The United States has the highest rate of child homicide.
“Compared to other developed nations, the United States has the highest rate of child homicide,” reported the American Psychiatric Association in 2005, adding, “The incidence of homicide of children less than 1 year old has increased over the past quarter-century.”

April 2, 2008
A 14-year-old gave birth to a baby in a junior high school bathroom and tried to flush the newborn down the toilet, killing the infant….

Baytown [Houston suburb] police said the eighth-grade student delivered the near full-term baby at Cedar Bayou Junior High School… on Wednesday morning while she was alone.

The baby was born alive, investigators said….

“We understand that the baby was alive when it was born and that the girl attempted to flush the child down the toilet. The child died as a result of these actions,” said Lt. Eric Freed of the Baytown Police Department.

Another student who walked into the restroom heard the baby crying and ran to get the nurse and assistant principal. But by the time they arrived, officials said, it was too late.

The case is being treated as a homicide, detectives said. Police have not said if the baby was a boy or a girl.

“According to everyone I talked to, no one knew that she was pregnant,” said Kathy Clausen of the Goose Creek Independent School District.

MSM and liberals join the throng in questioning the cause of the rash of school shootings around the country. They wonder why the anger, why the hatred, why do certain youth want to kill other youth? Blamed are lax gun laws, violent movies and game videos, removal of God from the schools, and broken families, among others.

But where are MSM and liberals to question why more and more newborns are being callously murdered by their own parents?

Baby abuse fact, “Homicide is the leading cause of infant deaths due to intentional injury in the US…. The risk for homicide is greater in infancy than in any other year of childhood before the age of 15 years…. Homicides of infants and young children are most often committed in the home, by parents/caregivers, using ‘weapons of opportunity,’” according to the British Medical Journal in 2006, quoting FBI and Dept. of Justice statistics.

In fact, “Compared to other developed nations, the United States has the highest rate of child homicide,” reported the American Psychiatric Association in 2005, adding, “The incidence of homicide of children less than 1 year old has increased over the past quarter-century.”

Where are the abortion proponents? Wasn’t abortion supposed to ensure every child is a wanted child? In fact, child abuse rose 300% between 1976 and 1996. I have a couple sources for that statistic. Here’s one. Why was that?

These incidents are nothing more than the result of this society’s attitude telling people (especially YOUNG people ) that human life has no value. If you get pregnant, you can kill the baby, regardless of how far along you are, then move on. Problem solved. These kids probably figure, “if I can kill it before it’s born, why not after…what’s the difference”?

By Jill Stanek
*Please repost

OREGON CITY, Ore.(AP)

A 15-month-old girl whose parents’ church shuns doctors in favor of faith healing appeared to be malnourished after her death from pneumonia, a deputy medical examiner testified Tuesday in the manslaughter trial of her parents.

Raylene and Carl Brent Worthington of Oregon City are members of the Followers of Christ Church and are accused of manslaughter and criminal mistreatment in the death last year of their child, Ava.

The state medical examiner said she could easily have been saved with antibiotics.

It was the first case brought under Oregon’s 1999 law that rejects a religious defense for most abuse cases and was drafted mostly in response to groups such as the Followers of Christ.

The trial opened on Monday, with the lawyers for her parents saying the couple thought the girl was getting better as they and other members of the church went through faith healing rituals _ such as prayer and anointing her with oil.

Her body was examined by Jeffrey Mayer, a deputy medical examiner.

On Tuesday, Mayer said he went to the girl’s bedroom on the night she died and saw a humidifier and fan running and a TV tray containing a red liquid he assumed was wine plus olive oil. He said both are commonly used as part of the faith-healing practices of the congregation.

Mayer said the girl appeared to be malnourished, with protruding ribs and with a weight “not consistent with peer weight.”

Mayer also told of a cyst-like growth on the girl’s neck, which prosecutors say was caused by her lymphatic system struggling against infection.

“I have never seen anything like that in my experience,” he said, and described it as the size of a baseball.

Mayer testified that he deals frequently with members of the church because attending physicians aren’t present when they die. It’s up to his office to sign the death certificates, he said.

He said about 200 people, whom he assumed to be church members, had gathered at the home just east of Oregon City on March 2, 2008, a Sunday night. Others put the number closer to 100.

Mayer played taped interviews he had with the Worthingtons hours after their daughter died.

The parents told him the girl had never seen a doctor and not been given over-the-counter medication.

Photos taken by investigators in the parents’ bedroom just outside Oregon City showed the girl’s body, in pink pajamas and slippers, almost doll-like, crosswise at the top of her parents’ bed, where she normally slept.

In the interview, Raylene Worthington said she noticed the swelling on Ava’s neck getting worse during her daughter’s final days. She also said Ava developed a cough and it worsened.

Ava weighed 10 pounds at birth. She weighed just 16 pounds when she died.

Carl Brent Worthington said his wife was with their daughter on their bed when Ava died. Both said the cough was worse in her last days, especially when she was lying down, but she seemed healthy otherwise. Her mother described her as “a good eater,” which caused prosecutors to ask about her apparently emaciated condition.

“They said she had quit breathing,” her father said of that Sunday night, when church members had begun to gather at their home, but said he didn’t know who told him.

He said he ran to the bedroom but neither he nor anybody else gave CPR or called 911.

Asked during the taped interview why, he said, “She was already gone. I anointed her.”

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June 29, 2009

HILLSBORO, Ore. — A pregnant 21-year-old newcomer to Oregon who was found dead in a crawl space of a home had been cut open and her baby taken from her womb, investigators said Monday.

It couldn’t be determined if the infant son of Heather Snively died before or after he was removed, the Washington County sheriff’s department said in a statement.

A 27-year-old Beaverton woman, Korena Roberts, was to be arraigned Monday on a murder charge in Snively’s death.

Investigators have said Roberts claimed Snively’s infant was her own. Police were called to the home Friday because a newborn wasn’t breathing. Doctors were unable to revive him and told officers that Roberts had not given birth. Police then found Snively’s body at Roberts’ home.

A medical examiner said Monday that Snively died of blunt and sharp force injuries.

“At this time, it has not been determined if she died because of head wounds she received or as a result of cutting injuries she received to her abdomen,” the sheriff’s office said.

Investigators said Roberts had been telling friends and family members for months that she was pregnant. They said Roberts may have been in contact with other pregnant women.

Snively had recently moved to Oregon from Maryland because her boyfriend and father of the child had found a better job. He reported Snively missing Friday night.

Snively’s mother, Heidi Kidd of St. Albans, W.Va., said Snively met Roberts a few weeks ago through Craigslist, the online classified service. Roberts told Snively she was pregnant and wanted baby clothes, Kidd said. They befriended one another and kept talking online.

Kidd told The Associated Press on Sunday that her first grandson was to be named John Steven.

“I’m still in shock; it hasn’t hit me,” she said. “I mean, that initial phone call; I just couldn’t believe it. I just could not believe I was talking about my own child.”

A Hobart, Ind. couple fabricated a story about a 2-year-old girl being kidnapped in order to cover up the toddler’s apparent beating death, prosecutors said today.

Engelica Castillo, 18, and Tim Tkachik, 23, were each charged with murder, neglect of a dependent, battery and false informing in the death of 2-year-old Jada Justice. The couple were babysitting the girl, who was Castillo’s cousin.

“This tragic ending is not the outcome we were all hoping for,” Lake County Prosecutor Bernard A. Carter said in a statement. “My condolences to all the family and friends of this precious child.”

Jada’s body was found about 2:30 p.m. Thursday in western LaPorte County, about 60 miles east of Chicago, officials said.

Jada was reported missing on June 16 when, police said at the time, Castillo left the toddler alone in a car to get milk at a gas station near the intersection of East Ridge Road and Louisiana Street in Gary.

But according to a criminal affidavit released today, the couple fabricated the story about the girl being abducted to cover up the fact that she was slain.

Castillo and Tkachik, Castillo’s boyfriend, were babysitting Jada for a couple weeks when the toddler died.

After putting Jada to bed on June 12, Castillo and Tkachik snorted several lines of heroin before they went to sleep, the affidavit said.

About 11 a.m. the following morning, Castillo woke up to check on Jada. Tkachik told investigators he saw Castillo spanking Jada and pulling her hair. Jada was not crying so, according to Tkachik, Castillo hit Jada even harder.

Tkachik told investigators that Castillo slapped Jada, causing her to fall against a table. The impact gave the toddler a small cut on her head. Castillo put Jada in her room and beat on her again, according to the affidavit.

Later on June 13, Jada was found dead in the back seat of a vehicle the couple were traveling in while en route to buy more heroin in Porter County, the affidavit said. The couple returned to their Hobart home with Jada’s body.

After the couple had been thinking about ways to get rid of the body, Tkachik thought about burning it, the affidavit said. The couple went to a store in Michigan City on June 14 to buy a metal garbage can, and they later went to a LaPorte County gas station to buy a gas can and lighter fluid.

The couple drove to a wooded area and found a hole to dump Jada’s body, which had been wrapped in garbage bags, according to the affidavit. After dousing the body with flammable liquid, Tkachik allegedly lit a piece of a charcoal bag on fire and threw it into the hole causing an explosion. He was burned by the flames.

The couple left Jada’s body in the hole overnight and returned the following day to pick her up. They then bought a big tub with some concrete at a store in Merrillville as an alternative way of disposing the toddler’s body, the affidavit said.

The body was placed in the tub with concrete and water, according to the affidavit, and a space heater was used to harden the concrete. The couple then drove the body to a swampy area in western LaPorte County and dumped it into the swamp while it was encased in the concrete, the affidavit said.

The investigation eventually led to the couple, and on Thursday, Tkachik led investigators to Jada’s body. The body was transported to the Lake County coroner’s office in Crown Point. She had numerous fractures to her skull, the affidavit said.

Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett, a sex symbol and icon of the 1970s, star of TV’s Charlie’s Angels and stage veteran, died of cancer on June 25 in Los Angeles. She was 62.

A Texas native, Fawcett began her career as the breakout star of the original Charlie’s Angels trio, a role that put her fit form on numerous magazine covers and posters and made her feathered hairstyle famous (and copied around the world), though Fawcett left the series in 1977 after just one season. Directly following her exit from the show, Fawcett turned her attention to the silver screen, appearing in the films Somebody Killed Her Husband, Sunburn and Saturn 3.

In 1980, the actress crossed over to the stage, making her professional stage debut in Butterflies Are Free at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre in Jupiter, Florida. Three years later, Fawcett enjoyed a well-received off-Broadway debut in Extremities, recreating her role for a 1986 film adaptation of the play. She made a successful return to television in 1984, earning an Emmy nomination for her performance in the small-screen movie The Burning Bed and following up with additional nods in 1990 and 2002. Though the early 1990s saw her falter with the short-lived television series Good Sports (co-starring on-again-off-again partner Ryan O’Neal), Fawcett’s popularity was resurrected in the mid-1990s when the sex symbol posed for Playboy before going on to star in a pay-per-view special for the Playboy Channel. She received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995. In 2003, the actress made her Broadway debut as the title star in Bobbi Boland. The comedy played just seven previews at the Cort Theatre between November 4 and 9 of that year. It closed before it officially opened.

 Fawcett’s battle with anal cancer was made public in 2006, leading to a TV documentary about her rounds of treatment called Farrah’s Story, which aired on NBC on May 15, 2009.

 Early reports state that the actress’ longtime love, former co-star O’Neal, and friend Alana Stewart were at her bedside when she passed. She is survived by her son Redmond O’Neal.  Ryan had asked Farrah many of time to marry, but she declined as she did not want to give up her independance. During her battle with anal cancer, she accepted Ryan’s proposal but sadly she passed before they could wed.

Soldiers Say: Farrah will be remembered as a loving mother, partner, friend, and strong woman. She is a pioneer as Farrah’s documentary shed much light into the horror and every day struggle to battle cancer.  We will miss this angel, the beautiful Farrah Fawcett!

Beautiful Farrah Fawcett

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop” who once moonwalked above the music world, died Thursday as he prepared for a comeback bid to vanquish nightmare years of child sexual scandal and financial calamity. He was 50.
  
Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center after being stricken at his rented home in Holmby Hills. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him at his home for nearly three-quarters of an hour, then rushed him to the hospital, where doctors continued to work on him for 1 hour.  “The personal physician who was with him at the time attempted to resuscitate him.”  

“It is believed he suffered cardiac arrest in his home. However, the cause of his death is unknown until results of the autopsy are known,” his brother Jermaine said. Police said they were investigating, standard procedure in high-profile cases. Speculation mounted today that Michael Jackson’s fatal heart attack might have been brought on by an injection of painkilling drugs after a rehearsal at a Los Angeles arena for the star’s comeback concerts in London to begin on July 13, 2009.

As thousands of fans gathered outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where Jackson was pronounced dead yesterday afternoon, LAPD detectives searched the rented mansion in the Holmby Hills area of the city where the singer had been living.

Jackson’s death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music’s premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.  Jackson was blamed for child molestation by a couple of boys whom Jackson shared his home and bed with. Jackson paid one child $20 million dollars to keep the boy from coming forward, and more recently Michael Jackson was tried in California court for child molestation were Michael Jackson was found not guilty. 
  
His 1982 album “Thriller” — which included the blockbuster hits “Beat It,” “Billie Jean” and “Thriller” — is the best-selling album of all time, with an estimated 50 million copies sold worldwide.
  
At the time of his death, Jackson was rehearsing hard for what was to be his greatest comeback: He was scheduled for an unprecedented 50 shows at a London arena, with the first set for July 13.
  
As word of his death spread, MTV switched its programming to play videos from Jackson’s heyday. Radio stations began playing marathons of his hits. Hundreds of people gathered outside the hospital. In New York’s Times Square, a low groan went up in the crowd when a screen flashed that Jackson had died, and people began relaying the news to friends by cell phone.
    
The public first knew him as a boy in the late 1960s, when he was the precocious, spinning lead singer of the Jackson 5, the singing group he formed with his four older brothers out of Gary, Ind. Among their No. 1 hits were “I Want You Back,” “ABC” and “I’ll Be There.”

HAYLEE DONATHAN

A 4-year-old, whose mother took her cross-country with her sex-offender boyfriend, won’t be handed back to her mother, according to the girl’s maternal grandmother.

“There’s no way that I would do that,” Mary Watson said Wednesday on HLN’s “Nancy Grace.”

Watson said she plans to follow the decisions of social services agencies overseeing the well-publicized case of young Haylee Donathan and will not let Haylee see her mother, Candace Watson.

“If (she) is not allowed to see her, she is not allowed to see her,” Mary Watson said. “That’s the way it is going to be.”

Candace Watson, 24, and her boyfriend, Robbie Potter, 27, were arrested Tuesday in a raid at The Morning Star Ranch, a Christian communal farm in a rural part of San Diego County, California.

Authorities also found Haylee at the ranch and said they plan to return the girl to her grandmother.

Haylee had been missing for 27 days and the search to find her had been highlighted by national television current-affairs shows.

The grandmother, who received temporary court-ordered custody of the girl so an Amber Alert could be issued during the search, said she had not seen Haylee since she was found because she was being examined in California. Shortly after she was found, the girl was said to be in good condition.

Acting on a tip from former retreat visitors who saw a billboard of Haylee in the Las Vegas area, law enforcement stormed the usually placid ranch, whose members work the land, do household chores and share Christian beliefs and teachings.

The search for Haylee was sparked by authorities’ concern for her safety.

After she was arrested, Watson said she “was in love with him and knew she would help him any way she could,” Pete Elliott, the U.S. marshal for the northern district of Ohio, told “Nancy Grace.”

DAVIE EARLS

By Kandra Wells
Two state legislators are separately calling for the removal of the judge who oversaw the controversial plea agreement that gave David Earls just one year in jail. McAlester — Oklahoma’s attorney general wants to know why a man who admitted raping a girl did not also face charges for abusing her older brother. McALESTER District Judge Tom Bartheld ordered Earls, 64, to serve one year of a 20-year sentence. He was also credited for time he’s spent in jail, meaning he will be released in three months.

Police initially identified the girl’s brother, who was then 5, as a possible victim. Earls also faced a charge for forcing the boy to watch as he raped the girl.

But Bartheld dismissed that charge during Earls’ May 13 sentencing, “based upon the recommendation of the district attorney,” according to court records.

“There was a question in my mind whether there may have been other counts involving this victim that may not have been wrapped into the plea,” Edmondson said, referring to the boy.

State Reps. Mike Ritze and Mike Reynolds today said Bartheld should be kicked off the bench for “gross neglect of duty.” The legislators from Broken Arrow and Oklahoma City filed a bill that, if passed by the House of Representatives, would ask a state court to remove the judge from office.

“While it would be simpler and better if the governor or attorney general would step up and take this action, we have filed the resolution to ensure the process can move forward regardless,” Reynolds said in a statement issued by the House.
said he is disturbed by the “lenient” deal struck last month with Earls, who pleaded no contest to raping and sodomizing the girl, then 4 years old.EdmondsonAttorney General Drew

Oklahomans “must have confidence in the courts to deliver impartial justice,” Ritze said. “Clearly that did not happen in this case, and I have heard from many constituents who are outraged.”

The attorney general said the plea deal disturbed most people.

“What I know about (the case) at this point in time is that I was very disturbed by reports of the sentence in that case … a sentence that appeared to be somewhat lenient,” he said.

Edmondson has asked lawyers in his office to look into Earls’ prosecution and sentencing, evidence in the case and whether his office has authority to intervene. He said his office will see “if the facts of the case suggest that a different outcome should have been sought.”

Earls admitted to raping and sodomizing the girl between May 1 and Aug. 1, 2008, while he was living with the girl’s mother. Additionally, Earls made her brother watch the rape to add further torture. He was arrested in September, after the girl and her brother told their grandmother about the abuse. Earls never made the $250,000 bail.

 In February, Earls attended a preliminary hearing to decide whether the girl could testify against him via closed circuit television. The girl covered her eyes with her hands and said, “I’m not looking at David Earls. I’m not looking at David Earls.”

Bartheld delayed the hearing and resumed it two days later in his chambers, without Earls present. The judge then decided to allow the girl to testify during Earls’ trial from outside the courtroom.

The case never went to trial. Instead, District Attorney Jim Bob Miller accepted a plea offer from Earls’ lawyer. The judge approved the deal and sentenced Earls on May 13.

Bartheld specified that Earls get credit for time served. He also ordered Earls to serve his sentence at the county jail, instead of a state prison. The sentence included two $500 fines.

Edmondson, who also announced his candidacy for governor this week, said he will receive a report from the lawyers in his office “in due course.” Asked when that would be, he said, “I would guess a matter of days rather than weeks, but I don¹t know the answer to that.”

UPDATE:  Since the sentencing, new revelations have come out that David Earl raped his daugther on several occassions when she was a young child. Denise Earl was never made aware of his new encounter with the law which would have provided great evidence for the prosecution to show that David Earl is a repeat child rapists, causing for a different outcome.  Denise Earl has stated “He is a monster who should be put away forever”.  Denise went on to say that the memories of her father raping her are vivid and effect her daily life.

Skeleton of Caylee Anthony had tape over mouth, report says

• Fri June 19, 2009

ORLANDO, Florida (CNN) — There was no trauma visible on the “completely skeletonized” remains of slain toddler Caylee Anthony, but there were overlapping pieces of duct tape over her mouth, according to the autopsy report released Friday.

A small group of people gathered Tuesday in Orlando, Florida, to remember Caylee Anthony.

 

The tape was still attached to head hair, and the skull was separate from the other body parts, said Dr. Jan Garavaglia, chief medical examiner for Orange County.

“This duct tape was clearly placed prior to decomposition, keeping the mandible in place,” she says in the report. Garavaglia said animals had scattered the bones after decomposition began. The cause of the child’s death is listed as “homicide by undetermined means.”    

It appears to very damaging, WFTV Channel 9’s Kathi Belich said, noting that the medical examiner believes the toddler’s body was dumped shortly after she was murdered.

“And worse, the medical examiner says there were several overlapping layers of duct tape across Caylee’s face,” Belich said. She explained the duct tape was placed over the child’s mouth and jaw before decomposition began.

“Experts say decomposition starts four minutes after death, so the medical examiner can’t say whether Caylee was alive when her killer, allegedly her mother, put that tape over her mouth,” Belich said.

What did that crucial detail mean?

“This is a very damning report,” said WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer. His interpretation: The tape was either to stop the child from breathing or making a noise.

WESH – Channel 2’s legal analyst, attorney Richard Hornsby, was more graphic. “Whoever did this put duct tape over the child’s mouth,” he said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if the child actually died from suffocation.”

He also pointed to chemicals found in the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car that suggest the child was deprived of oxygen. Anthony is charged with the first-degree murder of her child.

“All in all, I think that’s why the state is seeking the death penalty,” Hornsby said. “Caylee Anthony, no matter how she died, whether it was from the duct tape or being in the trunk, suffered. For a few minutes, she knew she was dying. She knew she was in pain. She suffered tremendously.”

WESH’s Michelle Meredith noted that the autopsy contained a map showing how animals scattered the child’s remains. Meredith reported that the state wants a photo of Casey Anthony’s “La Bella Vita” tattoo — the phrase means “the beautiful life.”

WESH also reported George Anthony’s concerns that some media outlets would sensationalize the autopsy, tarnish Caylee’s memory and cause the family anguish.

My take, said Mrs. Meredith: “The autopsy can only make the public care more about Caylee. If you don’t understand why so many people care about this little girl, reading the autopsy will bring that point home.”

Caylee Anthony’s remains were found in December in woods less than a mile from her grandparents’ home. Her mother, Casey Anthony, is charged with murder. She could be sentenced to death if convicted. The mother was arrested July 16, 2008, while Caylee was still missing.

Earlier Friday, a judge denied a request from the child’s grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony, to keep the autopsy report from the public.

Last week, their attorney filed a motion saying the report should be sealed because its release would cause the family great anguish.

Holding back tears, George Anthony on Friday asked the judge not to release the report until Casey Anthony’s trial. “Our family’s memory of precious Caylee Marie is all we have left of her,” he said as his wife appeared visibly shaken.

Judge Stan Strickland said George Anthony’s testimony was not lost on him, but according to the law he had no choice.

“Their pain means a great deal to me. I don’t like the ruling I’m making, but it’s one that I legally have to make,” he said.

George Anthony, angry after the ruling, left the courtroom before the hearing ended.

The autopsy report contains no X-rays or photos of the remains.

According to Garavaglia, intermixed with Caylee Anthony’s skeletal remains were two plastic garbage bags, a canvas laundry bag and a baby blanket with a Winnie the Pooh print. A pair of partially decomposed, multi-colored shorts were among the clothes, the doctor said.

Two sets of cloth letters were found intermingled with plant material and debris. Garavaglia said the first set spelled “big” and the second group appeared to spell “trouble.”

“The roots growing into the vertebrae and bags indicate the body was placed there months prior to being found,” Garavaglia said. “There is nothing inconsistent with the body being placed there soon after the date of [Caylee] being last seen alive.”

George Anthony said he saw his granddaughter leave his house with her mother for the last time on June 15, 2008. Officials allege Caylee was killed by her mother a short time later.

Since her arrest in July, Casey Anthony, 23, has remained behind bars in Orlando.

The search for Caylee ended December 11, when a meter reader brought out a bag containing a skull from the woods. He said he had contacted police three times in August to report a suspicious bag in the area. A deputy was ultimately fired for not properly searching the area.

The remains were confirmed through DNA testing to be those of Caylee Anthony.

Additionally, Investigative reports released earlier said tests conducted on air samples from Casey Anthony’s Pontiac Sunfire, which had a pungent odor, detected traces of human decomposition.

Anthony’s relatives have maintained that the foul smell could have come from an old pizza or a dead squirrel. When investigators searched the car in July, they found a pizza box. Investigators also discovered text messages between Anthony and a friend in which Anthony talked about a dead animal stuck to her car.

Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee provided local investigators with a detailed report, released Friday as part of the autopsy documents, in which they analyzed a decomposed squirrel and piece of pizza and compared them to evidence collected from Anthony’s car.

The scientists noted that even though investigators found no evidence of decomposing pizza in Anthony’s car, they went ahead and simulated the decomposition of a piece of pizza for several days. The scientists also allowed a dead squirrel — apparently the victim of a hit-and-run — to decompose outside for about 10 days in a trash can.

They noted that “results of this analysis showed very little similarity to the Florida carpet sample.”

Child Abuse
Toddler’s horrific abuse and death leads to second arrest
Posted June 16th, 2009

A toddler who went through unimaginable pain and agony before she died from severe abuse at the hands of her caregiver, encouraged police to arrest another adult in the house for failing to seek out medical attention or report the abuse. This is definitley a step in the right direction for justice for child abuse victims.

The baby was being cared for by the family because the mother had custody revoked for some other form of abuse, which DCFS says is fairly common for a mother to dole out her children to various “friends” after their parenting rights have been revoked.

Cyleste Gonzales spent her last days in agony with a broken arm, a perforated intestine and bruises covering her little body, authorities say.

Her legal guardian, Sarah Mascorro Sifuentes, knew the 22-month-old was in pain but never took Cyleste to a doctor, authorities say. The child died Oct. 26 at a West Side apartment in the 2400 block of Oakhill Road.

Early Monday morning, authorities arrested Sifuentes, 31, and charged her with injury to a child by omission for failing to get Cyleste medical attention. Sifuentes was booked into Bexar County Jail, with bond set at $100,000.

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Mom allegedly punishes newborn by suffocating him to death
Posted June 16th, 2009

A mother who is being accused of suffocating her newborn infant with her hands admits that she killed her baby because she didn’t feel like feeding him again and wanted to stop his crying for milk. How lazy is that??? You would think it took more energy to kill the poor baby than it would have been to feed him.

The mother has 4 other children who have since been removed from the home. Good thing since their mom will likely spend many years in prison if this baby is to ever find justice.

The father of the murdered infant returned home from an errand to find his son dead and was apparently devastated.

A monstrous Brooklyn mom confessed to smothering her 9-week-old son with her bare hands because she couldn’t stand his screams for food, police sources and neighbors said Monday.

Shaquana Bennett, 34, told neighbors she had fed her infant son, Tuquan, early Sunday morning.

He wanted to eat again at 4 p.m. and wouldn’t keep still.

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Mother accused of sexually abusing her child on the Internet
Posted June 16th, 2009

Okay, how messed up is this?

A 30 year old mother is accused of sexually molesting her baby on web-cam in an Internet porn sting. She has 4 children ranging from ages 18 months to 5 years old. It hasn’t been disclosed what she did to her child in order to be charged with “gross sexual assault” but we’re sure it’s something that will undoubtedly cause everlasting damage to those poor children. This is physical and emotional torture and exploitation of children and this woman deserves nothing less than never seeing the light of day again. What a sad, sad woman.

A mother of four young children in Maine was charged Monday with gross sexual assault after British investigators more than 3,000 miles away used the Internet to allegedly catch her in the act of Webcasting a sexual assault of her young child.

Julie M. Carr, 30, of Mars Hill, Maine, was arrested at about 11 p.m. Friday. Her four children — believed to range from 18 months to 5 years old — were taken into protective custody.

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Toddler dies of abuse days after DCFS dismisses allegations
Posted June 14th, 2009

How incompetent does The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services have to be to dismiss allegations of abuse against little Ruben Ramirez, only to have the toddler die of abuse and torture at the hands of his acquitted caregivers.

It’s bull.

WHITTIER – The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services investigated a report last year that 18-month-old Ruben Ramirez was being abused and neglected. It later ruled the allegations as inconclusive and closed the case Oct. 28, 2008.

Six days later, the Whittier toddler was dead.

Coroner’s officials said someone hit and kicked Ruben, resulting in multiple blunt-force trauma. His Nov. 3 death was ruled a homicide. The Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau, which is investigating the killing, has not yet made any arrests.

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Toddler brain dead after boyfriend drops her on concrete
Posted June 10th, 2009

A mother’s boyfriend evidentally went crazy on a 2-year old toddler and tortured her to the point where she is now brain dead with skull fractures and various other assaults — all because she was crying. Family members claim that the boyfriend also hit the mother. Not sure what the mother expected from this dirt bag.

The boyfriend is an illegal alien.

A 2-year-old girl is on life support and her mother’s boyfriend in custody after he allegedly admitted throwing the baby onto a concrete floor because she was crying.

Josefa Talavara was admitted to the hospital Saturday, and both her mother and the mother’s boyfriend initially told police that she fell down. Doctors later found cigarette burns and bruising on her arms, legs, neck, back and face.

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Mother allegedly delivers fatal blow to her infant son
Posted June 10th, 2009

Na-aisha Riley, a 21 year old, New York mother is being accused of punching her 7 month old baby so hard — it killed him. Later, she tried to blame it on her boyfriend who reportedly tried to save the baby.

The baby’s middle name is “Obama” and goes by that name because he was born on election day. Hopefully this isn’t the kind of “Hope and Change” the President had in mind.

He died Monday afternoon after cops found him at her boyfriend’s Bronx home, unresponsive and unconscious.

“She just lost it,” said a police source.

The medical examiner ruled Tuesday that Cashmere died of whiplash and shaking and blunt trauma to the head, a spokeswoman said.

Riley confessed yesterday to punching her 18 1/2-pound, 27-inch long baby, police sources said. She was charged with second-degree murder and assault.

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Man accused of sodomizing and abusing infant; infant dies
Posted June 7th, 2009

A 17 year old man is accused of raping, sodomizing and breaking multiple bones of an 8 month old baby boy. The baby died.

Police say the autopsy report also noted multiple fractures throughout the body consistent with that of a beating. The child also had tears in the anus.

According to Normand, Ross initially told detectives the infant fell down the stairs while he was babysitting the child and stopped breathing.

Investigators say that a neighbor had heard loud noises coming from the apartment where the baby was later found dead.

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Mother killed newborn baby with piece of crib
Posted June 5th, 2009

Most normal people would pick up a crying infant and try to sooth them, unless you’re Lori Beth Workman, who picks up a piece of wood from a crib and beats the newborn to death. The baby suffered in the hospital for over a month before he died.

UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania woman is in jail on charges she fatally beat her 3-month-old son with a piece of a crib she was assembling last August.

Uniontown police say 25-year-old Lori Beth Workman fractured her baby’s skull and inflicted other injuries when she became upset that he wouldn’t stop crying. Police say she told them she concealed the beating from her husband because she was afraid he’d get mad at her.

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Boyfriend breaks both toddlers arms and inflicts cigarette burns
Posted June 4th, 2009

It’s a no-brainer that the boyfriend should get life in prison for heinously torturing a 2 year old girl, but the mother isn’t being charged for any crimes. While she wasn’t home, can’t she be charged for putting her baby in harms way? I know she can’t be charged for being stupid, but couldn’t the courts argue that this type of thing doesn’t just happen out of the blue. The mother do doubtedly knew that this guy was a real jerk and left her baby in his care anyway.

John Bujak, Canyon County prosecutor, says Mario Gonzalez, 23, burned the girl 15 times on her toe with a cigarette. He apparently harmed the child because he was frustrated that she wouldn’t stop crying.

He also hit her head several times, broke both of her arms and punched her in the stomach, officials say. Gonzalez is the boyfriend of the toddler’s mother.

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Mother puts feces in toddler’s feeding tube
Posted June 4th, 2009

A mother was caught on tape in her toddler’s hospital room room, putting feces in her daughter’s feeding tube. The whole reason the baby had a feeding tube in the first place — the toddler kept getting mysterious infections. Hmmm. Wonder why?

She has two other children, 6 and 4 years old as well.

Her attorney claims that she loves her children very much. Funny, I didn’t think love manifested itself into attempted murder and torture. Hopefully society never becomes accustomed to these acts of severe abuse against children and gives the mo’ life!

AUSTIN, Texas — A woman in Texas has been accused of repeatedly smearing human waste on her 3-year-old daughter’s intravenous feeding line, potentially causing life-threatening infections.

Emily Beth McDonald, 23, of Austin, was charged with felony injury to a child. She faces up to life in prison if convicted.

According to an arrest affidavit, a surveillance video at Dell Children’s Medical Center captured McDonald on Sunday placing feces from a soiled diaper on the cap of a tube with a direct link to her child’s bloodstream.

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Man suffocates baby with her soiled diaper
Posted June 3rd, 2009

A man, who was a frequent babysitter of 2 year old girl, has been charged with murder after he stuffed her soiled diaper into her mouth.

Police say Melendez-Reynoso was babysitting the toddler with his girlfriend, who had for years watched the toddler and her two brothers, when Ivette soiled her diaper.

“She started crying,” Paggi said. “He became angry and took the diaper that the baby soiled on and suffocated her.

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Baby tortured by father; has missing teeth
Posted June 3rd, 2009

A 1 year old, baby girl has been extensive injuries resulting from alleged torture and abuse at the hands of her father…

Jasmin Standifer, 22, was held today on $25,000 bond at the Hamilton County jail on one count of child endangering.

Police say he abused the baby so badly at a residence in the 2700 block of Erlene Drive, the infant required hospitalization.

The baby also will need follow-up medical and dental care.

It isn’t clear this morning exactly what Standifer is accused of doing to the infant, although records indicate she has missing teeth.

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Father charged with abusing baby, fracturing her skull
Posted June 3rd, 2009

A 2 month old infant was taken to the hospital with numerous injuries including a skull fracture, resulting in alleged, ongoing abuse…

ERIE, Pa. – A northwestern Pennsylvania man has been charged with fracturing his infant daughter’s skull after doctors say her injuries couldn’t have happened when the child fell from the man’s knee, as he claimed.

Twenty-eight-year-old Cory Rankin, of Erie, is charged with aggravated assault, child endangerment and other crimes.

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Woman brutally abuses adopted infant
Posted May 31st, 2009
You would think if one were to go through the laborious task of adopting – one would committed to extra care and love, but apparently that’s not the case with this witch of a woman who adopted a tiny little baby and then tortured him…

MUSCATINE, Iowa — A former Muscatine woman pleaded guilty Friday to shaking her adopted 2-month-old son in September 2007.

Melanie Addington, 31, sobbed after she quietly answered “guilty” to a reduced charge of child endangerment causing injury, a Class D felony.

She was originally charged with child endangerment causing serious injury, a Class C felony.

Her attorney John Wunder asked Addington to confirm a confession she made to police that she shook the boy at her apartment on Sept. 5, 2007, while he was wrapped in a blanket and then threw him into a bouncy chair.

“I’m sorry,” she cried.

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Man goes to prison for child abuse
Posted May 30th, 2009

The man convicted is an Iraq war veteran and claims he was going through post traumatic stress disorder when he tortured this toddler. She may have permanent injuries. The man was given 5 years jail time which is the maximum sentence.

Police say Vivier was arrested after an 18-month-old girl was taken to a hospital on June 18 with extensive bruising to her face and fingernail marks on her neck. Police say doctors discovered the toddler had a spinal fracture and broken shoulder blade.