Parents Behaving Badly

“She Went Through Hell.” Child Brutally Beaten in Belleville:

Beating victim’s mother is out of jail, but ordered to stay away from hospitalized daughter in critical condition:

24 year old Kraig Monroe (really? With a K?) of Belleville, Illinois has been arrested for allegedly beating his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter so bad that she needed to have part of her intestine removed.

Monroe is said to have repeatedly stuck the girl repeatedly in the stomach while she sat in an Elmo chair because she wouldn’t stop crying. I think there needs to be a study done to show why troglodytes like this think that it’s logical that striking a child would stop them from crying. And by study I main that monkeys should get to poke their brains with rusty garden shears while they’re fully conscious. But I digress.

Monroe was babysitting the girl in his trailer while the mother was at work. I’m beginning to notice a pattern. Doctors also say that the girl had a broken arm that was left untreated. In case that makes you wonder yes the mother has been charged as well and has been ordered to stay away from her daughter.

Thanks to Marcy for the tip.

I think I may have posted this story before but since I am at ‘The Sweatshop’ I can’t check. (Update: Original post)

Anyway 28-year-old Katie Stockton of Rockton, Illinois was arrested back in August for allegedly abandoning an infant known as Baby Crystal in the snow in December of 2004. How sad is it that this may be a repat but there have been so many stores like this I can’t remember if it is or not.

Now police are saying that two infant skeletons that were found in an impounded car trunk that was registered in her name were likely babies that she delivered.

The babies are believed to be female and not twins.

Again, as repulsive as I find some of the alternatives to childbirth there are alternatives out there.

But for alleged serial abandoners like this I recommend a large sewing needle and some industrial strength thread.

Thanks to snoopygirl for the tip.

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Oops….I meant Christina Sykora. She’s 38 years old. I think my spelling fits her better….

This isn’t your regular PBB story, because the abuser is not the parent of the victim, but she does have a child of her own. She lost custody of her own child due to drug charges. Or something. That’s not what this is about though. This is about the abuse she inflicted on a female relative.

Apparently a 7-year old female relative of Sykora was staying with the psycho’s parents. There was a 68 year old handyman, Sabino Martinez, who propositioned Coochie Psycho, but she wasn’t feeling frisky, so she offered the little girl to him instead. He accepted. Let’s just pause here for a moment, shall we? It’s hard enough to imagine one adult coming up with such an idea, and then thinking it’s an acceptable thing, and acting on it. But there were TWO adults here who both thought this was OK. Really?!? Two adults with the same depraved inclinations finding each other, and executing such a scheme….what are the odds? Pretty good I guess, because here they are. A match made in Hell.

Sykora ordered the girl to undress and then watched as the sick old bastard raped her. When the child begged for help from the evil witch, Psycho’s response was, “Oh, come on.” What?!? This is when I had to take a break to go and find my head, because it had just spun right off of my shoulders after reading that. After I put my head back on and cleaned up where I had lost my lunch, I found out that the little girl was repeatedly victimized by Martinez after the initial occurrence.

It’s a good thing she had her own child taken from her – can you imagine what she might have done with a child she had UNLIMITED access to? It makes my skin crawl.

Both of these perverted wastes of oxygen are being held on one million dollars bail. I can’t even think of anything horrible enough to do to these two. I’ll let my readers field that question for me…..

Thanks to April for the tip.

I know I don’t have to tell you who Tracy Hermann is and what she was convited of. Anyway I found a better article about her sentencing.

It seems the reason she was sentenced to 50 years instead of 100 like James Sargent was that she pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death of her son Benjamin.

At the sentencing Hermann said that what she did was a ‘mistake’. She also said that her sentence would bring justice for Benjamin.

Maybe if she and Sargent actually gave a shit for their baby there wouldn’t be a need for justice.

Hermann will have to serve her entire sentence.

Peoria woman sentenced to 50 years for death of son:

You remember Tracy Hermann and James Sargent don’t you? They were the scumbag Breeders that left their 5-month-old son Benjamin strapped in his car seat in his crib for days while they went about their lives not feeding him, changing him or even checking on him.

The last we heard Sargent was sentenced to 100 years for his part in Benjamin’s death. Now Hermann has been sentenced to 50 years.

No word yet on why she only got half of what Sargent got. At least if she does get out she’ll be well past child bearing age.

Baby Killed After Mom Kicked On Porch:

Baby dies in fall from 3rd-floor porch during domestic dispute:

5-week-old Jeremiah Range died this week after being ejected from a car seat that his mom was carrying on a third floor porch. The 20-year-old mother went to the residence to get her kids from the 20-year-old father. There were 3 kids altogether ages 5, 1 and Jeremiah. Apparently she was leaving the father because she had two men with her. At one point the situation became confrontational and the father kicked the mother who was carrying Jeremiah in a car seat but he was not strapped in. some stabbings were also reported in the dispute.

So far no charges have been filed.

Thanks to Marie for the tip.

Sargent gets 100 years for death of son:

James Sargent of Peoria, Illinois has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for the death of his son, 5-month-old Benjamin Sargent. As you’ll recall Sargent and the birth organism, Tracy Hermann, allegedly left Benjamin strapped in his car seat in his crib for days while they went about their lives not feeding him, changing him or even checking in him. Benjamin died from an infection caused by the feces in his diaper that eventually ate through his skin.

Hermann’s trial is set to start in October.

Man charged with molesting ex-girlfriend’s infant:

Clint Howard’s lookalike over there is one 27-year-old Joe Harvey Jr. of unincorporated Montgomery, Illinois. He stands accused of sexually assaulting the infant of his 20-year-old former girlfriend.

Details are scarce but Harvey is being held on $250K bond.

Thanks to Ridgely for the tip.

Judge: Father’s actions toward baby were ‘brutal and heinous’:

Again you can find my other posts on Sargent here and here. He is one of a pair of Breeders who left their son, Benjamin Sargent, alone in his car seat in his crib for days while they played video games and did not feed or change Benjamin which led to his death.

The sperm donor of the pair, 24-year-old James Sargent of Peoria, Illinois, was found guilty yesterday of first degree murder.

A doctor who testified during the trial said that Benjamin didn’t die from starvation but rather from an infection caused by the unchanged diaper. The fecal material ate through the skin causing a massive infection.

Sargent is looking at 100 years when sentenced in June.

The birth organism of the pair, Tracy Hermann, is scheduled for trial in August.

Mental health defense denied for Sargent:

You can read my original posts on James Sargent and Tracy Hermann here.

They were the pair of Breeders who left their 5-month-old baby son, Benjamin Sargent, alone in his carseat in his crib for 8 days without feeding him or changing him or checking on him. According to a witness they were busy “playing video games, watching TV, feeding and caring for themselves.”

Benjamin Sargent was found in the same clothes he was dropped off at the house it with his eyes open and his fists clenched. Both Breeders have been charged with murder.

More recently an insanity defense for Sargent has been rejected. Sargent’s attorney contended that Sargent has a “dissociative disorder.” According to the good doctor Sargent retreats into the fantasy world of Lord of The Rings.

However the shrink that saw Sargent said that was only part of what led Sargent to ignore his own child.

The doctor testified the dissociation could explain some of what happened when the infant died after going without food or water for eight days in mid-February 2008, noting a baby’s cries are difficult to ignore.

“Either he (Sargent) is either deaf and blind or an utter psychopath. There’s no evidence of either,” Killian said.

So on that basis the judge thankfully rejected that defense.

Sargent is looking at 20 to 100 years behind bars and his trial is set for April 27th.

Hermann’s trial is set for May 4th.

Last I heard they were both blaming each other.

Coroner: No cause of death yet for Belleville infant:

Back in November Elyse Mamino of Belleville, Ill. was accused of giving birth to her daughter in a bathroom at a family party and trying to drown the newborn in the toilet. Luckily the child survived. The state thought it was a good idea to return the baby to Mamino after the baby was released from the hospital.

Normally in these types of stories we’d be reading about how the baby was injured at the hands of the mother but not this time.

While investigating the attempted murder police found the remains of another baby in Mamnio’s residence. The date of death was determined to be sometime in 2007 but the cause of death has not been determined yet.

She’s pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder charges.

Thanks to LadyJade for the tip.

4-year-old girl left at liquor store:

If you leave your 4-year-old daughter at a liquor store for 40 minutes and are arrested only four blocks away you may have a drinking problem.

That’s what happened to Lee Ann Harris and Damen L. Boston of Springfield, Illinois. They allegedly told the clerk at the liquor store they did not want the girl anymore. Last time I checked a liquor store was not a safe haven. I’m dying to know what fine selection of liquor they bought as well.

The child was unharmed but was taken into DCFS custody.

Amanda Hamm, convicted of standing back while her boyfriend drowned her children in a car, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. As readers on a previous thread have noted, this means that she could walk out of jail in a year or two, once time served is taken into account. Justice? Um…not quite. Hamm will get have the chance to rebuild her life and move on. That’s a chance her kids will never get.

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)

Have you ever heard of the Old German Baptist Brethren? (Not to be confused with the German Baptist Brethren, and certainly not to be mixed up with those bastards the Old Order German Baptist Brethren.) They’re an Anabaptist group, theologically similar in some ways to the Mennonite and the Amish. I’d never heard of the conservative religious group until I stumbled across this story about 34-year-old Michael Hari of Illinois, who’s standing trial for kidnapping his daughters, Mollie, 15, and Allene, 13.

How does this relate to the Old German Baptist Brethrens? According to the article, Hari is a member of the church, which according to the writeup prohibits educating girls after the eight grade. I couldn’t actually confirm this in any statement of belief about the OGBB, so I’m taking that one with a grain of salt. The best I could gather is that the OGBB don’t support “higher” education. But it seems that even that opposition has eroded in recent years.

Whatever the reason, something inside Hari compelled him to skip the country with his daughters in tow, landing him and the girls to a Mennonite colony in Belize. Hari’s attorney denies that his client fled to Belize. But he seems incapable of explaining why Hari told his ex-wife, Michelle Frakes, that he’d be drop the girls off in “a couple of hours” – and then thoroughly disappeared for 10 months. Hari’s attorney also doesn’t explain how a private investigator tracked the wayward dad to Belize, and why it took no less than Dr. Phil McGraw to talk the guy into returning voluntarily to the states. (You can find the full account of The Dr. Phil Show’s involvement on RickRoss.com.)

This is one of those cases that make me glad I never became a defense attorney. There just can’t be that much job satisfaction in manufacturing excuses for people like Michael Hari. If I wanted to tell lies for a living, I’d get a more socially respectable job – like, say, being a TV news anchor, or a presidential press secretary.