Man Found Guilty Of Beating His Stepson To Death With Rolling Pin

Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. This fuckstick was abusing that poor boy on the regular–how in the hell was he supposed to focus on doing well in school when he was in pain?

And I’ll bet that the unnamed neighbor who gave that monster a lift is going to need some serious counseling, now that she knows that she helped a murderer catch up to his victim.

oh this is so sad, poor baby he just needed to be cared for and loved.. Not beaten

Shame on the neighbor. sounds like she wasn’ t sure…Shame on school authorities, they suspected. Shame on mother, i believe she knew SOMETHING. So much Blame to shame. CPS. COPS. i call bullshit on all of them. they failed this child.

R.I.P. Little Man….

Twelve minutes of video needed to document the crime scene? That must have been a fucking slaughterhouse. Poor little babe.

another kid let down by the system…..

I agree with you completely Athena. True, the system fails too often when it has the evidence, but sometimes there’s a case where there is no evidence whatsoever but a child’s word. An angry or troubled child can and will lie about abuse (we dealt with such a situation with my stepdaughter when she went through her first diagnosed bipolar phase a few years ago), so it’s important that the evidence is there to remove a child from the home. How was the neighbor to know that the man was planning on beating his stepson? The average person who isn’t violent and hasn’t ever really been exposed to violence wouldn’t really fathom that someone would do that to their child…a child running from a parent isn’t unusual. I know I ran screaming from my grandma when she came after me with a hickory switch, and she certainly wasn’t abusive or a danger.

Why is he only facing 25 years? Elizabeth Escalona was just sentenced to 99! That crazy bitch deserved her sentence and this man deserves a needle in the arm! How tragic that this poor boy came across someone so evil in his life.

I have to wonder why the mother immediately called 911 before checking her house for the child first. Just seems odd to me that her first instinct is to call the cops instead of going room to room looking for the kid. Maybe she knew her husband had been abusing her son and figured the worst? Maybe she had already gone down to the basement and found him then decided to play dumb? It’s just…weird.

Neighbours would have heard step-dad yelling and step-son’s screams as he was being beaten. If step-dad was chasing step-son and he was obviously very angry and foaming at the mouth, she should have had some idea of what was going to happen. She should have tried to calm step-dad down or at least put the kid in the car and locked the doors until stepdad calmed down. There’s no way the neighbour couldn’t have known about the abuse.

Signs of abuse + no mandatory reporter reporting = guilty of neglect and should be held responsible. Unfortunately with a court system overwhelmed by shitbag parents and am archaic social service system, this will never happen. That’s why it is imperative that abuse suspicion is followed up by diligent neighbors, friends, teachers, doctors, concerned nosy citizens. If that woman knew this asshat well enough to drive him down the block, surely she also knew what a monster he was at home. She could have called the mother, she could have called police, she could have stayed outside the door after it was closed. Etc etc etc etc dead kid. Go with your gut people! Gut instinct might be the answer to ‘if god exists why does bad things happen to good people’

Not really shitty house, I live in a house in the suburbs which is built of Hardiflex. I can hear my neighbours’ grandkids shrieking and playing, I can hear the neighbours talking, I can even hear their cat meowing! She would have heard something. It’s not like they lived in the country where your nearest neighbour is about a kilometre away.

As an abuse survivor, i know what daily beatings feel like. Where is this killer? I have an awaiting ball bat w/ his name all over it!!!!!

this made me cry! so SO sad that poor little boy

I used to be a volunteer Guardian ad Litem in my county. For about 8 years, I represented abused and neglected children in our family court system. It can be incredibly difficult to uncover abuse when the parents, and the child, are covering their tracks carefully. The courts and the police don’t accept “gut feelings” as a reason to remove a child, or even investigate more deeply. It has to pretty much be on the surface for all to see, or the child has to be making consistent claims of abuse (which is not very common. Most kids would rather stay with the the devil they know.)

One thing I am emphatically opposed to, even more than the death penalty (which I feel lukewarm about) is corporal punishment. I would love to see the US pass a law forbidding the spanking of children (and animals, for that matter), the way that many Scandinavian countries have. I know it’s never going to happen in my lifetime, or even my ten year old niece’s lifetime, but if we really want to make inroads against the terrible problem with violence that this species has, laws against hitting children would be an excellent start.

If corporal punishment were illegal, it would, by its very presence, be taken as a sign of abuse, and a lot more children like Abdi could be saved from horrific childhoods. Or death.

The person I feel for the most in all this (aside from the little boy) is the neighbor. It does sound like she had some concerns, but, and this is important, there was nothing she could legally do. Now, her worst fears have been realized, and she will spend the rest of her life living with the events of that day.

I know what that feels like.

Wait-the neighbor should bear some guilt. The neighbor sees a young boy running down the street. Then the neighbor sees his step dad running after him. The neighbor simply picks up the dad and helps him catch the boy?? The poor boy must have had a look of fear, terror and dread written all over his face! The neighbor should have called the authorities-at the very least. The neighbor should then call the principal of the local school and make sure the school knows about this incident too. The neighbor should have done MORE.

I kept wondering if anyone was going to bring up mom’s culpability in this. Thank you! She’s as rotten (if not more rotten) than step-daddy. His precious little face is just tearing at my heart.

I know exactly what you mean, sweekymom. The hardest thing in the world to do is to convince an abused child that they have to be 100% honest with a caseworker, that others can help them but when push comes to shove they have to be willing to help themselves. I won’t pretend that I know what it’s like to walk in their shoes, but I know the heartache that I carry when I know they are being abused but they won’t vocalize it or corroborate it to the people who can do something about it. Thank you for being a Guardian ad Litem.
I also agree with you about the neighbor. I feel sorry for her and I hope she gets the help she needs to cope with what happened.

I agree completely the neighbor SHOULD have done something. That’s what kills me about some of these stories is that neighbors’ HEAR shit, screams, shots, etc and don’t lift a fucking finger. IMO if you see or hear some shit like that and you do not call the blood is also on your hands. I would rather call 911 and it be a false alarm that know that because I didn’t call a child died. Its sad because a child can die for the lack of one pressing a few numbers into the phone which takes a whole fucking 5 seconds. Its depressing.

I’m tired of seeing it. These women sit back and do nothing as the men they brought into these children’s lives abuse their precious children for weeks, months, years. And how often do we see the child die? Far too often. I don’t know why these mothers aren’t charged. I know in some states if you are present during certain crimes you are charged as if you committed the crime yourself. Lawmakers need to apply that king of logic to these crimes and start charging every and any adult in the household. Grandparents, step parents, everybody.

She would have heard screaming and yelling, and seen the kid with bruises. Child abuse isn’t exactly quiet or clean.

Some people suck ass. I’ll bet you a hundred bucks if it were them being beaten or sodomized and no one helped them those 5 people would have a very different view on this.

Not to mention the fact that this abuse occurred in the basement. Basements are typically constructed under ground. Basements are popular choices for home gyms, childrens’ play rooms or other potentially loud purposes because they are inherently sound-proofed, to an extent. If this abuse occurred in the basement, it’s not unreasonable to assume other incidents did, too. If she can hear her neighbor screaming from their basement when she’s in her house, I maintain my assumption that she (and, in this case, her neighbor) lives in a shitty house.

You would lose that bet. Read the rest of the comments and think before you crucify people.

So, because some of the rest of us aren’t ready to crucify the neighbor that automatically translates into us having the attitude of “don’t get involved at any cost”? Tell you what, you tell me what YOU have chosen for YOUR life’s work and then I’ll tell you mine. You know what, on second thought don’t tell me, I don’t give a shit what you do. I know most of the people on here do everything they can to help not just kids in need but all people and animals. Piss off.

so sad another life taken far to soon I just want to say rip little one

I did not crucify anyone I stated my opinion, seeing as this is a free country. Considering the fact that I was in the Army and deployed twice I think I have earned that right, thus your opinion is yours and mine is mine. As I stated earlier too many people look the other way and refuse to help a child in need, I don’t have to read the other comments to formulate an opinion that I have already had for years based on my own experiences because NOTHING will change my standpoint on this.

I lived through child abuse which several people in my shitty little town knew about, no one did anything to help me and I would have given anything to have someone save me from the daily beatings. Fuck, I went to school several times with black eyes but because my whore mother was covering for her ex and sent a note detailing “an accident” I was ignored. One time yeah I can see a kid getting a black eye but 17 times in a school year….not so much. There are tell tale signs. As I stated above, if I had seen such a thing I would help the kid, not the parent because I have more faith in a child that I do the fucked up adults that crawl around the face of the Earth and do shit like this that ends up in the news.

And most likely law enforcement would have been called on you for harboring a runaway. You cannot just pick up someone else’s child. Step-dad would have told LE that he was going to discipline the boy for x behavior and that you were interfering. I’m sure the boy had a scared look on his face and step-daddy could have explained that away. The point we’re trying to make is everything is not black and white and just because you had certain kinds of experiences doesn’t mean it the ONLY kind. If you would have done differently in this scenario based on your own experience, bully for you. Just because this woman didn’t doesn’t make her a bad person on an uncaring “not get involved” type. Focus on the real monsters in this story; step-dad and bio mom.

The neighbor knew something was up. She wouldn’t have asked the kid to come study at her house if she thought everything was fine. Why didn’t she call the cops? I think they’d come out after a report of a terrified kid being chased down the road by his step-dad.

In the wild, if a male animal enters a female’s nesting area while their are offspring from another male in it, one of two things happens: Either the female drives the male away or the male kills the young. Humans may be more sophisticated than, say, lions but there are plenty that aren’t nearly that smart.

Sorry, maybe not her, but I can’t get over the fact that she didn’t see something odd with that situation.I would have, maybe because I look for the worst in people….I am angry at the neighbors near their home because SOMEONE in the vicinity KNEW what that child was going through, when a child is being beaten they aren’t silent. Sounds of screams do travel. That is where my rage lies. I hate when I read these types of stories and the mouth breather neighbors are like….”oh well, we heard screams and thought about calling the cops” but didn’t apparently because dialing a whole three numbers and taking maybe 5 minutes out of their day is too fucking taxing. It’s very sad, disgusting and disturbing.

Unless you were wrong, of course, and the child was running just to be a little shit. You could be both charged criminally and sued civilly, if the parents really wanted to be dicks. Cops aren’t legal experts, darlin’.

You are not everyone…..My bad, I should have said MOST people who have been through that because I was beaten and sexually abused too and I know of a lot of people who have been through similar situations who have the same outlook while I stated earlier your opinion is yours and mine is mine, you are entitled to down vote and have your opinion….but I agree with Pawley. While you have your opinion it does not make my opinion any less wrong or yours any more right and vice versa.

No, deary, you could not counter sue. If you were wrong, and you picked up some juvenile delinquent running from decent parents, and you took him away, even if you involved the police and it was brief, you could be held liable. You’d only make it worse for yourself if you tried to counter. You would want to throw yourself at the court’s mercy on the basis that your childhood has turned you into a paranoid adult. You’d probably get off pretty light.

And, no, saying cops aren’t legal experts is NOTHING LIKE saying neurosurgeons aren’t brain experts. Becoming a neurosurgeon requires the better portion of a decade of schooling plus another half a dozen years or so of interning. You can become a cop by simply graduating high school in many jurisdiction. A few months of academy and, voila! You’re a cop. Perhaps, after years and years of being a cop, one might amass enough legal knowledge to be considered an expert but, then again, perhaps not. Cops pretty much just follow orders. Their understanding of the law often remains quite shallow. Believe me, as a public defense intern, I dealt with plenty of cops who knew dick-all about the law.

Look… I get how your background has sparked in you a burning desire to help children who may be getting abused. But don’t be reckless about it. There are ways for you to intervene that don’t involve possible kidnapping charges.

With neighbors like that who needs enemies? If that was me I’d make sure the little boy got away instead of tracking him down like a lion does with prey. RIP Poor kid How does the mom not know her kid with bruises & black eyes isn’t be abused is she blind? Shame on her!

i dont know where this happened but i lived in the hood before i went to prison and the things that go on around there would fuk your whole head up. you’d be on the phone with the police everyday and they don’t show up for HOURS. My boyfriend, he looked a little like mike tyson (body wise) and we were brawling in the hallway once. I mean, he was mostly trying to restrain me from climbing him like a tree but I’m sure if you just walked by you would think I was getting my ass handed to me when really I was the aggressor and he was just trying to keep me off him. Anyway, I saw a man step out into the hallway- he saw us and turned his heel quickly back into his apartment. I bet he thought twice about getting involved. He doesnt know me, and my man looked like the black hulk prolly didnt help. my point is, when you live there- you just mind your own business not because you don’t care about other people but because you have to protect yourself first. I used to feed ALL the little dirty hungry kids in the neighborhood. I kept one little girl when her mom went to jail because she had no where to go. I kept another little girl because her mom was always drunk and they didnt have any food. I did my best but it gets overwhelming and you just never know when you see that kind of shit day in and day out it just becomes normal and less alarming. just sayin……

Even with his murderous stepfather sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, there was no explanation Thursday for the brutal death of 10-year-old Abdifatah Mohamud.

“Sometimes, people look to a judge to make sense of things. That cannot be done here,” State Supreme Court Justice Christopher J. Burns said as he sentenced Ali-Mohamed Mohamud, a 41-year-old security guard, to the maximum term for second-degree murder.

Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III called Mohamud’s killing of his stepson “one of the worst cases” he has seen in his 24 years as a prosecutor.
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I’m voting you up because this story reminded me right away of the plight of Konerak Sinthasomphone who was running away from Jeffrey Dahmer, only to be returned to him by the police.