Parents Behaving Badly

Couple arrested in Saturday jewelry theft during which boy, 4, was left behind:

Yesterday I got an e-mail from Stephanie Farr of the Philadelphia Daily News about the above story.

John Benson and Sheakia Stubbs allegedly robbed a jewelry store in Philly by slashing the jewelers neck. Luckily the jeweler wasn’t hurt too bad and chased after the suspects. While chasing them down they let go of the 4-year-old they had in tow, their son. The jeweler took care of the boy until the police arrived. The boy in turn dropped the dime on the Breeders.

Anyway Ms. Farr asked me how this story ranked as far as the bad parenting stories that we’ve seen here at PBB.

I e-mailed her back and said that we’ve had several stories of kids being taken along during robberies. I also said to her that in comparison to some of the stories on this site it’s actually pretty tame.

After I hit send I realized how sad that fact really is.

Summer Moon Hawk was the first baby born at McKee Medical in 2010. She tested positive for THC (the active ingredient in marijuana) at birth- just as her sister, Phoenyx Davis, had two years earlier. By January 25, she was dead.

Twenty year old Kaylynn Davis, the child’s mother, had a reputation for being a party girl. Friends said she was a better mother when high, because “she has a little bit more patience and will pay a small amount of attention to them.”  They also claimed that the infant had severe diaper rash and was constantly congested, sometimes ceasing breathing altogether and turning blue. Summer had two well baby checks before she died, and according to medical records, these symptoms weren’t discussed at either visit.

Davis and her children lived with her mother and grandmother. On the night of January 23, Davis couldn’t wake the baby for a feeding. Summer’s hands, feet, and lips were blue. This could have been because she had pneumonia. Or, it could have been because she was staying in an unheated, dirty garage. Davis called 911 the next morning to report that Summer wasn’t moving. She claimed she’d last fed Summer around 8:30 that morning, and saw her moving around 10.  Not so, say the paramedics, who arrived to find the infant already in rigor mortis.

Davis is being held on $300,000 bail. Her pubic defender is seeking a gag order.

Thanks to Lisa for the tip.

Smackhead parents Carley Haseley and Michael Card obviously never heard of baby proofing their home. Then again, good parents don’t do drugs. After Haseley and a friend, Shavale T. Ewing, were pulled over and arrested for possession of heroin and crack,  Haseley told the cops that her infant daughter was home with the dad. Not surprisingly, he was also a heroin addict. Lockport investigators found that the baby was sleeping inches away from a pile of drugs and needles. The grandparents stepped in and are now caring for the child- but heroin isn’t exactly a beginner’s drug. Why didn’t they do something earlier?

Thanks to Bridget for the tip.

Cops: Jeffco baby died after dad left, went to bar:

23-year-old Joseph Trujillo of Jefferson County, Colorado allegedly went and drank at a bar for 7 hours. That’s a monumental amount of drinking. The problem was he was supposed to be watching his girlfriend’s five month old baby at home. So to put two and two together the baby was at home alone while Trujillo was getting his drink on.

Unfortunately the baby died. The details of the baby’s death have been sealed.

Trujillo is not the baby’s father.

Now I know you’re thinking where was the mother. She’s got a legitimate reason for not being there as she is serving our country in the military overseas.

Can you imagine being thousands of miles from home in a war zone finding out that your child has died due to the neglect of your boyfriend who thought 7 hours at a bar while your infant was home alone.

It’s unfathomable.

Thanks to Kim for the tip.

Prostitute left baby in car while she worked, deputies say:

30-year-old Latosha Yeadon was arrested in Tampa, Florida for turning tricks while she left her 3-month old baby in her car. The window was cracked an inch and luckily it wasn’t a mad hot day that day in Florida.

Luckily a maintenance worker saw the baby in the car and was able to pry the window open.

Since the baby was 3-months-old it makes me wonder how long she waited after birth before she started turning tricks again or was she giving handjobs in the hospital parking lot after delivery.

Yeadon says she arranged to meet her client over the internet. Craigslist maybe?

Thanks to LadyJade for the tip.

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The sweet little North Carolina boy (Sean) pictured above with his Monster adoptive mother has passed.  They adoptive monster and her spouse say Sean’s death was an accident.  He was bound so tightly in a blanket that he suffocated.

Reports say that Sean told social workers BEFORE the adoption that the couple beat him. Trial testimony from Paddock’s five surviving children spoke of physical and emotional abuse almost on a daily basis and said that the children were kept from the outside world and that they were trained to lie to social workers.

“We were told to tell all social workers there was no spanking,” Jessy Paddock, testified. “The forms of punishment were ‘restriction’ or ‘time out’ – those were the terms we were to use.” She also testified that on more than one occasion Sean’s entire head was wrapped in duct tape to keep him quiet.

The monster is 47 year-old Lynn Paddock … may she rot in hell!

Police arrest two in squalid home; woman found chained to machine:

I don’t even know where to begin with this one.

Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin received a call from a man who said his mother wouldn’t let him see his own 2-year-old son.

When police got there it was something out of a horror movie with no hyperbole this time.

The child was found strapped in a car seat with a diaper that ghad not been changed for days.

Also a 38-year-old woman was found chained to a weight machine with a rusty chain, wearing only a tshirt, covered in her own waste. She is said to be mentally handicapped and only weighed 60lbs.

That woman was the daughter of 56-year-old Sally M. Adams who was arrested on abuse charges. I guess this makes her a two generation Breeder.

At what point does someone think “You know it would be a great idea to chain my handicapped daughter to weight machine and let her crap all over herself”?

Thanks to Jessica for the tip.

Toddler found wandering in the cold
Mom & boyfriend face charges:

With the recent spate of bitter cold weather that most of the country has been experiencing most people are bundling up there kids and making sure they’re safe out in the snow. Not 22-year-old Kristin Patraw and her main man Rudolph McNeil. They are accused of letting Patraw’s 21-month-old daughter out of their site where she wandered barefoot into the snow in Waterbury, Connecticut. The temperature at the time was 27 F.

Patraw reportedly left her daughter with her grandmother on New Year’s Eve. At some point the grandmother left the child with Patraw’s boyfriend because she had to go to work.

When police found McNeil they say he was asleep with a bottle of vodka by his side. Patraw allegedly went to grandma’s house to get the baby but when she wasn’t there she went back to sleep.

Police also say that living conditions were deplorable and yes there were animal feces.

Thanks to LadyJade for the tip.

OSBI: 11-Year-Old Was Dead For Days Before Mother Called Police:

Normally I leave the Oklahoma stories to Angel but she has taken a temporary leave of absence and we here at PBB anxiously await her return. Now on to the story.

11-year-old Stephanie Wilcoxson of Noble, Oklahoma was reported dead by her mother on the day before Christmas Eve. However police believe that was not the date of her death. Authorities believe she had been dead for days before mom called police. The mother claims that Stephanie committed suicide but mom has been described as mentally ill. She must be since she lived in the house with her dead daughter for days.

So far there has been no cause of death and police do not know yet if a crime has even been committed.

Now I don’t mean to compare someone’s daughter to a pet however when my cat died it was very late at night and I couldn’t even imagine being in the house with her body for a few hours until daybreak We went out and buried her immediately. I can’t even imagine having the body of your own deceased daughter in your house for several days. Then again mental illness may have played a huge role in this unfortunate incident.

Thanks to Stacey for the tip.

Police: Parents Try To Sell Baby For $30:

First of all check out that mugshot. Obviously by the headlines you can tell what they did and by looking at the mugshots I am not surprised.

Anyway 23-year-old Robert G. Ellingson and 25-year-old Maghen Duvala, both Breeders of the victim, tried to sell their 2-month-old child in a store parking lot in Pensacola, Florida for 30 bucks. The parking lot in question was a PetSmart. I guess they figured if people couldn’t afford a puppy they could afford $30 for a baby.

Police say they tried to sell the baby on a bank parking lot as well.

I can only imagine what they were trying to sell the baby for. Something that rhymes with Meth comes to mind.

Thanks to LadyJade for the tip.

Lasara couple charged with daughter’s death:

I make no bones I am a man of faith and a believer in Christ. However I am not stupid enough to rely on faith alone when someone is deathly ill. I am also a firm believer in Western medical science.

Apparently Maria de Jesus and Elias Coronado of Lasara, Texas don’t have all of the same beliefs I do. They’ve been charged with manslaughter for removing their 16-year-old daughter’s insulin pump saying that she had been healed by God. She just happened to need that insulin pump to live.

I just don’t understand why people seem to think that religion and medicine have to be mutually exclusive. Shouldn’t most of modern medicine be seen as gift from God?

My own mother is currently going through chemo treatment for a tumor and she is progressing wonderfully. I thank God everyday for the treatment she’s receiving from doctors.

Thanks to JoAnna for the tip.

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Hector Lazada, 47, and Lidia Gilmore Lazada, 41, both of Birmingham, were each charged with two counts of child abuse, Birmingham police announced today.

The authorities were called with a report of a small child walking in the road – when they arrived on the scene they were told the child had been taken into a home.

They found Hector (ugly mug pictured) in the home and Hec said there were no children in the home.  Hmmmm there were filthy poopy diapers laying around (oh and dog shit as well) …

Authorities heard a child crying and discovered two kids (1 girl, 1 boy) 2 and 5 years old locked in a basement (also littered with poopy diapers and dog shit)

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Kathleen Butts picked up her kids from daycare on Nov 10, 2009, at 5:15, but she never made it out of the parking lot with them. She did however, manage to find her way into a nearby snowbank, which is where a maintenance worker found her at 7PM. Her two children, 2 and 4 years old, strapped into the car, and had been sitting there for an hour and a half, with the door wide open. Both were cold, and no doubt scared, but after a quick trip to the hospital they were released to other family members, and both of them are doing fine.

It’s a good thing that the maintenance worker found her, or those children could have frozen to death. This happened in New Hampshire, and it was 30 degrees outside.

Butts admitted to drinking before going to get her kids, and is being charged with aggravated DWI, and child endangerment. That said, I have another bone to pick……If Butts was so drunk when she picked up her kids from daycare that she passed out in a snowbank outside, somebody at the daycare had to have noticed. Why in blue blazes was she allowed to take the children from the facility in that condition? Were the workers THAT eager to clock out that they would let a couple of kids go with a drunk? And how is it that none of the workers noticed the car, with it’s door open, when they left for the day? I think the daycare needs to be investigated as well. They are guilty of endangerment just as surely as the mother is. At the very least, the employees need a class or two on how to keep kids safe from idiot parents who show up schnozzled.

Thanks to jakes_daddy for the tip.

The original article on this was written up here by Joel back when it happened. I am just letting you know the current status, since one of our readers, Kathryn, sent us an article about it. Thanks for keeping us up to date, Kathryn! The article Kathryn sent us can be found here.

I won’t go into all of the details of this one, because it’s been written about already, and you can use the link to get to it. The pertinent facts are that Mila Petrov and her husband Carlos Beltran were arrested for the murder of their 5-year old daughter Melanie Beltran, in March of 2007. The death blow was caused when the child was beaten for throwing up her dinner. I guess we all know how effective beatings are in making sick children well again, don’t we?

Anyway, the prosecutors had asked for the death penalty, but Mila managed to walk away with only 39 years for the murder of her child. I guess that’s more appropriate than what Carlos got – he only got 20 years. The defense played the “she was an abused child herself” card, and it seems to have worked out for her, since she avoided the electric chair. I won’t even go into what I think of people who blame their abuse of their own kids on what happened to them as children. Most of the regular readers on here know already. It’s a crock of B.S.

So, Carlos will be walking the streets in less than 20 years, and Mila in less than 30, more than likely. But Melanie will not receive a parole from her sentence. She will still be dead. I just hope the DNA donors will be locked up long enough that all of their remaining children will be grown and gone before these two animals are allowed out of their cages.

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Amber Lee Gandy, 25, of Grand Ronde, Oregon, likes to drink and then go joyriding with her babies in the car. Allegedly. Charges are expected to be filed concerning the accident in which she flipped her SUV upside down in Widow Creek with her children, 2-year old Kylie Gandy, 3-year old Austin Gandy, and six-month old Kameron Gandy in the vehicle.

Luckily, a neighbor happened upon the wreck and was able to extract Kylie and Austin, and the mother. It took a few more minutes before the incubator remembered that she had a third child, who was still in the vehicle, underwater. The hero waded back in to the creek, but by the time he got the baby out, Kameron had no pulse and was not breathing.

Medical personnel managed to revive the infant and he was life-flighted to another hospital in critical condition, and his prognosis has improved since then. No thanks to the idiot who thought that getting her drink on was more important than keeping her kids alive.

Where do these selfish hootchies come from? And why do they have babies that they have no intention of taking proper care of? How hard is it to stay sober, anyway? I do it all the time, so it can’t be that hard. Just say no. Just another public service announcement from your neighborhood crime prevention specialist, Captain Obvious.

I have yet to find an article that gives Amber’s BAC, but the wording in one of the articles makes me wonder if alcohol was the only thing she was under the influence of. According to the second article linked above, “an investigation by the Sheriff’s Office and Oregon State Police revealed that Amber Gandy was under the influence of intoxicants and that alcohol was a contributing factor of the traffic crash.” If alcohol was listed as a ‘factor’, and she was under the influence of ‘intoxicants’ (plural), that leads me to believe that there were other substances that she tested positive for, as well.

Oh, and did I mention that she was driving on a suspended license? Yeah. It has been suspended since 2007. I bet it wasn’t suspended for anything as minor as unpaid traffic tickets, either. Something tells me that this ain’t her first rodeo, if ya know what I mean…..

And just so I don’t get slammed by the ‘double standard’ police….where in the HELL was the father? Surely he knew her license were suspended, and that she had a drinking problem. So why were the kiddies in the car with her? So many questions….anybody have any answers?

I sincerely hope they throw the book at this lush, and keep her away from her kids for a good long time. Like, until they are old enough to drive themselves around.

I’d like to thank Calvena for this tip.