Mom kills her children, herself at Florida home
Brevard County deputies believe mother killed four children before turning gun on herself
Mom kills her children, herself at Florida home

Murderer - Tanya Thomas

Why can’t these twats ever just off themselves and leave the kids out of it? Do they really think that the kids are better off on the “other side” with them? Depending on your beliefs, they’re not going to end up in the same eternity anyway – right?

Tonya Thomas, 33, of Port St. John, FL  did the unthinkable. The unimaginable. She allegedly shot and killed her 4 children in cold blood, then killed herself.  Neighbors heard shots fired around 4:50am on Tuesday morning, then a knock at their front door shortly thereafter.  Standing on their front step, they found 3 of Tonya’s 4 children who had apparent gunshot wounds. They told the neighbors that their mother had shot them.   Tonya called them  back home and, unfortunately, they responded by heading back to their house of horrors where Tonya then shot and killed them before turning the gun on herself.

Neighbors called 911 and when the cops arrived, they found 17-year old Pebbles Johnson wounded  in the front yard. After removing her and placing her still alive into an ambulance, they began to set up a perimeter. Shots were heard and swat entered the residence to find Joel Johnson, 12, Jazlin Johnson, 13, Jaxs Johnson, 15, along with their selfish twat of a mother — all dead of gunshot wounds.  Pebbles later died.

Tonya left no suicide note, but sent a text to a family member around 3am to tell them she wanted to be cremated along with her kids. Unfortunately, this family member was asleep and didn’t hear/respond to her text. Talk about survivor guilt – poor thing.

This isn’t the 1st time that the law has gone to visit Tonya and her kids. They responded to a domestic violence call from the home, involving her son Jaxs.  Just in April, he was arrested because he threw a bicycle through a window in the house and had threatened his mother. Reports say that when she woke him for school the day after this incident that he kicked and punched her, she pushed him back and a scuffle ensued.  The following day, child welfare investigators visited the house to look into allegations of inadequate supervision of the children

Four lives senselessly taken by the one person who was put on this earth to protect and nurture them. I know that none of us can ever begin to comprehend what goes through a person’s mind before they harm or kill a child, or any other person for that matter. But to be the mother of your victims just makes it different. My greatest accomplishment in life is being a mom, it’s such a shame that Tonya and all the other mothers who kill their children don’t feel the same way.

RIP Pebbles,  Jazlin, Jaxs, and Joel. You will not soon be forgotten.

Thanks to Liz,  DD,  Dianna and my own dear April for the tips.

Victims - Pebbles, Jazlin, Joel, and Jasx

Katie Lewis accused suffocating son 

Today’s case is a story of motherly instincts gone askew and damn near deadly. Coming from the You Betcha State, I give you the tale of Katie Lewis, whose grossly misguided intentions brought her charges of assault, endangerment of a child and domestic assault by strangulation. Let me explain…

Lewis had taken her 5-month-old son to the hospital, claiming he would suddenly stop breathing, turn blue and then regain consciousness. Tests were run and hospital staff found nothing to be wrong with Lewis’ son, so they informed her that he would be released. Well, it appears Ms. Lewis was not satisfied with that diagnosis and decided to take matters into her own hands. And by “into her own hands” I mean she pinched her son’s nostrils shut and covered his mouth with them.

The baby “kicked frantically” before his little body went limp, according to the incident report. For 45 seconds, Lewis suffocated him while he struggled against her to get oxygen. Luckily, this Minnesotan hospital had the cameras rolling and a nurse, who was viewing the camera feed from Lewis’ son’s room, saw it all happen and the law was called in. When questioned by police, Lewis’ excuse for trying to smother the life out of her child was that she had “snapped” and she wanted her son to “do something” so something could be found wrong with him and the medical staff could help her son more quickly. That’s original.

What this sounds like to me, is a mother with a serious case of Munchhausen by proxy. You know those crazy people that harm their children by faking illnesses and what not because they have a sick need for attention? It looks like Katie Lewis’ has a raging case of it and it nearly killed her son. Thankfully though, the baby is in good condition and in a secure location, far from the grasp of his demented mother. It’s unfortunate that the crazies, the neglectors and the abusers seem to have a bunny-like ability to breed, but I guess that’s what the rest of us are here for. To undo the damage done to children by the morons that brought them into the world only to fail at their parenting duties miserably. Hopefully, this 5-month-old baby gets a shot at a better life with people who aren’t willing to snuff him out for a little attention.

***Special Thanks to Boo Boo Kitty for the write-up.***

Russian model throws infant out of her 14th floor apartment, baby dies

27 -year-old Yak Moron….oops….Yekaterina Morkovkina, of Russia, is undergoing psychiatric evaluation after throwing her four-month old son out of a 14th floor window, because he interrupted her sleep with his crying. Ummmm….babies do that – cry, I mean. Tossing your kid out of a high rise apartment for crying is so far outside the realm of sanity that she might just get away with this crime. The baby’s body was discovered by some children the next morning. I don’t even WANT to imagine what shape the body was in – or how long it took them to determine exactly what they were looking at. A fourteen-story fall will do serious damage to anyone – especially an infant. There was no mention of the baby’s name – I guess only the murderous model rates a full identification in Russian news.

Did I mention that this slag is a fashion model, and apparently famous in her country? Yup. I guess this is another point in her favor. She will undoubtedly try to use her ‘celebrity status’ to her advantage during a trial (if there is one). Well, I guess we can exchange the adjective ‘famous’ for ‘notorious’ now. Fame is only for those who haven’t killed a baby.

I hope they still have those re-education camps running in Siberia, and the Yak Moron gets her own cell.

Rest in peace, Little One. I’m sorry your mommy was such a selfish whore.

Teen Mom “Jody Rock” Burns Her Baby’s Testicles With Flat Iron
Teen mom “intentionally” burns her baby’s genitals with straightening iron
Affidavit: Tahlequah Mom Burns Baby’s Testicles With Hair Straightener

The stellar example of parenting material you see above is Jody Rock (not sure if that’s her real name or the stage name she uses for her nude mud wrestling job, but who cares anyway – trash is trash), and she has discovered a new use for her flatiron. For those of you who do not know, that is a superheated iron rod used for straightening hair. Those things get hot enough to cause third degree burns (or worse, if you are stupid enough to hold it to your skin long enough). Although I have no use for a straightening iron myself, I have in the past uses its predecessor, a curling iron – same concept, different results. Both are dangerous, and hurt like nobody’s business if you accidentally touch your scalp or neck with the iron while primping. The stoned-looking individual above used her flatiron on her son’s genitals instead. Yes, you read that correctly. She burned her boys balls (apologies to all the guys who are reading this – even I had a sympathetic cringe reflex when I read that). In what far realm of the known universe is using any hot object on a child’s private parts an acceptable parenting skill? Apparently in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, this nineteen year old one-woman sperm-collection specialist decided to patent her own brand of child-torture. I hope her future cell-mates are equally ingenious when it comes to meeting her ‘needs’ during her vacation to the Graybar Motel. Maybe we could have a brainstorming session here at BB and send the top ten suggestions to other inmates, enclosed in a free pack of smokes.

Jody admitted to investigators that she had opened the flatiron tongs and closed them on her son’s testicles – after she tested the temperature with her own hand. However, like all child abusers, she only admitted the truth after attempting several different lies and being told by the docs that her stories were the biggest load of fertilizer seen in that state in years. She even attempted to blame other family members – and her boyfriend! – for the injuries. What a vicious hosebeast! I cannot imagine even thinking of doing something like that to my son (or any child), much less acting on the impulse. I wonder if she plans to use that as a part of her defense – that she suffers from an impulse-control disorder. It sounds like something a slimy abuse attorney might run with. My definition of “impulse-control disorder”? “Yeah, I knew it was wrong, but I wanted to try it anyway, because I thought I could get away with it.” I don’t give a rat’s left ballsack what her excuse is, she is a nasty skank, and needs to have her crotch hair repeatedly straightened and re-curled until her labia melt together so she can’t get knocked up again. But then, that’s just my opinion. The wife of the reader who sent in this tip suggested using a soldering iron. That would be fine too.

It was not made clear in either article how the injury was discovered, but I’m glad it was. I kind of doubt she took him in for treatment herself, so I am guessing someone reported her sorry arse to the authorities and the burns were discovered in the course of the investigation. Whoever reported her: Thank you! If I had the power to confer a medal of valor on you, I would.

In addition to the burns, the baby presented with a noticeably deformed shoulder. BOTH of his shoulders were fractured and in various stages of healing – the injury to the right shoulder was twelve weeks old,and he had multiple fractures to his left shoulder area. But wait…there’s more… he also had forearm and wrist fractures that happened over a span of several weeks, and were never properly set. It sounds to me like this is one of those skanks who thinks snatching your child by the arm is a good parenting technique. Or maybe she just beat the ever-loving snot out of him. Oh, and the baby was also recently treated for scabies, and is thought to still be infected. So in addition to overt abuse, she is also a neglectful POS. Why does that not surprise me?

Those who participated in the investigation noted that the child was “glassy eyed” and withdrawn, no surprise there. They also said the child seemed to be in agony. Ya think? Gee, I wonder why….it could have something to do with all of the broken bones – I hear that hurts like a big dog. The genital injuries alone are enough to make most grown men run screaming for their mommy.

I would be remiss if I did not point out the fact that one of the articles linked above makes a point of pointing out that the burns were “intentional”. Thank you, Captain Obvious. I cannot imagine a scenario in which flatiron burns to the genitals of a 15-month old baby (or anyone else) could have occurred accidentally. Babies that young are often still in diapers, so even if he accidentally sat on the heated iron, the diaper would have protected his boys. He certainly would not have remained seated on that item long enough to burn through a diaper and his flesh. Nope. No accident there.

Ms. Rock (I wonder if that’s also indicative of her IQ?) is currently being held in the Cherokee County Jail in lieu of $200,000.00. I personally think they should add at least one more zero to that figure, but alas, neither the DA nor the judge consulted with me on this case. And they probably won’t consult with me during the sentencing phase either, the bastards. Sighhhhh….
The baby has been placed in DHS custody, where he will hopefully be better taken care of than he was by his maternal DNA donor.

I’d like to thank The Shadow Knows for sending in the tip.

We’ve had a lot of e-mail gather in the BB inbox. And by gathering I mean I sat on my ass before getting permission of the e-mail authors to post the letters. So we have a lot to get through. I’m just going to list them and let them speak for themselves.

E-mail #1

I’m new to your site. My heart aches and breaks for the little ones, so helpless and defenseless at the hands of people they should be able to trust. I am sickened to my core at some of these so called “mothers” who allow their “man” to harm their child.
One such story sticks out in my mind is the story of Dominick Calhoun who at the age of 4 was tortured to death by his mother’s boyfriend for urinating on a couch. His mother was there at the time. This is a story that should be on your site. Google has a lot of information about this case. He was a beautiful little angel. His Grandparents have fought hard to pass a law named after Dominick that would give harsher sentences to child abusers. Please write about this story. More people (especially single mothers) need to know about these senseless and avoidable crimes.

We as single mother’s need to be vigilant about who we allow in our children’s lives.

I pray for these fallen angels and their families every night. Some to rest in peace, and some to come to justice. Thank you for writing and letting more people know about these horrible crimes.

E-mail #2

I just want to say that I am sickened by these stories. Little Babies murdered by pieces of SHIT. Maybe a small change could be made if all those in favor of pro-life (I mean the really crazy ones) MUST step up to the plate and put a plan in action to protect the “unwanted” children AFTER they are brought to term instead of focusing on the inevitable. All the time and energy put into the anti abortion campaign could be put forth as a voice for the abused children. I am not going to state which side I lean towards. However, I believe that an abortive death is less painful than what these children go through. AHHH It makes me so mad to know that these children are hurt this way.

Just wanted to vent. Thank you for bringing attention to these stories. Now if we could all find a voice for these little angels.

E-mail #3

I’ve been reading this blog forever, but have never commented until now. Almost 11 years ago, my 7 week old son passed away (SIDS). All while I was reading this, his perfect little face kept popping into my head. I hope her punishment is scalding. I just can’t even imagine what would drive someone to do something like this. At 7 weeks, they are so little, and so dependent and helpless… I don’t even have the words to say what I feel right now. Heartbroken for that little baby, and so much rage at the “mom”

E-mail #4

I wanted to write to you and tell you that I really appreciate this website. I’m a 21 year old mother of a beautiful 14 year old daughter named (redacted). She is my absolute world and my rock.

I came from an abusive home growing up and nothing pains me more than to read these stories.

For as long as I can remember, my parents weren’t the nicest people. When my mother became angry with my brother and I, she would hit us so hard with belts that the design on the belt could be made out in our skin. Our butts had red hand prints on them for days. It was terrifying…

I thought the terror of my mother hitting us was all that I would endure, but when she died when I was 11 my life took a whole different turn. My father became an alcoholic and we were abused even worse… mainly me, who my brother blamed almost everything on so he wouldn’t get hit that day. It seemed like it was always me getting abused while my brother watched with a smug look on his face, almost trying to tell me “Ha, It’s not me for once!” My father would grab me, throw me on the bed, and hit me with all of his might. He never hit me in the face though because he didn’t want anyone to see what was going on behind closed doors. One time, I left a cup of milk in my room for a day or two and it got moldy. My dad found it and forced me to eat it with a spoon all while he was holding my head back by my hair. I wasn’t allowed to shower for days or brush my hair and I always smelled. It was embarrassing to go to school like that because I had no friends and I was always being made fun of. My dad had a girlfriend around this time and he would stay over there for days and days and only come to check on me and my brother once in a while. I was extremely skinny by highschool 110lbs at 5’8″. Some one called CPS on him, but he denied everything and by then I was too scared to speak up and say anything because he would constantly tell me that if he went to jail, he would come back for me and bury me in the woods where no one would find me.

I remember my brother coming home too late one time and watching helplessly through the window as my brother was getting hit by a 2×4. My dad told me that it was my brother who hit him… but I watched the whole thing. When the police asked me if I saw anything, I was already advised by my dad that if I said ANYTHING that he would put a bullet in my head. I regret not saying anything to this day.

When I turned 17, I ran away and moved out after he pushed me into a space heater and broke my hand because I was too busy doing my home work to let the dog inside. I ran away and didn’t speak to him for nearly 6 months, when all of my trauma caught up to me and I tried to commit suicide. It was then when he opened his eyes and saw what he had been doing wrong the entire time.. I saw him break down to tears and wish and pray that he could start over… but it was too late. the damage had already been done. I do forgive my dad to a certain point, as now that he realized how horribly he affected me, he has been a great person… but he will never be trusted by my brother and I to watch our children… EVER. he is allowed brief visits and that is all.

It does not make up for how he ruined my childhood. I am still angry to this day, but I try not to think about it for the sake of my daughter. I could never imagine anyone hurting my baby girl and just because your parents treat you like garbage, doesn’t mean you can treat your children like garbage! Break the cycle! You’re better than that.

On this mother’s day I hope this blog has at least influenced at least one parent from thinking twice before abusing their children.

Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.

5-year-old dies of suspected child abuse
Boy, 5, killed by step-father for ‘lying about wetting his pants’

Little Isaiah Gutierrez learned a hard lesson about lying a few days ago. Too bad he won’t be able to apply that lesson in the future, since the final act of the lesson was his own death. According to the sources listed above, he was beaten to death (does slamming him into the side of a dresser qualify as ‘beating’? I think so.) for lying about wetting his pants. As I potty trained my kids, they all had accidents occasionally. Do you know how I cured them of that? Well, I’ll tell you what I didn’t do….I sure as hell didn’t use the side of a dresser (or any other piece of furniture) as a potty training tool. I’d take them to the bathroom, clean them up, and tell them to try again.

The worthless individual responsible for the death of this child is his step-penis, Richard Gutierrez, 31. He was babyslinging…..oops, I meant babysitting, 5-year old Isaiah when the accidental wetting and intentional beating took place. After lying to the doctors and police about the incident, he finally told the truth when he realized they were much smarter than he was and didn’t believe his BS story. His first attempt at storytelling involved an accidental fall from a bed and finding a broken child on the floor beside a “TV thing”. Not sure what a ‘TV thing’ is, but OK. Ho, hum….why do they always try to blame furniture for the injuries – well in this case he was half-truthful – a piece of furniture was involved, but it wasn’t the bed….and it wasn’t an accident.

When the truth finally surfaced, Richard admitted to slinging the boy against the dresser, and then trying to revive him with a cold bath when he lost consciousness. Why are all child killers so predictably stupid? Do they have to take a class or something? “How to Come up With Lame Excuses 101″, maybe?

Anyway, Isaiah was placed on life support at the hospital, but to no avail. He died a few short days later, of traumatic brain injuries. May Dick receive the same in jail….I hope.

Dick is currently being held on a no-bond hold. I hope it remains that way. No word on the mother, or whether she knew about any previous abuse, so I will leave her out of this for now. I REALLY hope she didn’t know what this guy was capable of, but he did have a previous record (two years ago) for domestic violence. I’ll update as I get more info.

If anyone sent in a tip – thank you. I actually looked this one up on my own though.

Man in court for girl’s fatal beating

Man charged with murder in beating death of girlfriend’s toddler

2-year-old girl with bite marks beaten to death, officials say 

Because this is Bad Breeders, you can assume that this story is not an uplifting or feel good kind of tale. It’s the tragic case of another child left in the care of someone their parent trusted and not coming home ever again, unfortunately. Brittany Cotton left her little girl, 2-year-old Armaney Cotton, with her boyfriend, Devell (probably pronounced “devil”) Johnson so she could go to work. Apparently the definition of “babysitting” for Johnson is not the same for us non-murderous folk. He must have known what it was before, having baby sat the child before without incident, but this last time the meaning changed and Armaney didn’t make it out alive.

On Armaney’s last day, she stayed down in the basement of Johnson’s family home, where he lived, while he “watched” her. At some point in the afternoon, Johnson went upstairs and told his brother and nephew Armaney had hit her head. He later went back down into the basement and came upstairs with Armaney, who was unresponsive. Johnson then called his mother and step-father to tell them Armaney was unconscious and the step-father called 911. When paramedics arrived, Armaney had no pulse, wasn’t breathing and was cold to the touch. She was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead at 4:42 PM, less than an hour after Johnson brought her upstairs from the basement. He would later admit to smacking Armaney on the back and butt and also to the bites. He is currently being held without bail and rightly so.

While in Johnson’s care, Armaney suffered immensely. Her little body was bruised and bitten. The monster that was supposed to watch her while her mother worked, quite literally beat this little girl to death. She had extensive internal bleeding, a lacerated liver, bleeding of a kidney and a subdural hematoma. During the bond hearing for Johnson,AssistantCookCountyState’s Attorney Nyshana K. Sumner said, “The victim’s death resulted from exceptionally brutal or heinous behavior indicative of wanton cruelty.” I would say so. Only a subhuman sewer-dwelling piece of mutated, flesh-clothed shit would inflict this kind of merciless brutality on a child. I stand by the belief that if you do not have the patience for a child or just hate kids in general, do not have them and don’t get into a relationship with someone who has one or any. That goes for breeders as well. If they suspect for even one second the person their taking up with is not kid-friendly, get out, walk away and don’t look back. It could save a child’s life.

Usually, we reserve some ire for the mother or father in a case like this, that trusted a less than human fleshbag to take care of their precious child, but I actually feel sorry for the mother of Armaney. In one of the articles for this case, Brittany Cotton is quoted as saying, “This was someone I loved and trusted to protect her, not harm her. I don’t understand why this happened to her.” Those of us who follow these cases have heard these words or a variation of them many times before and we scoff and call bullshit. But obviously there are trusting souls out there and maybe some honestly did not see tragedy coming. I don’t think this mother expected this so I’m reserving my mother-bashing for a more deserving spunk canister. Also, the words of Armaney’s grandmother, Denise Cotton, recalling the last day she saw her granddaughter placated any rage I might have been feeling at the beginning of this write-up. She said, “She came and waved at me and said ‘bye-bye’. I never thought that was a permanent bye-bye.” That is too heartbreaking for words.

Thanks to Natalie and Lisa M. for the tips.

***Thanks to Boo Boo Kitty for the write-up.***

R.I.P. Armaney, your beautiful smile will surely be missed.

Patricia Krentcil arrested  for taking daughter to tanning booth

Patricia Krentcil, New Jersey mother accused of putting her 6-year-old daughter in tanning bed

Ladies and Gents…meet Patricia Krentcil (44) of New Jersey.  In case you are wondering that is not make-up Patricia is sporting.  That is her skin, she is a sun worshipper and by her own admission has been “tanning” her whole life, and we can definitely tell.

Anyhow, Patricia’s tanning habits are not what landed her on BB, well not exactly, her tanning habits involving her 6-year-old daughter are. It seems Patricia’s daughter went to school with a sun burn and told the school nurse she went “tanning” with mommy.  Patricia admits she took her daughter to the tanning booth with her but denies she allowed the little girl to get into the bed and actually tan.  She and the little girl’s father say the sunburn came from her playing in the yard in the sun.

Patricia Krentcil has been charged with second-degree child endangerment and posted a $25,000 bond.  Her daughter has been place in the temporary custody of her father.

Thanks to my lovely,  April for the tip.