Dreamin’ Demon Home Office, Akron, Ohio - It’s Labor Day, a time when most of us celebrate the ending of summer with parties and barbecues. Some of us get all teary about the plight of the American Worker, others get in a last swim at the public pool. Here at the Dreamin’ Demon Home Office in Akron, Ohio, this Labor Day reminded us of… labor.
Sometimes we cover cases where a mother undergoes nine months of pregnancy, grits her teeth through hours or days of labor, and produces a beautiful little bundle of joy - only to kill it or abandon it to death within hours, days, or weeks. Today, I present to you my top five Dreamin’ Demon Labor Day babykillers: mothers all, with infants three months or younger.
5. Genny Granados, Houston, Texas
Genny Granados, 29, was already a mother of two when she found out she was pregnant with her third child. The problem? The child didn’t belong to her long-term man. Granados appeared at a Houston emergency room in February complaining of stomach pain. But before she could be seen, she left - at least, it was thought that she left. Instead, Granados hid in a restroom in the hospital, gave birth, cleaned herself up and ditched her newborn son in a trash can. The infant was discovered later, but not soon enough. Granados’ baby was brain-dead. After several days in the hospital, he was removed from life support. Granados even had the cojones to petition the court to attend her son’s funeral, but was denied. She is awaiting trial on charges of felony injury to a child.
4. Efernia McClendon, Opelika, Alabama
Efernia McClendon was just 18 years old when she gave birth in February. She didn’t abort. She didn’t choose adoption for her unborn child. No, Efernia waited until she’d gone nine months without prenatal care, gave birth in her home, and then threw her baby girl out into a ditch behind her apartment complex. Efernia’s baby girl was born alive and then killed. She had no name, not even a dumpster for a coffin. A police investigator raised money for a funeral and named the tiny girl Noelani, because nobody came to claim her. Three months later, after DNA and other forensic evidence was processed, Efernia McClendon was arrested and charged with manslaughter. She’s awaiting trial.
3. Kristina Fuelling, Granite Bay, California
Kristina Fuelling, 27, had problems giving her eight-day-old baby girl a bath. Faith Evelyn Fuelling was born on January 12, 2008, and was killed by her mother on January 20. Kristina Fuelling drowned baby Faith in a sink, then woke up her husband to tell him what she’d done. Fuelling was not a single mother. She had Faith’s father in the home - she chose not to wake him, chose not to tell him she was overwhelmed. She chose not to call someone for help or leave the baby alone in a crib. Hell, she chose not to kill herself. Instead, she drowned her baby, went to jail, and told police exactly what she’d done.
Fuelling is now awaiting trial on charges of murder and assault on a child. Her defense is claiming postpartum depression and financial problems. Note to Kristina: abortion would have been cheaper. Birth control, cheaper still. Adoption would have gotten you paid. Murder is expensive.
2. Morgan Hite, Wasilla, Alaska and Grand Junction, Colorado
Morgan Hite 22, left the corpse of her murdered newborn son at her father and stepmother’s Colorado home after a visit in April. She apparently gave birth in a neighbor’s bathroom, which she then cleaned up after killing her baby. She wrapped the child in plastic, carted him home to her parents’ house, and left his body to rot in their guest closet. Even worse? Hite slept in the room with the rotting infant for over a month before taking her older child and going home to Alaska. Um, say what?
Hite’s stepmother found the dead baby in her guest room closet, stuffed into a bag. She’d been cleaning house trying to find what she thought was a dead rodent. Nobody had known Morgan was still pregnant - she told her family she’d given birth in Alaska and given the baby up for adoption. While she was in Colorado, Morgan went snowboarding, took in tourist attractions with her daughter, and ignored the dead baby in her closet. Morgan Hite is awaiting trial on charges of murder and child abuse resulting in death.
1. Caren Kohberger, Alvin and Galveston, Texas
That’s right, denizens. My number one Labor Day babykiller isn’t even charged with murder - but maybe she should be. On January 29, 2998, three-month old Alijah Mullis was stomped to death by his father, Travis “TJ” Mullis. His body and carseat were abandoned on the side of the road in Galveston - nothing like death with a beach view. Clearly Alijah’s mother, Caren Kohberger, didn’t actually kill her child - so why the ranking? Because the more I think about this bitch, the madder I get.
Caren whined throughout her pregnancy, begging for help from friends on Fubar, a social networking site where she spent most of her time. She knew her babydaddy Mullis had problems. But Caren wouldn’t work. Caren wouldn’t do anything. Caren left her baby to his troubled father, well aware of his issues. Why? Because Caren was a lazy bitch who couldn’t be bothered. And I defended her, said she didn’t kill her son, she shouldn’t be charged. I was wrong, wrong, wrong.
On the morning of Alijah’s death, he was barely three months old. Travis Mullis went to Caren and said that he was having flashbacks to sexual abuse he had suffered as a child. He told Caren that he had to get out of the house or he would hurt his son, hurt her, or hurt himself. Her response? “Take the baby with you.”
Four hours later, Alijah Mullis was dead. It wasn’t like Caren Kohberger had anywhere to be that day, anything to do. She knew her son was in danger. Mullis told her he would likely hurt the child. And she told Mullis to take him anyway. That, my friends, is almost as good as a curb-stomp to me. And while Travis Mullis now faces the death penalty (as well he should), Caren Kohberger is out on bond, awaiting trial on a charge of child endangerment - a charge that will net her less than two years, if convicted.
People of the Internet, take heed and listen. If you do not want a baby, do not go through labor only to kill your child. There’s no need. Birth control is readily available. Adoption is often profitable for birth mothers, and some open adoptions will allow you to keep track of your baby without the responsibility or expense of raising her. Even abortion is a better option than killing your child once it’s born and leaving the body for someone else to find. This Labor Day, make it your goal : no unplanned pregnancy. Save Labor Day for barbecues, workers, and people who plan for, want, and love their children. Please?
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gm OF 10
Sep 1, 2008 at 11:29 am -Well now we can put Casevil up on that list, she just waited longer to get rid of Caylee, so Caylee was well aware of what her F**cking Mother did to her. I wish she could tell us where that Bitch ditched her.. Death is not good enough for her, I say lets stone her, very slowly. Rot in hell bitch
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Mr_Vindictive
Sep 1, 2008 at 11:44 am -Love the nice cross-section of America here. Good to know that baby killers don’t just live in one part of the nation, they are everywhere!
I cannot believe how people do these types of things. Having a child is hard on a person, especially one that isn’t attuned to such responsibility. That being said, there is no reason for someone to kill a child. Every state has the law where you can drop off your child, after they are born and have the state take them in. It’s much better than throwing your newborn into a ditch…
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Hippiepoet
Sep 1, 2008 at 11:51 am -Excellent piece, Imp. I’d like to get out all my inner bullshit out on all these bitches, do the hippie fucking stomp on their idiot ass heads…..and fuck, I thought I was crazy….lol, these bitches take the fucking cake.
Labor Day just took on a whole new meaning for me.
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impqueen
Sep 1, 2008 at 12:22 pm -That’s why these moms all killed their babies while they were newborns or very young infants - because if I had done the babykillers of children under five, I’d have had over 100 of them from this website alone. Over ONE HUNDRED dead toddlers, killed by people who were supposed to love them, supposed to take care of them.
Caylee is only unique because of her grandparents’ denial and the length of time she was missing before anyone noticed - but ask Javon Thompson, ask Ariana and Tyler Payne, ask Riley Sawyers, ask Harmony Jade Creech - it happens all the time. Toddlers are killed, kids go missing, and nobody says anything for days or weeks or months. I couldn’t even begin to cover all the cases like Caylee’s in one post - so I chose to cover the newborns killed by their mothers instead. Is Caylee really more important than any of the children I just mentioned, than any of the children I covered?
I’m not trying to minimize Caylee here. I’m just trying to give some of the many, many other dead babies a moment of remembrance, too.
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Hippiepoet
Sep 1, 2008 at 12:29 pm -Well said, Imp. *hugs you tight*
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mpratt
Sep 1, 2008 at 12:38 pm -Thanks my Queen.. Very Accurate… They all are a bunch of stupid whores in my book… Still think they all deserve death…ANYONE who murders the defenseless, doesn’t need to waste our money in jail.
Little Angels, I hope that you are resting in peace, and finally have the LOVE that you deserve…XOXOXOXO
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Kitty
Sep 1, 2008 at 12:49 pm -I concur. All exploited children deserve to be remembered, to have someone be their champion, their voice. Especially in cases where the people that are supposed to do those things, don’t.
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Lilbay
Sep 1, 2008 at 1:10 pm -Thank you Imp for a great article as usual.
My prayers to all those little Angels who were unloved and died at the hands of their parents.
Not to take anything from Little Caylee but here at DD we know she sadly is but one and even sadder there are MANY others in many other counties dying just like her at the hands of their parents.Where does this shit stop??
I got pregnant at 15 i gave that child up for adoption as I knew i was not ready to be a Mom. Why is that so hard for sop many woman?
I have never regretted that choice and have since reunited and found the daughter i gave birth to She is one heck of a strong young lady and a wonderful wife and Mother. I was Blessed to have made a good choice. People it is so easy to pass that child on to a family who does have the ability to raise these babies Please think about it and If i can help ASK ME
I am on the forum PM me. Just please do not allow another to die a unwanted death.
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silvahalo
Sep 1, 2008 at 5:47 pm -Thank you Imp. There are countless babies & children that have similar stories to Caylee and even more that we will never know about or just go nameless. I am happy that Caylee got the exposure she did…anything to expose the horrors of so called parents that live amongst us. More than anything I want the victims remembered, be 1 day old or 1yr. old it just doesn’t matter. At the end they are all innocent angels that were murdered by people who should have cared & loved them.
Rest in peace sweet angel babies.
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Kathy
Sep 1, 2008 at 6:05 pm -If more people came to terms with this, we wouldn’t have the number of dead children we have every year.
Thanks Imp.
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sarah
Sep 1, 2008 at 6:28 pm -At the age of 19, I (stupidly) fell pregnant in an unplanned situation. I then started suffering from a condition known as “concealed pregnancy”. I say suffered, because it was a psychological condition over which I had no control. I denied that I was pregnant to everyone around me. When my baby started kicking, I simply ignored it. I wasn’t ignorant to my pregnancy but I was in complete denial. I went into labour at home, alone. In my confused state, I decided to give birth at home and then leave the baby at the local hospital in a safe place. However, the labour became difficult and I called an ambulance. After an emercency C-section I delivered a very healthy baby. The minute I saw her, the denial I had been in slipped away and the enormity of what I had done hit me. With the support of my family, I decided to keep my baby rather than go down the adoption route. It was a very difficult time, but 8 years on, my daughter is the light of my life. She now has a sister and a step father who adore her. No matter how difficult or unplanned a pregnancy is, there is always a better way than the one these women chose.
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flawed_existence
Sep 1, 2008 at 7:35 pm -Amen, sister. Having a helpless human lfe in your hands is a sacred trust. If you aren’t willing and able to change everything about your life from being about you to being about your baby, don’t have one or don’t keep it if you do!
Being a parent is hard. A huge amount of sacrifice in involved. So many new and/or young parents are isolated from the support sources that my mother had in the early 1960’s. We give them baby showers and parties, but they can’t possibly know what it’s like to actually live with the sleep deprivation and confusion of new parenthood. I was 27 and college educated when I had my first son and I remember holding him in the hospital and thinking “help”. I didn’t have a lot of confidence that I could actually be a ‘real’ mother. My mother was there with us through the first couple of weeks and during that time I discovered that what I was feeling was normal and that with love, patience, and SUPPORT, we would be just fine. That doesn’t mean I never felt like throwing that screaming baby (or toddler) out of the window. It means that I had good parenting myself and a mother who continued to teach me long after I was ‘all grown up’.
So, when we ask ourselves why these crimes are happening with more frequency, we need to understand that, as a society, we have changed so radically in the past fifty years that our paradigms of parenting and family are no longer as healthy and secure as they once were. I’m not advocating a return to ‘traditional’ sex roles or ‘extended’ family or any of the ways of the past. I do believe that as a society, we have more responsibility than ever to be involved with young parents and families without support systems BEFORE tragedy happens. As it happens, that costs money. Taxpayers’ money. Since children (especially dead ones) don’t vote, making money available for programs that reach out to families in need tends not to be much of a priority for those in a position to fund those programs. They do exist, btw.
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ScarvesNBoots
Sep 1, 2008 at 9:16 pm -That’s a wonderful story, thank you. Happy Labor Day! :sniff, sniff
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ScarvesNBoots
Sep 1, 2008 at 9:24 pm -Yours is a wonderful story too. I’m glad things worked out for you.
I’m noticing there are a lot of strong women here. I have a story too and can relate.
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Nurse Ronda
Sep 1, 2008 at 10:58 pm -Thanks Imp. As everyone knows, I am a nurse. But most don’t know is that I work taking care of the kids and babies that a parent has beated so badly and they fought for what was left of their young life and have survived. These babies and kids are stuck with trach tubes so that they can just breathe, have G-tubes so that they can be fed because they are not able to eat the normal way and they also require more surgeries to continually fix the problems that they have that are life threatening at times.
Yes, this work is heartbreaking at times, but when you look at those children and they can still smile at you because you make a funny face or watch their faces smile as you walk into the room because they know you care about them. They try to kiss and hug you at times and most times those kisses are sloppy.
Those children are the real angels here on earth. I just wished these kids would have not had to go through all they have, but I can not change the past, I can only help in them getting to a better future than what they had. Most parents had just one burst of rage at that kid or baby and in a split second their life has changed as well as the life of their child, if that blow didn’t take the childs life, which usually it does. Then there are others who could care less, except that they lost their freedom.
These parents that beat these kids only get a few years and after time off for good behavior, they are out in less than a few months. All the abused and killed children need remembered not just Caylee who is probably buried in the city landfill.
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mishdabrat
Sep 1, 2008 at 11:13 pm -I’m relatively new to DD and you may have already covered this on a previous thread, however, I find it puzzling that there is an inordinate number of mothers who kill their own children in Texas. What the hell is going on? A few notables from recent years…..Gilberta Estrada killed herself and three of her children by hanging, Andrea Yates drowning her five children in the bathtub, Dee Etta Perez shot her three children, Deanna Laney beat her two sons in the head with rocks until they were dead, Lisa Ann Diaz drowned her daughters in a bathtub and Dena Schlosser cut off the arms of her infant who then bled to death. Another Texas mother, Katie Nadal, cut off her infant son’s genitals and he miraculously survived so we won’t include her in the list.
Post-partum depression, fundamental religious zealotry and mental illness are rampant in all 50 U.S. states! So what’s going on in Texas?
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silvahalo
Sep 1, 2008 at 11:57 pm -I live in TX and hear about the craziest shit people do but then again you hear it from everywhere… Can’t say I haven’t looked up any statistical info. Perhaps higher since TX is huge, more people…more crime??
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silvahalo
Sep 2, 2008 at 12:02 am -Amen Sarah….thanks for sharing.
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bogustoo
Sep 2, 2008 at 7:52 am -Imp, thanks for this article. And thank you for your comment. WELL SAID! We should be outraged at each and every one of these cases.
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auddie
Sep 2, 2008 at 1:46 pm -Gosh it was great to see a new pic on the front page of DD - Kid Raping Ed Dewey was really creeping me out - glad his pic is moving on down the page. Seriously, if you had to draw a pic of a Child Rapist from the deepest dregs of your imagination - wouldn’t it look like Ed? )))shudder(((
Mother Eating Bloody Newborn Pic (after LABOR - love the tie-in impQ!:) was a definite improvement!
I tend to have compassion for women suffering from TRUE post partum and/or mental illness - like in the Andrea Yates case - I wanted her HUSBAND RUSTY on Death Row . . . it’s that fine line that draws me to all true crime cases.
& Tx for the new info onthe Stomping Case*above* Had NOIDEA of the background and am sickened by the “Mother” actually putting her son in that situation.
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commongrackle
Sep 5, 2008 at 10:44 pm -Goddamn. I have three bratty boys, but I love them to pieces and I wouldn’t hesitate to add another child to our family. WTF is wrong with these twats?
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Abroad
Sep 6, 2008 at 2:47 pm -You think?
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rachlim7
Sep 11, 2008 at 12:56 am -not wanting to deal w/the baby is not an excuse, i became pregnant at 14, i knew then i was going to keep the baby, abortion never entered my mind. i had my baby who is now 8 when i was just 15. i still lived at home w/my parents. i had the support i needed , and as soon as i could i started working, i now have a total of 4 kids and i love them to pieces . that dumb bitch was a lazy whore and needs to rot in hell.. poor baby. now i do live w/the father of my children but we are not married. i needed a babysitter and my brothers girlfriend was kicked out of her house so i let her stay w/me. once getting to really know her i found out she was molested and raped from age 3 to age 11 . from her own father. he committed suicide when it all came out. now my “husband” couldnt get over the fact. he felt it was wrong what if she had flashbacks of her past and hurt our babys?? i blew it off because to me i didnt think she would do anything, so any how things didnt go well due to other arraingments but we all still talk here and there. what i guess im getting at is NOw that i read this story it kinda scares me to think it could be something that happens. if thats the real reason he did this to that poor baby. who really knows !!!
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