Of course, father ROBERT KEVAN has all kinds of excuses for downloading child porn--a spinal injury that left him bored and housebound, his impending divorce, and--get this--a French girlfriend. (Yup, like it's always the fault of the French was an honest Englishman does porn....) Wonder if Dad will get unsupervised visitation (or custody) when he's done with his six months in jail.
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/4464991.Dad_of_three_jailed_for_downloading_child_porn/
Dad-of-three jailed for downloading child porn
6:40pm Tuesday 30th June 2009
By James Colasanti »
A MARRIED dad-of-three has been jailed for six months after downloading child pornography.
Robert Kevan, 46, of Kamerwyk Avenue, Canvey, admitted 18 counts of possessing indecent images on his home computer.
Of the 208 pictures, nine were categorised as being of the most serious kind, meaning they depicted sadism or bestiality.
They were discovered when police raided his home in October last year, following a tip-off from an IT specialist who had repaired one of Kevan’s hard drives.
Mike Fraser, prosecuting, said Kevan put the images in a folder marked “quarantined” after downloading them from file-sharing website LimeWire.
Det Con Paul Alabaster, of the Rayleigh Child Abuse Investigation Unit, told Basildon Crown Court that, while it was clear Kevan had tried to keep the files hidden, it was also clear he had viewed them.
In mitigation Carl Swift told the court that Kevan’s life had been turned upside down by a work-accident involving fork-lift truck which had damaged his spine and left him house-bound.
He said this had resulted in Kevan withdrawing from his family and had played a major role in his impending divorce from his wife.
He said Kevan began searching the internet for amateur adult pornography.
But Mr Swift said his client had been drawn into child pornography after he started an online relationship with a French woman who began sending him indecent images of her daughter.
Judge Philip Clegg said Kevan had sought “solace” in pornography, but that he had acquired a “disturbing taste for child pornography”.
He acknowledged that Kevan had not tried to redistribute the images, but added: “If it were not for people like you, who are prepared to view this sort of stuff, then the demand would stop.
“And that would help stop the terrible abuse of these children, who are suffering in the most awful way for the gratification of people like you.”
Kevan, wearing a light-checked shirt and holding his walking stick, remained impassive as he was jailed.
He was also forbidden from ever working with children, and ordered to report to police for seven years following his release.
Kevan admitted the off-ences at an earlier hearing.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Boyfriend tosses baby from car; mom sues agencies for failure to protect (Tampa, Florida)
Boyfriend RICHARD MCTEAR, JR. forced his way into his girlfriend's apartment, beat her, threw her three-month-old son on a concrete floor, then took off with the baby. McTear later threw the baby from a car onto Interstate 275, resulting in the baby's death. Now the mom, who at 17 is still a foster child in the State of Florida, is suing three agencies for focusing on HER parenting skills, rather than keeping her safe from McTear.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/jun/30/302057/mom-baby-tossed-car-plans-sue-sheriffs-office/news-breaking/
Mom of baby tossed from car plans to sue 3 agencies
Tribune file photos
By JOSH POLTILOVE The Tampa Tribune
Published: June 30, 2009
Updated: 06/30/2009 08:57 pm
TAMPA - A teen mother whose baby was thrown from a car onto Interstate 275 plans to sue the agencies she says could have prevented her son's death.
Attorneys for Jasmine Bedwell have sent notice of intent letters to the Department of Children & Families, Hillsborough Kids Inc. and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
In the letter, St. Petersburg lawyer Joel Yanchuck says DCF's mishandling of the case led to the death of 3-month-old Emanuel Wesley Murray. DCF also failed to keep Bedwell's ex-boyfriend, Richard McTear Jr., from harming her, according to the letter received by the child protection agency June 15.
Prosecutors say McTear forced his way into Bedwell's apartment May 5, beat her and threw Emanuel on a concrete floor before driving off with the boy. McTear threw the child out of a moving car onto the shoulder of I-275, deputies say.
McTear is charged with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, kidnapping, felony battery and burglary with battery. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Jeff Rainey, chief operating officer of Hillsborough Kids, said he wasn't shocked when his agency received the notice of intent to sue.
"Everybody has a right to sue anybody," he said. "We can't control it."
Hillsborough Kids oversees local foster care programs for the state. Rainey said the agency continues to provide services for Bedwell, a foster child.
Sheriff's office attorney Tony Peluso confirmed a letter about a lawsuit had been received but declined further comment.
State law gives the department six months to review such claims.
DCF regional director Nick Cox confirmed the agency also received the notice of intent.
Bedwell could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Her mother said she was unaware of the letter and had not talked to her daughter recently.
Bedwell, 17, and McTear, 21, had a stormy relationship and she had sought a restraining order against him. He is not Emanuel's father.
Prior to the child's death, sheriff's investigators closed a child abuse case against McTear after Bedwell said she would seek a permanent restraining order against him.
Bedwell kept custody of her son after investigators and child welfare officials determined she was doing everything she could to protect him.
A DCF probe after Emanuel's death found that foster-care caseworkers were so focused on helping Bedwell that they underestimated the danger McTear posed to her son.
Workers also neglected to run a background check on McTear when he became involved with Bedwell, who was living on her own but being supervised by the state.
"We dropped the ball," Rainey said after the report was released in May.
The report also noted that the sheriff's office, which investigates child abuse and neglect, deemed a threat to Bedwell as "intermediate" based on the criminal histories of Bedwell and McTear.
The threat dropped to "low" after Bedwell filed an injunction to keep McTear away and said she would follow through on a court order.
She didn't.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/jun/30/302057/mom-baby-tossed-car-plans-sue-sheriffs-office/news-breaking/
Mom of baby tossed from car plans to sue 3 agencies
Tribune file photos
By JOSH POLTILOVE The Tampa Tribune
Published: June 30, 2009
Updated: 06/30/2009 08:57 pm
TAMPA - A teen mother whose baby was thrown from a car onto Interstate 275 plans to sue the agencies she says could have prevented her son's death.
Attorneys for Jasmine Bedwell have sent notice of intent letters to the Department of Children & Families, Hillsborough Kids Inc. and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
In the letter, St. Petersburg lawyer Joel Yanchuck says DCF's mishandling of the case led to the death of 3-month-old Emanuel Wesley Murray. DCF also failed to keep Bedwell's ex-boyfriend, Richard McTear Jr., from harming her, according to the letter received by the child protection agency June 15.
Prosecutors say McTear forced his way into Bedwell's apartment May 5, beat her and threw Emanuel on a concrete floor before driving off with the boy. McTear threw the child out of a moving car onto the shoulder of I-275, deputies say.
McTear is charged with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, kidnapping, felony battery and burglary with battery. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Jeff Rainey, chief operating officer of Hillsborough Kids, said he wasn't shocked when his agency received the notice of intent to sue.
"Everybody has a right to sue anybody," he said. "We can't control it."
Hillsborough Kids oversees local foster care programs for the state. Rainey said the agency continues to provide services for Bedwell, a foster child.
Sheriff's office attorney Tony Peluso confirmed a letter about a lawsuit had been received but declined further comment.
State law gives the department six months to review such claims.
DCF regional director Nick Cox confirmed the agency also received the notice of intent.
Bedwell could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Her mother said she was unaware of the letter and had not talked to her daughter recently.
Bedwell, 17, and McTear, 21, had a stormy relationship and she had sought a restraining order against him. He is not Emanuel's father.
Prior to the child's death, sheriff's investigators closed a child abuse case against McTear after Bedwell said she would seek a permanent restraining order against him.
Bedwell kept custody of her son after investigators and child welfare officials determined she was doing everything she could to protect him.
A DCF probe after Emanuel's death found that foster-care caseworkers were so focused on helping Bedwell that they underestimated the danger McTear posed to her son.
Workers also neglected to run a background check on McTear when he became involved with Bedwell, who was living on her own but being supervised by the state.
"We dropped the ball," Rainey said after the report was released in May.
The report also noted that the sheriff's office, which investigates child abuse and neglect, deemed a threat to Bedwell as "intermediate" based on the criminal histories of Bedwell and McTear.
The threat dropped to "low" after Bedwell filed an injunction to keep McTear away and said she would follow through on a court order.
She didn't.
Tombstone purchased for baby killed by dad (Hays County, Texas)
Father RICHARD PEREZ, JR. murdered his six-month old son in January 2008. The police of Hays County, Texas were kind enough to purchase a grave marker when they found that the infant's grave did not have one. Wish there was something the police could have done so that a grave marker wouldn't have been necessary....
http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/
Headstone donated for murdered baby
Submitted by Brad Rollins on Tuesday, 30 June 2009
STAFF REPORT
A Hays County sheriffs deputy helped arrange for donation of a tombstone for Aiden Skylar Perez, the six-month-old child murdered by his father in January 2008.
After Richard Perez was convicted last month and sentenced to life in prison for his son’s death, sheriff’s office and district attorney’s officials visited the gravesite and discovered it had no marker.
Lt. Kevin Ficke contacted his friends, James and Laurie Deatherage, who own Carter Memorials in Seguin. The couple donated a headstone for the child.
And here's an earlier article about Perez:
http://www.newstreamz.com/2009/06/10/child-killer-get-life/
Child killer gets life
Posted on June 10, 2009 at 1:00 am • Print • Share
STAFF REPORT
Richard Perez, Jr., convicted of capital murder this week, will serve life in prison without the possibility of parole.
A Hays County jury found Perez, 22, guilty in the death of six-month-old Aiden Skylar Perez. The sentence is automatic upon conviction because the Hays County District Attorney’s Office did not seek the death penalty.
Perez was accused of hitting his girlfriend’s son on the head and trying to blame the resulting injuries on a car accident. The baby died on Jan. 4, 2008. Perez had been in the Hays County Jail since January 2008 with bail set at $500,000.
District Attorney Sherri Tibbe and Family Justice Division Chief Attorney Cathy Compton prosecuted the case.
In a joint statement, Tibbe and Compton said, “Aiden’s death is a reminder to all of us about the importance of reporting any suspicion of child abuse you may have regarding a child. It is our hope that Aiden’s death can have some meaning in that it reminds us of our duty to protect children from perpetrators like Richard Perez. We will never forget Aiden and we are happy that justice prevailed in this case.”
During the trial, which ran June 1-8, jurors heard that the defendant staged an automobile accident and told police conflicting stories about how Aiden was injured during a six-hour interview with Detective Scott Johnson of the San Marcos Police Department (SMPD) and Detective Jeri Skrocki of the Hays County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO).
First responders and medical personnel at Central Texas Medical Center (CTMC), testified that Aiden was without a pulse and was limp and cold. Despite their efforts, Aiden was pronounced dead at CTMC. Dr. David Dolinak, the Travis County Medical Examiner, testified that Aiden suffered numerous head injuries, both old and recent.
Dolinak told jurors that Aiden suffered a head injury so severe it was the equivalent of being dropped on his head from a second or third story building. Aiden also had both a healing and new injury to his throat consistent with being grabbed with significant force around his neck.
http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/
Headstone donated for murdered baby
Submitted by Brad Rollins on Tuesday, 30 June 2009
STAFF REPORT
A Hays County sheriffs deputy helped arrange for donation of a tombstone for Aiden Skylar Perez, the six-month-old child murdered by his father in January 2008.
After Richard Perez was convicted last month and sentenced to life in prison for his son’s death, sheriff’s office and district attorney’s officials visited the gravesite and discovered it had no marker.
Lt. Kevin Ficke contacted his friends, James and Laurie Deatherage, who own Carter Memorials in Seguin. The couple donated a headstone for the child.
And here's an earlier article about Perez:
http://www.newstreamz.com/2009/06/10/child-killer-get-life/
Child killer gets life
Posted on June 10, 2009 at 1:00 am • Print • Share
STAFF REPORT
Richard Perez, Jr., convicted of capital murder this week, will serve life in prison without the possibility of parole.
A Hays County jury found Perez, 22, guilty in the death of six-month-old Aiden Skylar Perez. The sentence is automatic upon conviction because the Hays County District Attorney’s Office did not seek the death penalty.
Perez was accused of hitting his girlfriend’s son on the head and trying to blame the resulting injuries on a car accident. The baby died on Jan. 4, 2008. Perez had been in the Hays County Jail since January 2008 with bail set at $500,000.
District Attorney Sherri Tibbe and Family Justice Division Chief Attorney Cathy Compton prosecuted the case.
In a joint statement, Tibbe and Compton said, “Aiden’s death is a reminder to all of us about the importance of reporting any suspicion of child abuse you may have regarding a child. It is our hope that Aiden’s death can have some meaning in that it reminds us of our duty to protect children from perpetrators like Richard Perez. We will never forget Aiden and we are happy that justice prevailed in this case.”
During the trial, which ran June 1-8, jurors heard that the defendant staged an automobile accident and told police conflicting stories about how Aiden was injured during a six-hour interview with Detective Scott Johnson of the San Marcos Police Department (SMPD) and Detective Jeri Skrocki of the Hays County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO).
First responders and medical personnel at Central Texas Medical Center (CTMC), testified that Aiden was without a pulse and was limp and cold. Despite their efforts, Aiden was pronounced dead at CTMC. Dr. David Dolinak, the Travis County Medical Examiner, testified that Aiden suffered numerous head injuries, both old and recent.
Dolinak told jurors that Aiden suffered a head injury so severe it was the equivalent of being dropped on his head from a second or third story building. Aiden also had both a healing and new injury to his throat consistent with being grabbed with significant force around his neck.
Dad stabs himself and grabs baby; doesn't release baby until police called (Edinburgh, Scotland)
UNNAMED DAD admits that he picked up a knife and stabbed himself, then grabbed his infant son and refused to release him until persuaded to do so by police. Needless to say, the mother was terrified for the baby's safety. Booze and unemployment are blamed--not a manipulative and callous indifference to the well-being of mothers and children.
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh/Father-stabbed-himself-and-grabbed.5416983.jp
Father stabbed himself and grabbed baby after losing job
Published Date: 01 July 2009
A STRESSED-OUT father stabbed himself in front of his partner and baby son after losing his job, a court has heard.
The 24-year-old oil worker picked up a knife and held it to his own face before stabbing himself during an argument with his partner over money.The young father also picked up his months-old son and refused to let him go until persuaded to release him by police.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard he had been made redundant from his job on the oil rigs seven months before the incident.
Yesterday, the man, who cannot be named, pled guilty to a breach of the peace at an address in Edinburgh on 19 May.
He admitted stabbing himself in the abdomen, holding a knife to his face, taking hold of his infant son and refusing to release him and placing witnesses in a state of fear and alarm for their safety.
The court was told money problems had "taken their toll" on the father, and he had been drinking on the day of the offence. His solicitor John Good said his client had now been guaranteed work and the couple intended to continue their relationship.
Sheriff William Holligan remanded him in custody for sentencing in two weeks' time.
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh/Father-stabbed-himself-and-grabbed.5416983.jp
Father stabbed himself and grabbed baby after losing job
Published Date: 01 July 2009
A STRESSED-OUT father stabbed himself in front of his partner and baby son after losing his job, a court has heard.
The 24-year-old oil worker picked up a knife and held it to his own face before stabbing himself during an argument with his partner over money.The young father also picked up his months-old son and refused to let him go until persuaded to release him by police.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard he had been made redundant from his job on the oil rigs seven months before the incident.
Yesterday, the man, who cannot be named, pled guilty to a breach of the peace at an address in Edinburgh on 19 May.
He admitted stabbing himself in the abdomen, holding a knife to his face, taking hold of his infant son and refusing to release him and placing witnesses in a state of fear and alarm for their safety.
The court was told money problems had "taken their toll" on the father, and he had been drinking on the day of the offence. His solicitor John Good said his client had now been guaranteed work and the couple intended to continue their relationship.
Sheriff William Holligan remanded him in custody for sentencing in two weeks' time.
Mom strangled to death, presumably by Dad; baby abandoned at scene (Trenton, New Jersey)
The UNNAMED DAD is the main suspect in the strangulation murder of his girfriend, the mother of their eight-month-old baby, who was left abandoned by the mom's death. There was a history of domestic violence, and the unnamed dad had already done prison time for torching an ex-girlfriend's house. The police note a rise of domestic violence and abuse in the Trenton area--three other Trenton area women have been recently killed by boyfriends or ex-boyfriends. Note to police: Maybe it's time to get serious with these guys, and not just revise "policies."
http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2009/07/01/news/doc4a4aeb5714641568957467.txt
23-year-old mom's strangulation may be city's latest deadly domestic
Published: Wednesday, July 1, 2009
By The Trentonian
TRENTON — The death of 23-year-old Ashle McKinney has been classified as a homicide by the city police department, and investigators are looking into whether the killing was the result of another case of domestic violence.
Police Director Irving Bradley Jr. said last night that the county medical examiner’s autopsy revealed that McKinney had been strangled to death in her Mellon Street apartment on Sunday.
While considered suspicious from the start, police initially were hesitant to officially label the death as a murder, since no outward signs of physical trauma were evident on the victim’s body. Homicide detectives, however, have been on the case since McKinney’s body was discovered.
“They’ve been working it since Sunday,” said Bradley of his detectives’ handling of the case. “We still treated it as a homicide, but we just weren’t sure.”
Police said McKinney was found just after noon on Sunday by two friends who entered to find McKinney’s 8-month-old child left unattended before ultimately making the shocking discovery in the bedroom. The child was unharmed, police said.
Bradley said investigators have a person of interest in mind in the case, but stopped short of calling him a suspect and declined to identify the individual.
A source close to McKinney said she’d just begun a new job two weeks ago as a page at the East Trenton Branch Library, and said the victim’s family members had recently attempted to intervene in a violent domestic situation involving her.
It was alleged, the source said, that the father of McKinney’s child had been beating her.
A police source added that the victim’s boyfriend had returned home from prison recently after doing a stretch behind bars for torching a former girlfriend’s house.
Bradley and other police officials declined to confirm any of that information, but the director said the seeming rise of domestic violence and abuse has been a growing cause of concern.
“This is another domestic related incident, but we’re still working diligently to try and encourage people that have problems like that to bring it to the forefront at the police department so we can work on helping them out,” Bradley said.
In May, Bradley launched a new initiative for the department aimed at tightening domestic violence policies, fostering cooperation with other law enforcement agencies and nonprofits, and implementing further training on the subject to his officers.
If McKinney’s murder turns out to be the product of domestic violence, she would join city residents Lisa Glennon, 38, Denise Leonard, 46, and Yerika Hernandez, 27, as women who were all killed by current or ex-boyfriends.
http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2009/07/01/news/doc4a4aeb5714641568957467.txt
23-year-old mom's strangulation may be city's latest deadly domestic
Published: Wednesday, July 1, 2009
By The Trentonian
TRENTON — The death of 23-year-old Ashle McKinney has been classified as a homicide by the city police department, and investigators are looking into whether the killing was the result of another case of domestic violence.
Police Director Irving Bradley Jr. said last night that the county medical examiner’s autopsy revealed that McKinney had been strangled to death in her Mellon Street apartment on Sunday.
While considered suspicious from the start, police initially were hesitant to officially label the death as a murder, since no outward signs of physical trauma were evident on the victim’s body. Homicide detectives, however, have been on the case since McKinney’s body was discovered.
“They’ve been working it since Sunday,” said Bradley of his detectives’ handling of the case. “We still treated it as a homicide, but we just weren’t sure.”
Police said McKinney was found just after noon on Sunday by two friends who entered to find McKinney’s 8-month-old child left unattended before ultimately making the shocking discovery in the bedroom. The child was unharmed, police said.
Bradley said investigators have a person of interest in mind in the case, but stopped short of calling him a suspect and declined to identify the individual.
A source close to McKinney said she’d just begun a new job two weeks ago as a page at the East Trenton Branch Library, and said the victim’s family members had recently attempted to intervene in a violent domestic situation involving her.
It was alleged, the source said, that the father of McKinney’s child had been beating her.
A police source added that the victim’s boyfriend had returned home from prison recently after doing a stretch behind bars for torching a former girlfriend’s house.
Bradley and other police officials declined to confirm any of that information, but the director said the seeming rise of domestic violence and abuse has been a growing cause of concern.
“This is another domestic related incident, but we’re still working diligently to try and encourage people that have problems like that to bring it to the forefront at the police department so we can work on helping them out,” Bradley said.
In May, Bradley launched a new initiative for the department aimed at tightening domestic violence policies, fostering cooperation with other law enforcement agencies and nonprofits, and implementing further training on the subject to his officers.
If McKinney’s murder turns out to be the product of domestic violence, she would join city residents Lisa Glennon, 38, Denise Leonard, 46, and Yerika Hernandez, 27, as women who were all killed by current or ex-boyfriends.
Sisters: Send rapist dad to prison for a long time (Livingston County, Illinois)
The teenage daughters of the UNNAMED DAD told the judge that their dad repeatedly raped them while they were growing up, and that authorities did not listen (unfortunately more common than not). They want him to go to jail for a "long prison sentence" as they fear he would kill any new victims. The abuse happened while mom was working. Mom and the kids were threatened with death if they told.
http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20090701/NEWS01/907010317/Sisters--Send-rapist-dad-to-prison-for-a-long-time
Sisters: Send rapist dad to prison for a long time
By Lisa Roose-Church • DAILY PRESS & ARGUS • July 1, 2009
Two sisters told a judge that their father, who repeatedly raped them, needs a long prison sentence because they fear he will kill his next victim if he is paroled in the future.
The man's oldest daughter, 19, said her father raped her when they lived in Georgia and Illinois, but no officials there listened to her story. The man's now-13-year-old daughter called her father a "manipulative, controlling jerk" who has demanded perfection from his kids and threatened them when he did not get it.
"(The defendant) is so emboldened that he will kill his next victim," the 19-year-old woman said.
Following the sisters' words, their father hung his head and took his chance to address Circuit Judge Michael P. Hatty.
His voice quiet, the tearful 42-year-old father apologized to his wife and daughters for the pain he caused.
"I was wrong, he said. "I hurt them and I'm very sorry. I accept the punishment for my actions."
Hatty then sentenced the defendant to 95 months to 15 years in prison for molesting his daughters.
The father had earlier pleaded guilty in a Livingston County courtroom to two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, which means penetration, and one count each of second-degree CSC and possession of child sexually abusive material. The latter charge was for an unknown number of photographs of child pornography found on his computer.
He was initially charged with first-degree CSC, which carries a penalty of up to life in prison.
The girls' mother compared her husband to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the literary character who took a potion that turned him from a mild-mannered man into a homicidal maniac.
The girls' mother said her husband "terrorized" the children, threatening to beat them. She said her husband's abuse occurred while she was working.
The mother said her husband also threatened to kill her many times and to harm the children if they ever told his secret.
Michigan police learned of the abuse in January after the defendant's wife reported her suspicions to Child Protective Services.
The man's 19-year-old daughter said her father began molesting her when she was 9, and he raped her at age 13, police said. The younger daughter said her abuse began in 2007, police noted.
The Daily Press & Argus is not reporting the man's identity because it would identify his daughters.
http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20090701/NEWS01/907010317/Sisters--Send-rapist-dad-to-prison-for-a-long-time
Sisters: Send rapist dad to prison for a long time
By Lisa Roose-Church • DAILY PRESS & ARGUS • July 1, 2009
Two sisters told a judge that their father, who repeatedly raped them, needs a long prison sentence because they fear he will kill his next victim if he is paroled in the future.
The man's oldest daughter, 19, said her father raped her when they lived in Georgia and Illinois, but no officials there listened to her story. The man's now-13-year-old daughter called her father a "manipulative, controlling jerk" who has demanded perfection from his kids and threatened them when he did not get it.
"(The defendant) is so emboldened that he will kill his next victim," the 19-year-old woman said.
Following the sisters' words, their father hung his head and took his chance to address Circuit Judge Michael P. Hatty.
His voice quiet, the tearful 42-year-old father apologized to his wife and daughters for the pain he caused.
"I was wrong, he said. "I hurt them and I'm very sorry. I accept the punishment for my actions."
Hatty then sentenced the defendant to 95 months to 15 years in prison for molesting his daughters.
The father had earlier pleaded guilty in a Livingston County courtroom to two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, which means penetration, and one count each of second-degree CSC and possession of child sexually abusive material. The latter charge was for an unknown number of photographs of child pornography found on his computer.
He was initially charged with first-degree CSC, which carries a penalty of up to life in prison.
The girls' mother compared her husband to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the literary character who took a potion that turned him from a mild-mannered man into a homicidal maniac.
The girls' mother said her husband "terrorized" the children, threatening to beat them. She said her husband's abuse occurred while she was working.
The mother said her husband also threatened to kill her many times and to harm the children if they ever told his secret.
Michigan police learned of the abuse in January after the defendant's wife reported her suspicions to Child Protective Services.
The man's 19-year-old daughter said her father began molesting her when she was 9, and he raped her at age 13, police said. The younger daughter said her abuse began in 2007, police noted.
The Daily Press & Argus is not reporting the man's identity because it would identify his daughters.
Neglected kids left home alone while Dad went out drinking (Redwood City, California)
Father ABIDAN ELIEL GARCIA VASQUEZ is charged with three counts of felony child child endangerment for leaving a three-year-old and a one-year-old at home alone while he went out drinking. The three-year-old was found wandering around with inadequate clothing, and the one-year-old showed distinct signs of abuse (including sexual abuse?) and neglect: a severe rash and abscesses on her legs and genital area. No mention of a mother at all. Custodial father?
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12724749?nclick_check=1
Father who left kids home alone to go drinking takes plea deal
Bay City News Service
Posted: 06/30/2009 02:53:16 PM PDT
Updated: 06/30/2009 02:53:17 PM PDT
A 22-year-old man accused of leaving his two young children home alone to go out drinking avoided prison time in a plea deal with prosecutors in San Mateo County Superior Court on Monday.
Abidan Eliel Garcia Vasquez had been charged with three felony counts of child endangerment, which carried a sentence of more than seven years in state prison, according to Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
However, on Monday he pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor counts of child endangerment and now faces up to six months in county jail, Wagstaffe said.
Vasquez's 3-year-old son was found the night of March 28 wandering alone in an unincorporated Redwood City neighborhood, shivering and clad only in a T-shirt and shorts.
San Mateo County sheriff's deputies learned the boy lived in a nearby home occupied by two families. When they went to the home, they found cockroaches, garbage and rotting food throughout the house and an open beer bottle on the floor, Wagstaffe said.
Also at the home was a 1-year-old girl with a severe rash and abscesses on her legs and genital area, Wagstaffe said.
Authorities discovered Vasquez had allegedly left the home around 9 p.m. after the children were asleep to go out drinking, and did not ask anyone to watch them, Wagstaffe said.
Vasquez is scheduled to be sentenced July 28.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12724749?nclick_check=1
Father who left kids home alone to go drinking takes plea deal
Bay City News Service
Posted: 06/30/2009 02:53:16 PM PDT
Updated: 06/30/2009 02:53:17 PM PDT
A 22-year-old man accused of leaving his two young children home alone to go out drinking avoided prison time in a plea deal with prosecutors in San Mateo County Superior Court on Monday.
Abidan Eliel Garcia Vasquez had been charged with three felony counts of child endangerment, which carried a sentence of more than seven years in state prison, according to Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
However, on Monday he pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor counts of child endangerment and now faces up to six months in county jail, Wagstaffe said.
Vasquez's 3-year-old son was found the night of March 28 wandering alone in an unincorporated Redwood City neighborhood, shivering and clad only in a T-shirt and shorts.
San Mateo County sheriff's deputies learned the boy lived in a nearby home occupied by two families. When they went to the home, they found cockroaches, garbage and rotting food throughout the house and an open beer bottle on the floor, Wagstaffe said.
Also at the home was a 1-year-old girl with a severe rash and abscesses on her legs and genital area, Wagstaffe said.
Authorities discovered Vasquez had allegedly left the home around 9 p.m. after the children were asleep to go out drinking, and did not ask anyone to watch them, Wagstaffe said.
Vasquez is scheduled to be sentenced July 28.
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