Parents Behaving Badly

19-year-old father Joshua Mauldin has now also admitted to throwing his baby, placing her in the fridge and locking her in the hotel room safe before microwaving her.

Now him, his wife and his brother are all saying “the Devil made him do it.”

You know, I don’t even care if the Devil did tell him to do it. That is no excuse. “The Devil made me do it” is not a get out of jail free card.

Just praying and asking for your gods forgiveness isn’t going to be enough in this case. Joshua, you need to man up and serve your time like a man.

Last year Mauldin also pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of domestic battery after hitting his pregnant wife. He has also been charged for violating a restraining order. Did “the Devil” make him do this as well?

For a man so easily controlled by “the Devil”, he should be locked up forever. You never know what “the Devil” is gonna make him do next.

Joshua remains in custody with bond set at $250,000.

In Edmonton, Canada a four-year-old girl was sexually abused and tortured by her mom and her mother’s boyfriend, Darcy Bannert, 25. According to her testimony, Bannert sexually assaulted her in the bathtub, made her sit with him on the couch while he watched porn, and made her dance like a stripper.

She was also handcuffed by her feet in a dark basement and hit with a belt by her mother, 22, and Bannert. (The mother’s name is being withheld to protect the identity of the child.)

Eyewitnesses saw the girl handcuffed to a box, punched and slapped, and not being allowed a drink of water. One witness saw the child drank a mixture of Miracle-Gro liquid fertilizer and water because she was so thirsty. She also drank her own urine.

The mother and Bannert each face multiple charges including sexual offenses, assault causing bodily harm, pot growing, unlawful confinement, and causing a child to need protective services.

 Damn.

In South Dos Palos, California, Martha Franco, 42 and her husband Jose were arrested for abusing their four-year-old autistic son and beating him into a coma. The mother is charged with attempted murder, child endangerment, corporal injury and battery with serious injury.

Police say the boy’s injuries are horrific and believe he was abused over the course of four weeks. The child has burns on his body and was beaten so badly, his brain was detached from his skull. The boy also had bite marks and burns from when his mother put hot toothpaste and ointment on him.

The child was born with disabilities and had just moved in with his parents after living in a group home and hospital. After seeing this story, you wonder why they let them have the boy at all.

This story gets nuttier and nuttier. Thanks Patty for sending in this update!

The father, Joshua Mauldin, told police he put the baby in the microwave because he was under a lot of stress. He made no mention of the devil, just stress.

Refusing to believe her husband would do such a thing, she instead believes the devil made him do it. It’s amazing what the human mind is able to believe, what it’s able to deny and how it can fabricate its own reality.

Eva Marie Mauldin claims the devil made her husband put their baby in the microwave in order to thwart his efforts of becoming a preacher. If this was true, I would say he was successful. I would definitely not attend any church with a baby microwaving preacher!

Eva is currently fighting to custody of her baby back. Child Protective Services is fighting for the opposite. She would probably have had better luck, if she kept this little “devil made him do it” business to herself.

She sounds like a nut job and probably should not be raising any kids.

The baby girl is still in the hospital with third-degree burns to the left side of her face and left hand

What do you guys think? Yes or No, should she get custody of the baby? …

Today’s Denver Post provides an in depth update to our Jon Phillips and Sarah Berry Starve Child to Death: Seven-Year-Old Weighed only 30 Pounds story. There are also links to several more stories about the case.

It’s a sad tale of a mother who couldn’t keep her pants on, the controlling men in her life, and the other relatives and friends who were unable to help.

Neil Andrew Farkas, 45, has been charged with inflicting an injury on a child, endangering a child or allowing a child to suffer, and commission of a felony resulting in great bodily injury for picking up his girlfriend’s 19-month-old son, skaking then slamming his head into the wall.

The toddler is in critical condition and has undergone surgery at UC Davis Medical Center.

Farkas told the police that he was watching the child while his mom was at work. The boy wouldn’t stop banging a cup against the wall and screaming, so he lost it and threw the kid against the wall. Nice.

About eight hours later, Farkas noticed that the boy was not breathing. He called the boy’s mother at work and told her the he had fallen out of bed.

Just looking at this guy, would you trust him to babysit your toddler?

In Tucson, Arizon foster mother Guadalupe Yolanda Gomez will get 2 1/2 years in prison for the death of four-month-old Dwight Hill. The baby died of a skull fracture that caused bleeding in his brain and retinal hemorrhages.

ONLY 2 1/2 YEARS?!?

The jury decided Gomez didn’t knowingly or intentionally place the baby in a situation in which his life was in danger. However, they thought she behaved recklessly by not immediately seeking help for him when there were signs something was wrong with him.

Doctors believe the child suffered blunt force trauma to his head within three or four days of his death. Witnesses and Gomez said they began seeing changes in the baby’s behavior around that time – Dwight projectile-vomited and had loose stools. The next morning, Dwight’s eyes were rolling back in his head and he was hard to wake up. During a supervised visit with his biological parents, and they noticed the boy was lethargic and not eating well.

The baby was no better the next day. Case workers told Gomez that she should bring him into their clinic when she called with her concerns. For some reason, Gomez didn’t and set up a doctor’s appointment for two days later.

When the doctor examined the infant, he was dead.

Is this a case where there was true abuse or just a major fuck up? Gomez was and experienced and trusted foster mother. At the time she had Dwight in her care, Gomez was also a foster mother to his older sister and two other toddlers. She and her husband were also raising a 10-year-old biological child with cerebral palsy.

That’s five kids total. Could she had been too busy to notice how badly he was doing? That and the fact that Dwight was a premature baby born with cocaine in his system, and others had access to him during time of his injuries is probably why she’s getting off lightly. Sounds like poor Dwight never had a chance.

Joshua Mauldin lied to the hospital workers. He claimed the burns to his 2-month-old baby was just a simple accident, made when carrying a pot of hot water. Why he thought he could pass this lie off at Shriners Burns Hospital, I’ll never know. I’m pretty sure if your specialty is burns, you can tell the difference between hot water and microwave burns pretty easily.

What actually happened was, this monster placed his 2-month-old baby girl in the microwave and turned it on for 10-20 seconds until she suffered third-degree burns on her face and hands.

That is some serious cold blooded sh*t. This is far worse than getting angry and hitting your child. He had to pick her up, go to the kitchen, place her inside the microwave and set it to cook while leaving her inside. How sick must your mind be for you to actually think up this crap?

Well, the people over at MyDeathSpace.com have found Joshua Mauldin’s MySpace profile. For someone who claims to be a Christian and talks about accepting God as his personal savior, his actions are seriously misaligned with what he preaches.

This charge carries a possible prison term of up to 99 years. I hope this piece of trash gets the maximum.

32-year-old, Rod Vanloan, has had a history of abusing his 14-month-old baby girl. Rod was originally accused of child endangerment when he brought his baby girl, Alexis Board, to the hospital.

She died the next day. The charges have since been upgraded to murder.

Previous police reports have been filed. Even the grandmother knew of the history of abuse. Unfortunately nothing was done that could have saved this child.

Hopefully this piece of work will be locked up for life.

Such a beautiful baby too.

Thanks to everyone who sent in this article. It comes with an important PSA, which I think is a very important message that needs to be spread…

Local experts said cases related to frustrated parents are on the rise.

Alexis’ mother, Crystal Board, is jailed at the Hamilton County Justice Center, awaiting trial on an abuse charge for a girl she was babysitting.

This one has been a long time coming. Six months after the grand jury was impaneled, and nearly 14 months after 10-week-old Jason Midyette was taken off life-support and died, Louisville, Colorado parents Alex and Moly Midyette have been charged with a seven-count indictment for child abuse in connection with Jason’s death.

The father, Alex Midyette, 27, is charged with inflicting numerous injuries on his son including 27 broken bones and a fractured skull. Alex is also charged with placing the baby in harm’s way, and waiting too long to seek medical help.  The mother, Molly Midyette, 28, is charged with putting her son in harm’s way and waiting to seek medical help.

During the baby’s autopsy the coroner disovered that his frenulum, the tissue that connects the gum to the lip, was ripped. This usually happens when someone forces a bottle or pacifier into a child’s mouth. Jason also had bruises. Grand jury testimony shows that the baby was suffering for at least three days from his injuries although autopsy findings show Jason’s fractures were in various stages of healing meaning that not all of his injuries occurred at the same time.

Alex and Molly Midyette will be monitored by electronic home ankle bracelets and have been barred from being around children, including family members, less than two years old.

Jon Phillips, 26, and Sarah Berry, 21, were arrested in the death of a seven-year-old boy and are being charged with first degree murder.

Paramedics were called in to resuscitate the boy who was in cardiac arrest. He later died at the hospital.  Police told reporters that the boy weighed about 30 pounds and appeared to be malnourished. The coroner’s office has performed an autopsy has yet to issue a report because they are trying to determine whether it as a natural death or caused by someone else.

The boy and his sibling were placed with Phillips and/or Berry, and officials are declining to release the boy’s name because they’re trying to locate his family. The boy’s younger sibling was taken by child protective services, placed with another foster family, and is receiving extensive services.

So not only do we have another Denver-area child abuse story about someone starving a little kid to death, but this time it’s by people who went through a supposedly thorough process to become foster parents.

How the hell did this happen?

Vegan couple, Jade Sanders, 27, and Lamont Thomas, 31 were sentenced to life in prison for the death of their malnourished 6-week-old son.

The couple felt a diet of no fat, consisting mostly of soy milk and apple juice, was enough to sustain a baby. There’s a reason why breast milk has such a high concentration of fat, carbs and protein. It’s required for the baby to survive and grow.

What shocks me the most is…it sounds like the baby has never seen a hospital. Their son, Crown Shakur, was born at home. He was malnourished his whole life until he finally died at 6 weeks old.

Not knowing what this baby’s birth weight was, I can only wonder if he never grew or if his birth weight was higher than his 3 1/2 lbs at the time of death. I can’t imagine he was ever smaller than 3 1/2 lbs.

It’s appalling that parents with such a noticeably underweight child wouldn’t take their own son in to get medical attention sooner. And why were there no friends or family that noticed?

Lately it seems like there are too many people that receive light sentencing. I for one am glad this couple received a life sentence.

The news of this couple has been all over in the media recently. Many PBB tippers have been madly forwarding all the articles to me, more so than normal.

I can only assume this story has deeply touched us all for so many people to be so passionate about it. Maybe it’s because we all know people with a Vegan diet? I dunno… tell me your thoughts…

In Cedar Falls, Iowa, Valerie Marie Stanton, 31, got five years in prison for abusing her two children. What a nice mom. She stuck socks in their mouths, hit her two boys, and dunked their heads in the toilet. The abuse happened over a number of years.

She plead guilty to two counts of child endangerment causing bodily injury and assault causing bodily injury.

Dad – Daniel John Curtis Stanton, 39 – is charged with second-degree sexual abuse for abusing the children over a nine-year period. He is still awaiting trial.

Poor kids. Someone needs to dunk the parents’ heads in the toilet since that’s obviously where their brains were.

Kenneth John Freeman, 44, the man who raped his own daughter and posted a video of the attack on the Internet, was arrested in Hong Kong by Chinese police.

His rape video became the most downloaded child pornography videos in recent memory. Clips from the video appeared on the TV show “America’s Most Wanted,” which triggered calls to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that helped identify the girl.

The daughter, now a teenager, advocates against child sexual abuse and has appeared on TV to tell her story.

Freeman was one of the fugitives most wanted by both the Marshals and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Facing local and federal charges, he fled the U.S. last year. Investigators tracked him down in China. The U.S. does not have an extradition agreement with the Chinese government, but we do with Hong Kong. So when investigators discovered Freeman was planning to travel to there, he was arrested on his arrival at the airport.

Trying to flee, he injured four Chinese police officers while resisting arrest. It’s not clear when Freeman would be returned to the U.S.

His arrest follows more than a year of investigation by the Marshals, ICE, the State Department, and the Benton County Sheriff’s office in Washington state. Great job guys! Now let’s get him here, give him a speedy trial, and lock him up – forever.

Your guess is as good as mine. He pleads guilty but mentally ill. I guess when the judge asks you, you can now plead guilty, not-guilty or guilty but mentally ill.

The abuse took place as early as four days after the baby girl was born. In addition to being cattle prodded, she suffered severe injuries such as multiple breaks to her left leg, broken forearm, multiple skull fractures as well as miscellaneous facial injuries. This all happened between the short timeframe of September 11 and October 31.

Of course this man is claiming mental illness, as seems to be the trend these days. Though, he does seem to be genuinely ill, he should have his procreation privileges revoked. It’s cases like this that makes me pro chemical castration.

The judge might allow him to be transferred immediately to a mental institution. Fortunately the judge will be forcing him to serve out his remaining sentence in jail when he exits the facility.