-after-gunfire-at-Farmington-Hills-apartment
Last Updated: October 24. 2011 9:07AM
Father, toddler dead after gunfire at Farmington Hills apartment
Serena Daniels/ The Detroit News
Farmington Hills— A 22-month-old boy and his father died early Sunday morning following an apparent murder-suicide in the family's apartment, police said.
Police suspect a contentious pending divorce is at the heart of the deaths, which occurred just after midnight at the Green Hills Apartments on the 22000 block of Green Hill Road.
A woman at that address called police at 12:11 a.m. to say her husband assaulted her.
When police arrived and tried to enter the apartment, they heard several gunshots fired from inside, a police news release said.
Inside the residence, police found the man, 34, and child dead in the boy's bedroom, with a shotgun lying on the floor next to the man.
Police did not say whether the two had gunshot wounds.
The bodies were taken to the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office. Both had gunshot wounds, the office said. Autopsies are pending.
The names of the man, child and woman have not been released.
"This kind of incident and crime scene has a significant emotional impact on all of the officers on the scene," Police Chief Chuck Nebus said in a statement.
Vanita Hicks, who lives next door to the family, didn't know her neighbors well, but she said the sight of the father pulling his smiling son in a wagon was common.
The small boy would wave to passers-by.
His parents "seemed like a happy couple," said Hicks, who had lived next to them for about six months.
"He was a lively, happy child," Hicks said.
That was all the more reason that Hicks was shocked by the commotion and eventual gunfire that erupted just after midnight Sunday in this otherwise sleepy luxury apartment community.
"Why did he kill the baby?" Hicks said as she began to weep.
She was watching television in her bedroom around midnight when she and her husband, who was in the living room, heard what they thought was a fight. "Next thing I knew, the police were there. ... They announced who they were and that's when we heard the gunshots," said Hicks.
She said she heard the crack of two to three gunshots.
Dad charged with murder of 2-year-old son; "allegedly" killed him 3 months after getting him back from foster care (Hamilton County, Ohio)
Three months after getting his son out of foster care, dad ANTRONE SMITH apparently beat him to death.
http://cincinnati.com/blogs/news/2011/10/24/dad-accused-of-murder-in-court-today/
County returned kids to dad months before murder
5:20 am, Oct 24, 2011
By Jennifer Edwards Baker
Latasha Tye is living her worst nightmare.
The Western Hills foster mother and her husband, Joe, took DeMarco Jackson, 2, into their home when he was eight days old.
They also cared for his four other siblings for about two years until all the children – 6, 4, 3 and 10 months – were returned to their biological parents in July by Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services.
Now, three months later, DeMarco is dead, and his father, Antrone Smith, 29, faces a murder charge.
“I tried to save him. I tried to take him back. I tried,” sobbed Latasha Tye, 40, Monday after attending Smith’s arraignment at the Hamilton County jail. “The county failed my baby. I told them he wasn’t ready to go. All he wanted was me.”
She said she knew the children needed to be reunified with their parents. That’s always the goal.
But, she said, she feared something bad would happen to DeMarco.
He didn’t want to go. He cried and screamed for her.
“I can’t get it out of my head,” she said. “He was the happiest baby, always singing.”
On Friday, DeMarco was pronounced dead at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center after Cincinnati police responded to DeMarco’s family apartment on Bracken Woods Lane in Westwood. He was not breathing.
Smith, 29, is held at the jail on $500,000 cash bond. He faces one count of murder.
Tears splashed down on his handcuffs, which bound his hands in front of him, as he stood in front of Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge David Stockdale Monday. He pleaded not guilty.
The case will go to a grand jury for possible indictment on Nov. 2.
Smith’s court-appointed lawyer, Timothy McKenna, said he could not comment because he just got the case.
The child’s mother, Latricia Jackson, also declined comment outside court.
Sgt. Gary Conner of the Cincinnati Police Homicide Unit said coroner’s officials have concluded the boy suffered from some type of a beating and blunt force trauma to his abdomen.
When police questioned Smith, he acknowledged he struck his son but did not explain why, Conner said.
“He may have been a little rough,” Conner said. “He never gave a reason.”
Detectives handed Smith a photo of his son while they interviewed him.
“He was in tears,” Conner said. “He was very sorry. He was kissing the photo. When his son went to the hospital, he rode in the ambulance with him and stayed at the hospital the entire time.”
Conner said he was not sure why the children were removed from Smith and Jackson’s care.
Tye said she was not permitted to divulge that information.
Sitting on a bench across the hallway from Jackson Monday, she wracked heavy sobs.
So devastated, she could barely speak as she tried to explain how she tried to warn the county and doctors at Children’s Hospital something didn’t seem right in the boy’s household with his parents.
Two days they were returned to their parents, she recalled, DeMarco was hospitalized at Children’s for a seizure. She said he also had a black eye and bruise on his back.
She didn’t buy the seizure story and tried to warn doctors.
“He never had seizures with me,” she noted.
No one listened, she said. The children remained with their parents.
Now DeMarcus is dead.
“They let my baby down,” Tye cried. “I blame the county. These kids are just another number to them. It’s about closings cases and moving on, not what’s best for the kids. He beat him to death. They said they had to reunify the kids with their biological parents. He beat my baby because he wasn’t adjusting to him.”
Brian Gregg, spokesman of Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services, said DeMarcus’ four siblings are now safe in foster care.
He acknowledged Monday the agency took custody of the children in 2009 and then returned them to the parents’ custody earlier this year.
The county first became involved with the family over a “neglect situation” in 2007, he said. He did not elaborate.
While he could not discuss specifics of the case and DeMarcus’ death, he said, he did outline the general procedure for returning children to their parents once they have been removed from their care.
Child caseworkers outline a plan parents must follow to get their children back, which is then is overseen by a juvenile court magistrate who eventually makes the final decision on whether the children can be returned to their birth parents.
Also, the court appoints an advocate, or guardian, for the child who is supposed to represent their best interests.
“Our efforts most often mean providing intensive services to the family in order to ensure it is safe for the child to return,” Gregg wrote in an e-mail to a reporter. ”Those services could include drug and alcohol assessments and rehabilitation, mental health counseling, parenting classes, domestic violence counseling, etc.”
At some point, if parents have lived up to their end of the plan, a final decision must be made on reunifying the children.
The court makes this decision after input with county child caseworkers the child’s advocate or guardian, the prosecutor, the parents and their attorneys and other parties, Gregg said.
“In this case, in August, all parties agreed and the children were reunited. There were no objections that I am aware of,” he wrote. “Obviously, we are upset with what has happened. We deal with 16,000 children a year here, but even one death is too many. Our workers take it hard.”
Jim Feuer, a spokesman for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital said he could not comment due to patient medical confidentiality laws.
“This is terrible,” said Tye’s sister, Shona Harris, who accompanied her to the jail on Monday, along with several other family members. “This did not have to happen. She cried out to everyone and no one would listen.”
Tye does not know where DeMarcus’ siblings are, or if she will be able to care for them again.
And despite this nightmare, she said she still intends to be a foster parent.
“I love, love kids,” she said. “I always have. I just want the rules to change. If a baby is taken at birth from their parents and the parent doesn’t have their life together by the time the baby is 1, they shouldn’t get them back. There’s too much attachment and emotion. But if a parent is trying, I understand that. I want them to have their children back if they are trying.”
http://cincinnati.com/blogs/news/2011/10/24/dad-accused-of-murder-in-court-today/
County returned kids to dad months before murder
5:20 am, Oct 24, 2011
By Jennifer Edwards Baker
Latasha Tye is living her worst nightmare.
The Western Hills foster mother and her husband, Joe, took DeMarco Jackson, 2, into their home when he was eight days old.
They also cared for his four other siblings for about two years until all the children – 6, 4, 3 and 10 months – were returned to their biological parents in July by Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services.
Now, three months later, DeMarco is dead, and his father, Antrone Smith, 29, faces a murder charge.
“I tried to save him. I tried to take him back. I tried,” sobbed Latasha Tye, 40, Monday after attending Smith’s arraignment at the Hamilton County jail. “The county failed my baby. I told them he wasn’t ready to go. All he wanted was me.”
She said she knew the children needed to be reunified with their parents. That’s always the goal.
But, she said, she feared something bad would happen to DeMarco.
He didn’t want to go. He cried and screamed for her.
“I can’t get it out of my head,” she said. “He was the happiest baby, always singing.”
On Friday, DeMarco was pronounced dead at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center after Cincinnati police responded to DeMarco’s family apartment on Bracken Woods Lane in Westwood. He was not breathing.
Smith, 29, is held at the jail on $500,000 cash bond. He faces one count of murder.
Tears splashed down on his handcuffs, which bound his hands in front of him, as he stood in front of Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge David Stockdale Monday. He pleaded not guilty.
The case will go to a grand jury for possible indictment on Nov. 2.
Smith’s court-appointed lawyer, Timothy McKenna, said he could not comment because he just got the case.
The child’s mother, Latricia Jackson, also declined comment outside court.
Sgt. Gary Conner of the Cincinnati Police Homicide Unit said coroner’s officials have concluded the boy suffered from some type of a beating and blunt force trauma to his abdomen.
When police questioned Smith, he acknowledged he struck his son but did not explain why, Conner said.
“He may have been a little rough,” Conner said. “He never gave a reason.”
Detectives handed Smith a photo of his son while they interviewed him.
“He was in tears,” Conner said. “He was very sorry. He was kissing the photo. When his son went to the hospital, he rode in the ambulance with him and stayed at the hospital the entire time.”
Conner said he was not sure why the children were removed from Smith and Jackson’s care.
Tye said she was not permitted to divulge that information.
Sitting on a bench across the hallway from Jackson Monday, she wracked heavy sobs.
So devastated, she could barely speak as she tried to explain how she tried to warn the county and doctors at Children’s Hospital something didn’t seem right in the boy’s household with his parents.
Two days they were returned to their parents, she recalled, DeMarco was hospitalized at Children’s for a seizure. She said he also had a black eye and bruise on his back.
She didn’t buy the seizure story and tried to warn doctors.
“He never had seizures with me,” she noted.
No one listened, she said. The children remained with their parents.
Now DeMarcus is dead.
“They let my baby down,” Tye cried. “I blame the county. These kids are just another number to them. It’s about closings cases and moving on, not what’s best for the kids. He beat him to death. They said they had to reunify the kids with their biological parents. He beat my baby because he wasn’t adjusting to him.”
Brian Gregg, spokesman of Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services, said DeMarcus’ four siblings are now safe in foster care.
He acknowledged Monday the agency took custody of the children in 2009 and then returned them to the parents’ custody earlier this year.
The county first became involved with the family over a “neglect situation” in 2007, he said. He did not elaborate.
While he could not discuss specifics of the case and DeMarcus’ death, he said, he did outline the general procedure for returning children to their parents once they have been removed from their care.
Child caseworkers outline a plan parents must follow to get their children back, which is then is overseen by a juvenile court magistrate who eventually makes the final decision on whether the children can be returned to their birth parents.
Also, the court appoints an advocate, or guardian, for the child who is supposed to represent their best interests.
“Our efforts most often mean providing intensive services to the family in order to ensure it is safe for the child to return,” Gregg wrote in an e-mail to a reporter. ”Those services could include drug and alcohol assessments and rehabilitation, mental health counseling, parenting classes, domestic violence counseling, etc.”
At some point, if parents have lived up to their end of the plan, a final decision must be made on reunifying the children.
The court makes this decision after input with county child caseworkers the child’s advocate or guardian, the prosecutor, the parents and their attorneys and other parties, Gregg said.
“In this case, in August, all parties agreed and the children were reunited. There were no objections that I am aware of,” he wrote. “Obviously, we are upset with what has happened. We deal with 16,000 children a year here, but even one death is too many. Our workers take it hard.”
Jim Feuer, a spokesman for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital said he could not comment due to patient medical confidentiality laws.
“This is terrible,” said Tye’s sister, Shona Harris, who accompanied her to the jail on Monday, along with several other family members. “This did not have to happen. She cried out to everyone and no one would listen.”
Tye does not know where DeMarcus’ siblings are, or if she will be able to care for them again.
And despite this nightmare, she said she still intends to be a foster parent.
“I love, love kids,” she said. “I always have. I just want the rules to change. If a baby is taken at birth from their parents and the parent doesn’t have their life together by the time the baby is 1, they shouldn’t get them back. There’s too much attachment and emotion. But if a parent is trying, I understand that. I want them to have their children back if they are trying.”
Dad seen on hidden camera footage trying to strangle 2-month-old son (Los Angeles, California)
Is there really hope for sicko puppies like JOSHUA ALLEN ROBEY?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/10/24/2011-10-24_california_father_joshua_allen_robey_seen_trying_to_strangle_infant_son_on_hidde.html
California father Joshua Allen Robey seen trying to strangle infant son on hidden camera footage
BY Nancy Dillon
DAILY NEWS WEST COAST BUREAU CHIEF
Monday, October 24th 2011, 12:47 PM
LOS ANGELES - A Southern California man was caught by a hidden camera attempting to kill his 2-month-old son with a blanket fashioned as a noose, prosecutors said.
Joshua Allen Robey, 24, is behind bars and due for arraignment Nov. 9 on one felony county each of attempted murder, torture and child abuse.
According to the Orange County District Attorney, Robey went to his girlfriend's house last Tuesday to babysit their infant son.
He didn't know his girlfriend had set up a spy camera in the home because she suspected he was cheating on her there - but what the footage revealed was far worse than two-timing.
The shocking footage shows the transient dad wrapping a blanket around the baby's neck, picking him up by lifting the ends of the blanket "like a noose," and swinging the helpless infant around for more than a minute, prosecutors said.
Robey then laid the baby back down on the bed and punched him several times in the chest with closed fists, prosecutors said.
The horrifying attack continued when Robey, who had been living with the girlfriend until moving to a motel three weeks prior, grabbed the child by the throat with both hands, lifted him in the air, and violently shook him, prosecutors said.
At one point, while the baby was crying, Robey allegedly covered his son's mouth with his hand for several seconds, grabbed him again by the neck and shook him in the air.
He also is accused of attempting to suffocate the baby by covering the infant's face with a blanket.
The baby's mother discovered the heartbreaking abuse by watching the video the following morning. The girlfriend's mother learned of the video that afternoon and rushed the baby to the hospital, prosecutors said.
Robey was arrested at a motel in Santa Ana, Calif., that night.
The baby was hospitalized. Prosecutors did not reveal the extent of his injuries.
If convicted, Robey faces a maximum sentence of 15 years to life in state prison.
His occupation is listed as "laborer" in jail records.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/10/24/2011-10-24_california_father_joshua_allen_robey_seen_trying_to_strangle_infant_son_on_hidde.html
California father Joshua Allen Robey seen trying to strangle infant son on hidden camera footage
BY Nancy Dillon
DAILY NEWS WEST COAST BUREAU CHIEF
Monday, October 24th 2011, 12:47 PM
LOS ANGELES - A Southern California man was caught by a hidden camera attempting to kill his 2-month-old son with a blanket fashioned as a noose, prosecutors said.
Joshua Allen Robey, 24, is behind bars and due for arraignment Nov. 9 on one felony county each of attempted murder, torture and child abuse.
According to the Orange County District Attorney, Robey went to his girlfriend's house last Tuesday to babysit their infant son.
He didn't know his girlfriend had set up a spy camera in the home because she suspected he was cheating on her there - but what the footage revealed was far worse than two-timing.
The shocking footage shows the transient dad wrapping a blanket around the baby's neck, picking him up by lifting the ends of the blanket "like a noose," and swinging the helpless infant around for more than a minute, prosecutors said.
Robey then laid the baby back down on the bed and punched him several times in the chest with closed fists, prosecutors said.
The horrifying attack continued when Robey, who had been living with the girlfriend until moving to a motel three weeks prior, grabbed the child by the throat with both hands, lifted him in the air, and violently shook him, prosecutors said.
At one point, while the baby was crying, Robey allegedly covered his son's mouth with his hand for several seconds, grabbed him again by the neck and shook him in the air.
He also is accused of attempting to suffocate the baby by covering the infant's face with a blanket.
The baby's mother discovered the heartbreaking abuse by watching the video the following morning. The girlfriend's mother learned of the video that afternoon and rushed the baby to the hospital, prosecutors said.
Robey was arrested at a motel in Santa Ana, Calif., that night.
The baby was hospitalized. Prosecutors did not reveal the extent of his injuries.
If convicted, Robey faces a maximum sentence of 15 years to life in state prison.
His occupation is listed as "laborer" in jail records.
Dad on trial for stabbing deaths of 3-month-old son, baby's mother (Bath, New York)
So much for sentimentality. Dad BRYAN ASHLINE is currently on trial for the Father's Day murders of his 3-month-old son and the baby's mother. Daddy's attorney isn't even bothering to deny the charges--he's just claiming that Daddy was "emotionally disturbed." Yea, aren't they all.
Notice that Daddy has a history of domestic violence, and that Mom had successfully obtained an Order of Protection. Not that the piece of paper necessarily does much good against @$$holes like this guy....
http://www.stargazette.com/article/20111024/NEWS01/110240363/911-calls-heard-woman-s-slaying?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE
911 calls heard in woman's slaying
Watervliet man charged in death of infant son, ex-girlfriend
9:22 PM, Oct. 24, 2011
Written by Staff Report
BATH -- Jurors on Monday heard 911 calls made by Trieste R. Clayton on the night she and her 3-month-old son, Xavier Ashline, were stabbed to death at her Bath apartment on Father's Day in 2010.
The baby's father, Bryan Ashline, is on trial in Steuben County Court in the slayings. He was charged with two counts each of first-degree murder and second-degree murder and one count each of aggravated criminal contempt and third-degree possession of a weapon.
During a 911 call at 10:44 p.m. June 20, Clayton was heard screaming "Give me my baby." Her words, and all 911 calls in Steuben County, begin recording the moment the final "1" is pressed.
During a call at 10:51 p.m., she said "9 Mountain View West right now." Clayton's screams and Xavier's cries were heard until 10:55 p.m. when the call went silent and the sound of tires on gravel was heard.
Police were dispatched and found the bodies of Clayton, 25, and her son in the kitchen of Clayton's home on Mount View Road West in Bath.
Clayton had been stabbed in the back and neck, and her infant son had been stabbed in the chest, according to a felony complaint filed when Ashline was arrested.
Ashline, from Watervliet, was found June 21, 2010, as he slept in his car at an Ostego County rest stop off Interstate 88. Police used OnStar, an on-board tracking system to locate his vehicle. Blood stains were found in his car and on his clothing.
Ashline's attorney, Thomas Stahr, told the court Monday that his client was involved in the killing but he was extremely emotionally disturbed at the time.
Steuben County District Attorney John Tunney is prosecuting the case.
Clayton's mother, Cyndi Watson, who was not in court Monday, is expected to testify about her concerns that Ashline was coming to see her daughter and grandson.
On June 20, Watson called her daughter to find out when Ashline was leaving. Her next and last contact from her daughter were the words "Mom, hurry."
Watson and her husband arrived at Clayton's home just as police did.
Clayton had an order of protection against Ashline. It was issued after Ashline's arrest on third-degree assault charges in a domestic violence incident in August 2009 in Watervliet.
The trial resumes at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Notice that Daddy has a history of domestic violence, and that Mom had successfully obtained an Order of Protection. Not that the piece of paper necessarily does much good against @$$holes like this guy....
http://www.stargazette.com/article/20111024/NEWS01/110240363/911-calls-heard-woman-s-slaying?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE
911 calls heard in woman's slaying
Watervliet man charged in death of infant son, ex-girlfriend
9:22 PM, Oct. 24, 2011
Written by Staff Report
BATH -- Jurors on Monday heard 911 calls made by Trieste R. Clayton on the night she and her 3-month-old son, Xavier Ashline, were stabbed to death at her Bath apartment on Father's Day in 2010.
The baby's father, Bryan Ashline, is on trial in Steuben County Court in the slayings. He was charged with two counts each of first-degree murder and second-degree murder and one count each of aggravated criminal contempt and third-degree possession of a weapon.
During a 911 call at 10:44 p.m. June 20, Clayton was heard screaming "Give me my baby." Her words, and all 911 calls in Steuben County, begin recording the moment the final "1" is pressed.
During a call at 10:51 p.m., she said "9 Mountain View West right now." Clayton's screams and Xavier's cries were heard until 10:55 p.m. when the call went silent and the sound of tires on gravel was heard.
Police were dispatched and found the bodies of Clayton, 25, and her son in the kitchen of Clayton's home on Mount View Road West in Bath.
Clayton had been stabbed in the back and neck, and her infant son had been stabbed in the chest, according to a felony complaint filed when Ashline was arrested.
Ashline, from Watervliet, was found June 21, 2010, as he slept in his car at an Ostego County rest stop off Interstate 88. Police used OnStar, an on-board tracking system to locate his vehicle. Blood stains were found in his car and on his clothing.
Ashline's attorney, Thomas Stahr, told the court Monday that his client was involved in the killing but he was extremely emotionally disturbed at the time.
Steuben County District Attorney John Tunney is prosecuting the case.
Clayton's mother, Cyndi Watson, who was not in court Monday, is expected to testify about her concerns that Ashline was coming to see her daughter and grandson.
On June 20, Watson called her daughter to find out when Ashline was leaving. Her next and last contact from her daughter were the words "Mom, hurry."
Watson and her husband arrived at Clayton's home just as police did.
Clayton had an order of protection against Ashline. It was issued after Ashline's arrest on third-degree assault charges in a domestic violence incident in August 2009 in Watervliet.
The trial resumes at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Dad gets prison for torture, beating of 4- and 18-month-old daughters (Riverside, California)
The dad is JEREMIAH EUGENE SCOTT.
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/10/20/3991167/dad-gets-prison-in-child-torture.html
Dad gets prison in child torture case
The Associated Press
Last modified: 2011-10-20T17:18:42Z
Published: Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 - 10:18 am
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A Riverside County father has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for beating his two daughters, tying them up and stuffing a sock in the mouth of his 4-month-old to keep her quiet.
Jeremiah Eugene Scott pleaded guilty last month to five felonies, including child endangerment, battery and marijuana cultivation.
The Riverside Press-Enterprise ( http://bit.ly/pevy31) says the 24-year-old Indian Hills man was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years, four months in prison.
Scott was arrested in 2010 after his 18-month-old daughter Miah and infant daughter Jasmine were found bound in the bedroom of their home. Scott and the girls' mother, Erica Henry, lived in the home with his parents.
Henry pleaded guilty in December to misdemeanor child abuse. She was sentenced to four days in jail and ordered to enroll in parenting classes.
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/10/20/3991167/dad-gets-prison-in-child-torture.html
Dad gets prison in child torture case
The Associated Press
Last modified: 2011-10-20T17:18:42Z
Published: Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 - 10:18 am
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A Riverside County father has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for beating his two daughters, tying them up and stuffing a sock in the mouth of his 4-month-old to keep her quiet.
Jeremiah Eugene Scott pleaded guilty last month to five felonies, including child endangerment, battery and marijuana cultivation.
The Riverside Press-Enterprise ( http://bit.ly/pevy31) says the 24-year-old Indian Hills man was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years, four months in prison.
Scott was arrested in 2010 after his 18-month-old daughter Miah and infant daughter Jasmine were found bound in the bedroom of their home. Scott and the girls' mother, Erica Henry, lived in the home with his parents.
Henry pleaded guilty in December to misdemeanor child abuse. She was sentenced to four days in jail and ordered to enroll in parenting classes.
Dad admits to beating death of 18-month-old daughter (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
UNNAMED DAD.
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=20111021110925
Father’s violence kills 18-month-old baby
JEDDAH — Police at Al-Samer District in Jeddah have referred to the Investigation and General Prosecution (IGP) the case of a brain-dead 18-month-old baby girl who is thought to have been a victim of domestic violence.
Preliminary investigations show that girl’s father beat her with a broomstick and hit her head against the edge of a bed which led to her death.
Lieutenant Nawaf Al-Bouq, Jeddah Police spokesman, said police had received a report from Al-Jadani Hospital in Jeddah about a brain-dead child and a team of investigators rushed to the hospital immediately, Al-Madina newspaper reported.
“The father alleged that his daughter died from falling from her bed; however the doctors who examined her diagnosed the death as a result of violence as they found bruises on different parts of her body,” the spokesman said.
The mother initially supported the father’s account but eventually confessed that her “husband beat the girl with a broomstick several times and threw her against the edge of the bed.”
Lieutenant Al-Bouq said upon this testimony “the police detained the father who collapsed and admitted to his crime and this confession was documented in court.”
Talal Al-Nashri, Head of the Social Service at King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah, said: “The hospital received the girl after she was referred from Al-Jadani, and the doctors found that the baby was suffering from a brain hemorrhage because of a crack in the skull.”
Dr Hussien Al-Sharif, Chairman of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), said that he will send a representative to follow up the case.
“If the Society’s enquiries show that the father was responsible for his daughter death, it will demand his punishment,” the NSHR official said. — SG __
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=20111021110925
Father’s violence kills 18-month-old baby
JEDDAH — Police at Al-Samer District in Jeddah have referred to the Investigation and General Prosecution (IGP) the case of a brain-dead 18-month-old baby girl who is thought to have been a victim of domestic violence.
Preliminary investigations show that girl’s father beat her with a broomstick and hit her head against the edge of a bed which led to her death.
Lieutenant Nawaf Al-Bouq, Jeddah Police spokesman, said police had received a report from Al-Jadani Hospital in Jeddah about a brain-dead child and a team of investigators rushed to the hospital immediately, Al-Madina newspaper reported.
“The father alleged that his daughter died from falling from her bed; however the doctors who examined her diagnosed the death as a result of violence as they found bruises on different parts of her body,” the spokesman said.
The mother initially supported the father’s account but eventually confessed that her “husband beat the girl with a broomstick several times and threw her against the edge of the bed.”
Lieutenant Al-Bouq said upon this testimony “the police detained the father who collapsed and admitted to his crime and this confession was documented in court.”
Talal Al-Nashri, Head of the Social Service at King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah, said: “The hospital received the girl after she was referred from Al-Jadani, and the doctors found that the baby was suffering from a brain hemorrhage because of a crack in the skull.”
Dr Hussien Al-Sharif, Chairman of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), said that he will send a representative to follow up the case.
“If the Society’s enquiries show that the father was responsible for his daughter death, it will demand his punishment,” the NSHR official said. — SG __
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