Snoods
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Leo Josephs, 3 months old
Wah...wahhhh!!! He killed Leo for crying, can we kill him?
Another dead twin. Thank goodness Leo's twin sister remained in the hospital until after his death. If Dad couldn't handle one baby, what would he have done with two? He only received 15 fucking years! Why are the deaths of small children treated like they don't really count?
SHOCKER! Are you sitting down? The baby's mother, Julia Josephs, who had recently given birth, was at work while deadbeat dad stayed at home and abused his newborn baby. They were living rent free in a house with nine other adults and other children.
Leo had severe bruises and dozens of broken bones, he must have screamed bloody murder 24/7. I know I would. I can't imagine the pain he was in, especially when someone picked him up. Dear Dad said his crying was "obnoxious."
A neighbor who babysat Leo said he had bruises on his face. She said "I think they were totally hurting that baby." She did not call CPS, but she thought others did. She said the couple then hid out in their room and she did not see Leo again for a month. When she saw him again shortly before his death, he had more marks on his face.
This is what his family and friends said the day after he was charged.
A day after Eugene “Charlie” Martineau was charged with depraved indifference murder in the death of his 3 month-old son, family members and friends described Martineau as a loving father on Tuesday, saying he was never violent and never would have purposely hurt the child.
“He was being a good father,” said Rich Theriault, a friend whom Martineau stayed with on the night of Oct. 21, after his son, Leo Josephs, had been admitted to the hospital. Martineau, 24, told Theriault that he believed the boy’s injuries were an accident. “He said he didn’t do anything intentionally to hurt the child,” Theriault said.
“He never showed any kind of violence around these babies,” Mercer said of her son. “I love my son. I know if any of this happened, it had to be an accident of some sort, but I’m so angry still because it is my grandbaby that I lost.”
Whoopsie daisy, guess he was a baby killing pussy after all. He admitted to everything.
A Portland, Maine, father who shook his 3-month-old so severely that he suffered hemorrhaging and more than two dozen broken bones was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday.
Eugene Martineau, 25, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the October 2015 death of his infant son, Leo Josephs. Josephs, who died from head trauma and catastrophic brain swelling, had 24 broken ribs, a broken wrist, and a broken ankle, according to WSCH.
The Portland Press Herald reported that Josephs was born at 30 weeks with his twin sister, Leah. Though Leo was released in early August, Leah was in intensive care until a few weeks after her brother’s death. Her grandparents later adopted her.
While the baby’s mother worked, Martineau cared for Leo in a home occupied by nine other adults and some children. Assistant Attorney General Leann Robbin claimed that the defendant was frustrated by his son and routinely abused him.
An affidavit obtained by the Herald revealed that the Portland man shook Leo with enough force cause his head to “snap back and forth.” This violent act was said to cause a seizure which killed the baby three days later
During a taped confession, Martineau told Detective Lauren Edstrom that his son’s crying was “obnoxious.”
“Martineau stated he would push down on baby Leo[‘s] chest to get the air out to make him stop crying. He said he did this three to four times because he ‘couldn’t handle it.’”
While Robbin called Martineau’s treatment of Leo “torture,” an emergency room doctor testified that the victim had a combination of old and fresh injuries—which included hemorrhaging and severe bruises.
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Prosecutors dropped murder charges following Martineau’s January guilty plea. Though lawyers originally agreed to a 30-year-sentence—the maximum penalty for manslaughter—prosecutors pushed for a 15-year prison sentence while Marineau’s lawyers sought 10. The judge ultimately sided with the state.
http://www.crimeonline.com/2017/05/...ld-had-dozens-of-broken-bones-severe-bruises/
http://www.pressherald.com/2015/10/26/man-charged-with-murdering-3-month-old-son/