Welfare Nigress Diatra Kills 1-Year-Old Son

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NYC Woman Accused of Killing Year-Old Son
By TOM HAYS

NEW YORK (AP) - A woman killed her 1-year-old son and dumped his body in the trash in 2000, then collected welfare benefits for him for years, authorities charged Friday.

Diatra Hester-Bey, 33, was ordered held without bail on charges of second-degree murder in the infant's death at a homeless shelter four and a half years ago.

Hester-Bey held her son, Devon Rivers, ``with his face down in the pillow until he stopped breathing,'' a crimin
l complaint said. She allegedly told investigators she was frustrated by the child's constant crying.

By her own account, the suspect wrapped the boy's body in a blanket, put him in a stro
ller and went by subway to a trash bin in another neighborhood, prosecutors said. A body was never recovered.


A call to Hester-Bey's attorney was not immediately returned.

The mother was arrested Thursday after police responded to reports of a dispute at her Brooklyn home. While questioning her and her boyfriend, the boyfriend claimed that she had killed the youngest of her six children.

The woman first denied the allegation, saying that the child lived with his biological father. Investigators contacted the man, who said he hadn't seen his son in a long time, prosecutors said.

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.j
sp...016.htm&sc=1110
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/21/nyregion/21baby.html

21baby.jpg

Diatra Hester-bey, being escorted from a police station, had been living in Brooklyn with two of her other children, ages 8 and 10.

In October 1999, Diatra Hester-bey and three of her children began living in a homeless shelter on 41st Street. Then, in early March 2000, a worker at the shelter noticed that her youngest, 1-year-old Devon Rivers, was no longer with the family and asked why.

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Note: 'Devon' is an 'afro-american' name.
Actually 'Diatra' sounds 'afro-american' too.
And f
rom the photo above.. the hair looks 'kinky'.
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:BWqEuz4_V1gJ:www.mandisa-ngozi.com/marketplaceimages/long2s
trand.jpg

To quote Tyrone, "Der go de welfare check!"

Wait a minute - let's take a closer look at that photo...
there is an apparent difference in skin-color between
the white deputy's hand and Diatra's right arm...
although it may be in 'shadow'.


Newsclip here "Watch The Story" - but not very helpful

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