ST. CLAIR COUNTY • A Belleville woman is in jail after selling her children's Christmas gifts to buy crack cocaine, police said.
Sandra J. Bauers, 35, the mother of two young sons, stole about $1,000 worth of toys and gifts that the children's grandmother bought last week, according to Sheriff's Capt. Steven Johnson. Bauers then sold the gifts to buy crack, Johnson said.
The children — two boys, ages 4 and 5 — were staying with their grandmother, Bauers' mother, who has a restraining order against Bauers.
Bauers was held on $50,000 bond at the St. Clair County Jail, for violating the restraining order.
The grandmother, Pamela Gyon, said she wanted Bauers to be a part of the children's Christmas, so she invited her daughter to go shopping with her, despite the restraining order.
"That was my error," Pamela Gyon said. "She had a drug habit. I tried to help her as her mother, but drugs are more important."
Gyon, 57, said the restraining order was because her daughter had stolen her car, jewelry and husband's tools in the past. But Gyon thought her daughter had kicked her drug habit.
"When I think about it, there are a lot of signs she was back on drugs — agitation, very hyper, nervousness," Gyon said.
Gyon said her husband is fighting cancer and is on disability. He received his monthly disability check last week and Gyon went shopping for the grandkids. Gyon bought about $1,000 in presents for the children, intending to let Bauers give some of them to her two sons as if she had purchased them.
On Thursday night, after the shopping spree, Bauers slept over at the grandmother's home in the 100 block of Pecan Lane, in unincorporated St. Clair County. The next morning, the 4-year-old boy woke up, looking for his mother. Bauers was gone — and so was the grandmother's car full of gifts.
After Gyon called authorities, Bauers was found at a motel, preparing to leave in Gyon's 2000 Mercury Mountaineer.
"Sandra is driving, and in her right hand is a crack pipe," Johnson said. "She admits she sold all of the presents."
She sold some at a crack house, some at a combination pawnshop and liquor store in East St. Louis, and some on the street, Johnson said.
The gifts included children's toys, figurines, clothing, blankets and DVDs. Some of the toys were for Bauers' two kids; others were for four other young relatives.
Some of the stolen items were recovered from the pawnshop. Gyon said police returned three toy trucks and a few dragon figurines to her. She said she and her husband have limited incomes and she doesn't think they can afford to replace the presents.
Other charges, including for theft, are being reviewed.
TAMPA — Markala Thompson cried for the last time Tuesday.
At only 4 months old, she'd already had three broken ribs that were healing and a broken arm, according to the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner.
On Tuesday, her frustrated mother, Eboni Thompson, placed her hand around Markala's neck until she stopped crying, Tampa police said. On Friday, authorities charged Thompson with killing the daughter. Not long ago, a judge had decided that Thompson, 31, was unfit to be alone with her daughter.
Still, Thompson went to see her children Tuesday, according to police reports. She has four girls and a boy, who lived with their father, Marcus Harden, in east Tampa. Markala was the youngest.
Sometime during Markala's short life, the Florida Department of Children and Families became aware of her situation. Thompson was ordered not to have unsupervised visits with the child, said Nick Cox, a DCF spokesman. He couldn't say Friday why Thompson had her custody rights revoked.
"I don't believe we were aware of the broken bones," he said.
But DCF and the court presented Harden and Thompson with a safety plan that said Thompson was not supposed to be alone with the child. In most cases, the parent with custody must sign the plan, Cox said.
That didn't stop Harden from leaving Thompson alone in the house with Markala for 15 minutes while he went to the store, police said.
Thompson admitted that she got frustrated while Harden was gone and put her hand around Markala's neck until she stopped crying, police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said.
When Markala stopped breathing, Thompson put her in a bassinet and attempted chest compressions but was unable to revive the child, McElroy said.
Harden returned to find Thompson holding Markala. She placed the child back in the bassinet. When her 21-month-old son went to reach for the baby, Harden stopped him and found Markala wasn't breathing.
Harden panicked and called 911, police said. Markala was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital and pronounced dead sometime after 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Harden was devastated and DCF took his other children into custody, said his brother, Rudolph Harden, 49, of Tampa.
"My brother is a loving man, and he loves his children," Harden said.
Thompson left before police arrived because she was not supposed to be alone with her children, police said.
Marcus Harden, 38, and Thompson went to a great deal of trouble to conceal her visits, Cox said.
"She knew and the dad knew and they had done it anyway," Cox added.
Marcus Harden suffers from gout and asthma and has trouble moving around, his brother said. "He works when he can, but his leg gets so swollen," Rudolph Harden said. "But he is a great father to his children."
Harden sought child support payments from Thompson in 2006, court records show. That same year, she was charged with trespass or larceny related to utilities. She wasn't convicted and Harden dropped the child support case the next year.
In police interviews Tuesday and Wednesday, Thompson admitted that she had previously hit the child's head on a wall and bent her arm back with enough force to break it.
The Medical Examiner Office confirmed the arm injury and three broken ribs.
"It paints a picture that this child endured a lot of abuse in her short life," McElroy said.
Thompson, of Tampa, was charged with first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated child abuse with great bodily harm.
DCF removed the other children, including a boy who is a toddler and three daughters, ages 4, 6, and 17.
Rudolph Harden said Thompson doesn't seem like the type of person who could do something like this.
i'm trying to find out if this bitch has been sentenced yet.
update: ORMOND BEACH, Fla. -- A Volusia County mother will spend the next 14 years in prison for drowning her baby in a bathtub.
Christal Giachetti pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the death of her 4-month-old son and was immediately sentenced.
ORMOND BEACH, Fla. -- A month after a baby drowned in a bathtub, the boy's mother was charged with aggravated manslaughter.
An arrest warrant was issued for the mother of 4-month-old Trenton Giachetti after the Volusia County Sheriff's Office's investigation of the April 6 death of the boy inside his family's trailer near Ormond Beach.
The mother, 30-year-old Christal Giachetti, was picked up in New York early Friday evening and is being held on $150,000 bond.
Friday's arrest came hours after a local judge issued a warrant charging Giachetti with aggravated manslaughter of a child, a first-degree felony. While the investigation didn't conclude that the death was intentional, Giachetti is accused of causing her baby's death through culpable negligence.
Giachetti gave numerous accounts of the tragedy during interviews with sheriff's investigators -- at times insisting that she had no idea what happened or how the baby ended up in the tub. However, at one point during questioning, she admitted putting the baby in the tub and then forgetting he was there.
Trenton was rushed to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach, where he was pronounced dead.
Police said an investigation revealed that the baby's mother has a history of abusing prescription pills and injecting herself with pain medication meant to be swallowed. Deputies who responded to the home on the day of Trenton's death said Giachetti appeared to be high, her speech was slurred and she had difficulty walking. Neighbors said they noticed the same thing.
When deputies went into the home on Avenue H, just south of Ormond Beach, they said they found evidence of drug use -- a hypodermic needle and spoons with a white crystal substance on them and burn marks on the bottom, indicating that the spoons had been used to prepare drugs for injecting.
Giachetti told several different versions of events to investigators. First, she said Trenton was in bed with her roommate when she left for a few minutes to walk to her mother's house two blocks away. When she returned, she said, Trenton was no longer in the bed. Giachetti said she frantically went looking for the baby, finding him in a tub full of water up to about an inch from the top. Later, she claimed that she woke her roommate before leaving to her mother's and asked her to watch the baby while she was gone. The roommate, however, said that didn't happen and she was awakened by Giachetti after the mother found the baby in the tub.
Friends and family members who were interviewed by investigators said Giachetti struggled with drug abuse and parenting.
According to one of Giachetti's cousins, Giachetti remarked about three weeks before Trenton's death that she sometimes felt like putting the baby in the tub, turning on the water and leaving. Another cousin said Giachetti had told her that she couldn't handle the baby and hated him.
Giachetti acknowledged suffering from postpartum depression and said she tried to get help so she wouldn't hurt her baby. The cousins said they would occasionally watch Trenton to give Giachetti a break.
Aware that Giachetti had gone to New York to visit family, sheriff's investigators contacted New York authorities Friday afternoon after obtaining the warrant.
Acting on information from the sheriff's office, New York State Police picked up Giachetti at a relative's house in Guilford, N.Y., at about 6 p.m.
She will be held at the Chenango County Correctional Facility in Norwich, N.Y., pending her extradition back to Florida.
christ, look at these two. so fortunate those children didn't end up burned to death in the trailer.
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The Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office has arrested a man and woman, charging them with cooking meth in the presence of three young children.
Investigators say they first learned of the meth-cooking operation when authorities responded to a medical emergency near Holden, where a man suffered chemical burns to his face and arms. Police say the man was burned opening the lid of a discarded washing machine given to him a couple of days prior.
Chief Criminal Deputy Jason Ard says that it appears the remnants of a meth lab was inside the washing machine.
Ard says deputies paid a visit to the original location where the scrapped appliance was obtained by the burn victim. Upon arriving at the residence in the 28000 block of George White Road near Holden, deputies reported smelling the odor of a "meth cook" coming from a mobile home.
According to Ard, deputies brought three occupants out of the trailer: Carl H. Savoy, Angelique Joy Townsend, and a 2-year-old child. Deputies reported discovering a meth lab smoldering in the shower of a bathroom, burning a hole completely through the floor of the shower.
After deputies arrested the man and woman, investigators with the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services took custody of the child.
Acadian Ambulance Service took that child and two of his siblings, who were located at a nearby school, to an area hospital for a medical examination.
Ard says evidence inside the home indicated that all three children had access to and were living in the immediate area of the meth lab. The children were described as a 2 year old boy, a 6 year old girl, and an 11 year old girl.
Townsend is the mother of the three children.
Both Savoy and Townsend face numerous drug and child-endangerment charges in the case.
bitch from hell. why do they have to kill the kids???
AUSTIN, Ind. (WDRB Fox 41) -- Indiana State Police say they've determined that three children who were found dead inside a home in Scott County, Ind. were shot to death by their biological mother.
According to a news release distributed by the Indiana State Police, 30-year-old Amanda Bennett shot and killed 14-year-old Jasmine Abbott, 9-year-old Katelynn Bennett and 4-year-old Ryan Bennett on Friday while at their home in the 200 block of New York St.
Police say that after shooting her children, Amanda Bennett started a fire in the home and took her own life.
The family dog was also shot, but is recovering in a Scott County veterinary clinic.
Police are calling the incident, "a tragic case of murder/suicide that claimed three innocent lives along with the suspect of the murders, Amanda Bennett."
The official cause of death has not yet been determined, as the autopsies have not been completed, but preliminary autopsy results indicate that all four individuals died as a result of gunshot wounds to the head.
Friends say there were signs of marital problems.
"This past Sunday night we come home from church," said Karen Barrett, a friend. "There were two loads of cops here and the husband and wife I assume had a scuffle because that's what my niece said, that Jasmine had come to school talking about her mom and dad getting a divorce."
But other than that, Barrett says you would never know. "He'd get out and play basketball with the kids, she'd sit out on the porch and watch 'em play you'd never know there was any family trouble, never," said Barrett.
Police would not comment on any possible domestic problems. "That is part of our investigation so there are some things that we don't want to release," said Goodin.
Debra Davidson is a cook at Austin Elementary and says she'll never forget 9-year-old Katelynn. "She always gave me and one of the other cooks a hug every day," said Davidson.
The deaths are something many just cannot comprehend. "I can't understand it," said Barrett, "I just can't see it myself, Lord knows all about it."
where's mommy? who is this guy, the live-in dick service? baby is brain dead.
edit to add: Nunn-Scott said her daughter, Fredreada Scott, doesn't have custody of Ronderrick and doesn't live with Poole. maybe he's the father...who the fuck knows, none of these people have the same last name. different first names for baby too. assholes.
TAMPA Bay News 9
Police arrested a Tampa man accused of beating a toddler and fracturing the child's skull.
Dwayne Poole, 23, was arrested shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday on charges of aggravated child abuse.
Poole is accused of throwing 16-month-old Ronderique Anderson on the bed, causing him to hit his head against the wall or the dresser.
Detectives said he also admitted to hitting the child with an open hand and a belt, which bruised his buttocks and legs.
Investigators said Poole wanted to punish the toddler for playing near an electrical wall socket.
The toddler was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, where doctors determined he had suffered a skull fracture and a brain bleed.
Doctors said the child appears to be brain dead, and that he has a minimal chance of surviving the injury.
Police did not release Poole's relationship to the child.
A search of the Hillsborough County Jail's arrest records shows a lengthy criminal history for Poole.
He was arrested for the first time in 2005, when he was still a student at Bloomingdale High, on charges of battery. He was arrested two more times the following year, both on charges of battery.
In 2007, Poole was arrested again, this time for driving without a valid driver's license and marijuana possession. He was arrested again in 2008 on similar charges of driving without a valid driver's license.
Family members said this wasn't the first time Ronderique has been abused. They said he was missing teeth two months ago, teeth that had just grown in, and they say they often saw bruises on the child's body.
Relatives said the boy never should have been in his father's care.
"Brother man's got a history of domestic violence," said Patsy Fortman, Ronderique's Aunt. "Why the baby was even placed there, I don't know."
Family members blame the Florida Dept. of Children and Families for giving the father custody while Ronderique's mom got her life on track.
DCF told Bay News 9 Poole was court-ordered to care for Ronderique and there were no previous reports alleging Poole had abused the toddler. DCF says Ronderique has been involved in child welfare system since birth.
Roderique Anderson, a 16-month-old-boy, died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa Saturday.
Tampa Police say the boy's father, Dwayne Poole, abused the boy and now faces first degree murder charges.
Relatives of Anderson said they were told Thursday doctors were giving the toddler 72 hours before they would take him off life support.
Relatives have been blaming the state for placing the child with his father, who has a criminal record.
The Florida Department of Families is admitting mistakes in this case.
"We are going to say upfront that we are looking at that process right now, we don't believe it was done to the best of our ability" said DCF spokeswoman Erin Gillespie. "There are some concerning things in the father's history that should have made us think twice about where this child was going to be placed."
Stating safety concerns, DCF says the baby was removed from his mother's care several times. Ultimately, the boy's mother took Ronderique to live with his father.
Gillispie says the agency did look at other family members, but they didn't qualify. YEAH, THEY'RE ALL LOWLIFE SCUM!
"We have criminal histories on both sides, we think that there probably should have been more due diligence done to determine where this child should have gone," said Gillespie.
SunSentinel
A Riviera Beach Fla. woman has been charged with four counts of child neglect for allegedly leaving her children alone at night while she is at work as a stripper, according to Riviera Beach police.
Corinthian Williams, 24, whose occupation on the police report is listed as "stripper," was arrested late Monday night. She was released from Palm Beach County Jail on Tuesday afternoon under her own supervision.
The state Department of Children & Families has taken custody of four children, ages 1, 5, 6 and 9, police said.
According to the report, Riviera Beach police and a DCF investigator first went to Williams' house in September 2010 after someone called about her leaving the children alone at night, the police report says.
The police report details how a caller at that time said Williams beat the kids, was always drinking, and the bedroom was "filthy with clothes, trash, bottles and plates." They also said the smallest child had an ear infection and hadn't been taking medicine.
When police and DCF arrived at the house Monday, the 5-year-old opened the door while Williams was found in her bedroom sleeping.
The police report says after investigators and police told Williams why they were there, she held up the 1-year-old child and told them, "take her. I don't wanna."
The child had a "heavily soiled" diaper, a runny nose and skin irritations, the report says.
The 9-year-old told police that Williams had male guests over and left them alone while they were in the bedroom.
WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- A 37-year-old Detroit-area woman who died of carbon monoxide poisoning was trying to kill her family when she gave her four children sedatives, then had them sleep in a van parked in their garage with the motor running, authorities said Tuesday.
An autopsy concluded that Shanda Yenglin's death was a suicide, Oakland County Medical Examiner Dr. L.J. Dragovic told The Associated Press.
"She was setting in place a plan to kill herself and all her children," Waterford Township police Chief Daniel McCaw said at a news conference.
Boys ages 10 and 11 and girls ages 13 and 14 were rushed to hospitals Monday morning. The girls were released to their foster parents, while the boys were expected to be released soon, McCaw said.
Sometime Sunday night, Yenglin gave the children milkshakes laced with sleeping pills and pain relief drugs, set the house's thermostat to 53 degrees and told them to sleep in the van in the garage to stay warm, McCaw said.
He said she left a suicide note on the dashboard of the van.
"It appears she was depressed," McCaw said.
She also left a bowl of cat food overflowing inside the home to feed their cat, he said.
According to the chief, the 14-year-old girl became sick from the milkshake and went back into a bedroom, and her 13-year-old sister woke up cold in the morning and went into the house to get a blanket.
When the 13-year-old returned and found her mother lying on the garage floor, she ran back inside, woke her sister and called 911, McCaw said.
Oakland Circuit Court records show that Yenglin had a history of abuse and neglect of her children and lost temporary custody of them. The children were visiting her Sunday.
The case is a "sad and tragic situation," McCaw said. "These children loved their mom."
well for once the mom took herself out instead of the kids.
WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WXYZ) - Police say a Waterford Township mother drugged her young children before trying to kill them and herself by carbon monoxide poisoning.
Shanda Yenglin, 37, lost custody last May of her four adopted children but was still in touch with them. Her two older daughters, ages 13 and 14, live with a foster mother. The two younger boys, ages 10 and 11, live in a state facility.
At the beginning of the year, Shanda started day-time visitations with the kids. Saturday was her third unsupervised visit.
JACKSON, Miss. -- A Mississippi mother was arrested Wednesday in the death of her 3-year-old son after authorities said they found the child's burned body in an oven. Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson said police found Tristan Robinson's body inside the electric oven at his mother's apartment shortly after midnight. Johnson said the child had been burned in the oven, but an autopsy was ordered to determine whether he died before or after being put there.
Greenville Police Chief Freddie Cannon said Terrie A. Robinson, 24, was charged with murder. She was to be arraigned Thursday in Greenville, a city of about 35,000 residents in the Mississippi Delta.
It wasn't immediately clear if she had hired a lawyer.
Johnson said the child's body was still warm when it was removed from the oven.
"This is a really sad moment for me. I've seen a lot of things, but this is one that will stick in my memory for a long, long time," Johnson said.
There appeared to be some trauma to the boy's head, Johnson said, and that could have happened before he was placed in the oven.
Officers found the body after responding to an emergency call, but the chief didn't want to release any details because of an ongoing investigation.
Johnson said a little girl found in the home was placed in the care of the Mississippi Department of Human Services.
Terrie Robinson's twin sister, Sherrie Robinson, told WXVT-TV that people should not judge her sister before all the facts are known.
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"She was a great parent, a good person. We don't know what's wrong. We don't know what happened. Do not sit there and call her a bad mom cause that's not what she is," Sherrie Robinson told the TV station.
YEAH, A GREAT MOM!
Jesus Christ. What do you say to that? I couldn't be a cop. I would have shot the bitch through the head as soon as I opened the oven.
(03-15-2013, 07:12 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: You see Duchess, I have set up a thread to discuss something and this troll is behaving just like Riotgear did.
(03-02-2011, 06:50 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: The Associated Press
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. -- A Mississippi mother was arrested Wednesday in the death of her 3-year-old son after authorities said they found the child's burned body in an oven. Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson said police found Tristan Robinson's body inside the electric oven at his mother's apartment shortly after midnight. Johnson said the child had been burned in the oven, but an autopsy was ordered to determine whether he died before or after being put there.
Greenville Police Chief Freddie Cannon said Terrie A. Robinson, 24, was charged with murder. She was to be arraigned Thursday in Greenville, a city of about 35,000 residents in the Mississippi Delta.
It wasn't immediately clear if she had hired a lawyer.
Johnson said the child's body was still warm when it was removed from the oven.
"This is a really sad moment for me. I've seen a lot of things, but this is one that will stick in my memory for a long, long time," Johnson said.
There appeared to be some trauma to the boy's head, Johnson said, and that could have happened before he was placed in the oven.
Officers found the body after responding to an emergency call, but the chief didn't want to release any details because of an ongoing investigation.
Johnson said a little girl found in the home was placed in the care of the Mississippi Department of Human Services.
Terrie Robinson's twin sister, Sherrie Robinson, told WXVT-TV that people should not judge her sister before all the facts are known.
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"She was a great parent, a good person. We don't know what's wrong. We don't know what happened. Do not sit there and call her a bad mom cause that's not what she is," Sherrie Robinson told the TV station.
YEAH, A GREAT MOM!
she looks alot like,"someone else" don't you think?
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(03-02-2011, 09:48 PM)IMaDick Wrote: she looks alot like,"someone else" don't you think?
:O Are you saying they all look alike?
(03-15-2013, 07:12 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: You see Duchess, I have set up a thread to discuss something and this troll is behaving just like Riotgear did.
(03-02-2011, 09:26 PM)Cracker Wrote: Jesus Christ. What do you say to that? I couldn't be a cop. I would have shot the bitch through the head as soon as I opened the oven.
I couldn't agree more.
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