Dare go da welfare check

[Johnny99]

Lumped Up Sow, Boyfren' Jailed For Def Of Picaninny​

Child's death ruled homicide; mom, boyfriend arrested​

By Kyle Nagel
Staff Writer
Updated 8:14 AM Thursday, June 11, 2009
DAYTON — A mother and her boyfriend, who several times has sought local political offices, were arrested Wednesday, June 10, following the death of her 2-year-old son. The deceased child had been placed in foster care but was returned to the home in April.

The death has
been ruled a homicide.

Denise S. Stinson, 23, and Mark A. Newberry, 45, were arrested on felony child endangering charges early Wednesday morning, about 61/2 hours after police responded to 910 Crestmore Ave., said Dayton police Lt. Patrick Welsh.

Police were dispatched to the home at about 7:55 p.m. Tuesday on the report of a child, later identified as 2-year-old Malechi Dechawn Wilson, having difficulty breathing.

Stinson and Newberry did not immediately seek medical attention for the todddler, who was in “obvious physical distress for a number of hours,â┚¬ Welsh said, which led to the arrest on child endangering charges. Detectives are scheduled to meet with the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office today, June 11, to discuss additional charges.

Stinson and Newberry, who is not the child’s biological father, were taken downtown to police headquarters for questioning . Wilson was pronounced dead at the hospital at 8:46 p
.m., the coroner’s office said.

Wilson’s death was ruled a homicide by the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office on Wednesday, and medical evidence shows the toddler was in pain for an extended period of time, police said.

The coroner’s office ruled that the death was caused by blunt-force abdominal trauma .

Montgomery County Children Services first began a file on Stinson and then-1-year-old Wilson in October 2007, and shortly after that, Wilson was placed in foster care, said Ann Stevens, a department spokesperson.

A 5 -month-old boy belonging to Stinson and Newberry was later placed with family members by Children Services, Stevens said.

Newberry attempted to run for the Dayton City Commission this year, but his petition was invalidated, said Steven P. Harsman, Director of the Montgomery County Board of Elections. Harsman said Newberry has attempted to run for city commission and Montgomery County Commission seats in the past, as well.
County C
ommissioner Deborah A. Lieberman defeated Newberry in a March 2008 county commission Democratic primary.

Newberry has two previous convictions for domestic violence stemming from incidents in 2001 and 2004.

 

[3 Ks]

Niglet Dies as Someone Rolls Onto Her While Sleeping
June 20, 2009


FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Fort Wayne police are investigating the death of a 4-month-old groidling who apparently died when someone rolled over onto her as they were sleeping.

Investigators believe Nygria Holley's :lol: death was accidental.

Fort Wayne Police Officer John Chambers said Holley was pronounced good at a Fort Wayne hospital Friday morning after police received a call about an unresponsive infant.

Someone had been in bed with the infant and apparently rolled onto her as they slept, police said. Officers haven't released details on who was sleeping with the infant.

 

[Davy of old England]

I Sho' hope it dint beez racist YT po'leece brootallitay dat gibes her dat fat eye. Someone done slugged dat biotch fo'sho, knowamsayin.

 

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Turddler's Death Ruled a Murder

Las Vegas police say they are searching for a 28-year-old man suspected of abusing and killing his girlfriend's 2-year-old child.

Authorities said Monday that officers found the child dead Sunday morning in a neighborhood east of the Las Vegas Strip after the child's mother called authorities.

Police say the mother described her child as unresponsive when she called.

Authorities say they believe Emanuel Dewayne Dodson may have gone to the Los Angeles area, where he is from.

 

[Akingu]

Sheboon don't blame bo fo' killin' her glit

14!

This is a follow up to a story I posted last week or so but as I can't find it, so here this is:

Mother of toddler doesn’t blame boyfriend for his death

http://www.daytondailynews.com/blog...009/06/17/mother_of_toddler_doesnt_blame.html


DAYTON - The mother of a 2-year-old boy who died last week after suffering significant trauma to his midsection said she doesn’t hold herself or her boyfriend responsible for the toddler’s death.

Denise Stinson, 23, speaks about her son’s death to reporters Wednesday, June 17.Malechi D. Wilson, 2Mark A. Newberry, 45Denise Stinson and roughly 30 others gathered outside in the 3500 block of Hoover Avenue on Wednesday, June 17, for a prayer vigil and memorial for her son, Malechi D. Wilson.

Malechi died at Children’s Medical Cente
r at 8:46 p.m. on June 9 after police responded to home of Stinson’s boyfriend, Mark A. Newberry, at 910 Crestmore Ave. on a report of a child in duress, police said.

Roughly seven hours later, police arrested Stinson, 23, and Newberry, 45, who is not the child’s biological father, on charges of child endangering after they were taken downtown to police headquarters for questioning about 2:15 a.m. June 10.

“I don’t know if it was an accident or what it is I can’t say,â┚¬ Stinson said. “I am just trying to do my best to get through this.â┚¬

Malechi’s death was ruled a homicide caused by blunt-force trauma to the abdomen, according to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office. Coroner James Davis said he does not plan to change his ruling.

Police initially charged the couple with child endangering because they did not immediately seek medical attention for Malechi, who was in “obvious physical distress for a number of hours,â┚¬ Lt. Patrick Welsh said.

County pr
osecutors would not approve charges related to Malechi’s death so Stinson and Newberry were released from jail on June 11. Prosecutors have instructed police to continue the investigation.

“I do not hold Mark responsible,â┚¬ Stinson said through tears Wednesday. “I have talked to him (since Malechi’s death) and he is in the same condition I am. I can’t say what happened because I don’t know what happened.â┚¬

Malechi had been in foster care for less than a year before he was returned to Stinson in April, according to Montgomery County Children Services.

The department began a file on Stinson and Malechi in October 2007, and shortly after that, Wilson was placed in foster care, agency spokeswoman Ann Stevens said.

Stinson declined Wednesday to address issues related to Malechi’s foster care.

Welsh said detectives are still investigating Malechi’s death and expect to meet with prosecutors again to get charges filed against whomever caused the toddler’s death
.

Stinson said Newberry wanted to be at Wednesday’s vigil for Malechi, but decided against showing up.

Malechi’s funeral is scheduled for tomorrow, but Stinson did not want to release any more details.

Bethsaida Missionary Baptist Church pastor Jesse Watson led Wednesday’s prayer vigil and urged everyone to pray for Stinson and Malechi. Watson placed his hands on Stinson and told her to put faith in God because “that is what it will take to get you through these days of sorrow.â┚¬

See photos from the vigil:

http://projects.daytondailynews.com/cache/galleries/News/Nation-World/061709vigil/

 

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http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...F0DDB7DB156CA5C7862575E40063F734?OpenDocument

Tot, 2, killed by mother's boyfriend, St. Louis police say
By Carolyn Tuft
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
06/29/2009

ST. LOUIS -- The circuit attorney this afternoon charged a 23-year-old St. Louis man in the beating and burning death of a 2-year-old child over the weekend, police said.

The man -- Montrell Moore, of the 2000 block of Destrehan Street, near the city's Hyde Park -- was charged with first-degree murder, felony abuse of a child and felony endangering the welfare of a child, said Katie O'Sullivan, spokeswoman for the St. Louis police department.

Moore is being held in the St. Louis City jail in lieu of a $1 millio
n, cash-only bond.

Police said that at 8:10 a.m. on Saturday, an ambulance arrived at where the child -- Samar Brown -- was staying in the 1900 block of Mallinckrodt Street, a few blocks from Moore's home. Police said that Moore is the boyfriend of Samar's mother.

When paramedics arrived at the home, Samar was not breathing and was unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at 8:51 a.m. on Saturday.

The St. Louis medical examiner conducted an autopsy and found the child had died from blunt force trauma. Samar also suffered a lacerated spleen, a lacerated liver and other internal injuries, O'Sullivan said.

After an investigation by homicide detectives, police discovered that Moore had killed the child, O'Sullivan said.

 

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http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...8E8EFC1C0C45D528862575E5005282BE?OpenDocument

Medical examiner releases tot's body for burial today
By Carolyn Tuft
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
06/30/2009
UPDATED: 11:02 a.m. with interview of what happened from maternal grandmother

ST. LOUIS -- The mother of Samar "Sam" Brown told police that her son was fine when she covered her toddler up with a blanket and kissed him good-bye before leaving for work on Saturday. A few hours later, the child was dead.

Samar "Sam" Brown, 2, of St. Louis, died Saturday after he was rushed to a St. Louis hospital. On Monday, St. Louis prosecutors charged the mother's boyfriend -- Mo
ntrell Moore, 23, of the 2000 block of Destrehan Street near the city's Hyde Park -- with first-degree murder, felony abuse of a child and felony endangering the welfare of a child. Moore is being held in the St. Louis city jail in lieu of a $1 million cash-only bond.

Murder suspect Montrell Moore​

The child died of blunt force trauma, according to the St. Louis medical examiner. "Sam" suffered a lacerated spleen and a lacerated liver, and had burns to his face.

Lacy Coates, 27, is Sam's mother. Coates' mother, Kim Thomas, said this morning that the medical examiner had just released Sam's body for burial. The boy's funeral will be handled by the Austin A. Layne Mortuary at 7239 W Florissant Ave.

Thomas said Coates had left for work at the downtown St. Louis Hilton at 5:45 a.m. Saturday. It was chilly, so her daug
hter covered her sleeping baby up before leaving for work. Left in Coates apartment were Coates' sister, Tia, 15, and Coates' boyfriend, Moore. Coates was at work when Moore called her and told her that there was something wrong with the tot, Thomas said.

"His face was peeling like Michael Jackson's when he got burned in the Pepsi commercial," Thomas said. "Montrell said that he found Sam downstairs in the apartment not breathing and called 911."

Coates rushed to the hospital but, by the time she got there, her son was dead, Thomas said.

"My daughter was hysterical because the baby was gone," Thomas said. "Montrell said that little Sam probably drank some (cleaning fluid) and was poisoned."

At that point, Thomas said, police detectives took Moore, Coates and Tia to the police headquarters, where they were all questioned in separate rooms.

"I was trying to make sense of what had happened," Thomas said. "I went to the police headquarters and that is when I learne
d that Montrell had killed my grandbaby."

Police told Thomas that they had given Moore a polygraph test, which he failed, Thomas said. Then, Moore told police that Thomas' daughter, Tia, must have killed the tot. After that, he gave four different stories about what had happened on Saturday morning.

To Thomas, the last story that Moore told detectives was the closest to the truth.

In that version, Moore told police that Sam woke up after Coates left for work and the boy knocked over a large plasma television set in an upstairs room of the apartment. Moore told police that he "lost it and he punched little Sam four or five times, then told him to go downstairs,' " Thomas said she was told by police.

"When Montrell got downstairs about 8 a.m., little Sam was laying there unconscious," Thomas said.

When Coates got home from the police station on Saturday, detectives returned with her, Thomas said. In a trash can was the t-shirt Sam was wearing when she left for work that morn
ing. It was wet.

"Montrell told my daughter that Sam got into the bathtub and turned the hot water on," Thomas said. "I think he threw chemicals on my grandson or put a scalding-hot wash cloth on his face because he was burnt, bad."

After Moore called an ambulance, paramedics discovered Samar not breathing and unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at 8:51 a.m. on Saturday at the hospital.

 

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Afrocoon Charged with Murdering His 10-Month-Old Niglet

Youth Services detectives this afternoon arrested Dwaniko Sudberry for the murder of his 10-month-old daughter.

Sudberry, 23, of 614 Ashmont Court, was taken into custody without incident on an arrest warrant issued this morning charging criminal homicide in relation to the fatal abuse inflicted upon Shiloh Sneed.

Shiloh’s mother, Vanessa Sneed, telephoned 911 at 12:03 p.m. Tuesday to report that her daughter wasn’t breathing. Officers quickly responded and began CPR. Paramedics arrived, continued CPR, and rushed Shiloh to Southern Hills Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.

Vanessa Sneed told
detectives that she left Shiloh alone with Sudberry Tuesday morning. She said the infant was happy and appeared fine. Vanessa Sneed said shortly after she returned home at noon, Sudberry yelled for help, prompting her to call 911 after seeing that the child was in distress.

Detectives on the scene Tuesday believed it possible that Shiloh suffocated on the bedding. However, a subsequent autopsy revealed multiple internal injuries consistent with severe abuse. The injuries included several broken ribs, a spleen laceration, retinal hemorrhaging, and internal bleeding near her brain. The injuries are believed to have occurred Tuesday while Vanessa Sneed was away from the home.

This is not the first time Sudberry has been charged with abusing a child. He pleaded guilty in Criminal Court last August to a charge of child abuse for striking his then girlfriend’s three-year-old daughter with a shoe and leaving marks and bruises. Sudberry received a three-year probated sente
nce.

Last July, Sudberry was charged with statutory rape for having sexual relations with a 17-year-old girl, who became pregnant. He pleaded guilty in General Sessions Court to attempted statutory rape on July 24th. He received a sentence of 11 months, 29 days. All but 60 days of that sentence was suspended and he was directed to remain on supervised probation for the remainder.

On March 8th of this year, Sudberry was arrested on charges of driving on a suspended license and evading arrest. He was convicted of both charges on May 9th. He was sentenced to two hours on the driver license charge and 90 days on the evading arrest charge. The 90-day sentence was not put into effect so long as Sudberry did not reoffend during the three-month period.

“As the police department has been saying for many years, recidivism drives much of the crime in Nashville,â┚¬ Chief Ronal Serpas said. “This case is so sad and heartbreaking because it involves a man with multiple convictions who is now charge
d with this week’s murder of a baby girl.â┚¬

Sudberry is now being held without bond in the Metro Jail on the criminal homicide charge.

 

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Black Sow Arrested in Niglet's Drowning

A woman is under arrest in the death of her 5-year-old daughter who had celebral palsy.

Police say 24-year-old Raven Gibbons left the child unattended in a bath with the shower turned on and the girl drowned. The incident happened on June 30th.

Gibbons is facing 2nd degree murder and child neglect charges.

 

[Akingu]

Sheboon damn near lost dat we'fare check

14!

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news...ng-baby-in-car-released-from-jail-193138.html

DAYTON — A 19-year-old woman accused of leaving her infant in a car while she worked at Miami Valley Hospital was released from Montgomery County Jail after posting bond Monday, July 6.

Dnaye Duerson’s 8-month-old son was placed in foster care Monday after allegedly being found in a soiled diaper on the car’s floorboard.

The baby had just a bottle of spoiled milk, Dayton Sgt. David Reed said.

Duerson faces a misdemeanor charge of child endangering for allegedly leaving the child alone for more than two hours, Reed said.

Police say Duerson parked on the street and clocked in for work in the nutrition services department about 6 a.m., Reed said. Shortly after 8 a.m., a passer-by noticed movement on the floorboard of Due
rson’s car and looked inside, Reed said.

The area temperature at 8 a.m. was 64 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington.

Miami Valley security officers rushed the baby to the emergency room. He was OK and eating applesauce when police arrived, Reed said.

Duerson first told officers her boyfriend must have put the baby in the car after she clocked in, but Reed said she later changed her story.

Montgomery County Children Services has no prior cases involving Duerson or her son, spokeswoman Ann Stevens said. The child was placed in foster care after an unsuccessful search for a suitable relative, she said.

“I know families are stressed and there is a lot of hardship, but under no circumstances should a child, especially a small child, be left alone for any period of time,”� she said. “If you need assistance, call United Way (dial 211) and they can direct you where to get help.”�

 

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Woman, boyfriend charged in toddler's death
August 2, 2009 9:42 PM |

The mother of a 19-month-old boy and her boyfriend were each charged tonight in connection to the boy's beating death.

Tyrone Wilson, 27, of the 200 block of East 72nd Street was charged with first-degree murder and child endangerment in the Friday death of Nashawn Lewis, police said. Nashawn's mother, Nashella Johnson, 19, of the 800 block of West 78th Street, was charged with child endangerment, police said.

While he didn't confess to slaying the boy, Wilson did admit to previously hitting the child, a source said.

The source also said the boy suffered third-degree burns from being placed in a tub with hot water[
/b], at some point.

Johnson told police she was taking Nashawn for a walk in a stroller Friday between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. when she noticed the boy was unresponsive, police said. When she took the child to a clinic in the 1600 block of West 79th Street in the Auburn-Gresham community, employees there called 911.

Paramedics transported Nashawn to Holy Cross Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy determined Nashawn's death resulted from multiple child abuse injuries and was a homicide, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/08/woman-boyfriend-charged-in-toddlers-death.html

 

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Foster Parents Arrested in Disappearance of Disabled Boy

http://www.newnation.co/

forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=796&stc=1&d=1251575178​

OAKLAND -- The foster parents who held vigils pleading for the safe return of a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy have been arrested on suspicion of murder, Oakland police said Friday.

Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell, who is the boy's aunt, were being questioned by investigators in the case of Hasanni Campbell, who disappeared on Aug. 10 after Ross said he briefly left the boy outside his car in the parking lot of an upscale Oakland neighborhood shoe store where Campbell works.

The couple were arrested separately within an hour of each other, police spokesman Jeff Tho
mason said.

"This is not a missing persons case anymore. This is a homicide investigation," Thomason said late Friday outside police headquarters in downtown Oakland. "We are talking to the people responsible. We do believe Hasanni Campbell is dead."

Thomason would not say what led to the couple's arrests or what led police to conclude that the boy was dead. Thomason said the boy's body has not been found.

A team of investigators searched the couple's home in Fremont on Friday.

The couple, who are engaged, took custody of Hasanni and his 1-year-old sister several months ago because their mother - Jennifer Campbell's sister - had drug problems.

After the boy's disappearance, his foster parents made tearful public pleas for his safe return, including vigils outside the shoe store. Dozens of volunteers handed out fliers with Hasanni's face and held a car wash to add to a $10,000 reward.

There's even a Web site - findhasanni.com - where his foster family tri
es to explain their role.

"We understand that there is a lot of speculation out there due to misconceptions about our family and the environment Hasanni was living in but to us he is a son, a brother, a family member and so much more and not just a foster child," a message from the site reads.

Both have denied any involvement in his disappearance.

But 10 days before the boy vanished, Ross sent an expletive-filled text message to Campbell, threatening to leave the boy alone on a train station platform, according to a police search warrant affidavit.

In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this month, Ross said he sent the text message in frustration at a time when he planned to break up with Campbell, who is six months pregnant.

The day Hasanni disappeared, Ross said he went to the store's front entrance to ask Campbell to open the back door, but when he returned to the parking lot, the boy was gone.

Police said they were mystified by how Hasanni coul
d have disappeared from a crowded business district with no witnesses, and bloodhounds were unable to detect the scent of the missing boy outside the shoe shop.

Ross told a television station that he failed a lie detector test, but had cooperated with police "100 percent."

 

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Screen grabs of the groid foster parents (above story):

http://www.newnation.co/

forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=797&stc=1&d=1251575962 http://www.newnation.co/

forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=798&stc=1&d=1251575962​

 

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2 Face Child Abuse, Murder Charges

3-Year-Old Dies Of Multiple Blunt-Force Traumas, Autopsy Says
POSTED: 3:59 pm MST September 1, 2009
UPDATED: 5:54 pm MST September 1, 2009

CHANDLER, Ariz. -- The mother of a 3-year-old child who died of blunt force trauma and her 23-year-old boyfriend have been booked on charges of first-degree murder and child abuse, Chandler police said.

Officers took Susan Witbracht, 26, and Dauntorian Sanders, into custody after detectives reviewed autopsy results.

Police said they got a call on Monday afternoon that a child was not breathing. When officers
arrived at the home at 2351 E. Wild Horse Place in Chandler, they found the girl and began administering CPR, said Sgt. Joe Favazzo of the Chandler Police Department. Firefighters also joined the effort when they arrived.

The 3-year-old was then rushed to an area hospital, where she later died, Favazzo said.

Autopsy findings released Tuesday indicated the death was a homicide attributed to multiple blunt-force traumas, Favazzo said.

The child was covered in bruises from apparent belt and belt buckle strikes, he said.

http://www.kpho.com/news/20674954/detail.html

 

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Dad Charged in Connection With Baby’s Death
By LEANNE GENDREAU
Updated 3:40 PM EDT, Fri, Sep 11, 2009

A 26-year-old man has been charged after his 3-month-old daughter, Alayziah Brown, died Thursday night.

A 911 call was made to Ansonia Police just before 10 p.m. Thursday for a medical emergency on Jewett Street involving the baby.

Emergency crews provided medical assistance, Alayziah was rushed to Griffin Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.

A family friend, speaking exclusively to NBC Connecticut, said Alayziah had been left in Brown's care while her mother was at work. When the mother returned home, she found the little girl in her bed, bloody and unresponsive.

Detectives from the Ansonia Police Department, and the Connecticut State Police Major Crimes Squ
ad began investigating and said the incident was "suspicious."

On Friday, police took Rodney Lee Brown, 26, into custody in connection with Alayziah's death, police said.

He has been charged with risk of injury to a minor and is being held in lieu of a $150,000 bond. An autopsy was conducted at the State Medical Examiner’ s Office but no cause of death has been determined at this point. The results are pending toxicology reports.

Police are investigating and said additional charges are possible.

Police said they will release more information on Friday afternoon. So far, investigators have not said how the child died. Brown remains jailed on $500,000.

Negro's mugshot at link

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/...-in-Connection-With-Babys-Death-59025827.html

 

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Baby left in storm drain dies
DeKalb County News 11:57 p.m. Thursday, September 17, 2009

As Landis Stewart-Moore is escorted from his first court appearance at Dekalb County Magistrate Court in Decatur, reporters ask him questions.

Sinead Harrison is escorted out after her first court appearance at Dekalb County Magistrate Court in Decatur. Judge Mary Whiteman set her bond at $50,000.

Landis Stewart-Moore, 19, was charged with first degree child cruelty after his girlfriend's newborn baby was found in a storm drain. ​

The teenage parents of newborn left
in a muddy storm drain sat at opposite sides of a DeKalb County courtroom Thursday night. Clad in orange prison jumpsuits, they showed little emotion after learning their son had died.

Sinead A. Harrison, 18, and her boyfriend, 19-year-old Landis Bernard Stewart-Moore, could face additional charges since the infant died. They remain in jail on $50,000 cash-only bond on felony child cruelty charges.

"We didn't know what to do with the kid," Stewart-Moore told reporters as he left the courthouse in handcuffs. Harrison didn't speak.

Harrison apparently gave birth at her boyfriend's home on Grand Pines Drive in south DeKalb near Wesley Chapel Road late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning. After the birth, she went to a local hospital. Stewart-Moore hid the baby, police said.

Harrison told staff at DeKalb Medical Center’s Hillandale facility in Lithonia that she had just delivered a baby and the infant was in a trash bin at a gas station on Wesley
Chapel Road. A police search at the gas station turned up nothing.

Gagnon said detectives don’t know why the mother told them that her baby was in a trash can since she did not leave him there.

Harrison gave police Stewart-Moore's address. When police interviewed Stewart-Moore, he said his girlfriend had delivered at his house and he admitted he had put the baby in a storm drain, Gagnon said. Stewart-Moore was arrested and jailed. After Harrison was released from the hospital, she was also jailed.

The baby boy was only a few hours old when DeKalb police officers, frantically looking for him, found him inside a storm drain just a few yards from his father's home. The infant was found around 4:30 a.m. Thursday and was reported in good health initially. The baby was alive and making noise, detectives told Judge Mary Whitehall in Magistrate Court Thursday night.

The baby was transported to the hospital, where he later died. A cause of death was not immediately available late Thursd
ay night.

According to Deanna Smith with the Georgia Department of Human Resources, the couple could have avoided criminal charges by leaving the child with an on-duty hospital worker. The state’s Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2002 allows a mother to leave her newborn baby within seven days of birth at any hospital in Georgia. The newborn must be left with a hospital employee and the mother must leave her name and address.

Scott Nelson, who lives next door to Stewart-Moore, said the storm drain was just three houses away from where Stewart-Moore lives with his mother. Nelson said he knew little about the family next door except Stewart-Moore and his friends would hang out in the yard, and play music loudly while the mother was at work.

“That’s when you hear the commotion over there,â┚¬ Nelson said.

No one answered phone calls to the home Thursday evening.

Another neighbor, Carol Orr, said she saw Stewart-Moore walking alone outside in the rain Wednesday evening. Now,
she says she's shocked and saddened to learn what happened to the newborn.

"It just hit me so hard," Orr said. "They knew what they were doing."

Orr said Harrison didn't appear to be hiding her pregnancy.

According to DeKalb jail records, Stewart-Moore has been in custody there before. He was charged with armed robbery, aggravated assault and kidnapping in connection with the April 2008 robbery of a Candler Road hamburger stand. Last month, he was arrested on marijuana possession and child cruelty charges, according to jail records.

http://www.ajc.com/news/dekalb/baby-left-in-storm-140351.html

 

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Father arrested in son's death
Last Updated: 5:19 am | Thursday, September 17, 2009

James Lyons was arrested on Thursday.​

AVONDALE - A 27-year-old man has been arrested on murder charges for the death of his 19-month-old son.

The infant suffered a head injury on Saturday and was pronounced dead at Children's Hospital.

On Thursday, the Hamilton County Coroner's Office ruled the toddler's death a homicide.

James Lyons was arrested on Thursday.

Police declined to comment further.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/...357/1055/NEWS/Father+arrested+in+son+s+ death

 

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Suspect Sought for Child Abuse Death

Police are searching for the young man accused of beating his girlfriend's 18-month-old son to death. Officers say 18-year-old Jocquise Coleman was taking care of the little boy at an apartment on Spyglass Hill Drive back on September 16th, when emergency crews received alerts that the child had stopped breathing. The child died the next day at Sunrise Hospital. The cause of death was ruled to be blunt force trauma. Coleman is is facing arrest warrants for two counts of child abuse with substantial bodily harm, and one count of murder by child abuse. He is black, about 5'9", 135 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Police believe Coleman may have fled to Los Angeles.[
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East Orange woman admits beating infant to death
By Alexi Friedman/The Star-Ledger
October 07, 2009, 7:07PM

Latoya Davis cries as she leaves the courtroom after accepting a plea agreement at the Essex County Courthouse. She was charged in the beating death of a 2-year-old-child.​

EAST ORANGE -- There is anger in Elisa Alers’ grief.

But the feeling is not only for the woman who admitted in court today to the beating death of Alers’ 22-month-old daughter, Ahmya Brown, two years ago in East Orange.

Alers is angry with the deal prosecutors struck with the defendant, Latoya Davis, 23, who agreed to plead guilty to aggravated manslaughter in exchange for dismissal of the murder charge and a possible sentence of life in prison.

Davis now faces 10 years in prison. Because she has been in jail since her arrest in August 2007, she will serve about six years when she is sentenced next month.

At a hearing today in Newark, Superior Court Judge Joseph Cassini III approved the plea agreement. Alers, 29, who was not in court, said prosecutors should not have settled for aggravated manslaughter, "not when you ball your fists up and punch someone repeatedly. It’s not fair to my daughter, and it’s not fair to me. I don’t feel this is right."

But while acknowledging it was a "horrible, horrific crime," Essex County Assistant Prosecutor Cheryl Cucinello said the evidence did not support the murder charge because there is no indication her intent was to kill the child.

It is a fact many victims’ families don’t want to hear, according to criminal justice experts who say prosecutors must balance their responsibilities to the law with their obligations to those families.

Prosecutors must "independently decide what to do with the handling of the matter, a responsibility that means more than simply advocating for the victim," said D. William Subin, a criminal attorney in Galloway Township.

Subin said a prosecutor may often decide to secure some kind of conviction rather than risk a not-guilty verdict by a jury. A charge may be downgraded, and one or more counts may be dismissed "in return for a plea of guilty to a single count or multiple counts in the indictment. There is a variety of means affecting a plea bargain with the purpose of trying to permit justice to be served," Subin said.

In this case, Davis was 21 at the time, had no prior criminal record, was three months' pregnant and admitted to being upset when she struck Ahmya three times.

While the murder charge could not be supported, the evidence point to aggravated manslaughter, which is essentially reckless behavior with indifference, Cucinello said.

At the time of Ahmya’s death, Davis was dating the girl’s father, Hugh Brown, and was pregnant with their son. Alers and Brown shared custody of Ahmya but were no longer together.

Brown, 30, who attended today’s hearing, was visibly shaken as he listened to the defense attorney recount the events preceding his daughter’s death. After Davis admitted to the aggravated manslaughter charge, she sobbed as she was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs. As Davis turned to family members, Brown shouted at her, "You’ll never see my son!" referring to their 18-month-old, then banged on the courtroom door as he walked out.

On Aug. 14, 2007, Brown was at his job as a state family services case worker, having left Ahmya with Davis in their East Orange apartment. Davis told the judge today that she became "aggravated" when Ahmya wouldn’t sit still while the woman fixed her hair. "She was slipping," Davis said. Ahmya hated anyone touching her hair, prosecutors said, and preferred that her mother do it while the girl slept.

At around 2 p.m., Davis struck the infant three times in the abdomen. The child was still conscious after the beating but "didn’t want to eat and was fallin’ asleep," she said in court.

When Brown returned from work around 5 p.m., he noticed something was wrong and rushed Ahmya to East Orange General Hospital, where the girl died an hour later. The medical examiner ruled the death was caused by blunt-force trauma. According to the autopsy report, the child suffered a lacerated liver and pancreas and other internal injuries.

"She knew what she was doing," Alers said of Davis. "She should have been put away for life."

Trying to satisfy the victim’s family while seeing that justice is served is "a common problem for prosecutors," said Ralph Lamparello, an attorney who has worked for the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, the state Attorney General’s Office and as a defense lawyer. While prosecutors must weigh all the facts of a case, he said, "the victim’s family wants to seek retribution and is trying to be made whole."

But Hugh Brown said that though he wanted to see Davis serve a longer prison sentence, he understood the prosecutor’s position. "If it went to trial, there was a chance she would have gotten less," he said. "No amount of prison time will bring my daughter back."

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Family: Murder suspect faced 'demons'
Sat 10 Oct 2009 10:46

Family members late Friday said a 28-year-old Romeoville man charged in the apparent drowning of his toddler son suffers from mental illness and had reached out for help before the child's death.

Facing a first-degree murder charge in the death of Nathan Esi is his father, Chidi Esi of Romeoville, according to a police news release. Esi was being held on $400,000 bond today in the Will County Jail, according to the jail's Web site.

Nathan, 19 months old and of both Romeoville and Melrose Park, was declared dead at 10:28 a.m. Friday at Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital, according to the Will County coroner's office. An autospy today made a preliminary finding that Nathan died from drowning in a homicide, according to the coroner's office.

Emergency crews responded to a report of a baby not breathing at a home in the 200 block of Stamford Lane in Romeoville at 9:30 a.m. Lockport Township Fire Department personnel tried to revive Nathan, who apparently had suffered from drowning, and took him to Adventist Bolingbrook, according to police.

Family members, including his mother and his two aunts, said Chidi Esi suffered from bipolar disorder, but described him as a very smart man who enjoyed memorizing Bible scriptures.

"He was a genius. ... The mental illness got to him," said his aunt, Mary Thirus, adding that "he [had] very, very bad bipolar since he was about 18. I keep telling myself it wasn't him because he wasn't that type of person. We're all devastated over this."

Thirus said Chidi Esi called the baby's mother Thursday night, but she didn't answer the phone.

"He had called the mother and asked her to come get the baby," Thirus said in a telephone interview from his other aunt's home, adding that Esi also called other family members the same evening asking them to come get him, but they were working at the time.

"He was calling out for help last night," she said.

Chidi Esi's mother, Clara Esi, with whom he resided in Romeoville, said her son was alone with Nathan at the time of the incident. She said Nathan's mother had brought the child to the house on Monday, and the baby would often stay with them for multiple-day visits at a time.

When asked if she thought the allegations could possibly be true, Clara Esi said: "I don't know. I wasn't there. ... I hope and pray that they put him somewhere where he can get help."

Clara Esi said her son had an appointment on Monday at a medical clinic where he was going to see a psychiatrist. She said Chidi Esi had been prescribed medication, but didn't know if he was taking it prior to the incident Friday morning.

"I would tell him to take [the medication], but I don't know if he was taking anything," she said.

"He was a wonderful boy," Clara Esi said of her son. "We loved him and he loved us. He was probably just doing what he could do, but it probably got too much for him."

Dorothy Woodard, Esi's other aunt, said he had lived with her in Chicago for a while and attended church services with her. "He would talk about the demons in his head," she said.

"He would say to me: 'Auntie, you just don't know these demons that are in my head. They not gone. They're still there,'" she said. "He always said, 'God is going to heal me from these demons that are in my head.' "

In past years, Chidi Esi worked as a receptionist at Roosevelt University where he received a scholarship to study business, Woodard said. Though he was not currently working, Chidi Esi told her: "'I'm not worried about that. I'm a very smart person,'" she said.

The Will County Jail's Web site listed his profession as "forklift operator."

"You can tell when a person is really trying to do their best," she said, adding that he frequently listened to Bible study cassettes. "He was trying to help himself."

When he had mental episodes, Chidi Esi "could get angry sometimes, but he would never get aggressive. ... He would just take a walk," Woodard said.

"We would never have dreamed that this would come to that. He was never a violent type of boy," she said. "He would never bother anybody."

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is investigating whether Nathan died by abuse, said spokesman Kendall Marlowe. The agency has had no prior contact with Nathan's father, he said.

Police were unavailable for comment Friday evening, and a spokesman for the Will County state's attorney's office had no details on the incident or charges. Court information for Chidi Esi was unavailable Friday night.

An autopsy was scheduled for Nathan on Saturday, according to the coroner's office, which said the boy was 19 months old, not 18 months old as in other reports.

Chidi Esi's family said they always called Nathan by his nickname, "Munchy Cheeks." They did not identify the boy's mother.

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