Parents Behaving Badly

Midwest City father jailed in death of 2-month-old girl:

MWC Man Accused Of Killing Baby:

24-year-old Jacob Lynn Watson of Midwest City, Oklahoma has been charged in the beating death of his 2-month-old daughter Brylee Watson.

Medical personnel say that Brylee had 9 fractures of her bones consisting of both arms, clavicles, right femur, ribs and skull.

Jacob Watson allegedly gave authorities four different stories of what transpired with his daughter.

First he said he went to his daughter’s crib to check on her and she wasn’t breathing.

Then he said that he tripped over the cat dropping his daughter before falling on top of her.

Then, in a Susan Smith like maneuver, he told police that two ‘black guys’ broke into his house stealing stuff and abusing Brylee and a 2-year-old in the home.

Finally he allegedly admitted to the abuse claiming that he was upset over his failing relationship with Brylee’s mother and took it out on Brylee.

The mother was at work which again makes me wonder if big man even had a job.

So not only do we have a coward and loser but apparently a bad liar. At least when the abusers are complete drooling morons it makes them easier to arrest.

Thanks to Marcia for the tip.

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This is Chrystie Marie Hardy – a 27 year-old Colorado women. Chrystie has admitted that she did seek help while her boyfriend (Mark Alton Friend) beat, tortured and killed her 4-year-old daughter Madyson Bogard January 15, 2008.

She watched Madyson vomit, convulse and suffer and did nothing – nothing at all.  It wasn’t until Madyson stopped breathing that Hardy finally called 911.

During the initial investigation Hardy and Friend alleged the girl had fallen on the ice earlier in the day; it was Friend who fessed up to his disgusting behavior.

Hardy faces 30 t0 40 years behind bars – I think she should  be sterilized!

DA: Ore. couple murdered 1 child, tortured another:

Take a look at these two. Do they not look related? However they are not. They are 27-year-old Donald Cockrell and his betrothed 24-year-old Michelle Smith both of Sandy, Oregon.

They have been charged not only with starving and abusing one of Cockrell’s daughters to death but also abusing one of his other children as well.

An autopsy on 3-year-old Alexis Pounder revealed that the couple allegedly starved her and beat her to death. They are also accused of torturing one of Alexis’ siblings.

Smith is not the baby mama but she has 3 of her own that were removed from the home where they lived at with Smith’s parents.

The autopsy claims that Alexis died from “blunt force trauma” and “acute starvation.”

Both are being held without bail.

Is it me or do those look like meth sores on the bride to be?

Thanks to Marci for the tip.

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Walter Z Speller beat two biological sons and a step daughter to the point of causing life long disabilities.

His first son Isaiah was tortured at 14 months – he is now 8 years old and brain damaged, blinded and paralyzed on his left side.  Speller received a sentence of 2-years for his abuse of Isaiah.

Upon release he met another women with whom he bore a son – Ohene Speller; who he beat injuring his brain and paralyzing him. Ohene’s half sister, Laniah, suffered similar abuse and brain damage.

He forced the girl to stand in front of him and held her face in the vise of his hands. Speller kept his nails long so they dug into the tender skin under Laniah’s ears and around her neck. He slapped her face. When she fell, Speller forced Laniah to get up.

“He just kept hitting her and hitting her,” Campblin testified.

Speller dragged the child into the bathroom.

“I heard him telling her not to move and to stop screaming because she was crying,” Campblin testified. “Then I heard him telling her to lay down, and he turned the water on her.”

Another time, Speller beat the child with a belt. He forced the girl to strip and lie on her stomach on a bed, and he thrashed her. Then he turned Laniah over, Campblin said, and whipped her front with the belt, too.

Photos submitted as evidence show bruises and welts covering Laniah’s body. One picture shows a mark in the shape of a belt buckle branded into Laniah’s skin. A forensic pediatrician skilled in assessing cases of child abuse testified that the girl had been repeatedly and severely beaten. No part of her body remained unbruised. Laniah suffered brain damage as a result.

Speller treated his biological son no better.

One day, Campblin testified, Speller bit his baby’s face so hard his teeth left indentations and the boy’s face turned black and blue. Speller brought the wailing boy to Campblin and told her to put cocoa butter on the wound.

“Did Walter tell you why he bit Ohene?” prosecutor Krista Fulton asked.

“He told me because he could do it; that’s his son,” Campblin replied.

A couple days later, Ohene Speller seemed sick. He had been vomiting and didn’t want to eat his baby cereal.

Walter Speller took the spoon from Campblin and shoved it into the 8-month-old boy’s mouth. That made Ohene cry all the harder.

“Walter got upset because he said he was acting like a little girl, acting like a bitch,” Campblin testified.

Campblin watched as Speller grabbed Ohene by the arm, yanked him out of his car seat, and smacked him in the back of the head. Speller threw the baby down on the bed. When Ohene continued to cry, Speller picked him up again and hit the child twice more in the head.

“He stopped crying because he started throwing up,” Campblin testified.

The baby’s body went rigid, and he grew red as he labored to breathe.

“He was just, like, lifeless in my arms,” Campblin said.

Campblin told Speller they needed to go to the hospital. But he delayed.

“He wanted to know what I was going to tell the doctors about the bite mark he had on his face,” Campblin said.

Campblin promised Speller she would tell doctors that Laniah accidentally bit Ohene. Speller drove them to the hospital, but he dropped them at the front door rather than the emergency department. He drove off, Laniah still in the car, while Campblin tried to find help for her son.

It was July 17, 2008. Doctors treated Ohene for seizures and bleeding in his brain. The next day, when Laniah came to visit her brother, hospital staff noticed the bruises covering her body and began to treat her, too.

Campblin admitted to hospital workers that Speller had beaten the children.

A police evidence photo of Campblin shows bruises on her face and neck.

It would be six months before Speller was arrested. A police photo of Speller shows him with close-cropped hair and a bushy goatee. He wears tattoos on his face: a cross on his forehead between his eyes, and black teardrops, one under his right eye, two under his left.

When prosecutor Fulton finished presenting evidence at his trial, Speller’s lawyer, Sonny Stallings, told the judge his client had two options: testify and let jurors decide his case, or plead guilty under an agreement offered by Fulton that would limit Speller’s prison term to a minimum of 12-1/2 years in prison and a maximum of 21 years.

If Speller testified, jurors would hear evidence of his prior convictions before deciding his guilt or innocence. The minimum time he would face if sentenced by a jury was 40 years; the maximum, two life terms.

Speller asked Judge Mary Jane Hall for time to think.

“That’s 12 to 21 years for something I didn’t do,” Speller said. “You know, come in here, saying OK, yes I did do it… that’s going to scar me for a long time.”

He pleaded guilty the next day.

Ohene and Laniah now live with foster parents. Laniah, now 5, has had eye surgery and sees therapists and a psychiatrist. She sometimes wakes at night, screaming. Ohene, like Isaiah, is paralyzed on his left side. Now 2 years old, he can crawl but cannot walk. Like Isaiah, he has only limited use of his left arm.

Denver man charged in toddler’s death:

I know you may think that I do like repeating myself but I don’t. Yet it seems I keep having to.

31-year-old Jacob Garcia of Denver, Colorado is charged in the death of his girlfriend’s 18-month-old son.

He claims that the child ran into a hallway and fell.

Medical personnel at the hospital disagreed because of the “subdural bleeding in the brain” and “bruises throughout his body.”

Now here’s the part where I have to repeat myself.

Ladies, if you’re man ain’t got no job he’s not worthy to be watching your kids while you work. I know that wasn’t the case here but it bears repeating.

Now for the abusers again you are not smarter than people who went to school for years upon years to learn their profession. They can tell the difference between a fall and a severe beating. Rather than going to jail, because you will, how about not beating the child in the first place dumbass.

Thanks to Rachelle for the tip.

Richfield Man Charged with Torturing Girlfriend’s Son:

It seems that the bad boyfriends are coming out of the woodwork just in time for the holiday season. Today’s subject is 44-year-old Craig Kurzawski of Richfield, Minnesota.

He’s accused of ‘disciplining’ his girlfriend’s 14-year-old son after a day of heavy drinking. Kurzawski allegedly punched the boy in the stomach face and chest, broke the boy’s nose, made him do wall squats and when the boy would fall Kurzawski would pull him up by his ears.

For the coup de grace Kurzawski took one of three samurai swords that just happened to be hanging around the house and scraped it along the boys body saying that he was going to cut him open like a dead fish. When the mother tried to interfere she was pushed away.

It takes a real man not only to beat a boy and a woman but it takes an even bigger man to threaten a kid with a sword. That was sarcasm by the way.

Kurzawski defines the phrase gutless coward.

Thanks to Second Voice for the tip.

Nantucket man held in alleged infant assault:

There once was man from Nantucket. Who allegedly got drunk and beat his infant son until he vomited on Christmas Day after beating his baby’s mama on Christmas Eve. Yeah I know it doesn’t rhyme but 22-year-old Gerson Lopez of Nantucket is accused of everything I just said. He is also known as Gerson Francisco Lopez Delgado You Killed My Father Prepare To Die. No wait, that was someone else.

The child was airlifted to Boston where doctors say he may have a brain injury.

So can you come up with a better limerick for this scumbag? All I can come up with is telling him to “suck it”.

Thanks to Robin for the tip.

Missouri Man Charged In Chicago Toddler’s Death:

This guy not only qualifies as a bad boyfriend. He qualifies as a really bad boyfriend.

33-year-old Marquicio Johnson of Hazelwood, Missouri is accused of beating 2-year-old Orionis Barron-Taylor of Chicago to death. Not only was Orionis not his

child he wasn’t even his girlfriend’s child. Orionis was the girlfriend’s nephew. Technically not a PBB but why split hairs.

Orionis’ mother sent him to live with his aunt (the girlfriend) because the mother was starting two jobs.

Again when I first got married it took me a while to get comfortable with disciplining my stepchildren.. I can’t even imagine touching someone’s kid that in no way shape or form even remotely belongs to be let alone beating them so bad that they die.

Thanks to Jake’s Daddy for the tip.

Beaten toddler in fair condition two weeks later:

In Sunrise, Florida 2-year-old Daniella Vitale is recovering after being left with bad boyfriend, 18-year-old Joshua Albarracin.

Albarracin was babysitting the girl and her 3-year-old brother while the mother stepped out.

He allegedly beat the girl so bad that she was barely breathing. Do you want to know the reason why? The usual.

He allegedly beat her because she WOULDN’T STOP CRYING.

Again, that’s what babies do even toddlers, even kids up to 13 years old sometimes. Kids cry and beating them will not make them stop. The logic used in these cases never ceases to astound me. You have to be the biggest idiot in the world to think that a beating will stop a child from crying.

Unfortunately in too many cases we see here the beating does stop the baby from crying but also stops them from breathing. Luckily that is not the case here.

Thanks to Marcy for the tip.

Denver baby beaten so badly mom “couldn’t even recognize” him; parents charged in death:

Speaking of tools those two tools are Travis Anderson and Crystal Eccleston of Denver, Colorado. He’s been charged with murder and she’s been charged with failure to seek treatment.

It’s alleged that Anderson beat their 20-day-old son so bad that his the boy’s own mother, Eccleston, didn’t even recognize him. However instead of taking the baby to the hospital she gave him a bath where he was non-responsive. Anderson on the other hand went out to steal some tools and then came home to look them up on the internet because apparently he didn’t know what he was stealing.

Seven hours later they took their baby to the hospital.

According to a probable cause statement, doctors at Children’s Hospital in Aurora who examined Sean Anderson when he arrived Dec. 15 said he had two skull fractures, profuse bleeding of the brain; bruises on the scalp; and what appeared to be burns on his face and foot.

Sean Anderson died four days later. Doctors had to remove a part of his skull to relieve the swelling of his brain.

Anderson and Eccleston are a lethal combination of evil and stupid.

Thanks to Christina 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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I would like to thank Bridget for the tip and the title to this story. The title idea was all hers, and I hope she doesn’t mind me using it in my article…it was just too good to pass up.

We have a couple of real winners here folks – an abusive sperm donor, and an idiot for an incubator. Thomas Campo, 43, has been accused of abusing his triplets – 2 boys and a girl. They were only 5 months old when Campo was arrested, and he had allegedly been abusing them since they were born. One of the boys had at least five fractured ribs on the right side, and three on the left. Medical experts have said that the injuries are more consistent with shaking than with squeezing. Another of the babies, also a boy, had bilateral skull fractures and also some rib fractures. The baby girl had injuries to an ear, and a bite mark on her abdomen. So I guess the guy thought biting the baby was a good parenting technique. I would be willing to bet that he abused the kids because they would not stop crying – like most other idiots claim. Well….how’d that work out for you Campo? Oh, right, you’re in jail. So now you don’t have to listen to your babies cry anymore. I guess that worked out all right for you then….not so much for the babies, though.

Now for the gestation device, Zoya Campo. This quote is directly from the article folks: ” “Zoya Campo told me that her husband has a history of anger and acts out towards the babies,” Caggiano wrote.” OK. So the woman knew her bedmate had anger issues, and that he took out these issues on the babies, and yet, she did…….nothing?!? WHAT!?! Now you know where the stupid comes into the title, folks. I think she should be charged with abuse as well, since she knowingly permitted it. She’s as bad as he is. The bite mark on the little girls abdomen occurred in April, right after the babies had come home from the hospital. She was three weeks old. This tells me a couple of things folks. The babies, being triplets, were probably born early, and SMALL. That would be my guess as to why they were three weeks old before being allowed to go home. So in addition to being defenseless, and fragile, these babies ALREADY had another reason to be treated with special care – they were preemies. Instead they were abused by Thomas, and betrayed by Zoya. She said that she had confronted him several times about his abuse of the babies, and he had apologized to her each time. Oh. OK. That makes everything alright, then. Maybe in her world, but certainly not in mine.

Another thing – and this is purely speculation on my part, based on the age of the sperm donor. If he is 43, then I would imagine that she is probably in her late 30’s to early 40’s. She had triplets. This suggests to me that there might have been some sort of medical help to conceive, such as fertility drugs, or in-vitro. Now….if she wanted a child so badly that she was willing to undergo medical treatment in order to conceive, and then willing to go through the entire pregnancy (which I would think was probably difficult, and even dangerous, with triplets), you would think that this idiot would have taken better care of her babies – protected them more.

A final note, then I’ll go away and leave you all to discuss this: Zoya also said that her husband would take the babies (one at a time) into another room and shut the door, not allowing her in. The reason he gave her was that he needed to learn how to comfort them himself, without her help. But she could hear the babies in distress while he was alone with them. I’m sorry folks – but that freakin’ door would have come off the hinges, if it had been my child in there. You don’t take one of my babies ANYWHERE, and then deny me access to them. Not without killing me first.

Oh, and Thomas has been indicted on 37 counts stemming from the abuse of his babies. The mother, as far as I can tell, has not been charged with anything. They should charge her with gross stupidity, for starters, and work their way up.

READ IT HEREThis is 40-year old Alexander Kozlov and 39-year old Lyudmila Kozlov.  They reside in a Russian/Ukraine immigrant community in OR.  They have been convicted of abusing their children even though most of their community believe what they did was showing love and raising the children according to the bible (which makes me very sad for other children in this immigrant community).

The children called 911 July 19, 2009, asking the police to rescue them – from a Pet Smart. The kids are aged 15, 14, 13, 11, 10, 9 and six days.

They were hit with wires, cords, spoons, sticks, belts and their parents’ hands, the children testified.

I snipped this:

The Kozlovs, who immigrated to the US from the Ukraine in 2003, were acting as their own attorneys and had been questioning the children.  

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Porfirio Olivas, 39, and his wife, Minerva Lopez, 33, have been arrested for child abuse. The birth vessel pleaded no contest last month to six counts of abuse, and the male animal is currently on trial. Closing arguments are expected today.

Olivas has been charged with 23 counts of child abuse in varying forms, and one count of second-degree sexual assault. He apparently speaks little or no English, because he had to have a translator to give his testimony. I’ll leave that one alone. I have bigger fish to fry in this case.

The 15 year old reported that her paternal DNA donor had forced her to eat cockroaches and a spider, and tried to make her eat a dead mouse that had been caught in a trap. Do you KNOW how many diseases are carried by cockroaches and mice?!? Do you? I think I threw up a little in the back of my mouth when I read that. And the spider? I won’t even go there….those things terrify me. The girl was also beaten with a belt, broomsticks, metal rods, a frying pan, and other objects, and was starved (well, except for the bugs and other vermin, of course).

The mother (who admitted to most of the abuse) also said that she choked her, cut her wrist with a knife, scalded her with hot water, and bit her face. The girl was covered from head to toe with bruises and bloody wounds in varying stages of healing. Did I mention that the gestation device also broke the girl’s kneecap with a baseball bat? And she was allowed to plead no contest?!? WTF? There are other details (yes, even more!) in the linked articles, so I won’t list them all here. I can’t manage to make myself write about any more of the cruelty inflicted on this poor child.

I hope this child gets intensive and extensive counseling, in order to help her deal with the lasting legacy of nightmares her DNA donors have undoubtedly left her with. And I hope that both of them get to participate in their own versions of ‘jailhouse nightmares’ for many years to come.

The good news is that if Olivas is convicted, he faces up to 200 years in prison. Lets hope that he gets it. I hope Minerva’s sentence is just as long.

Thanks to April for the tip.

Hooker...Oops! I meant Kelly

The title of this article, provided by April, is pretty much the only amusing thing related to this incident. Thanks for the tip, and title, April.

Emma Kelly, 22, has killed her one year old child, Jacarra Robinson. Law enforcement is calling the death a result of shaken baby syndrome, but the coroner has listed blunt force trauma to the head as the cause. It’s probably a combination of the two, since the gestation device reportedly admitted shaking Jacarra as well as hitting her in the chest.

Kelly is an unemployed mother of three (one now dead), and pregnant with her fourth. All are under the age of four. Well, at least she stayed busy doing something, hmmm…? As reported, she lived on Hooker Street, and I have to wonder if that street acquired it’s name based on any sort of defining occupation. I also wonder if Kelly was employed in that field. I would think it would be difficult to lose a job as a hooker, though, so maybe she wasn’t a paid entertainment specialist. Maybe it was just a hobby for her.

Kelly had just recently regained custody of Jacarra, after having her removed from the home for reportedly using drugs. Another good call on the part of what passes for DHS in Mississippi. Where DO they keep their brains these days? In a jar on the desk, it would appear. Maybe they take them out and play with them like one of those ’stress-relief squeezy balls’, because they sure as spit aren’t using them to make sound judgment calls.

Kelly said the the baby had been ‘whining a lot’ (what one year old doesn’t?), and so she shook her and hit her in the chest. She took Jacarra to the hospital when her head “started dangling”. This sweet baby was on life support for four days before she died. No one seems to know anything about Jacarra’s father, either – where he is….or even WHO he is. Gee, that’s surprising. My guess would be the other kids have the same aura of mystery surrounding their paternal origins as Jacarra did.

Kelly is being held on $100,000.00 bond, and has been charged with murder. I hope they keep Kelly on watch, and snatch that baby she is carrying as soon as it is born, before it winds up like it’s sister.