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Drunk dad slapped, choked 12-year-old son during visitation (Charleston, South Carolina)
Contrary to what the fathers rights people keep whining, violent alcoholics like dad MARTIN DOUGLAS TROY get their custody/visitation rights all the time--even when Mom managed to get a restraining order.
Who has more rights again? Hint: It ain't Mom or the kids.
http://www.live5news.com/story/22145799/father-charged-after-slapping-choking-12-year-old-son
Cops: Drunk dad slapped, choked 12-year-old son
Posted: May 02, 2013 5:01 PM EDT Updated: May 02, 2013 5:16 PM EDT
CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Charleston police say they have arrested a father who, while possibly intoxicated, slapped and choked his 12-year-old son.
Martin Douglas Troy, 36, was arrested Thursday and charged with unlawful conduct towards a child.
According to an incident report, police were called to the home of the child's mother on March 16 around 9:15 p.m. The mother told officers her son was assaulted by his father while visiting his dad's house earlier that evening.
The victim told police he was pestering his step-brother when his father began slapping his back to get him to stop. When he tried to get his cell phone, his father wrapped his arm around his neck and choked him for a few seconds.
Reports state the victim was then pushed onto a couch after trying to escape. It was at that time that he called his grandmother for a ride home.
The victim told police he believed his father was drinking before the attack because he saw his dad constantly going to a closet where his alcohol is hidden.
The victim's mother said she has a restraining order against Troy that states he is not allowed to drink alcohol or become violent around their children.
The report states officers went to Troy's house on Culver Ave. in West Ashley to perform a welfare check because he was still watching their 8-year-old daughter.
Officers say the child was safe, but Troy appeared to be intoxicated.
Troy is being held at the Charleston County Detention Center.
Who has more rights again? Hint: It ain't Mom or the kids.
http://www.live5news.com/story/22145799/father-charged-after-slapping-choking-12-year-old-son
Cops: Drunk dad slapped, choked 12-year-old son
Posted: May 02, 2013 5:01 PM EDT Updated: May 02, 2013 5:16 PM EDT
CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Charleston police say they have arrested a father who, while possibly intoxicated, slapped and choked his 12-year-old son.
Martin Douglas Troy, 36, was arrested Thursday and charged with unlawful conduct towards a child.
According to an incident report, police were called to the home of the child's mother on March 16 around 9:15 p.m. The mother told officers her son was assaulted by his father while visiting his dad's house earlier that evening.
The victim told police he was pestering his step-brother when his father began slapping his back to get him to stop. When he tried to get his cell phone, his father wrapped his arm around his neck and choked him for a few seconds.
Reports state the victim was then pushed onto a couch after trying to escape. It was at that time that he called his grandmother for a ride home.
The victim told police he believed his father was drinking before the attack because he saw his dad constantly going to a closet where his alcohol is hidden.
The victim's mother said she has a restraining order against Troy that states he is not allowed to drink alcohol or become violent around their children.
The report states officers went to Troy's house on Culver Ave. in West Ashley to perform a welfare check because he was still watching their 8-year-old daughter.
Officers say the child was safe, but Troy appeared to be intoxicated.
Troy is being held at the Charleston County Detention Center.
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Dad pleads guilty to capital murder in 2-year-old son's death; slit boy's throat during visitation to avoid child support (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Killer dad DANNY PRATT was really nothing more than a sperm donor, a piece of sh** that Mom dated only briefly.
But because we grant donors all the full rights and responsibilities of fathers, this piece of sh** was on the hook for child support. In fact, Mom was REQUIRED to give his name if she was to get food stamps.
So of course, the sh** gets visitation too. And this is what happens.
We need to stop giving rights to sperm donors. The only donors who should have rights are the ones who are legally married to the mother and committed to providing for a family. Period.
And then we need to start funding social services at acceptable levels. This is crap.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/05/father_pleads_guilty_to_capifa.html
New Orleans father pleads guilty to capital murder for slitting 2-year-old son's throat
By Claire Galofaro, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on May 02, 2013 at 11:17 AM, updated May 02, 2013 at 2:17 PM
A 26-year-old man pleaded guilty to capital murder in Criminal District Court Thursday morning, admitting that he slit his 2-year-old son's throat to avoid paying $4,000 in overdue child support. Danny Platt accepted a life prison sentence. The only promise prosecutor Robert Moore made him was that the state would not seek to execute him.
"He liked to laugh a lot," the boy's mother, Daniella Powell, said of her boy. "He told me he loved me all day long. He was fun. And he can finally rest now."
Powell said that she agreed to the life sentence. Nobody, she believes, deserves to be killed, even the man who killed her son.
Ja'Shawn Powell adored his father, whom he visited on occasional weekends.
On the evening of Jan. 2, 2009, Platt came to pick the boy up for a visit. The toddler ran to the door, excited to see his daddy. Powell kissed him goodbye, and never saw him alive again.
Just before midnight, Platt took the boy to a park on Jackson Avenue, according to court records.
"He and his son sat on a bench and began talking to each other," the warrant for his arrest reads. "Mr. Platt suddenly grabbed his son and slashed his throat with a box cutter." Danny Platt pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree murder for slitting his 2-year-old son's throat. He accepted a life prison sentence and avoided possible death.
Platt called Powell and told her that a woman had snatched the baby from his arms and ran. Then he called the police.
He told officers that a black SUV pulled up beside them, and three men with dreadlocks and AK-47s forced him and the boy onto the ground, according to court records. They called him "Johnny" and demanded money, he told officers. When he told the gunmen that he wasn't Johnny, they grabbed the child and sped away. Police issued a nationwide Amber Alert for the child.
But Platt's story stopped making sense. Officers noticed that he seemed "emotionless" and "did not appear concerned that his child was missing."
Police grew suspicious. His story changed -- the number of gunmen increased from three to four. He told obvious lies, that he didn't know his own mother's address, and that his cell phone was stolen by his attackers. He couldn't spell his own son's name.
He told detectives that his son's mother was "money hungry."
"Them people aren't worried about that child, they just want money," he said to officers. "I tell you think, they'll never see the $4,000 I owe them after today."
The child's mother said she knew Pratt her whole life and dated him only briefly, but got pregnant. The boy was born on Valentine's Day, 2006.
Powell applied for food stamps, which required that she identify his biological father. His paternity was confirmed with a blood test. The state deducted $100 a week from his paychecks from a French Quarter restaurant he cleaned.
Platt reportedly threatened Powell over his child-support debt of $4,000, vowing that he would kill them before paying it.
Ja'Shawn's 2-year-old body was found in a gym bag on Jan. 2, 2009, near a Central City playground in the 1900 block of Jackson Avenue. His throat had been slashed and he bled to death, the coroner said.
"I'm sorry about killing my baby," he told reporters as detectives led him to Central Lockup in 2009. "I had a lot of pressure on me ... I had a whole bunch of reasons."
Platt was charged with first-degree murder, and prosecutors filed their notice to seek the death penalty. In Louisiana, prosecutors must cite the aggravating circumstances to make a murder a capital case. They listed the "especially heinous, atrocious, cruel or depraved" nature of the killing, and that the victim was a child.
Platt, for a time, was found incompetent to proceed to trial and admitted to the East Louisiana Mental Health System for treatment. But after several months there, he was released, and doctors wrote the court that they believed he was faking a mental disorder. He lied, they wrote, that he did not know his own birthdate, or understand the charges he was facing.
As the capital case against him resumed, he "mainly stared at the floor," according to court records. He spoke little, "appearing depressed and less than cooperative." Platt dropped out of high school in the ninth grade because he wanted to do drugs and "hang on the streets," court records state. Through chronic drug abuse can influence mental health, doctors wrote, they never found any evidence of delusions or psychosis.
District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro said Platt was one of a half-dozen defendants in the last decade to plead guilty to first-degree murder and accept a life sentence. No one has been sent to death row from Orleans Parish since the 1990s.
Cannizzaro said the plea deal, which avoids the possibility of a decades-long appeals process in a capital case, was the best resolution for Platt's case.
"When a child is killed, it's always a very sad, a very difficult situation, even for us," Cannizzaro said. "This is a final solution. There is no appeal. He admits he is guilty. And the family does not have to relive these very horrible events."
Judge Keva Landrum-Johnson imposed the life sentence, without the possibility of parole. Powell said that she is glad her 4-year nightmare is ended. "I don't understand why, I will never understand why," she said. "I'll move forward now, but I can never move on."
Powell carried a photo of her son, sticking out his tongue at the camera.
She used to ask her boy how much he loved her, she told the judge. He would stretch his arms out straight and say, "Mommy, this much."
She fell against the wall and wept as she left the courtroom.
But because we grant donors all the full rights and responsibilities of fathers, this piece of sh** was on the hook for child support. In fact, Mom was REQUIRED to give his name if she was to get food stamps.
So of course, the sh** gets visitation too. And this is what happens.
We need to stop giving rights to sperm donors. The only donors who should have rights are the ones who are legally married to the mother and committed to providing for a family. Period.
And then we need to start funding social services at acceptable levels. This is crap.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/05/father_pleads_guilty_to_capifa.html
New Orleans father pleads guilty to capital murder for slitting 2-year-old son's throat
By Claire Galofaro, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on May 02, 2013 at 11:17 AM, updated May 02, 2013 at 2:17 PM
A 26-year-old man pleaded guilty to capital murder in Criminal District Court Thursday morning, admitting that he slit his 2-year-old son's throat to avoid paying $4,000 in overdue child support. Danny Platt accepted a life prison sentence. The only promise prosecutor Robert Moore made him was that the state would not seek to execute him.
"He liked to laugh a lot," the boy's mother, Daniella Powell, said of her boy. "He told me he loved me all day long. He was fun. And he can finally rest now."
Powell said that she agreed to the life sentence. Nobody, she believes, deserves to be killed, even the man who killed her son.
Ja'Shawn Powell adored his father, whom he visited on occasional weekends.
On the evening of Jan. 2, 2009, Platt came to pick the boy up for a visit. The toddler ran to the door, excited to see his daddy. Powell kissed him goodbye, and never saw him alive again.
Just before midnight, Platt took the boy to a park on Jackson Avenue, according to court records.
"He and his son sat on a bench and began talking to each other," the warrant for his arrest reads. "Mr. Platt suddenly grabbed his son and slashed his throat with a box cutter." Danny Platt pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree murder for slitting his 2-year-old son's throat. He accepted a life prison sentence and avoided possible death.
Platt called Powell and told her that a woman had snatched the baby from his arms and ran. Then he called the police.
He told officers that a black SUV pulled up beside them, and three men with dreadlocks and AK-47s forced him and the boy onto the ground, according to court records. They called him "Johnny" and demanded money, he told officers. When he told the gunmen that he wasn't Johnny, they grabbed the child and sped away. Police issued a nationwide Amber Alert for the child.
But Platt's story stopped making sense. Officers noticed that he seemed "emotionless" and "did not appear concerned that his child was missing."
Police grew suspicious. His story changed -- the number of gunmen increased from three to four. He told obvious lies, that he didn't know his own mother's address, and that his cell phone was stolen by his attackers. He couldn't spell his own son's name.
He told detectives that his son's mother was "money hungry."
"Them people aren't worried about that child, they just want money," he said to officers. "I tell you think, they'll never see the $4,000 I owe them after today."
The child's mother said she knew Pratt her whole life and dated him only briefly, but got pregnant. The boy was born on Valentine's Day, 2006.
Powell applied for food stamps, which required that she identify his biological father. His paternity was confirmed with a blood test. The state deducted $100 a week from his paychecks from a French Quarter restaurant he cleaned.
Platt reportedly threatened Powell over his child-support debt of $4,000, vowing that he would kill them before paying it.
Ja'Shawn's 2-year-old body was found in a gym bag on Jan. 2, 2009, near a Central City playground in the 1900 block of Jackson Avenue. His throat had been slashed and he bled to death, the coroner said.
"I'm sorry about killing my baby," he told reporters as detectives led him to Central Lockup in 2009. "I had a lot of pressure on me ... I had a whole bunch of reasons."
Platt was charged with first-degree murder, and prosecutors filed their notice to seek the death penalty. In Louisiana, prosecutors must cite the aggravating circumstances to make a murder a capital case. They listed the "especially heinous, atrocious, cruel or depraved" nature of the killing, and that the victim was a child.
Platt, for a time, was found incompetent to proceed to trial and admitted to the East Louisiana Mental Health System for treatment. But after several months there, he was released, and doctors wrote the court that they believed he was faking a mental disorder. He lied, they wrote, that he did not know his own birthdate, or understand the charges he was facing.
As the capital case against him resumed, he "mainly stared at the floor," according to court records. He spoke little, "appearing depressed and less than cooperative." Platt dropped out of high school in the ninth grade because he wanted to do drugs and "hang on the streets," court records state. Through chronic drug abuse can influence mental health, doctors wrote, they never found any evidence of delusions or psychosis.
District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro said Platt was one of a half-dozen defendants in the last decade to plead guilty to first-degree murder and accept a life sentence. No one has been sent to death row from Orleans Parish since the 1990s.
Cannizzaro said the plea deal, which avoids the possibility of a decades-long appeals process in a capital case, was the best resolution for Platt's case.
"When a child is killed, it's always a very sad, a very difficult situation, even for us," Cannizzaro said. "This is a final solution. There is no appeal. He admits he is guilty. And the family does not have to relive these very horrible events."
Judge Keva Landrum-Johnson imposed the life sentence, without the possibility of parole. Powell said that she is glad her 4-year nightmare is ended. "I don't understand why, I will never understand why," she said. "I'll move forward now, but I can never move on."
Powell carried a photo of her son, sticking out his tongue at the camera.
She used to ask her boy how much he loved her, she told the judge. He would stretch his arms out straight and say, "Mommy, this much."
She fell against the wall and wept as she left the courtroom.
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Dad convicted in beating death of 2-year-old son; gets life in prison (St. Louis, Missouri)
The killer dad is identified as AARON LUCY.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-man-who-beat-toddler-son-to-death-gets/article_d2e14b3a-4f92-58c8-bbe6-48f0ad01ca09.html
St. Louis man who beat toddler son to death gets life in prison
April 18, 2013 11:00 am • By Joel Currier
St. Louis man convicted of beating 2-year-old son to death
Jury says Aaron Lucy, 32, committed first-degree murder in assault that left bruises and scrapes on nearly every surface of the boy's body.
ST. LOUIS • A St. Louis man convicted of brutally beating his 2-year-old son to death was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Aaron Lucy, 32, was sentenced by St. Louis Circuit Judge Robin Vannoy. In January, a jury found Lucy guilty of first-degree murder and four felony counts of child abuse, evidence tampering and armed criminal action in the death of his son, Kyle Lucy.
Prosecutors said Lucy beat Kyle to death the afternoon or evening of Dec. 26, 2010, when the two were alone together for several hours at Lucy’s apartment in the 6900 block of Chippewa Street. Other family members were at a Christmas play.
Authorities said Lucy left bruises and scrapes on almost every part of the toddler’s body and caused two skull fractures and a fatal brain injury. Blood was found throughout the apartment, including on the back of a picture frame and a broken drawer that, along with an overturned television, had been thrown across the floor.
“What Aaron took from us has been devastating,” the boy’s mother, Amanda Newman, 30, of St. Louis County, said in court Thursday. “I don’t look at people the same way as I did before. I don’t look at people and wonder what they can offer me and my life. I now look at people and wonder what they will take from me or how they (will) hurt me. The world got a little darker that day.”
Lucy made no statements during Thursday’s sentencing. He appeared in court wearing an orange city jail uniform and still sporting a mustache, but with a much shorter haircut and without the pink hair dye noticeable in his jail booking photo.
Aaron Lucy’s mother, Gloria Lucy, told the court she believes her son is not “a monster.” She said he had received psychiatric treatment since middle school and suffered from bipolar disorder. She said a mental hospital would be a more effective sentence than prison.
“My son loved his kids dearly,” Gloria Lucy said. “He never mistreated Kyle. The way Kyle died wasn’t abuse, in my opinion. It was rage. I don’t know what happened that night. I really don’t.”
Newman says she, too, still doesn’t know why Aaron Lucy killed Kyle, and says the only time she saw him lose his temper was when he was intoxicated. She said she thought he had stopped drinking alcohol at least a year earlier, but she wonders whether he was drunk the night Kyle died.
Newman said she was satisfied with the life sentence because she believes it will keep Lucy away from their daughter, Abby, who is now 7. Newman said Abby now understands it was her father who ended Kyle’s life, but Newman shields her from the horror of how the boy died.
“When she gets older, she has every right to know every detail,” she said.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-man-who-beat-toddler-son-to-death-gets/article_d2e14b3a-4f92-58c8-bbe6-48f0ad01ca09.html
St. Louis man who beat toddler son to death gets life in prison
April 18, 2013 11:00 am • By Joel Currier
St. Louis man convicted of beating 2-year-old son to death
Jury says Aaron Lucy, 32, committed first-degree murder in assault that left bruises and scrapes on nearly every surface of the boy's body.
ST. LOUIS • A St. Louis man convicted of brutally beating his 2-year-old son to death was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Aaron Lucy, 32, was sentenced by St. Louis Circuit Judge Robin Vannoy. In January, a jury found Lucy guilty of first-degree murder and four felony counts of child abuse, evidence tampering and armed criminal action in the death of his son, Kyle Lucy.
Prosecutors said Lucy beat Kyle to death the afternoon or evening of Dec. 26, 2010, when the two were alone together for several hours at Lucy’s apartment in the 6900 block of Chippewa Street. Other family members were at a Christmas play.
Authorities said Lucy left bruises and scrapes on almost every part of the toddler’s body and caused two skull fractures and a fatal brain injury. Blood was found throughout the apartment, including on the back of a picture frame and a broken drawer that, along with an overturned television, had been thrown across the floor.
“What Aaron took from us has been devastating,” the boy’s mother, Amanda Newman, 30, of St. Louis County, said in court Thursday. “I don’t look at people the same way as I did before. I don’t look at people and wonder what they can offer me and my life. I now look at people and wonder what they will take from me or how they (will) hurt me. The world got a little darker that day.”
Lucy made no statements during Thursday’s sentencing. He appeared in court wearing an orange city jail uniform and still sporting a mustache, but with a much shorter haircut and without the pink hair dye noticeable in his jail booking photo.
Aaron Lucy’s mother, Gloria Lucy, told the court she believes her son is not “a monster.” She said he had received psychiatric treatment since middle school and suffered from bipolar disorder. She said a mental hospital would be a more effective sentence than prison.
“My son loved his kids dearly,” Gloria Lucy said. “He never mistreated Kyle. The way Kyle died wasn’t abuse, in my opinion. It was rage. I don’t know what happened that night. I really don’t.”
Newman says she, too, still doesn’t know why Aaron Lucy killed Kyle, and says the only time she saw him lose his temper was when he was intoxicated. She said she thought he had stopped drinking alcohol at least a year earlier, but she wonders whether he was drunk the night Kyle died.
Newman said she was satisfied with the life sentence because she believes it will keep Lucy away from their daughter, Abby, who is now 7. Newman said Abby now understands it was her father who ended Kyle’s life, but Newman shields her from the horror of how the boy died.
“When she gets older, she has every right to know every detail,” she said.
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Custodial dad accused of assaulting 3-month-old son; second time he's "suspected" of assaulting infant (University City, Missouri)
Whoa. So this is the second time dad JEREMY GILES has assaulted a helpless baby? And the first time he had "sole custody of the baby"?
Who dropped the ball here? Who allowed this sh** to be anywhere near an infant again, much less "caring" for one???
No mention of the mothers of these babies. It's like they never existed....
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/university-city-father-accused-of-hurting-infant-son/article_7ec2c7bc-0199-5870-bbaa-f70f1da31a81.html
University City father accused of hurting infant son
3 hours ago
• By Valerie Schremp Hahn
UPDATED at 12:10 p.m. with more information about previous charges.
UNIVERSITY CITY • A University City man has been charged with first-degree assault after admitting he intentionally dropped his three-month-old son, which caused serious injuries to the baby's head and torso.
It's the second time he's been accused of hurting an infant in a similar manner.
Jeremy Giles, 25, of the 7300 block of Balson Avenue, was charged Tuesday in St. Louis County Circuit Court.
University City Police said that on April 24, they responded to Children's Hospital for a possible child abuse case. Emergency room staffers told them the baby was brought there with the injuries, but police were unable to locate the father. The incident happened a day or two prior to the infant being brought in, police said.
The child had skull fractures and brain swelling, according to court documents.
"Doctors tell police that (the) victim's injuries required significant force and that a simple drop would not have caused these injuries," police said in court documents.
On Monday, Giles turned himself in and was arrested, and admitted he dropped the boy while at home. He was being held on a $200,000 cash-only bail.
In 2012, Giles was charged in Jefferson County with endangering the welfare of a child in a case involving a different child in Festus.
Giles' one-month-old son was hospitalized on Oct. 9, 2011, after suffering two black eyes and extensive bruising, according to a probable cause statement.
Giles, who had sole custody of the baby, told a detective the baby was injured when Giles tripped over a cat as he made a bottle and dropped the baby.
He changed his story as the interview progressed, court documents say, and then said he was carrying the baby upstairs when he tripped and dropped the baby twice.
A doctor at St. Louis Children's Hospital determined that the baby's injuries were not supported by Giles' explanations.
Giles is awaiting trial on the Jefferson County charge.
Leah Thorsen of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.
Who dropped the ball here? Who allowed this sh** to be anywhere near an infant again, much less "caring" for one???
No mention of the mothers of these babies. It's like they never existed....
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/university-city-father-accused-of-hurting-infant-son/article_7ec2c7bc-0199-5870-bbaa-f70f1da31a81.html
University City father accused of hurting infant son
3 hours ago
• By Valerie Schremp Hahn
UPDATED at 12:10 p.m. with more information about previous charges.
UNIVERSITY CITY • A University City man has been charged with first-degree assault after admitting he intentionally dropped his three-month-old son, which caused serious injuries to the baby's head and torso.
It's the second time he's been accused of hurting an infant in a similar manner.
Jeremy Giles, 25, of the 7300 block of Balson Avenue, was charged Tuesday in St. Louis County Circuit Court.
University City Police said that on April 24, they responded to Children's Hospital for a possible child abuse case. Emergency room staffers told them the baby was brought there with the injuries, but police were unable to locate the father. The incident happened a day or two prior to the infant being brought in, police said.
The child had skull fractures and brain swelling, according to court documents.
"Doctors tell police that (the) victim's injuries required significant force and that a simple drop would not have caused these injuries," police said in court documents.
On Monday, Giles turned himself in and was arrested, and admitted he dropped the boy while at home. He was being held on a $200,000 cash-only bail.
In 2012, Giles was charged in Jefferson County with endangering the welfare of a child in a case involving a different child in Festus.
Giles' one-month-old son was hospitalized on Oct. 9, 2011, after suffering two black eyes and extensive bruising, according to a probable cause statement.
Giles, who had sole custody of the baby, told a detective the baby was injured when Giles tripped over a cat as he made a bottle and dropped the baby.
He changed his story as the interview progressed, court documents say, and then said he was carrying the baby upstairs when he tripped and dropped the baby twice.
A doctor at St. Louis Children's Hospital determined that the baby's injuries were not supported by Giles' explanations.
Giles is awaiting trial on the Jefferson County charge.
Leah Thorsen of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.
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Dad on trial for murdering 7-year-old son (St. Joseph, Missouri)
Is TONY KING a single father? Once again, we see no mention of a mother in the home. And it's hard to believe that if there had been a mother in this home, that she wouldn't come up in some way.
http://stjoechannel.com/fulltext?nxd_id=341352
Both Sides Rest Case in Trial of Father Accused of Killing Son
By: Melinda Barrett Updated: May 1, 2013
(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) Testimony came to a close in the trial of a northwest Missouri father charged with killing his own son.
Tony King of Bethany, Mo. is charged with murder, child abuse and arson.
Wednesday, his defense team worked to prove his innocence.
Jurors in King's trial also learned more about the boy some suspect was a victim of abuse.
Testimony from school officials in Bethany pointed out that they had suspected Jeremiah Lamm was being abused, but they never could link their suspicion to his father.
Lamm's teacher, principal and school counselor fought back tears as they recalled the 7-year-old coming to school with bruises and other injuries.
They said they often questioned where the injuries came from, and that the first grader's stories rarely added up.
The principal called the child abuse hotline in the weeks leading up to a fire at his home in Bethany on January 11, 2012.
School officials also pointed out Lamm's lack of attendance at school during the months leading up to the fire.
A doctor testified that the boy had been had been strangled, and that the fire did not cause his death.
The prosecution alleges King is responsible for the abuse, and, the child's teacher suspected that too.
She recalled the last time she saw Lamm at school.
"It was getting close to dismissal time, and in my gut, I just had a feeling that I didn't want to send him home, I was so worried. I knelt down to him at his desk, and I looked in his eyes, and I said Jeremiah I love you so much. I want you to know that I care about you, and you deserve to have every person in your life treat you good," said Jamie Carter, first grader teacher at South Harrison Elementary.
King's attorneys brought in investigators from the Children's Division of the Division of Social Services who said they did visit his home and interviewed the boy.
The reports from DSS came back as good and the boy's stories seemed to add up with his injuries.
They also said King was always cooperative with them and allowed them in his home.
The state and defense both rested their cases on Wednesday.
Closing statements are expected to begin Thursday.
http://stjoechannel.com/fulltext?nxd_id=341352
Both Sides Rest Case in Trial of Father Accused of Killing Son
By: Melinda Barrett Updated: May 1, 2013
(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) Testimony came to a close in the trial of a northwest Missouri father charged with killing his own son.
Tony King of Bethany, Mo. is charged with murder, child abuse and arson.
Wednesday, his defense team worked to prove his innocence.
Jurors in King's trial also learned more about the boy some suspect was a victim of abuse.
Testimony from school officials in Bethany pointed out that they had suspected Jeremiah Lamm was being abused, but they never could link their suspicion to his father.
Lamm's teacher, principal and school counselor fought back tears as they recalled the 7-year-old coming to school with bruises and other injuries.
They said they often questioned where the injuries came from, and that the first grader's stories rarely added up.
The principal called the child abuse hotline in the weeks leading up to a fire at his home in Bethany on January 11, 2012.
School officials also pointed out Lamm's lack of attendance at school during the months leading up to the fire.
A doctor testified that the boy had been had been strangled, and that the fire did not cause his death.
The prosecution alleges King is responsible for the abuse, and, the child's teacher suspected that too.
She recalled the last time she saw Lamm at school.
"It was getting close to dismissal time, and in my gut, I just had a feeling that I didn't want to send him home, I was so worried. I knelt down to him at his desk, and I looked in his eyes, and I said Jeremiah I love you so much. I want you to know that I care about you, and you deserve to have every person in your life treat you good," said Jamie Carter, first grader teacher at South Harrison Elementary.
King's attorneys brought in investigators from the Children's Division of the Division of Social Services who said they did visit his home and interviewed the boy.
The reports from DSS came back as good and the boy's stories seemed to add up with his injuries.
They also said King was always cooperative with them and allowed them in his home.
The state and defense both rested their cases on Wednesday.
Closing statements are expected to begin Thursday.
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Dad arrested for choking 3-year-old son; boy has life-threatening brain injuries (Huntsville, Alabama)
Notice that Daddy didn't call 911 himself, but took the 3-year-old son to his aunt's house, who then rushed him to the emergency room.
Somehow I'm thinking MAURICE CARTWRIGHT is a single father who does not live with the mother, or else he would have contacted her. Custody/visitation situation?
http://www.waaytv.com/news/local/huntsville-father-arrested-for-choking-his-toddler-son/article_08f51b14-b30e-11e2-8160-001a4bcf6878.html
Huntsville father arrested for choking his toddler son
Posted: Thursday, May 2, 2013 4:52 am | Updated: 7:43 am, Thu May 2, 2013.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAAY)-- Police arrested a Huntsville man for choking his 3-year-old son while under the father's care.
Maurice Cartwright, 33, said that his son woke up from a nap, unable to breathe. Cartwright took the child to his aunt, who then rushed the child to the emergency room.
Officials at the E.R. said the child showed signs of being choked. The victim received a C.T. scan where doctors found the child was suffering from brain trauma and severe bleeding. The child was sent to surgery with life-threatening injuries.
Police arrested the father who is charged with child abuse.
Somehow I'm thinking MAURICE CARTWRIGHT is a single father who does not live with the mother, or else he would have contacted her. Custody/visitation situation?
http://www.waaytv.com/news/local/huntsville-father-arrested-for-choking-his-toddler-son/article_08f51b14-b30e-11e2-8160-001a4bcf6878.html
Huntsville father arrested for choking his toddler son
Posted: Thursday, May 2, 2013 4:52 am | Updated: 7:43 am, Thu May 2, 2013.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAAY)-- Police arrested a Huntsville man for choking his 3-year-old son while under the father's care.
Maurice Cartwright, 33, said that his son woke up from a nap, unable to breathe. Cartwright took the child to his aunt, who then rushed the child to the emergency room.
Officials at the E.R. said the child showed signs of being choked. The victim received a C.T. scan where doctors found the child was suffering from brain trauma and severe bleeding. The child was sent to surgery with life-threatening injuries.
Police arrested the father who is charged with child abuse.
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Dad arrested for aggravated abuse, criminally negligent homicide in drowning death of 13-month-old son (Cullman Alabama)
Is B.J. BRYANT a single father? Notice there is no mention of a mother in this home at all.
http://www.cullmantimes.com/local/x319974637/Father-arrested-for-negligence-in-13-month-old-son-s-death
May 2, 2013
Father arrested for negligence in 13-month-old son’s death
By Lauren Estes
The Cullman Times
A 22-year-old Cullman father has been charged with negligence and abuse in the case of his 13-month-old son’s drowning.
B.J. Bryant, 22, was arrested for aggravated abuse and criminally negligent homicide on Tuesday, April 30, after an 11-month investigation by the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office in the death by drowning of his son, Chief Deputy Max Bartlett said.
“Based on the conditions of the scene and the home, we had reason to believe the child had been severely neglected,” Bartlett said. “After a long and lengthy investigation led by Justin Tyus, we were able to get the elements necessary to prosecute this case.”
Bartlett said on May 21, 2012, officers responded to a call in reference to a small child that was unresponsive after he had been in the bathtub. An officer responded and attempted to revive the child and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) arrived at the scene shortly. The child was later transported to Cullman Regional Medical Center’s emergency room and then medflighted to Children’s Hospital where the child was put on life support and died a week later.
“We’ve worked hand in hand with the D.A’s office and Wilson Blaylock; he’s helped us come to a resolution in this case,” Bartlett said. “This will be a very sensitive case due to the circumstances, so we don’t want to go into too much depth on details. Justin has worked very hard on the case and had diligence in seeing it through. These are hard cases for the officers involved, especially emotionally. We are advocates of the victims, and in this case, we have a small child that can’t speak for himself.”
Cullman County Sheriff Mike Rainey, Bartlett and Tyus commended several groups that have been helpful throughout the investigation.
“The Juvenile Probation Office, DHR (Department of Human Resources), the staff at Child Haven and the District Attorney’s office have helped pave our investigation,” Tyus said. “It’s been a cumulative effort between everyone in Cullman County to make sure that this case is heard.”
Bryant is being held at the Cullman County Detention Center on a $36,000 cash bond. He has been charged with criminally negligent homicide, a class-A misdemeanor and aggravated child abuse, a class-B felony.
“There were multiple factors that contributed to drowning and death of this child,” Tyus said. “I wanted to speak for this child who can’t speak for himself. His story needs to be heard, that is the biggest thing.”
Bartlett stressed that practicing safety with young children is vital, especially around water.
“To all parents, especially young ones, we’ve had too many children die by drowning; it could be in bath tubs, swimming pools, whatever,” Bartlett said. “If they are a small child, it only takes a moment for tragedy to strike, this is not that type of circumstance, this is a criminal matter.”
http://www.cullmantimes.com/local/x319974637/Father-arrested-for-negligence-in-13-month-old-son-s-death
May 2, 2013
Father arrested for negligence in 13-month-old son’s death
By Lauren Estes
The Cullman Times
A 22-year-old Cullman father has been charged with negligence and abuse in the case of his 13-month-old son’s drowning.
B.J. Bryant, 22, was arrested for aggravated abuse and criminally negligent homicide on Tuesday, April 30, after an 11-month investigation by the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office in the death by drowning of his son, Chief Deputy Max Bartlett said.
“Based on the conditions of the scene and the home, we had reason to believe the child had been severely neglected,” Bartlett said. “After a long and lengthy investigation led by Justin Tyus, we were able to get the elements necessary to prosecute this case.”
Bartlett said on May 21, 2012, officers responded to a call in reference to a small child that was unresponsive after he had been in the bathtub. An officer responded and attempted to revive the child and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) arrived at the scene shortly. The child was later transported to Cullman Regional Medical Center’s emergency room and then medflighted to Children’s Hospital where the child was put on life support and died a week later.
“We’ve worked hand in hand with the D.A’s office and Wilson Blaylock; he’s helped us come to a resolution in this case,” Bartlett said. “This will be a very sensitive case due to the circumstances, so we don’t want to go into too much depth on details. Justin has worked very hard on the case and had diligence in seeing it through. These are hard cases for the officers involved, especially emotionally. We are advocates of the victims, and in this case, we have a small child that can’t speak for himself.”
Cullman County Sheriff Mike Rainey, Bartlett and Tyus commended several groups that have been helpful throughout the investigation.
“The Juvenile Probation Office, DHR (Department of Human Resources), the staff at Child Haven and the District Attorney’s office have helped pave our investigation,” Tyus said. “It’s been a cumulative effort between everyone in Cullman County to make sure that this case is heard.”
Bryant is being held at the Cullman County Detention Center on a $36,000 cash bond. He has been charged with criminally negligent homicide, a class-A misdemeanor and aggravated child abuse, a class-B felony.
“There were multiple factors that contributed to drowning and death of this child,” Tyus said. “I wanted to speak for this child who can’t speak for himself. His story needs to be heard, that is the biggest thing.”
Bartlett stressed that practicing safety with young children is vital, especially around water.
“To all parents, especially young ones, we’ve had too many children die by drowning; it could be in bath tubs, swimming pools, whatever,” Bartlett said. “If they are a small child, it only takes a moment for tragedy to strike, this is not that type of circumstance, this is a criminal matter.”
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Dad gets prison for sexually assaulting his daughters for years (Charleston, West Virginia)
The scumbag dad is identified as BILLY TOWNSEND.
http://www.dailymail.com/policebrfs/201304300106
Tuesday April 30, 2013
Father sentenced to 51 to 205 years in prison for sexually assaulting his daughters
by Cheryl Caswell Daily Mail staff
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha judge sentenced a Clendenin father to 51 to 205 years in prison for sexually assaulting his daughters for years.
Billy Townsend, 41, apologized in court, and his attorney asked for a 25-year sentence.
After listening to one of the victims testify, at times in graphic detail, about the assaults that occurred over her lifetime, Circuit Judge Charles King said he couldn't justify that sentence.
"Since I was a small child, my sister and I went through things no child should have to go through," she said. "I was 6 when he started molesting me."
She said her father was an alcoholic and frequently abusive to her mother also. But he was sober when he sought her out, she said.
The teenager said that in addition to the sexual abuse, Townsend would choke her, punch her in the stomach and threaten to kill her and her mother if she told.
She was 12 when he brutally raped her, she said. The first time was in his truck, but later he began to come to her bedroom at night. He told her he was in love with her.
Townsend held his head in his hands as the girl spoke tearfully. He never looked at her.
"I've heard he has found religion," she said. "His whole family thinks he has changed, but I don't believe it. He deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison.
"I'm tired of worrying who his next victim will be," she said.
Townsend was arrested last June after one of the victims disclosed the abuse to police. He waived a grand jury indictment and pleaded guilty to two charges of first-degree sexual abuse and one charge of third-degree sexual abuse.
He received two 25-100 year sentences and a one-to-five-year sentence. Townsend will have to register for life as a sexual offender
http://www.dailymail.com/policebrfs/201304300106
Tuesday April 30, 2013
Father sentenced to 51 to 205 years in prison for sexually assaulting his daughters
by Cheryl Caswell Daily Mail staff
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha judge sentenced a Clendenin father to 51 to 205 years in prison for sexually assaulting his daughters for years.
Billy Townsend, 41, apologized in court, and his attorney asked for a 25-year sentence.
After listening to one of the victims testify, at times in graphic detail, about the assaults that occurred over her lifetime, Circuit Judge Charles King said he couldn't justify that sentence.
"Since I was a small child, my sister and I went through things no child should have to go through," she said. "I was 6 when he started molesting me."
She said her father was an alcoholic and frequently abusive to her mother also. But he was sober when he sought her out, she said.
The teenager said that in addition to the sexual abuse, Townsend would choke her, punch her in the stomach and threaten to kill her and her mother if she told.
She was 12 when he brutally raped her, she said. The first time was in his truck, but later he began to come to her bedroom at night. He told her he was in love with her.
Townsend held his head in his hands as the girl spoke tearfully. He never looked at her.
"I've heard he has found religion," she said. "His whole family thinks he has changed, but I don't believe it. He deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison.
"I'm tired of worrying who his next victim will be," she said.
Townsend was arrested last June after one of the victims disclosed the abuse to police. He waived a grand jury indictment and pleaded guilty to two charges of first-degree sexual abuse and one charge of third-degree sexual abuse.
He received two 25-100 year sentences and a one-to-five-year sentence. Townsend will have to register for life as a sexual offender
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More on father who shot 1-year-old son in the head; baby has life-threatening injuries (Waveland, Mississippi)
More on dad KHIRY THOMAS, the allegedly "depressed" daddy who shot his 1-year-old son in the head. All in an isolated motel room before offing himself.
Lots of interesting things here. Daddy picked up the baby from HIS PARENTS' HOUSE. There is mention of a relative, an aunt.
THERE IS STILL NO MENTION OF THE MOTHER WHO APPARENTLY HAD HER BABY TAKEN AWAY FROM HER--only to be given to a presumably mentally ill (vengeful) father and his enabler family in denial. Why? Who was behind the decision?
http://www.wlox.com/story/22119715/police-investigating-shooting-of-father-and-son-in-waveland
Father dead, son injured in Waveland shooting
Posted: Apr 30, 2013 1:36 PM EDT
Updated: May 01, 2013 6:54 AM EDT
By Al Showers
WAVELAND, MS (WLOX) - Waveland investigators are trying to put together the pieces of a shooting that left a young father dead and his infant son fighting for his life.
Few official details have been released, but a source told WLOX News the baby was shot in the head. Fortunately, he is expected to survive.
The child's father, 22-year-old Khiry Thomas, died of a gunshot wound to the head, and police said it appears to be self inflicted.
"Evidence at the scene is indicating toward that the baby was shot," said investigator David Allen. "We are still determining the exact method by which the baby was shot."
According to a relative, Khiry Thomas arrived at the Coast Inn and Suites in a taxi after stopping at his parents' home to pick up his infant son. She said Thomas had been depressed and recently sought treatment.
"The last time I saw Khiry, he was telling me when he came and got his bag was that he was leaving and he wasn't coming back, and that we didn't have to worry about him no more when he left," said Khiry's aunt, Toni Thomas recalled. "I didn't think nothing of it because he was leaving and he was supposed to be going by his mom's house."
Toni Thomas said her nephew stayed with her from time to time. And that he loved his son, and had a lot to live for.
"Khiry was an intelligent person. He was smart, he made straight A's in school. He used to tell my mom he wanted to be an architect."
She doesn't believe Thomas would take his own life or harm his son.
"Me, personally? I don't think he done it. I don't think he done it... Khiry is not capable of doing nothing like that. He's too smart for that."
Lots of interesting things here. Daddy picked up the baby from HIS PARENTS' HOUSE. There is mention of a relative, an aunt.
THERE IS STILL NO MENTION OF THE MOTHER WHO APPARENTLY HAD HER BABY TAKEN AWAY FROM HER--only to be given to a presumably mentally ill (vengeful) father and his enabler family in denial. Why? Who was behind the decision?
http://www.wlox.com/story/22119715/police-investigating-shooting-of-father-and-son-in-waveland
Father dead, son injured in Waveland shooting
Posted: Apr 30, 2013 1:36 PM EDT
Updated: May 01, 2013 6:54 AM EDT
By Al Showers
WAVELAND, MS (WLOX) - Waveland investigators are trying to put together the pieces of a shooting that left a young father dead and his infant son fighting for his life.
Few official details have been released, but a source told WLOX News the baby was shot in the head. Fortunately, he is expected to survive.
The child's father, 22-year-old Khiry Thomas, died of a gunshot wound to the head, and police said it appears to be self inflicted.
"Evidence at the scene is indicating toward that the baby was shot," said investigator David Allen. "We are still determining the exact method by which the baby was shot."
According to a relative, Khiry Thomas arrived at the Coast Inn and Suites in a taxi after stopping at his parents' home to pick up his infant son. She said Thomas had been depressed and recently sought treatment.
"The last time I saw Khiry, he was telling me when he came and got his bag was that he was leaving and he wasn't coming back, and that we didn't have to worry about him no more when he left," said Khiry's aunt, Toni Thomas recalled. "I didn't think nothing of it because he was leaving and he was supposed to be going by his mom's house."
Toni Thomas said her nephew stayed with her from time to time. And that he loved his son, and had a lot to live for.
"Khiry was an intelligent person. He was smart, he made straight A's in school. He used to tell my mom he wanted to be an architect."
She doesn't believe Thomas would take his own life or harm his son.
"Me, personally? I don't think he done it. I don't think he done it... Khiry is not capable of doing nothing like that. He's too smart for that."
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Custodial dad, gal pal get prison for abuse of his 2-year-old son; had only had custody for SIX WEEKS (Douglas County, Nebraska)
Of course, dad CHAD CYMBALISTA blames his girlfriend for everything. Even though Daddy Dearest admits putting the makeup on his 2-year-old son to disguise his bruises. And it looks like he admits making the boy sleep on a urine-soaked blanket. And punishing him for wanting food.
But check this out: you have go 13 paragraphs to find out that this sh** of a father HAD CUSTODY, and had only had custody for SIX FREAKING WEEKS.
So of course the big unasked (and unanswered) question is WHO GAVE THIS ABUSER DAD CUSTODY and WHY? What happened to this little boy's mother? As so often happens, the mother has been utterly erased from the news account, as if she had never existed...
Who says daddies are discriminated against again? Notice that this entitled little sh** thinks he can take a few classes and get custody back.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20130501/NEWS/705019883/1707
Makeup couldn't mask tot's injuries from 'horrific' abuse; dad, girlfriend get prison
By Todd Cooper
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
There was no hiding the child's disfiguring injuries in a Douglas County district courtroom Tuesday.
Nor was there any concealing of the abuse of the child by his father and the father's girlfriend.
Not like Chad Cymbalista and his then-girlfriend, Nicole Corcoran, had tried to do April 24, 2012, when they caked makeup on the boy's face and took him to the Nebraska Medical Center. Tuesday, their abuse of the little boy was laid bare.
Several times, prosecutor Molly Keane held up a photo of the 2-year-old — taken moments after doctors removed the makeup.
In the photo, the toothy toddler has a goose-egg knot in the center of his forehead, both eyes swollen shut, abrasions on his cheeks and a lower lip marred by what doctors believe was a burn. Doctors further found marks in the shape of adult hands on his arms — and other bruises in various stages of healing.
The photo of the boy — in a hospital gown adorned with big-eared dogs — cried out for punishment, Keane said.
“This was horrific treatment,” Keane said, noting that one investigator described it as “torture.”
Shuffling through that photo and others, Douglas County District Judge Greg Schatz rejected a probation officer's recommendation of probation for Cymbalista, who had no record.
Cymbalista and Corcoran, both 27, faced up to 20 years in prison.
The judge sentenced Cymbalista to four to five years in prison for attempted child abuse — the reduced charge to which he pleaded guilty. He then sentenced Corcoran, mother of three other young children, to eight to 10 years on the same charge.
In giving Corcoran twice as much time as Cymbalista, Schatz cited comments made by Corcoran's children, who witnessed the beatings.
The children, who lived with Cymbalista and his child, said Corcoran would call the toddler “dumb” and “stupid” and beat him in the face and head while Cymbalista was at work. She and Cymbalista would force him to sleep on a urine-soaked blanket. And they would use toddler gates to pen in the boy “for daring to seek out food,” Keane said.
And, Keane noted, the two did all that damage in just the six weeks that they had taken over custody of the boy.
Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine called the abuse brutal.
“Sometimes it's hard for people to imagine that anyone is capable of hurting a defenseless child,” he said. “There are so many people who would just love to have this child and would be willing to do whatever it takes to raise the child the way it should be raised.”
Fortunately, the child is in one such home now — with a foster family that dotes on him and cares for him, authorities say. Now 3, he's eager and bright and talkative, said Shakil Malik, a deputy Douglas County attorney who met with the boy a couple of months ago.
He's mostly overcome his injuries. There's no discernible brain damage, but the child may have slight scarring beneath the eyes.
The biggest lingering issue: A plastic surgeon testified that the boy likely will need surgery to repair his lower lip. After losing a third of his lip, the child had a severe drooling and dribbling problem — and was unable to swallow properly.
But he's now able to eat and drink.
“He's doing as well as can be expected,” Kleine said.
Cymbalista and Corcoran had told authorities that the toddler tore open a cut to his lip by eating popcorn salt. He then picked at it for more than a month before the two decided to take the boy to the hospital, they said.
Doctors found the popcorn-salt story incredible. They suspect that the child suffered a burn to his lower lip that wasn't treated for weeks.
Cymbalista admitted that they covered up the boy's injuries with makeup. However, neither Cymbalista nor Corcoran admitted to the abuse.
As Corcoran's attorney, Bill Eustice, pointed out, Cymbalista blamed Corcoran and vice versa.
Cymbalista had taken classes and had since made efforts to become involved in the boy's life, with the goal of having custody of him again, said his attorney, James Kozel.
Corcoran, for her part, read a five-minute statement in which she denied abusing the boy. She insisted she loved him as if he were her own. She also said she was “born to be a mother.”
“I don't have a mean bone in my body,” Corcoran said. “I love all children. It breaks my heart to see them in any pain. ... I'm only responsible for not asserting myself in my relationship.”
To that, Schatz pointed to her children's accounts of their mother's abuse of the young boy.
“The judge did a good job in discerning who was the more responsible of the two,” Kleine said. “Even so, it's hard to imagine that the child's own father could just stand by and allow this to happen.”
Under state sentencing guidelines, inmates must serve half the lower term of their sentences before being eligible for parole and most are released after serving half the upper term.
But check this out: you have go 13 paragraphs to find out that this sh** of a father HAD CUSTODY, and had only had custody for SIX FREAKING WEEKS.
So of course the big unasked (and unanswered) question is WHO GAVE THIS ABUSER DAD CUSTODY and WHY? What happened to this little boy's mother? As so often happens, the mother has been utterly erased from the news account, as if she had never existed...
Who says daddies are discriminated against again? Notice that this entitled little sh** thinks he can take a few classes and get custody back.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20130501/NEWS/705019883/1707
Makeup couldn't mask tot's injuries from 'horrific' abuse; dad, girlfriend get prison
By Todd Cooper
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
There was no hiding the child's disfiguring injuries in a Douglas County district courtroom Tuesday.
Nor was there any concealing of the abuse of the child by his father and the father's girlfriend.
Not like Chad Cymbalista and his then-girlfriend, Nicole Corcoran, had tried to do April 24, 2012, when they caked makeup on the boy's face and took him to the Nebraska Medical Center. Tuesday, their abuse of the little boy was laid bare.
Several times, prosecutor Molly Keane held up a photo of the 2-year-old — taken moments after doctors removed the makeup.
In the photo, the toothy toddler has a goose-egg knot in the center of his forehead, both eyes swollen shut, abrasions on his cheeks and a lower lip marred by what doctors believe was a burn. Doctors further found marks in the shape of adult hands on his arms — and other bruises in various stages of healing.
The photo of the boy — in a hospital gown adorned with big-eared dogs — cried out for punishment, Keane said.
“This was horrific treatment,” Keane said, noting that one investigator described it as “torture.”
Shuffling through that photo and others, Douglas County District Judge Greg Schatz rejected a probation officer's recommendation of probation for Cymbalista, who had no record.
Cymbalista and Corcoran, both 27, faced up to 20 years in prison.
The judge sentenced Cymbalista to four to five years in prison for attempted child abuse — the reduced charge to which he pleaded guilty. He then sentenced Corcoran, mother of three other young children, to eight to 10 years on the same charge.
In giving Corcoran twice as much time as Cymbalista, Schatz cited comments made by Corcoran's children, who witnessed the beatings.
The children, who lived with Cymbalista and his child, said Corcoran would call the toddler “dumb” and “stupid” and beat him in the face and head while Cymbalista was at work. She and Cymbalista would force him to sleep on a urine-soaked blanket. And they would use toddler gates to pen in the boy “for daring to seek out food,” Keane said.
And, Keane noted, the two did all that damage in just the six weeks that they had taken over custody of the boy.
Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine called the abuse brutal.
“Sometimes it's hard for people to imagine that anyone is capable of hurting a defenseless child,” he said. “There are so many people who would just love to have this child and would be willing to do whatever it takes to raise the child the way it should be raised.”
Fortunately, the child is in one such home now — with a foster family that dotes on him and cares for him, authorities say. Now 3, he's eager and bright and talkative, said Shakil Malik, a deputy Douglas County attorney who met with the boy a couple of months ago.
He's mostly overcome his injuries. There's no discernible brain damage, but the child may have slight scarring beneath the eyes.
The biggest lingering issue: A plastic surgeon testified that the boy likely will need surgery to repair his lower lip. After losing a third of his lip, the child had a severe drooling and dribbling problem — and was unable to swallow properly.
But he's now able to eat and drink.
“He's doing as well as can be expected,” Kleine said.
Cymbalista and Corcoran had told authorities that the toddler tore open a cut to his lip by eating popcorn salt. He then picked at it for more than a month before the two decided to take the boy to the hospital, they said.
Doctors found the popcorn-salt story incredible. They suspect that the child suffered a burn to his lower lip that wasn't treated for weeks.
Cymbalista admitted that they covered up the boy's injuries with makeup. However, neither Cymbalista nor Corcoran admitted to the abuse.
As Corcoran's attorney, Bill Eustice, pointed out, Cymbalista blamed Corcoran and vice versa.
Cymbalista had taken classes and had since made efforts to become involved in the boy's life, with the goal of having custody of him again, said his attorney, James Kozel.
Corcoran, for her part, read a five-minute statement in which she denied abusing the boy. She insisted she loved him as if he were her own. She also said she was “born to be a mother.”
“I don't have a mean bone in my body,” Corcoran said. “I love all children. It breaks my heart to see them in any pain. ... I'm only responsible for not asserting myself in my relationship.”
To that, Schatz pointed to her children's accounts of their mother's abuse of the young boy.
“The judge did a good job in discerning who was the more responsible of the two,” Kleine said. “Even so, it's hard to imagine that the child's own father could just stand by and allow this to happen.”
Under state sentencing guidelines, inmates must serve half the lower term of their sentences before being eligible for parole and most are released after serving half the upper term.
Categories: crime
Dad shoots 1-year-old son in the head, kills self (Waveland, Mississippi)
Confusing and misleading news account. Going by the headline, you would figure that father and son were the victim of a street crime. Not that Daddy Dearest nearly killed his 1-year-old son with his own gun.
Whether the baby's injury was "accidental" from a bull fragment or intentional hardly seems the point. It's still a pretty selfish and sickening thing to kill yourself when you apparently have sole responsibility for a mere baby. A baby who will witness this trauma without being able to fully comprehend it. A baby who has no way of contacting the authorities. A baby who has no one to take care of him, feed him, or comfort him. But do we really think that Daddy gave a sh** about all that either way?
Which leads to the next question. Why was this father checking into a motel alone with a baby? What happened to the baby's mother?
I suspect this will turn out to be one of those scenarios where Mom was breaking off with Dad's sorry @$$, but in order to punish/control her, he took off with her child and nearly killed him.
Daddy is identified as KHIRY THOMAS.
http://www.sunherald.com/2013/05/01/4632998/father-killed-son-wounded-in-waveland.html
Father killed, son wounded in Waveland shooting
Published: May 1, 2013 Updated 10 hours ago
The Associated Press
WAVELAND, Miss. — Waveland police are investigating the shooting of man and his 1-year-old son at the Coast Inn.
Detective David Allen tells The Sun Herald ( http://bit.ly/16ks0TB) police found 22-year-old Khiry Thomas dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head about 8:30 p.m. Monday. Allen says the child survived and is expected to live.
Police believe Thomas checked into the motel Sunday.
Allen said police are trying to determine if the child was struck in the head by a bullet fragment or was shot. The case remained under investigation.
Coroner Jim Faulk said Thomas' death has been ruled a suicide.
Whether the baby's injury was "accidental" from a bull fragment or intentional hardly seems the point. It's still a pretty selfish and sickening thing to kill yourself when you apparently have sole responsibility for a mere baby. A baby who will witness this trauma without being able to fully comprehend it. A baby who has no way of contacting the authorities. A baby who has no one to take care of him, feed him, or comfort him. But do we really think that Daddy gave a sh** about all that either way?
Which leads to the next question. Why was this father checking into a motel alone with a baby? What happened to the baby's mother?
I suspect this will turn out to be one of those scenarios where Mom was breaking off with Dad's sorry @$$, but in order to punish/control her, he took off with her child and nearly killed him.
Daddy is identified as KHIRY THOMAS.
http://www.sunherald.com/2013/05/01/4632998/father-killed-son-wounded-in-waveland.html
Father killed, son wounded in Waveland shooting
Published: May 1, 2013 Updated 10 hours ago
The Associated Press
WAVELAND, Miss. — Waveland police are investigating the shooting of man and his 1-year-old son at the Coast Inn.
Detective David Allen tells The Sun Herald ( http://bit.ly/16ks0TB) police found 22-year-old Khiry Thomas dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head about 8:30 p.m. Monday. Allen says the child survived and is expected to live.
Police believe Thomas checked into the motel Sunday.
Allen said police are trying to determine if the child was struck in the head by a bullet fragment or was shot. The case remained under investigation.
Coroner Jim Faulk said Thomas' death has been ruled a suicide.
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Dad to be sentenced for raping 6-year-old daughter (Fiji)
UNNAMED DAD
http://www.fbc.com.fj/fiji/9896/father-to-await-sentencing-on-friday
Father to await sentencing on Friday
17:05 Tue Apr 30, 2013
Taken from/By: FBC News
Report by: Dev Narayan
A father who raped his six year old daughter will be sentenced this Friday.
The accused appeared at the Suva High Court this morning and is convicted for incest and sexual assault.
The Director of Public Prosecutions has asked for a minimum sentence of ten years.
Judge Justice Salesi Temo says this sentence should serve as a lesson to all fathers as having sexual intercourse with your own children is a serious offence.
The incident happened in Tailevu in 2011.
http://www.fbc.com.fj/fiji/9896/father-to-await-sentencing-on-friday
Father to await sentencing on Friday
17:05 Tue Apr 30, 2013
Taken from/By: FBC News
Report by: Dev Narayan
A father who raped his six year old daughter will be sentenced this Friday.
The accused appeared at the Suva High Court this morning and is convicted for incest and sexual assault.
The Director of Public Prosecutions has asked for a minimum sentence of ten years.
Judge Justice Salesi Temo says this sentence should serve as a lesson to all fathers as having sexual intercourse with your own children is a serious offence.
The incident happened in Tailevu in 2011.
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Dad arrested after children, 2 and 4, found home alone (Richland, Mississippi)
Yet another case where Mom was working and bringing in a paycheck to support the family, while the babysitting dad was clueless.
Dad is identified as ERIC MASHONE RUSSELL.
http://www.wlox.com/story/22108692/father-accused-of-leaving-2-children-alone
Father arrested after children, 2 and 4, found home alone
Posted: Apr 29, 2013 2:41 PM EDT
Updated: Apr 29, 2013 8:10 PM EDT
Richland police say a father is facing charges after two children were left at home alone Sunday morning.
RICHLAND, MS (Mississippi News Now) - Richland police say a father is facing charges after two children were left at home alone Sunday morning.
According to Allison Clark with the Richland Police Department, Eric Mashone Russell, 30, is charged with child neglect. Russell is accused of leaving a 2-year-old and a 4-year-old alone at an apartment at the Richland Apartments complex. Russell is the 2-year-old's father.
Richland police received a call about the children around 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Russell reportedly said he went to the next apartment complex to ask his brother for a ride to work.
The mother of the two children was at work at the time and isn't facing any charges.
Russell is out of jail on bond and has a court appearance scheduled for May 29.
Dad is identified as ERIC MASHONE RUSSELL.
http://www.wlox.com/story/22108692/father-accused-of-leaving-2-children-alone
Father arrested after children, 2 and 4, found home alone
Posted: Apr 29, 2013 2:41 PM EDT
Updated: Apr 29, 2013 8:10 PM EDT
Richland police say a father is facing charges after two children were left at home alone Sunday morning.
RICHLAND, MS (Mississippi News Now) - Richland police say a father is facing charges after two children were left at home alone Sunday morning.
According to Allison Clark with the Richland Police Department, Eric Mashone Russell, 30, is charged with child neglect. Russell is accused of leaving a 2-year-old and a 4-year-old alone at an apartment at the Richland Apartments complex. Russell is the 2-year-old's father.
Richland police received a call about the children around 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Russell reportedly said he went to the next apartment complex to ask his brother for a ride to work.
The mother of the two children was at work at the time and isn't facing any charges.
Russell is out of jail on bond and has a court appearance scheduled for May 29.
Categories: crime
Alcoholic custodial dad with extensive DUI history avoids jail--because he's a custodial dad to 3-year-old daughter (Queensland, Australia)
Who says daddies are discriminated against? On the contrary, they are coddled again and again.
What a sweet deal for custodial dad MARK DANIEL TANTHEM. F*** up all you want, because you will never lose custody and never be held accountable. Ignore every court order that was ever issued and drive drunk and unlicensed as much as you like. No jail ever!
What happened to this little girl's mother? Total silence as usual.
http://www.qt.com.au/news/child-is-the-reason-dad-is-not-now-behind-bars/1848396/
Child is the only reason single parent is not behind bars
30th Apr 2013 6:00 AM
A THREE-year-old girl is the only reason a repeat offender isn't behind bars.
Mark Daniel Tathem, 27, yesterday pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified by a court order.
Tathem was intercepted by police at the Blacksoil Caltex on the Warrego Hwy, where he was driving an intoxicated friend home.
The court heard Tathem, a single father of a three-year-old daughter, has an extensive history of driving while unlicensed and disqualified.
Magistrate Michael Quinn said Tathem had a "terrible history of disregarding orders of the court".
"He's had so many chances, why should the court give him any more," he said.
"You seem to have breached every order given to you.
"The only thing saving you from actual jail time is the three-year-old."
Tathem was disqualified for two years and given a four-month suspended jail sentence.
What a sweet deal for custodial dad MARK DANIEL TANTHEM. F*** up all you want, because you will never lose custody and never be held accountable. Ignore every court order that was ever issued and drive drunk and unlicensed as much as you like. No jail ever!
What happened to this little girl's mother? Total silence as usual.
http://www.qt.com.au/news/child-is-the-reason-dad-is-not-now-behind-bars/1848396/
Child is the only reason single parent is not behind bars
30th Apr 2013 6:00 AM
A THREE-year-old girl is the only reason a repeat offender isn't behind bars.
Mark Daniel Tathem, 27, yesterday pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified by a court order.
Tathem was intercepted by police at the Blacksoil Caltex on the Warrego Hwy, where he was driving an intoxicated friend home.
The court heard Tathem, a single father of a three-year-old daughter, has an extensive history of driving while unlicensed and disqualified.
Magistrate Michael Quinn said Tathem had a "terrible history of disregarding orders of the court".
"He's had so many chances, why should the court give him any more," he said.
"You seem to have breached every order given to you.
"The only thing saving you from actual jail time is the three-year-old."
Tathem was disqualified for two years and given a four-month suspended jail sentence.
Categories: crime
Dad chokes and bites 10-year-old son, hangs him from fence (Houston, Texas)
Dad is identified as MARTY ANDREWS. No mention of a mother in the home.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2316886/Irate-dad-chokes-bites-10-year-old-hangs-boy-fence-teach-lesson.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Irate dad 'chokes and bites' his 10-year-old then hangs boy on fence to 'teach him a lesson'
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED:20:20 EST, 29 April 2013| UPDATED: 20:20 EST, 29 April 2013
An angry Houston father took the reprimanding and punishment of his ten-year-old son way too far, according to police.
Marty Andrews, 37, was charged with felony injury to a child after witnesses said they saw him first choke and bite the boy on the forehead, as reported by Khou.com.
In the incident, which happened on February 26, Andrews reportedly then bodyslammed his son onto the hood of a car. He believed the child had been fighting during a yard football game
According to court documents, the man then picked up his son by the shirt and threw him into a fence. He then apparently picked up the boy and hung him on the railings.
The ten-year-old agreed with the accusations against his father. The documents stated that the boy also said his dad had been squeezing his throat while questioning him.
Khou.com said that Mr Andrews did not agree with the severity of his punishment and that he was only trying to 'teach him a lesson.'
Andrews claimed that he was upset as he believed his son had been quarreling with the other children he was playing football with. He claimed his teeth hit the boy’s forehead by accident.
The father admitted that he had lifted the boy up by his jacket and put him on the hood of a car.
Andrews also said he did hold the boy up against the fence by his neck but claimed he didn't squeeze it very hard.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2316886/Irate-dad-chokes-bites-10-year-old-hangs-boy-fence-teach-lesson.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Irate dad 'chokes and bites' his 10-year-old then hangs boy on fence to 'teach him a lesson'
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED:20:20 EST, 29 April 2013| UPDATED: 20:20 EST, 29 April 2013
An angry Houston father took the reprimanding and punishment of his ten-year-old son way too far, according to police.
Marty Andrews, 37, was charged with felony injury to a child after witnesses said they saw him first choke and bite the boy on the forehead, as reported by Khou.com.
In the incident, which happened on February 26, Andrews reportedly then bodyslammed his son onto the hood of a car. He believed the child had been fighting during a yard football game
According to court documents, the man then picked up his son by the shirt and threw him into a fence. He then apparently picked up the boy and hung him on the railings.
The ten-year-old agreed with the accusations against his father. The documents stated that the boy also said his dad had been squeezing his throat while questioning him.
Khou.com said that Mr Andrews did not agree with the severity of his punishment and that he was only trying to 'teach him a lesson.'
Andrews claimed that he was upset as he believed his son had been quarreling with the other children he was playing football with. He claimed his teeth hit the boy’s forehead by accident.
The father admitted that he had lifted the boy up by his jacket and put him on the hood of a car.
Andrews also said he did hold the boy up against the fence by his neck but claimed he didn't squeeze it very hard.
Categories: crime
Dad charged with child abuse for suspending daughter over bridge railing (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Is dad HANS JANSMA a single and/or custodial father? Can't help but wonder, since as far as I have seen, there is NO MENTION OF A MOTHER in any of the news accounts.
Seems like Mom would have played a role in this happy-little-family-at-home ruse for the media IF she was around.
Frankly, I'm wary of the "repeated" kissing and hugging between the little girl and her father. It's a little icky, and frequently seen with custodial dads with boundary issues. It's especially common for this to be played up for naive reporters who don't "get" this kind of stuff. It also tends to go with trauma bonding--which is what happens when you're just four years of age, and Daddy puts you on a bridge pillar over a raging river at flood stage.
So what happened to Mom?
http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/grand_rapids/father-hans-jansma-charged-for-allowing-daughter-on-blue-bridge-piling
Dad charged after girl on bridge pillar Girl, 4, was near swollen Grand River during flood
Updated: Tuesday, 30 Apr 2013, 9:01 AM EDT
Published : Monday, 29 Apr 2013, 5:22 PM EDT
By Dani Carlson
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - A man caught on camera allowing his 4-year-old daughter to stand on the outside of the railing on a bridge just inches from a swollen Grand River has now been charged with child abuse.
Hans Jansma was charged with fourth-degree child abuse, a one-year misdemeanor, for what happened on the pedestrian Blue Bridge in downtown Grand Rapids. Jansma turned himself in on the charge and was released from jail.
Jansma put his daughter "at unreasonable risk of harm or physical injury by allowing said child to stand on a bridge pillar over a flooded river," according to court documents.
Jansma spoke to 24 Hour News 8 a day after the April 22 incident. He said his young girl was never in any danger.
"I'm not going to put my daughter in any harm," Jansma said at the time. "That's crazy."
The 24 Hour News 8 photojournalist who captured the incident saw Jansma and another adult standing on the Blue Bridge above the child. Jansma was holding the other end of the rope wrapped around the girl's waist. Jansma referred to that rope last week as a "safety rope." He described it as a 3/8-inch piece of rope that he says could easily hold his daughter's 35 pounds -- or even, he claimed, his own weight.
"It was a rope," he described Monday. "It wasn't twine. It wasn't fishing line. It was a rope."
When 24 Hour News 8 was at his home last week, the girl appeared to be happy and affectionate toward her father, kissing and hugging him repeatedly.
Jansma also never took his eyes off the girl as she played in front of his home. Jansma is scheduled to be in court to face the charge in early May.
Jansma previously pleaded guilty to three misdemeanors -- none of which were child abuse -- in 2001 and 2004.
Seems like Mom would have played a role in this happy-little-family-at-home ruse for the media IF she was around.
Frankly, I'm wary of the "repeated" kissing and hugging between the little girl and her father. It's a little icky, and frequently seen with custodial dads with boundary issues. It's especially common for this to be played up for naive reporters who don't "get" this kind of stuff. It also tends to go with trauma bonding--which is what happens when you're just four years of age, and Daddy puts you on a bridge pillar over a raging river at flood stage.
So what happened to Mom?
http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/grand_rapids/father-hans-jansma-charged-for-allowing-daughter-on-blue-bridge-piling
Dad charged after girl on bridge pillar Girl, 4, was near swollen Grand River during flood
Updated: Tuesday, 30 Apr 2013, 9:01 AM EDT
Published : Monday, 29 Apr 2013, 5:22 PM EDT
By Dani Carlson
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - A man caught on camera allowing his 4-year-old daughter to stand on the outside of the railing on a bridge just inches from a swollen Grand River has now been charged with child abuse.
Hans Jansma was charged with fourth-degree child abuse, a one-year misdemeanor, for what happened on the pedestrian Blue Bridge in downtown Grand Rapids. Jansma turned himself in on the charge and was released from jail.
Jansma put his daughter "at unreasonable risk of harm or physical injury by allowing said child to stand on a bridge pillar over a flooded river," according to court documents.
Jansma spoke to 24 Hour News 8 a day after the April 22 incident. He said his young girl was never in any danger.
"I'm not going to put my daughter in any harm," Jansma said at the time. "That's crazy."
The 24 Hour News 8 photojournalist who captured the incident saw Jansma and another adult standing on the Blue Bridge above the child. Jansma was holding the other end of the rope wrapped around the girl's waist. Jansma referred to that rope last week as a "safety rope." He described it as a 3/8-inch piece of rope that he says could easily hold his daughter's 35 pounds -- or even, he claimed, his own weight.
"It was a rope," he described Monday. "It wasn't twine. It wasn't fishing line. It was a rope."
When 24 Hour News 8 was at his home last week, the girl appeared to be happy and affectionate toward her father, kissing and hugging him repeatedly.
Jansma also never took his eyes off the girl as she played in front of his home. Jansma is scheduled to be in court to face the charge in early May.
Jansma previously pleaded guilty to three misdemeanors -- none of which were child abuse -- in 2001 and 2004.
Categories: crime
Dad arrested for child neglect; wandering toddler united with Mom (Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin)
UNNAMED DAD.
Typically, this kind of case falls into two categories.
1) The babysitting or "stay-at-home" dad who can't/won't get a job--often because of past issues with the criminal justice system, drug/alcohol abuse, or general irresponsbility. Mom is forced to use him as a child care provider because she must work to support the family.
2) The single dad who manages to get custody/visitation rights--despite being a deadbeat, a convicted felon, and a child-neglecting drunk.
Since this happened on a Sunday afternoon, I'm betting on scenario #2. Especially since the mother was not charged. And had she been in the home, she would have been charged as well.
http://www.doorcountydailynews.com/news/details.cfm?clientid=28&id=75324
Found Child Reunited With Mother; Father Arrested For Child Neglect
4/30/2013 12:00:00 AM
By Bob Dohr
A toddler found wandering a neighborhood on Sturgeon Bay's east side has been reunited with her mother and the child's father has been arrested on child neglect charges.
Sturgeon Bay police say officers were dispatched to the area of Superior Street Sunday at 12:22 p.m. for a found child. The girl had been found wandering in the neighborhood and neighbors couldn't locate any parents.
Eventually police were alerted to a residence in the neighborhood where a man was lying unresponsive on the porch. Police say the 23-year-old Sturgeon Bay man was intoxicated, had walked to the location and had fallen asleep with his child nearby. Officers arrested him on charges of child neglect and felony bail jumping for violating absolute sobriety requirements of his bond.
Police are thanking neighbors for their assistance in the incident.
Typically, this kind of case falls into two categories.
1) The babysitting or "stay-at-home" dad who can't/won't get a job--often because of past issues with the criminal justice system, drug/alcohol abuse, or general irresponsbility. Mom is forced to use him as a child care provider because she must work to support the family.
2) The single dad who manages to get custody/visitation rights--despite being a deadbeat, a convicted felon, and a child-neglecting drunk.
Since this happened on a Sunday afternoon, I'm betting on scenario #2. Especially since the mother was not charged. And had she been in the home, she would have been charged as well.
http://www.doorcountydailynews.com/news/details.cfm?clientid=28&id=75324
Found Child Reunited With Mother; Father Arrested For Child Neglect
4/30/2013 12:00:00 AM
By Bob Dohr
A toddler found wandering a neighborhood on Sturgeon Bay's east side has been reunited with her mother and the child's father has been arrested on child neglect charges.
Sturgeon Bay police say officers were dispatched to the area of Superior Street Sunday at 12:22 p.m. for a found child. The girl had been found wandering in the neighborhood and neighbors couldn't locate any parents.
Eventually police were alerted to a residence in the neighborhood where a man was lying unresponsive on the porch. Police say the 23-year-old Sturgeon Bay man was intoxicated, had walked to the location and had fallen asleep with his child nearby. Officers arrested him on charges of child neglect and felony bail jumping for violating absolute sobriety requirements of his bond.
Police are thanking neighbors for their assistance in the incident.
Categories: crime
Registered sex offender dad seeking custody rights, visitation with 6-year-old daughter (Wayne County, Michigan)
Dad is identified as DONALD CARNS.
Sickening that a convicted sex offender doesn't automaticallly lose his parental rights, but I guess we have the fathers' rights movement to thank for that. They're so interested in the welfare of the children, doncha know...
What they are interested in is maintaining the "rights" of predators to have ready access to victims.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/mother-fights-to-change-michigan-law-stop-sex-offender-father-from-seeing-6yearold-daughter/-/1719418/19941660/-/nhji7dz/-/index.html
Mother fights to change Michigan law, stop sex offender father from seeing 6-year-old daughter
Wayne County man charged with soliciting sex from girls wants visitation with daughter
Author: Steve Garagiola, Local 4 Anchor/Reporter
Published On: Apr 29 2013 05:50:17 PM EDT Updated On: Apr 29 2013 07:07:04 PM EDT
WAYNE COUNTY, Mich. - A battle brewing Monday in a Wayne County Court, over child visitation, could have an impact across the state.
The case involves a registered sex offender who wants visitation rights with his 6-year-old daughter.
The mother is fighting visitation, saying current Michigan law gives the sex offender rights, while denying rights to her daughter.
Amy Carns wants to stop her ex-husband Donald from getting custody and visitation of their daughter.
He is the biological father who also pled no-contest to soliciting sex from underage girls over the internet.
"If you're a convicted sex offender you can't even go into a school, you can't go into sporting events, you cannot go anywhere near where other people's children are present." said Carns.
But, Michigan law is not as clear when the sex offender is a parent.
Carns argues that as a school principal she can protect other children from contact with sex offenders, but she legally can't shield her own daughter.
"My daughter could be forced to sit in a room with a man that committed his crimes and tried to have sex with minor children for almost three years," she said. Carns wants to change the law.
The Children's Protection Act, now in the Michigan Senate, would eliminate some of the special consideration a biological parent gets when that parent is also a sex offender.
"I did not become a mother to involve my daughter in one-on-one contact repeatedly with someone who solicited children for sex, not at all. I protect children, not just mine but children every day in my school building form sex offenders entering, steeping foot in my school so they are that safe at all times," said Carns.
Father Donald Carns was asked if he wanted to tell his side of the story, but he declined to speak with Local 4.
The visitation issue in this case has not been decided. The judge wanted to talk with the child before making a ruling.
The Children's Protection Act is currently in the Senate pending a vote, if passed it would move to the House.
Sickening that a convicted sex offender doesn't automaticallly lose his parental rights, but I guess we have the fathers' rights movement to thank for that. They're so interested in the welfare of the children, doncha know...
What they are interested in is maintaining the "rights" of predators to have ready access to victims.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/mother-fights-to-change-michigan-law-stop-sex-offender-father-from-seeing-6yearold-daughter/-/1719418/19941660/-/nhji7dz/-/index.html
Mother fights to change Michigan law, stop sex offender father from seeing 6-year-old daughter
Wayne County man charged with soliciting sex from girls wants visitation with daughter
Author: Steve Garagiola, Local 4 Anchor/Reporter
Published On: Apr 29 2013 05:50:17 PM EDT Updated On: Apr 29 2013 07:07:04 PM EDT
WAYNE COUNTY, Mich. - A battle brewing Monday in a Wayne County Court, over child visitation, could have an impact across the state.
The case involves a registered sex offender who wants visitation rights with his 6-year-old daughter.
The mother is fighting visitation, saying current Michigan law gives the sex offender rights, while denying rights to her daughter.
Amy Carns wants to stop her ex-husband Donald from getting custody and visitation of their daughter.
He is the biological father who also pled no-contest to soliciting sex from underage girls over the internet.
"If you're a convicted sex offender you can't even go into a school, you can't go into sporting events, you cannot go anywhere near where other people's children are present." said Carns.
But, Michigan law is not as clear when the sex offender is a parent.
Carns argues that as a school principal she can protect other children from contact with sex offenders, but she legally can't shield her own daughter.
"My daughter could be forced to sit in a room with a man that committed his crimes and tried to have sex with minor children for almost three years," she said. Carns wants to change the law.
The Children's Protection Act, now in the Michigan Senate, would eliminate some of the special consideration a biological parent gets when that parent is also a sex offender.
"I did not become a mother to involve my daughter in one-on-one contact repeatedly with someone who solicited children for sex, not at all. I protect children, not just mine but children every day in my school building form sex offenders entering, steeping foot in my school so they are that safe at all times," said Carns.
Father Donald Carns was asked if he wanted to tell his side of the story, but he declined to speak with Local 4.
The visitation issue in this case has not been decided. The judge wanted to talk with the child before making a ruling.
The Children's Protection Act is currently in the Senate pending a vote, if passed it would move to the House.
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Custodial dad accused of beating son with hangers, cords (Naples, Florida)
Appears dad NAPOLEON FULLER began abusing his son as soon as he got custody. He obviously wasn't married to the mother. Can't help but wonder if she left him for domestic violence....
http://www.nbc-2.com/story/22097239/naples-man-accused-of-beating-son-with-hangers-and-cords#.UX26ZqKUSYU
Naples man accused of beating son with hangers and cords
Posted: Apr 27, 2013 5:37 PM EDT Updated: Apr 28, 2013 10:29 AM EDT
NAPLES, FL - After a monthlong investigation, a Naples man was arrested after being accused of repeatedly beating his teenage son with hangers and cords.
We went to the neighborhood where deputies say the abuse happened.
Deputies say Napolean Fuller gained custody of his son after the boy's mother died.
Earlier this month, the victim told the Children's Advocacy Center about years of abuse.
It started an investigation, which led to his father's arrest.
The apartment complex on Sunshine Blvd. is a place of darkness for the young boy.
"There's a lot of families just nothing really goes on around this neighborhood," said Carl Montinar, a neighbor.
It's where Collier County Sheriff's deputies say the boy suffered years of child abuse.
The boy said his father, Napolean Fuller, punched, kicked and hit him.
These allegations are shocking to some of his neighbors.
"I've never seen Napoleon hit his son or anything. Napoleon has just been like a second father to me cause every time we're playing football he'll give me tips and stuff," said Calvin Dorceat.
A monthlong investigation began after the child described repeated beatings to staff at the Children's Advocacy Center.
According to the police report, he moved in with his father at this apartment complex in March of 2011. When his grades started to drop, that's when he became abusive.
The report says, "his dad began hitting him with his hand and hangers during the 5th grade."
It also says, "Napoleon began striking [victim] on his legs, arms, and back with sticks. [victim] stated that the sticks would break so his father began using cords to hit him with."
The investigation included a medical examination, where deputies say the evidence of abuse was clear.
The report says, "I observed many permanent scars on [victim's] body that resemble perfectly shaped loop marks and marks that were long and thick like a stick."
"When I heard what happened, the situation it was just hard for me to believe," said Calvin Dorceat, a neighbor.
On Friday, the investigation closed with fuller leaving this neighborhood in handcuffs.
According to the report, fuller did admit to hitting his son with a stick, but never leaving a mark.
He told police the scars on his son's body were from someone else.
http://www.nbc-2.com/story/22097239/naples-man-accused-of-beating-son-with-hangers-and-cords#.UX26ZqKUSYU
Naples man accused of beating son with hangers and cords
Posted: Apr 27, 2013 5:37 PM EDT Updated: Apr 28, 2013 10:29 AM EDT
NAPLES, FL - After a monthlong investigation, a Naples man was arrested after being accused of repeatedly beating his teenage son with hangers and cords.
We went to the neighborhood where deputies say the abuse happened.
Deputies say Napolean Fuller gained custody of his son after the boy's mother died.
Earlier this month, the victim told the Children's Advocacy Center about years of abuse.
It started an investigation, which led to his father's arrest.
The apartment complex on Sunshine Blvd. is a place of darkness for the young boy.
"There's a lot of families just nothing really goes on around this neighborhood," said Carl Montinar, a neighbor.
It's where Collier County Sheriff's deputies say the boy suffered years of child abuse.
The boy said his father, Napolean Fuller, punched, kicked and hit him.
These allegations are shocking to some of his neighbors.
"I've never seen Napoleon hit his son or anything. Napoleon has just been like a second father to me cause every time we're playing football he'll give me tips and stuff," said Calvin Dorceat.
A monthlong investigation began after the child described repeated beatings to staff at the Children's Advocacy Center.
According to the police report, he moved in with his father at this apartment complex in March of 2011. When his grades started to drop, that's when he became abusive.
The report says, "his dad began hitting him with his hand and hangers during the 5th grade."
It also says, "Napoleon began striking [victim] on his legs, arms, and back with sticks. [victim] stated that the sticks would break so his father began using cords to hit him with."
The investigation included a medical examination, where deputies say the evidence of abuse was clear.
The report says, "I observed many permanent scars on [victim's] body that resemble perfectly shaped loop marks and marks that were long and thick like a stick."
"When I heard what happened, the situation it was just hard for me to believe," said Calvin Dorceat, a neighbor.
On Friday, the investigation closed with fuller leaving this neighborhood in handcuffs.
According to the report, fuller did admit to hitting his son with a stick, but never leaving a mark.
He told police the scars on his son's body were from someone else.
Categories: crime
"Mental" dad chains 1-year-old daughter (Saudi Arabia)
UNNAMED DAD. No mention of a mother in the home.
http://www.emirates247.com/crime/region/mental-dad-chains-1-year-old-daughter-2013-04-28-1.504261
'Mental' dad chains 1-year-old daughter
Saudi man discovered to be ‘mentally ill’
By Staff Published Sunday, April 28, 2013
A Saudi father tied up his one-year-old daughter with chains and took her to the Red Crescent hospital in the Gulf Kingdom for treatment, saying she has psychological problems. But the shocked staff discovered that the one who is ill is the father.
Medical staff were caught off guard when the Saudi man walked into their centre in the central town of Makkah at dawn on Saturday and handed them the chained baby.
When they asked him why he had tied her up, he told them that he believes she is suffering from psychological problems.
“Doctors there decided to hand the girl to the obstetrics hospital after they discovered that the father is mentally ill,” Sabq Arabic language newspaper said, adding that police were informed about the incident.
http://www.emirates247.com/crime/region/mental-dad-chains-1-year-old-daughter-2013-04-28-1.504261
'Mental' dad chains 1-year-old daughter
Saudi man discovered to be ‘mentally ill’
By Staff Published Sunday, April 28, 2013
A Saudi father tied up his one-year-old daughter with chains and took her to the Red Crescent hospital in the Gulf Kingdom for treatment, saying she has psychological problems. But the shocked staff discovered that the one who is ill is the father.
Medical staff were caught off guard when the Saudi man walked into their centre in the central town of Makkah at dawn on Saturday and handed them the chained baby.
When they asked him why he had tied her up, he told them that he believes she is suffering from psychological problems.
“Doctors there decided to hand the girl to the obstetrics hospital after they discovered that the father is mentally ill,” Sabq Arabic language newspaper said, adding that police were informed about the incident.
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