Parents Behaving Badly

Stepdad admits he raped, set girl on fire:

This is one of those stories that makes me wonder why I never heard of it before and why didn’t it get more media attention?

28-year-old Chris Newberry (pictured) of Wichita, Kansas area, pleaded guilty to rape, attempted murder and multiple counts of aggravated arson. He could get from 40 years to life when sentenced.

Newberry admitted to the court that he not only raped his 10-year-old stepdaughter but that he doused her in lighter fluid and set her on fire. But he removed his own daughter from the bedroom before setting his stepdaughter on fire.

The 10-year-old remembers hearing the click of the lighter just as she woke up. The 4-year-old said she went back in the room and saw her stepsister on fire.

I have a stepdaughter myself and when I first got married she was 8 years old. I personally went to great lengths to make sure any action I did around here couldn’t be construed as improper. I couldn’t imagine why this scumbag would even think of doing this.

40 years to life is a joke. This assclown should get at the very least LWOP.

Sentencing is set for October 30th.

Thanks to Reesegril for the tip.

Mother, friend guilty in Kansas 6-year-old’s rape:

Back in January I posted a story about a woman who whored out her 5-year-old daughter for $6 so she could get whiskey and smokes.

Yesterday her and the man she sold her daughter out to, 51-year-old Reggie Stafford, were both convicted in a Wichita court. They were both convicted of two counts of rape and one count of aggravated criminal sodomy. She was also convicted of aiding and abetting and aggravated child endangerment.

They’re both looking at 25 to life. Sentencing is set for October. Let’s hope they get the life part of the sentence.

Thanks to Reesegril for the update.

Mom accused of prostituting daughter, 5:

A 48-year-old Wichita, Kansas woman has been accused of prostituting her 5-year-old daughter. The man accused of raping her daughter is 51-year-old Reggie Stafford. While the woman is facing charges for whoring her 5-year-old daughter out prosecutors say that she also did the same thing to her two other daughters who at the time were between the ages of 8 and 14.

Prosecutors tried to get testimony from the older daughters introduced into court but the judge disallowed that stating that the testimony does not fit the Kansas Supreme Court’s guidelines for prior bad acts.

Anyway this how little the unnamed woman must have thought of her 5-year-old daughter. She sold her daughter into basically what amounts to sexual slavery for 6 or 7 bucks which she used for booze and smokes. Which may turn out to be prophetic because I hope that the birth organism will be trade for $6 worth of smokes in prison.

Thanks to Maryanne for the tip.

Prosecutor: parents are suspects in Adam Herrman case:

Butler County (Kan.) chief prosecutor Jan Satterfield announced yesterday that the adoptive parents of Adam Herrman are suspects in his disappearance. No charges have been filed yet against Doug and Valerie Herrman. Ms. Satterfield also hinted that first degree murder charges could be possible.

It’s one thing to be down on your luck, and be forced to live out of a car because you can no longer afford cheap motels. It’s quite another thing to make your children live in the car with you, especially when they have a father and a stepmother with a roof over their head. But, man alive, it’s quite a third thing to slip your two kids some crack cocaine to help ease their worries. Hot tipper and loyal reader thodora sent along this twisted tale of an unnamed woman from Wichita, Kansas, who had her two kids carted away for failing to bathe them and pumping ‘em full of ramen noodles. (Isn’t forcing people to subsist on ramen noodles a Geneva violation?)

The kids are now in the custody of their father and stepmom, who apparently are neither feeding them ramen noodles nor rock cocaine. Authorities say that the kids appear to be doing fine, physically, but haven’t yet been told about mom’s attempt to turn them into crackwhores.

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