Holy hell! Did I go a whole day without updating?! Trust me, it wasn’t (sadly) for lack of material. When I attemped to log in late last night, I found that my password had been reset due to some…um, unpleasantness at b5media.
But I’m back in action now, and here to tell you about a case I’ve been meaning to write up since last week. Apparently, the new trend in child abuse is killing your children in order to pledge fealty to your loser boyfriend. We’ve already seen this go down in the case of Shalinda Glass. And if a jury comes back with a “guilty” verdict this week, we’ll be able to say the same thing about Amanda Hamm, a Decatur, Illinois mother of three. Well, a former mother of three: her sack-o’-shit boyfriend, Maurice LaGrone Jr., has already been convicted of murdering them by rolling the car they sat in into the lake, staging the scene to look like an “accident”. And prosecutors allege that Hamm was part of the conspiracy, choosing to kill her kids so that this scumbag wouldn’t leave her.
The victims in all of this? Six-year-old Christopher Hamm, three-year-old Austin Brown, and 23-month-old Kyleigh Hamm.
The jury’s still piecing together whether they believe Hamm had foreknowledge of the crime. I haven’t followed the case closely enough to declare one way or another. At the very least, this disgrace of a mother stuck by her boyfriend during the trilal, proclaiming the whole thing was a tragedy. She had to know beforehand what the prosecution knows: that LaGrone hated the kids and wanted them out of her life. The only question is, did she attempt to rescue her kids as they drown…or did she sit there, stone-faced, and watch them sink?
It’s too awful to contemplate. You’d like to think that no mother could do that to her kids. Unfortunately, regular readers of PBB know just how possible it is for some parents to do the unthinkable.
UPDATE: Commenter T asked why there were nine charges of murder, but only three kids. Here’s an elaboration of the indictment:
The charges accuse Hamm and Lagrone with three separate counts of murder for each of the three children. One count charges each with causing the death of each child, another accuses each of causing the car to go down the boat ramp knowing it would kill each child, and the third accuses each of causing the car to go down the ramp knowing that doing so created the strong probability of death for each of the children.
On another note, here’s a great article about the case that describes Hamm as a lifelong follower. Even Hamm’s mother has a hard time believing she’s innocent. Also, an officer testified that Hamm told him she knew the boyfriend was “planning an accident”, and that she asked to play with her kids one last time.
Ugh. Bitch.
(Hat tip: Diamond)
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