Parents Behaving Badly

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.

New Details Revealed In Stabbing Of 3-Year-Old:

We don’t get a lot of bad girlfriend stories but this one should prove that we’re not gender biased here.

22-year-old Serenity (not really) Sanchez was arrested in Portland, Oregon for stabbing her boyfriend’s 3-year-old daughter.

The boyfriend says that he saw Sanchez go into the girl’s room and heard a scream. The girl was stabbed in the liver and spleen and the wound barely missed her intestines which would have been a death blow. Luckily the girl is in stable condition.

And why did all this allegedly happen? Because the boyfriend wanted to break up with Sanchez.

Guys will only put up with crazy for so long.

Thank to Jessica for the tip.

By the way I’m all about the alliteration so if anyone can come up with a ‘g’ word to describe the girlfriends I’d be most appreciative.

Okla. couple held in burial, excavation of girl:

When 11-year-old Cheyenne Wolf died in Oklahoma her ‘parents’, father Abel Wolf, 35, and step-mother Denise Wolf, 40, allegedly buried her under their deck in a sleeping bag inside a plastic tub. When they moved to Montana they took the body with them. When Cheyenne’s sister ran away they feared she would tell authorities about the body so they moved it again. This time to a chicken coop in Oregon then a storage unit also in Oregon.

If you wondered why they kept moving her body it may have something to do with the mystery of Cheyenne’s death.

An affidavit filed by OSBI investigator David Houston said Abel Wolf told Houston the family was upset with Cheyenne in April 2008 because she would not eat dinner one night.

While Abel was outside smoking, he heard a thump but said Cheyenne seemed fine, the affidavit said.

She was found dead the next day, according to the document.

I’m sure they’ll probably use the ‘we can’t afford a funeral’ defense.

Thanks to Krissy for the tip.

Mother accused of dealing cocaine; 2 kids removed:

This story is all sorts of involved.

Police in Keizer, Oregon executed a search warrant on the home of 40-year-old Catalina Mendoza Cervantes. What they found were her two children, ages 8 and 12, while she was working her McJob. Now before you jump all over me about the plight of the single mother police also found cocaine in the kids’ room and scales and packing materials used in the selling of cocaine. There were also lit candles burning in the house that left burn marks on the ceiling.

Someone tipped off Cervantes that the po-po were at her house and she fled from her job. When police contacted her on the phone she said she wasn’t coming back to her place even though her kids were there. Police eventually caught up with her and arrested her on drug charges among others.

The kids are in state custody.

Thanks to Calvena for the tip.

Police: Man admits he used dog shock collars on his kids for fun:

41-year-old Todd Marcum of Salem, Oregon is a scumbag. I’m sorry, he’s an alleged scumbag. He’s accused of putting a dog’s shock collar on his kids ages 9, 8, 6 and 3. Not to discipline them or anything, not that that would make it right either, but just because he thought it was funny.

He would also allegedly chase the 3-year-old around with the collar with just the mere threat of shocking him, also thinking that was funny.

You know what I think is funny? You in your cell getting introduced to your prison husband.

Thanks to Layla for the tip.

McMinnville couple held on meth and endangerment charges:

Before you read anything click on the article link. You have to see their mugshots.

Anyway the ghastly pair in said mugshots are 38-year-olds Tracy Ann Duncan and William James Duncan of McMinnville, Oregon. After they were presumably pulled over for having 5 unrestrained kids in the car ranging in ages from 5 to 10 police then searched the car and the hotel they were residing at. Guess what they found. Meth in both places and both Duncans were said to have been under the influence of meth while they were driving their unrestrained kids around.

Meth does not a happy family make. Maybe if they weren’t spending their money on meth they could afford a decent place to live.

Remember kids, not even once.

Thanks to Jill for the tip.

No bail for M-F mom:

M-F doesn’t stand for what you think it does. It’s an abbreviation for Milton-Freewater, Oregon. Although after you read this story you might choose the other meaning.

26-year-old Loretta Maxine Polanco, who bears a striking resemblance to Jabba the Hutt, has been indicted on 47 counts as it pertains to the death of her son, 2-year-old Lucas Isaac Polanco.

It’s alleged that Polanco admitted pushing Lucas, out of frustration for crying, which caused him to hit his head on the bottom of a kitchen table. It’s said she also confessed to past abuse of Lucas. When Lucas was taken to the hospital he had a brain injury, a lacerated liver, and a separated shoulder. According to prosecutors in the weeks leading up to his death Polanco stabbed Lucas repeatedly in the back of the head with a the needle from a glucose meter.

Before she allegedly confessed Polanco said that Lucas had a seizure and hit his head on a piano and was bitten by his older brother. That’s so nice that she tried blaming it on one of her other kids.

It’s also alleged that that she delayed getting help for Lucas for two hours before finally calling 911.

If this was truly an accident any decent parent would have either called 911 immediately or rushed their child to the hospital. Waiting for two hours to get help sounds like someone who was trying to get their story straight.

Thanks to Danielle for the tip.

Kids alone for days, parents dead in locked room :

Police in Madras, Oregon discovered the bodies of 26-year-old Hannah Crowe and 21-year-old Julian Wallulatum dead from an apparent murder-suicide. Both were shot and Crowe was said to be the murder victim. The murder-suicide allegedly happened after a domestic dispute. Their 9-month-old daughter was locked in the room with them but was relatively unhurt. Three older children were left outside of the room on their own.

How sad is it when we say after a story like this that at least he didn’t harm the children.

Thanks again to LadyJade for the tip.

Salem Baby Found Dead, Mother Arrested:

Police in Salem, Ore. arrested 19-year-old Carrie E. Noe for allegedly killing her two-month-old son, Ian Noe.

Police have not yet released the cause of death but I wanted to talk about a quote given by an Oregon Police spokesman.

“It’s tragic,” Birr said. “It’s tragic that a 2-month-old boy is dead and it’s tragic that a 19-year-old woman has a life that will never be the same.”

I partially disagree. Of course it’s tragic that a 2-month-old boy never got to really experience life but it’s not tragic that if the charges are true that her life will never be the same. It shouldn’t ever be the same and it should encompass a tiny concrete room with bars.

5 Children Taken From ‘Deplorable’ Home:

Alleged parents Alicia Drury and Vince Davis of Tigard, Oregon have been arrested for having their kids live in deplorable conditions. Five children were removed for health concerns. Their apartment was said to have had mold, dirt, and rotting food among other conditions.

Is it really that hard to keep a home clean enough so the state doesn’t take away your kids?

Julie sends us this story of an Oregon man traveling on vacation with his fiancée and their 4 kids, two of them (12 and 14) riding in the trunk.

Apparently this man was too cheap to rent a larger vehicle or travel in two cars. Both would have been my choice over throwing my kids in the trunk.

I guess the couple thought pulling up to a gas station and letting your two kids out of the trunk wouldn’t look too suspicious. Well, it did…and someone called the cops on them.

By the time the cops caught up with them, the kids had been traveling in the trunk for over 20 miles.

Back in high school I knew some kids that would do this. We knew it was a bad idea back then. If only there was someone with high school level intelligence around to tell them this was a bad idea.

This next story is less in the category of "placing blame", and more in the category of "Public Service Announcement". I was reading CNN.com today, and saw a link to a video clip about Isabelle Norton, a 2-year-old who received an artificial leg after her father, well, sorta kinda destroyed the flesh-and-blood one with a riding mower. I hit Yahoo! News to dig up some more information. I found nothing on Isabelle…but I did find several other cases in which kids were maimed or killed by lawn Zambonis this season. Exhibit A: Erin Shanahan of Hastings, NY ended up in serious condition after running out into the yard while her mom was mowing; her left foot was severed, her right foot broken. Exhibit B: In Veneta, Oregon, 2-year-old Tanner Ewert died after his father ran his over.

Like I said, I’m not chastising parents for accidents. But, fuck, people – that’s at least three mishaps, with the same dangerous device, in less than a month. Let’s all recognize a theme when we see one. Keep your kids inside and supervised when you cut the grass, eh? Any further infractions are PBB Hall of Shame fodder. Consider yourselves warned.

Remember the Nickels? Yeah, I had blotted them out of my subconscious mind as well. They were found guilty of attempting to starve their daughter to death. Well, they were sentenced – and I use the term lightly – yesterday.

“I cannot allow what happened to Kayla to ever happen again if I have the ability to stop it,” Judge Joseph Guimond said – then proceeded to give the Nickels a mere 3 years behind bars. Again, I’m left scratching my head. The good news is that the daughter, Kayla, is doing well. She’s gained more than 60 pounds, has grown 6 inches, and has learned to read and write. See, to cover up their crimes, the parents kept her out of school. And she was forced to drink from the toilet. Oh, and the stepdad once pointed a gun at her head after she tried to sneak a piece of pizza.

3 years.

I think the problem with the justice system is the whole “jury of your peers” concept. Let’s say, for example, that you’re a registered sex offender with a history of drug and alcohol abuse and domestic violence and you’re on trial for murdering your 15-month old son. Who, by the way, died of internal bleeding caused by a cracked skull. You’d better hope that your peers – i.e., drug-abusing wife-beating pedophiles – are jury members, because they’re about the only people in the world fucked up enough to let you walk. Or so one would think.

As for Darrell Parris, he’s become a founding partner of the Simpson, Blake, and Parris Detective Agency, and plans on working tirelessly alongside O.J. and Robert to find his son’s killer. Angela Vaughn, Parris’ mother and the woman quoted as saying “God is bigger than the state of Oregon”, was killed by a lightning strike after exiting the courthouse.

Let’s cut to the chase, folks: Tammy and Chrisopher Nickel should be put to death. They tortured their adopted daughter to the point that she weighed 27 pounds…at ten years old. My kid is 18 months old. He weighs 28 pounds. And no, he is not big for his age.

The Nickels caught me on a Monday; normally, I’d crack wise about what a pair these two make, but my workweek has started and I’m pissy and tired and the first thing I read about this morning is that thanks to Oregon’s hippy-dippy legal codes these two fucks are going to get a maximum – A MAXIMUM – of five years in prison. Yeah, yeah, I know what happens to child abusers in jail, but they’d have done more time if they had been busted for cow-tipping. Ok, I’m exaggerating. But you get my point. Five years. THAT’S the joke, only it ain’t funny.