Matthew Higa Is A Terrible Babysitter
January 18, 2008 by Morbid
Honolulu - Matthew Higa, 23, was arrested for the murder of an infant just shy of being 2-years-old. WitnessesWitnesses reviews
watched Higa, dressed in hospital scrubs, sling the boy by one arm over a pedestrian overpass to the busy freeway 30 feet below.
“I saw the baby high in the air. I thought it was a doll at first,” a man said. The man held the child in one arm and “tossed it into the air,” he said.
The boy was hit by one or more cars before ending up in the westbound lanes just blocks from the Capitol and the governor’s mansion.
Higa was apprehended close by wearing hospital scrubs, the pants cut like shorts. He is currently at te Honolulu Police cell block. Honolulu Police say they have located the mother of a toddler and that she was an acquaintance of Higa’s and that he occasionally babysat the boy.
Oh, Higa screamed “Thank you for everything” to television crews as he was escorted to a cell block. While in a police car, he rocked back and forth in the back seat.
10:53 am on January 18th, 2008
Horrifying…
10:53 am on January 18th, 2008
this nut is in need of some SERIOUS meds.
10:58 am on January 18th, 2008
Man, I saw this on msnbc, and they didnt know whose child it was yet. I was thinking if it is someone elses, they will be horrified. Damn it, when will people stop leaving their small children with “acquaintances”. I know I probably misspelled that, but you guys know what I mean. Am I the only one who finds these mothers partly responsible for leaving their kids with these psychos?
11:02 am on January 18th, 2008
Your spelling is fine, and no you aren’t the only one. Holy cats, people. If your babysitter is high or insane or leering at your child or gets mad and throws things, get a new freakin’ babysitter. And “occasional booty call” does not equal “appropriate caregiver for infant”.
11:03 am on January 18th, 2008
You got it. I, on the other hand, raped it. But it was on purpose…’cause I never misspell anything.
11:18 am on January 18th, 2008
OMFG is about all I can say on this one. I am horrified for the baby, the mother, and the poor bastards driving the cars that hit the child. I would need some serious therapy if I’m cruising on the interstate and a baby falls from the sky.
11:45 am on January 18th, 2008
Oh my god! What a fucking asshole.
I am speachless. Sorry for the foul language folks.
11:48 am on January 18th, 2008
No problem, really. The guy is a fucking dirtbag!
11:52 am on January 18th, 2008
Thanks ASHDAVUS.
I just do not understand WTF the ass wipe was thinking? What would ever possess someone to throw a baby over like that? I just do not get it. I am so over whelmed with wanting to go and throw his ass over a bridge / interstate… You know what I mean. An eye for an eye.
Damn idiots!
11:53 am on January 18th, 2008
lol! We encourage it.
12:17 pm on January 18th, 2008
Sounds like he watched the kid before, apparently (hopefully) nothing eventful happened before.
Dude is fucking off his rocker, but he knew what he was doing. He wants some attention, to be notorious- Okay lets take him to a Town Center and hang him, theres your 5 minutes.
Then we will move on to AL where asshole who threw 4 kids off a bridge is , give him some cement shoes and throw him over.
12:28 pm on January 18th, 2008
WTF is up with baby throwing lately? There are so many other ways to kill if the mood strikes you, why the hell does it have to be so cruel?
If several cars hit this baby, there probably isn’t much left for the mom to bury.
Someone needs to built a catapult large enough to hold this lard ass and fling this mother fucker right onto a busy LA freeway. I don’t give a shit how mentally unstable he is. Get rid of the fucker.
12:31 pm on January 18th, 2008
I’m sure he was convinced that he was being chased down the walkway by the demon possessed spirit of some long dead medical doctor that wanted his scrubs back. As he saw it, his only hope to save the baby was to pass it to the angels of mercy on the freeway below.
Fucking psycho!
12:58 pm on January 18th, 2008
More information about the relationship…
According to police reports, the child wandered off the apartment as his grandfather was sleeping earlier in the day, but he had been safely returned home. One guess would be he wondered off again and Higa found him before the authorities did, but there is no assurance that this is what really happened.
The same newspaper also reports that Higa was living in the same apartment building as the boy’s family, and that he had the strangest behavior, screaming in the middle of the night or walking up and down the building stairs all night, which didn’t stop the mother’s boyfriend from paying him visits, together with the toddler. He was even asked to babysit from time to time. The police investigation will continue.
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Deluded_Man_Throws_2_Year_Old_Onto_Freeway_12980.html
1:07 pm on January 18th, 2008
Thanks for the update, Josie.
1:35 pm on January 18th, 2008
Of course that wouldnt stop him. Please, why would that? *sarcasm* And him as a babysitter is an excellent idea! Why wouldn’t it be? *sarcasm*
1:54 pm on January 18th, 2008
I don’t see what the big deal is. I used to leave my kid with an old bag lady who lived behind my local 7-11…he turned out ok. Sort of.
I just got this image of that kid twirling in the air before landing on the street. Man, what a nightmare for everyone involved…including the witnesses.
1:57 pm on January 18th, 2008
The poor kid hit the ground and then two or three cars ran over him. How God awful.
I’ve been trying to make sense of the present world. We have families that are turning themselves necessarily into tiny fortresses in order to keep their children away from predators. Then we have single mothers who must leave their kids with someone, so take desperate chances with people they “know,” who are actually strangers. Then we have the families in which subsidized programs guarantee the birth of a healthy baby and then those babies are stuffed into ovens and left to wander apartment complexes. What a tragedy to birth babies who are just the source of a check to their feckless parents.
I live in a very small town and will be forever an outsider because everyone here has known each other from the moment of conception. And I can see how it used to be. We have our registered sex offenders, our drunks, and unreliables, but everyone knows who they are. There’s no public talk about it, but people cue each other in privately. I guess this is how it was when a child could freely roam a small town. They were protected by a network of real relationships and local self-policing.
Sorry to ramble. I’m just trying to make sense of what I see nowadays.
2:06 pm on January 18th, 2008
I live in one of those towns also. Folks are cordial enough, but make sure that you know you’re not really one of them. They single out kids who moved into town for punishment while the ones who grew up here get off scott free on every offence they commit.
We actually have a resident who, in 1949, brutally murdered the local librarian, in the library. He wandered all over town afterward, covered in blood. Even went back to the crime scene and eventually turned himself in the next day. He told the police he ‘just wanted to kill someone.’ Plenty of people know who he is, but won’t say. Only info I have gotten is that he served out his prison time, lives in the community, and attends my church. Kinda makes me want to check out a few new religions.
2:11 pm on January 18th, 2008
Really…I try to leave my toddler with a man who walks up and down the stairs all night screaming.
Oh, wait a minute. That would be my husband ragging out the older 2 for not shutting up and going to sleep. My mistake.
2:16 pm on January 18th, 2008
you are right. I would have nightmares for the rest of my life. This is a terrifying story. I am so sorry for the mother and especially for this poor, poor baby who didnt have a chance. However, you dont just snap and throw a baby of a bridge, i am sure more happened to this child in the care of this “person”
2:17 pm on January 18th, 2008
Is always a good idea to leave your baby with a crazy person, and you get double bonus points if he is a pedophile too. Bah….
2:18 pm on January 18th, 2008
Holy fucking shit…..that is unbelievable, as most of these incidents are, what in the fuck. He probably thought he was toting a fucking football. Jesus Christ that is horrific.
2:21 pm on January 18th, 2008
I remember when I was growing up, the local nut would walk around carrying a rock and a stick. My Dad came home one day and said he saw old nutjob on the bridge at the river. The rock and the stick were having an argument and he knew one of them was going to end up in the river when it was all over.
2:24 pm on January 18th, 2008
I want to know why he was walking the streets at all. He’d just been admitted in December….
“But while Higa apparently was not missing from the hospital yesterday, police said he had been a patient there before and had been admitted as recently as Dec. 11, 2007, after an incident at a Honolulu car dealership in which he locked himself in a car and refused to get out until officers were called to the scene.
Higa was not arrested for an offense but was sent to Queen’s for psychiatric evaluation.
Yesterday, Higa indicated to police that he was recently released from Queen’s.”
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080118/NEWS01/801180391/1001/NEWS01
2:30 pm on January 18th, 2008
WRYBREAD, I think the trouble is some people have babies that shouldn’t be having babies. Seriously, how hard is it to abstain or use birth control? If you can’t afford to have a baby or you can’t take care of the baby yourself DON’T HAVE A BABY! I also believe that just leaving the child with “whatever ” has been a big problem in all these stories. I’m sorry all you guys out there, but most of the time men do not make good babysitters. Men tend to get busy with a task and forget there is a child around. Then there is the sex thing. This country is absolutely lacking when it comes to holding people responsible for having a bunch of kids they can’t take care of. PLEASE! They are always talking about spaying or neutering our pets. I know a lot of people who need spaying or neutering. But no, they have their rights! Bullshit! Children have the right to be born to responsible parents. Let’s quit giving people money to have kids and start taking kids away and spaying or neutering the the irresponsible.
2:48 pm on January 18th, 2008
my first inclination… mr. higa is definitely mentally ill…..HAS to be. but i am so sad about that baby… and i feel for the drivers who ran it over – can you imagine? i’d need therapy for years to get the image out of my head – and that probably wouldn’t work either.
2:48 pm on January 18th, 2008
Damn it, that is so true. I wish somebody would really do it. Because I get sick of reading about these poor kids being raped and killed.
2:54 pm on January 18th, 2008
And if they’re not getting busy with tasks, they’re getting busy with the baby.
I’m all for tax money going to support the first kid for a couple years, but no following kids. Free sterilization.
Too many of these lil bimbettes treat kids like a fashion accessory.
2:57 pm on January 18th, 2008
sounds like Britney Spears….
7:07 pm on January 18th, 2008
I’m all for spaying and nuetering people. There are some people who just should not have kids. If you are a crackwhore or anything like it, living in the slums full of crazy people and cant support yourself you should not have children until you clean up your act. They should make people get a special license to breed at the very least. I would never leave my son with someone even a little bit crazy! and she has three kids that are all not living with her (one recently thrown off a bridge) so what, she just goes out and replaces it with number four. The poor kid.
I feel for the kid, I can’t say the same about the mother, family first if you can’t find a sane sitter, take the kid with you. Some people cant have children and its tragic to hear that some that are blessed choose to torture, rape, kill, maim their babies rather than give them up for adoption.
11:37 pm on January 18th, 2008
I am ALL for sterilization! I really think that when people have their kids taken away for abuse they need to be sterilized. they should not be allowed to torture/rape/murder more kids. Also if one child is taken away, please take them all away so the next one doesn’t get killed! I have said before and I will continue to say it, there should be a license for having kids. It is not democratic, I know, but at some point we need to do something. How many stories just this year of kids getting raped/murdered/abused/thrown of bridges? It is heartbreaking and something really does need to change.
4:52 pm on January 19th, 2008
Well, now they are saying that Higa was on Crystal Meth at the time which would explain a lot…
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080119/NEWS01/801190357
9:21 pm on September 4th, 2008
The man who allegedly murdered toddler Cyrus Belt by throwing the child off a freeway overpass told a psychiatrist last month that the crime was committed by a friend of the victim’s mother, according to a court report filed yesterday.
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080903/NEWS20/809030377/1001/LOCALNEWSFRONT
5:47 pm on November 16th, 2009
Posted June 25,2009
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His trial is set for January 2010
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6:12 pm on November 16th, 2009
Cyrus Belt, 23 months, is the childs name and his life was chaos from the beginning! Poor child was born addicted to meth, his mother, Nancy Asiata Chanco used while pregnant with him. She had given him over to foster care for four days in June 2007. She was on drugs and couldn’t care for him. Rumor has it that Higa was a supplier to her at times (of meth) and that they would use together…. Ms. Chanco has two older children, one lives with his father, the middle child lives with her mother. Cyrus Belt was a beautiful baby and quite outgoing and talkative, despite his genes. I so wish that he had stayed in foster care and been adopted away from them all. No telling what Cyrus would’ve accomplished. Of course, I pray that Matthew Higa would just throw himself off the prison and save us all the crap.
On Higa, How does one involuntarily ingest narcotics? Meth was the only drug in his system according to tests, so how does that happen, involuntarily? My ass, it doesn’t!!
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