Articles labeled: child torture

Ugh. And this “father” didn’t call an ambulance until 5 hours as he punched his infant over and over again the stomach - even though she immediately had difficulty breathing after the beating.

How anybody could think that sucker punching an infant repeatedly is a good idea is beyond us.

Larnell Mace told police he punched 4-month-old Jasmine Mace in the stomach five to six times because she wouldn’t stop crying. His confession followed several other stories he told officers, including a claim that he accidentally stepped on his daughter and an admission to smoking marijuana the afternoon she died, said Lake County Assistant State’s Attorney Steve Scheller.

MT can’t even think of an appropriate punishment for such evil people.

Reports reveal that the mother knowingly allowed her boyfriend to beat the child on a regular basis and was fully aware he was beating the child with a cord and heard her cries and screaming and just went on her merry way. She was probably grateful that someone else was going to take the fall for getting rid of a baby she obviously felt was a burden.

Then, she puts on a good show for the police, crying and asking about the condition of her baby as she sat in the police station. MT thinks this was a calculated effort on her part to lessen her jail time as an accessory. After all, Judges an Juries fall for that crap all the time. Especially since jurors are the ones who aren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty, we leave our children’s fate in their hands.

While the mother stood by and watched her boyfriend beat her baby to death with a video game cord, she did nothing, yet cried at police station asking for updates on her baby??? Are you kidding me????? Sounds like she put on a good show, probably more concerned about thwarting jail time than her baby.

The mother admitted that the boyfriend had been beating the toddler for months. BOTH of them need to be charged with murder. This is outrageous. Can anybody imagine the suffering and pain this little baby went though before her body finally gave up?

During questioning at the police station, Johnson admitted to beating the girl but did not say why, Ward said. The toddler was beaten with a video game controller and cord, according to charging documents.

Just before 2:30 p.m. Sunday, the mother and boyfriend had called 911 to report the injured toddler, Ward said. After the beating, Johnson put the toddler in a bathtub to revive her but she remained unresponsive, according to court records.

Johnson then brought the wet, limp and unresponsive child to Baez and the two began CPR, court records say.

Afterward, the mother told police Johnson was beating her daughter and the child was screaming and then stopped, according to charging documents.

Baez was charged because she was home when Johnson allegedly beat the toddler but did not intervene or try to get help, Ward said.

A woman who punished a 9 year old boy by making him sit in a bathtub while she poured boiling water on him, to the point where he will require physical therapy and skin grafts and a host of reconstructive surgery, also making the boy clean the kitchen after she burned him. The youngster said his feet were too blistered to clean, and then she threatened to beat him if he didn’t clean and finally took the poor child to the hospital after enduring 4 days of excruciating pain, will get only 6 months in jail and will most likely get her child back.

Let it be known, that Shamia Lawson did these things. She lives in Baltimore.

Let is also be known, the Judge who thought the child abuse wasn’t a big deal and who most likely sees children as less valuable than a dog, and that their suffering is inconsequential, is Circuit Judge John M Glynn.

Perhaps, if it were his own child, this may have turned out differently. Nobody will ever know why the Judge decided that this child’s torture doesn’t matter and why his sympathy lies with a brutal child abuser. Perhaps he identified with her sadistic enjoyment of torturing the innocent child.

Everyone ought to be ashamed that this Judge is part of the system that is supposed to hand down punishments to those that hurt people. Everyone ought to be ashamed who elected this Judge and most of all, this Judge ought to be ashamed of himself.

At yesterday’s sentencing hearing, Drake repeated some of the saddest details.
She said Lawson “forced [the boy] into a tub of water and poured five pots of boiling water into the tub. … She pushed him into the water and threatened to beat him with a belt if he got out.”

When the boy emerged, Lawson ordered him to clean the kitchen, but he said his blistered feet hurt too much. “So what?” was her response, Drake said.

Four days later, Lawson took the badly injured child to Howard County General Hospital and gave fake names. She “told different and convoluted lies” to hospital workers and to police, said Drake, who called Lawson “a talented liar.”

A 17 month old boy who had cooking oil, heated in a frying pan, poured on his genitals as well as beaten to the point of sustaining spinal injuries is recovering, but the extent of his injuries and whether or not he’ll be able to walk again have not yet been reported.

Perhaps the boyfriend and the mother don’t know what it feels like to be punched in the stomach by someone 15X bigger than you and have frying grease poured on their genitals and a hair-dryer used to burn off their skin, so I recommend that they find out. If it’s good enough for their baby, surely it’s good enough for them.

We are failing in protecting our most vulnerable. I don’t know what can be done, if anything, but it seems like this happens far, far too often. Once is too much.

And of course! — It happened in Florida. Surprise. Surprise.

The mother of an Apopka toddler severely burned and beaten was arrested today on one count of child neglect, police said.

Marlita S. Stokes, 23, was at work when her boyfriend Darlanne Toussaint, 24, used his fist to smash the 17-month-old’s chest and back, and a blow dryer to burn the child’s skin. The boy who suffered second-degree burns on his genitals, back, chest and head, is in stable condition at Florida Hospital Orlando this morning.

Toussaint was baby-sitting girlfriend Marlita Stokes’ two children at the couple’s home in the 1900 block of Nicole Lee Circle when the incident occurred Thursday morning, police said. The other child was not hurt.