Dastardly Dads

Once again, we see that for violent fathers, a "custody battle" is not about quality time with the kids. It's about abuse and control. It's about maintaining iron-fisted power over your wife and kids--and if their deaths are deemed necessary or desirable to maintain that control, that' s perfectly okay to these sh**s. Killing the kids is also a very useful tool for hurting Mom in the worse possible way, and these killer dads know that too.

And once again, we see how the protective mother's concerns were ignored by the police and those in authority until it was too late.

The killer dad is identified as ALI AMTIRAT.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4401954,00.html

Father suspected of killing daughters arrested

Over a month after Asinad, 4, Rimas, 2, were murdered, their father was apprehended last week on roof of old structure near Dead Sea

Ilana Curiel

Published: 07.07.13, 19:29 / Israel News

Ali Amtirat, 40, suspected of murdering his daughters, 4-year-old Asinad and 2-year-old Rimas, was arrested last week, more than a month after the murders, it was cleared for publication Sunday.

Following the murder, which took place in May, an officer and the commander of the Arad police were dismissed, after police neglected to look into a complaint filed by the girls' mother a day before the murders.

The father was found in the Dead Sea area, on the roof of an old structure, underfed and wearing the same clothes he had on the day of the murder. Last week, the Beersheba Magistrates Court remanded the father by an additional 10 days.

Ever since the girls' bodies were found in late May at the Bedouin village of Al Furah, near the southern city of Arad, Negev police have tried to trace the father.

Police were concerned that the suspect would flee the country, as he has family in Saudi Arabia, or try to hurt the mother of his daughters, promting them to take her to a safe house shelter.

According to South District Police Chief, Major General Yoram Halevy, before he was caught, the father had been hiding in creeks, tunnels and various hideouts across the Negev. Before managing to detain him, police had apparently closed in on his whereabouts twice, but failed to nab him before he fled.

Halevy said that Amtirat's arrest had ended "a nerve wracking and complex hunt." He described the suspect as "extremely dangerous, taking all precaution and hiding in open areas, caves and creeks."

"The suspect's arrest is not the end of the story," Halevy added, saying that only when the father confesses to the crime will the police chief be able "to look the girls' mother in the eye and tell her we did everything we could so that the monster who executed this horrendous murder goes behind bars for a very long time."

Police also arrested the suspect's brothers, two of whom were indicted for kidnapping the victims. Nonetheless police added they have yet to find all those suspected of assisting the suspect.

According to preliminary investigation, the girls were murdered as a result of a strenuous custody battle.

After the father was arrested, the mother, Abir Dandis, told Ynet: "I just happened to call the police that day and ask about him. I was very to surprised to hear he was arrested."

Despite the negligence with which the mother's complaints were handled by police, she expressed her gratitude to the police "for a job well done in getting him arrested."

She nonetheless added that she was afraid that his family members might still try to harm her. "I'm sure they're not happy to see him arrested," she said. "I don’t know how long I will live in fear.

"I would like very much to see the killer and ask him why he murdered his girls and how he could have done such a thing. I'm sure he would be dismissive, as if he had done nothing, but hopefully he will regret what he he's done," Dandis noted.

"Such a criminal should be jailed for life," she said, rhetorically wondering: "Isn’t he ashamed of himself? He doesn’t deserve to be a father. I'll remain grief-stricken for the rest of my life after losing my two girls."

Defense attorney Tomer Orinov said: "My client denies the allegations. He insists that people who have clashed with his wife in the past are behind the murders. She had been incarcerated in the Palestinian Authority in the past and those who put her in jail are the ones behind his daughters' murders."

When asked why the father had fled if he were innocent, the attorney said the suspect was grieving: "They have a 40 day mourning period; he secluded himself from society." Hassan Shaalan contributed to this report

Custodial father, UNNAMED DAD. The mother is deceased. Given what a "nice guy" the daddy apparently is, can't help but wonder how she died.

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/fiveyear-old-tortured-horrifically-allegedly-by-dad-stepmother/1142608

Five-year old tortured horrifically, allegedly by dad, stepmother

PTI : Idukki, Jul 16 2013, 20:37

IST In a shocking incident, a five-year-old boy has been brutally beaten up and inflicted injuries allegedly by his father and stepmother, who were taken into custody.

The child was admitted to a private hospital at Kattappana near here yesterday with serious injuries.

With the incident coming to his notice, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy asked the district authorities to submit an urgent report on the incident.

Police took into custody the boy's father and stepmother based on details gathered from the private hospital.

The couple had initially said the injuries were the result of a fall, but the doctors who examined the boy ruled that out and informed the police of the incident, police sources said.

Apart from being brutally beaten up causing deep injuries on the head and chin, the child's body was found to have been scoured by nails, police said.

After the death of the child's mother a few years back, his father had married another woman.

Even UNNAMED DAD (the self-confessed child rapist) is "shocked" that he got off after raping his daughter for nearly a decade?

It's shocking, but not suprising. Australia has an extremely militant fathers rights movement that has terrorized judges, family courts, and protective mothers for years. Harrassment, bomb threats, terrorism, targeted assassinations--it's all there. And this kind of kissy-poo judicial response is the logical result.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/rapist-dad-shocked-court-set-him-free/story-fnii5s3z-1226680391816

Rapist dad shocked court set him free

EXCLUSIVE by Janet Fife-Yeomans•

The Daily Telegraph• July 16, 201310:00PM

THE father who raped his daughter and got off with a good behaviour bond has said even he was surprised by the light sentence.

"I expected to go to jail for what I did," the 55-year-old told The Daily Telegraph yesterday.

In his dark suit, white shirt, tie and wearing glasses, he looked like any other business type around the Supreme Court but the man said he was terrified about his identity being revealed.

He cannot be named because it would identify his daughter, now 19, who was only nine years old when he began abusing her. She has been left suicidal, suffers from depression and is back in hospital for urgent medical treatment.

The man said he was shocked at the reaction from a public angry that he got off so lightly.

"Have you heard what they are saying about me on talkback radio?" he said outside court. "I'll have to live with what I did."

Earlier this year he was put on a three-year good behaviour bond on the condition he attend a residential "treatment program" in Sydney's west for men guilty of incest. He pleaded guilty to four representative counts of aggravated sexual assault and one of aggravated indecent assault.

"I was assessed suitable for the program," he said.

He was on a day out from the treatment centre yesterday to represent himself in the Supreme Court, where his daughter has sued him for compensation to pay her continuing medical bills and for punitive damages.

The father told Justice Peter Garling that he was not defending the case and the only question was how much his daughter would be awarded in damages.

Her lawyers sought an interim payment yesterday of $50,000 and the father said that all he had was $25,000, which he had been blocked by the court last week from spending.

"I don't say that ($50,000) is excessive, I just don't have it," the man said.

He told the court that he thought the case had been "unnecessarily complicated" since his daughter engaged lawyers to represent her and he had been trying to negotiate giving her money.

Justice Garling ordered him to pay $25,000 to his daughter pending the final outcome of the case.

His wife, from whom the man says he is estranged, is still blocked from spending any of the $120,000 he gave her as maintenance for their son pending the assessment of what damages the daughter will be awarded at a later date.

The daughter's lawyers have claimed the "separation" is a sham. There are no Family Court orders in place.

The family home was sold last year, eight months after the man was charged, and the mother now lives in a house owned solely by her.

The man has disputed that he is to blame for all of his daughter's physical and mental problems. Those arguments will be heard before a final decision on damages is made.

Outside court, the man would not comment on The Daily Telegraph's campaign for mandatory minimum sentences for all child sex offenders because he did not want to "jeopardise" anything.

The Office of the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions has not yet decided whether to appeal against the sentence.

Yet another case of a "frustrated" dad who was "caretaking" while Mom was at work. Dad JEREMY HETRICK almost killed this baby, who suffered extensive brain bleeding from his own father's assault. In addition, there was evidence of PREVIOUS abuse (healing rib fractures). But this sh** of a father is getting off easy anyway.

http://columbustelegram.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/dad-pleads-to-reduced-charge-in-abuse-of-son/article_379d070b-0c63-548e-9785-6492f3dc0645.html

Dad pleads to reduced charge in abuse of son

COLUMBUS — A Columbus father pleaded no contest Monday to head butting his 4-month-old son multiple times so hard last January that the child stopped breathing and suffered brain and retinal bleeding.

Defendant Jeremy Hetrick, 25, entered his plea to a charge of attempted child abuse after Platte County District Court Judge Robert Steinke told the defendant several times he would not be bound by the terms of a plea deal with the prosecution during sentencing.

"The plea agreement is in no way binding on the court at sentencing,'' Steinke said. "I'm going to do what the court deems fair and reasonable regardless of any plea agreement.

Hetrick was initially charged with child abuse, a Class II felony punishable by a maximum of 50 years imprisonment and a minimum of one year imprisonment. Attempted child abuse is a Class III felony and carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

In exchange for Hetrick's plea to the reduced charge, the Platte County Attorney's Office agreed to recommend probation at sentencing.

Steinke asked County Attorney Carl Hart if the victim of the abuse and his mother were supportive of the terms of the plea agreement.

"The victim (and his mother) are on board with this plea agreement,'' Hart told the judge.

The financial considerations, the defendant's responsibility for ongoing child support and medical insurance for the child, were a motivation for agreeing to the deal, the county attorney said.

Hetrick was charged in connection with a Jan. 22 incident at a 27th Street apartment the defendant shared with the child’s mother.

The boy, who is not being identified to protect his and his mother’s identities, was treated at Columbus Community Hospital before being transferred to Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.

Hart said the child's injuries were consistent with abusive head trauma, resulting in him being placed on a respirator and spending several days in "great distress" at the Omaha hospital before returning home.

Hetrick was home alone the afternoon of the incident caring for his son while the boy’s mother was at work.

Court documents in the case describe an incident in which Columbus Police and rescue personnel responded to a 911 emergency call from Hetrick at 5:24 p.m. Jan. 22 reporting that his son had stopped breathing.

Officer Logan Bronson was among the first to arrive at the scene and performed "chest compressions" to revive the child because he couldn’t feel the victim’s pulse, according to an affidavit filed by Capt. Bret Strecker in the case.

The officer reported the child seemed to be having trouble breathing and gasped for breaths intermittently, Strecker said in his statement. The boy was then taken to the hospital emergency room.

Strecker said hospital medical personnel reported the child suffered “subdural hematomas” in the front and back and on both the right and left sides of his head.

“There was no skull fracture, just bleeding on the brain. He also had bleeding into the whites and retinas of his eyes,’’ Strecker said the emergency room doctor reported.

Strecker said the doctor also reported the child had three healed rib fractures that occurred at least six weeks prior to the Jan. 22 incident.

In a later interview with the defendant, Strecker said Hetrick admitted he lost his patience when his son became fussy that night. The defendant said he “squeezed” the boy between his arm and side to get him to stop fussing, the captain said.

“He (Hetrick) said he became frustrated and then head butted (the boy) ‘very hard,’’’ Strecker said. The defendant said he saw the boy’s head going back and forth from front to back but did not remember shaking him, the captain said.

More daddy coddling at its finest. UNNAMED DAD, despite all the fuss about mental illness, fits the classic mold of a (would-be) revenge killer. He was all pissed that Mummy didn't love his abusive, manipulative @$$ anymore. He slashed his infant son with a butcher knife, then made a Daddy Drama call to the poice saying he wanted the baby to die. Oh, and that Daddy wanted to die too, 'cause he really had the sads. A standoff ensues. Daddy, for all his sads, is shrewd enough to deliberately conceal that the baby is already seriously injured. Denied that the baby needed help. Blocked the police from getting to the baby.

It's a miracle this baby survived.

And yet we're supposed to go easy on this sh** BECAUSE--we're supposed to go easy on sicko daddies! We always do, you know. Check this out from the defense, as to why we have to indulge this dude:

Defence lawyer Alain Hepner had argued that the use of a knife should not elevate his client’s sentence by 1.5 years over a precedent case in which a young father got 3.5 years for immersing his baby daughter’s feet in scalding water.

WELL! We went easy on Boiling Water Daddy, so we need to go easy on Butcher Knive Daddy too! Got it. We need to go easy on all the f***ing creeps. Yup. Got it!

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/calgary/Five+year+sentence+upheld+slashed+baby/8663264/story.html

Five-year sentence upheld for dad who slashed baby

By Daryl Slade, Calgary Herald
July 16, 2013

The province’s top court has upheld a five-year prison sentence handed down to a father last summer for slashing his 11-month-old baby’s stomach and throat in a jealous rage to get back at the child’s mother.

Alberta Court of Appeal justices Jean Cote, Jack Watson and Brian O’Ferrall said in their unanimous written decision released Monday that the trial judge — provincial court Judge Mike Dinkel — had carefully considered 19 factors in arriving at the sentence.

They said the 33-year-old father, who cannot be named to protect the victim’s identity, “committed a cruel aggravated assault on his child.”

“This father intended the harm he caused,” wrote the court. “In one of his calls to 911 he said that the child was almost dead and he wanted them (the baby and him) to die.

“There was a brief standoff with police when they arrived and he deliberately concealed the child’s injuries with pyjamas.”

Court heard the father, originally charged with attempted murder, was looking after the child while the mother, from whom he had separated but had hoped to reconcile, was out with a friend.

“When the mother did not come home that night, the appellant went ballistic, grabbed a butcher’s knife, undid the child’s pyjamas and inflicted an eight-inch laceration to the child’s stomach and a six-inch cut from the front of the child’s throat to behind his head. And for a period of time he essentially left the child to bleed to death,” wrote the appellate court.

“Despite losing about one-quarter of his blood, the child survived, recovered and will be left with only some cosmetic scarring.”

Defence lawyer Alain Hepner had argued that the use of a knife should not elevate his client’s sentence by 1.5 years over a precedent case in which a young father got 3.5 years for immersing his baby daughter’s feet in scalding water.

“I ask that the court reduce the sentence to three and a half or even four years,” Hepner told justices Jack Watson, Jean Cote and Brian O’Ferrall. “He was going through a litany of psychological problems at the time. When police came, he made the comment: please shoot me ... he had cycled downward leading up to that day, losing his wife and his income.”

Crown prosecutor Jolaine Antonio argued for the sentence to be upheld, saying risk of death and full intention were key factors.

“This was about (the offender) wanting the two of them to die together. There was full awareness and likelihood of death ... he thought about it. There were an entire pattern of steps taken. (The offender) denied the child needed help when asked.”

Antonio also noted the man, who came to Canada from Sudan eight years ago, became involved in a standoff at his door when police came, preventing them from gaining access to the child.

Dinkel, in sentencing the man last year, said his remorse did not outweigh the “rage, jealousy and rejection” over his failed relationship with the boy’s mother that was behind the crime.

“I can only conclude the accused chose to act on his jealousy,” said Dinkel. “The accused used the attack on the child to inflict harm on the mother.”

Crown prosecutor Margot Engley had sought a six- to seven-year prison term after the guilty pleas.

Dad is identified as CORY WALLS.

Notice that there is no mention of the baby's mother. Last time we posted on this case, there was no mention of the mother either. Even the obituary didn't list her as a survivor. What the hell is going on here?

http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2013/05/dad-charged-in-death-of-2-month-old-son.html

http://www.nbc12.com/story/22850577/henrico-fath

Henrico father to appear in court for killing his infant son

Posted: Jul 16, 2013 7:18 AM EDT
Updated: Jul 16, 2013 7:18 AM EDT
Posted by NBC12 Newsroom

HENRICO, VA (WWBT) - A Henrico father accused of murdering his three month old son is due in court Tuesday morning.

A status hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. for Cory Walls.

Investigators say Walls brought the baby boy to a hospital in February. That child was transported to VCU Medical Center where doctors say he died from internal injuries.

It took three months for Walls to be arrested as police say they were collecting evidence to bring charges against him.

Notice the subjective headline. Anything Mom says is just what she said. The newspaper can't even be bothered to confirm the veracity of her story. Is the boy gone or what?

Notice that even though Daddy is under investigation for child sexual abuse, he still has his court-ordered custodial "rights."

Mom was "advised" by legal counsel not to let Daddy visit the child, but how can she legally block him? She can't (legally) when the courts are so beholden to the (abuser) fathers rights crowd, who demand that daddies have access No Matter What. This just puts Mom in the position of violating a family court order, which will very likely get her arrested and/or cause her to lose custody. Frankly, I suspect she's being set up.

This is typical of the (deliberately) sloppy way the courts handle these things. Everything caters to Daddy, and nobody else has any rights at all.

http://tahlequahdailypress.com/local/x1724753931/Woman-says-ex-took-son

Woman says ex took son

By SEAN ROWLEY Staff Writer
The Tahlequah Daily Press
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 04:49 PM CDT

TAHLEQUAH — Authorities with the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department are investigating an allegation of child abduction filed by a 28-year-old woman living on North 430 Road.

The woman reported to Sgt. Tommy Moore that her 5-year-old son was taken from her residence by her ex-husband and father of the child.

The boy was in the care of his uncle, who met the suspect in the front yard and gave permission to see the child. The uncle reported he was not informed by the mother that the boy was not to see his father.

The father said the mother had no right to keep him from his son, and left with the boy.

Moore reported that the woman produced court papers outlining weekend custodial arrangements between the parents and naming the mother as the primary custodian, but that the document was not specific about custody on weekdays.

The mother alleged that the father is under investigation by the Department of Human Services in Pawnee County for sexual abuse of the child while in the father’s custody. She said she was advised by legal counsel not to let the child visit the father until the matter is resolved.

The father is a white male, age 37, and a resident of Cleveland, Okla.

So what does the reporter mean when she says that the murdered girl was in the "sole custody" of her father SPENCER LEE JORDAN>

That she was merely in his sole "care" at the time she received her fatal injuries?

Or did this father have court-ordered sole custody of this girl? \

Earlier articles have referred to girl's grieving mother and stepfather, so the "girlfriend" is not the mother. Lest there be some mistake about that.

So what was the custodial arrangement? Why did these apparently violent thugs have access to this child at all? Who gave it to them? If this situation was court-ordered, was there previous evidence of child abuse and/or domestic violence that was ignored or dismissed as unimportant?

http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/father-faces-first-degree-murder-charge-in-death-of-daughter-1.1371117

Father faces first-degree murder charge in death of daughter

Colleen Schmidt, CTV Calgary
Published Wednesday, July 17, 2013 11:57AM MDT
Last Updated Wednesday, July 17, 2013 12:02PM MDT

Charges against a Calgary man and his spouse in connection to the death of six-year-old Meika Jordan have been upgraded to first-degree murder.

Spencer Lee Jordan and Marie Eve Magoon were originally charged with second-degree murder in the death of the little girl almost two years ago.

Police were called to a residence in the 6700 block of Temple Dr. N.E on November 13, 2011 for reports of a child injured in the home. Spencer Jordan and Marie Magoon were arrested in October 2012.

Meika was taken to hospital and died from her injuries the next day.

An autopsy confirmed that she died from multiple blunt-force trauma and investigators say she was in the sole custody of Jordan and Magoon at the time of her injuries.

The Crown upgraded the charges against the pair during a brief court appearance on Wednesday.

The upgraded charges carry the same life sentence but the time spent behind bars increases from a minimum of ten years to an automatic 25 years.

Jordan and Magoon were arrested in October 2012 and remain in custody.

The newest family annihilator: PATRICK GLEASON.

And once again, everybody asks "why" when the clues in these cases nearly always point to the same conclusion: Daddy losing control over "his" family. The fact that the police (supposedly) have no records on this guy means nothing. MOST DV victims do not call the police. Especially middle class professionals.

http://www.wwmt.com/shared/news/features/top-stories/stories/wwmt_new-developments-kalamazoo-double-murdersuicide-11874.shtml

New developments in Kalamazoo double murder-suicide

Updated: Wednesday, July 17 2013, 12:29 AM EDT

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - New developments are coming out Tuesday night in the case of a double murder suicide in Kalamazoo discovered Monday night.

Police say 41-year-old Patrick Gleason murdered his wife Lisa Herrera, and their infant son, before killing himself at the home off Miller Road.

Autopsies are underway, and police hope the results will shed some light on the tragedy.

Newschannel 3 also learned Tuesday night that Herrera did some work as a speech language pathologist for the Lakeview School District in Calhoun County, and also worked as an employee of the Calhoun Intermediate School District.

Herrera's father told Newschannel 3 he's not yet ready to do an on-camera interview, but says he and his wife are beyond distraught, and that they have not even begun to digest what has happened to their precious daughter and grandson whom they loved so much.

The question that still hangs over the house and the street is why.

Why would Gleason kill his wife Lisa, and their 17-month-old son, and then kill himself?

Neighbors told Newschannel 3 it's all they can think about Tuesday night.

Police are not saying how the family was killed, but neighbors say they may know after police interviewed with them, as among other things, they asked about gunshots.

Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Assistant Chief Brian Uridge says they are still looking for a motive, as the couple, who married in 2010, had no record of problems.

Gleason had no criminal record in Michigan, but we did find some peculiar posts on his Facebook page, including one from two months ago, which may have signaled that the relationship was failing.

Investigators say that short, cryptic note is about the only warning sign they know of at this juncture.

"At this point, any piece of information can get to help paint the picture to what led up to this horrific event helps," Uridge said.

"That's going to come from physical evidence, going to come from family and histories and social media, all of those provide a part to providing closure."

Closure for the neighborhood and for the families will not be swift.

Herrera's father says right now, all he can focus on is his lost daughter and grandson, but added that he has been so appreciative of the outpouring of support and prayers from the community during this difficult time.

We've reported on dad JEREMY CRAMER before.

http://www.kxlh.com/news/new-details-in-murder-of-child-near-anaconda-by-his-father/

New details in murder of child near Anaconda by his father

Posted: Jul 20, 2013 11:58 AM

by Dennis Carlson
Updated: Jul 20, 2013 11:58 AM

New details in murder of child near Anaconda by his father

ANACONDA - Jeremy Cramer has been formally charged with deliberate homicide in the death of his three-year-old son.

The court papers, which reveal new details of the alleged crime, were filed in District Court on Friday, including statements from Cramer about the death of his son Broderick.

Brody was reportedly taken from his family's home in Lacey, Washington, on July 8th by his father, reportedly triggered by a domestic dispute with the boy's mother.

The boy's mother, Natalie, then tried calling Jeremy more than 50 times, but he didn't answer and didn't return her text messages. She checked their bank account, and saw he had filled up his truck in Moses Lake.

Lacey police issued a bulletin to law enforcement to look for the vehicle in order to conduct a welfare check on Cramer and his son.

That night, Anaconda-Deer Lodge police officers were called to a convenience store at around 10:30 p.m. after a clerk reportedly saw a man trying to wash blood off his body and clothes in the restroom.

The man, later identified as Jeremy Cramer, was then taken into custody on a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct.

Police found Cramer's vehicle five miles southeast of town on Montana Secondary Highway 569, but the child was not found at the time.

At daybreak on Tuesday, authorities began searching again and found the boy's body off of Mill Creek Road about five miles southeast of Anaconda.

At one point Cramer made a phone call from jail to his father which was recorded.

In the call his father questioned him repeatedly about Brody:

Father: Maybe he's still alive.

Jeremy Cramer: Dad, Brody's dead.

Father: Are you sure?

Jeremy Cramer: My son is dead, 100 percent, my son is dead, yes I did it, something did it of me, but I didn't do it.

Cramer also is said to have told law officers after that phone call: "I just want to relay to somebody a 4-year-old kid got carved up..."

On the morning of July 9th, officers recovered Brody's body on the west side of the Mill Creek Highway.

At the scene, investigators found a fixed blade knife and a large rock with blood and hair evidence on it.
The Montana State Crime Lab determined that Brody's cause of death was "homicidal violence with blunt force and sharp force trauma."

Court documents state that Cramer is a previous methamphetamine user.

An empty prescription container for amphetamine salts, a generic substitute for Adderall, was found in Cramer's possession.

Cramer is scheduled to appear in District Court at the end of the month.

Oh yea, and dad SEAN ERIC CASTEEL is also charged with assaulting his wife (the baby's mother) and his own mother. All capped off with a police standoff. Daddy Drama crap to the max.

Just goes to show that a violent sh** is a violent sh**. If he's a danger to Mom or other adults, he's a danger to the children.

http://www.mysouthwestga.com/sports/story.aspx?id=924017#.UetCpdKUSYU

29-day-old baby rescued from father

by Matt Prichard
Posted: 07.20.2013 at 1:30 PM

COLQUITT COUNTY, GA -- A man accused of assaulting his wife, mother and young child on Tuesday has been charged with multiple felonies.

The Moultrie Observer reports that, 29-year-old Sean Eric Casteel has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault, two counts of terroristic threats and kidnapping.

Officials with the Colquitt County Sheriff's Office reportedly took Casteel down with a taser after a nighttime standoff earlier this week, and witnesses on the scene say that Casteel was wielding a knife, threatening to stab his wife and mother.

After releasing the two women, Casteel than held onto his 29-day-old baby and refused to give up the child, until three officers were able to get him to the ground and retrieve the infant.

Investigators with the Colquitt County Sheriff's Office are still investigating this case, and Casteel is currently booked in the Colquitt County Jail.

The rapist daddy is identified as ROBERT MICHAEL AREAGA. Notice that the girl finally told a school counselor about the abuse, and that there is NO MENTION of a mother in this home. Was there one? Or is this a single father?

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/state&id=9179689

Father in Burnet County, Texas, gets 23 life terms for molesting daughter

Saturday, July 20, 2013

BURNET, TX -- A Texas Hill Country jury that convicted a man of multiple counts of sexual assault of a child and possession of child pornography has given him 23 life prison terms.

State District Court Judge Dan Mills then stacked the sentences Thursday, meaning Robert Michael Areaga won't ever get out of prison.

Prosecutors showed Arteaga started molesting his daughter at age 4. When she was 15, she told a school counselor.

The now 16-year-old testified at the Burnet County trial.

Assistant District Attorney Stacy Street tells the Austin American-Statesman the girl's childhood was stolen by the man who was supposed to protect her and the victim would spend the rest of her life trying to overcome what had happened to her.

The custodial dad is identified as MATTHEW THEURER.

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/20/5582123/court-martial-set-for-nc-airman.html

Court-martial set for NC airman in son's death

The Associated Press
Published: Saturday, Jul. 20, 2013 - 11:22 am

GOLDSBORO, N.C. -- A trial date has been set for a senior airman at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base charged in his 15-month-old son's death.

A court-martial for 21-year-old Matthew Theurer is scheduled to start Oct. 15 at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.

Theurer faces charges including voluntary manslaughter, negligent homicide and murder. The body of his son, also named Matthew, was found in March in a plastic bag along a Columbus County road.

An autopsy report released last month showed the boy died of malnourishment and neglect.

Authorities say the boy had recently come to live with his father and was often left alone for 12 hours a day while his father worked.

The alleged killer dad is identified as ANGEL VILLEGAS. No mention of a mother in the home. Was there one?

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/Father-Charged-After-Throwing-2-Year-Old-Son-Leaving-Him-Brain-Dead-Cops-216288581.html

Father Charged After Throwing 2-Year-Old Son, Leaving Him Brain Dead: Cops

Angel Luis Villegas faces second-degree murder charges for throwing his son against a wall, leaving him brain dead.

Saturday, Jul 20, 2013 | Updated 3:54 PM EDTView

Angel Villegas, a father of nine, faces possible second-degree murder charges for throwing his youngest against a wall and rendering him brain dead, officials said.

A father of nine faces second-degree murder charges for throwing his youngest against a wall and rendering him brain dead, officials said.

Angel Luis Villegas, 29, was frustrated with his two-year-old son who had been battling a cold for several days and vomiting after every meal, according to Miami-Dade Police.

On Tuesday, the family ate dinner which resulted in the child vomiting again, officials said.

Villegas became irate and forcefully threw his son on a bed, causing the child to hit his head against a wall, police said. Villegas did not discover his son unresponsive until the following day when he found him still on the bed, authorities said.

The child was taken to the hospital where he was declared brain dead, according to police.

Jail records show Villegas is being held on $110,000 bond for child abuse and attempted murder charges as he awaits trial.

Dad is identified SUBRAMANIAN NAMBOODIRI.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/dad-step-mother-charged-for-death-of-girl-113072000243_1.html

Press Trust of India | Kozhikode July 20, 2013 Last Updated at 13:05 IST

Dad, step-mother charged for death of girl

The charge sheet filed in the 'Adeethi murder case' in a local court has revealed that continuous torture by her father and step-mother led to the death of the six-year-old girl.

Besides beating up the child, they often denied food to her as the post-mortem report showed that starvation was one of the reasons for the death.

The charge sheet filed by police on Friday arraigned Adeethi's father Subramanian Namboodiri and his (second) wife Devika alias Ramla Beegum as the first and second accused.

Based on accounts of witnesses, including neighbours, they have been charged under IPC sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) and 324 (voluntarily causing hurt) and relevant sections of the Juvenile Justice Act.

Severe brutality the girl suffered from her father and step-mother came to light when she was admitted to a hospital in a critical condition with serious burns in April last.

The couple then claimed that the child had fallen into a hot water tub but the doctors, who examined her, refused to buy that theory and immediately informed police.

A few days later she succumbed to injuries and the post-mortem report revealed that the death was due to continuous physical torture and starvation.

The police investigation that followed revealed shocking details of how the hapless child was subjected to inhuman treatment and physical torture by her father and step-mother.

The two are in judicial remand after their arrest.

A temple priest, Namboodiri had moved to Bilathikkulam area in the city about a year ago after taking up the priest's job in a nearby temple. He married Devika after Adeethi's mother died in a road accident a few years ago.

The case is one among recent ones on child torture reported in Kerala. In a similar case, a five-year-old boy is battling for life in a hospital in Idukki after he was tortured brutally by his father and step-mother.

Dad is identified as TYSON J. ROMANESCHI.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/jul/19/jury-father-broke-baby-daughters-bones/

July 19, 2013

Jury: Father broke baby daughter’s bones
Thomas Clouse
The Spokesman-Review

Presented with two possible explanations for how a Spokane infant suffered up to 20 fractures, a jury decided Friday that the father’s abuse was to blame.

After deliberating for parts of two days following a two-week trial, the jury convicted 26-year-old Tyson J. Romaneschi of first-degree assault of a child and two misdemeanor counts of violating a protection order. The jury failed to reach a unanimous decision on a fourth charge alleging that Romaneschi had asked the infant’s mother to change her testimony.

“We are disappointed,” defense attorney Donald Richter said after the decision. “We respect the jury’s verdict, but we disagree.”

The defense had argued that the 2-month-old baby had weak bones because of a misdiagnosed medical condition.

Deputy Spokane County Prosecutor Kelly Fitzgerald, who stood in for the verdict for colleague Eugene Cruz, said her office would be seeking an exceptional sentence for Romaneschi, who faces between eight and 10 years in prison at his sentencing Sept. 13.

Fitzgerald also asked Superior Court Judge Maryann Moreno to hold Romaneschi in jail pending sentencing. However, Moreno allowed Romaneschi to remain free on his existing $100,000 bond.

The case began in February 2012 when the girl’s mother, Shayna Tipton, took infant daughter Ellyana to a doctor because of a fever. The baby had a urinary tract infection, was rushed to a hospital and was given an X-ray, which revealed her broken ribs.

Doctors ordered more X-rays that revealed up to 20 broken bones in various stages of healing in the baby’s ribs, arm and leg, Cruz said in opening statements.

Tipton, who had been living with Romaneschi, said she told investigators she had no idea how her daughter sustained the injuries. But she told police and testified during the trial that she remembers her daughter crying every time Romaneschi tried to hold her.

Romaneschi told police essentially the same thing during an interview with Detectives Neil Gallion and Jan Pogachar. Romaneschi said he didn’t intentionally hurt his child but that he squeezed her to make her cry and that he has frustration problems.

Detectives noted that Romaneschi grew angry during the interview “and that we had to calm him down several times,” according to court records.

But Richter, the defense attorney, brought in a medical expert who testified that Ellyana suffered a classic case of rickets, caused by a vitamin D deficiency, which can cause infant bones to fracture during birth and could have explained their various stages of healing.

Richter told the jury he didn’t blame Spokane police detectives for seeking to protect the child from what appeared to be “horrific child abuse. But no one ever saw Tyson assault his daughter,” Richter said.

Cruz told the jury during closing arguments on Wednesday that Romaneschi had limited parenting skills and he learned the only way he could get his infant daughter to sleep was by squeezing her until she cried.

“She would cry herself to sleep faster than holding her … or cuddling her. That was just too much parenting for him,” Cruz said during closing arguments. “Others said she seemed to be a good child, except for when he was in the hands of her father.

“You hold him accountable for those crimes,” Cruz asked the jury.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Dad-arrested-after-4-month-old-son-found-with-broken-bones-216219491.html

Dad arrested after 4-month-old son found with broken bones
By KOMO Staff Published: Jul 19, 2013 at 2:57 PM PDT

MARYSVILLE, Wash. - A 26-year-old Marysville man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of assaulting a child after his 4-month-old son was found to have a broken arm and fractures to both legs.
The injuries were discovered when the little boy's mother took him to the hospital for an examination.
The mother said she noticed that the baby's arm was red, swollen and limp and that he let out a "blood-curdling scream" when she touched it after the boy's father had been taking care of him.

The examining doctor told police that the baby's broken arm was broken in two places between the elbow and shoulder and "most likely was caused by a forceful bending motion," according to court documents.

The leg fractures were "caused by twisting and turning commonly found in child abuse," the doctor told investigators. The doctor also said the fractures were "not consistent with normal playful activities," court documents say.

The suspect, identified as Robert Okerstrom, 26, was questioned by police about the boy's injuries.

He initially said he may have accidentally hurt the boy when he took him from his car seat and admitted that he heard the little boy's arm "pop." He also said he may have accidentally squeezed the little boy too hard while feeding him his bottle.

Under continued questioning, Okerstrom finally admitted he had broken the baby's arm in a "fit of rage" by bending his arm behind his back while removing him from a car seat, according to court documents.

Okerstrom also admitted he was most likely responsible for the fractures in the baby's legs, but downplayed the cause, saying he was only playing with the boy, court documents say.

Okerstrom was then booked into Snohomish County Jail for investigation of three counts of second-degree child assault.

Is UNNAMED DAD a single father? Notice that while there is mention of DHS involvement, there is no mention of a mother in the home or anywhere else. What happened to this boy's mom?

Also notice that this abusive father still had unrestricted weekend visitation. Typical father fawning.

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2013/07/20/369640_news.html

Dad whipped son with electrical cord

Anthea Cannon | July 20th, 2013

A HAMLYN Heights father crossed the line when he whipped his son with an electrical cord and smacked him, a Geelong magistrate has ruled.

The father of two pleaded guilty to assault charges yesterday after his son reported three incidents to police and was placed in Department of Human Services' care.

Police Prosecutor Leading Senior Constable Geoff Lamb said between March 11 and 16 this year, the two argued and the father used the cord of a CD player to whip the boy's forearm, smacked him twice on his bottom and grabbed him by his shirt and threw him against a wall.

Sen-Constable Lamb said the father told police he had been "kicking himself" about the incidents and did not realise his own strength.

Eleven photos of the boy's welts and bruising were presented in court.

Defence lawyer Domenic Care said his client cried after one of the incidents and knew it was no way to treat a child.

Mr Care told the court the boy had Attention Deficit Disorder and had been in trouble at school when the father sat down to speak to him about it.

He said despite being in DHS care, the son was allowed overnight and weekend stays and wanted to come home permanently.

"My client is otherwise of exceptional character," Mr Care said.

Magistrate Stephen Myall requested the DHS hearing orders which will see the father's parenting "tested and assessed" for the next 26 weeks, working towards reunification.

"These are difficult cases and important prosecutions," he said. "Parents are required to do no more than lawfully correct. You were taking steps to correct (behaviour) but they were not responsible and not moderate.

"I do accept you are remorseful and (it has been) a traumatic and difficult experience. You brought the matter to police attention because (your son) left home."

Mr Myall said he gave "anxious consideration" to whether to impose a conviction, which would jeopardise the father's job, but because of the DHS plan, the guilty plea and remorse he did not.

The father was ordered to pay $2000 to the court fund and placed on a good behaviour bond for two years.

Kerala man accused of breaking daughter’s arm

Dad is identified as VIJAYAN. Of course he has a history of domestic violence as well.

Tortured boy remains in critical condition

By Akhel Mathew, Correspondent
Published: 16:56 July 19, 2013 Gulf News

Thiruvananthapuram: As Kerala waits for news of the condition of a five-year-old boy in a coma in Idukki district after being tortured by his father and stepmother, another child abuse case has surfaced in the state capital.

In the latest incident, a man in Nedumangad in the outskirts of the capital city is accused of beating his daughter in a drunken rage and breaking her arm.

The child has been admitted to the taluk hospital and the man, identified as Vijayan, was arrested by police. Reports indicate Vijayan had constantly threatened his wife and daughter. The child had complained of pain in her hand after the father’s assault and the woman and child had secretly managed to reach the hospital, where the fracture was diagnosed.

The tortured boy, who is on ventilator support in Kumily, is showing some signs of improvement, doctors said, though his condition remains critical.

Poor daddy ROBERT SCHMIDT was "frustrated" because "his girlfriend" (the baby's mother?) had to leave for work and left him alone to take care of the baby.

http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/father-charged-with-abuse-of-newborn-girl/article_cfa19786-f019-11e2-9cd7-0019bb2963f4.html

Father charged with abuse of newborn girl

July 19, 2013 12:00 am • By ANNE JUNGEN

A Coon Valley man arrested for fracturing his newborn daughter’s skull was charged Thursday with felony child abuse.

Robert Schmidt, 21, admitted elbowing the fussing 8-week-old child Sunday in frustration, according to court records.

Prosecutors charged Schmidt in La Crosse County Circuit Court with physical abuse of a child, obstructing officers and two counts of misdemeanor bail jumping.

He returns to court Thursday for a preliminary hearing.

Authorities began investigating after the infant was brought to an emergency room Sunday morning with a fractured skull and bleeding brain.

Schmidt gave authorities different accounts how the infant was injured, saying she rolled over in her bassinet, hit her head on a table and struck a dog bone, according to police reports.

He later admitted striking her with his elbow when he rolled over to check on her when she cried. He said repeatedly it was an accident inflicted because he was upset his girlfriend left for work while the baby was still fussing, the report stated.

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