Parents Behaving Badly

Is it me or do we post an inordinate amount of stories from Arizona? Well, here’s another one.

Scott and Andrea Bass of Phoenix were arrested for allegedly keeping Scott Bass’ 14-year-old daughter locked in the bathroom, starving her and abusing her.

The girl was able to escape from the house and had a coffee shop call police for her.

The bathroom she was kept in had no working water so once again we have people giving their child a bucket while locking them up.

Scott Bass allegedly made her do exercises until she dropped and beat her with a belt and rod because the girl supposedly cheated on at home test and stole food.

This allows me to address two things. Obviously this girl was home schooled in order to hide the abuse. I have nothing against people who home school their kids however when it’s abused for illegal reasons it ruins it for everybody. Secondly what is up with the whole ’stealing food’ thing? That seems to be an excuse trotted out constantly by abusers like they all have the same handbook or something.

The part of the article I loved is when police went to the house and Bass had a visibly surprised look on his face when he opened the door to the bathroom and the girl wasn’t there.

I wish they published a picture of that.

Thanks to everyone who submitted this tip.

(Cross posted at CraigsCrimeList)

Bruised toddler home alone in locked closet:

Mom who left son in closet advertised herself as an escort:

The lady over there with the curious blemishes on her face is 21-year-old Corinna Davis of Mesa, Arizona.

A West Mesa Justice Court constable was serving an eviction notice on the residence however no one appeared to be home. However the constable found a chair wedged up against a door. when he removed the chair he found a 2-year-old boy on a mattress in the closet.

Davis claims the boy was in there while she ‘worked’. Her work seems to be as an ‘escort’ that advertises on the Village Voice Media owned backpage.com. She must not have been too good at that job since she was being evicted or maybe the money went somewhere else.

Do you think that sore is from meth or the herp?

Woman accused of dumping baby in trash bin charged with murder:

24-year-old Brittany Williams of Phoenix, Arizona was recently indicted for the January 11th death of her newborn.

Williams allegedly hid the pregnancy from all she knew and after giving birth she threw the baby in the neighbor’s trash can two doors down from her house.

She has been indicted on charges of second degree murder and child abuse.

Again Arizona does have safe haven laws where babies up to 3 days old can be dropped off at hospitals, churches and fire stations. Not trash cans.

And also again she’s being held in Maricopa County Jail. With the reputation that jail has you would think people wouldn’t commit crimes like this there.

This just proves you can’t cure stupid.

Woman Accused of Trading Daughter for Gun:

That is 33-year-old Tanya Nareau of Mesa, Arizona. She’s been arrested for allegedly trading her 2-year-old daughter for a gun.

Police received a tip and found the girl at a friend’s house who confirmed that the girl as traded for a gun. Nareau allegedly said that the friend could take better care of the girl and Nareau could not legally buy a gun because she’s banned by law.

I’m guessing that she didn’t need the gun for law abiding purposes and I am assuming that the reason she was banned from owning a gun was from a previous run in with the law.

Since she’s being held in Maricopa County Jail I am sure she is not having a fun time.

Thanks to Stephanie for the link.

Man admits to killing ex, leaves 2-yr-old in car with dead mom:

Sometimes you can be a bad boyfriend without physically harming the child. For example take Victor A. Martinez Jr. of Tempe, Arizona.

He was arrested for shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend 23-year-old Christina Hallman. And it’s not just because he allegedly killed Ms. Hallman leaving the baby without a mother that makes him a bad boyfriend. What makes him a bad boyfriend is that he is said to have shot Ms. Hallman in her car while her 2-year-old daughter was in the back seat leaving the girl there when he left.

Luckily the girl was physically unharmed.

An account has been set up at Chase Bank. Donations can be made to account number 2943315883.

Thanks to Teresa for the tip.

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OK, ok….so it was a closet the child was locked in, but ‘hole’ just fit in better there. Anyway, the hairy hag up there is Heidi L. Duesing-Christensen, who has been arrested and charged with several felonies, including child abuse, neglect, enticement, and reckless endangerment.

It seems that Heidi has allegedly been tying up her five year old daughter, taping her mouth and other body parts (after administering adult doses of benadryl), and then locking the child in a closet. The poor child has also been starved. When she went to live with her father, she only weighed 30 lbs. (bottom 3% of the weight range for her age), and had scars, scabs, and bruises all over her body. Dad was good enough to report the slag who had abused his child, and a two-week investigation ensued, culminating with the arrest of this walking waste of flesh.

The egg donor claimed that she had to restrain the girl because she would throw ‘fits’ and was uncontrollable. She blamed the bruising and scabs on the girl as well, saying the injuries were caused when the child would throw herself against the floor and walls. I wonder how the child could throw herself against ANYTHING if she was tied up all the time. Oh, yeah….she didn’t. My bad. The birth-witch did it.

In addition to all of this, though, I would be remiss if I didn’t share the blame where it is warranted. Only after the girl was sent to live with her father did the child’s teacher mention that back in October she noticed discoloration over 50% of the child’s back, and extensive scabbing. Oh, and the little girl was also one of the few children who would consistently snarf down every morsel at lunch in school. That should have been a red flag right there. Any child who is willing to eat the mystery meat, AND all of the toxic trimmings served at your average public school, is either being starved, or has no taste buds. So lets hear it for the incompetence of the teacher as well. Isn’t there a law that says teachers are REQUIRED to report suspected abuse?

Most amazing of all is the fact that the child’s father says she has exhibited no behavior problems at all since moving in with him. Well, not really so amazing….I tend to think that the only behavior problems going on in the child’s former residence were most likely the ones exhibited by the incubator and her live-in boy-toy.

The hag faces up to 29 years if convicted on all charges, but has been released on $2,000.00 bail. She also has a charge of bail jumping against her, so I am guessing that they will now have to find the witch before they prosecute her. Way to go, judge and justice system.

Thanks go out to jake’s_daddy for this tip.

25-year-old Brian Mark Hopf of Chandler, AZ is accused of dropping his three-week-old daughter and poking her in the eye but it doesn’t end there.

He claims he poked the girl in the eye by accident and thet she cried so hard she stopped breathing. That didn’t explain the head trauma. When confronted with that Hopf then told police that he tripped and fell and the injuries occured when the baby hit a door jamb.

That sounds just like the excuse that souse abusers use. “Tell them the door hit you.”

The girl has three skull fractures and four fractured ribs. But what can’t be explained away by a door is that he had anal tearing consistent with sexual abuse.

Unfortunately the girl is not expected to survive.

The article also mentions that Hopf is a tweaker. I wish there was an ingredient in meth that made people sterile.

Thanks to Susan for the tip.

PD: Tempe mom arrested for pepper spraying daughters:

That’s 35-year-old Michelle Antone of Tempe, Arizona. She was arrested after she allegedly pepper sprayed her daughters, ages 15 and 10. It seems that she was drunk when she woke up at 4pm on Saturday afternoon. She was so belligerent with her daughters they left the house. When they returned 2 hours later Antone demanded her car keys which were locked away where Antone couldn’t get them. So for saving her life and probably others Antone sprayed her daughters with pepper spray.

No word on if the daughters were placed somewhere else or not.

When dealing with booze moderation is the key people. You may thing you’re so cool when you’re plastered but you’re not.

Thanks to Lady Jade for the tip.

Prosecutor: Juvenile sexual assault is ‘heartrending’:

I’m sure you’ve all heard this one. As usual I’m a little behind.

Anyway in Phoenix, Arizona it’s alleged that four juvenile boys raped an 8-year-old girl. If that wasn’t bad enough the girl’s family disowned her for being raped claiming she brought shame upon their family. Now remember, this isn’t a story from Saudi Arabia or some other repressive country. It’s from Phoenix freakin’ Arizona.

Now in this post I’ll just be focusing on the family’s reaction. For other aspects of the story I’ll be discussing that art Crime Ne.ws.

To make matters worse the girl was allegedly being babysat by her 23-year-old older sister. Not only does the sister blame the girl but she want’s the girls rapists released.

The sister, who was not identified by name by the station, expressed mixed feelings about her sister’s attack. “I came to her and said it’s not good for you to be following guys because you are still little,” the sister told KTVK. She also said that she wanted the suspects to be released from jail because “we are the same people.”

“When she comes back I’m going to tell her don’t ever do that again because all of us, we are the same family, we are from the same place. Now she is just bringing confusion among us. Now the other people, they don’t want to see her,” the sister told KTVK.

All parties involved are Liberian. But guess what. You’re not in freakin’ Liberia anymore. This is the good ol’ U.S. of A where we don’t tolerate people who shun rape victims especially 8-year-olds.

A Liberian ambassador said however that in Liberia police would be embracing the victim and not the attackers like in some countries.

No charges have been filed against the family but if it were up to me they’d be charged with child abandonment at the very least.

h/t to Crime, Interrupted

Police: Children resorted to eating dog food:

Actually the dog food part turned out to be inaccurate but that still doesn’t change everything else that is said to have happened.

Anyway 20-year-old Mesa, Arizona stripper Samantha Abernathy was arrested for allegedly leaving her 1 and 3-year-old children home alone starting at 2am. Police were called at 7:45 am for reports of the kids runing around the apartment complex.

When police arrived they found the kids’ room stained with urine and feces.

The baby daddies didn’t arrive until 10am and stripper mom herself didn’t arrive until 10:45am. She claimed that the she was in Phoenix helping her boyfriend. There is some dispute to what was in the fridge but what is known is that there was little food in the house and there was a lock on the fridge. The dog however did have plenty of food. No word on what kind of dog it was.

Now I’ve known a few strippers in my time and they probably made more in a month than I do in a year. Half of them were very responsible with their money with some of them even sending their own kids to private schools, which I may or may not have helped to fund. The other half were constantly broke where the money was either going up their nose or supporting an unemployed penis.

It seems like that Ms. Abernathy could fall into that second half.

Thanks to Bridget for the tip.

Police: Man threw Chandler toddler on concrete floor:

Mom arrested in child abuse case:

Police in Chandler, Arizona have arrested 20-year-old birth organism Josefa Talavera and her bad boyfriend/illegal immigrant 21-year-old Jeremias Joel Aguilar. Aguilar, who looks like Zippy the Pinhead in his mugshot, is accused of throwing Talavera’s 2-year-old daughter down on a concrete floor on her head. As far as I’ve found the girl is still on life support in the hospital. It seems like in most of these cases he got angry at the girl when she wouldn’t stop crying.

When the girl was taken to the hospital the pair said that the girl had fallen. Apparently she must have fallen on a carton of lit Newports because she also had multiple cigarette burns in her body.

Aguilar also had a history of abusing Talavera as well.

I know I’m preaching to the choir here but Ladies, if your ‘man’ hits you or your child he’s never going to stop.

Thanks to Amaze for the tip.

Goodyear girl still in hospital 3 weeks after potty-training ‘war’:

What is it about potty training that drives bad parents to violent extremes?

Take for example Raul Varela, 40, and his wife, Tricia Varela, 39, of Goodyear, Arizona. They’re the parents of six kids. They have two biological sons ages 7 and 9, and four adopted daughters ages 2 through 8. You’d think by now that they would have this potty training thing down pat. Apparently not because 3 weeks ago Mrs. Valera brought her 4-year-old daughter to the ER for abdominal pain. As usual in these cases the hospital discovered signs of abuse consisting of bruises on the girls arms, legs, back head and abdomen and had a broken arm. The hospital said that the injuries were consistent with blunt force trauma.

The Valera’s admitted to police that they were in a potty training ‘war’ with their daughter and this is what they allegedly told police…

Raul and Tricia Varela admitted they had caused the girl’s injuries on April 25, the report states. The couple said they forced her on the toilet by restraining her with her hands held behind her back, pushing on her stomach, back and legs and pushing her head down between her legs.

Raul Varela told police he and his wife often force the girl to stay on the toilet for “hours on end” because it’s the only way they can get her to comply, according to the report. He said he was aware doing so causes visible injury and knew she was hurt on April 25 but did not get her medical attention.

The Varelas brought her to the hospital three days later because they thought she was constipated.

Not for the blunt force trauma injuries that riddled this girl’s body but because she was ‘constipated’. Well thank God for constipation or this girl might be dead.

When teaching young children like this things aren’t supposed to be a ‘war’ and more than likely this girl will probably be scarred for life about using the bathroom.

Thanks to Tricia (not the one in the article) for the tip.

Dad accused of turning on clothes dryer while son was inside:

19-year-old Jose Rocha of Mesa, Arizona was arrested on child abuse charges. His family members claim that when his 1-year-old son climbed into the clothes dryer to play the family went to get a camera because they thought it was cute. Rocha may have had other ideas as his family said that he turned it on while the boy was inside. Luckily the boy was not seriously injured.

Rocha and the boy’s mother claim that Rocha turned the dryer with his hand. Like that’s so much better.

I remember getting my ass chewed out by my aunt when I was little and I hid in her dryer. It’s never a good idea no matter how cute it is to let your kids inside of any appliance.

Thanks to Tina for the tip.

Police: Naked Girl Forced To Eat On Floor:

Police in Bullhead City, Arizona have arrested Juan and Dawn Corral on charges of child abuse, child endangerment and aggravated assault. Juan Corral Jr. (same guy) has also been charged with sexual contact with a minor and sexual molestation.

Juan Corral Jr. is the stepfather and Dawn Corral is the mother of a 9-year-old girl. Corral Jr. made the girl take off all her clothes and eat and relieve herself on the floor like a dog. The girl was also severely beaten so bad that she had to miss a week of school. Corral Jr. also ‘touched her inappropriately’ as a form of punishment. So what did the mother do? Since you’re reading this here you can probably guess. She stood by and did nothing.

Personally I wouldn’t even treat a dog this way. And here we have another case of a woman who obviously thinks having a penis in her life is more important than her own children. If this happened to a child of most women I know someone like Corral Jr. would be missing said organ and it would be found in his mouth to show he was a screamer. Figuratively, of course.

Thanks to Tina and LadyJade for the tip.

Mom Smothered Baby, Police Say:

30-year-old Elizabeth Ortiz of Phoenix, Arizona was arrested in the smothering death of her 7-month-old son. She allegedly fell asleep on the couch and smothered her baby. She called 911 and as rescue workers tried to revive the baby she fled the scene.

She did return however and told investigators that she was a drug user. Police say that the drug use may have contributed to the baby’s death.

Just like I think there should be a written test to be able to become a parent there should also be a drug test as well.

If you have kids STOP DOING DRUGS. If you can’t stop doing drugs give your kids up for adoption so they can at least have half a chance.