Parents Behaving Badly

Smyrna couple charged with murdering newborn:

It’s very rare to hear of a couple killing their newborn. I hate to say it ladies but it’s usually the mothers. There was famous case of couple infanticide in the pre-blog days I believe however the details escape me at the time.

Anyway, hipster douchebag and the woman potato over there are 27-year-old Dereke Moore and 28-year-old Jeanne Moore of Smyrna, Delaware.

They are accused of drowning their new born back in November and throwing the body in the trash. They claimed that the baby was born stillborn back in November. Forensics say that the baby was born alive and drowned in the toilet after Spudzilla gave birth in the bathroom. Police say that Mr. Moore threw the body into a trash bin at his place of work.

I wonder if she allowed the baby to drown first before telling her husband.

Thanks to Suzanne for the tip.

In Nashua, NH, Jodi and Robert Dionne, parents of a girl and three boys, and Jodi’s former boyfriend, Lukeus Poirier,were arrested for abusing the Dionne children. The kids, now nine, eight, six, and five years old, endured years of being beat with belts, getting tied up and gagged with duct tape, and being held underwater in the bathtub until they choked. The youngest child, then one years old, was left in a playpen to cry frantically while his siblings were gagged.

Robert and Jodi, who are now divorced, told police they thought using duct tape three to four times a week to restrain the children was an acceptable form of discipline. Jodi, who dated Lukeus from 2004 to 2005, said that he showed her how to hold the kids underwater to discipline them when they misbehaved. Lukeus also hit the kids with a belt.

All four kids were placed with a foster family a year ago because of other reports of abuse. However, the stories of gagging and drowning didn’t surface until the children confided in their foster parents last month

The oldest boy, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, told police his mom spanked with her hand, but that his dad spanked with a belt. He also said that Robert would tell the the kids to go out in the wild and kill themselves.

The six-year-old boy said Lukeus was a mean guy who drowned him in the tub. The girl said her mother held down her head while Lukeus held her feet. The oldest boy said that his mother tried to drown him too, but that Lukeus stopped her and his mom apologized.

Jodi was charged with four counts of reckless conduct. Robert was charged with four counts of criminal restraint. Each one of their charges can get them up to seven years in prison.

Beside second-degree assault, Lukeus was charged with aggravated felonious sexual assault of a girl under age 9. He could get up to 20 years in prison for this.

Court records reveal a pattern of domestic violence for both men.

Let’s give Jodi a big hand for picking not one, but two losers to beat her kids. Talk about bad taste in men.