Parents Behaving Badly

Child burned in bizarre ‘redneck flamethrower’ incident:

29-year-old Jonathon Michael Miller was watching his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son while she was ‘away’. Miller and his cohort, 32-year-old Stephen Ray Dilley II, thought it would be funny if they scared the boy with an aerosol can and a Bic lighter. They allegedly called the boy out on to the porch and when the boy got to the door they unleashed a fireball from the spray can. The boy’s head caught on fire burning the left side of his face, nose, eyelid and ear.

That happened on a Friday. The boy didn’t receive medical treatment until the following Monday when we went to school.

Check out the excuses that Miller gave police…

According to a troopers’ affidavit filed in court, Miller told investigators he’s been trying to toughen the boy up and the best way to do it is to “scare the s–t out of them when they don’t see it coming.”

Asked why the child had not gotten treatment, Miller told investigators, “Why go make bills for yourself over little things,” according to the affidavit.

It gets better. The mother has another child with Dilley and has a restraining order against him yet he was living in a ‘motor home’ on the property.

The mother came home Sunday night and when learning about the boy’s injuries she tried overdosing on some psych meds. So she didn’t seek treatment for the boy either it seems. No word on where she was ‘away’ at either.

Thanks to Lori for the tip.

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.

Prosecutors: Queens mom Marie Lauradin performed voodoo fire ritual that left daughter, 6, scarred:

29-year-old Marie Lauradin and 70-year-old Sylvenie Thessier of Queens, New York have been arrested for setting Lauradin’s daughter in fire with rum during a voodoo ritual. The ritual was supposed to drive the evil spirits out of 6-year-old Frantzcia Saintil.

If that wasn’t bad enough they gave the girl a bath which must have caused her even more pain and then they waited a day before taking the girl to a hospital.

Lauradin at first claimed that she didn’t even know her daughter had burns until they got to the hospital. She also tried claiming that the girl was scalded in an accident. Again, the hospital knows more than you. Also Frantzcia ratted out her mother and grandmother herself.

Mom is looking at 25 years, grandma is looking at 7.

Thanks to Layla and Krissy for the tip.

Woman Who Set Her 5 Kids on Fire Sentenced to 85 Years:

Some of you may remember the case of Maria Joseph, aka Maria Joseph Gardner. Back in February of ‘08 my predecessor here at PBB wrote about how Joseph was arrested for setting fire to her five children. Four survived but her 16-month-old did not.

On Friday she was sentenced to 85 years behind bars, the maximum sentence under her plea agreement. She pleaded guilty to felony one child abuse causing death and four charges of child abuse causing serious bodily injury and prosecutors agreed to drop murder charges.

Outside of the death penalty I think 85 years is a fitting sentence. I just hope that she lives all 85 years knowing what she did.

Thanks to LadyJade for the tip.