GWINNETT COUNTY, Georgia – I was going to come up with a fucked up title for this one, but WSBTV had this one already and well, it just seemed fucked up enough. Police are stating Christina Tetteh, 41, called 911 and told them that she thought her 4-year-old daughter was deceased. When police arrived at the home around 1 a.m., they found the little girl crying in a nearby kudzu patch. According to police, Tetteh took her daughter out to the Kudzu patch and then attempted to suffocate her. Christina Tetteh has been charged with one count of Criminal Attempt to Commit Murder and was transported to the Gwinnett County Detention Center where she is being held without bond.Can you imagine that shit? Being that 4-year-old girl? That must have been terrifying as hell. The visual of a mother suffocating her child is creepy enough – add in the fact that it happened late at night and in a kudzu patch just makes it even creepier. Video after the jump.

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TAMPA, FL -  Got a couple of geniuses for you in a story from out of Florida. Amer Ejak, 16, and Christopher Cox, 22, were inside the apartment of 34-year-old Thomas Johannesen’s apartment on Thursday or Friday. Cox instructed Ejak to hit Johannesen over the head with a whiskey bottle, which he did. Johannesen fell to the floor and then moved to the couch by the two men. Ejak then put a plastic bag over Johannesen’s head and tied a belt around his neck. After murdering Johannesen, they moved his body into a closet. When they left, they took Johannesen’s cell phone, sneakers, and house keys. These two idiots couldn’t contain themselves and a short time later started asking people if they had ever seen a dead body before. They brought two people to the apartment and showed them Johannesen’s corpse.  One of those people told a third person, who then called the cops.

Johannesen’s parents traveled from New York after they couldn’t contact their son for several days. They called authorities Saturday night to gain entry to his apartment, when they found his body. Ejak and Cox were arrested Sunday and charged with first-degree murder. Cox has a lengthy criminal record with more than 15 arrests since 1998, including arrests in April and in July on drug possession charges. One of Johannesen’s neighbors, Scott Cummings, said he knew Johannesen for about two years. He said the man was mild mannered, friendly and frail.

Christopher Cox

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St. John, MO – If ever there were a perfect tool for parenting, it’s the pacifier. On one hand, I can’t tell you how many hours of much needed sleep I can attribute to the beloved binky…with a couple of my own children, and later, my grandson. On the other hand, binkies can be a real pain in the ass – especially if the kid really doesn’t want to be corked. My son, who never was a fan of the pacifier, was a world class binky spitter…he could pop that thing out of his mouth and across the room in the blink of an eye, without a break in the screaming. I did what many parents do, let him scream until he wore himself out or walk the floor with him until he fell asleep. It never crossed my mind to tie a blanket around his little face to keep that cork in his mouth. Authorities believe that is exactly what Stacey Johnson did to her 2-month-old son, Tyler.

Stacey Johnson

Last Friday, at about 7:30 p.m., Stacey put Tyler to bed. Apparently, Tyler wasn’t quite ready for bed and began to fuss. After popping the infant’s pacifier back into his mouth time and time again, Stacey grew a little frustrated. She put the binky into the boy’s mouth and tied a receiving blanket around his head, covering his mouth and nose, to assure the binky stayed in place. Tyler was finally quieted….for good. When Stacey went back into the room at around 12:45 to check on him, he wasn’t breathing. Tyler Goss was pronounced dead at the hospital…the ME determined the cause of death to be suffocation.

Tyler’s father, Darren Goss, thinks Stacey was tired and confused that night and wants to make it clear that he is standing by his girlfriend. “Everyone wants to be like she did this on purpose. And I think her intent was only to quiet him down. I don’t believe she just thought she had one child too many.” Darren wonders if Tyler’s death could have been prevented. Ummm, duh? Of course it could have been prevented! I don’t believe Stacey intended to kill the baby, but I don’t believe it was fatigue and confusion that killed Tyler, either. I think it was his mother’s laziness, period. “I can kinda understand what she was probably trying to think of,” Darren said. “I mean she could have just woke me up but she was trying to let me sleep and didn’t want anybody else to wake up so just did the best thing she thought, but it just happened to be the wrong thing.” Stacey has three other children, so she isn’t new to the whole mommy thing. Speaking of her other children, it is reported that DCFS has had contact with the family on several previous occasions, but nothing came out of it.

“I’m very shocked that something like that has been said,” said Stacey’s mother, Teresa, of the charges. She believes her daughter is innocent and the charges against her are false. After all, Stacey pulled the receiving blanket trick with Tyler just last week and Tyler didn’t die that time. “I think she did it to keep the pacifier in his mouth. And by tying it around his face and his mouth I don’t know if she was in the right state of frame to where she thought it was going to suffocate him,” she added.

Stacey Johnson, 30, confessed to what happened during her third interview with police. She is being held on $200,000 cash only bond and is facing charges of second-degree murder and endangering the welfare of a child. Her surviving children, ages 1, 3, and 6 are staying with relatives for the time being.

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Posen, IL- Like many of the stories we see here on the DD, this story has its share of WTF’s. After only a few hours of rest and having sore muscles from moving shit that’s not mine, I’m feeling kind of lazy this morning, so I’ll keep it short and just allow you all to insert the WTF’s where needed. The grandfather of 22-month old Yvette Palacios said his son was always suspicious of the babysitter, Natalia Pineda, and her boyfriend, Juan Melendez-Reynoso, and that his son argued with Yvette’s mom about it, but the mom was the boss. On at least one occasion, Pineda refused to open the door the toddler’s family while the girl was in her care.

Juan Melendez-Reynoso

On May 24, Yvette’s mother decided to have a night out and went dancing. She left her Yvette and her two older brothers, a 3-year old and a 4-year old, with their long-time babysitter, Natalia Pineda. Sometime that evening, little Yvette soiled her diaper and began to cry. Pineda’s boyfriend, Juan Melendez-Reynoso, got pissed off , removed the soiled diaper from the child, and suffocated her with it. Instead of telling the truth, Pineda first told the police that Yvette bad been jumping on her bed, fell off and hit her head, but there was no evidence of a fatal fall. She also said that Melendez-Reynoso had helped her try to revive the girl in the shower.

At first, authorities believed there was strong evidence that a badly bruised girl was raped before she was killed, but autopsy results revealed no conclusive signs of sexual abuse. Juan Melendez-Reynoso was charged with first-degree murder and because he is an illegal resident from Mexico, which makes him a flight risk, his bail was denied. The DCFS has taken Melendez-Reynoso’s child into care. Oh, and that bitch of a babysitter, Pineda? She has not been charged with anything, yet.

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Albuquerque, New Mexico–On March 15, a mother found the body of a boy buried under the swings of Alvarado Park. For days the police asked the public for any information that could help not only identify the boy, but also aid in piecing together the puzzle of how a young boy ends up buried in the sand of a public park. A composite of the boy was released as well as pictures of the clothes he was wearing. Now the identity of the boy has been discovered, as well as his murderer. What happened to that boy was a bit more heinous than I could have imagined.

The boy is 3-year-old is Ty Toribio and his murderer is his own mother, Tiffany Toribio. Police arrested the 23-year-old woman after family members contacted them stating that the description of the boy on the news matched the description of her son. She confessed to killing her son, and the story she told was pretty heartbreaking.

Toribio and her son were kicked out of a friends house in the early morning hours of May 15. She and Ty went to the nearby Alvarado Park where the two lay down in the sand after the sprinkler system shut off. Once Ty fell asleep, police say that Toribio decided that she did not want Ty growing up like she did – unwanted. So using her hands, she covered his mouth and nose and suffocated him. But then she did something absolutely unbelievable. Racked with guilt, she used CPR to revive him. Once he began breathing, she changed her mind and killed him again. She then buried him under the climbing gym’s hanging bridge.

“What makes this story especially sad was when asked the reason why she took Ty’s life, Tiffany said that she did not want him to grow up with no one caring about him the same way that she had grown up with no one caring about her,” said Police Chief Ray Schultz.

It is being reported that she has attempted suicide while in jail. She is a single mother with no record who had recently been kicked out of her mother’s home and her friend’s apartment, reportedly she withheld affection from Ty and did not pay attention to him. Julie Gonzalez, who lives near the park, said the boy’s mother was “always partying”.

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Newburgh, IN- Breaking up is hard to do with 52-year old David Brackett. On Sunday afternoon, his girlfriend said she wanted to end her relationship with the smiling son-of-a-bitch pictured below, but he didn’t take the news well.

David Brackett

In fact, Brackett was so pissed off about the break-up that he pushed his girlfriend down and began to beat her head against the arm of the couch. Then the psycho held a pillow over her face. His girlfriend said she couldn’t breathe and at one point lost consciousness. His girlfriend said that Brackett threatened her by saying, “You might die today” and then forced her to write him several checks for past debts he thought she owed him. When the girlfriend tried to leave, Brackett grabbed her hair, pulled her back inside the apartment, and threw her on the couch. After being punched in the mouth, the girlfriend finally was able to escape in her car and contact police. Officers noted the woman had bruising on her arms, and both of her lips were cut open.

Brackett admitted to police that he held his girlfriend down but only “to avoid being struck by her.” He also admitted placing a pillow over her face to keep her from screaming. Brackett admitted to chasing after his girlfriend, but denied forcing her back into the apartment. Brackett was charged with battery, criminal confinement, recklessness, and interfering with reporting a crime. He is being held without bond.

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Carlos Fernandez and Luis Reyes, Jr.

New Port Richey, FL–Carlos Fernandez, 15, and Luis Reyes, Jr., 14, are a couple of real bad-ass little boys. Not only are they thieving little fuckers, robbing homes and businesses in their neighborhood, they are also rapists. These little assholes beat, raped, and robbed an 89-year-old woman.

Authorities believe Fernandez, Reyes, and their 16-year-old partner in crime, Sean Michael Maus, broke into the woman’s home on April 2nd. Maus had done some odd jobs for the woman in the past, and may have considered her an easy victim. The terrible trio ripped off $84, a flashlight, some snack food, and the woman’s car. The car was later recovered.

Fernandez and Reyes weren’t done with the woman yet. They returned to her home early Wednesday morning, this time wearing masks. They beat the woman as she laid in her bed, raped her, and tried to smother her with a pillow. When she tried to fight back by kicking one of the assailants in the nuts, they beat her even harder. They ransacked her house and took off. The victim was later treated for her injuries at a local hospital and released.

Maus gave up the names of his partners after being interrogated for three hours. Detectives are still trying to determine if Maus was involved in the assault and rape of the woman. He was arrested Wednesday and charged with grand theft auto and burglary.

Carlos Fernandez and Luis Reyes, Jr., confessed to the crimes and both are facing charges of attempted first degree murder, sexual battery, grand theft auto and burglary. They are both being charged as adults. The two have also been charged in connection to recent burglaries at Georgia’s Smoke Shop and Jasmine Discount Beverage in Port Richey. Nice kids…your mommas must be so proud!

Special2bme is covering this one in the forums as well.

Lakeesha Brown

Kansas City, MO–Until I joined the Dreamin’ Demon, I had no idea how creative people could get when killing children…whether it be their own or someone elses. It’s mind-boggling, really. I guess suffocation is really nothing new, but Lakeesha Brown’s manner of suffocation is.

On Saturday morning, an ambulance was dispatched to Lakeesha’s home on a report of an unresponsive child. Esmond Brown, 7, showed no signs of life when EMT’s arrived. Initially, Lakeesha told authorities that she rolled over on him when she was sleeping, possibly and unknowingly suffocating him. But an examination of the child’s body showed signs of abuse…his right arm had been broken in three places. And yes, he had been suffocated.

After further questioning, Lakeesha told officers that she sat on Esmond. She sat on his chest and laid her legs across his head. Cutting off his air supply until he was dead. And she has no idea why she did it. Crazy much? Officials say there was one other child in the home Saturday morning. Two others were in school.

Lakeesha Brown, 28, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, abuse of a child resulting in death, and endangering the welfare of a child. This isn’t the first time Lakeesha has abused…just the first time she killed. In August 2003, Brown plead guilty to assault and endangering the welfare of a child. She received a suspended sentence and two years of probation.

What would possess a person to do such a thing to their child? You know that took a bit of planning and thought…not to mention time. Lock this one away and lose the damn key.

Timothy Danielson

O’Fallon, MO–Wow…Timothy looks really scared in that mug shot, doesn’t he? Looks like he might bust out bawling at any second. And for good reason. He killed his 5-month-old son, Ayden Harley.

On January 15, Timothy Danielson, 24, called 911 to report that his son wasn’t breathing. Little Ayden was rushed to Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, where he was pronounced dead early Friday morning. Doctors noticed injuries consistent with physical abuse and the authorities were brought in.

In an interview with police, Danielson admitted to purposely harming Ayden by ‘restricting his breathing’. A nice way of saying the asshole smothered his child. He admitted to previous abuse of the child as well. In fact, a couple of witnesses came forward and stated that they had witnessed Danielson punching the child in the stomach in the past couple of months. They also said that Danielson would squeeze the baby tightly in anger. Police said that two of the baby’s relatives were present when the baby was injured.

Now…let’s back the fuck up for a minute. It’s bad enough that the child’s father abused and smothered him, no doubt. But, there were witnesses to previous abuse and nobody said a word until now? Nobody did anything after watching Ayden get punched in the gut by his father? Nobody? And these asswipes were related to the baby? Where was Ayden’s mother? Was she one of the witnesses? I do believe that there should be two more mug shots up there with Danielson’s.

Timothy Danielson did say he was sorry though. He realizes that he shouldn’t have taken his anger out on his son. Oooh, well in that case, all is forgiven, right? Wrong! Danielson is being held on $500,000 bond and is facing charges of second-degree murder. The charge doesn’t seem to fit the crime and I’m hoping that they slap a first-degree murder charge on him.

Danielson just completed nearly a year of probation in December, after being arrested for violation of an order of protection. He was arrested on that charge in May of 2007, entered a guilty plea in March of 2008, and placed on probation. There are no other details. On another note, those ears of his are gonna make mighty fine handles in the big house. Enjoy your stay Timothy.

Ayden Harley. RIP little guy.

Special2bme is discussing this one in the forums.

Port St. Lucie, FL–Not only is 31-year-old Eryn Allegra a selfish bitch, she’s a cold-hearted bitch. She planned and carried out the murder of her 8-year-old son, Tristan Allegra. She took away his life in the early morning hours of Christmas day in what authorities are calling a botched murder-suicide.

Eryn was unemployed and broke. She lost her home last year to foreclosure. She’d been struggling financially for quite some time. She had been contemplating suicide for months. She just didn’t feel like living any more. The only problem was, she didn’t want to leave her son behind. So, she started to plan his death.

Eryn made a reservation at a local Holiday Inn a week prior to Christmas. She treated Tristan to one last dinner on Christmas Eve. She somehow managed to convince him to swallow eight Advil tablets. She wasn’t sure whether or not that dosage of pain reliever would kill her son, so she had a back-up plan in place.

A couple hours after Tristan fell asleep, Eryn smothered him. She took a pillow in her right hand, his head in her left hand, and she pushed that pillow into his face. For 15 minutes she had that pillow smashed into his face. Tristan didn’t sleep through the whole attack, survival instinct kicked in and he started to resist. She watched as her son struggled to breathe. She watched his legs kicking and his arms flailing. Eryn ‘wanted to make sure that Tristan was not going to wake up and have some type of disability due to the amount of medications she gave him.’ Oh, how fuckin’ considerate.

After making sure that Tristan was good and dead, Eryn says she made her way into the bathroom where she tried to slit her wrists. The razor blades were too dull. Well shit, so much for murder-suicide! She called 911. Eryn was taken to St. Lucie Medical Center, where she was treated for minor cuts to her wrists and arms. She didn’t put nearly as much energy into her own death as she did her child’s.

After her release from the hospital, Eryn Allegra was booked into St. Lucie County Jail and charged with first-degree murder.

There were many people who would have stepped up to care for Tristan. Eryn’s relatives wanted to spend time with Tristan…they begged her to allow them visits with him. Tristan’s father, Michael Allegra, was scheduled to be released from jail this week. He had been serving time for a probation violation on a  drug charge.

She had other avenues, other choices. And I don’t believe for one minute that she was going to commit suicide. If she had the balls to watch her son die, by her own hand, right in front of her eyes, she should have had the balls to keep working those razor blades. Bitch. Tristan didn’t deserve that.

Tristan Allegra. R.I.P.

Kimberly Kelley (Myspace) and her son, Nathan Eric Wisniewski

Hobart, IN  - Kimberly Kelley, 30, is charged with murdering her three-month-old son, Nathan Wisniewski, on November 13.   And there is suspicion that Nathan may not be the first of Kelley’s babies to be killed.  Baby Nathan was pronounced dead at 5:30 a.m. last Thursday, after Kelley’s new boyfriend, Kent Kreisher, called police to their home to report that Nathan wasn’t breathing. 

When emergency responders arrived, they found that little Nathan hadn’t been breathing for quite some time.  His tiny body was stiff with rigor.  Nathan Wisniewski had been dead for at least four hours.

Earlier that morning, Kimberly Kelley had drunk-dialed Nathan’s father, Keith Wisniewski.  Keith, a local gym owner and MMA fighter, had evicted Kimberly in early November and had been granted temporary custody of Nathan, who was born July 28.   Kelley had picked up Nathan on Wednesday morning for a visit.  She’d had the baby with her all day.

Kelley reportedly put baby Nathan down in his bassinet to sleep about 7:30 Wednesday evening.  She then began drinking with Kreisher and their roommate David Kish.  The three drank steadily until about 8:30, when the guys went to a bar.  They left Kelley and her baby son at home until around 11:00 that night, when Kreisher and Kish got home.

At about 4:00 in the morning, a very drunk Kimberly Kelley dialed up Keith Wisniewski.  She told him that four years ago, she’d had a baby girl.  Alexis was born prematurely, Kelley said, and had died of a ruptured intestine.  When the doctors realized they couldn’t save Alexis, Kelley withdrew life support.  Her baby girl had died in her arms.  She told Keith that he didn’t know what it was like to lose a child.  She was distraught over the custody ruling, and said, “With no fault of mine, if Nathan died tonight, you don’t know what it would feel like.”  I think that’s drunkspeak for “you’re about to find out.”

Keith Wisniewski said that he talked Kimberly Kelley down and got her to agree to bring Nathan the few blocks back to his place.  An hour later, Kelley hadn’t shown up.  Instead, she woke up Kent Kreishner.  By that time, Nathan was dead.  In fact, the baby was almost certainly dead well before Kimberly Kelley made that phone call to Keith.

An autopsy showed that little Nathan had been in his bassinet, face down.  He’d been pushed into his mattress so hard that it first appeared the baby boy had been squeezed to death.  An embroidered logo on his sleeper imprinted in his tiny chest from the pressure, and left a bruise in the exact shape of the embroidery.  Cause of death was ruled homicide by intentional asphyxiation.  Kimberly Kelley had suffocated her baby.

Authorities are now planning to reopen the case files in the death of Kelley’s daughter Alexis.  After all, a ruptured intestine could very easily have been caused by the same type of pressure that killed Nathan Wisniewski.  I haven’t seen Alexis’ medical reports, so I won’t accuse Kimberly Kelley of murdering her daughter just yet.  But I will be following this case.  It seems quite possible that Kelley may have gotten away with infanticide once – and decided to try it again.

Investigators arrested Kimberly Kelley and have charged her with murder, neglect of a dependent and battery.  She is being held without bond at the Lake County Jail.  Nathan Eric Wisniewski was buried on Monday.  Rest in peace, little guy.

Captioned: ‘Me & My Glory’ on his Myspace

Allentown, PA–Let’s face it, we’ve all been jealous at one point or another, right? It’s all a part of being human. 21-year-old Ryan Junglas was feeling jealous. He felt slighted when he wasn’t getting the attention he felt he deserved. He reacted in violence and anger toward his rival for affection. The big, bad rival making Junglas feel bad? A 2-month-old baby boy.

Details are sketchy on this one, but it seems Junglas was arrested on Monday for attempting to kill an infant. Junglas admitted to the abuse. He stated to authorities that he wanted to kill the baby because he was jealous of all the attention the child was receiving. Those pesky little babies, always acting all defenseless and demanding attention. How dare they?

Beginning sometime in mid-August and continuing through October 24th, Junglas really worked that baby over. He punched him, head butted him, bit his ankle, tried to suffocate him with a pillow, threw him down in his crib, and twisted his testicles. I think it takes a pretty sick and twisted sub-human to twist a baby’s testes. On top of all that, he also admitted to shaking the baby about five times a week, for three weeks…five minutes at a time. W.T.F.

The infant is said to have fractures and other injuries. One doctor who examined him said he suspects brain damage, but further testing is necessary to make that determination.

Jealous Junglas is now sitting in Lehigh County Jail facing charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of a child, and simple assault. He is being held without bond.

Who does this baby belong to? Is Junglas the sperm donor or just the latest penis? How did the abuse go unnoticed for so long? I wish I had the answers to those questions. So far, none of that information has been released. I will update when more information becomes available.

Waukesha, WI–Valentina Grenader, 45, had a secret. She blew $800 at the casino and had to come clean with her husband, Mark. She could have made him a nice romantic dinner and wow’ed him with her fine culinary skills, making it easier to ease in the subject of the gambling debt. She could have brought him flowers and chocolate, hell..it works for men. Maybe she did go with one of those options, who knows? It’s what she did after the admission of guilt that earned her a spot here on the Dreamin’ Demon.

After the admission, Mark was pissed! I can’t say I blame him…$800 is like two full tanks of gas these days. An argument ensued. He was yelling and she just wanted him to sit down and speak with his indoor voice. Since talking it out wasn’t working the way she wanted it to, Valentina put her mad problem-solving skills to work. Sex. Sex always shuts a man up, right?

She batted her eyelashes and gave him that come-hither look, motioning him into the bedroom. Of course he can’t resist, it’s make-up sex! He allowed her to tie him to the bedpost. Then, he was blindfold. (Whew, is it getting warm in here or what)?! You know what he’s thinking right now, don’t you? Kinky make-up sex! Yay me! Then, out comes the plastic cling wrap. Ok, another level of kink, but maybe he’s game. That is, until she covers his mouth and nose with it…then it’s all panic baby! He can’t breathe and he’s thrashing around the bed trying to scream for help. Instead of your normal sexy bedroom talk, Valentina starts muttering something about killing him and committing suicide. Major panic mode!

He’s freaking out now, pleading for his life, and she whacks him upside the head with a dumbbell. Not just once, she whacked him three or four times! If that’s not a mood killer, I don’t know what is….

Somehow, bloodied and beaten, this man managed to free himself, whether or not she untied him is unknown. Once free, Mark tied her hands up with a towel and took her to the New Berlin Police Department to report that she tried to kill him. Gotta give him credit for keeping his cool.

Valentina denied trying to kill her husband, whom she called a control freak. She just wanted him to listen to her and speak in a normal tone of voice, and that it was the only way to quiet him. I can’t see him being much of a control freak if he’s the one tied up in a bed, gasping behind cling wrap, and bleeding from a head wound.

Now Valentina Grenader sits behind bars on $100,000 bond. She’s being charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide, strangulation and suffocation, and substantial battery. She has been ordered to not possess any weapons, including dumbbells. (What about plastic wrap)? If convicted of all three felonies, the max penalty is 73 years and 6 months in prison. Plenty of time to reflect back upon her idiotic plan.

Mark Grenader required 8 stitches to close the wound in his head. I’m hoping he’s looking for a divorce lawyer…..

MichaelJCheaney is on this one in the forums.

Bedtime with a 2-year-old. It can be a real nightmare for caregivers as the little bastards just don’t want to stay in their beds sometimes. This seemed to be an issue Jessie Rodriguez, 27, was having with the child of his girlfriend, Tisa Hawes, 27. Her 2-year-old boy, Brian Hawes, was having problems falling asleep. So genius decided that he would simply tie the boy down to the bed with the boy’s fire engine blanket. On Sept 21st, after multiple times of the boy wriggling out of his restraints, Rodriguez tied the boy down real good. So good, in fact, that the next morning Brian Hawes was dead.

When found, the knot that Rodriquez had used to tie the boy up “the tightest he’s ever did it” was at the little boy’s chest. He had died from mechanical asphyxiation. In other words, that little boy tried to wriggle himself out the restraints again, only to have the restraints cut off his airway. He laid there and suffocated in his own bed. The image of that is heinous.

What’s even worse is the the fact that the mother was aware of this and allowed it. Not only did she allow the restraining, she allowed the beating and often participated herself. Brian Hawes had bruises on his head, legs and feet. These came from beatings that Rodriguez admitted to doing using a belt and coat hanger on Brian and his 7-year-old brother, ever since he began dating Hawes. Tina was aware of this as well, and even used combs and coat hangers to hit the children’s feet herself.

Rodriguez has been charge with one count of second-degree reckless homicide and two counts of physical abuse of a child. Tisa Hawes will be charged with failure to act to prevent bodily harm to a child. The 7-year-old is in protective custody. If you have a strong stomach, and wanna read the dirty details not usually found in the articles we publish, I have included the main portion of the criminal complaint for you to read in anger:

On September 22, 2008, at 9:25 am, Racine Police Department officers responded to 3421 – 17th Street, in the City and County of Racine, in reference to a 911 call reporting the possible death of a two year old child.

Officer Cera was first to arrive and along with rescue made entry into the home. Inside the upstairs middle bedroom, they found the body of a child, later identified as B.E.H., dob 12/4/05. Officer Cera observed signs of what was believed to be head trauma and bruising on the child’s forehead, as well as other less significant bruising to other parts of the child’s body including his feet, ankles, and back. Rescue determined that the child was dead and the medical examiner was contacted. The child was covered with a blue sheet that had clouds on it and no other bedding was on the bed when police arrived.

The child’s mother, Tisa Hawes, dob 7/25/81, was present when officers found the child. She advised that she lived in the home along with her two sons, B.E.H. and P.R., dob 5/26/01, and her boyfriend, Jessie Rodriguez, dob 5/22/81. Ms. Hawes told police that the night before, on 9/21/08, she had taken her son, P.R., to St. Luke’s Hospital for mental health treatment and that his doctor had admitted him to the hospital overnight. P.R. subsequently spent the night at St. Luke’s and was still there the morning his brother was found. Ms. Hawes described how she and Jessie had put B.E.H. to bed the night before at approximately 9:30 pm, but that B.E.H. was very difficult at bed time and that it normally took him some time to calm down before he would go to sleep. Ms. Hawes said that at approximately 2:00 am, B.E.H. was still awake and in her words, agitated and tired. Ms. Hawes went to bed because B.E.H. was quiet. When she woke up at 7:40 am, she assumed B.E.H. was still sleeping and she went to work without checking on B.E.H., leaving him in Jessie’s care. It was not until Jessie’s father called her at work and told her to come home immediately that she became aware that there was something wrong with B.E.H..

B.E.H.’s brother, P.R., was interviewed at the Child Advocacy Center on September 22, 2008. P.R. described to the forensic interviewer that since his mom’s new boyfriend Jessie moved in, he was getting hit a lot more. P.R. described being hit by Jessie with a belt and a hanger, and that his mom sometimes hit him with the hanger as well. P.R. described being grounded a lot and having to spend time in his room. P.R. said that B.E.H. was also hit by Jessie with Jessie’s hand, a belt and the coat hanger. P.R. said B.E.H. got hit more than him because B.E.H. cried more and that B.E.H. always cried when it was time to go to bed. P.R. said B.E.H. was also grounded to his room for being bad. P.R. said that his mom told him that Jessie was tying B.E.H. up with his fireman blanket at night, because B.E.H. would not stay in bed when he was supposed to. This interview was videotaped and witnessed by Inv. Warmington of the Racine Police Department.

Later that same day, after P.R. was told that his brother B.E.H. had died, he said to Inv. Kurt Meyer of the Racine Police Department, that he thought he knew how his brother died. P.R. said that Jessie must have tied the fireman blanket too tight around B.E.H. and he died.

On September 23, 2008, Inv. Jepson returned to the home and located in a hallway closet outside of B.E.H.’s room, a red fleece blanket with fire trucks and firemen on it. The ends of the blanket was still tied in a knot with a small space in the middle.

On September 22, 2008, Inv. Warren Jepson and Inv. Jim Prioletta began a series of three separate interviews with Jessie Rodriguez. Initially, Rodriguez told the investigators that he had put B.E.H. to bed on 9/21/08 around 9:00 pm, but that B.E.H. did not go to bed easily and was still awake at 2:30 am. At 9:00 pm, when he put B.E.H. to bed, B.E.H. was using a fitted sheet as a pillow and had a red fuzzy blanket on him. Rodriguez stated that he went into B.E.H.’s room alone at 2:30 am to try and get him to go to sleep, and that B.E.H.’s mother Tisa was already in bed herself as she had to go to work the next day. Rodriguez said that at 2:30 am, B.E.H. was fine. Rodriguez stated that the next time he saw B.E.H. was that morning at 9:00 am when he went in to get B.E.H. up for breakfast. Rodriguez said that when he went into the room and found B.E.H. lying face down on the bed and that he could see B.E.H.’s leg and it was purple. Rodriguez said B.E.H.’s face was in the balled up fitted sheet and that the red blanket was covering his head and body so all he could see was B.E.H.’s right leg. Rodriguez denied ever striking B.E.H. in any way and that he had no idea how B.E.H. died.

In subsequent interviews, Rodriguez later admitted that in an effort to get B.E.H. to stay in bed, he was tying the red blanket around B.E.H.’s waist. Rodriguez described how on the night before B.E.H. died, B.E.H. was refusing to go to bed. Rodriguez at around 9:00 pm had attempted to put B.E.H. to bed and when he would not stop yelling, he punished B.E.H. by hitting his feet with a hanger many times. Rodriguez then tied the red blanket around B.E.H., with his arms inside the blanket. According to Rodriguez, he had been using this method of tying B.E.H. with the blanket for the last three nights, but that B.E.H. would somehow wiggle out of the blanket and get out of bed. Rodriguez also admitted that he had been hitting both B.E.H. and P.R. with a belt and a coat hanger since he started dating their mother, but that Tisa Hawes was aware of his form of discipline and did nothing to stop him. He described how he and Tisa both used combs and coat hangers to hit the children’s feet when they were acting up as a friend of Tisa’s had suggested this to her. Rodriguez also stated that Tisa knew he was tying B.E.H. up in the red blanket at night and also did nothing to stop him.

Rodriguez told the investigators that the autopsy would likely show that B.E.H. had suffocated and that he was not beaten as initially suspected based on the bruises to B.E.H.’s head. Rodriguez said that B.E.H. had some minor bruises on his forehead and that while in his room that night, Tisa asked Rodriguez to get B.E.H. a sheet for his head because they could hear B.E.H. hitting his head against the wall and kicking his dresser, while he was avoiding going to sleep. Rodriguez stated that the dark bruises found on B.E.H. in the morning were not there the night before when he last saw B.E.H. at 2:30 am.

On September 24, 2008, Rodriguez again agreed to speak with Investigators Prioletta and Jepson. Rodriguez again stated that he did not know how B.E.H. got the bruises to his head. Rodriguez stated that B.E.H. should have had bruises on his legs, thighs and feet from his discipline with the belt and hanger. Rodriguez stated that Tisa was aware of the welts on B.E.H. and in fact there were times when Tisa was present and ordered the discipline and Rodriguez would hit B.E.H.. Rodriguez said he used a black leather belt with rhinestones on it in the shape of a heart. He also used a plain brown belt and the belt he was using at the time of his arrest.

Rodriguez described how on the night before his death he had swatted B.E.H.’s feet with a plastic hanger at around 11:00pm or 12:00am in B.E.H.’s room. He again hit B.E.H.’s feet with the coat hanger at around 2:30am, as he was still awake. Rodriguez described how B.E.H. was squirming as he hit him and he had restrained him by holding onto his feet while B.E.H. was laying on the bed. That night, Rodriguez had tried spanking B.E.H. with his hand but when that did not work he began to use the hanger to hit B.E.H.’s feet.

Rodriguez then began to describe how he had tied B.E.H. up that night in the blanket. At Around 9:00 pm, he tied B.E.H. in the blanket with his arms at his side, but claimed that B.E.H. could still move his arms inside the blanket. He tied the blanket like a sack to keep B.E.H.’s feet inside. When he first started tying B.E.H. up on the two nights before this he fussed for awhile but seemed to go to sleep faster. On 9/21/08, Rodriguez went back into B.E.H.’s room at around midnight and B.E.H. was out of the blanket. This angered Rodriguez and he disciplined B.E.H. on his feet with the hanger and retied the blanket. At 2:30 am, Rodriguez went back in the bedroom and B.E.H. was out of the blanket again. He again disciplined B.E.H. with the hanger and retied the blanket, around B.E.H.’s waist, perhaps the tightest he had ever tied it. Rodriguez then described finding B.E.H. in the morning with the knot he had tied in the blanket up around B.E.H.’s chest with his arms bent and his hands inside the blanket and up near his face. Rodriguez had to yank the blanket up over B.E.H.’s head when he found him in the morning to check to see if B.E.H. was alive.

Dr. Linda Biedrzycki, Waukesha County Medical Examiner, performed the autopsy on B.E.H. Dr. Biedrzycki’s findings indicated that what appeared to be significant bruising to B.E.H.’s forehead was actually superficial wounds that darkened post mortem, due to lividity. B.E.H. had additional bruising on other parts of his body, however, none of the bruising anywhere was the cause of his death. Additionally, toxicology and other tests showed no other physiological abnormality that caused the child’s death. Dr. Biedrzycki herself interviewed Rodriguez and based on his statements regarding the manner in which the red blanket was tied and the examination of the red fireman blanket, ruled the cause of death as mechanical asphyxiation caused by the blanket preventing the child from breathing.

UPDATE 12/3/08 – This week would have been Brian’s third birthday, so I thought it was appropriate to add this picture that our member Corrupted Mistress found of him:

Sometimes, as a blogger, you order up the crazy.  Sometimes you have to go look for the crazy.  And sometimes, like today, a friend lends a hand and brings the crazy to you.   Steve Huff must have known I was running low on the crazy, so he sent over a gift-wrapped parcel of insanity from his blog, True Crime Report. The writeup is mine, but much of the information came from him.  Thanks, Steve! – Now With More Delicious Video Goodness!

http://www.myspace.com/my_baby_bianca & http://www.bebo.com/KarraeStarr

Herrin, IL - Bianca Nicole Starr celebrated her third birthday just weeks ago.  Thanks to her mother, 18-year-old Karrae Starr, little Bianca will never see four.  On Saturday, September 27, police were called to Karrae and Bianca’s apartment.  Bianca was unresponsive.  A few hours later, Bianca was dead.   The only person at home with the toddler on Saturday was her mother, Karrae.

Karrae Starr never had it easy growing up, and she grew up too fast. She spent time in foster care as a child, and she got pregnant at fourteen. At fifteen, she had Bianca.   Still, though, Karrae had managed to go to high school at Carbondale High School from 2005 to 2007.  She also got into the nursing program at  John A. Logan College.  While Karrae went to school, Bianca went to the campus daycare, where she was known as a bright, sociable preschooler.

Karrae’s friends are in shock.  No way could she have killed her child, they say.  And Karrae’s Myspace and Bebo pages seem to bear that out.  Multiple proud pictures of Bianca grace Karrae’s internet presence.  There’s not a lot of “O I Luv Mii Boiifrenn” in Karrae’s blogs, either.  In fact, Karrae described herself as bi, or possibly gay.  She wasn’t totally sure yet where she was in terms of sexual orientation, but she was pretty sure that the stuff she’d already tried wasn’t working for her.

Overall, I found Karrae’s internet presence to be caring toward her child, a little pseudo-tough-cool, and….young.  For example, her Myspace headline reads: “If you really want to know I am the REAL CRAZY BITCH! and dont forget it.”

At eighteen, many teenagers can’t keep their bedrooms clean, much less provide for a child. Karrae seemed to be getting her shit together, and trying to keep it there.  But, like Karrae’s mother Dierdre Gibbs said at Steve’s site, “People say alot of stuff on myspace , it doesn’t mean its tru. You can be anyone you want to be on the internet as I am sure you know.”

Yeah, we know, Deirdre.  We totally know.

Karrae’s neighbors described Bianca as a child who would ask them for ice cream or other treats, and they would happily oblige the pretty toddler.  One neighbor told police that she saw Bianca huddled underneath a table the day before her death.  The neighbor remarked that it seemed odd for such a small child to look so depressed.  Other neighbors noted that Karrae had begun drinking heavily, even though she was three years too young to drink legally.  And Karrae herself noted in a blog entry that she had lost custody of Bianca for a time in 2007.

Karrae’s family blames “the system” for Bianca’s death.  I’m not sure why.  The system didn’t place its hand over Bianca’s nose and mouth until the baby died, spewing blood and foam from her burst lung tissue all over the system.  Nope, that was Karrae Starr who suffocated her daughter for entire minutes at a time, getting her baby’s blood all over herself.

Some will say Karrae snapped from the pressure of single, young parenthood and its attendant poverty.  Others will say that Bianca was quite verbal and may have thrown a temper tantrum or mouthed off to her mother until Karrae snapped.  Still others (*coughkarrae’sgrandmacough*) will call Bianca’s death a “drunken accident”.   I have never been so drunk that I could hurt my child.  I have never been so angry that I could clamp my hand over a baby’s face and wait the two to four minutes it takes to kill a toddler who is struggling to breathe, looking into her face, watching the pain as her lung tissue blows, the panic as her body tries desperately to get air, the messiness and horror of a murderous death as the life leaves the face of a child.  Nope, I just don’t have it in me.

But Karrae Starr did.

Karrae Starr is being held at the Williamson County Jail, where she is charged with two counts of first-degree murder.  She was in court Monday for arraignment, and her bond was set at $500,000 or $50,000 cash.  She’ll be back in court on October 6 for another hearing.

Rest in peace, baby girl.  I’m sorry your family failed you.  I’m sorry your mother killed you.