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What Happened To Jessica Holcomb’s Baby?

May 20, 2009 at 3:07 am by Jaded

Lawrenceville, Georgia–Authorities were called to Jessica Holcomb’s home on a welfare check. It had been reported that her children, ages 1 and 3, had been left unattended on occasion and were living in unsanitary conditions. When officers arrived at the home Friday evening, they heard the sound of a small child crying…then, the crying stopped. Abruptly.

Jessica Holcomb

Officers, fearing for the child’s safety, entered the home through an unlocked door. While searching for the child, one officer noticed a large hole cut out of the drywall in a closet. When he looked inside the hole, he saw Holcomb, cowering in the crawlspace, holding her lifeless 1-year-old daughter. The child had no pulse. Once the child was transported to the hospital, emergency personnel were able to revive the child and had her life-flighted to Scottish Rite Children’s hospital for further treatment. The little girl died on Monday. An autopsy has been scheduled to determine the cause of death. Raise your hand if the first thing that popped into your head was ‘suffocation.’ But, why?

Jessica Holcomb, 26, is charged with one count of first-degree child cruelty and violating probation. (She was on probation for felony forgery). The 3-year-old child, who was found to be unharmed, was placed with his paternal grandparents.

As always, we will update this story as more information becomes available.

Source

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Tags: Child Abuse, Georgia, probation violation, Suspicious Death

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Uvgottabkiddin

why???…… hmmmm maybe ’cause she knew that if the po-po found her stupid ass they’d lock her up for the violation of probabtion.. That damned baby was trying to blow it for, and needed to be quieted abruptly…. Raise your hand if you think Jessica should be quieted abruptly….forever…. FUCKIN BITCH.
Wicked Doll

It will be interesting to see what the autopsy says. Even if she didn’t kill her child, she’s still on the hook for child cruelty.
http://DreaminDemon thinkstraight

Uvgottabkiddin says: “hmmmm maybe ’cause she knew that if the po-po found her stupid ass they’d lock her up for the violation of probabtion.. That damned baby was trying to blow it for”

Good Point, I did not even think of it like that. She should go down for murder anyway, even if there was no intent. What is that, man slaughter?
CassieMomma

Nice, real nice. Bitch!
CassieMomma

Uvgottabkiddin:
why???…… hmmmm maybe ’cause she knew that if the po-po found her stupid ass they’d lock her up for the violation of probabtion.. That damned baby was trying to blow it for, and needed to be quieted abruptly…. Raise your hand if you think Jessica should be quieted abruptly….forever…. FUCKIN BITCH.

Hand raised!
Peeperann

Uvgottabkiddin: why???…… hmmmm maybe ’cause she knew that if the po-po found her stupid ass they’d lock her up for the violation of probabtion.. That damned baby was trying to blow it for, and needed to be quieted abruptly…. Raise your hand if you think Jessica should be quieted abruptly….forever…. FUCKIN BITCH.

Mines raised really high.

Holy Christ, she smothered her baby to avoid a parole violation??? I’m telling you, I totally believe in vigilante justice. I could very cheerfully smother her to death. Let her feel the horror that baby felt.
2 boys mom in NC

Uvgottabkiddin:
why???…… hmmmm maybe ’cause she knew that if the po-po found her stupid ass they’d lock her up for the violation of probabtion.. That damned baby was trying to blow it for, and needed to be quieted abruptly…. Raise your hand if you think Jessica should be quieted abruptly….forever…. FUCKIN BITCH.

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http://www.phantods.com McQuest

sounds like she tried to keep her quiet by covering her mouth and accidently suffocated her.
She’ll probably get off easy on manslaughter or some shit. bitch.
should be murder
cisco

i don’t understand how americans can have such a hard time with the death penalty when things like this happen so often…..
Peeperann

cisco: i don’t understand how americans can have such a hard time with the death penalty when things like this happen so often…..

I don’t. I fall firmly on the pro side of the death penalty. I just hate that it’s so easy for them. A tranquilizer and a needle. Pffft….. An eye for an eye, same mode of death for the the perp as as the one they murdered.
angela

McQuest: sounds like she tried to keep her quiet by covering her mouth and accidently suffocated her. She’ll probably get off easy on manslaughter or some shit. bitch. should be murder

If she accidently suffocated her, why did the police have to find her in a crawl space with the lifeless baby in her arms? If it were an accident, you think she wouldn’t be hiding, but running to the officers for help reviving her baby. I think the other poster got it right…the baby was blowing it for her
ecvmanzo

cisco:
i don’t understand how americans can have such a hard time with the death penalty when things like this happen so often…..

I don’t have a hard time agreeing with the death penalty when it comes to children being hurt, in any way. I say kill her, she is broken beyond repair.
http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=12 Athena

don’t understand how americans can have such a hard time with the death penalty when things like this happen so often…..

The frequency of terrible things occurring does not mean that all the people tried in capital cases are actually guilty. I have no moral qualms with the death penalty; if we could guarantee that the people we were putting down were actually guilty of what they’ve been charged with, I’d pull the trigger myself, so to speak. But to date, hundreds of people have been exonerated, and those are just the individuals who were lucky enough to have the DNA evidence preserved.
Veronica

Athena:
The frequency of terrible things occurring does not mean that all the people tried in capital cases are actually guilty. I have no moral qualms with the death penalty; if we could guarantee that the people we were putting down were actually guilty of what they’ve been charged with, I’d pull the trigger myself, so to speak. But to date, hundreds of people have been exonerated, and those are just the individuals who were lucky enough to have the DNA evidence preserved.

Athena, you have articulated my position on the death penalty exactly. Intellectually, I am against the DP for the reasons you stated. Emotionally, I find myself wanting to see the people we read about here fry. But this really shouldn’t be an emotional argument.
lucky

I. am. floored! that someone would murder their baby to avoid police.

This woman is pure evil… no person with any love inside them could do that to a baby. To their own baby, and for such a selfish and stupid reason.
Wildheart

Veronica:
Athena, you have articulated my position on the death penalty exactly. Intellectually, I am against the DP for the reasons you stated. Emotionally, I find myself wanting to see the people we read about here fry. But this really shouldn’t be an emotional argument.

I agree. Many times, out of pure emotion, I have said “why don’t you just freaking die” when reading the stories on this site. I can’t say whether I’m totally for or against the death penalty (it depends on the situation), but if they are going to use it, it is IMPERATIVE that they are absolutely positive, no chance of being wrong, that they have the correct perpetrator of the crime. It scares the bejesus out of me to think of people being put to death for crimes they didn’t commit.

In this case, and this is just my opinion based on what I read, I think she was probably trying to hide from the authorities, the baby started crying, and she put her hand over her mouth to quiet her and tragically the baby died. I’m not excusing what she did at all - that baby is dead, it is more than likely her fault and she should definitely pay, but from what I read I don’t think it was premeditated, just a horrible accident……caused by her complete and total stupidity and selfishness of course. Rest in peace little one.
malq

She looks irritated that she was arrested.
The frustration of the police taking her was shifted to the helpless baby.
The irony is never lost in me when the very thing that brings a baby to this world and nurtures it to where it is, is killed by it. I will never get a grip on how that can happen.
StashRider

She looks like a tweaker. So it’s very possible she had some insane “The police/FBI/CIA/Aliens/satanic cult is cummin to git me” scenario going on in her head and she felt cornered into hushing or killing her kid. But if the crying stopped abruptly she may have broken his neck.
dontaskhowikno

StashRider:
She looks like a tweaker. So it’s very possible she had some insane “The police/FBI/CIA/Aliens/satanic cult is cummin to git me” scenario going on in her head and she felt cornered into hushing or killing her kid. But if the crying stopped abruptly she may have broken his neck.

You have no idea how close you are
Friday

I wish the Boston Strangler could see her pretty neck.
http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/ Dakota Valkyrie

The mother accused of suffocating her 18-month-old baby while hiding from police in a closet crawlspace will remain behind bars without bond.

During a preliminary hearing Friday, Magistrate Judge James Argo also found probable cause to bind over charges of first-degree child cruelty and murder against 26-year-old Jessica Holcomb to Superior Court.
[...]
An autopsy confirmed the child died from a lack of oxygen.

Holcomb’s 3-year-old son was reportedly not home at the time of the incident. He is in the custody of his paternal grandparents, police said.
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/main.asp?SectionID=6&SubSectionID=6&ArticleID=60398&TM=149.283