Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
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Alleged child-killer skips trial
Jackson County authorities are looking for Willie Earl Thomas after he failed to show up for trial on charges related to the beating death of a 5-year-old child.
Thomas is charged as an accessory after the fact to capital murder in the death of Kendrick Broadhead. Authorities said Thomas, who was released on bond and now lives in Mobile, Ala., allegedly helped Kenderick's mother, Towander Broadhead, remove the child's body from the her house and dispose of it on a roadside in Harrison County.
His trial was scheduled begin Tuesday in circuit court.
Judge Robert Krebs issued the bench warrant for Thomas after defense attorney Richard Conant said he had not heard from his client in
a week. Conant told the court that Thomas' family said they had
filed a missing persons report with Mobile police.
Broadhead is charged with felony child abuse and capital murder in the Feb. 28, 2004, death of her son. She is also charged with felony child abuse in the alleged beating of her 10-year-old daughter, Royteshia Perkins.
Authorities said Broadhead allegedly beat Kenderick with her fist and a broomstick after becoming aggravated with the child while she was trying to teach him to count to 20.
According to Thomas' statement to sheriff's investigators, which was read during Broadhead's preliminary hearing, Broadhead called him at work, saying she had beaten Kenderick and thought she had killed him.
Thomas said in the statement that he arrived home to find Kenderick lying in a bed.
After determining that the child was dead, Thomas said he and Broadhead wrapped the child's body in plastic and a carpet.<
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The couple then took the child's body to Harrison County and left it on a roadside, he told police.
Aut
horities said Thomas led them to Kenderick's body.
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You can't beat knowledge into a niglet's head. Its skull is too thick, ask any teechur!
Reference: Dare go da welfare check, page one, first article.
T.N.B.
Alleged child-killer skips trial
Jackson County authorities are looking for Willie Earl Thomas after he failed to show up for trial on charges related to the beating death of a 5-year-old child.
Thomas is charged as an accessory after the fact to capital murder in the death of Kendrick Broadhead. Authorities said Thomas, who was released on bond and now lives in Mobile, Ala., allegedly helped Kenderick's mother, Towander Broadhead, remove the child's body from the her house and dispose of it on a roadside in Harrison County.
His trial was scheduled begin Tuesday in circuit court.
Judge Robert Krebs issued the bench warrant for Thomas after defense attorney Richard Conant said he had not heard from his client in
a week. Conant told the court that Thomas' family said they had
filed a missing persons report with Mobile police.
Broadhead is charged with felony child abuse and capital murder in the Feb. 28, 2004, death of her son. She is also charged with felony child abuse in the alleged beating of her 10-year-old daughter, Royteshia Perkins.
Authorities said Broadhead allegedly beat Kenderick with her fist and a broomstick after becoming aggravated with the child while she was trying to teach him to count to 20.
According to Thomas' statement to sheriff's investigators, which was read during Broadhead's preliminary hearing, Broadhead called him at work, saying she had beaten Kenderick and thought she had killed him.
Thomas said in the statement that he arrived home to find Kenderick lying in a bed.
After determining that the child was dead, Thomas said he and Broadhead wrapped the child's body in plastic and a carpet.<
br>
The couple then took the child's body to Harrison County and left it on a roadside, he told police.
Aut
horities said Thomas led them to Kenderick's body.
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You can't beat knowledge into a niglet's head. Its skull is too thick, ask any teechur!
Reference: Dare go da welfare check, page one, first article.
T.N.B.