A Naples man who reportedly admitted to killing his wife and 5 children before driving to Miami to hop a plane to his native Haiti has been formally charged with their murders.

Mesac Damas, 33, reportedly told investigators that ‘bad spirits” made him slit their throats.

Court documents reveal Damas confessed to killing his family with a knife after his wife threatened to divorce him and take the children with her.

According to the court records, his wife was bound by rope but before her mouth was duct-taped shut she begged her husband not to hurt the children.

Damas said he had second thoughts about killing her but realized that if he let her go she would call police and the children would be taken away.

Mesac Damas will be arraigned on October 26….
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3:25 P.M. — A judge has appointed a Fort Myers psychologist to evaluate a man charged with murdering his wife and five young children in North Naples.

Paul Kling, a clinical psychologist, will examine Mesac Damas, 33, to help his attorneys prepare his defense, Collier Circuit Judge Frank Baker said.

Damas is being held in the Collier County Jail, where he is on suicide watch.

Deputy Public Defender Michael Orlando has said he wants to have Damas evaluated in order to help him decide whether to pursue and insanity defense for his client.

http://www.news-press.com/article/20090928/CRIME/90928042/1002

Morgan was born on Feb. 9, 2008, making her 19 months old, not 11 months as was initially reported in the media.

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as far as being together 10 years married 2, she waste no time, having now a 9 year old, On Headline News, Jane boldly kept asking WHY? with all the domestic violence issues why keep popping out more babies?
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I did wonder why someone would risk prison in haiti, i almost wished they would just keep him.

from link in last post…
Damas, a Naples restaurant cook, is believed to be a dual Haitian and American citizen. Records indicate he moved to the United States in the late ’90s. It is not clear exactly when he became a U.S. citizen.

Although Haiti’s constitution does not allow the extradition of the country’s citizens, experts say Damas could soon end up in U.S. custody anyway.

Despite the constitutional ban on extradition, “in the past Haitians under indictment in the U.S. have been returned to the U.S. by non-extradition means,” according to a 2008 State Department report on counter-drug cooperation.

“I expect he will be expelled in short order,” said Corwin Noble, a security expert based in the neighboring Dominican Republic. “The level of cooperation between Haiti and the U.S. is very good these days.”

In a statement, Collier County sheriff’s officials said they were working with the FBI to “determine the appropriate international arrangements for (Collier County) detectives to travel to Haiti to interview (Damas).”

Cooperation has led to numerous expulsions of Haitian citizens in recent years. In 2007 alone, nine Haitian fugitives were sent to the United States, including a former Haitian police officer on drug and money laundering charges.

In one recent case, three Haitians arrested on charges of conspiring to kidnap an American teenager in Haiti voluntarily agreed to be transferred to U.S. custody after spending 18 months in jail in Haiti. During their trial, an FBI agent who visited the prison described deplorable conditions of filth, disease and overcrowding. Prisoners receive one meal a day and were wearing the same clothes they were arrested in.

When asked if there was anything they wanted to say before their sentencings last week, all three asked not to be sent back to Haiti.

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here is a different pic angle and report
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32968968/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

The sheriff’s office has not said how Guerline Damas and her children were killed, but a relative said detectives told the family their throats had been slit.

A Haitian man detained in the Florida slaying of his wife and their five children said Monday that he returned to his native Caribbean nation “to say goodbye to my family.”

Mesac Damas, 33, who was captured Monday morning near a low-budget hotel in Haiti’s capital, told the Associated Press in an interview at the police station that he had planned to surrender.

“I was going to turn myself in. You see I’ve got my suit on and everything,” Damas said as police led him from a back room where he was interrogated to a jail cell.
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Just days earlier, a Department of Children and Families caseworker assigned to the family had made an unannounced visit to the apartment and noted in a report that the children seemed healthy and safe. Mesac Damas was home and dinner was cooked.

On Friday, Damas drove his GMC Yukon Denali to Miami International Airport and boarded a flight to Port-au-Prince. Monday morning, Damas was hiding in a house next door to a low-budget motel when he was captured by a motorcycle unit of the national police, police spokesman Frantz Lerebours said. He declined to say how police found Damas.

Wearing a blue suit over a white T-shirt, Damas was interrogated at the police station near the Port-au-Prince airport with his hands restrained behind his back by plastic ties. As he was later escorted down a hallway to the jail cell, his eyes were puffy and he shouted that he did not want anyone to touch him.

“I don’t want no pain, no suffering,” he said.
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Source has more on the family and info on the extradition process from Haiti.

Guerline Damas’ brother, Forends Dieu, said he was told the victims’ throats were cut.

source: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/sep/20/photosvideo-worst-worst-5-kids-wife-found-slain-na/
Alot of pictures of the whole family at the above link, an interview with Damas’ father there also.

Very up-close and personal way to kill 6 people, It had to have been Mesac Damas!!

There are 5 children in that picture, but LocalCelebrity is right in saying that the little one looks older than she should if that is last year’s Christmas picture. Maybe it’s this year’s picture taken early??

The picture is of Guerline and 4 of her kids. Judging by looks and circumstances, it was for the Christmas before last… when the now-3yr old would have been 1. IMO

That is so sad. And, I know this isn’t important but….if the baby will be one next week, she would have been 2 1/2 to 3 months last December…..the baby in the Christmas picture looks much older then 3 months….or doest she? Has it been so long that mine was that little that I’m off???

Your not that off… there are five children mentioned above but only four shown.

There are 5 children in that picture, but LocalCelebrity is right in saying that the little one looks older than she should if that is last year’s Christmas picture. Maybe it’s this year’s picture taken early?? Doesn’t matter though…..because of this asswipe it will be her last.

That is so sad. And, I know this isn’t important but….if the baby will be one next week, she would have been 2 1/2 to 3 months last December…..the baby in the Christmas picture looks much older then 3 months….or doest she? Has it been so long that mine was that little that I’m off???

Your not that off… there are five children mentioned above but only four shown. The baby is probably not pictured.

RIP all of them.