SHOULD LE GIVE THIS MOM A BREAK? Murder of Tylea Moore

[HairOfTheDog]

Joshua Beard, Alexis Botello, Tylea Moore (RIP).

Joshua Beard, 20, beat and stomped his 17-year-old girlfriend's 19-month-old daughter, Tylea Moore, to death on July 4^th.

Beard had been dating the baby's mother, Alexis Botello for four months and the couple lived together. The father of the baby, Chris Moore, is a Marine (no age given; but Alexis would have been 15 when she gave birth).

After killing Tylea, the couple went to Walmart where they were captured on surveillance video buying gloves and two shovels.

The couple then drove to a remote area, dug a grave under a bridge, wrapped the little girl in a small blue blanket and buried her, according to the police report.

Investigators said they uncovered the body after Botello admitted her involvement and showed police the location. Botello claims she tried to stop Beard when he was punching and stomping her daughter to death, but he beat and choked her too.


Beard has been charged with capital murder. His bail has been set at $1 million. Botello has been charged as an adult with tampering with evidence of a human corpse and injury to a child. Her bail has been set at $125,000.

Chris Moore, the baby's father, made a statement -- he thinks police should view Alexis as a victim in fear for her life. He says that there are photos of Alexis all bruised-up from Beard.

Ricardo Botello is Alexis' father and Tylea's grandfather. "It hasn't been good. I'm not doing well," he said. "My family is in disarray." "I'm praying my daughter didn't have anything to do with this," Botello said prior to his daughter's arrest Wednesday night.

Refs:
http://crimefeed.com/2014/07/boyfriend-a...ilds-body/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/11..._ref=crime
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I read a lot of comments attached to this case news by people who think that Alexis should not have been arrested because she is an abuse victim.

There were also plenty of comments from mothers and fathers who said that, unlike Alexis Botello, they would have died trying to save their babies.

What do you think?