UPDATE 8/20/08 - Pamela Buning, 24, has been charged with first-degree child abuse, conspiracy to obstruct justice and an accessory charge for covering up her son Cody’s murder at the hands of her penis, Sheldon James McDonald. What’s worse? Pamela didn’t cover it up alone. Her friend Heather Batchelor, 29, has also been charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice and accessory after the fact to a felony. More details at the bottom of the article.
Kalkaska, MI - Cody Lawrence Cross died on Sunday, August 3, two days after he was beaten by Sheldon James McDonald. McDonald, 25, is a registered sex offender with a history of “attempted criminal sexual conduct“. He’s also the live-in penis and babykiller for Cody’s mother, Pamela Sue Buning. Cody was just three years old.
McDonald apparently got upset with little Cody about something last Friday. He and Pamela Buning had been living in an apartment above a florist’s shop in downtown Kalmaska for a month or so, and apparently Buning thought it was just fine for McDonald to “discipline” her little boy.
When police arrived at the apartment at about 9:30 Friday night, McDonald told them that the unconscious Cody had “fallen down the stairs.” What, no bathtub involvement? That’s a departure from babykiller protocol, Sheldon.
Not that it mattered, really. It was pretty obvious that little Cody hadn’t just fallen down the stairs. He was obviously abused, battered and beaten over a period of time that excluded a single fall. Kalkaska County Prosecutor Brian Donnelly says that Cody “literally had bruises from head to toe, on his head, down his back and on his front. He was bruised from being beaten all over his body.”
The reason for the beating? Says Donnelly, “It appears to be a misguided attempt at discipline.” And Prosecutor Donnelly gets the Understatement Of The Week Award. Have a cookie!
Sheldon James McDonald was arrested on Saturday while Cody was on life support at a Grand Rapids hospital. After Cody died, McDonald was charged with an open count of murder and felony murder as well as first-degree child abuse. During his Monday arraignment, McDonald got cranky and had to be “subdued” by officers. Sounds like someone has a little anger management problem.
McDonald is being held at the Kalkaska County Jail on $2 million bond. I don’t think he’s getting out soon. And it looks like Pamela Buning may join him, as she is currently under investigation for her role in her son’s death.
Unamused Cat is talking about this case in our forums - thanks!
UPDATE 8/20/08 - Unfuckingbelievable. Cody Cross’ mother Pamela Buning, 24, and her friend Heather Batchelor, 29, have now been charged in connection with little Cody’s murder. Heather Batchelor is the person who initially called 911 to report that Cody was hurt. As Cody was being rushed to the hospital, Heather was sitting in the back seat of a patrol car waiting for a ride to the hospital as police prepared to leave the scene.
Batchelor then made cell phone calls to both Buning and McDonald. The three came up with a cover story while Cody was being rushed to the hospital, and while Batchelor was sitting in the patrol car. The three finally settled on telling police that Cody fell down the stairs. And guess what? Police car audio recording equipment got both ends of the conversations because Heather Batchelor is a moron who had her phone on speaker in a patrol car. Heh.
So Heather Batchelor called 911 and helped organize the cover story, and Pamela Buning, Cody’s mother, stood by and let her penis beat her three-year-old baby to death over a period of what investigators say was a week or more of torture. Both Batchelor and Buning were booked into the Kalkaska County Jail.
Heather Batchelor (L), and Pamela Buning, Cody’s mother (R)
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Peeperann
Aug 6, 2008 at 11:06 am -As well she should be, stupid cunt, letting him beat her baby. What kind of sex offender is he? Child or adult? I hope they both rot, forever……..
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Kathy
Aug 6, 2008 at 11:26 am -3 years old, potty training frustrations maybe?
I’m not anti-spanking, but there is a difference between discipline and a beating. There isn’t much a three year old can learn from a beating except to fear you.
This had absolutely nothing to do with parenting or discipline gone wrong and had everything to do with a grown man, a coward, taking out adult frustrations on the body of a helpless baby. What a weak weak piece of shit.
And the mother is even weaker and should be made to suffer the way her baby did. She didn’t protect him, she gets no sympathy from me.
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impqueen
Aug 6, 2008 at 11:30 am -The details I found on his sex offender registry said “Attempted Criminal Sexual Conduct - Third Degree (Multiple Variables)”. I tried to click through, but the charges lead to a dead page. Since they date from 2002 and he is now 25, he would have been 19 at the time.
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Athena
Aug 6, 2008 at 12:36 pm -Does he have a little Paris Hilton action going on with that eye on the right?
Does the article say how old the child was? I don’t see it.
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swissmiss
Aug 6, 2008 at 12:57 pm -Poor little guy was only THREE years old. Rest his little soul.
KALKASKA — Authorities charged a Kalkaska man with murder after his girlfriend’s toddler died.
Cody Lawrence Cross, 3, died Sunday morning at a Grand Rapids hospital. Police believe Sheldon James McDonald, 25, beat Cody in a downtown Kalkaska apartment where McDonald lived with the child’s mother, Pamela Sue Buning.
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April
Aug 6, 2008 at 10:44 pm -OMG! He looks like an erect penis… Wow! That’s exactly what he is. Mama loved her penis more than she loved her precious son. Sad.
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Wends
Aug 7, 2008 at 4:09 am -I was about to make that very comment! Holy smokes. Pro’lly because I’m exhausted, all I could think of while looking at his mellon was ‘penis.’
And what a penis he is.
May he receive as much penis as he has penile looks behind bars.
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nadine
Aug 7, 2008 at 6:47 am -Oh my god, April, he does look like a penis head and a big dick Q-tip head also, well he should rot in hell and ya know what ever happened to an eye for an eye, back in the day, beat him till he dies, like he chose to do….. and the girlfriend, babys momma, she deserves beat as well, honestly when will all this poor tragedy towards the human race stop?????????????? does nobody care about the human race anymore???? these people have rotten souls and i hope they face the devil himself someday. we will never understand these fu…ers?
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Ladyeridan
Aug 7, 2008 at 8:30 am -astonishing. two criminals in as many days with the perfect d**ksucker smile for behind bars. With those lips, he’s going to end up the perfect cellmate for someone very unlucky.
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jessie james
Aug 16, 2008 at 7:20 pm -you talk as if sheldon is the only bad guy in cody’s dealth. mom knew about his past. she was made aware of it by more than one person. he should never have been around cody let alone left alone with him. the athorities were told of possible abuse in the house by more than one person. people seem to have forgotten about heather. what was her part in all this.
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Peeperann
Aug 20, 2008 at 8:48 am -They deserve the same punishment the pos who killed him does. She actually wanted to cover up what he had done? Unbelievable, completely sick….
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2 boys mom in NC
Aug 20, 2008 at 8:52 am -Sheldon is not the only bad guy but he is the cocksucker that beat a 3 year old to death. The bitch that gave birth to this precious baby, (not “mother” mind you, whore can’t wear that title) is just as responsible if not more. God gives you these gifts and you are supposed to defend them with your life. That doesn’t mean not leaving a child alone with some asshole that has a record. It means not choosing a dick over your child. Defending your children also means forseeing as best you can any danger that could come to them and trying to keep that from happening. It also means having the long term goal…a normal, healthy, happy life and making the best choices in acheiving that goal for your child. Obviously, this cunt had none of the above. I hope she rots in hell and can look over in the other oven and see Sheldon!
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claddaghgirl
Aug 20, 2008 at 9:32 am -Is there a shortage of “men” ? What in the name of Zeuses butthole is wrong with these women? Is it that they really are that desperate that they would choose a sex offender (whatever kind he may be) to be in their lives? Or even worse to take care of their child? I’m bewildered. No man is worth putting your child (childern) at risk. NO MAN!!
They have children then say “Ah go on and raise yourself. You can do it.” Not acceptable.
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captainhowdy
Aug 20, 2008 at 10:00 am -wow, speaker phone in the patrol car! what an utter genius. thank god she’s such a fucking moron; know all of these pieces of shit will get what they deserve.
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tray-bay-bay
Aug 20, 2008 at 10:24 am -Having spent some time here at DD I’m not so surprised Mommydearest chose her penis over her baby. That’s sad. What really shocks the hell out of me is that “mommy” has a friend who also chose the penis over the baby. Nobody in this baby’s life gave two shits about him.
Well, I do. Thank God for stupid criminals! Mommy’s friend must be a couple french fries short of a happy meal using her cell in the cop car. I’m anxiously awaiting sentencing for these fuckwads!
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JESSGA03
Aug 20, 2008 at 10:33 am -I dont get it, what the hell is going on here on planet earth? Whats wrong with these people and where do they come from? Whats it gonna take to get people to understand this is NOT ok, HELLO? This is sick, sad, and sadly just reality I guess. Poor sweet baby! Rest his little soul! The penis and the woman need to be placed in a room with his pictures as wallpaper and left to die! Maybe every now and then send someone in to beat the hell out of them? Maybe throw them a rope and hope they hang themselves? Sounds like a plan!!
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jessie james
Aug 20, 2008 at 11:56 am -ok. while i agree that they should suffer lets not forget that “mommy” is pregnant to have that bastards baby. that’s what she is claiming. i have a tendency to believe that this is true, after all she has already been pregnant three other times. cody, and two she had aborted before this one. we can,t harm or wish harm onto the inocent while punishing the guilty.
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2 boys mom in NC
Aug 20, 2008 at 12:02 pm -BITCH NEEDS STERILIZATION
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prettyuglyish
Aug 20, 2008 at 12:09 pm -Well, chances are that she won’t be able to keep that baby. Hopefully he/she will be given to a family that will love and take care of him/her. Hell, I’m hoping for a miscarriage.
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Jack Shizz
Aug 20, 2008 at 12:20 pm -Fuckin A.
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JESSGA03
Aug 20, 2008 at 3:01 pm -Yeah well, we are over populated! LOL! I agree she needs sterilization! But if she is in fact pregnant then yeah, get the baby and give it to a loving home, then burn the bitch! She sucks at life anyway!
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impqueen
Aug 20, 2008 at 8:17 pm -Pictures of Heather Batchelor and Pamela Buning added to the bottom of the article -
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captainhowdy
Aug 20, 2008 at 8:31 pm -HOLY FUG, batman! that heather BITCHelor gives “hatchet face” a whole new meaning. god damn! that mug is enough to stop traffic. or someone’s heart.
seriously, wtf. is that 5 o’clock shadow i see under all those warts???
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hawaiian0breeze
Aug 23, 2008 at 11:57 pm -How convenient that after this whole tragedy happened, Heather and Pam planned on moving to Detroit together to live with Heather’s grandma. Guess the threesomes they were having together with Sheldon wasn’t enough. They figured they wanted to be together and become a twosome and put the blame on Sheldon for something they did. I know for a fact they were lovers and that Pam was tired of her innocent little baby and that they both have tempers. I am far from saying anyone is innocent in this but there is more to this story that isn’t being said. I have a feeling that Heather and Pam had a lot more to do with this than they are leading everyone to believe.
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julia
Aug 26, 2008 at 2:03 pm -26
Stunned
Aug 26, 2008 at 2:14 pm -I am a relative of Heather Batchelor. I am absolutely shocked by everything that has happened. Yes, she has quite the criminal past and because of that, my parents did not let me associate with her or let her into our home, but I would think that she would of had morals somewhere and not allowed this abuse to happen. About a year ago, I met Sheldon when my grandma took us all out to eat, he seemed very nice, I guess Im just too naive. By the way, my grandmother was NOT planning on letting her move back in, and never in a million years would my grandmother allow a friend of heathers to move into the home either. You would have to know my grandmother to know how ridiculous that statement is. Heather went to jail for over a year for stealing large sums of money from her and she pressed charges.
I am so sorry to the family who lost this child. Although I never went to their home, I wish I had because if I had seen anything I would of called the police in a second! my family just found out about this yesterday and we are all still so shocked and disgusted.
the comments about her looks cracked me up, she definately doesn’t look a thing like me or anyone else in my family. Although I know as a really little girl she was adorable, but that was well before I was born. She has had a hard life, but there is NO exscuse for ANY of the things she has done. Part of me wants to call her and just ask her what the hell she was thinking! She shouldn’t of even been associating with him because he is a known felon and she commited a felony in the past. Im just shocked. She is the absolute only bad seed in the Batchelor family, and its humilating to see this all over the web and heartbreaking to imagine what that baby boy went through.
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Stunned
Aug 26, 2008 at 2:24 pm -Oh, and the sexual abuse charges, from what I was told was when he was 19 or so and dating a 16 year old. Her parents let them date, but when she got pregnant, the father flipped out and pressed charges. From what I could tell from the one time I met Sheldon, he still had a good relationship with the mother and was allowed to see the child as well. Heather has quite the criminal past as well….If Michigan was a three strikes state, she would be in jail for life.
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Athena
Aug 26, 2008 at 3:41 pm -Oh, and the sexual abuse charges, from what I was told was when he was 19 or so and dating a 16 year old. Her parents let them date, but when she got pregnant, the father flipped out and pressed charges. From what I could tell from the one time I met Sheldon, he still had a good relationship with the mother and was allowed to see the child as well.
If that’s true, that’s super fuckin’ weak. That being said, after this incident, I’m not exactly sympathetic.
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Stunned
Aug 26, 2008 at 3:51 pm -yeah, mind you this is just what he told me the one time I met him. Though he did show me photos of his daughter and the girls mother(who he was charged with the sexual stuff for) all smiling and happy. That is one thing, that is very disturbing that jumps out at me, how he was showing off his little girl to some person he barely knew…I wonder if he harmed her as well? Someone needs to talk to the little girl and her mother. The poor child. I feel so disgusted by this, and humilated that someone in my own family could be so horrific. Though, shes pretty much the one and only black sheep in our family, by FAR. Were all great, upstanding, moral people except her. If michigan was a three strike state, she would be in jail for life now, but sadly, it is not.
I wonder how many years Heather will get for this though, does anyone know what her charges carry as far as maximum prison term?
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Athena
Aug 26, 2008 at 4:10 pm -That’d be a question for Impqueen. I don’t know what she’s been specifically charged with. Of course, it will likely also depend on her record.
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impqueen
Aug 26, 2008 at 4:16 pm -I haven’t gone to triple check, but I’m sure this is correct or I wouldn’t have updated with it, so let’s just go with what I put at the top of the post:
I don’t know the particulars of sentencing guidelines in Michigan, but since she didn’t actually kill Cody herself or permit it (just covered it up, like that’s not bad enough), probably not much. I’d guess five years or less, probably, even with a record. Sucks, but there you go.
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jessie james
Aug 27, 2008 at 11:56 am -the three were booked in kalkaska county for the charges stated in the papers but only one remains there as far i’m aware. sheldon is in kalkaska, pam is rumored to be in grand traverse county and heather is somewhere else. you say that heather didn’t actually commit the crime by the phisical means, did she not do basically the same by not doing anything to help cody by either letting the athorities know about it, letting cody’s other family know of it. do not forget that cody suffered for days , if not for weeks. by just standing by they are just as guilty as sheldon is. while cody was slowly dying in a bed locked in a room the other three (sheldon, pam, and heather ) were going on with their lives like buisness as usual. pam went to work friday the 1st like nothing was going on. she even took another child roughly the same age to some lake while cody was already porbably beyound medical help at this time, how much do you want to bet that the other two were doing simular activities in the hopes of a future cover up. there was a lot of anger and hate in the beatings that cody endured. it was sooooo bad they had to bring in counselors to munson to prepare the nurses and doctors for what they were about to see. DO NOT TRY TO RATIONALIZE WHAT THE THREE OF THEM DID. all three killed cody in my eyes.
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Stunned
Aug 27, 2008 at 12:39 pm -Jessie James, are you responding to my comment? I never, ever said that heather was any less guilty than Sheldon or the other woman! My comments were all saying how disgusted I am by what has taken place and about her previous criminal history. I completely agree, she is just as guilty as the rest of them because she allowed this to continue. She sat and watched this, when she should of called as soon as she saw the first sign of abuse or neglect. It breaks my heart to know that a blood relative of mine could be so heartless and so vile. Im confused as to what you thought I said that was trying to rationalize what they did? I never ever meant to come off like that
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jessie james
Aug 30, 2008 at 2:24 pm -dear stunned, no, i was not responding to your earlier comment. if it seamed so, i appologize. i work in kalkaska and it sickens me to know what cody went thrue and hear sooo many people sympasizing with pam and haether. not just on the net but where i work even. and even in the public.
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nana11
Sep 17, 2008 at 8:20 pm -Dear Stunned, The mother of the child you saw picture of….she was 13 when he knocked her up. He can claim she was 16 all he wants, facts are facts. I know this because my daughter was involved with Sheldon.
All I can think of now is this could have been my grandson. (who was a year old at the time Sheldon wormed his way into his life.)
There are three other “daughters”, btw, all born within months of each other, my granddaugher being the youngest. (my daughter was already pregnant by the time she came to her senses.) Anyway, this should be the clincher that she never has to be forced into visitations with this rodent.
Didn’t like him from the second I met him.
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saralizabeth
Sep 18, 2008 at 1:39 pm -My mom is right……there are 4 daughters, ages 6,5,5,&5. I was stupid for ever getting involved with Sheldon, but I would never regret the fact that I have a beautifull, smart, prescious daughter. She is so great. She doesn’t even know that Sheldon exists, and that’s the way I’ve made it. He is scum. And since I just found out about this yesterday, the flood of emotions is unreal. The fact that this could have been my little boy, who is now 7, scares the hell out of me. I cried a lot about this yesterday. My husband, who is the only man my daughter will ever know as daddy, was just as pissed. I feel so sorry for the Cross family for what this asshole has done to that family.
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saralizabeth
Sep 18, 2008 at 1:41 pm -Megan was 13 when she got pregnant and her parents did let them date. But they were also, drug addicts who didn’t give a shit about what their daughter did. And it was the State of MI that filed charges against Sheldon when Megan got pregnant, not her dad.
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flybecca27
Sep 21, 2008 at 10:31 pm -they suck
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flybecca27
Sep 21, 2008 at 10:56 pm -First of all I am Cody’s Aunt I am his Daddy’s sister. Just so you know I am no relation to any of those fuckers. I went to court for the prelim on Wednesday and got so sick I had to leave. My poor nephew was tortured for weeks. Heather sat there all fine and dandy while she told her side of the story. Not a fucking tear rolled down her face while she described Cody’s daily beating and torture treatments. WTF! Then started to sob when they played the tape of her in the police car taliking to Sheldon and Pam. She made me so sick. She kept calling Pam baby this and Baby that. What fucking sick bitches did these people come from. I had not seen Cody since he was about one. Pam and my brother where visiting me in Grand Rapids the last time I saw him. Get this! I kicked her out of my house for trying to smoke CRACK in it with my 3 year old sleeping in the next room. WTF! After that she told me I could’nt see Cody any more. Well I guess she made sure of that. My brother thought she was so sweet and inocent. Thats her M.O trying to minipulate people to think she is the victim. I just hope everyone is now seeing it. She even had my mom fooled for awhile. As far as Sheldon goes he is lucky I have three kids to live for cause he was right in front of me in court and I almost just smacked him in the back of the head like a heavy Bitch slap. He at one point looked back at me and I was like what the fuck u lookin at you sick fuck say somthin! Yea all gheto like dat. Hee hee the cops don’t say shit! Shit they wanna fuck him up them selves. Just remember Sheldon I will be the bitch sitten right behind you just in case you try to pull your shit in court. I wish you would just so I could have a sec to get at your ass. Anyways R.I.P Code Bug Daddy thinks of you every second of every hour of every day. Your brothers morn for you too.
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saralizabeth
Sep 21, 2008 at 11:01 pm -Sheldon did come from some sick fuckers. Not that it’s any sort of excuse, but maybe him and his daddy can share a cell in Jackson!
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