Heather Heck Accused of Leaving Baby in Car for Weekend While She Partied
Thanks to Trench for the heads-up on this story on CrimeRant about Heather Heck. The 23-year-old Loraine, Ohio woman really, really wanted a nice weekend out with her boyfriend. But, alas, she couldn’t find anyone to babysit./ So she did the only logical thing: wrapped her six-week-old child up in a bed sheet (and a dirty one at that), and left the little angel in a laundry basket in her boyfriend’s SUV.
Sounds a lot like David and Liz Carroll, doesn’t it? In that case, the negligent foster parents left their boy Marcus Fiesel tied up ina closet so that they could sojourn to an out-of-state family reunion. But this case is…different. Heck and her boyfriend, Wesley Cales, are religious. So religious, in fact, that Heather Heck feared the wrath of hellfire from the leaders of Calvary Apostolic Church if they discovered that the pair had had sex without God’s permission. As a result, Heck kept the baby a secret from everybody…including her boyfriend, the boy’s father.
How leaving a child to die or be kidnapped is preferable to telling your pastor that you had pre-marital sex is beyond me. Did Heck think that Jesus doesn’t have a ranking system? From what I’ve seen, the better Christians live their lives in celebration of Christ. Heck sounds like she was living in fear of him.
Cales, not being a moron, was aghast when he found out how his girlfriend had endangered their son. He’s now suing for full custody of the babe. Good for him. Miss Heck, please use your jail time wisely. When you ask God for forgiveness, make sure to thank Him, from the bottom of your heart, that you didn’t come home to a dead baby.
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December 11th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
My nephew is the father of this baby boy, or at least that’s what we’re all hoping and praying that the DNA test will prove. I wish I could give details as to how Heather hid both the pregnancy, and the baby from Wesley, but I can’t since the case is ongoing. I’m hoping that all of those things will be publicized when the trial proceeds. I can tell you this though, my nephew is seeking custody of his son, and will be an excellent father. He has the full support of his entire family and we’ll all be there to help him if we’re needed. Inside of a week Wesley has managed to get everything that he needs in order to bring his baby home, and has the crib already set up in his bedroom. Clothes, diapers, bottles, blankets, car seat, etc…Many guys his age run from the responsibility of their children. My nephew is anxiously waiting for the day he brings his baby home. Our entire family is anxious to wrap our arms around the newest member of our family. I can understand how some feel as if he had to have known that Heather was pregnant. I can understand how people are surprised that she not only managed to hide the pregnancy, but also hid the baby for two months. If I didn’t have a front row seat to this nightmare I’d be thinking the same way. I’m not here to slam Heather, nor am I able to disclose as much information as I wish I could. I’m simply here to tell you that Wesley and the baby will have all of the help they need. The baby will be loved and well cared for. Wesley will be a very good father who will love and protect his child for the rest of his life.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:32 am
Lets hope Wesley leaves this dominating church and gets to practice his faith in a regular surrounding or he will be the next to hide away something so normal and natural. This Church is largely to blame for the fear instilled in Heather. She must have been so tormented by her indoctrination that it drove to do this silly act. Now please go and check out this church and its people before its to late for all of them. There seems to be a bad brainwashing force within this group to allow youngsters to hide their most natural and normal human deeds. This is no Christian way to behave. Christians are getting a bad enough reputation because of this type of thing. Heather must have realized her wrong doing by now and realized too what her indoctrination or I like to call it brain washing has done to her. She sounds like a weak sole who needs love and kindness not hell fire and dread! Take care Heather you know you have been mislead now walk tall again and get Wesley to see you were a good person perhaps the two of you will have a happy and well adjusted family one day. But get the hell out of that environment that oppresses you. Find a regular place of worship one that does not condemn or Judge.
Good luck to both of you and make the most of your bundle of Joy!
I hope your Judge in court reads this for his decision. And bars all entry to that brainwashing sect!
December 12th, 2006 at 5:06 am
Lilbit:
I am so incredibly happy for Wesley that he has the courage and the decency to claim, love, and raise his son. Thank you, so very very much for posting. It makes me feel so much better to know that this little guy has a loving, caring Daddy and a huge support system for both of them. Please, please tell Wesley that a complete and total stranger (me!) is proud proud PROUD to know that there are men like him around to compensate for women like Heather. I will pray hard that Heather gets the help she desperately needs, because it will be important for this baby boy to “someday” know his mother, once she has become a person worthy of being called “mother”.
My very best to your entire family….blessings to Wesley and baby boy. I will be praying for all of you. This is a very special little boy. He will do amazing things!
December 12th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
[...] “She wanted a nice weekend out with her boyfriend […s]o she […] wrapped her six-week-old child up in a [dirty] bed sheet […] and left the little angel in a laundry basket in her boyfriend’s SUV.” “How leaving a child to die or be kidnapped is preferable to telling your pastor that you had pre-marital sex is beyond me. Did Heck think that Jesus doesn’t have a ranking system? […] Cales, not being a moron, was aghast […] now suing for full cust (tags: neg-holy_holy_shit neg-whaddafuck neg-horrifying) [...]
December 13th, 2006 at 1:17 am
Hay well done Tamzin!
Well done your thoughts mirror mine these poor lost Christians who fear for their life are all around us and they go to extremes to hide who they really are. I feel very strongly that certain churches breath dread into their congregation. What for? that’s not the message God wanted to spread he wants normal people to love not fear and pannic. Get out of this Heather you have a chance and choice to be normal and still believe and have your faith.
I hope the Judge realizes you were forced to believe in your fear and not God.
December 13th, 2006 at 7:53 am
The church as become a major topic of conversation in all of this and I feel as if I have to say a few things. First of all I’ll tell you that I’m not a member of this church, or any other church at this time. I have however visited this church in the past. The papers reported that Heather came from a very religious background. This isn’t true. She did attend services with Wesley at times, but is by no means a “religious” person. That isn’t to say that she’s a “bad” person either. I have other family members who attend this church and can assure you that there is no “brain washing” going on. Another nephew and his girlfriend who are members there, had engaged in sex before they were married and she became pregnant. Unfortunately she miscarried, but not before the church members had planned to have a baby shower for her. When she and my nephew were married, they were married in that church and the members celebrated their special day with them. They were supported in that church and always will be. Not brain-washed, not held against their will, but welcomed and cared about. As I said, I’m not a member of any church, but I can’t read these things without trying to help set the record straight. I can’t remember Wesleys exact words, but when he spoke to the reporter he said something along the lines of “Maybe she thought our church would look badly on us, or would disown us…” And again I can see how that could be percieved as a church that would preach hellfire and brimstone and scare someone into doing things that are out of the ordinary for them. However, all Wesley was trying to say in all of this is the same thing that the rest of us are asking…why? What would make Heather do any of the things she did? Was she worried about what the church members would say? Was she worried about her parents being angry? Was she worried that Wesley would be upset? Was she worried that Wesleys parents would be upset? There are so many unanswered questions and they all start with “what was she thinking? What was going on in her mind?” This was a young man who for the first time in his life was being interviewd by a reporter about something that forever changed his life! There was no rehearsal. He was asked a question and answered it in much the same way that he still answers it today – not knowing what caused Heather to react the way she did. Another thing that comes to mind is that this wasn’t a spur of the moment thing for her. We don’t know if the baby was a preemie, or if she carried the baby to term. What we do know though is that she had months to make a decision on what to do! She said she had the baby at home and went to work the next day. She could just as easily have gone to the hospital, had the baby, left him behind where he was safe, and went to work the next morning. No questions asked. She had two months to tell Wesley that she had the baby. But she made the decision to put the baby in the garage and go to Pa. to visit her family! She could have called childrens services or another organization to help her take care of the baby in the correct way. They could have guided her on how to go about telling Wesley, her parents – someone! None of this had to happen the way it did. I keep going over and over in my mind what it must have been like for this poor baby. To be so cold and alone. It just brings tears to my eyes. And not because he’s my nephew, but because he’s a tiny human being. I try to not be angry with Heather, but there are some days that I just can’t help it. She has been a member of our family in all ways and we would have celebrated the birth of the baby with her. Not a soul in our family would have turned our backs on her for being pregnant before she and Wesley were married. My own mother who is 74 years old has taken all of this very hard. She would like to be able to wrap her arms around Heather and try to understand why she did this to the baby. I’ve never met her family, and can’t say how they would have reacted, but I’d like to think that they would have continued to love her and support her emotionally. This entire situation has been very difficult for them also. My first hope of course is that the DNA test proves that this is Wesleys child and unites him and his baby as soon as possible. My second hope is that Heather gets counseling, and that she’ll be totally honest with the counselor so gets the help that she needs.
December 15th, 2006 at 1:09 am
Lilbit, I think I owe you my humble apologies for my comment.
I may have read the whole thing out of context as most did, the report is certainly written that way and I must apologise if what you have written is closer to the truth than the report.
Reading what you have just written has helped me and others understand that there may have been some other reasons other than the Church involved here.
I now apologise to that Church too.
Although in the same breath many a Church or Priest manage to push their hard line principals on to youngsters making them fearful thinking they will rectify society’s ills.
I guess reading what we all did we failed to understand and surmised that someone should be held responsible. It now seems Heather is soley to blame. I can’t think why she would do such a thing shame in this instance seems to be a poor excuse with all the education around us today and support systems in place, one wonders how this happened. Lilbit I hope you and your kind hearted nephew will come to the truth and if Heather has a problem be it mental or what ever we wish her all the help and assistance perhaps she will understand, get well and be able to see her child from time to time. But I would certainly allow Wesley the chance to be a full-time Daddy This little child must have suffered untold damage there seemed to be no bonding and something so small needs love and assistance to make it in our world. I hope the child suffers no further damage.
I just hope that other Churches and Priests that breath fear into their congregation realize that this could be a consequence and what is worse Unprotected Sex? or failing the wrath of God?
He’s happy there’s another life created. Rather teach responsibility for actions.
Sorry Lilbit for the misunderstanding all the best for the Holidays.
December 15th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Well I went to school with this girl. I never would have thought that this girl could have done something like this. I do not understand her logic. Also, who wants to belong to a church that doesn’t accept a person for who they are? I hope Heather has learned from this and I hope the baby is far away as possible from her. It makes me sick and disgusted to even think that someone can be so cruel and selfish to another human being.
December 17th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
Thank you. I appreciate your understanding. There was no need for an apology, but I thank you for it. I agree with so much of what you said. Many church leaders (of all religions)shame their members into doing irrational things. It’s so sad that any child suffers at the hands of their parents. With the safe haven law there’s never a need for anyone to feel as if they have no place to turn. I don’t agree though that a decision has to be made within 72 hours. If for any reason a parent can’t, or doesn’t want to keep their child, I think they should be able to take him or her to a safe place – no matter what the age. If there’s another girl out there who is pregnant and scared, I hope she finds someone to confide in, or at least calls a counselor at Childrens Services. No child should ever suffer the way my nephew did, and no family should have to go through the emotional rollercoaster that our family, and Heathers have been on.
On a happier note, Wesley is making progress toward taking his baby home. None of it is moving along as quickly as we’d like it to, but we understand, and we’re all trying to be patient. At least each of us go to bed at night knowing that the baby is safe, warm and well cared for.
I hope that you and your family have a safe and happy time over the holidays.
December 19th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.
March 27th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Religion has nothing at all to do with this case. She may have used religion as some kind of excuse for what she did, but there is none. And to all of you “Christians” who commented on yourselves that we should not stereoype this is not about you. Whether you believe in God or not you do not leave your young child anywhere alone esp. wrapped in a sheet in a basket.
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:59 am
i know da people here, they be good poeple and wesley anit no nothign bout no kid.
dat gurrl be crazy tho,i think she be in jail now or something.
June 3rd, 2007 at 8:04 am
YEAH!! JENNIIE AND MARK (both pervs) did a real good job wrapping up that bun in the oven! MAYBE A REAL ANGEL was involved ya know the one who handed Heather the clothes basket! yeah Heather drove all the way to Wellington to get that clothes basket. Then I seen her at Wendy’s in North ridgeville working at the drive thru after I finally got done at scum bag casmer hut! Gee why didnt she just go to Big Lots or Family Dollar or even Dollar Tree for that clothes basket!Wellington is pretty far to go for a clothes basket! Good thing I was washing windows for those pigs and handed it to her with a paper towel! And the pervs!!! were’nt to happy about that!!! Then gee Heather had to go to Lorain and work! there might be a god but only if you have $$$$$$$$and that you fool CHRISTIANS IS THE REAL REASON !!!!!
June 4th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
HELLO TMONEY and NIGHT OWL IBET I KNOW YOU !!!!STILL HAVING FUN AT THAT CEMETARY! HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!!!! HOW SICK CAN YOU GET?!
June 18th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
First off, i know Wesley, hes a good friend. And he had no idea of the baby until 2 monts after its birth. The story is true and very tragic, but the baby is fine, and is in full custody of wesly(the father), the mother is out of jail and trying to get back with wes, i told him that if he does then i’ll beat the shit out of him because first you let the father know if hes having a baby and 2nd you don;’t leave a baby in the back of a car.
June 30th, 2007 at 11:21 am
ya…um i know heather, shes a wonderful person that made a bad decision
and wesley only has temporary custody…
June 30th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
She’s shit. End of story. I’d like to be all Christian and all but when I smell shit, I’m gonna say “that’s shit”. And this stupid slut is a prime example.
Let me say this about “Heather the wonderful person”. I don’t give a good goddamn who she was before this happened, but once she wrapped that little boy in a dirty sheet and plopped him in the back of an SUV and hauled ass, SHE CEASED TO BE A PERSON OF ANY SORT..much less a wonderful one.
Seriously. I don’t care if she was a candidate for sainthood. Bitch left her baby alone, eventually wet, hungry, baby in the back of a car. She’s trash. She’s garbage. She’s scum. “A bad decision?!” Are you HIGH?! Running a red light is a bad decision. Drinking and driving is a bad decision. Dropping out of high school is a bad decision. LEAVING YOUR BABY TO POTENTIALLY STARVE/DEHYDRATE TO DEATH IN THE BACK OF A VEHICLE FOR A WEEKENED IS NOT A BAD DECISION. It is child abuse. It is a crime, and she is guilty.
Personally, I’d like to beat the living shit out of this girl. She needs to be strung up and treated like a pinata. Somebody tell her for me that I think she needs to have her legs welded shut at the knee, and she should be sentenced to a lifetime of torture.
June 30th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
lmao omg ur sucha bitch u dont even kno the fucking goddam story or all the pain shes going thru
u think that she wanted to do that shit? fuck no! i hope u burn in hell cuz i kno she wont
June 30th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
OMG….speak our fucking language. You’re an ignorant jackass if you think I give a fuck about the “pain she’s going through”. What fuckin pain? The pain of “oh shit, I got caught?” Pain for herself or pain for that innocent baby she dumped in the back of a car? And as for “the fucking goddamn story” (you really need to learn to spell) I don’t need to know it. She left her baby in her car wrapped in a dirty sheet for days.
Do you have kids, you ignorant shit? Are you by any chance a medical professional? If you answer NO to those questions then you don’t know jack. Do you know how many kids I’ve seen that haven’t been as lucky as this baby? Have you ever seen a child who’s been left to die in the back of a vehicle, you stupid silly fuck? Their skin peels and splits if they’ve been in the heat, and if they’ve been in the cold they’re blue and lifeless. They come into my emergency room and there’s not shit I can do about it. I can try to infuse fluids, but I can’t get a vein because either the skin is too cooked or too frozen. I can’t give an injection of medication because again….the skin is either too fragile or too tough. And there’s these perfect little babies, with bow-tie lips and chubby hands and feet and they’re DEAD. D-E-A-D. And we cover them with sheets and they sit on a cold metal table.
You’re a kid….that’s obvious by your “cyber-spelling” crap. Do I think she “wanted to do that shit?” I tell you what, stupid….I think she had a lot of choices and she chose to abandon her baby. So yeah, I think she “wanted to do that shit.”
So when your stupid, slutty, irresponsible, criminal, ignorant, child-abusing piece of trash friend is sitting in jail, I hope all she can hear is the sound of that hungry baby screaming for his mother, for food, for comfort.
Her pain? Oh yes please….DO tell me more about Heather’s pain. Tell me how bad she hurts. Tell me how sorry she is. Tell me how bad she feels about it. And then ask me if I give a fuck what that bitch feels. She feels for her own ugly ass and nothing else. She’s a fucking child-abusing cow and I’d laugh my ass off if they made an example of her and sent her upstate for a few years.
You’re right about one thing….I’m a bitch. Especially when I see babies being abused simply because one fucking cum dumpster couldn’t keep her damned legs shut.
Fuck her and fuck you too, dumbass. Anybody who can justify her actions is as bad as she is.
June 30th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
To ogeez: People like you never cease to amaze me! Obviously you are a mental CHILD who knows nothing about life! You sound like someone who is in elementary school, and I’m not referring to the way you speak. Your primary concern is defending your friend and being at her side. If you were a mature adult, you’d know when it’s time to admit that your friend did wrong, no matter how much you may love her! In fact, I’d be happy to hear your take on this, so please share! Your friend put a newborn baby in a cold, dark garage with absolutely NO means of caring for himself to DIE (in my opinion) and in your mind, you back Heather in her decision and feel that she was justified in doing so? Please! Do share! Explain to all of us how ANY part of this was right!! I’m dying to know how a mind like yours and Heathers works! You should also know that Wesley has FULL PERMANENT custody of Sammy. Or is this another thing that your so-called friend has lied to you about? Lets just ask her ourselves, because she reads these message boards!
What’s the deal Heather? Are you going to boo hoo to your attorney about me AGAIN because I speak my mind? How would you expect me to react? The hurt that you have caused the families is tremendous! Not just my family, but your own as well! No one could have loved you more than your parents, Wesley and his parents – and you betrayed all of them! Your parents will continue to support you, as they should. As your parents, and the fact that they love you unconditionally, they’ll be there for you. But I’m sure even they have admitted to themselves that what you did was WRONG! This is my opinion, and I’m entitled to my opinion. When you came home from visiting your family in Pa after three days, I don’t think you expected to come home and still find the baby alive in that truck! By the way, I didn’t refer to him by name in that sentence because from what I’ve heard, that’s what you were calling him at the time. Just baby. You robbed Wesley of the experience of seeing his first child born. You robbed all of the grandparents of the same thing. I’m curious, did you think that people would think of you as a strong person because you gave birth alone and still went about your daily life as if nothing happened? Were we to think of you as being strong because you hid this baby away like he was some filthy disease that you didn’t want anyone to know about? Because if that’s what was in YOUR mind you were wrong once again! A STRONG woman would have told Wesley and all of the parents that she was pregnant. She would have gotten prenatal care to try to ensure the birth of a strong, healthy baby. She would have seen to it that her baby was cared for every moment of every day! You know that none of this had to be done the way you did it! I don’t know your parents so I don’t know how they would have reacted if you’d have told them that you were pregnant. But I DO know my nephew and his parents and they would have been there to help you in any way they could! There isn’t a soul in my family that wouldn’t have helped you and you know that! You CHOSE to hide your pregnancy. And for at least two months after Sammy was born you CHOSE to hide him from the world. Let me ask you, have you ever seen your baby picture on the day you were born? Do you know how much you weighed, and how long you were? Sammy will never have these things! Years from now when he’s a married man his wife might ask to see his baby picture. The closest one he’ll have is when he’s a couple of months old. No one will ever know what he weighed at birth or how long he was because there’s no record of his birth on the day that he actually came into this world! Am I angry? YES I AM!! I’m angry with the way you chose to handle all of this! On Thanksgiving day you were with my entire family in a warm house with lots of food and surrounded people who loved and cared about you. Where was Sammy that day Heather? Closet? Garage? Where? You were tired and Wesley asked if you wanted him to take you to your home but you said no! Not only did you NOT go home at that time, you went to Wesleys parents house until late into the night – all the while Sammy was God-knows-where! Unprotected, hungry and in need of a clean diaper! YES I AM ANGRY! Do I hate you? No! I hate what you did! I hate it that none of this had to happen the way YOU chose to have it happen! You have people like ogeez defending you, so obviously you would have had support if you would have told people that you were pregnant. And again, our entire family would have supported you and helped you in any way that we could have! One thing I always hear is how intelligent you are. To a degree I have to admit that it’s true. You were intelligent enough to tell people that you had trouble with your pancreas and that the meds caused you to bloat a little. You were intelligent enough to scheme and find ways to hide a newborn baby. I consider myself to be intelligent too, but I never could have found ways to do the things that you did. Bravo! Do you feel any sense of pride in being so “intelligent?” You disgust me! Every day in this country people are abandoning, hurting and murdering children and it has to stop! I personally know three families right now who would love to have children and can’t – and people are treating children like yesterdays garbage! Do I care if you serve time in prison for your actiions, and how much time you might serve? Yes I do. I care because I don’t want you to walk away from your crime against Sammy with a little slap on the wrist. I want ALL child abusers and killers of children to be held accountable for their actions! I’d love to see child abuse in this world come to an abrupt halt because the penalties are so severe!
July 3rd, 2007 at 7:43 pm
You all need to grow up! xtalrose you haven’t a clue of who I am. I in no way condone what Heather has done, wrong is wrong no matter how you look at it, merely quoting a fact that “everyone” has a side no one sees.
July 4th, 2007 at 8:54 am
Lilbit, good for you. Unload, unload, and then unload some more because you ARE entitled. To hell with Heather and all the other selfish, narcissistic, abusive parents. Wesley deserved the opportunity to be a part of that pregnancy. Sammy deserves to have his gestation and his birth remembered as happy, beautiful occasions and instead he has to live knowing that his mother didn’t care enough about him to get prenatal care. She didn’t love him enough to tell anyone he was coming. And he has to live with the knowledge that his own mother locked him away like a dirty little secret instead of a beautiful little boy. I hope your nephew and his baby boy run like hell to any corner of the earth where Heather Speck can’t find them or hurt them anymore.
Sammy will, however, grow up in the love and warmth of a very strong family who obviously worships and adores him. There is no doubt in my mind that your family can love this child far more than Heather Speck could ever possibly be capable of. With your continued support and unconditional love, Sammy will grow into a wonderful person who views the circumstances of his birth as an opportunity to demonstrate his own strength. Bless you all and my very best wishes to Wesley and Sammy
July 4th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
To Heather; or any one else, Sorry if I offended anyone. I know what Heather and her friend did and why. I put this in GODS HANDS! HE WILL HAVE TO DECIDE. But it did not have to come down to this! People are scum point blank! hey yeah never know Heather maybe I’ll see you in jail!I bet Tiffany is jealous! Hey Mark and Jean I HOPE you like it hot!
July 5th, 2007 at 10:44 am
I`m with Stephanie 100% on this one. Forget religion, forget sexual orientation, forget `stupid mistakes`. This monster took a brand new baby, stuck him in a laundry basket and left him in the garage. Personally, that`s all I need to know. And there`s no punishment terrible enough.
July 16th, 2007 at 4:18 am
Yeah you got that right! But why did you have to fuck Mark at the cemetary right next to me!!!!Thanks Alot scum BAGS !!!!!!!OH YEAH COMFORT KEEPERS FUCK YOU TOO AND VERIZON I HOPE YOU ALL ROT IN HELLLLLL!!!!!!
October 17th, 2007 at 5:29 am
this is wuite disturbing… this girl has a myspace page… AND A KID…i dont know if its the same one or a new one, but she doesnt need ANY
http://www.myspace.com/heathermae7