Adoptive Mother Guilty of Striking Son, Letting Him Die
The shittiest, and I mean SHITTIEST, thing that can happen to a child is to be pulled from one abusive home, only to be thrown into another. What can a young kid conclude about life when every family to whom he’s sent treats him like garbage? I can only imagine what went through seven-year-old Ricky Holland’s head in the days leading up to his death at the hands of his adoptive mother, Lisa Holland of Williamston, Michigan, who has been convicted of first degree murder.
Prosecutors contended that Holland struck the boy in the head. It was only one of many ways that the mom reportedly abused the child. One of her more clever devices? Duct taping him to the refrigerator. Both husband Tim Holland and his wife then stood back and watched the boy die – a trauma that Tim Holland recounted later in vivid detail. Then the asshole couple reported the child missing, and sent police on a wild goose chase. It took nine days months for the husband to break down and lead the cops to the body. After that, of course, the harmonious couple turned against one another. Lisa Holland’s defense was that her husband was the murderer; her lawyers used the fact that he had lied repeatedly on behalf of his wife to depict him as someone who couldn’t be trusted. Oh, the irony. The jury didn’t buy it, though, so now Lisa gets a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole. Her husband – who comes across as a giant, quivering pussy who stood back and did nothing while his wife tortured their son – got slapped with the rap for murder in the second degree.
Lisa Holland reportedly broke down into tears as the verdict was read. Bitch. You have no right – zero – to cry over that child’s body. The proper time to weap was when he was still alive, and you still could have reformed your sorry ass and been a good mother to him. With any luck, the inmates in your prison will treat you with the same dignity and respect that you treated poor Ricky.
Rest in peace, Ricky Holland. Justice has been done. I’m so sorry no one could help you before it was too late. Your death is our failure.
For more on this case, check out the Lansing State Journal, which has a huge round-up of its coverage. The stories tell you all you need to know about these failed parents, including Lisa Holland’s desperate bids for attention, her tendency to overmedicate Ricky, and her public denigration of the child she should have showered with love.
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October 28th, 2006 at 11:23 am
Just one question for you: what makes you think she was crying over the child? I would bet that she was crying for purely selfish reasons like “I’m going to jail” or “I’ll die in jail” or “I’m totally f***ed”.
October 28th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Dear God, what is wrong with people? I can picture that poor little boy and the anguish he must have felt in his final days. Makes my heart sick. I hope his mother gets hers in prison. And the father too. Although death is too good for them.
October 28th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Good point, DK. I gave this waste of humanity too much credit.
I’m with you on that, Sassy.
October 28th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Very sad case. My heart just breaks for that poor child.
Sadly, you’ve given the adoptive “father” too much credit: He didn’t lead police to Rickys body 9 days later, it was several months later.
Also, as far as everything I’ve read on the case, Ricky WAS NOT being abused before being removed from his birth mothers care. He was loved and wanted, but his mother was young, immature and seemingly ill-equipped to properly care for him as far a social services were concerned. It really makes it even more terrible that if Ricky had been in his mothers custody, he’d still be alive today.
October 28th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Stories like this one make me cry, for more than one reason. I myself am a child abuse survivor and I know first hand the terror and shame that goes hand in hand with that kind of living environment. For years people sat and watched and plugged their ears, because it wasn’t “their place” to get involved. I honestly believe child abuse is one of the crimes that deserves to be punished with a death sentence.
I am a mother of two, my youngest is only two and a half, and the thought of anyone harming him makes my stomach roll. The thought of any child being tortured that way makes me hug my children and tell them that I love them.
The last reason stories like this make me sad is because of the black eye it gives to adoption. I have placed two children for adoption in my lifetime and both of them are happy, healty, well adjusted and safe. When people like this are allowed to slip through the cracks, it makes it harder for the parents out there who deserve children to adopt them.
I hope these two people rot in hell for what they did.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:37 am
L: thanks for the correction.
viciousrumours: I think that’s guaranteed. If Hell doesn’t exist, it’ll be created just for them.
November 1st, 2006 at 7:32 pm
Zero Boss, Lisa Holland does NOT love Ricky at all! Neither did her husband! They only love themselves and each other! I hope they get a death penalty cuz they deserve to die for what the f*** they did to Ricky! Wouldn’t you agree?
November 11th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
Francine: I can’t disagree with you.
November 14th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
Thank you, Zero Boss.
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:55 am
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