Parents Behaving Badly

Police: Texas woman admitted killing 2 young sons:

22-year-old Elyse Marsyl Colon of San Antonio, Texas was arrested for stabbing her two children, 3-year-old Jose Luis Garcia and 1-year-old Guillermo Garcia, to death.

Reports say that when police arrived at the house that Colon calmly held out her wrists and said “I killed my babies.”

What she did not do calmly was swear at reporters as she was being led to arraignment. Hey, if you don’t want the press leering at you DON’T BUTCHER YOUR CHILDREN!

Not to mention this also took place a short distance from where Otty Sanchez decapitated her own son.

I’m sure we’ll hear about how much a ‘victim’ that Colon is. You would think that since4 his is Texas they would throw the book at her. all I have to say to that is Andrea Yates.

More details: CPS visited the day before the murders and had been since 2006 when Colon was accused of taking drugs while pregnant with Jose Luis.

Reports also say she may have been battered. I’m sure someione will try to use that as an excuse however I don’t see how that’s supposed to make it all right to kill your children.

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.

I cannot find a picture nor the identity of the scum bag that did this, but a 23 year-old man is in custody after stabbing his 8 month-old near the eye.  The child remains in critical condition.

It appears that a verbal altercation inside the woman’s home started around 4 p.m. and escalated when the man swung a metal object at the 29-year-old woman, who was holding her baby.

Police wouldn’t say what the object was, only that it was metal, sharp and not something normally used as a weapon.

The couple emerged from the home and continued fighting over the child and by that time it appears neighbours had called 911.

A neighbor reported seeing a great amount of blood as she watched paramedics working on the child behind yellow police tape.

Apprently the couple’s marriage common-law and are the baby’s biological parents; there is a history of domestic violence. The father is charged with violating two court orders — one that he not have contact with the child’s mother and another barring him from the home.

Police also saw both parents appeared to have been drinking Saturday afternoon.

It’s been just less than three weeks since a 14-month-old baby was beaten in Gilbert Park, her little head knocked on the sidewalk.

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Thanks Aleks for the tip!

Thanks Stacey for the tip on this updated information!

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It seems Thuy Le was staying over night at her cousin’s house with her 3 and 5 year old daughters.  The cousin reports he knew Thuy Le was distraught over money issues after having to sell her failing massage therapy business, but never imagined she would harm her children.

He and his wife were awakened at 6:30 am to screaming.  He discovered his 5 year old niece bloody and screaming and when he asked her why she could not speak.  His frantic wife called 911.  The crazed mother of the two was clutching the 3 year old and both she and the girl were covered in blood.  She had taken a knife from the kitchen drawer and stabbed both daughters and herself in a botched murder suicide attempt.

The 5 year old is in a medically induced coma; the mother and 3 year old have been treated and did not sustain life threatening injuries.

Thuy Le will be taken into custody when she is released from medical care.

How does one drive the crazy train this far?

LA, Orange County and Thousand Oaks are each investigating children being stabbed by a parent.

1) A 12 year old boy and his 7 year old sister were found stabbed to death in their Thousand Oaks, CA home. It is believed to be a murder suicide.  Their father was found dead with them.

2) Orange County a mother is discovered in the act of stabbing her two daughters in a murder suicide attempt.  The 5 year old is in a medically induced coma.  The mother and the 3 year old did not sustain life threatening injuries.

3) LA Mom kills two of her three daughters but botches her suicide attempt; as reported in my last post.

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Have you read this story?  This women stabbed two of her three daughters to death!  She stabbed herself as well, but not to death.

The girls were 11 and 16 (reported as 12 and 17 in several articles).  There is a 14 year old that was not home at the time of the incident.  She is now in protective custody.

She plead not guilty?!?  Her brother alleges mental health issues run in this family and that his sister has previously been hospitalized for said issues; he also stated that she was having financial probelms.

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Baby Stabbed in Biscuit Brawl:

Infant cut in men’s battle over biscuits in Dallas:

I think this is the first instance since I’ve been writing for PBB that we’ve had a story on a great-grandBreeder.

52-year-old Walter Reed Booker of Dallas, Texas got so irate at his grandson, Tory Kirk, because he thought Kirk ate the last of the sausage biscuits that he brandished a butcher knife at him. In the ensuing scuffle Kirk’s 6-moth-old daughter received a cut on her arm. Luckily it was a minor injury.

You know I frequently enjoy a sausage biscuit from my nearby Bojangle’s (it’s a Carolinas thing) but never have I wanted to stab somebody over them.

Somebody obviously needs less biscuits and more Prozac.

Thanks to Krissy for the tip.

Quincy mother accused of killing unborn child and daughter, 9:

Report: MA woman tried before to kill unborn child:

38-year-old Fang Chi-Xue of Quincy, Mass. went beserk in her own home amd stabbed her own 9-year-old daughter to death before turning the knife on herself and stabbing herself in the abdomen which led to the death of her unborn child. Chi-Xue was 7 1/2 months pregnant. She also tried to strangle her 14-year-old daughter to death.

The reason? She believed her husband fathered a child with a mistress and was going to leave her and take the kids. According to police she tried killing her unborn child previously by drinking poison.

Even if her husband was a cheating bastard wouldn’t you rather have your kids alive and living with their father than being dead? Maybe that’s just me.

Chi-Xue was discovered by her husband bleeding on the floor with cuts to her wrists. I bet you any amount of money she went across the street and not down the road if you know what I mean.

Thanks to Lori for the tip.

Montague mother accused of trying to kill girl with scissors:

38-year-old Susan R. Johnson of Montague, Mass. is being held after she not only allegedly stabbed her two-year-old daughter with scissors but strangled her with an electrical cord too.

A security guard at the Gardner, Mass. apartment complex caught Johnson stabbing the child in the complex’s laundry room. After the guard got the scissors away from her she grabbed the cord from the dryer and began choking the child.

After the guard and other residents freed the child and subdued Johnson she was heard to have screamed such things as “I’ve got to kill you” and “Die! Die! Die!”

Her lawyer claims she suffers from depression and was off her meds. He also delivered this quote…

“Obviously she has some health issues.”

Ya think?

Luckily the child survived and is now in the custody of DCF.

Thanks to Lindsey for the tip.

Que. woman charged with murder in children’s deaths:

36-year-old Cathy Gauthier-Lachance of the Saguenay region Quebec was arrested in connection with the deaths of her 3 children and her husband. There has been no motive for the killings but both parents had recently lost their jobs. It’s alleged that this was supposed to have been a murder and suicide pact between Gauthier-Lachance and her husband 46-year-old Marc Laliberte.

The RCMP have said that the children, 12-year old Joelle, 7-year old Marc-Ange and 4-year old Louis-Philippe, died from either suffocation or poisoning. Both Laliberte and Gauthier-Lachance had stab wounds.

I still don’t get why when people are having financial difficulties they feel the need to punish their children for their own failures. If you want to kill yourselves go alone. Let the kids have a fighting chance at least.

Thanks to Anne for the tip.

Woman who stabbed newborn to death found guilty, sentenced to life:

When Nicole Beercroft was 17 she hid her pregnancy from everybody. She secretly gave birth to a baby girl at her mother’s house. Rather than going to a safe haven she plunged a knife into the newborn one hundred-thirty times. Then she threw the baby’s body into a dumpster.

This week Beercroft was sentenced to life in prison for the murder. Her defense attorney tried to argue that the baby was stillborn. I guess somehow that’s supposed to make it better.

Prosecuting attorneys say that Beercroft was well aware of Minnesota’s safe haven law.

How much hate can one 17-year-old girl have to stab a newborn baby over 100 times?

In jailhouse confession, father admits to killing son:

In an interview with the Boston Globe. Ernesto Gonzalez confessed to stabbing his son to death and dismembering the body in the bathtub of his Lynn apartment.

Police are skeptical about the confession because the blood found in Ernesto Gonzalez’s apartment was not Giovanni’s.

Police are still optimistic that Giovanni is alive.

Thank you Karen for pointing that out to me.

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53-year old grandmother Carol Lynn Pappas was found not guilty on friday by reason of insanity.

In her sons home, after fatally stabbing her 21-month old granddaughter (Madison Pappas), she called 911 and told police, “I flipped … the baby was crying and I couldn’t handle it.”

Police arrived to find Carol Lynn Pappas, still covered in blood, and 8-inch knife along side of Madison Pappas who had been stabbed multiple times.

Authorites say Pappas told her son she had been receiveing “spiritual advice” from geese flying overhead. Pappas had also been in and out of hospitals for psychiatric care six times, in the same year, before the slaying.

Looking back, I believe this would have been a big clue not to leave “crazy mom” alone with your child.

This story made me think about ex-spouses, and the decisions we make in life that we later come to regret. It also made me think about all that claptrap that conservatives spew about the sanctity of marriage. Yes, marriages should be given all that we have to give; we shouldn’t flake out on our unions unless we’re convinced that we’ve made a major mistake. If you run from a marriage where half of the issues were of your own creation, you’re only going to re-create that drama in your next relationship.

But some relationships are mistakes, and it’s the moral duty of one or both parties to run screaming from them. Rachel Jones of England knew that her relationship with Algerian-born Mokhtar Tamar was a mistake. But they’d had a child together, so what was she supposed to do? When she showed up one day to hand Tamar his 15-month-old son, though, she could tell something was amiss. He’d been drinking, and his behavior was “strange”.

When she tried to take the child away, Tamar grabbed a hammer and chased her off the property. What happened next was horrific. Police witnessed only the aftermath: Nathan Tamar stabbed to death on a bed, and his father bleeding to death from self-inflicted stab wounds to the heart. Medical examiners could tell that the 15-month-old had tried to defend himself with his hands, showing that this little guy had more sense and rationality in him than his daddy did.

Quite a telling way to commit suicide, no? Tamar probably believed he was inflicting the same pain upon his physical heart that the world had inflicted upon hs emotional one. Or perhaps this was a final act of regret – a way of punishing himself for the evil he had unleashed. Knowing these parents like I do, it’s more likely that Tamar’s suicide was a final “fuck you” to a world he despised. We’ll never know for sure. All we know is that the world will never again enjoy Nathan’s smile…and we don’t even get the satisfaction of punishing his murderer.

Be with God, Nathan. Mokhtar, say “howdy” to The Prince of Darkness for us.

You know it’s going to be a sad day when you see the words “birthday party” and “melee” in the same sentence. Seems things got a bit rowdy at a one-year-old’s Happy B-Day celebration in East Hartford, Connecticut. Then a neighbor from an apartment below went upstairs to complain about the noise – and that’s when things got real interesting. By the time the dust had settled, six people had been stabbed. The “melee” was so fierce, police ran out of restraining devices.

What’s most fascinating about this story is that there is no indication of who the parents are, where they were at the time, and how involved they were in everything spiraling out of control. At the very least, mom and dad could stand to keep better company. (Understatement of the Year 2005 Award Recipient!)

You know what I have to remember my 1st? A picture of me in my high chair, covered in cake. What’s this poor kid going to have? A nice set of mug shots. Happy fucking birthday, baby. Let’s hope your 2nd is spent in better company than the 1st.

(Hat tip to Liz Brunson)