Days of beatings by Brandon Hayes leaves a 4-year-old dead

[Dakota Valkyrie]

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His previous record: http://www.state.mi.us/mdoc/asp/otis2profile.asp?mdocNumber=570664

Argentine Township police said Dominick Calhoun, 4, was found lying on the floor of a bedroom about 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Pinehurst Apartments, 9087 Harper Street, after the boy’s paternal grandfather reported the possible beating.

The boy appeared to have been beaten and had injuries on his entire body. Argentine Township Police Chief Daniel Allen said the boy was "beaten from head to toe." The beatings took place over two days, and injuries were inflicted by fists and kicks, according to police.

Calhoune was taken to Hurley Medical Center in Flint, and placed on life support. He was removed from life support and pronounced dead at 11:02 a.m. Monday.

Police arrested his 25-year-old mother, who was found next to her son and was trying to comfort him, and the mother’s 24-year-old boyfriend, Brandon Joshua-Frederick Hayes. The mother was later released from custody.

Police said the mother also had visible injuries to her head, face and body.

"She was definitely beaten," said Allen.

Both the mother and her other child, an 8-year-old son also found in the apartment were taken to Hurley Medical Center. The 8-year-old received no injuries, and was taken into Child Protective Services’ custody.

Hayes, the suspect in custody, is not the biological father of either of the boys.

A neighbor told Flint-area media that the 8-year-old indicated the mom’s boyfriend “was stepping” on Calhoun’s head.

“He was stomping on his head, and kicking him in the ribs, punching him in the face,” Patty Brown says the child told her.

Several neighbors reported hearing loud noises coming from the apartment, but no one called the police, Allen said.
[...]
http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20100413/NEWS01/100413001/-1/NEWSFRONT2/Charges-possible-in-beating-death-of-boy-4

[nopatience]

Several neighbors reported hearing loud noises coming from the apartment, but no one called the police, Allen said.

I hope that haunts them. Poor baby boy should've been loved and cuddled not used as a punching bag. Too many people turn a blind eye "not wanting to get involved". :dong:

[TheMeaningOfItAll]

A neighbor told Flint-area media that the 8-year-old indicated the mom’s boyfriend “was stepping” on Calhoun’s head.

“He was stomping on his head, and kicking him in the ribs, punching him in the face,” Patty Brown says the child told her.

I feel badly for the other child that had to witness what happened to the four year old. No sympathy for the mother from me. If he were my child, the only thing that would stop me from getting him help would be if I were dead. I can't believe the things people subject their children to.

[nopatience]

can't believe the things people subject their children to.


It's amazing. A friend of mine was at his son's baseball practice last week and had to break up a fist fight between a mother and father while their 5 y/o son was crying and begging for them to stop. If they can do that in public, makes you wonder what that poor boy sees at home!

[Cholita]

What a fuckin BASTARD! Stepping and stomping his head?!? He wasn't playing around! Piece of shit! Karma ain't gonna be playing around when it meets his way!
And Fuck the mom! If your a dumbass that lets a man beat on you well in my opinion you must like it! But When there is children in the equation I feel as a mother it is your DUTY to protect your kids from ANYONE! Stoopid snatch.

[AngelFire]

He looks like a big guy, and he has that prison bitch look to him. Pretty lips too! See karma has a way of coming for you, sort of like the IRS. So when he gets that well deserved sentence,he will be wearing women underwear, and being passed around like a slut at a party, I will be sporting a huge happy smile. Fucking evil

[Cholita]

He looks like a big guy, and he has that prison bitch look to him. Pretty lips too! See karma has a way of coming for you, sort of like the IRS. So when he gets that well deserved sentence,he will be wearing women underwear, and being passed around like a slut at a party, I will be sporting a huge happy smile. Fucking evil

YUP Babiesmomma...I could just see this beyotch yelling at a 4 yr old baby like if the kid was his own size! Power trip and all..
Just wait till a few guys get him alone and rape him American Me(the movie) style!-YEAH!

[Harley_Tech]

Memories of Alijah Mullis.

R

[Whisper]

This is by me and just had mom on the news
shes been released after they realized she was almost killed trying to get her baby away from the fucker.


ARGENTINE TOWNSHIP (WJRT) -- (04/13/10) -- Grandparents of a Genesee County child are calling on everyone to take action whenever abuse is suspected.

Police say 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun was beaten to death last weekend.

The beating happened in Argentine Township, according to police, at an apartment on Harper Street.

The child was taken to Hurley Medical center where he died.

The boyfriend of Dominick's mother is being held in connection with the beating death.

Dominick's grandparents say neighbors and friends should be aware of abuse situations and call authorities, if necessary.

"It's going to haunt me. It's going to haunt all of us, I guess, because we didn't make sure everything's OK," Dominick's grandmother Julie Baker said.

Grandfather Martin Baker said he was shocked when he arrived at the apartment last weekend to see Dominick and his mother beaten. "The best thing for people to realize is, you know, if you hear any noises or anything at all, you need to call somebody, especially if you suspect it."

Family members say the beating of Dominick was severe, officials at Hurley's Trauma Unit tell them they have never seen anything like this.

Both Dominick's mother and her boyfriend were originally taken into custody. The mother has been released.

[...]
Leyton does confirm the suspect in the beating was arraigned on separate drug charges today (Tuesday). Those charges include delivery of marijuana to a minor and possession with intent to deliver marijuana.
[...]
http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=7384250 Make sure to watch the video


Pics of Dominic and interview with his dad at this link http://www.tctimes.com/articles/2010/04/14/news/doc4bc4e2d403839097288264.txt
The pic of mom is mellow compared to how she really looks
The lighting makes her look like a super model


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Corrine Baker, Dominics MOMhttp://i39.tinypic.com/2ahy547.jpg
Corrine and her boys
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Dominic

[MadeaBecBec]

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Dominick Calhoun

You were precious and beautiful, Dominick, the brutality of your death has broken my heart! Even though, I know, Father God rocks you gently and lovingly, it should never have been this way, you deserved to live a full and happy life. I pray for wisdom and understanding to help put a stop to these horrible crimes!

Facebook Page, "Justice for Dominick Calhoun" http://www.facebook.com/pages/Justice-for-Dominick-Calhoun/111166185582195

Dominicks Father, Eric Calhoun Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ecalhoun3?v=wall

A group against the mom: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Corrine-Baker-Is-A-Liar/109256952443099?ref=mf


Mothers (Corine Baker) myspace: http://www.myspace.com/corinemichele
Mom gives an interview here: http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/news/video.aspx?id=443377


Brandon Hayes, 24, the boyfriend of the 4-year-old boy's mother, has been in trouble with the law his entire adult life.

According to public records, Hayes was incarcerated in 2004 when he was 18 years old.

In 2007, he was sentenced to two years in prison for assaulting, resisting, obstructing a police officer and fleeing police.

Prior to that, he was on probation for a year beginning in 2005 for possessing a controlled substance. He was also on probation for a year and a half for fleeing police, assaulting, resisting, and obstructing a police officer.

A Mt. Morris woman filed a personal protection order against him two months ago, and he was in court for that just last month.

http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/news/story.aspx?id=443866

[Silvahalo]

The police chief said there were signs of previous abuse on the 4-year-old boy. His 8-year-old brother showed no signs of injury and was temporarily turned over to Child Protective Services.

When asked what Dominick endured, the police chief said it was as if he had been tortured. “It went on for several days. He was beaten, kicked and burned. It was bad — really, really bad, he was beaten from head to toe. He had burns on his hands.”
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The mother had visible injuries to her head, face and body; however, her injuries were non-life threatening, according to the police chief.

Mother looks bad in that picture but she's alive and she did not sustain life threatening injuries. I"m not saying she didn't try to protect Dominick, I am saying she didn't try hard enough. I do think it is all possible they were all being held captive, baby killer threatening to injure/kill the 8 yo if mom didn't comply. Real, real bad situation. Still, I think they would have found either baby killer dead or myself, fighting for my boy's life.

The grandparents say neighbors should have been more aware, I agree. ALL of them failed in being more aware. Family is forefront in lots of cases who feel something is amiss. Dominick had old injuries, abuse started likely 3/30 as mother moved in with this fucker. Hayes had a criminal record, violent one too. Mother should have walked away as she saw the first sign of abuse. She had family to support her, she should have walked away, children in tow never looking back.

"Dominick was found unconscious in his Argentine Township apartment with bruises covering his body and all of his teeth knocked out..... burns covered Dominick’s body and his brain was “bashed out of his skull.”

Mother of god, the utter horror he experienced those last days brings me to tears. What really gets me is he died with mom witnessing what was happening to him. She was there in arms reach! I wonder how many times he cried out to mama? how many cries of anguish? and still, the beatings continued. No, no how I could have witnessed that hell and not kill the vicious POS. I might have died trying to kill that fucker but he would not have been standing come the cops knocking at the door.

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Littlest Dominick was a treasure, the light of life. He loved his Red Car (http://media.mlive.com/newsnow_impact/photo/dominick-calhoun-01jpg-913b3209c7982985_medium.jpg), snow mobiling, and dancing for anyone who'd take a moment to watch. Dominick was a 4 yo child, innocent and trusting. He believed that people were good and loving, that mom always made it better. I wish he died believing that. Hand on heart Dominick, you will not be forgotten. In the heavens always loved, always cherished.


Facebook/Justice for Dominick Calhoun!'s Photos. (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Justice-for-Dominick-Calhoun/111166185582195#!/pages/Justice-for-Dominick-Calhoun/111166185582195?v=photos).
source (http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/04/dominick_calhoun_argentine_tow.html).

[Ninja0980]

I'm sorry but in cases like this...I hate the fact we can't do mob justice. Put this guy in general population after broadcasting what he did on tv to all the inmates and let them do the rest. As for the neighbors that heard the beatings and cries and did nothing... you deserve all the scorn and contempt you can get.

[Whisper]

Im trying to find the updates on the news site that they have had on the news casts.
The burns and stuff this baby suffered are unbelieveable
I dont understand they can put it out there on TV but cant put on the news sites?

[Valasca]

It takes a big man to beat and kill a tough 4 year old.
Ok, kids... 9mm, glock, mossbergs ready?

[Ninja0980]

Here's one update....
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/04/charges_announced_against_bran.html

Michigan -- Brandon Joshua-Frederick Hayes has been charged with torture and premeditated murder in the beating death of 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun.

The 24-year-old Argentine Township man is accused of beating the boy in their apartment over several days after the boy urinated on himself while sitting on the couch, officials said today. Hayes was the boyfriend of Dominick's mother.
"Little Dominick met his boogie man, and that was defendant Hayes," Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell.
Hayes was also charged with first-degree child abuse, assault with intent to do great bodily harm, two counts of felony murder and three drug charges, said Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton. He was arraigned this morning, and faces up to life in prison without parole if convicted.

Pickell said the joint investigation between his department and Argentine Township police is ongoing "especially as it relates to the mother." The mother of the boy was taken into custody after the boy was found by police on Sunday, but was later released.

[Valasca]

Good gawds, I am reading all the links that Whisper posted.
All those people are right. I'd have DIED protecting my child. A piddly scratch on the nose would not stop me.

[Whisper]

ARGENTINE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WXYZ) - The Genesee County prosecutor says a 24-year-old man will face premeditated murder and torture charges in the horrific beating death of 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun in Argentine Township.

David Leyton announced the charges against Brandon Joshua-Frederick Hayes at a 10:00 a.m. Thursday press conference. Hayes has also been charged with first-degree child abuse, assault with intent to do great bodily harm, two counts of felony murder and three drug charges.

Authorities say it appears the child was tortured and beaten for days. It reportedly started over the weekend when Dominick urinated himself while sitting on the couch.
The child's mother, Corrin Baker, told reporters she did everything she could to try and protect her son from her boyfriend. Baker's face was battered and bruised. She says she was attacked while trying to stop the abuse.
[...]
The little boy's body was burned, his teeth were knocked out and his skull was crushed. Doctors and nurses at Hurley Medical Center say it was the worse beating they had ever seen.
[...]
http://www.wxyz.com/news/story/Boy-Beaten-to-Death-Charges-Filed/SztT42GWeUqyzAk-U8AVmQ.cspx

Thery have councellors for the cops and anyone else in involved in the case as its the wosre case anyone has seen in this area
Sad story but even sadder is its all to common out there we just dont hear of them all
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Not the greatest pic but only one out there
Doesnt even really look like the pic at the top
Im wondering if thats an older mugshopt b/c hes been in and out of jail

[Ninja0980]

http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=7387900

FLINT (WJRT) -- (04/15/10)--Charges have been filed against Brandon Hayes, who is accused of beating a 4-year-old boy to death.

Investigators say Dominick Calhoun was declared brain dead Sunday at Hurley Medical Center.

Sheriff Robert Pickell says the youngster endured "torturous beatings" beginning Thursday. All of it, according to authorities, came at the hands of Hayes, who was his mother's boyfriend.

Hayes, 24, faces nine charges, including premeditated murder and torture. That torture charge is not commonly issued, according to Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton, but one that was absolutely necessary in this case, Leyton said.

"This was simply a vicious killing, as bad as anything you could possibly imagine," Leyton said.

Investigators say the beatings began Thursday when the boy urinated on himself as he sat on the couch, eating his breakfast.

That "torture" continued for days, according to authorities. They say the toddler's mother was beaten right along with him.

Pickell says Hayes often referred to Dominick as a "crackhead" and said in the days leading up to his death that the little boy "deserved to die."

Investigators say the boy and his badly-injured mother were discovered Sunday when her sister came to buy drugs from the couple. A grandparent was notified, and he contacted police. Dominick was taken to Hurley, declared brain dead and put on life support.
The mother and Hayes were arrested.

She's since been released.

Hayes is being held without bond for the torture and murder charges. A $5 million bond was set for the remaining child abuse, assault and drug charges.

"Little Dominick met his boogie man, and that was defendant Hayes," Pickell said.


Another article...the more and more that comes out, the more and more I hope someone beats this POS to death. There are times when looking the other way is okay... and this is one of those times. As for the mother, sorry but it appears you're a drug user. Why you didn't let Dominic's father or your parents take him I won't get.

[Whisper]

Last word(of mine )on this case until I see more come out
I have been sick for few days so havent been on
Really didnt watch alot of news
I read my books


But that said I am now just seeing this took place over A FEW DAYS??
As a mom I know when a child is hurt at home in a normal accident time is of the escessance to get that child to a dr/hospital.
He couldve probrably been saved if taken in a timely manner of ohhh lets say even 24 hours????
Im sorry shes beaten but I think she shouldve fucking whacked him in the head or something its just not sitting right with me after reading everything and searcjhing on the net that this took place over a few days
Im sorry this mom said on the news each time she called her mom he took the phone
How fucking stupid is she to not just scream call police??
How fucking stupid that fpr 2 days her daughter xcalls her and gets her online and he takes phone and she doesnt call police and ask for a welfare check??

[Whisper]

Charges announced against Brandon Hayes in beating death of 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun in Argentine Township


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Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell talks about the case of Brandon Joshua-Frederick Hayes, who has been charged with torture and premeditated murder in the beating death of 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun, during a press conference on Thursday at the Genesee County Courthouse in Flint.
FOUND A NEW PIC OF THE PISS ANT
http://i43.tinypic.com/2rrbhwp.jpg
Brandon Hayes NOT SUCH A TOUGH GUY NOW EH?

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/04/charges_announced_against_bran.html

[Whisper]

Also moms still looking at charges b/c she called her mom and said she would call her back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!
He then took her SIM card(or whatever its called) and flushed it she let that baby lay there until he was found Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The more I hear on our news the more I wanna go there and fucking bitch slap her with a sledge hammer.


They havent yet updated the news site that has about mom still facing charges
But I have part of the news cast here and will update as soon as they update it.

ARGENTINE TOWNSHIP, Mich. --
Authorities said a 4-year-old Genesee County boy was beaten to death after he urinated on himself while sitting on a couch.
[...]
Dominick Calhoun was taken off life support Monday, a day after relatives found him and his mother on the floor of an apartment in Argentine Township.
Police said the child endured unthinkable torture over a 24-hour period and had injuries to his entire body.
One neighbor said the victim's 8-year-old brother told her what he saw happen inside of the apartment as police secured the scene Sunday.
"The mom's boyfriend was stepping on his head. Stomping on his head, and kicking him in the ribs and punching him in the face," said Patty Brown.
The 8-year-old was removed from the home and placed into protective custody.
Dominick's mother, Corrine Baker, tells TV station WEYI she was aware of the beating but claims Hayes wouldn't let her out of the apartment to get help.

"I wanted to take Dominick to the hospital. I called my mom and told her I would call her right back, but he took my phone and flushed the sym card down the toilet, " said Baker.
Baker appeared on TV with two black eyes. She was briefly treated at the hospital and released.
"He kicked me in the face, burned me with cigarettes. I was screaming... Screaming at the top of my lungs. … I thought I was going to die. Every time I would go to Dominick he'd rip me off him and I would go back and try to protect him as best I could," said Baker.
It was not known if Hayes had a defense lawyer yet.http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/23162230/detail.html

[killadelfia]

Some good news about Corrine, the sad sack of shit who calls herself a "mother". According to the Michigan offenders site, Corrine's scars include:

Scar- Lower Abdomen - cut twice: C-section and Hysterectomy
Looks like the bitch isn't gonna be popping out any babies any time soon. Now let's pray that the D.A. will go ahead and charge her, she is no better than Brandon, and was probably too high on meth to adequately protect poor Dominick.

http://www.state.mi.us/mdoc/asp/otis2profile.asp?mdocNumber=706127

[CasperGirl]

Ok, I am kinda split on this. I really want to feel disgusted towards the mother, but for right now I just can't. She really may not have been able to get out and get her son help, that dude looks like he could be a real total fucking psycho. And if she was trying to get to the boy to protect him and she does have the bruises to show she was beaten too. I don't know. I am still split on this.

[Alf]

FOUND A NEW PIC OF THE PISS ANT
http://i43.tinypic.com/2rrbhwp.jpg
Brandon Hayes
NOT SUCH A TOUGH GUY NOW EH?


Suicide smock. Reckon they're afraid he'll off himself to keep from going back to prison.

--Al

[killadelfia]

My opinion:
If my baby were being attacked, I would have more than a couple yellow-ing black eyes (which look a week old) and a cut on my nose. She had no defensive wounds on her arms, and neither did he. Maybe she tried to fight...but she didn't try hard enough. She could have tried to seduce Brandon, taken in him the bedroom and bit his dick off before she ran for help. She could have broken out every window, or even jumped out the window herself.
The abuse went on for days, didn't Brandon ever go to sleep at some point? She was able to let the 8 year old out to play, couldn't she have whispered to him to go to the neighbor's and call 911? And when she did call her mom, before he threw her SIM card away, she said "I'll call you back". Tell the mom to call 911, or call 911 yourself!
I think that if you are a mother, you have a DUTY to protect your children, no matter what the cost. I've been beaten up worse than her in street fights, the injuries she suffered were minor and didn't even look new. If Dominick had been my child, I would either be gone because I had fought to the death to save him, or Brandon would have been the murder victim in this case.

[Dneilz]

Ok, I am kinda split on this. I really want to feel disgusted towards the mother, but for right now I just can't. She really may not have been able to get out and get her son help, that dude looks like he could be a real total fucking psycho. And if she was trying to get to the boy to protect him and she does have the bruises to show she was beaten too. I don't know. I am still split on this.
Instead of making her one phone call to mom, she should have dialed 911...... but she could have been in shock or something from everything that had transpired.

[Whisper]

Suicide smock. Reckon they're afraid he'll off himself to keep from going back to prison.

--Al
Yeah I noticed that too

[Whisper]

CNN) --[...]
Brandon Joshua-Frederick Hayes, 24, "systematically beat" Dominick Calhoun, 4, "pummeling [him] with fists and kicking him" on his arms, legs and genitalia, Genesee County prosecutor David Leyton told CNN.

Hayes also apparently burned the boy in the course of the torture. "The knuckles across one hand were charred," Argentine Township police chief Dan Allen said.
"I've been doing this a long time, and this is the worst case of child abuse I've ever seen," the police chief said. "In all respects, he was tortured."
[...]
CNN was unable to reach someone who could speak on Hayes' behalf.
Hayes' motivation for his savage multiday attack on the boy was that the child "had wet his pants," Leyton said. "It had happened before."Hayes also resented the child because his "biological father wouldn't pay child support," Leyton said.
Dominick's mother, Corrine Baker, was present for at least some of the beating and tried to shield the boy from Hayes' aggression, authorities said.
[...]
The sequence of events that led to the discovery of the abuse began when Baker's sister and several acquaintances came to the apartment to buy drugs from Hayes, according to Allen. After seeing Dominick's condition, the sister alerted the boy's paternal grandfather, who in turn contacted authorities.When emergency responders entered the apartment on the afternoon of April 11, Dominick was "barely alive." EMS transferred him to Hurley Hospital in Flint, where he was pronounced brain dead.

The boy was taken off life support the following morning.

Dominick's mother's whereabouts and actions through all portions of the torture session remain somewhat hazy. The county prosecutor said his office is "still investigating her involvement in all this."
"She's also culpable for putting him in the dangerous position in the first place," he added.
[...]

The town police chief said Baker and her son had been brought to the attention of Genesee County Department of Child Services on several occasions. The agency did not respond to CNN's requests for comment Thursday.

It was not immediately clear whether Baker's involvement with the child services agency predated her relationship with Hayes. The police chief said he believed Baker and Hayes had been together for about six months.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/15/michigan.child.torture/index.html


STILL HAVENT UPDATED OTHER NEWS SITE YET BUT THEY MAKE SOME WHAT OF REFERENCE TO HER AND CHARGES.
So hes been beat before and she stayed or he peed on couch before??

[Alf]

x

[Whisper]

At a press conference Thursday investigators revealed a detailed timeline of the abuse a 4-year-old Argentine Township boy endured before he lost his life.

POLICE TIMELINE OF HIS TORTURE



Thursday, April 8:

Police say the nightmare started Thursday, April 8 as Dominick Calhoun ate breakfast. He had an accident and wet himself on a sofa.

Investigators allege 24-year-old Brandon Joshua Frederick Hayes flew into a rage and beat his girlfriend’s child.

When his girlfriend Corrine Baker arrived home Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell says the man then beat her.

“As he beat her he was yelling, ‘Who is going to pay for this?’ referring to the sofa,” says Pickell.





Friday, April 9:

Investigators say Hayes was still angry the next day, and wanted to teach the little boy a lesson.

He hit and kicked the 4-year-old in the head and genitalia to punish him for the accident.

“He said he was tired of raising a little crack addict, and that Dominick deserved to die,” says Sheriff Pickell.

Investigators say Baker tried to protect her son, and covered his body with her own. She then was also beaten.

Saturday, April 10:
Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell says Hayes dragged an unresponsive Dominick out of bed by his arm.

Investigators believe the boy was unconscious as Hayes continued to beat him throughout the day.

“He even took his fingers, and pushed in on the boy’s eyes,” says Pickell.

Dominick now had suffered injuries to his entire body.



Sunday, April 11:

Baker’s underage sister came to the apartment to buy drugs in the morning, and saw the battered 4-year-old and his mother.
[...]
When police arrived Dominick was lying in bed unconscious and moaning, wearing only a pull-up and a t-shirt. He appeared near death.

A sheriff’s paramedic rushed the child to Hurley Medical Center where doctors tried to bring down swelling on his brain by operating on his skull. They pronounced him brain dead Sunday evening, but put him on life support


Monday, April 12:

Family members took 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun off life support. Doctors pronounced him dead at 11:02 a.m..http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/news/story.aspx?id=444468

[Alf]

Lord help me; I was seeing red. Again.

--Al

[Whisper]

There you go
mom needs to beaten more and eyes shoved in her head.

[Tundratot]

I am outraged and homicidal toward this cornholio, Brandon! As I understand it, he had his girlfriend and her kids move in at the end of March; got tired of her youngest boy; and decided to beat the life out of him -- and his mother -- before the month was half over. Just how can it have been a surprise to him that parenthood wasn't a cake walk?! And, if it was too much trouble for him, what sort of brain fart made it more expedient to kill the kid in front of his mother and brother, than to send her and her children packing? The monster is a psychopath.

I visited the mom's Myspace site, and she was so excited about this guy (before the date she moved in). His must have been a real Jekyll and Hyde transformation. What a nightmare come true. If he was already referring to her youngest son as "crackhead" (amazing hypocrisy and a misplaced epithet) in front of her, she should have taken it to heart and moved out quick. That's a bad sign. Just too bad she had no idea BEFORE she moved in. No doubt she felt she had nowhere to go, having given up her former home to move in with Freddie Kruger. I feel sorry for her. I think she was unable to fight . . . not evidently being able to even think that way or maybe not having had brothers or something . . . so she couldn't bring herself to do more than defend. I also wonder if cornholio was not sleeping while in his meth-fueled rage. So there would have been no opportunity to escape with her children. I can understand debilitating fear, but not failing to take an opportunity to run like hell when the monster left or slept.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

His mug with a side-view. Looks like someone may have started the process of what I hope is a long life of repeated knocks... not all on his skull.

http://i41.tinypic.com/10z5veb.jpg

[Whisper]

God I hope so
And mom in my books is a stupid cunt
I hope they nail her to the wall
A agree with eveyone that said they would have more then a couple black eyes
I know in my heart I would be brought out in a body bag
THIS STARTED ON THURSDAY FOR FUCK SAKES
This has renewed efforts that bring back ther DP in Michigan
This is the woprst they have seen
I have seen cops breakling down on Tv
I would bet my house those bumps came from "tripping walking through a door way?
They tend to hit the door jam(according to my best friends dad) hes a ex undercover cop and he said theres something about those damn door jams almost magnetic

[Whisper]

His mug with a side-view. Looks like someone may have started the process of what I hope is a long life of repeated knocks... not all on his skull.

http://i41.tinypic.com/10z5veb.jpg
outta thanks and gave to many reps but Ill get back to you lol

[Dakota Valkyrie]

The Argentine Township man accused of torturing and beating his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son to death faces life in prison with no chance of parole if he is found guilty as charged.
[...]

“This case goes beyond torture,” said Pickell. He added that through discussions with veteran police officers who see a lot of abuse, day in and day out, this has been gut wrenching.

“All kids talk about the boogeyman,” said the sheriff. “Dominick met his boogeyman.”
[...]

The county prosecutor announced that Hayes has been arraigned on nine counts, including torture, murder, child abuse, assault and drug charges.

“This was simply a vicious killing, bad as anything you could imagine,” said Leyton. “The pictures are indescribable.
[...]

Pickell said the investigation is continuing on Corrine Baker and detectives are waiting on more reports to come in. She could also be facing charges, pending the outcome of the investigation.

The sheriff did say that he does not believe Corrine took part in the fatal beating of Dominick. He said there is, however, a history of abuse, dating back to 2008, against her.

Neighbors of Baker and Hayes have made statements on television that they heard sounds from the apartment, but did not report anything to police. “A normal person would call law enforcement,” said Allen. Police remind everyone that if they observe or hear suspicious activities or sounds, they should call 911. These calls can remain anonymous.
[...]

When asked if Corrine faces any charges, Pickell said detectives were looking into the matter. “They lived in a drug house, a crack house. Hayes even called him (Dominick) a crack head.

“She (Corrine) did crack while carrying him (Dominick),” said Pickell.
http://www.tctimes.com/articles/2010/04/16/news/doc4bc89df6cad4a327754884.txt

Charges against Brandon Joshua-Frederick Hayes

Count 1 – Torture, with intent to cause cruel or extreme mental pain and suffering to Dominick. Penalty – up to life in prison. No bond.

Count 2 – Felony murder, done while perpetrating torture to Dominick. Penalty – life in prison without the possibility of parole. No bond.

Count 3 – First-degree child abuse, by knowingly harming Dominick. Penalty – up to 15 years in prison. Bond - $1 million.

Count 4 – Felony murder, done while perpetration or attempted perpetration of first-degree child abuse. Penalty – life in prison, without possibility of parole. No bond.

Count 5 – First-degree premeditated murder, for killing/murdering Dominick. Penalty – life in prison without possibility of parole. No bond.

Count 6 – Assault with intent to cause great bodily harm, less than murder for the assault on Corrine Baker. Penalty – up to 10 years in prison. Bond – $1 million.

Count 7 – delivery of marijuana to a minor. Bond - $1 million.

Count 8 – possession of marijuana with intent to deliver. Bond - $1 million.

Count 9 – possession of hydrocodone. Bond - $1 million.Justice for Dominick Calhoun! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Justice-for-Dominick-Calhoun/111166185582195 (over 15,000 members)

http://i42.tinypic.com/2d97ocz.jpg

[Silvahalo]

When asked if Corrine faces any charges, Pickell said detectives were looking into the matter. “They lived in a drug house, a crack house. Hayes even called him (Dominick) a crack head.

“She (Corrine) did crack while carrying him (Dominick),” said Pickell.
...He said there is, however, a history of abuse, dating back to 2008, against her.It really can't get any worse as Dominick is dead, but somehow, it feels worse. She failed Dominick in so many ways, far before this horrific incident. Sounds like she was abusing Dominick years before this monster got his hands on him. And that's why I wonder why family didn't notice something wrong, the father, the grandparents...anyone close to them.

Dominick didn't really have a mother at all, just someone who pushed him out and said this is life, deal with it. This Hayes fucker is a vile, sick bastard who should die by a vicious beating that lasts for weeks. I hope he is terrified and beaten daily, that prospect gives me some comfort.

And I do want to say that I feel for a woman who's under the hand of violence but that is a mute point when she fails to protect her own child. Dominick was 4 yo, just a wee child, she's a grown woman who's duty was to protect Dominick at all costs even if it meant her own life.

So sorry Dominick just breaks my heart over and over as more details come out.

Dominick's favorite toy.
http://i510.photobucket.com/albums/s341/silvahalo68/Fallen%20angels/abused%20children/50181643.jpg

[Jerri Blank]

I don't know how I missed this thread till today but I am beside myself. This big lipped piece of shit tortured a tiny child..so much like baby p, I am shaking with rage.

I realize mom did in some respect try to protect her son, and hey if this all happened in one day I'd be proud of her...but it didn't, unfucking UN-excusable.

...and I never in my life heard of a weed smokers of destroying anything more than a bag of Doritos® So yanno this fat fucker had it in for this child off the get go. I am guessing he was jealous of the little boy and so deranged in his head he probably believe the boy wet himself purposely.

all that's irrelevant though cause Dominick's dead and his older brother will never have him in his life and will have these horrible memories to deal with forever.

moms pretty (except those golden teeth) so what made stay with this ugly as shit fatty baby killer? the weed couldn't be that good.

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/9960/dominick282029.jpg
DOMINICK RICHARD CALHOUN
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/536/dominick28929.jpg
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[TwiztidAngel]

as a former abused woman, and one that had a kid beat near death... i must say...

1. (baby daddy2)in the abuse aspect she FAILED as a mother to protect her child...nothing would kept me from gettin help or fighting to the death...and i was terrified of that man

2. i had to contain myself not to 'harm' asshole(not a baby daddy) cuz i didnt want to go to jail when my kids needed me most

3. why do men feel big beating on women and especially helpless babies???

[Marv]

That pathetic non-mother should have grabbed a knife while that cowardly piece of shit was busy beating and stomping on her baby. She should have plunged it into the stinking cavity where his heart should have been. Again and again and again.

She failed her beautiful baby, and she needs to pay for that.

He dragged him out of bed when he was unresponsive, ffs. Carried on beating him while he was unconcious! All his teeth were knocked out? His skull was smashed? Burns on his little hand? And all because he peed on the sofa. Poor child probably wet himself out of fear in the first place!

The crack-whore mother deserves the same sentence as her wicked, derranged, fugly tard penis. She has a few bruises, her child is dead. She was probably only trying to stop the beating so she could get another fix from her dealer BF.

I can't tell you how absolutely livid, how blindly furious I was reading the timeline of toture. My stomach is still churning now, and my heart is racing. I would dearly love to take a baseball bat to both of those bastards.

RIP sweet, gorgeous little Dominick. x

[Jerri Blank]

why do men feel big beating on women and especially helpless babies???

isn't that something, this guy beat a little boy to death, beat his petite mother and now that he's in jail with MEN he is on suicide watch.

hmm what a huge pussy this guy is when it came down to facing his kind.

I hope he is raped nightly

[TwiztidAngel]

I hope he is raped nightly

and....daily

[TwiztidAngel]

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/536/dominick28929.jpg

he just looks so impish and sweet RIP Baby Boy...fly with the angels :sad:

[donegaveup]

I don't have an ounce of sympathy for this so called mother. Truth be told, I'd like to give her a beat down my own self. Sure, she was beaten but she walked away still breathing. SHE didn't get her brains beat out of her head. SHE made the decision to subject her kids to that big dumb vicious ox. SHE put them in harm's way, so fuck her. SHE should have gotten those kids away from him when he started his verbal abuse. How fucking ignorant do you have to be to call a little kid a crackhead? If SHE just had to have that monster in her life she should have found someone to take her kids in. Someone who could and would have kept them safe and allowed them to be kids.. But hell no, she left everything to chance. Verbal abuse and selling drugs from the home were not red flags to her? Unbelievable.

I have made plenty of mistakes as a mother but one thing I NEVER did was let anybody hurt my kids, in any way. I lived by the creed: You fuck with my kids and I will you fuck you up. Still do and my kids are adults. I've gotten myself in plenty of hot water through the years but it never bothered me because protecting my kids was/is MY JOB.

Yet again the smallest and most defenseless person is the one who got the worst of it. Paid for the sins of his mother with his life. And what about the older brother? He will be forever haunted and his life colored by what he witnessed in that house of horrors.

Nope her black eyes don't bother me, her black heart on the other hand puts me in a blind fury. As for that slack-jawed pasty faced, ugly deranged sadistic beast of a boyfriend, I ain't even getting into what I hope happens to him.

The pictures of this precious little victim have turned me into a shaking sobbing mess. What a perfect example of adorable little boy he was. To think some big bunch of walking puke destroyed that makes me want to slit my own throat. I don't wanna live in a world where this kind of thing happens over and over and over. I don't wanna be lumped in the same category as other so called "humans" who do these things.

[Silvahalo]

http://i510.photobucket.com/albums/s341/silvahalo68/Fallen%20angels/FallenAngels2/a66b29b8.jpg


There are no more words for the one who stole this precious life, the one who invited death, who failed to champion him in his last moments of breath. What remains is the undeniable knowing in my heart as we grieve for Dominick, look into his innocent eyes, he now lives in the heavens. Let not sorrow, fear or a devastated heart take from you what is true and good. Dominick lives always in every person who remembers him, who honors him in memory, as his light of life shines brilliant, eternally.

In the heavens always precious Dominick, you will not be forgotten.

[Ninja0980]

I'm sure many of us know about the case of Baby P in England, a boy who was tortured to death. Recently in prison, he got scalding water thrown in his face and now has scars. It was said he suffered in pain for several days. One can only hope that will happen in this case.

[Whisper]

For this to begin on Thursday and continue until Sunday theres no excuse for moms actions
Theres no way in hell that she wouldnt have had opprptunity to grab a weapon,make a phone call or anything
I see nothing saying she was bond and gagged for those 4 DAYS THIS BABY WAS BEATEN REGULARILY FOR 4 DAYS
The news has slowed a bit but her other son was taken from her and placed with bio dad after few days (checked him out is my guess)
She will most likel;y be charged in the not to distant future but I have no sympathy for her but I do for the brother that saw it all and my guess is hes seen a hell of a lot more during those 6 months living there,
I REALLY,REALLY,REALLY,REALLY Hope a family member of hers finds this thread
I wanna hear the excuses for both POS:angel5::angel5::angel5:

[Ninja0980]

Anyone that had any sympathy or support for the mother...this should stomp on it, run over it, and destroy it...

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/04/court_documents_mother_of_domi.html

ARGENTINE TOWNSHIP, Michigan — In the midst of the four days of alleged torture that killed her son, Dominick Calhoun’s mother walked out of the house and left the trouble there behind, according to court records.

Her parents picked Dominick’s mother up for a doctor’s appointment that Friday — April 9, the day after police say the abuse of 4-year-old Dominick began.
She went and returned.

And, never notified anyone of the alleged abuse going on behind closed doors, according to a petition filed by the Department of Human Services.

The 25-year-old woman has not been charged with a crime in Dominick’s death, though officials this week said the investigation is ongoing.

Candy Mattson, director of the domestic violence and sexual assault program at the YWCA in Flint, declined to speak specifically on this case but said victims of domestic violence could be threatened before they leave home, preventing them from speaking out.

“They think nobody can help them,” she said. “(Perpetrators) become larger than life to them and they don’t think they can get away alive.”

Nope, sorry Ms.Mattson, I don't buy it. There is no excuse why that SOB was allowed to torture this poor boy over several days, NONE. I think mommy was more concerned with the cops discovering they dealing drugs then her children's safety.

[Whisper]

yeah shes lost all credibilty here
people want justice for Dominic
So if she was beat thurs to sun like she said why didnt mom or dr notice anthing on her????
shes a cunt and will (hopefully_) get hers and I really hope a family member finds us to
defend her

[Whisper]

They think nobody can help them,” she said. “(Perpetrators) become larger than life to them and they don’t think they can get away alive
and I call bullshit on this in this case at least
It was a brand new relationship
Not one that she been

beaten over period of yrs and mentally scarred from yrs of abuse

now im really pissed
wish I wasnt afraid of Detroit lol
She needs a good old fashioned lynching( I wouldnt do it but someone needs to)

[OMalley]

I KNOW it's said you can't predict how you'd re-act until it really happened to you...but I really REALLY think I would've found a way to kill that bastard. And I sure as HELL would've found a way to get my kid help.
I mean, she just sat and WATCHED while that piece of shit beat her kid...for days? I really don't think that's what I would've done. Scared? Sure. But WTH? Stick your head out the window, call for help! Would I have left the torture chamber to go to a doc. appt, leaving my poor beaten kid with psycho-guy, and returned without help? I don't think so.
That Mom is a drug-addled douchebag.
So sorry for what happened to that poor kid and for his brother, who will probably be forever screwed up now.

[Silvahalo]

I had lost desire to speak on those repsonsible for Dominick's death, give them not another moment of my thoughts, but after reading this?!

Her parents picked Dominick’s mother up for a doctor’s appointment that Friday — April 9, the day after police say the abuse of 4-year-old Dominick began.
She went and returned. (without help!?)

And, never notified anyone of the alleged abuse going on behind closed doors, according to a petition filed by the Department of Human Services.


A beaten down woman sure, scared no doubt, likely threatened to return without help, (and I do not take domestic violence lightly). Seriously, tho, this was Dominick's last chance for help and she didn't do a damn thing, not a ONE!

This woman is a cuntly, loser, whore who's waking moments worships the almighty drug that she put first before her dying child. I seriously would like to see her baby birthing insides rot taking her into the deep bowels of Hell screaming!

[TwiztidAngel]

They think nobody can help them,” she said. “(Perpetrators) become larger than life to them and they don’t think they can get away alive

BULLSHIT! when i was with Tiff's SD he would beat the shit outta me on the daily...and i DID want to leave but i was scared....then he slapped my at the time 23 month old baby boy ...that was it i was outta there

[Whisper]

Its instinct
I dont even remember running outside
Grabbing my brain dead wonder child in a headlock and throwing her pretty much 15 feet Into the hiouse when neighbor was being robbed and she heard it and while I called 911She ran out to the fucking gunmen and they were pointng the gun at her

You just do
You dont think
Like i said i still dont really remember doing it
I just did it and any mom would
she shouldve called his bluff about killing her(if he did threaten her)
she shouldve died attempting to get that baby out of there

really just says to me"its happened before and after few days Dominic was fine again"
she figured she would wait few days make most of the bruises disappear so no one would notice

http://i578.photobucket.com/albums/ss221/windy11_2009/Blueeyes-1-1-1-1-1-2.jpg

[Whisper]

This woman is a cuntly, loser, whore who's waking moments worships the almighty drug that she put first before her dying child. I seriously would like to see her baby birthing insides rot, taking her into deep bowels of Hell screaming! __________________


Dont forget pimply-ass-gutter-slut!!!!

[misfirefly]

Do we know if she was knocked out at some point? Because her injuries say she at the very least tried. And we can't say that for many of the incubaters featured.

[misfirefly]

[QUOTE=Ninja0980;392537]Anyone that had any sympathy or support for the mother...this should stomp on it, run over it, and destroy it...
In the midst of the four days of alleged torture that killed her son, Dominick Calhoun’s mother walked out of the house and left the trouble there behind, according to court records.
Her parents picked Dominick’s mother up for a doctor’s appointment that Friday — April 9, the day after police say the abuse of 4-year-old Dominick began.
She went and returned.
And, never notified anyone of the alleged abuse going on behind closed doors, according to a petition filed by the Department of Human Services.

Okay, somehow i missed that. She deserves to die like that poor baby. May Jesus keep him close.

[donegaveup]

She LEFT the freaking house and STILL did not get help?? What first class fucking cunt. She had the audacity to get herself medical care while her little boy was being beaten to a bloody pulp??? This monster is without a soul. She better be charged, she's just as guilty as the male monster, more guilty really as he was her son.

She could have gotten herself and those kids out of there. Scared my ass. Lazy, worthless, uncaring and a total cunt I believe, scared not so much. There had to be something big enough for her to use to hit him in the head and stun him long enough to escape with those kids. She could have sprayed bug spray or cleaning fluid into his eyes to incapacitate him long enough to run for it. She could have put the older boy out the window with instructions to go for help and call 911. If nothing else she could have thrown the kids out the front door screaming like a maniac which would have attracted attention right fast.

If murder was legal for one day folks you can bet this bitch would get hers. I'll bet the line to get at her would be 10 miles long.

[MadeaBecBec]

Corrine Baker pleaded guilty in October 2008 to delivery of a controlled substance and was subsequently sentenced to probation, according to Livingston County Circuit Court records. In a July 2008 hearing in which Corrine Baker's parents petitioned for custody of her children, Corrine Baker told the judge the charges were a "misunderstanding" in which state police believed she was selling her prescription medications.
Child Protective Services has been involved with the family since 2008, officials said.

http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20100416/NEWS01/4160301/Charges-filed-for-murder-of-4-year-old-with-video

Sweet baby Dominick was born October 5, 2005. It appears that when he was only three, egg-donor had been arrested, put on probation and her parents fighting for custody of him and his brother. I have to question, why the Dad wasn't given custody, then? And, Who is Sean?
From her myspace, in the who I'd like to meet:

THERE IS NO ONE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO MEET BECAUSE EVERYONE ON HERE I HAVE ALL OF MY FRIENDS, I AM ALWAYS TRYING TO FIND MY FRIENDS FROM A LONG TIME AGO & SO FAR HAVE HAD ALOT OF GOOD LUCK. MY REAL HOPE & WISH IS TO SUCEED IN MY LIFE I AINT LOOKIN FOR NO MAN BECAUSE I HAVE A MAN THAT LOVES ME MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THIS WORLD AND I LOVE HIM MORE THAN ANYTHING....HE IS MY SOULMATE SO IF YOU ARE TALKING TO ME TO ME TO TRY AND GET WITH ME DONT WASTE YOUR TIME. I LOVE YOU SEAN AND ALWAYS WILL YOU ARE THE ONE FOR ME, MY SOULMATE AND BESTFRIEND!

The story is on the front page,too:
http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/04/16/dominick-calhoun-4-tortured-to-death-for-urinating-on-a-couch/

Oh, how I wish, this could've been the story
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff307/MadeaBecBec/DominickCalhoun-wishyoucouldhavejus.jpg
Dominick hopped in his little viper and headed out away from all that...........

[AussieMum]

Oh my good Lord.

This is shocking!!!!!

Even if that 'mother' was terrified, tell ur freaking parents, call the cops while ur out. Return before they arrive if you are truely worried. But for fucks sake.... gets YOUR baby help!!!!!

Call 911, leave the phone of the hook so the cops can trace the call. OMG she had options. Send the 8 year old to get milk or something and tell him to not return, call for help.

And he burnt the little boys hand!!!!!! OMG i love my daughters little hands, so cute and chubby still.

BRANDON HAYES IS EVIL SCUM!!!!!!

[navsec]

anyone see the posts on the frontpage by this "Sugarglider1"?

my god what an offensive idiot

[Whisper]

State moves to take brother from Dominick Calhoun's mother
GENESEE COUNTY (WJRT) -- (04/19/10) -- Court records have shed some light on what Dominick Calhoun's mother was doing during one of the days he was being beaten.
Authorities say the 4-year-old boy was tortured and ultimately killed by her boyfriend, Brandon Hayes.
Calhoun was taken off of life support one week ago.

A petition filed by the Department of Human Services asks for a court order to remove Dominick's, older, half brother from their mother's care.
At a news conference last Thursday when charges were announced against Brandon Hayes, investigators outlined a timeline.
"The torturous beatings of 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun began on Thursday, April 8th," Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell said.
[...]
Investigators say Hayes hit his girlfriend, Dominick's mother, too, and the abuse continued in their Argentine Township apartment Friday.

Court records show Dominick's mother was picked up from that apartment that day, but she did not report that anything was wrong between herself, her children or Hayes.
After Dominick's death, his mother told authorities Hayes had just started being abusive in the last week. She asked him about burns on the boy's hand. Hayes said he touched a hot stick in the fire pit.
Dominick's older, half-brother, according to court records, said Hayes put the toddler under hot water, and that he had been hurting him for three days.

Hospital staff said there was evidence of sexual abuse.
[...]http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=7394261&rss=rss-wjrt-article-7394261


video at link also

[TwiztidAngel]

Hospital staff said there was evidence of sexual abuse.

this story keeps getting worse as time goes by

[IDontGetIt]

[QUOTE=whisperswing;391245]Also moms still looking at charges b/c she called her mom and said she would call her back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!
He then took her SIM card(or whatever its called) and flushed it she let that baby lay there until he was found Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





Ok this alone would have made me charge her!!!! Hmmm which makes more sense "Mom call 911" or "oh let me call you back"

Let alone she is picked up taken to the doctor and out and about and says nothing? are you kidding me? That AssFunnel had a chance to save her baby and did nothing twice rot in hell with your two black eyes!

[Ninja0980]

Sorry, but I have no sympathy for the "mother" in this case. The fact the abuse was discovered when the boy's aunt came to buy drugs from them says all I need to know about the environment these boys were living in and IMO why mom didn't come foward with the fact her child was being beaten. It was fear of being found out as a junkie, not fear of her penis.

[Whisper]

In my opinion here is what it was and its only my opinion


+1) Hes her supply of drugs
she calls on him or leaves shes outta luck and into withdrawels maybe
2)he has beat the boys before and they always came back around so she gave it time for bruises to heal enough no one would see them thinking this was just another beating he will be fine
3} she went to drs that day didnt say a word
shes a failure beyond Comprehension and I am praying to whoever that wasnt a drs appt to find out if shes pregnant

[MadeaBecBec]

shes a failure beyond Comprehension and I am praying to whoever that wasnt a drs appt to find out if shes pregnant

Your prayer was answered before you ever whispered it, Corrine Baker had to have a hysterectomy in late 2007!

[Ninja0980]

Your prayer was answered before you ever whispered it, Corrine Baker had to have a hysterectomy in late 2007!

And for that.. I'm glad. This bitch doesn't need to bring any more children into the world.

[Whisper]

I remembered it later on lol
good she shouldnt be allowerd to even have pets
really hope her charges come soon

[Chaindrive]

Dominick's older, half-brother, according to court records, said Hayes put the toddler under hot water, and that he had been hurting him for three days.

That poor, poor little boy.

[Ninja0980]

It appears her sister has turned against... her... I couldn't get onto facebook but if you to one of the "fan" pages set up for Corrine, her younger sister has some not so nice things to say about her.
And say what you will about the little sister being there to buy drugs..she still was unwilling to ignore what had happened to her nephew and called someone, which is more than "mom" did in the 4 days her son was being beaten to death.

[CasperGirl]

I just can't even comment on this right now grrrrrrrrrrr.

[Whisper]

Dominick Calhoun death: Who is at fault?
ARGENTINE TWP. --
According to police, the child was beaten over a period of four days. Dominick was found by family members on April 17 and taken to the hospital. Two days later he was taken off life support and he died.

When Dominick was discovered badly beaten, both Dominick's mother, Corrine Baker, and her boyfriend, Brandon Hayes, were taken into police custody.
Hours later, Baker was released. However, investigators say she remains under intense investigation.
Hayes has begun the preliminary hearings. His attorney is asking for a competency hearing, claiming his client has a history of mental illness.
Dozens of NBC25 viewers have commented on this tragic case. We want to hear from you! Leave us your thoughts below- whether it is a prayer or remembrance for Dominick or your thoughts regarding who is at fault for the innocent child's death. http://www.upnorthlive.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=446681


Heres a spot to leave comments on what you feel is the real thing in his death.
Who do you feel is at fault?
Do You blame mom as much as the goof?
Thought it was kinda interesting as its the paper from her tiny town and hopefully she will see the comments and even more hopefully she will be arrested soon!

[Whisper]

Remember though its not as open as here with freedom of speech and they will cut comments they deem vulgar
I just think its the best way for her friends and family to see what people really think of her
b/c Ive been waiting for someone to find us and defend her and nobody has lol.
So lets go to her then

Im waiting to see if my comment will be accepted and I wasnt rude so this will tell if its worth the trouble but there is another comment already posted on there by someone

[Whisper]

I would like to know when someones going to wake up and arrest her?She had 4 days of that baby being beaten,she left and went back to that apt and didnt say a word to anyone and yet shes not arrested yet???WHY?? Can someone give me a logical explanation as to why shes not been arrested yet?She gave that child to that monster to beat basically ,taking breaks for herself outside the apt!

K I kept it mellow and they accepted it

[Whisper]

Corrine Baker arrested in Livingston County
NBC25 has confirmed that Corrine Baker, the mother of Dominick Calhoun, the 4-year-old boy who was beaten to death, has been arrested in Livingston County.

An arrest warrant was issued yesterday for Baker for violating her probation for a previous conviction of delivery of a controlled substance.http://www.upnorthlive.com/news/story.aspx?id=446718

Mother of victim in fatal beating arrested on probation violation

The mother of a 4-year-old boy who was beaten to death this month is in jail after police confiscated a “large amount” of marijuana and pills from her Argentine Township home, court officials said.
The drug possession violated Corrine Baker’s probation for a previous conviction involving the delivery of a controlled substance. Baker was arraigned by video this morning before Judge Michael P. Hatty, who set her cash bond at $50,000.
Baker also allegedly violated her probation by failing to notify authorities that she had changed her address and by living with a felon. Baker had been living with her boyfriend, Brandon Hayes.
[...]
The boy, Dominick Calhoun, suffered burns on his hands and injuries to his entire body. He died April 12 at a Flint hospital.
Hayes, 24, has been charged with six felonies, including first-degree premeditated murder, torture, and child abuse, in connection to the beatings that killed the boy. Hayes also faces drug charges for allegedly delivering drugs to a minor.http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20100421/NEWS01/100421003/-1/NEWSFRONT2/Mother-of-victim-in-fatal-beating-arrested-on-probation-violation

Well its a start at least shes sitting in jail and not walking around free.
They are REALLY attempting to get her on this babys death so this is a good start at least give her some grief from other prisoners.

[Whisper]

Corrine Baker arrested in Livingston County
NBC25 has confirmed that Corrine Baker, the mother of Dominick Calhoun, the 4-year-old boy who was beaten to death, has been arrested in Livingston County.

An arrest warrant was issued yesterday for Baker for violating her probation for a previous conviction of delivery of a controlled substance.http://www.upnorthlive.com/news/story.aspx?id=446718

Mother of victim in fatal beating arrested on probation violation

The mother of a 4-year-old boy who was beaten to death this month is in jail after police confiscated a “large amount” of marijuana and pills from her Argentine Township home, court officials said.
The drug possession violated Corrine Baker’s probation for a previous conviction involving the delivery of a controlled substance. Baker was arraigned by video this morning before Judge Michael P. Hatty, who set her cash bond at $50,000.
Baker also allegedly violated her probation by failing to notify authorities that she had changed her address and by living with a felon. Baker had been living with her boyfriend, Brandon Hayes.
[...]
The boy, Dominick Calhoun, suffered burns on his hands and injuries to his entire body. He died April 12 at a Flint hospital.
Hayes, 24, has been charged with six felonies, including first-degree premeditated murder, torture, and child abuse, in connection to the beatings that killed the boy. Hayes also faces drug charges for allegedly delivering drugs to a minor.http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20100421/NEWS01/100421003/-1/NEWSFRONT2/Mother-of-victim-in-fatal-beating-arrested-on-probation-violation

Well its a start at least shes sitting in jail and not walking around free.
They are REALLY attempting to get her on this babys death so this is a good start at least give her some grief from other prisoners.

[AussieMum]

Its a good start. I would say its allowing police a better opportunity to gather evidence etc to charge her further.

Drug fucked 'parents' should not be around young children. Children can be testing and need nurturing and loving to aid their developement.

God, I hope these 2 fry!! Honestly, I just can't understand how she didn't seek help. And her poor other boy had to witness all of this and live with that for the rest of his life!!

[Ninja0980]

IMO, her arrest now confirms to me why she didn't stop her son from being beaten to death. Not out of fear of her penis but out of fear of going to jail for violating her probation. She had a chance to save her son and chose to put drugs over her child. She deserves to rot in prison as well.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

http://i41.tinypic.com/fnthxe.jpg
older mugshot
The Baker family says Corrine Baker battled drug problems for years before the death of little Dominick Calhoun.
[...]

“Drugs controlled her life,” says Corrine’s mother Julie Baker during a sit-down interview Tuesday before the arrest of her daughter.

Investigators say a drug charge that originally got Corrine Baker a probation sentence finally caught up with her.

In November 2008, a judge sentenced Baker to 18 months probation for selling prescription drugs. She should have been in the clear as of now. However a Livingston County Probation spokesperson says Baker asked for probation to be extended while she worked to make enough money to pay off court fines and performed community service.

Investigators say she had not fulfilled her obligations when they arrested her for parole violations stemming from the investigation into the death of Dominick.

Her first alleged violation is being in a residence where there are drugs. Police say they found marijuana and prescription drugs in the apartment.

Her second alleged violation is being with a felon. Brandon Hayes has a long criminal record.

Finally, she is accused of failing to notify her probation officer of a change in address after the murder of her son.

A judge arraigned her later in the day Wednesday. He set her bond at $50,000 cash.

Her drug charge carries up to a seven year prison sentence, which theoretically a judge could impose at later sentencing.

Her next court hearing is scheduled for April 29, 2010 at 8:30 a.m. in Livingston County.

The Genesee County Prosecutor's office says her arrest will not affect their investigation.
http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/news/story.aspx?id=446954

Video with family talking about all they did: http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/news/video.aspx?id=446954

[Ninja0980]

All her drug problems and she still had custody of her two boys? Gotta love the court system. Junkies don't make good parents, period.

[LadyCygnet]

In November 2008, a judge sentenced Baker to 18 months probation for selling prescription drugs. She should have been in the clear as of now. However a Livingston County Probation spokesperson says Baker asked for probation to be extended while she worked to make enough money to pay off court fines and performed community service.

So she moved herself and her young children in with a felon who was dealing drugs out of his apartment. It's a series of extremely moronic decisions that culminated in her son's death. I hope she never gets her surviving son back--he deserves better than what she's been willing to give him.

[Whisper]

K I kept it mellow and they accepted it
I posted my comment by the time I actually sent it mine was second within minutes(15) there were close to 40 and not one of them supporting her

[Dakota Valkyrie]

The parents of a Mid-Michigan woman whose 4-year-old son was beaten to death say their daughter could have done more to save the boy's life.
[...]

Julie and Martin Baker say they are relieved to hear their daughter is behind bars. They believe Baker had the chance to let someone know about the beatings but never did.
[...]

The Bakers say their daughter is partly to blame for Calhoun's death.

"Our little angel would still be here. I'll say this until the day I die, all she had to say is one word," Baker said.

The Bakers say they picked up Corrine Baker at the apartment as the beatings were occurring.

"If there was any indication at all, all she had to say, 'Dad' and point, and he would have gotten out of that car and up those stairs in five seconds flat. And he would have been in that apartment on this Friday morning," Baker said.

"We were talking with her. She was all happy and smiling and talking to Brandon on the phone," Martin said.

They say they talked to her again the next day. There was still no cry for help.

"She called us on Saturday and we called her back, and that's the last time we heard from her," Martin said.

Calhoun was found on Sunday and taken to Hurley Medical Center where he died on Monday.
[...]

"We want nothing to do with her. The whole family is very, very angry with her," Martin said.
[...]

Baker's parents blame both the man police say beat Calhoun to death and their own daughter.
http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=7400938

I would have a problem not killing my own daughter if she pulled that shit. I am sure she will face charges related to this. There is not excuse that can be made. And I hope her parents get the satisfaction of testifying to keep her behind bars.

[Whisper]

http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=7400938

I would have a problem not killing my own daughter if she pulled that shit. I am sure she will face charges related to this. There is not excuse that can be made. And I hope her parents get the satisfaction of testifying to keep her behind bars.
I have no thanks but I agree 100% DV I would be in prison if she ever let that happen.
People can say what they want about always defending your child no matter what but theres a limit!

[Ninja0980]

Good for them. If it was my daughter that had done this, I would have no problem cutting her out of my life and ensuring she NEVER saw her surviving son again. She clearly showed she cares more about drugs and her penis than the safety of her kids. I wonder if that domestic violence adovacate who tried to make excuses for why she did NOTHING to save her son will make an excuse for her now?

[nopatience]

Charges announced against Brandon Hayes in beating death of 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun in Argentine Township


http://i40.tinypic.com/11sm8t3.jpg
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FOUND A NEW PIC OF THE PISS ANT
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Brandon Hayes NOT SUCH A TOUGH GUY NOW EH?

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/04/charges_announced_against_bran.html

Completely off topic, but is he wearing shoulder pads in his homemade wife-beater?!

[Whisper]

Thats his suicide suit in the jail
They take everything from them if they consider it a risk they may harm themselves

[Alf]

It is a suicide smock (http://www.preventsuicide.com/index.htm). Too tough to tear, too thick to make a noose from, and not flammable. Velcro instead of ties. It's what all the stylish high-risk prisoners are wearing these days.

--Al

[Whisper]

I knew there was a proper name lol but Im getting ready for work and my brains mush right now
ty Al

[nopatience]

Thx for the clarification. Seems to me they should let him do himself off and save the tax dollars.

[Ninja0980]

The best news I've heard all day!
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/04/corrine_baker_mother_of_domini.html

FLINT, Michigan — The mother of Dominick Calhoun is now facing second-degree murder and second-degree child abuse in the death of her 4-year-old son.

Dominick was found severely beaten in his Argentine Township home on April 11, and died the following day after he was removed from life support. Baker's boyfriend, Brandon Hayes, has already been charged with torture and first-degree premeditated murder in the death.

Officials said the beating began because Dominick wet himself and soiled the couch on April 8. He had only been living with his mother and Hayes since the beginning of April, and was previously living with his father.

Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell said today that Dominick's mother, Corrine Baker, 25, failed to get medical attention for the boy despite the urging of friends, which in part led to the boy's death. Officials do not believe she beat the boy.

Court documents revealed that Baker left her apartment with her parents on April 9, the day after the alleged torture of her son began, and didn't alert anyone to the trouble.

Good! This bitch deserves to be in jail. I never for a minute bought her act of her being in fear of her life. IMO, the only thing she feared was not being able to get her next fix and lay, not the safety of her children.

[Silvahalo]

"The mother of Dominick Calhoun is now facing second-degree murder and second-degree child abuse in the death of her 4-year-old son."


For you Dominick.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

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The Genesee County prosecutor’s office announced today it will charge a former Livingston County woman with second-degree murder in connection to the fatal
beating of her 4-year-old son.

Meanwhile, charges against the neighbors (some of whom heard the child’s cry, “Mommy, make it stop.”) who say they heard the abuse but failed to call police are not expected to face charges.
[...]

DHS alleges in court documents that Baker, who is required to report abuse against her children, failed to tell anyone about what was going on in the couple’s Pinehurst apartment.

Police allege that Baker had multiple opportunities to report the crime, and failed to do so.

At one point, a friend entered the apartment and indicated that Calhoun needed medical attention. Hayes said he did not want to involve the cops because he had a warrant for his arrest, and Baker agreed so as not to involve Child Protective Services.

In a separate incident, a family member told Baker to seek medical attention for her child, and she declined because she didn't want people to think she had hurt Calhoun.

When Baker's sister came to the apartment, Corrine said she would seek medical attention for the child and never did.

Finally, when four minors came to allegedly purchase drugs from Hayes, Baker told them not to touch her son because he was sleeping, but at that point police believe he was unconscious, according to Genesee County Sheriff Robert J. Pickell.
[...]

Hayes’ attorney is expected to seek a competency exam Tuesday to determine if Hayes is fit for trial.

Meanwhile, Argentine Township Police Chief Daniel Allen said the neighbors can’t be charged because they aren’t mandatory reporters under the law.

Allen said some neighbors reported hearing a “commotion” that sounded like banging on the walls. Those neighbors thought the couple was hanging pictures on the wall, the chief said.

Other neighbors reported hearing the boy being “disciplined” as well as arguing and someone “yelling at the kids,” Allen said. Neighbors described the arguing as “verbal abuse,” but no one called 911.

“Neighbors heard the kid calling for help,” Allen said, his voice choking with emotion. “The neighbors can’t be charged. They don’t fall in the category of mandatory reporters.”
[...]
http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20100423/NEWS01/100423004/0/NEWSFRONT2/Mother-of-fatally-beaten-boy-charged-with-second-degree-murder

[Marv]

“Mommy, make it stop.”

That's it. That has finished me for tonight. Jesus fucking christ, that poor sweetheart.

RIP baby. I am so sorry. xx

[Tundratot]

I feel ill. What kind of neighborhood do they live in that no one nearby, no one who came by, no one could call the police because they all had something to hide? I've been wondering, why the 8 year old didn't tell anyone or make a call (because we sometimes read about them doing this), and I now know why. Because he was raised by people who believe the cops are the enemy and who would never tell him to call 911 in an emergency. They probably also never told him where or to whom he might be able to look for help if he were lost, being chased, alone. And now I have to wonder, if he had asked for help, would he have gotten any?

[Morbid]

Flint, MI- One Word. Just one simple fucking word to her parents and Corrine Baker’s son, Dominick Calhoun, might still be alive today. Hearts across the nation and world were completely crushed last week when the story of 4-year old Dominick Calhoun’s horrific murder hit the internet, television, and radio. The story had people asking [...]

More... (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheDreaminDemon/~3/iCYKEY_kfoc/)

[FlamingFox]

The cunt is on the front page.

Corrine Baker Charged In Death Of Her Son, Dominick Calhoun (http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/04/23/corrine-baker-charged-in-death-of-her-son-dominick-calhoun/)

[AussieMum]

I am speechless with how many people saw this poor innocent little boy being abused and did nothing!!!!!

As for this utterly worthless piece of shit mother..... oh my god, I am so angry!!

[donegaveup]

If I was one of those neighbors who didn't bother to call for help I wouldn't be talking to anybody N*O*W. My head would be hanging so far down from shame and guilt I'd most probably drown in a mud puddle. How do you ignore a little kid's cries for help??? And I understand being afraid and not wanting to get involved but COME ON. How can you not make an anonymous call to the police? I'm sure none of those neighbors knew the extent or the brutality of what was happening to Dom, but they knew something was going on. They didn't bother to speak up then so why are they speaking out now? They need to just STFU. What they say now DOES NOT MATTER ONE DAMN BIT.

The reactions of the LE involved tells me almost more than I want to know. The raw emotion these guys have displayed has made me go cold inside. I feel for them.

Special thanks to DV and Ninja for posting the best updates ever. Finding out her family wasn't supporting her and that she has been arrested for Dom's death made my week. Special thanks for the great FP write-up by Flamingfox too. I want as many people as possible to know about this poor little guy. Special thanks to Silvee for putting the news about the worthless mother bitch being charged in BIG BLACK LETTERS.

I know you guys didn't do this just for me but I do sincerely appreciate it. This story was keeping me up nights and doing my head in. Reading that heads were going to roll for what happened to Dom was like jumping in a sparkling blue pool on steaming hot summer day.

[Silvahalo]

“Neighbors heard the kid calling for help,” Allen said, his voice choking with emotion. “The neighbors can’t be charged. They don’t fall in the category of mandatory reporters.”....."mommy, make it stop...". This woman deserves to have her fucking baby making parts ripped out! And these neighbors can't be charged as they do not fall in the category of mandatory reporters!? OK, so then, the decline of our society as a collective conscience is acceptable? We all fail children as a whole when we decide it's not our business, not our concern, but the truth is ALL children are societies responsibility, every single child.

I say a big FUCK YOU on this "category of mandatory reporters"! If the law wants to see fit that people and I do mean all people are responsible, law abiding citizens, then it should be said, that with in reasonable circumstances, that one hears a child's call for help, one is then required by law to contact authorities or render aid within due course.

And what's this shit with a friend, a neighbor, a SISTER for fuck sake advised she get help for Dominick, and she failed? BUT they failed too! they knew something was wrong with this child and did NOTHING!

Makes me so ill, so sad, and very angry. I hope these putrid, piecesofshit live a most miserable life and die in excruciating anguish. So sorry little Dominick, seems everyone failed you.

[TwiztidAngel]

....."mommy, make it stop...".

omg...my heart just shattered in a million pieces...that cold bitch...that line hurt the hell out of my feelings and i dont even know the kid!!

[Ninja0980]

Here's another article I found... god bless this woman... but I still can't find any sympathy for Corrine Baker.

http://www.tctimes.com/articles/2010/04/24/news/doc4bd1eef2167a3301090237.txt

That seems to be the question on everyone’s mind right now. Why didn’t Corrine Baker, the mother of 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun, the boy who was allegedly beaten to death by her live-in boyfriend, leave and take her children with her when she had a chance? Why didn’t she tell anyone about the abuse? While she is not excusing Baker’s behavior, Bobette Schrandt, executive director of LACASA, Inc. sheds some light on why victims

of abuse, in general, stay in, and do not report, an abusive relationship. “It’s so very difficult to understand,” said Schrandt.

“It’s a complex situation.”

 LACASA is an acronym for Livingston Area Council Against Spouse Abuse. It is an all-encompassing support organization and shelter for abuse victims, and their families.

After watching and reading all of the news reports, Schrandt does not doubt that Baker was also a victim of abuse by her boyfriend. Schrandt said it is difficult for victims of abuse to think rationally. “It’s trauma,” she said. “It’s extraordinary stress and that stress shatters security.”

 There have been reports that Baker left her apartment on Friday, April 9. During that time, she chose not to tell anyone that her boyfriend allegedly began beating her son the day before.

 Not knowing exactly what Baker was experiencing, Schrandt could only say that abused victims tend to feel overwhelmed and alone because of their circumstances. They have trouble acting. She said Baker likely felt shock and shame. Schrandt suspects that this was not the first incidence of abuse, due to the extent of the injuries.

 Oftentimes, abusers will tell their victims that if they leave or tell anyone, they will kill them or their children. “The most dangerous time is when she does leave. The consequences can be so severe,” said Schrandt.

 “Women have fear because they don’t have a place to go. They have no money. They’re likely to abuse alcohol and drugs,” Schrandt said.

 “Alcohol and drugs don’t cause the violence. Many people use alcohol and drugs and don’t beat up people.” Abusers, however, have tendencies for power and control and the drugs can exacerbate the problem, said Schrandt.

 One of the reasons women stay in an abusive relationship is for financial reasons. Schrandt said if they remain, more times than not, they have more money than if they were to leave.

 From her years of experience and research, Schrandt said our society blames the victim for not leaving an abusive relationship even though the abuser is the one committing the crime. “We blame her, but she’s a victim. The victim has to leave or escape, while the abuser gets to stay in the home.”

If she could speak directly with Baker, Schrandt said she would advise her to get domestic violence service for victims, as well as legal assistance and housing.

 Acknowledging there is little support or compassion for Baker right now, Schrandt said it reminds her of a phrase attributed to Jesse Jackson. “Don’t ever look down on anyone unless you are helping them up.”


Sorry Schrandt, the only helping up I'd give Corrine Baker is walking into jail. Her son was crying out for help... and she did NOTHING. People told her to get help for her son,and she did NOTHING. Her son was beaten to death over four days and she did NOTHING to help him. She moved in with a convicted felon,was dealing drugs with him and doing drugs etc. She is NOT a victim.
The only victims here are four year old Dominick Calhoun, his older brother and their loved ones.

[FlamingFox]

You know, this story really just messed me up. It has been days since Dominick's murder and still... I just don't get it!

My 8-year old son is hugging me right now as I type this. The warmth of his cheek against mine, his loving arms around my neck 'a touch' too tightly (he's in my box!), and he says, "What are you doing, Mommy." "Typing," I say. "Okay. I love you, Mommy." "I love you too, Crazy."

I really, really, really hate Corrine Baker to death! We get thousands of pedophiles, murderers, and child killers, but I have never been so messed up over a story as I have been with this one. I never wanted kids, but from the day both of mine were born, I wanted them. Instant love. I could not go a day without their hugs, smiles, or crazy shit they do to purposely put me in the nut-house. And I would kill for them. Without a doubt.

Of all the piece-of-shit mothers we have featured here on DD, (to me) Corrine Baker is the queen of them all. She took the love of her sons, but never reciprocated it. She just decided to use it when she realized her ass was in the frying pan along with her waste-of-skin boyfriend. To me, that is unforgivable and I hope Dominick's cries for help haunt that bitch every day and night until her death!

[Whisper]

There was a protest at Hart Plaza across from us
Could hear stuff but not sure what it was they were saying but was to do with Dominics death(childrens services)
Gunshots and bombs can hear plain as day same as the concerts there but couldnt make out what they were yelling

[Whisper]

Mother of Genesee County abuse victim to be charged Monday
GENESEE COUNTY (WJRT) -- (04/25/10) --
The mother of the Genesee County boy, who was beaten to death, will be formally charged Monday in connection with the killing.
Authorities report they will charge Corrine Baker with second degree murder and child abuse on Monday.Her son, 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun, was killed April 12.
http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=7404767&rss=rss-wjrt-article-7404767

[donegaveup]

I couldn't even FAKE sympathy for Corrine if I had to in order to save my own life. She wasn't too scared or too traumatized to take her own sorry ass to the doctor. She could have told that doctor what was happening to her child. He could have alerted the authorities and SAVED Dom's little life. I can see it all, the SWAT team swooping down on the apartment, saving the two boys and possibly even killing Brandon in the process. But only one little mangled body was carried out of that place. The smallest and most defenseless.

I'd like to make Corrine MY victim. I so hope she gets the same treatment that Nixzmary Brown's mother got from the other prisoners. Oh how she cried and wailed when the other prisoners spit on her and called her names. Oh how I laughed when I read about it.

[Whisper]

Mom Arraigned in Her 4-year-old Son's Death
(WXYZ) - The mother whose 4-year-old child was allegedly beaten to death by her boyfriend was arraigned on Monday.

B]Corrine Baker is charged with 2nd-degree murder and 2nd degree child abuse.[/B]
The Genesee County Prosecutor says Baker disregarded 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun's condition, safety, and need for medical treatment.
Baker's boyfriend, 24-year-old Brandon Hayes, has been charged with eight felonies including pre-meditated murder, torture and first-degree child abuse.
Investigators say Baker and Hayes lived together in Argentine Township with little Dominick. Hayes is accused of beating and torturing the child for days because he wet his pants.
Relatives discovered Dominick Calhoun beaten in the apartment and the child was rushed to a hospital where he later died.
[...]
The attorney for Brandon Hayes has filed a petition asking for a psychiatric evalutation to determine Hayes' competency to stand trial. http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story/Mom-Arraigned-in-Her-4-year-old-Sons-Death/_pcZu4JWeEesaIVmxEqXVA.cspx?rss=785

[Whisper]

Judge orders forensic exam for Brandon Hayes, man accused of torturing Dominick Calhoun, 4
FLINT, Michigan — A judge this morning ordered a forensic exam for Brandon Hayes, the man accused of torturing Dominick Calhoun, 4.
The exam will determine if Hayes, 24, is competent to stand trial. He has been charged with first-degree, premeditated murder, torture and first-degree child abuse in the beating death of Dominick
The Argentine Township man is accused of beating the boy in their apartment over several days after the boy urinated on himself while sitting on the couch, officials said. Hayes was the boyfriend of Dominick's mother, Corrine Baker.

Dominick ws found severely beaten on April 11 in his apartment and died the following day after he was removed from life support.

Hayes' attorney, James Piazza, said Hayes was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in March.

The Saginaw attorney said during his meetings with his client, Hayes sometimes forgets why he is in jail and that Dominick is dead.
[...]
Hayes was ordered to the Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry for an evaluation and a hearing date is scheduled for June 8, though if the evaluation is completed sooner the hearing will be rescheduled.http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/04/judge_orders_forensic_exam_for.html
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Brandon Hayes talks with his attorney James Piazza during a pre-trial hearing at the 67th District Court in Flint on Tuesday in front of Judge John L. Conover

[Silvahalo]

Hayes' attorney, James Piazza, said Hayes was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in March. I don't care what they call his mental issues or what else they may come up with in his defense. This sick bastard needs to die. I prefer he die in prison, beaten mercilessly much the way little Dominick did. Come to think of it death isn't enough. Hell is waiting (http://www.hellhappens.com/satan-5-by-jack-chick.gif) Hayes. Waiting.

[proudmom]

Hayes' attorney, James Piazza, said Hayes was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in March.

if the so called mom knew this it just makes it that much worse... I think i read earler that he had moved in the begining of april and had been living with his father. I wonder what happened that he moved in with her?

I think she had a responsibility to this boy to stay away from him. If she plans to be a loser with a loser she has a responsibility to stay away from all children just what i think

[LadyCygnet]

Hayes' attorney, James Piazza, said Hayes was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in March.

If so, why was he out and about, dealing dope and beating babies?

From my limited experience working at a medical center, a new diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia got a patient time in a psych unit until an effective treatment regimen could be determined. Once the patient was released, he would have to strictly adhere to his regimen of medicine (usually Haldol injections) and outpatient counseling.

Whereas I might trust someone with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia and years of effective treatment to watch my cat for a few hours, there's no way that I would let someone with a fresh diagnosis watch my cat, much less my daughter!

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Whereas I might trust someone with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia and years of effective treatment to watch my cat for a few hours, there's no way that I would let someone with a fresh diagnosis watch my cat, much less my daughter!
We have a paranoid schizophrenic in the family. He's never been hospitalized for it in the over 30 years since his diagnosis. He's never been violent but that is not to say that he never will be. His illness is usually kept in check and fairly obvious when he needs a med adjustment. (He calls the FBI on people and once reported me to the cops for having him followed LOL)

Schizophrenia, by itself, is no more dangerous than being "normal" (most violent crimes have nothing to do with mental illness). You do tend to notice when a schizophrenic "loses it" because it is so far out of the realm of normal, that it is hard to fathom.

This guy may have not told her about his illness. It really doesn't matter. There is no excuse for his behavior and even less for her's.

[CandyApple]

People like this are the reason that we should still have public stonings. I hope that both of them get beat to death. I feel so bad for that poor baby.

RIP Baby

[LadyCygnet]

We have a paranoid schizophrenic in the family. He's never been hospitalized for it in the over 30 years since his diagnosis. He's never been violent but that is not to say that he never will be. His illness is usually kept in check and fairly obvious when he needs a med adjustment. (He calls the FBI on people and once reported me to the cops for having him followed LOL)

Schizophrenia, by itself, is no more dangerous than being "normal" (most violent crimes have nothing to do with mental illness). You do tend to notice when a schizophrenic "loses it" because it is so far out of the realm of normal, that it is hard to fathom.

This guy may have not told her about his illness. It really doesn't matter. There is no excuse for his behavior and even less for her's.

Yeah, I realize that schizophrenia, if controlled, allows those suffering from it to lead fairly normal lives, as long as they stick to the treatment regimen. I dated a guy with paranoid schizophrenia for almost a year. I still don't know that I'd trust him to take care of my daughter, even though he had an effective treatment regimen and graduated from our local mental health facility's treatment program. The way he was with children made me uneasy, though. If your relative is good with kids, that's great.

According to his lawyer, though, Hayes was just diagnosed in March, which means that if he was following his doctor's orders and getting treated, he may have still been having his medication dosage tweaked, which wouldn't make him all that fun to be around.

It bothers me a lot that mental illness is used to excuse crimes. My family has a history of mental illness ranging from chronic depression to PTSD. The only thing we've used it to excuse is our lack of success in life, though. :tongue2:

[Dakota Valkyrie]

It bothers me a lot that mental illness is used to excuse crimes.
Mental illness is often used as an "excuse" by those wishing to explain it or find a reason. While it's often mentioned before trial, it is not that often used and even less rarely successful in the courts.

Despite the perception, mental illness does not play that big a factor in the majority of violent crimes. (http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13170) It may help us understand the "why" when it does happen, but it's not really an indicator that it is going to happen.

The perception of mental illnesses and people with mental illness is often far more dangerous than the illness itself.

[The Diabolical Mr. Lieman]

THis is the one story that haunts me. Not minimizing any of the others at all...but every once in a while, one will come out and bite. Hard.

This one did for me. It's inspired a short film, it's haunted me for several days now, and it's made me hug the kids a little tighter, and wish that there was a system in place to just make things right, and being that...there isn't...just gotta hug the kids again.

That fucking kid, man...no way. It's times like this, when I can hope for a hell, so I can see Brandon there, and torment him for a billion years or so...

[thequeenofsorrow]

Just six to eight weeks ago is when he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia," attorney James Piazza told Judge John Conover in Genesee County’s 67th District Court Tuesday.

Piazza says a social worker at a jail where Hayes was lodged in March for domestic violence requested he be admitted for involuntary psychiatric treatment. He was then ordered to receive at least seven days of treatment at a psychiatric hospital where he received the diagnosis.

Piazza says doctors wrote Hayes a prescription when he was released from jail, but he could not afford to fill it. He says someone should have followed up on his condition, given the diagnosis.

Family members of 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun reacted with visible surprise. They say it seems as if there should have been follow-up.

Hayes’ defense attorney agrees.

“He's diagnosed like that, and then just released,” says Piazza. “You know, somebody dropped the ball somewhere."

The defense asked that Hayes be given a forensic exam to determine whether he is competent to stand trial. The prosecution agreed that was necessary.

Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton says the public should know, this evaluation will help make sure a future guilty verdict is not thrown out.

“I think it is in the interest of the justice system, as well as in the interest of justice for Dominick Calhoun that we take necessary steps and make sure everything is covered," said Leyton.

The forensic exam could take up to two months to complete.

http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/news/story.aspx?id=449330

blah blah go without drugs for a day or sell them a little better and buy your medicine asshole

[thequeenofsorrow]

Dominick and brother Tyler

http://i43.tinypic.com/s3ppxd.jpg

Big brother kissing little brother

http://i42.tinypic.com/4g6vk8.jpg



This family is working to make sure Tyler knows he is the most important thing to them.

They say while Dominick's dad was involved in the boys' lives, Tyler's father has never really been in his life.

16-year-old Christine moved her belongings out of her room, and into another sister’s bedroom, so Tyler could have his own room when and if he comes home. She doesn’t really know when Tyler will be able to come home from foster care, but she says it will help her heal.

“”I need him probably just as much as he needs me,” she says of her nephew. “I lost one. I can't lose another.”

Folks from the community have donated toys and clothes. The family can’t help but smile through tears when they think of the 8-year-old checking out his “Transformers” toys in a room of his own.

Poor Tyler. No relationship with his bio dad, brother is gone, mom will be too. At least his grandparents love him.

http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/news/story.aspx?id=448335

[thequeenofsorrow]

Love this one too

http://i43.tinypic.com/11tq6hc.jpg

[Tundratot]

doctors wrote Hayes a prescription when he was released from jail, but he could not afford to fill it. He says someone should have followed up on his condition, given the diagnosis.


Hmmm. I think this guy could afford to sell drugs and had a large pharmacopeia. He could have bought his own meds. I'm also sure this guy was avoiding having LE looking over his shoulder and making him do anything. It's not their fault, it's his! This is a naked attempt to deflect blame.

[thequeenofsorrow]

Here's Dominick's 16 year old Aunt's myspace. She has an album with about 200 pics of the boys

http://www.myspace.com/puntas11

and I wanna kick corrine in the face when i read her bs on hers about her boys being her everythin

http://www.myspace.com/corinemichele


corrine baker I fall more in love with him everyday.... Thanks for always making me happy baby. I Love Brandon!!
Mood: loved Posted at 1:51 PM Jan 29

Such a cute little voice



YouTube- OGART !

[LadyCygnet]

Mental illness is often used as an "excuse" by those wishing to explain it or find a reason. While it's often mentioned before trial, it is not that often used and even less rarely successful in the courts.

Despite the perception, mental illness does not play that big a factor in the majority of violent crimes. (http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13170) It may help us understand the "why" when it does happen, but it's not really an indicator that it is going to happen.

The perception of mental illnesses and people with mental illness is often far more dangerous than the illness itself.

Yes. I don't think I'm explaining my position too well. I know plenty of people who suffer from a gamut of mental illnesses, and they manage to go through life without murdering anyone or using their illness to escape responsibility for their actions.

[Ninja0980]

even if he does a form of mental illiness, in Michigian he'd be found guilty but mentally ill, as IMO he clearly knew right from wrong. There are people who have committed violent crimes who are mentally ill and didn't know what they were doing or were clearly not in their right mind. This POS IMO is simply a child hating drug user.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Yes. I don't think I'm explaining my position too well. I know plenty of people who suffer from a gamut of mental illnesses, and they manage to go through life without murdering anyone or using their illness to escape responsibility for their actions.
You're explaining yourself fine. And that's exactly my point. There are plenty of UNTREATED mentally ill people that survive just fine and plenty of people with treated mental illness that do more than just "survive".

Mental illness is no predictor of violence. People see the mental illness diagnosis and assume that had something to do with it. And then apply the assumption that mental illness = violence. Mentally ill people are most often dangerous to themselves.

Are there violent mentally ill people? Of course. But there are are also violent "normal" people.

[Silvahalo]

OMG, queen, thanks for that video/myspace, my Nico says Ogart too.....Dominick was such a sweetheart, his voice...hearing his voice that just broke me.

The aunt "Stine", her myspace is def. worth a look at. Breaks my heart knowing he was so loved but yet somehow still died by the hands of abuse. Dominick couldn't say Christine so he called her Stine. how sweet.

Dear Dominick (http://www.myspace.com/puntas11), I sit here, and i look around and ive thought i have had my heartbroken before but not knowing that your laughing and smiling, playing with your older brother. Baby boy your a huge part of me, my life, and my person in general. I didnt think there was a reason to live untill i saw you, and looked you and i said im going to live for you. All i can say to you right now is im sorry because the time i wasnt there, you were in worst of worst situations.

[MadeaBecBec]

Certainly drugs can induce a psychosis with symptoms being like that of schizophrenia, i.e.; paranoia, hostility, distorted reasoning skills, etc.! My personal opinion, this was hayes' problem and the mental health experts recognized that, of course his lawyer isn't gonna add the term "Drug induced" and I am sure, it wasn't that hayes couldn't afford the prescribed meds, it was because he didn't want to take them, the meds would interfere with his "street pharmecutical" high, meth most likely, but pot can also bring on these awful behaviors. No way should this excuse hayes and his heinous act! I hope his withdrawals are so extreme that he claws at his juggular vein, rips it open and bleeds out before anyone notices.....
I, also, have a family member that was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, at a very young age, it is truly sad, the meds he has to take, make him unable to feel or show emotion, which he says is the hardest part, but he realizes that to function somewhat "normal", he must.
I, also, have a nephew that was diagnosed with drug-induced schizophrenia from smoking pot, he started smoking pot when he was ten years old, sold it at fourteen so he could supply himself, arrested at sixteen and again for violating probation seven months later, went to jail and suffered withdrawals (a hair follicle test showed pot was the only drug) and went to the psychiatric unit where they diagnosed him. He now takes 50 mg seroquel and another drug (I am unable to recall) he is nineteen and disabled...............
Neither of these relatives have harmed anyone!!

I have faith that Brandon and Corrine will reap what they have sown, a thousand fold, I'm just not sure that I have the patience to wait on it to happen.......:lollypop:

[Silvahalo]

Memorial for Dominick (http://www.tctimes.com/articles/2010/04/28/news/local/doc4bd82f62a71b4959959914.txt)

I was so happy to read this....for you Dominick!

Argentine Twp. — At the request of family and friends of Dominick Calhoun, the Argentine Township Board of Trustees voted unanimously Monday to give an area in the township’s cemetery to the family so that they may build a memorial to the little boy who was beaten to death in his Argentine Township apartment.

[...]
Those organizing this memorial site have plans for a bench, trees, plaques and other items to memorialize Dominick’s short life.

 Supervisor Robert Cole, who has family buried in the cemetery, said there would be no better place than in that area for the boy’s memorial, as his loved ones would surely be looking down over it from above.

April is Child Abuse Awareness Month

Argentine Township Supervisor Robert Cole read a proclamation during the Board of Trustees meeting on Monday. This proclamation declares that every April in Argentine Township, Child Abuse Awareness Month would be recognized in memory of 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun.

http://i510.photobucket.com/albums/s341/silvahalo68/Fallen%20angels/abused%20children/3201c789.jpg

[Whisper]

Dominics Mother Faces Life In Prison

http://www.tctimes.com/articles/2010/05/01/news/doc4bd20889559af107303906.txt

[donegaveup]

While it all does nothing to lessen the loss of Dom and what he suffered it does help to know that those MOST responsible are going to pay. Let them pay hell for the hell they played on the young child. If Hayes's father was there saying Dom needed medical help why did he not take him himself? He could have called for two ambulances, one for Dom and one for his own son, who would need it after he beat the living shit out of him.

I really don't know how any of these people who knew what was going on can hold their heads up. That being said, these investigators and the prosecutor are my heroes. I can already see those heads on a stick. It doesn't make me happy like I thought it might. I'm relieved but that's it. The thing is nothing will bring Dom back. Nothing can undo or erase what happened to him the last four days of his life. It should be Corrine and Brandon 6ft under and rotting away. Dom should still be here, eating his 'ogurt" and driving his little red viper.

[Tundratot]

Another article that gives a pretty good depiction of the chain of events leading to Dominick's death, and gives me more people to blame. Now, for your consideration:


GENESEE COUNTY (WJRT) -- (05/13/10)--

. . .

Inside this apartment, a little boy cried out for help, but no one came.

"That's gonna haunt me, haunt all of us, I guess. That we didn't make sure everything was OK," Dominick's grandmother Julie Baker said.

Neighbors heard Dominick's screams for days as he was hit, burned, kicked and punched again and again.

. . .

"In the end, the one he trusted most let him down - his mother," Pickell said.

. . .

It started when Dominick wet his pants.

"He wet on the couch and wet on (his mother's boyfriend) Brandon himself," Allen said.

That's what Brandon Hayes told police made him so mad that he started beating the 55-pound little boy.

It began Thursday, April 8.

. . .

Brandon told police he was mad about the mess on the sofa and the fact that he was broke and was supporting Corrine and her two little boys without child support from either of their fathers.

Dominick's dad was still involved in his life, that's why, investigators believe, Brandon took out his rage on the four year old.

. . .

"She took in a drug addict and a guy that was selling drugs, and her apartment became a drug house," said Pickell.

. . .

Investigators learned Dominick's mom left the apartment two times. But she was on probation and had violated it by moving out of Livingston County, so she alerted no one.

She went to a doctor's appointment with her parents the morning of Friday, April 9.

. . .

Later that day, Corrine, Brandon, Dominick and his brother would go to the dollar store with Brandon's father, who noticed severe burns on Dominick's hands and bruises on his head.

"He says we've gotta get this little guy to the emergency room," Pickell said.

Investigators say he then called Corrine's mom, who called Corrine repeatedly on Saturday, April 10, urging her to get Dominick to the doctor. Although he is vomiting and bleeding, she doesn't.

"Maybe someday she can admit she didn't do everything humanly possible to save that little boy's life," Julie Baker said.

Police say the abuse continued, and neighbors heard it.

"It just tears your heart apart to think about what that little child went through. We're talking about a four year old, and a four year old can consciously ask for help. I just can't see why somebody wouldn't call. It puzzles me," Allen said.

Investigators believe Corrine tried to stop Brandon on Sunday by lying on top of her son as he was being kicked and punched.

. . .

According to police, Corrine's sister and three others came over that day to buy marijuana and saw Dominick, battered and bruised, lying in his room. Corrine had bruises on her face and arm, and told them not to bother Dominick - he was sleeping.

Her sister would call Dominick's paternal grandfather, Rick Calhoun, who rushed over to help. "I knocked on the door. They answered and I got in there and seen what was going on, and got through them. Went into bedroom and seen my grandson laying here. I thought he was beat up, and honestly, at that point, thought he was resting. He was laying there with no clothes on. I thought he had taken a bath and was sleeping, but he wasn't. He was dying."

Dominick would never dance again. His favorite blankie was found, blood spattered.

Rick Calhoun did what police say his mother failed to - he contacted authorities.

All this time, police had been just three blocks away.

. . .

Calhoun said he did the only thing he could think to do at that point. He punched the man investigators say killed his grandson. "What are you supposed to do? I just wish I could have saved them."

Dominick was rushed to the hospital. That's when Dr. Shah, the neurosurgeon on call, got the emergency page

"I'm just a couple minutes away. I told them to get him up to the operating room immediately," he said, as he tried to maintain his composure.

The image of Dominick on the operating table still haunts Shah. Nothing could prepare him for what he was about to see. "It was quite clear to me that he brain was not going to survive this. When I saw, really, the full scale, the amount of violence inflicted on him, that's etched in my mind now. I couldn't find a spot. There was no, every spot on his body was badly beaten."

. . .

"All she had to do is say 'dad,' and point. And he'd have been in that apartment on that Friday morning. I can't help but think our grandson would still be alive. Our little angel would be here," Julie Baker said.

. . .

And a look back at the final hours, days and years of his short life reveals several people knew he was in danger, and someone, somehow could have made a life-saving difference.

"The neighbors weren't duty bound by law to call, but morally, it's the right thing to do. It's something they're going to have to live with," said Allen.

"I know they gave her way too many chances," Calhoun said.

"At some point, you've gotta draw the line and say is this the best place for children?" Allen said.

"All they kept coming back is they can't find any reason that warrants taking the kids out of her care. Well, they sure know now, don't they? They know now," Calhoun said.
(Copyright ©2010 WJRT-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.) http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=7441716

What this revealed to me is that grandma, Julie Baker, also had an opportunity to do more. Sure she tried to persuade her daughter to do the right thing, apparently without going to check out the situation in person. And the father of the murderer, also had a chance to do something, having seen the burns on the child, but left it at telling his murderous kid and Corinne to take the kid to the emergency room. At least he called grandma. Not to diminish the fact that these two cared and did make arguments to their worthless spawn, but they could have forced the issue and didn't. Either one of these two could have made a report to the police, asked for a welfare check, called 911 themselves or just said, "Screw it, I'm taking the kid in myself. Just try and stop me." And I still want to horsewhip all the neighbors who failed to make that call, or walk down the street to the station.

[AussieMum]

Calhoun said he did the only thing he could think to do at that point. He punched the man investigators say killed his grandson. "What are you supposed to do? I just wish I could have saved them."

Grandpa was this little boys saviour, as best he could anyhow.

AND he managed to do what we would have all loved to do, he at least got one punch into that murdering asshole. Go Grandpa! You really are our hero.

[cheeseburgersanchez]

All I can say is, Grampa, I don't blame you. I would have killed the bastard. I guess we know where he got those lumps now. This little boy is so heavy on my heart. I see his face everytime I look at my son. He is haunting me. How can we, that never knew him, be more affected by this than his own mother? I don't understand it. I guess it tears at old wounds for me... I want these people to hurt. I don't want them dead. Not for a long time. But I want them to suffer, and I want them to think of Baby Dominick every moment of it.

[Ninja0980]

I don't blame Grandpa one bit. I would have punched the SOB and the worthless egg donor for good measure.
And as for the neighbors,I know it's bad to wish ill on people but I'm sorry, I hope all of you end up in a scenario where you have to scream for help and NO one comes to your aid. Then you'll all know how little Dominick felt.

[Tundratot]

A hearing to determine whether a former Livingston County woman violated probation by living with a known felon, whom police say killed the woman's child, was adjourned Wednesday.

Corrine Baker, who is charged with second-degree murder in connection to the brutal beating death of her 4-year-old son, Dominick Calhoun, was scheduled to appear in Livingston County Circuit Court for a probation violation.

However, it was adjourned to July 22 while Genesee County authorities await a report on whether she is competent to stand trial for her son's death.

. . .

Baker returns to Genesee County District Court on July 29 while Hayes has a competency hearing Monday.

Hayes' attorney is fighting a state psychologist's report that found Hayes competent for trial.

. . . He also faces three drug-related charges for delivering marijuana to minors.http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20100618/NEWS01/6180312

Thank you, God! A probation violation. That's a good start.

[Silvahalo]

Tundra just saw your post...thanks for the info.


Dominick would never dance again. His favorite blankie was found, blood spattered.This will haunt me always. Both my boys, 2 and 6 yo, have favorite blankies, and love to dance...
I'll never look at those blankies the same way again.

I'll think of you always little Dominick as my boys go on to do in life what should have been yours. Kisses.

[Whisper]

Dominick Calhoun's brother, 8, to testify away from Brandon Hayes in beating death case
FLINT, Michigan — Dominick Calhoun's 8-year-old brother will not have to testify in front of the man accused of severely beating Dominick, 4.
Judge John L. Conover ruled today that Brandon Hayes, who is charged with first-degree murder, torture and first-degree child abuse in Dominick's death, will not be in the courtroom for the brother's testimony on June 28, but will be able to watch and interact with his attorney.
Hayes, 24, of Argentine Township was charged with torture and first-degree premeditated murder in the death of his girlfriend’ son, Dominick Calhoun.
[...]
His attorney argued that Hayes has a constitutional right to confront his accuser, and the prosecution argued that the boy is afraid of Hayes and had endured enough trauma.http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/06/dominick_calhouns_brother_8_to.html

[donegaveup]

Smooches to the judge for that ruling. Poor kid HAS been traumatized far too much already. He's seen more and suffered more than any kid should ever have to. As an adult I would not want to be in the same room as Brandon Hayes, unthinkable for any child, but mostly this child to have to be.

[this is going badly]

I read this yesterday,, the mother is pathetic excuse for a human. I read that she had "a moment" where she tried to protect her baby, which I am sure her defense attorney will mention more than once, but this is just another case of a stupid bitch that chose her penis and the drugs he was supplying over here own baby. She deserves the DP. I think all states should bring back hanging for child killers. Cruel and unusual? Fuck them!

As far as mental illness, violenct is extreamly rare with schizophrenia a novice DA should be able to handle disproving it as the cause of this animals behavior. Being an sick evil fucker is not an mental illness!

[Ravyn1965]

So glad Dominick's brother doesn't have to come face to face with that murderous sack of shit. Poor child has been through more in his short 8 years than most of us have been in our lifetimes. I hope once he testifies, he can truly begin to heal from all of this.

[Ninja0980]

Brandon should be thanking his lucky stars his lawyer didn't get his way.
Let's face it, there are many people who want you drawn and quartered. Watching your lawyer bully and cross examine a boy who's watched his brother get beaten to death would make it even worse.

[Tundratot]

The injuries to a 4-year-old Argentine Township boy who was beaten to death were so severe and “unusual” that seasoned medical staff treating him sought counseling, a doctor testified Monday.

Dr. Brian Nolan, director of pediatrics at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, testified Monday in Genesee County’s 67th District Court that Dominick Calhoun was beaten and bruised on his head, back, buttocks, chest, abdomen and legs. The boy’s left hand was burned through the skin and his head was beaten so severely that his “brain was coming out of his skull,” the doctor said.

“What was unusual about the exam is the extent of the injuries to the genitalia,” Nolan said, noting that doctors and nurses sought counseling after treating the boy. “They were so swollen and bruised, and I’ve never seen those injuries in a child.”

. . .

Assistant Prosecutor Marcie Mabry announced that she intends to add a seventh charge — first-degree child abuse — against Hayes, who also allegedly beat and kicked Tyler during the four days of terror.

. . .

The judge, who will decide whether there is probable cause to send Hayes to Circuit Court for trial, also heard testimony from Christine Baker, the sister of co-defendant Corrine Baker. . .

Christine Baker testified that she went to her sister’s apartment in Argentine Township on April 11 with three friends, two of whom wanted to purchase marijuana from Hayes. . . .

She said Corrine Baker had two black eyes and was shaking and drinking coffee when she answered the door.

“I walked in and Brandon was all mad and blah, blah,” she testified. “Corrine said, ‘Don’t bother Dominick; he’s sleeping.’ ”

When asked exactly what she did, Christine Baker replied: “I walked into the apartment and Brandon yelled at me and said, ‘I don’t sell to minors.’

“I looked at him and I said, ‘I’m not here to buy your drugs. I’m here to see my sister and my nephew. So he did his thing and I sat my sister on the couch,” she said. “I looked at her and said, ‘What happened?’ ”

Christine Baker was prohibited in court from giving her sister’s reply. Christine Baker said, however, that her sister got up from the couch, went into the bedroom and lit a cigarette.

Christine Baker testified that Hayes told her “Dominick got beat up by friends,” but she didn’t know what friends and assumed it was someone in the apartment complex. That was a story, she said, “I didn’t believe.”

Christine Baker said she looked in the bedroom and saw her nephew — his face bruised and his body covered by a blanket.

“He looked like he was sleeping, but he didn’t sleep like that,” she said, noting that Dominick slept with his posterior in the air. “I had a feeling he was dying.”

Christine Baker said she told her sister and Hayes that she was going to call police.

The judge stopped her from saying how the two defendants reacted after the defense objected to the statements as being hearsay.

Christine Baker left her sister’s home and called Dominick’s paternal grandfather, Rick Calhoun, who went to the apartment, saw his grandson’s condition and called police.

. . .

Christine Baker’s testimony will continue Monday after her 8-year-old nephew testifies. Testimony also is expected from a medical examiner and a police sergeant, who took Hayes’ statement the day after Dominick was found.

. . .http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20100622/NEWS01/100622006
http://i50.tinypic.com/9q8qhf.jpgChristine Baker, Corrine's kid sister

[donegaveup]

I knew it was bad, really, really bad but to know medical personal treating Dom needed counseling puts things in a new category altogether. As the true horror of all Dom endured emerges there will be more people needing counseling. Brandon Hayes has victimized so many people with his mad dog behavior. He doesn't deserve a trial, he doesn't even deserve a name, he only deserves death. I'd like the honor of killing him, I could do it with my bare hands. I'd like to choke the life out of him. I'd like to watch life leave him, and see his eyes go blank as he slumps lifeless to the floor. I just know rainbows would break out all over and angels would be singing at the precise second of death.

[AussieMum]

The boy’s left hand was burned through the skin and his head was beaten so severely that his “brain was coming out of his skull,” the doctor said.

“What was unusual about the exam is the extent of the injuries to the genitalia,” Nolan said, noting that doctors and nurses sought counseling after treating the boy. “They were so swollen and bruised, and I’ve never seen those injuries in a child.


OMG I just feel sick all over again.

HOW could anyone inflict such a severe beating????

Then even more gobsmacked.... how could any mother not KILL the bastard that did this!!!!!!!!

[Ninja0980]

I'm sorry, there is NO excuse for why his "mother" didn't get help. Every day, we hear more and more about the horrible injuries this boy suffered,injuries bad enough that the people who treated him have to get help...and she did NOTHING.
With all due respect to battered women advocates and others who have tried standing up for her (no one here thankfully),there is nothing that anyone could say that will change my mind on the feeling this bitch should be hung right next to the baby beater himself. The fact people were going over there to buy drugs says all I need to know about where her concerns were.

[redsaid]

“What was unusual about the exam is the extent of the injuries to the genitalia,” Nolan said, noting that doctors and nurses sought counseling after treating the boy. “They were so swollen and bruised, and I’ve never seen those injuries in a child.

I don't ever want to see those injuries. What this guy did was torture. Mom should have been the one on the receiving end of all that rage and insanity. I'll never in my life believe that she is innocent. I've seen battered women, one in the mirror. There is no justification for how she handled this situation.

She did not value her own life. If she was scared for her own life like she says, she would have high-tailed it outta there the first second she could. She didn't. She didn't even hint to the trouble she was in. She wasn't in fear of loosing her life, she was in fear of what would happen if she lost her dick or pissed him off. No, she did not value her own life, Therefore she did not value Dominick's. She put more value on the reactions of this monster, than her own actions. That is not a crime. Her crime was purely and numbly allowing the systematic torture, maiming, and killing of a child. Her own child at that. No one has that right.
The above line will stick with me for a very long time. I don't remember reading that before. I guess he was jealous of poor little Dom, and decided to make him disappear.

[Tundratot]

Patricia Green, a contract social worker for the Department of Human Services, was the first witness to testify on Monday. She has been a social worker for approximately 27 years and has been seeing Dominick’s 8-year-old, half-brother, Tyler Baker, since Dominick’s death.

 Green has been helping Tyler cope with the grief and loss of losing his little brother and being removed from his home. She said even though Tyler is a strong little boy, he is experiencing a lot of anxiety.

 The social worker’s testimony was sought to determine the best way for Tyler to testify in court against Hayes. . . .
 
 Tyler witnessed the incidents that led to his brother’s death. In addition, assistant prosecuting attorney Marcie Mabry said the prosecutor’s office is prepared to file additional charges of first-degree child abuse against Hayes, based on bruises that those involved with the case observed on Tyler.

 Mabry said Tyler is not only a witness, but a victim, as well.

 Green said Tyler has indicated that he wants to tell the judge what happened. “I think he’ll be able to do it (testify),” said Green. “But, we’ll have to keep him safe.”

 . . .

 Dr. Brian Nolan, director of pediatrics at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, testified. Nolan is a well-known and respected expert in his field. He is board certified in multiple areas, including pediatric child abuse.

 Nolan testified that he saw Dominick on April 12, the day after he was brought to Hurley. Dominick was on life-support, following brain surgery. When asked what condition the little boy was in, Nolan said he was “critical, in a coma. He expired that same day.”

 Because of his “hopeless” condition, the family made the decision to remove him from life support.

 The doctor said Dominick’s injuries were consistent with torture. He added that what made this case so unusual was the extent of damage done to the genitalia. “He was so swollen and bruised,” said Nolan.

 The prosecution submitted 12 photographs taken of Dominick in the emergency room.

 . . .

 In addition to the bruises and swelling over his entire body, the doctor said Dominick had a severe burn on the back of his left hand. It was dry and dark purple. “It’s the most severe burn you could have.” He said medical attention should have been sought on the very painful burn.  

 Christine Baker, 16, the younger sister of Corrine Baker was the last witness to testify on Monday. Christine and three of her friends went to Dominick’s Argentine Township apartment on April 11. She testified that two of her friends wanted to go to the apartment to buy marijuana from Hayes and that she wanted to see her nephews. She said it was well known that Hayes sold marijuana and vicodin and that she witnessed her friends buy marijuana from Hayes on April 11.

 She was unsure how long her sister, Hayes and her nephews had been living at this apartment. The sisters and young boys had lived together previously, until Corrine was evicted from the trailer park for not paying her rent, said Christine.

  When asked why she was no longer living with her sister, Christine said, “I was sick of her, her lying and manipulating.”

 . . .

 Tyler was outside playing at the time of Christine’s visit.

 . . . Christine proceeded to close the bedroom door and attempt to leave. “I was scared. I saw his face. I could feel it in my stomach.

 “I tried to leave, but Brandon yelled at me. I was staying calm until I got out of there,” said Christine. She said she told Corrine she was going to call the “cops.”

 “I had a feeling he was dying,” she said. Once outside the apartment, Christine called Dominick’s grandfather, Rick Calhoun and told him he needed to get to the apartment immediately.

 The preliminary hearing will resume next Monday, at 10 a.m. in Conover’s courtroom. Tyler is expected to testify.http://www.tctimes.com/articles/2010/06/23/news/doc4c220e8d68bb2259909388.txt

Some rehashing, but some new material.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

The lawyer for a man accused of fatally beating a 4-year-old boy says his client’s constitutional rights will be violated when the boy’s brother takes the stand Monday.

The judge overseeing Brandon Hayes’ preliminary hearing has ordered that Hayes be removed from the court when the 8-year-old brother of Dominick Calhoun testifies — a decision that Hayes’ lawyer believes violates his right to face his accuser.

“Just because prosecution wants to coddle somebody, when it violates my client’s rights of confrontation, it shouldn’t be done,” said Hayes’ attorney, James Piazza of Saginaw.
[...]

Genesee District Court Judge John L. Conover ruled that Hayes be placed in a room outside of the court when the boy testifies. Hayes will be allowed to watch by video and will be able to interact with his attorney.

“I think this is the right thing to do,” said Conover.

Piazza said his client has a constitutional right to a face-to-face confrontation with his accuser and doesn’t think there should be an exception because the witness is a child.

“The Constitution doesn’t help the government bury my client,” said Piazza, who intends to challenge the decision if the case is eventually bound over to Circuit Court for trial.

Prosecutors say this procedure will protect Dominick’s brother from further trauma while preserving Hayes’ constitutional rights.

Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said it is becoming more common for children to testify in court, and in this case the court has to strike a balance between protecting the child and protecting the constitutional rights of the defendant.

“We’re doing what the child needs, we’re doing what the state needs and we’re able to protect the rights of the defendant,” he said.

Leyton said he doesn’t believe Hayes’ rights will be violated because he can still see the testimony and talk to his attorney as though he was in the courtroom.

He said before children testify investigators interview them “very carefully” to determine what happened. Interviewers determine whether the child knows the difference between the truth and a lie and ensure he or she feels safe.

On the stand, prosecutors question the child witness delicately and in a friendly way to avoid further trauma, said Leyton. After the testimony, there are programs in place to ensure the child receives services he or she needs.
[...]
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/06/dominick_calhouns_brother_8_to_1.html

[Ninja0980]

“Just because prosecution wants to coddle somebody, when it violates my client’s rights of confrontation, it shouldn’t be done,” said Hayes’ attorney, James Piazza of Saginaw.
Uh no Mr. Piazza, it's trying to prevent further trauma to a child who saw his brother get beaten to death. There is precedent for this so his blustering to the press is doing nothing more than making the bonfire people want to ignite under his client's feet grow even stronger.
And while I don't claim to be a lawyer, I do know most lawyers try to get the best possible verdict they can for their client.
If Mr.Piazza uses the same tone in the press on a child who saw his brother get beaten to death, the jury may convict his client solely on the fact his lawyer looks like a bully.

[Tundratot]

client’s rights of confrontation He'd better watch his choice of words. This just connotes intimidation and violence. This guy can interact, view the proceedings, and "know" his accuser over the TV. Since they use this technology in many court hearings anymore, for pleadings and such, to better protect the court and the people from violent criminals, I see no difficulty. Hell, I'm not sure he should even be allowed out of the jail for any of the proceedings, much less for this one very vulnerable witness. He can attend the whole trial and all the hearings from miles away over CCTV, and never get out of the jail to ride in a van, see the outside, smell the fresh air, see his girlfriend in person, for all I care.

[Silvahalo]

...a decision that Hayes’ lawyer believes violates his right to face his accuser.

“Just because prosecution wants to coddle somebody, when it violates my client’s rights of confrontation, it shouldn’t be done,” What planet is this lawyer from? fuckn-a. His 'accuser', his rights of confrontation? we are talking about a child that was abused by this fucker and witnessed the brutal murder of his brother that lasted for days. His accuser. He's the survivor. And IF we were not talking about a child I'd be all for a confrontation, one that would include beating this baby killer's head in.

This is one of those instances when I see the law so assbackwards. I am so very glad the judge sitting there saw the same thing and didn't allow it. Poor child is destroyed. He might not show all the trauma inflicted on him from this incident yet but it will come. Keeping this living nightmare away from him is priority for this childs well being.

[Tundratot]

Confrontation. The sleazebag can see what's going on, confer with his lawyer, and know who is "accusing" him, if he wants to call it that. The court can also set it up so the court can see the sleazebag. The only thing he can't do is come out and say something to the witness, which is what he has a lawyer for anyway. So, what we're doing is making sure his right of creating an outburst is contained and he cannot make faces or gestures in such a way as to intimidate the boy. If I had my way, he'd never set foot in the courthouse while that boy was there and he'd be forced to wear clown makeup while on the video screen.

[momof3]

What planet is this lawyer from? fuckn-a. His 'accuser', his rights of confrontation? we are talking about a child that was abused by this fucker and witnessed the brutal murder of his brother that lasted for days. His accuser. He's the survivor. And IF we were not talking about a child I'd be all for a confrontation, one that would include beating this baby killer's head in.

This is one of those instances when I see the law so assbackwards. I am so very glad the judge sitting there saw the same thing and didn't allow it. Poor child is destroyed. He might not show all the trauma inflicted on him from this incident yet but it will come. Keeping this living nightmare away from him is priority for this childs well being.

I for one am very glad this dickheads lawyer is being through and not allowing any of his rights to be "violated". Even though we know this fucker is guilty as all hell our justice system is innocent until proven guilty. Once he is found guilty and receives his punishment I don't want him being able to appeal a fucking thing! So yeah lawyer for not letting this happen is all I am saying :)

[Whisper]

sorry it was a duplicate

[Whisper]

Brandon Hayes cries during father's testimony in Dominick Calhoun beating death hearing
FLINT, Michigan -- Brandon Hayes cried as his father testified Monday in his preliminary hearing.
His father, Arnold Hayes, told the court he took Brandon Hayes, Hayes' girlfriend Corrine Baker and Baker's two sons to the store days before Hayes was arrested on suspicion of killing his girlfriend's 4-year-old son.

The boy, Dominick Calhoun, was found severely beaten April 11 in the Argentine Township apartment he shared with his brother, Hayes and Baker. Dominick died the following day after he was removed from life support.
Share Hayes is charged with first-degree murder, first-degree child abuse and torture in the child's death.

Arnold Hayes told the court he saw a burn on Dominick's hand when he took the four to the store, but Baker said she wouldn't take him for medical treatment for fear she'd be blamed for the injury.
He said he was told another child burned Dominick with a hot stick from a fire pit near their apartment.
Hayes also told the court his son was in a "raw mood" after spending $100 on the shopping trip, and the mood was quiet on trip home.
"I know how my son is when it comes to money," said Hayes. "He doesn't have a lot of money so that would put him in kind of a raw mood."

CourtesyDominick Calhoun, 4, died April 12 after police found him severely beaten the day before in his Argentine Township home.
Brandon Hayes cried as he watched his father on the stand. He also protested when prosecutors suggested he hurt children in the past.
[..]

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/06/brandon_hayes_cries_during_fat.html
http://i47.tinypic.com/29dxr37.jpg
BOOFUCKINGHOO!!

[badfish76]

Whatever sadness he feels is only for himself and once he is sent to prison with Bubba and then to Hell with the Devil, THEN he will really have a reason to feel sorry for himself.

As for him feeling "raw" over spending $100 at the store for four people, that is pathetic. I have a saying about money, it comes, it goes and as long as you have a job or some income there will always be another pay day. WTF was his money for if not to run the household that he had which contained four ppl?

I hate this scuzzy looking freak and I wish he would hasten to the pit of Hell so that real justice could be served sooner!

[Whisper]

Brandon Hayes bound over on 10 counts in Dominick Calhoun beating death case
FLINT, Michigan — Brandon Hayes, 24, was bound over to Genesee Circuit Court for trial on 10 counts stemming from the beating death of Dominick Calhoun.Dominick, 4, was found severely beaten in the Argentine Township apartment he shared with his mother, brother and Hayes. He died the following day after he was removed from life support.

Hayes is accused of beating Dominick over several days because he was angry about money and mad that the boy wet himself and soiled the couch.
Share Judge John L. Conover bound Hayes over on 10 counts in the case including first-degree murder, first-degree child abuse and torture. Prosecutors today added a second child abuse charge stemming from alleged beating of Dominick's 8-year-old brother.

The Circuit Court arraignment is scheduled for July 19.http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/06/brandon_hayes_bound_over_on_10.html

[Whisper]

Brother of Dominick Calhoun says Brandon Hayes beat them both
FLINT (WJRT) -- (06/28/10)--Brandon Hayes will stand trial in the beating death of his girlfriend's son, 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun.
Genesee County District Court Judge John Conover made that ruling at the conclusion of Hayes' preliminary hearing.
Hayes is accused of beating, torturing and killing Calhoun during a period of days in April after he wet himself and the couch inside their Genesee County apartment.
The shear number of injuries and how serious they were was really the determining factor according to the judge. The doctor who performed the autopsy says he stopped counting when he got to 100.

On top of that there was heart-wrenching testimony from Calhoun's older brother. The boy witnessed what happened during the last days of Calhoun's life."He was puking and everything, puking up blood," Calhoun's brother said.
"I think his leg was broken because he couldn't walk. He was like walking crooked and everything. Every time he'd stand he dropped right back down."
That was how Calhoun was acting after repeatedly being "smacked around" and "punched" in the genitals after having his head smashed into the wall, according top Calhoun's brother.
Calhoun's hand was badly burned.

"He (Hayes) hated us," Calhoun's brother said.
The doctor who performed the autopsy says Calhoun's injuries were the worst he's ever seen on a child or an adult.
A Genesee County detective read a portion of this letter Hayes wrote. It's dated one day after Calhoun was taken off of life support.

"Dear judge: I am so sorry for what I have (done) to Dominick and Corrine. My heart hurts so bad for them and for the family," said David Dwyre.

"I will never do anything like this and never had the intentions of doing what I have done. I am sorry. Judge, I am a drug addict."
[...]
One additional charge of 1st degree child abuse was added today. Calhoun's brother testified that he was also abused by Hayes.
Hayes now faces 10 charges. One of his drug charges was replaced with a less serious charge.

Hayes attorney says he is disappointed all of the counts were bound over. He says he doesn't believe elements to support some of them were met.
Hayes' attorney will file motions in circuit court to try and get some of the counts dismissed.

He says he'll also file a motion to strike Calhoun's brother's testimony, as his client was placed in a separate room while he was on the stand. He will ask for a new preliminary hearing.
[...]

http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=7525640&rss=rss-wjrt-article-7525640
video at link

[Tundratot]

“Brandon won’t be there?” Tyler Baker asked in the hallway next to the courtroom before the preliminary exam of his little brother 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun’s alleged killer.

“No,” answered Genesee County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Marcie Mabry.

. . .

A short time later the 8-year-old walked into the packed courtroom at 67th District Court with confidence that many adults can’t muster.

Tyler knew Brandon wouldn’t be there.

He wore a neatly pressed blue collared shirt tucked into his dress pants as he promised to tell the truth.

“What happens when you lie?” asked Mabry.

“You get in trouble,” said Tyler on the stand as it began.

Over the next hour the testimony would soon get much more intense and difficult, but the little boy only needed a tissue once.

The tears came after he told the court what he did after he allegedly saw Brandon beat his 4-year-old brother in his family’s Argentine Township apartment.

“”I just played because I didn’t want to get hurt,” said Tyler.

Tyler told the court Brandon had hurt him and his brother before, but described escalating violence in the days before his brother died. The prosecution asked whether he told anybody about the abuse in an effort to get help.

“Brandon said if I told my mom, he would lock me in my room for a long time,” the boy explained.

He said his mom eventually figured it out. Corrine Baker then confronted Brandon Hayes who Tyler says then again became violent.

“(My mom) was pushing Brandon away so he wouldn’t hurt my brother, then he smacked my mom on the head.”

The beatings continued, and Tyler told the court he knew his neighbors knew what was happening.

"His (Dominick’s) head was smashed into the wall. That’s what was making the banging noise, and the neighbors heard it.”

“How did it end with Dominick?” asked Mabry.

“Dominick had bruises from his head to his toes,” said Tyler as he described the last time he saw his brother before he died.

After testifying at the hearing that will determine whether Hayes goes to trial, Tyler returned to his foster family. He has been in protective custody since his brother’s death in April.

. . .
http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/news/story.aspx?id=476060

[Ninja0980]

I hope each one of those neighbors hangs their heads in shame. In addition to mom, they had a CHANCE to stop this, and not one of them could pick up the damn phone to call police. Inexcusable

[AussieMum]

The poor brother has to live with this forever!!

He's 8 years old and the burdon that will weigh on his shoulders not even an 80 year old should have to deal with!

[Jessiesgirl1108]

The tears came after he told the court what he did after he allegedly saw Brandon beat his 4-year-old brother in his family’s Argentine Township apartment.

“”I just played because I didn’t want to get hurt,” said Tyler.

I bet that hurts him so much that as much as he wanted to, he knew he couldn't do anything to protect his brother or he may have met the same fate. He will have a long road of recovery ahead of him, such a brave little man!

[carolinablue]

This case and Baby Peter's case tear me up..literally. I have had dreams about them; and my rage for those who witnessed, heard or suspected abuse seems to grow daily. How could any human being know or suspect and not report it? Hell, go over and knock the door down and see if what you're thinking is true. Jail for malicious mischief would be a small price to pay, and might have saved his life!

There are no words to express my contempt and disgust for the bio-unit. I would love to torture her to the point of death, then revive and heal her and start over again. I wonder how long I could keep the pig alive? She could have saved him; instead she let him be tortured to death. Scared for her life? Shit on her. I took the worst beating of my life when I was 11..and curled over my baby sister to protect her. The drunk incubator beat me with an oak cane, a razor strop and her fists and feet, but couldn't dislodge me. She only stopped b/c HER mother told her to quit b/c "the neighbors will hear". She kicked me in the back of my head and in my lower back as a parting gesture; no doctor for me either...she might get in trouble. So shit on this pig-fucked whore; if I could do that at 11, she could have done the same. Bitch from the far side of Hell.

[Darsa]

Oh my God, I want to hold this poor boy and rock him and tell him noone will hurt him ever again like that... That poor little kid.

CarolinaBlue... *hugs* to you, what a thing to have in your memories. I hope your baby sister knows and appreciates what you did for her. I would wish every one of these kids had someone like you on their side.

[Whisper]

Beaten Boy's Mom Found Competent For Trial
Prosecutors Filing New Child Abuse Charges Against Mom's Boyfriend
GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. -- A woman charged in connection with the slaying of her four-year-old son has been found competent to stand trial.

That was the ruling from a Genesee County judge Tuesday morning.

The judge found that Dominick Calhoun’s mother, Corrine Baker, will face second-degree murder charges in her son’s beating death.

Prosecutors said Dominick was severely beaten over the course of several days in April.
[...]
Hayes heard testimony from Dominick’s 8-year-old brother Monday.

Following that testimony, prosecutors said they would be filing new child abuse charges against Hayes. http://www.wnem.com/news/24083449/detail.html

[redsaid]

Whooooo Hooooo! Fry bitch! Fry Fry Fry FRY!

[Silvahalo]

(outta thanks) Thanks Whisp on the update, and CB, OMG, I'm so sorry! hugs to you and your sister....brave, brave girl you were.

"The judge found that Dominick Calhoun’s mother, Corrine Baker, will face second-degree murder charges in her son’s beating death."


Yippie! now it's time for the tat that says I'M A BITCH-I'M A USELESS-CUNT, BITCH SLAP ME NOW".


edit: He said his mom eventually figured it out. Corrine Baker then confronted Brandon Hayes who Tyler says then again became violent. She "eventually figured it out".... my lord, the horror. Poor sweet children.

She let her baby take the beatings to protect her ass. FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU WITH A BIG NARLY STICK!!

[Silvahalo]

I"m behind on my reading folks so.....

On top of that there was heart-wrenching testimony from Calhoun's older brother. The boy witnessed what happened during the last days of Calhoun's life."He was puking and everything, puking up blood," Calhoun's brother said.
"I think his leg was broken because he couldn't walk. He was like walking crooked and everything. Every time he'd stand he dropped right back down."

That was how Calhoun was acting after repeatedly being "smacked around" and "punched" in the genitals after having his head smashed into the wall, according top Calhoun's brother.

Not sure is this was posted but it was I was directed to it by Scribblemuse. At the site, there's a picture slide show (http://mcself.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/memorial-to-dominick-calhoun-4-year-old-tortured-to-death/) of sweet Dominick. Made me cry all over again. Be WARNED.This post and slideshow makes me think that the bitch who will go unnamed is not exactly seen as guilty.

On Saturday Dominick lay in bed in a listless state until Hayes dragged the little boy from his bed by his arm. Hayes then allegedly once again started beating Dominick. “He hit and kicked him again and again,” Pickell said, even though the boy was in an unconscious condition.

On Sunday, April 11, when Christine Baker, Corrine’s younger sister, dropped by to buy drugs, she realized what Hayes was doing to Corrine and Dominick. Christine informed Richard Calhoun, Dominick’s paternal grandfather, who brought in the police.

When Dominick arrived at the hospital, he was pronounced brain dead and was placed on life support. On Monday, April 12, he was removed from life support and Dominick passed away.

Doctors said that Dominick had repeatedly been kicked in the genitals and head over and over again. They told Sheriff Pickell that Hayes had poked at the boy’s eyes with his thumbs and fingers. Doctors had to remove a portion of Dominick’s skull because his brain was swollen so badly.

“This case goes beyond torture,” said Pickell. For the police officers involved in the investigation Pickell said this has been gut wrenching.

Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said, “This was simply a vicious killing, bad as anything you could imagine. The pictures are indescribable.”
I'm shaking from this. Tears I cannot have as my boys are here, but my heart weeps, simply weeps. I cannot imagine someone so filled with rage to do such horrors on a child. I cannot fully wrap my mind around this. I keep telling myself, Dominick suffers no more, no more pain, anguish, shattered heart. He was broken in every way. There is no fear, no suffering like the child who suffers as the one who he adores does nothing. Kisses Dom....

I have to remind myself, Dominick lights the heavens with his glorious, soulful eyes.
http://i510.photobucket.com/albums/s341/silvahalo68/Fallen%20angels/abused%20children/3201c789.jpg

[cheeseburgersanchez]

Dominick's father posted something on facebook about this today. He said he didn't hear about many of the things that happened to Dominick until today. He is really hurting. I can't imagine the pain he and Tyler are in. I didn't know this little boy and my heart breaks everytime I hear something about him.

[redsaid]

He said he didn't hear about many of the things that happened to Dominick until today

Oh my god are you serious? I think a part of me just broke forever. When I first read this story I wept like a big ol' pussy. I'll never forget "gouged his eyes". To just be hearing about it all now just opens and salts the terrible festering wound that will never heal. I had said before that I really hoped the 8 yo didn't actually witness his brother's murder, but that was a fantasy I will never enjoy again.

[cheeseburgersanchez]

Eric Calhoun Dominick, I am really sorry for what you endured through those four days, I didn't know exactly what happened till now and it is just killing me, I wish I could of been there to help you!!! I just don't know what to think anymore, I am sooooo sorry!!!! I love you so much and you will be forever missed!!!!!

This was from his facebook. I feel so bad for him.

[redsaid]

Feeling helpless to do anything must be killin him. he did everything the system would allow, and he still lost his child to someone he didn't trust. My heart always goes out to the living victims. They are the ones that are left with guilt. I hate these monsters.

[Tundratot]

I'm not sure how I feel about the biodad. He wasn't paying child support, and that was one of the monster's beefs. In fact, I think we saw earlier somewhere that he had nothing to do with his son.

[MadeaBecBec]

God Bless Tyler!, Very articulate and brave for an eight year old, you can hear his voice and watch evil-pondscum-buckets reaction here http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/video?id=7525837

Hearing Tyler speak so honestly, yet clear about the horror that he was forced to endure and witness, you can tell that he didn't want to say anything bad against his egg-donor. Of course, he still loves her and hasn't realized the harm she placed him and Dominick in, I truly pray that he doesn't ever have to realize it, as that reality will only hurt his heart, even more!

Be at Peace, Dominick, justice is on it's way!

[donegaveup]

You can tell tat Tyler wanted very much to tell his story. He was very articulate too. He didn't even sound nervous more like he was in a rush to make sure he got everything said. Tyler being the voice for Dom is so touching. I feel very, very proud of him for being such a big boy. I think I might have tears in my eyes.

On the other hand, watching that goober from hell lurch across the floor at the beginning of the video made me want to throw up. I was just watching him thinking how good it would feel to hit him with a cinder block right in the middle of his back. Then as he falls backward from that mighty blow I would pick up the cinder block and drop it on his groin while shouting " Dominic sends his love FUCKER."

[Jessiesgirl1108]

Wow! Heartbreaking to listen to that. That little boy told his mother that they had to get Dominick to the dr and she told him she couldn't cause the dr was closed??? Did I hear that right? Isn't that what Hospitals are for you bitch??
I had a nightmare last night that my oldest son of 5 died of some kind of brain clot or something, some medical condition that was unheard of in my dream. It was the worst nightmare that I can remember having in my life. I just remember crying and crying and wondering what I could have done to prevent his death. How could this so called mother stand there for 4 FUCKING DAYS and watch her son die and NOT try to prevent his death. I wish I could beat the piss out of her to the point of near death and then find the closest person to her (maybe her 8 year old son) stand over her and tell her that she can't go to the dr because it's closed. Then ask her how she feels to have help right in front of her but not given to her by the one person that she feels the most love for.
Ok, I feel better now...I don't usually go off like that, but damn...I am so aggravated and hurt by this story!

[Whisper]

Jury To Decide If Hayes Spends Rest Of Life In Prison
http://www.tctimes.com/articles/2010/07/02/news/doc4c2a6614cba82741007372.txt



Audio from the Brandon Hayes trial
Graphic In Nature
Under the headline at the link is the audio of witnesses
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/07/mid-michigan_evening_links_aud.html
And lastly ,WTF is he smiling about??

http://i49.tinypic.com/71ikol.jpg
Attorney James Piazza advises Brandon Hayes not to speak as a witness testifies in front of Judge John L. Conover at the 67th District Court in Flint on June 21 in the preliminary hearing where Hayes is accused with first degree murder, torture and first degree child abuse in the death of Dominick Calhoun.

[OMalley]

OMG that poor boy Tyler...I hope he doesn't ever feel any guilt about not being able to help his little brother. He's lucky he survived himself.

I can't wait for Brandon Hayes to get what's coming to him. I hope he gets put into GP and gets beaten EVERY DAMN DAY for the rest of his life.

[akika666]

i have not read this whole thread yet, but my kids just got home and i am about to get distracted and forget what i was going to say. my senile musings must see the light of day!

Aside from the fact that there appears to be plenty of evidence that bio incubator had many chances over those days (and probably in the weeks leading up to this) to save herself and her child, the double black eyes are a POSSIBLE sign of a closed-head injury more severe than just a couple of shiners.

many posters have commented that a few punches and scratches wouldn't stop them from saving their baby... fuck yeah, i agree with that... but she may have been rendered unconscious for many hours. And upon regaining consciousness, she may have been extremely disoriented. just wanted to mention for argument's sake.

but yeah, she wasn't unconscious long enough for me to give her a pass on this. when the penis kills baby, i never consider the mom equally guilty of the crime as the evil murderer who kills, but she failed her adorable boy, a heinous crime in itself.

she reminds me of Karla Homolka.

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/2369/karlawblackeyesbw1503kw.jpg

[akika666]

I bet that hurts him so much that as much as he wanted to, he knew he couldn't do anything to protect his brother or he may have met the same fate. He will have a long road of recovery ahead of him, such a brave little man!

how true. he's the victim of a terrible mindfuck. how cruel adults can be.

[redsaid]

she reminds me of Karla Homolka.

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/2369/karlawblackeyesbw1503kw.jpg

I gotta say, I have had black eyes worse than this before. But no one beat me. I was throwin' up real bad with a bout of ulcers. When I stood up, I passed out and knocked myself a good one right on the forhead. I hit the sink dead on but I never hit my eyes. Over the next few days the blood from my forehead drained down my face and I would up lookin' like someone had beat the shit outta me. My husband and I went through hell, cause no one believed he had not hit me. Hell I wouldn't have believed me either. That's why I had to say that. If a woman knows this, she could hit herself in the forehead and make it look like she got the beating of her life. Ya don't have to get hit in the eyes to have 'em blackened.

[Whisper]

Doctor who performed autopsy, grandmother of Dominick Calhoun testify in Corrine Baker hearing
FLINT, Michigan — The doctor who performed Dominick Calhoun's autopsy testified this morning in Corrine Baker's preliminary hearing.
Baker, 25, is facing second-degree murder and child abuse charges in the death of her 4-year-old son.
Baker's boyfriend, Brandon Hayes, 24, is accused of torturing and beating Dominick to death in April.
Baker cried as Dr. Brian Hunter described bruising and burns found all over Calhoun's body.

He said severe head trauma was the likely cause of death.


"When we removed some of the gauze from around the head, you saw that there was massive swelling of the brain," he said.

Hunter also described burns, some that may have been caused by cigarettes and others in which the cause is unclear, on Dominick's head, abdomen, arm, genitals, and most severely on the back of his left hand.

Julie Baker, Corrine Baker's mother, also testified Monday morning.

She said Hayes' father called her on April 9, three days before the boy's death, telling her about the burn on Dominick's hand.

Baker said she attempted unsuccessfully the next day to contact her daughter and arrange to take her grandson to the hospital to treat the burn.

She began to cry as the prosecution and defense attorneys questioned her about her efforts to contact her daughter after learning about the burn.
[...]

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/07/doctor_who_performed_autopsy_g.html
http://i26.tinypic.com/23h1zjl.jpg
Corrine Baker

[Whisper]

Baker said she attempted unsuccessfully the next day to contact her daughter and arrange to take her grandson to the hospital to treat the burn.
I'm sorry I'm not knocking grandma but I wouldnt allow my grandson to sit 1 more hour let alone 1 more fucking day
Id be bashing the door down and sitting on the damn couch until someone showed

[badfish76]

When I see that thing's picture I want to get a sledge hammer and go to work. She pissed me off so bad.

She even looks as skanky, putrid and rotten on the outside as she surely is on the inside!

[redsaid]

I'm with you whisp. Did that call really happen? I'm havin a real hard time believein' he'd call gramma. That was not in his agenda. I gramma tryin' to help her daughter? Sayin she couldn't get ahold of her therefore supporting the bitch's story that she couldn't get away? I'm sorry but my opinion is that just because someone is found guilty/not guilty doesn't mean that it is so. These two are both guilty and I have no problem sayin' it. Unless something REALLY BIG happens to change my mind, they both should die. (unless they want to die, then make 'em live forever) Gramma just made me loose a little confidence in her story.

[AussieMum]

I came into this thread hoping the update would be that these two worthless fucks had killed themselves and finally shown remorse.

[Whisper]

Mother Of Dominic Calhoun Will Stand Trial For 2nd Degree Murder
Mother to stand trial for little boy's death
FLINT (WJRT) -- (07/19/10) -- Dominick Calhoun's mother, Corrine Baker, will stand trial on second-degree murder and second-degree child abuse charges.

Genesee County District Court Judge John Conover made that ruling late Monday afternoon after testimony ended in her preliminary hearing.

The testimony today took the court through three days in April; a weekend of terror, according to the prosecutor.

During the last days of 4-year-old Dominick's life, he was beaten, burned and battered.

The first witness today was a doctor who described the manner and cause of Dominick's death. "Abusive head injuries and other blunt force and thermal injuries, that was the cause of death. The manner of death was homicide," said Genesee County Medical Examiner Dr. Brian Hunter.
[...]
Prosecutors say Baker's inaction is led to the charges against her. This afternoon, we heard from a number of witnesses who saw the bruises, a big black burn on the boy's hand and did not call for help, either.

But Judge Conover elaborated on the fact that Baker was his mother and held the reporting responsibility.
The officer who was first on scene that Sunday when the call for help went out was the final witness today. He took pictures, and said what he saw was devastatingly shocking.
His emotions took over when, after he arrested Hayes, he was alone with Baker and the boy.
He says it was unprofessional, but this is what he asked her.
Officer Angelo Panos: You want a quote?
Prosecutor: If you remember.
Panos: What the (expletive) kind of animals are you? I said, 'Look at this boy. He's crucified."http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=7563039&rss=rss-wjrt-article-7563039

[Whisper]

double posted for some reason

[Silvahalo]

He says it was unprofessional, but this is what he asked her.
Officer Angelo Panos: You want a quote?
Prosecutor: If you remember.
Panos: What the (expletive) kind of animals are you? I said, 'Look at this boy. He's crucified."Unprofessional? nah, hardly.
The man deserves a raise and an award for unbelievable self control.
I would have beat that woman down so hard she'd spit while talking the rest of her useless, pathetic life.

Bravo to you Panos for keeping it together your job is the hardest shit I can think of.

[badfish76]

The quote from the officer gives me chills.

[AussieMum]

I really feel for the emergency workers involved in cases like this. The police, the ambo's, the emergency departement at hospital. Such heroic jobs and they show such amazing restraint. The nightmares they must suffer.

[Tundratot]

Brandon and Michael DeLong, uncles of Dominick who live nearby the Argentine Township apartment where the boy was beaten and tortured, said they saw Hayes walk to a gas station for a short period of time on Saturday, April 10, two days before their nephew would die from injuries believed to have been inflicted over several days.

Conover said Baker should have taken that opportunity to seek help and get her children away from Hayes.

“She did absolutely nothing," Conover said. "If that's not willful and wanton, I don't know what is."

Baker’s mother Julie Baker, Hayes’ uncle Rodney Keen and Hayes’ father Arnold Hayes each testified that they saw or were notified of Dominick’s burned hand on Friday, April 9, but all failed to convince the boy’s parents to take him to a hospital.

"They said they couldn't do that because they had warrants for arrest and they didn't want child services involved," Keen said.

Keen had gone to the home with the intention of buying marijuana, but said he didn't buy it after growing upset over Dominick's hand.

"He was so mad that he didn't buy the marijuana that he wanted," said Conover about Keen's testimony. "What reasonable, responsible, intelligent human being would walk away and not do anything?"

Keen notified other family members but did not take further action.

. . .

Bobby Everard, a neighbor who lived on the floor beneath Baker and Hayes, said he heard on that Sunday morning a child yelling "Mommy, stop him!"

Everard, who testified while wearing blue plastic gloves and had a long white beard and mustache that entirely covered his mouth, said he had been hearing banging on the walls in the days leading up to the discovery of Dominick's abuse.

Baker's attorney Erwin F. Meiers III said the failure to act was shared by several people. http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/07/hearing_reveals_details_of_day.html

Let's get back to the fact the NO ONE did ANYTHING! For Frick's sake, people, call the ambulance yourselves! Call the police yourselves! Take the child and run hell for leather out of the apartment and to the hospital! Let the chips fall where they may -- just DO IT.

Hearing this is like watching the bad parts of a movie over again, hoping something will change. . . .

[redsaid]

I swear, with all of the witnesses (albiet totally negligent) there are in this case, she HAS to go down. DP right away.

[donegaveup]

Unprofessional? nah, hardly.
The man deserves a raise and an award for unbelievable self control.
I would have beat that woman down so hard she'd spit while talking the rest of her useless, pathetic life.

Bravo to you Panos for keeping it together your job is the hardest shit I can think of.

That Panos is MY kind of people!

[donegaveup]

If I were to encounter ANY of the people who could have of and should have helped Dominick my wrath would be so intense I would be afraid of myself. Just thinking about those sissy- marys who did nothing to intervene inspite of what they heard and saw it makes my blood boil. How do you ignore the sounds of a child in agony? How do you ignore the sight of a child being systematically destroyed?

If I were to see ANY of them lying by the side of the road:
beaten
bloodied
raped
stabbed
shot
run over
or anything else I WOULD NOT stop to help them. No sir. I might smile sweetly and wave at them. I might slow down enough to say "sorry I can't help you, I'm too busy being an insipid waste of space and air. But you have yourself a nice day as you lie there dying."

[Whisper]

Linden to build an Amphitheater in Dominick Calhoun's honor
LINDEN (WJRT) -- (07/25/10) -- The memory of the local boy who was abused and killed lives on in the Mid-Michigan community.
Plans are underway in Linden to build an Amphitheater in little Dominick Calhoun's honor. On Sunday, community members held a fundraiser to help speed up the process.Volunteer Renee Ungerleider says Dominick's story is hard to forget and the pain of his death still very much alive. "I just can't imagine. I have four kids and I can't imagine anyone hurting them."
More than three months after police say 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun was beaten to death by his mother's boyfriend, the Linden community is trying to wash away their tears. Turning their anger and sadness into action.
Car Wash Organizer Stacey Dailey keeps her focus on the heart of the story. "A little boy was lost and I think it's important that people remember that .... We want everybody to know we won't stand for it anymore."
The Linden car wash is one of many fundraisers for the Dominick Calhoun Memorial Amphitheater to be built at the River Trail Park in the city.
[...]
Dominick's Grandfather Rick Calhoun, says the support is overwhelming. "They want to help. They just can't help themselves. They see his story and they want to help."http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=7574336&rss=rss-wjrt-article-7574336

[badfish76]

I have this group on my Facebook page and they are trying to get ppl to write to Extreme Home Makeover and see if they will help them build it. I know we are some email and letter writing fools around here so maybe we can all help out.

I think an amphitheater is a great idea. His voice will continue to be heard.

[Tundratot]

Corrine Baker. . .was sentenced this morning to 55 months to seven years for violating probation on a Livingston County drug case.

Circuit Judge Michael P. Hatty said the sentence, which far exceeds the recommended guidelines of zero months to three months, was not an angry response to the events surrounding the murder of Dominick Calhoun . . .

Hatty said that if it hadn't been for Baker's actions — violating her probation by cohabiting with a felon and living in a home where a large quantity of drugs were present — her son would still be alive.

"You did not protect that child and that child ended up dying a long and torturous death," the judge said.

. . .

Baker apologized for her actions before the court.

"I am very sorry for my violation. I understand my actions have caused other things to happen," she said. "I will be judged on that matter. I'm very sorry."

Baker's attorney, Steven Dodge, argued she should be judged on charges related her son's death by a Genesee County jury and not Livingston County.

. . .
http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20100812/NEWS01/100812007/Mother+of+murdered+four-year-old+sentenced+for+Livingston+County+probation+viol ation

Yeah! So true. If she had had a lick of sense and not thought she could beat the terms of her probation . . . Aw, Geez!!

[Tundratot]

. . .Defense attorney James Piazza is seeking an independent psychological evaluation for his client, Brandon Joshua-Frederick Hayes, at a Sept. 20 hearing in Genesee County Circuit Court.

Hayes underwent a psychological evaluation at the state's Center for Forensic Psychiatry, where a psychologist found him competent for trial. Piazza questioned that report, however, saying he believes his client is not competent for trial because he suffers from hallucinations.

Piazza also has filed motions seeking to try drug-related charges separately from the assault, torture and murder charges lodged against Hayes, and to change venue.

The defense attorney said Wednesday that he expects to file additional motions once he receives a transcript of the preliminary hearing. He declined to say what those motions will address. . . .http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20100826/NEWS01/8260311

I'm not entirely sure what, if anything, the point would be of separating his drug charges from the others. Some might say the drugs made him do it, but most would say that's no excuse. Leaving the drugs out, well that just leaves a completely irredeemable bag - o - shit. Maybe the real goal is to keep the sister off the stand, since she came by to buy drugs.

[Jerri Blank]

Former Tyrone Man Seeking Separate Trial In 4-Year-Old's Death


9/13/10 - A former Livingston County man accused of beating a 4-year-old boy to death is now requesting to be tried separately from the mother of the victim.

24-year-old Brandon Hayes is charged with ten felonies including first-degree murder, torture and child abuse in the beating death of Dominick Calhoun.

His attorney had previously filed motions for a change in venue and an independent psychological exam, but has now also filed to have Hayes case separated from that of his girlfriend, 25-year-old Corrine Baker, Dominick’s mother.

Baker is charged with 2nd degree murder and child abuse for not doing more to protect her son.

Their cases were combined in July with plans to have them stand trial together as co-defendants. A hearing on all three motions is set for September 20th.

Hayes allegedly beat the child in the couple’s Argentine Township apartment over the course several days. Dominick was found by a relative April 11th and died the next day after being removed from life support at a hospital.

He also charged with a separate count of 1st degree child abuse for allegedly assaulting Dominick’s 8-year-old brother. (JM)
http://www.whmi.com/news/article/10844

Every thing about this case just makes my damn blood boil!

[Silvahalo]

A former Livingston County man accused of beating a 4-year-old boy to death is now requesting to be tried separately from the mother of the victim.
REQUEST DENIED! DENIED! DENIED! move on child killer---I can almost smell the stench of your skin burning from here.
I want to see this putrid fuck denied of EVERYTHING including air.

[theladyshadowheart]

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/07/hearing_reveals_details_of_day.html

Let's get back to the fact the NO ONE did ANYTHING! For Frick's sake, people, call the ambulance yourselves! Call the police yourselves! Take the child and run hell for leather out of the apartment and to the hospital! Let the chips fall where they may -- just DO IT.

Hearing this is like watching the bad parts of a movie over again, hoping something will change. . . .

It is a difficult decision to make of when to get involved and when to mind your own business.......... My neighbors routinely get drunk and have loud arguments, with the accompanying sounds of crashing furniture and drunk people falling down etc. There have been many times when I sit there holding the phone with the 9-1- just waiting to press the other one. Sending my husband over to make sure that no one is actually hurt hurt, but just drunken stupidity ensuing.

This past weekend when we were leaving to go out - I very clearly heard my neighbor tell her husband 'to take his fucking hands off of her' followed quite clearly by audible sounds of slapping/and or punching. I got in my car away from the windows and I called the police.

I like my neighbors and I didn't want anyone to get into trouble. But all I could think about is how many times have we read the stories on here where people heard what was going on and did nothing? What if he kills her? Puts her in the hospital? How could I walk away from my home and go and enjoy myself wondering if my friend might be dead when I returned?

Officer O'Brian called me later that evening to let me know that they did indeed have to take her husband away because he was beating the crap out of her and they could visibly see him through the window choking the ever loving crap out of his wife.....

He spent three or four days in the pokey and then he came back home. She is still with him, and she is not talking to me, because even though they won't tell her who called them, she believes I am the one responsible and told me that I should have minded my own business.

Did I do the right thing? I thought so at the time. And should I hear those two going at it again, I will not hesitate to call the cops again. Just because she is willing to take the ass whooping - doesn't mean I am willing to sit in my apartment and listen to it.

I couldn't ignore the cries of a grown woman who should freakin know better than to live with the asshole she lives with. How these people could ignore the cries of a child over the course of SEVERAL DAYS, is beyond me.

I am going to miss my friend. I pray she comes to her senses before it's too late and her story ends up here.

sorry, just had to vent my frustration over trying to do the right darn thing..............:argh:

[Tundratot]

I agree it can be tough under many circumstances -- like the ones you mentioned. You did the right thing, and the question of whether to do it again (for her) is even tougher since she is so ungrateful.

As an adult, I find it harder to feel any real sympathy for her situation. She chose it. She chastised you for interfering. She took him back in. On another occasion, you could be forgiven for just ignoring her.

Or you could continue to call because your own inconvenience, being forced to listen to the disruptive goings on there, is considerable. You have a right to some peace and quiet in the night. Maybe you could petition for their eviction.

But I believe in the cases involving kids, everyone has to agree that those kids can't do it for themselves and they don't get to choose the circumstances they live under. Calling, over and over and over would be imperative.

[Whisper]

Brandon Hayes will undergo independent psychological evaluation
FLINT, Michigan — An independent psychological evaluation was approved today for Brandon Hayes, the man accused of beating 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun to death.

Hayes' Saginaw-based attorney James Piazza said Genesee Circuit Judge Richard Yuille granted him his request for an independent psychological evaluation.
A Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry evaluation given in June found that Hayes was competent to stand trial.
[...]
Another hearing is set for Oct. 18 to discuss other issues with the trial, such as the trial location and whether Hayes should be tried in conjunction with Corinne Baker, Dominick's mother who is charged with second-degree murder and child abuse.
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/09/brandon_hayes_will_undergo_ind.html

[Silvahalo]

DOMINIC'S LAW FB (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149746891734485&ref=mf#!/pages/Dominicks-Law-/111925102174072)

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[VXIII]

I'm sorry but in cases like this...I hate the fact we can't do mob justice. Put this guy in general population after broadcasting what he did on tv to all the inmates and let them do the rest. As for the neighbors that heard the beatings and cries and did nothing... you deserve all the scorn and contempt you can get.

We dont have to do mob justice anymore, they wait and wait sometimes even years but eventually they get them, years mean nothing to a lifer, we will read about this pussy one day who beats women and kids, he is probobly living in protective custody or special needs area, but that dont protect you, they will still come for him... beat him down like he did a 4 year old and a woman...

[Ninja0980]

We dont have to do mob justice anymore, they wait and wait sometimes even years but eventually they get them, years mean nothing to a lifer, we will read about this pussy one day who beats women and kids, he is probobly living in protective custody or special needs area, but that dont protect you, they will still come for him... beat him down like he did a 4 year old and a woman...

I made that post right after reading about what happened to Dominick in the last days of his life,so my thoughts on what should happen to this POS were very raw.
In retrospect, him getting prison justice will be bad in the way that it will give him sympathy he doesn't deserve and take focus on the real victim of this case, little Dominick, who was failed by neighbors,family and his own worthless mother.

[Robynne]

Dial 911 from your phone, and throw it somewhere. Let them trace the call. Scream for help. Tell your mom to call the cops. If the fucker fell asleep, grab the kids and go. Tell your older child to go find help. There are many things this Bitch could have done to save the life of her son, but she didn't. I realize it's hard to think in certain situations, but damn. One of those options had to have entered her mind at some point. Poor sweet angel. He was so precious. I hate reading stories like these. It hits me so hard. I always put myself in the child's shoes. What they were probably thinking, how they were feeling. And it just makes this whole thing worse. I could never have a job dealing with these kinds of situations. I would either go insane from grief or turn vigilate and have myself arrested. (And these aren't my children) So sad

[Tundratot]

A hearing was held Wednesday in Judge Duncan Beagle’s courtroom regarding Corrine Baker’s parental rights of her son Tyler Baker. Child Protective Services of Genesee County has petitioned the court to terminate her parental rights.

 Baker’s parental rights case remains on hold as the court is waiting to hear the results of her criminal case. In the mean time, Tyler remains in foster care. 

  . . .

  Baker violated a condition of her probation on a previous offense in Livingston County when she failed to notify the county she had moved. She was convicted and sentenced in August and is serving up to seven years in prison on this, minus credit for time already served.

 The next hearing on this case has been scheduled for Feb. 15, 2011 at 1:30 p.m.

http://www.tctimes.com/articles/2010/11/19/news/local/doc4ce6e64ac23f0459722485.txt

The wheels of justice grind slowly on. . . .

[Darsa]

I truly, more than anything, hope like crazy that the family that Tyler is with right now is at least wonderful. That poor child needs it; I wish I could hug him and take away some of the pain he must feel... :(

[AussieMum]

Darsa I totally agree. I hope so much he is finally in a 'normal' family environment with support and love and NO BLOODY DRUGS!!

[captaingrumpy]

They are both as guilty as each other. Fuck them and string them up/.Why do mothers stand by and let arsehole boyfriends do this to their childre. At least the black fathers just piss off but the white trash beat children.I am so embarrassed.

[VXIII]

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/07/doctor_who_performed_autopsy_g.html
http://i26.tinypic.com/23h1zjl.jpg
Corrine Baker

This is a "perpetual helpless victim" she likes being a victim, look at her face, she thinks she is absolutely helpless and cant do anything... she will blame everyone else for the rest of her life when all she had to do was pick up her baby and run but instead, she stayed and stayed and she has all the excuses in the world and still has that "poor little me" look on her face, fuck her... she is the queen of pain... she wallows in it like a pig slopping in its mud and loves it, slops that mud all over herself...

[Tundratot]

. . .

Saginaw defense attorney James Piazza said Monday that a Genesee County district judge denied his client his Sixth Amendment rights to confront his accuser when he did not allow Brandon Joshua-Frederick Hayes' presence in the courtroom during the testimony of Tyler Baker, 8.

Piazza wants a Circuit Court judge to strike Tyler's testimony from the record and send the case back to District Court for new testimony — this time, with his client sitting at the defense table and not in another room watching via closed-circuit television. He also wants the judge to dismiss the charges of premeditated murder and child abuse.

. . .

Tyler testified at a June preliminary hearing that Hayes placed his open hand on 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun's head and repeatedly "slammed" him into a wall. He said Hayes also pressed or punched both him and Dominick in the genitals and that he heard his brother's screams as Hayes held the younger boy's left hand under the "hottest water" in the house.

. . .

Piazza also will ask the judge to suppress Hayes' alleged statement to police.

An officer testified at the June hearing that Hayes admitted that he hit and kicked Dominick on April 9 and that he was "still enraged" the next day because Dominick's father "would not give him money," so he kicked the boy "multiple times" in the head and genitals.

The officer said Hayes told him that he continued the assault April 10 and again April 11 when Dominick began vomiting and bleeding from the nose. Hayes also admitted striking Dominick's mother, Corrine Baker, when she confronted him about her son, he said.

Hayes is charged with six counts relating to Dominick's death, including premeditated murder and child abuse — charges Piazza will argue should be dismissed because there is not enough evidence to support the allegation.

"To charge child abuse, they have to prove my client was the parent, guardian or authority over the child; it was his girlfriend's child," Piazza said. "They can't establish child abuse, first-degree, as well as the felony murder (charges). ... There is no evidence it was premeditated or deliberate."http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20101207/NEWS01/12070310/New-hearing-wanted-for-man-charged-with-killing-tot

Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggh!

http://i35.tinypic.com/2z4eot5.jpg

[badfish76]

I call bullshit!

Tyler was abused by that dickhead as well. Brandon was able to see the testimony. Was he hooked up to be able to communicate with his lawyer during the testimony? Did he have a pen and paper to make notes and then was there a break during which his lawyer was allowed to go communicate with Brandon before he questioned Tyler?

I really hope that poor kid doesn't have to testify AGAIN with Hayes in the room and if he does I hope that he is strong enough to pound those nails into that fuckers proverbial casket.

[kafka]

Brandon Hayes' lawyer is an idiot. It aint gunna happen. Dream on asshole.

[Darsa]

I cannot even BEGIN to imagine any one single human being who would try SO hard to get someone out of trouble of this sort on a technicality. And I work with lawyers! This one makes me sick; I imagine he'll have something to answer for when he meets his maker. I don't care WHAT he thinks was broken in the way of laws; we're talking about an EIGHT YEAR OLD who has been traumatized ENOUGH in his life, all the way up to having to watch this man MURDER his own little brother. He gets to walk around with that for the rest of his life; can this "human being" of a lawyer even consider for a minute what he's trying to do, what it will do to this child if he should succeed??

Wow, I don't know if any of that made any sense, but I'm just so angry at this whole situation right now... :mad:

[Tundratot]

. . .

Child Protective Services took Dominick’s 8-year-old brother Tyler Baker, a child who told police he witnessed the abuse that killed his sibling, into custody. He’s been there ever since.

From the perspective of Tyler’s grandparents, it is an atrocity.

“Does he know we haven’t abandoned him? Does he know we want him?” asks Julie Baker, Tyler’s grandmother.

She says she and her family have written him letters telling him they love him, but they never get a response. They fear the letters aren’t reaching him.

“We just want him to know that we love him,” says Martin Baker, Tyler’s grandfather.

The couple says they have gone to numerous hearings, but a judge has decided not to take away their daughter Corrine Baker’s parental rights at this time.

“She deserves due process,” says Baker’s criminal defense attorney Fred Meiers.

He points out she has not been convicted of child abuse or murder.

However, her parents point out that she is in prison serving a minimum 4-year, 7-month sentence for dealing drugs. The sentence was handed down in August. It stems from the fact she was on parole for the crime when Dominick died, and violated parole by living with a felon in a home with drugs.

“He will be a teenager before she gets out,” says Julie Baker. “Tyler should be home with us.”

The Bakers say fighting Corrine for custody is nothing new. They say they petitioned for custody of both Tyler and Dominick years ago, because Corrine struggled with drugs and was an unreliable mother. She often left the boys with them for long periods of time and they wanted to provide a permanent home. The court did not allow them to do that then.

They say the courts failed Dominick at that time, and are failing Tyler now.

Dominick Calhoun’s paternal grandfather Rick Calhoun says he witnessed the home the Bakers provided for Dominick and Tyler. He says it is a miscarriage of justice that they aren’t allowed to bring the boy home.

“This is where he was happy,” says Calhoun. “This is where he smiled.”

From the family’s research they say Corrine Baker could sign her rights over to them, but she refuses to so far. They have started a letter writing campaign aimed at convincing her to do so.

They are asking people to write Baker and ask her to sign over her parental rights to her parents, Martin and Julie Baker. http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/news/story.aspx?id=561169

It shouldn't matter to family court. She is in prison for at least four years, two years longer than they can justify leaving the child hanging waiting for a permanent placement. I'm not terribly concerned that he is given to the Baker family, but social services should be addressing the need for permanent placement and moving to remove the child from the mother's custody. I wonder if they find the Baker family unacceptable. Seems likely, with one daughter in prison over drugs and the other also a drug user.

[Jerri Blank]

Trial Date Set For Couple Charged In 4-Year-Old's Death


2/8/11 - A trial date has been scheduled for a former Livingston County man charged in the murder of a 4 year old boy. Brandon Joshua-Frederick Hayes, who used to live in Tyrone Township, will head to trial March 29th on various counts including first-degree murder, first-degree child abuse and torture in connection with the beating death of Dominick Calhoun in Argentine Township last April. Hayes’ Attorney James Piazza is still waiting for dates to be scheduled on a variety of motions he filed. He’s seeking to quash or reduce some charges and wants earlier testimony from Dominick’s 8-year-old half brother Tyler Baker to be thrown out. Piazza also requested that several drug charges be tried separately from the murder case and that his trial be held separately from that of the boy’s mother, Corrine Baker. She’s charged with 2nd degree murder in her son’s death after authorities say she didn’t do enough to stop the beating. Her trial is also slated to begin March 29th in Genesee County Circuit Court. Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton tells WHMI that they would prefer to try the cases together and that a cut-off date for motions to be filed in either case has been set for March 7th. (JK)
http://whmi.com/news/article/11698

[Momzilla]

Good. Enough beating around the bush with bullshit motions-
Let's get these murderers TRIED & FRIED !(or at least thrown in a hole deep enough that we won't ever have to see their faces or hear their names again!)

[badfish76]

I can't WAIT for the trial and these two shit bags to be hastened to the fires of hell!

Dominick was a BEAUTIFUL boy and it just breaks my heart to think of what his whore of a mother allowed him and his brother to endure.

I want to stomp on Hayes' nut sack until it explodes just for starters. I hate them both and can't wait to watch them cry like they made those kids when the jury hands down the guilty verdicts.

[Tundratot]

Once again a hearing scheduled to address motions in the case of the Argentine Township mother accused of killing her 4-year-old has been delayed.

The hearing set originally for Monday was adjourned until Friday. It was then cancelled Friday and not rescheduled. . . .http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/news/story.aspx?id=592128

What a freaking waste of time. . . .

[FknKraze]

Once again a hearing scheduled to address motions in the case of the Argentine Township mother accused of killing her 4-year-old has been delayed.

The hearing set originally for Monday was adjourned until Friday. It was then cancelled Friday and not rescheduled. . . .


http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/news/story.aspx?id=592128

What a freaking waste of time. . . .

F.F.S!! Are you kidding me!?! Just get on with it so we can see these fuckers fry!!

[Silvahalo]

Once again a hearing scheduled to address motions in the case of the Argentine Township mother accused of killing her 4-year-old has been delayed.

The hearing set originally for Monday was adjourned until Friday. It was then cancelled Friday and not rescheduled. . .
Aw, hell. Just hand the bitch over to me. Done cheap and easy.

[redsaid]

I can't BELIEVE this bullshit! This bitch deserves nothing less than a long torturous death.hopfully the suspense that is enraging us is killing her.

[Mommyof2]

A judge will consider whether to allow into court a confession Brandon Hayes made to police about beating a 4-year-old boy to death last year in Argentine Township.

ayes was in court today for the hearing about his statements. Genesee Circuit Judge Richard Yuille said he will review the confession and determine whether or not to admit it into evidence.

Hayes' attorney, James Piazza, argued in court that his client was going through heroin withdrawal and was a diagnosed schizophrenic and thus not able to understand his rights or what was going on.

Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Tammy Phillips said Hayes was competent because he was responsive to questions from police.

Investigators Sgt. David Dwyre of the Genesee County Sheriff's Department and Arch Ravert of the Argentine Township Police Department both testified that Hayes was responsive.


"I was scared," he said when he was asked about the interview with Dwyre. "I just remember him telling me what I was arrested for. I don't remember much (about the interview)."

In the interview, Hayes is alleged to detail how he beat Dominick over a four day period because the boy wet the bed.
Related topics: Fenton

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2011/03/brandon_hayes_accused_of_beati.html#cmpid=v2mode_b e_smoref_face

You know what makes me sick? He claims he was scared when he confessed.. That just makes me sick because I know Dominic was scared as you beat him to death.. Boo fucking whooo Brandon!!I could care less if you were withdrawing off drugs you beat that baby to death and deserve to be punished!!

[carolinablue]

You know, my 15 month old grandson is cutting 2 teeth at once and is cranky and whiny all day. Today he stuck two finger up my nose and his little fingernails scratched me pretty badly. My nose started bleeding and my eyes watered. I was pretty aggravated, but as I sit here with cotton balls up my nose, not once did it occur to me to hit, punch, choke or kick him. I put him in his crib and took care of my nose and cleaned up. He's squalling nonstop right now, so I'm going to pick him up, offer him a snack and cuddle him. Where the hell do these sewer rats come from?

[badfish76]

I will say the same thing here I said on Facebook: If he was able to detail what he did to the baby over FOUR days of beating he was sane enough to understand his rights. He was able to communicate effectively so I feel that he was able to understand.

[Tundratot]

The mother of murdered four-year-old Dominick Calhoun took the stand Wednesday during a motion hearing.

. . .

Baker’s attorney Fred Meiers asked the judge Wednesday to throw out statements she made to police about her son's death just before she was charged.

“I felt intimidated,” said Baker on the stand.

She says the prosecuting attorney and a detective pulled her aside and questioned her in a locked room at the courthouse. She was there to see Brandon Hayes face a judge. She says they never read her her rights.

“At the time, I talked to her she was the mother of a deceased child and a victim of domestic violence,” said Marcie Mabry, who retired from the Genesee County Prosecutor’s office last year. “I wasn’t talking to her as a suspect.”

Defense Attorney Fred Meiers said any statements made during this questioning should be inadmissible. He said the rules of professional conduct call on prosecuting attorneys to make sure the accused are aware of their right to get an attorney.

“The Genesee County Prosecutor’s Office should be recused from this case,” said Meiers. . . http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/news/story.aspx?id=599250

The dungbeetles both were treated unfairly by the police! Oh, booohooo! Poor drug dealing, parole violating, child killing POS!

[badfish76]

I call bullshit!

If Brandon was beating the shit out of her and Dominick and she was such a victim, the last thing she would have been worried about right then would have been legalities. I would think you would be more worried about/grieving for your dead child with maybe a splash of relief that you were finally liberated from the hell you claimed you were enduring. Intimidation my ass.

[donegaveup]

This legal wrangling sickens me. Everybody has rights, oh hell yeah, but NOBODY ever has any responsibilities. These baby killers are always the victim of somebody or something....or so they claim. We are to believe they are all saints and just victims of society, and we should weep and wail for their sad pathetic asses. Until the day one of these dead babies appears in front of me to tell me specifically that the he/she/it responsible for his/her death is truly not guilty my unbridled hatred will continue for all child abusers. I truly wish I was mobbed up because this thread would have a completely different tone. These two (and many others) would be history. I would have done sent some big goon out to do to these two the EXACT same thing to them as was done to Dom. Right before the death blow I would ask them: "How intimidated are you now fuck-wit?"

[Jerri Blank]

Trial Date Set For Two Charged In Argentine Boy's Death


5/19/11 - A September trial date has been scheduled for the two individuals charged in the beating death of an Argentine Township boy. 25-year old Brandon Joshua-Frederick Hayes is charged with 1st degree murder and child abuse in the April 2010 death of his former girlfriend’s son, Dominick Calhoun. Dominick’s mother Corrine Baker is facing 2nd degree murder and child abuse charges for allegedly not doing more to protect her son. Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton tells WHMI that they anticipate the trial will begin in September to provide some closure to families of the victim. However, he says there are still a number of outstanding issues left to address before it begins. Several defense motions are pending. Hayes’s attorney James Piazza is looking to suppress statements he made to police and argues he was released from a mental hospital a few weeks before the incident and is a diagnosed schizophrenic. He says Hayes was in jail and going through heroin withdrawals when police decided to interview him. Prosecutors have argued Hayes was competent because he was responsive and answering questions. Meanwhile, Baker’s attorney has filed an order for an appointment of a battered woman syndrome expert as well as a number of motions including one for a change of venue and another to suppress Baker’s out of court statements made during an alleged unlawful interrogation.
http://whmi.com/news/article/12319

Yet another trial date? damn let's just lynch these f$%kers and get it over with!

[redsaid]

:argh: He wasn't so skitzo that he couldn't sell drugs to a 16 year old. And she wasn't so battered that the doc saw no physical signs of abuse while her son was being beaten and lay dying. :dong:

[Silvahalo]

“I felt intimidated,” said Baker on the stand.

It disgust me that she should use that as a reason.
To define intimidation is to make timid; fill with fear.
Did she not see her son, her young innocent child inflicted with this very fear??
was she then too intimidated to do nothing even as he screamed for mommy for days?! ....even as she had opportunities to do something, tell someone. but did nothing?! I, give her nothing.
She might yet learn what that raw fear was like as her dying son as he begged for mercy...
Even then it will not be the same.
She as adult with a possible winning chance to defend herself---she cannot use this excuse as she stands living and breathing today, ffs! she watched his horror but did NOTHING!

It's a sicking feeling to read that even now she is asking for leniency. What did she offer to her son? Not her protection, not her duty, not her love. She dare say she was intimidated. She was his mother and she failed Dominick, failed in the worst way a mother can. If she had any decency. She'd ask to be punished to the full extent. As much as I despise her I could respect that.

Don't forget about Dominicks Law (http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/news/story.aspx?id=453496). IF this law comes to be it will make future motherfuckers responsible for NOT helping a child they heard begging for his life.

[Darsa]

Two things come to mind; one, sure people have rights... as long as they have the money to pay the high-end lawyers who will do or say anything for a buck. And two, I don't give a shit HOW crazy/schizphrenic/ whatever he was, he killed a child, he needs to go to J A I L. Not a nice comfy mental institution where he has a hope of getting out when he's no longer "mentally unstable", but imprisoned with nothing for the rest of his miserable, nasty, disgusting waste of a life.

[Tundratot]

Judge Duncan Beagle terminated the parental rights of Corrine Baker on Wednesday, June 1. This action opens the way for placement of her 10-year-old son Tyler, who has spent the last 14 months in foster care. . . .

 Since Dominick’s death, Tyler has been living with a foster family. Family members have had no contact with him. Because of the circumstances, Genesee County Child Protective Services petitioned the courts to terminate Baker’s parental rights.

 Baker’s attorney requested that the case be adjourned until after Baker and Hayes’ criminal trial, however, the judge denied that request. Baker, who was available via telephone, then pleaded no contest in the matter during the hearing. The court found that terminating her rights was in the best interest of Tyler.

 A post-termination review hearing is next in the process and family members, or even the foster family, could express interest in adopting Tyler. This decision will be made through the attorneys and the Department of Human Services.

 Baker will be granted one last visitation with Tyler in the next couple of weeks, most likely at the facility at which she is incarcerated.

 Rick Calhoun, the biological grandfather of Dominick, was in court Wednesday when the judge terminated her parental rights. He said he and other family members are saddened that they have not been allowed to see Tyler since he was placed in foster care.
http://www.tctimes.com/articles/2011/06/08/news/local/doc4def79a8a054d224414180.txt

The right thing to do. That child could have languished in foster care for years awaiting his mother's criminal case to come to trial. No kid should have to be in limbo like that. Now she's firmly out of the picture, he can get on with finding a good family.

[redsaid]

http://www.tctimes.com/articles/2011/06/08/news/local/doc4def79a8a054d224414180.txt

The right thing to do. That child could have languished in foster care for years awaiting his mother's criminal case to come to trial. No kid should have to be in limbo like that. Now she's firmly out of the picture, he can get on with finding a good family.

WWWOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO! thanks for the update. i feel better now.

[Heaven6566]

I have read this one and I can honestly say, he would NOT have lived past the first time he hit my child!!! Bury that bitch!!!!

[Tundratot]

The Flint Journal reports Corrine Baker has pleaded guilty to Second Degree murder in the beating death of 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun. . . . http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/news/story.aspx?id=657720#.Tl3hzKiwVeY

. . . Baker pled guilty today to second-degree murder and second degree child abuse and agreed to testify against her co-defendant Brandon Hayes, according to Genesee Circuit Court records.

In exchange, prosecutors recommended a sentence of 13 to 30 years prison, according to court records. . . .

A second-degree murder conviction can result in a sentence of up to life in prison.

She is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 24 by Judge Richard B. Yuille.http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2011/08/dominick_calhouns_relatives_gl.html

Apparently, her relatives are happy about this.

[Silvahalo]

I hope the bitch gets 30, tho it's not enough.

I keep thinking about Tyler, her other son, how much his life has changed over loosing Dominick. Not only losing his brother but his mother and family he was used to. In some respects it's far, far better, but still, hard on such a young child and so life changing.

He said he and other family members are saddened that they have not been allowed to see Tyler since he was placed in foster care.Far harder on Tyler. I hope he is in loving, caring home. He will need so much TLC to lead a good, happy life.
IF the whore gets 30 he'll be about 40 when she gets out. Lord help them both.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

On April 12, 2010, Corrine Baker woke up in jail.

She was covered in bruises, her hair was matted with blood, and her eyes were nearly swollen shut. Argentine Township Police had arrested her while they investigated the torture and beating of her 4-year-old son Dominick Calhoun.

While she sat in a jail cell, her little boy died.

She was released from jail for a short time before being charged with child abuse and second degree murder.

“The last thing I wanted was for my little boy to die,” she said at the time.

She said she had done everything she could to save her little boy from the brutal beating handed down by her boyfriend, then 24-year-old Brandon Hayes. She said Hayes was abusing drugs and flew into a rage when the child wet himself on the sofa in their Argentine Township apartment.

Corrine Baker defended her actions. She said she had screamed for help, but neighbors ignored her. She said she had fought Hayes, but he beat her. She said people saw what was happening to her and her son, but turned a blind eye.

One year, 4 months, and 19 days after her little boy’s death, she stopped defending herself.

“The underlying theme was: she did too little, too late,” said Argentine Township Police Chief Dan Allen.

Police had presented to her evidence that she had opportunities to get help for her helpless son, but didn’t.

They presented witnesses who claimed Corrine said she didn’t get her son medical help because she feared getting in trouble. She was on probation for a drug crime, and was not supposed to associate with anyone with a criminal record. Her live-in boyfriend, Brandon Hayes, had a record.

Baker's family members testified that she had opportunities to get help from them, but hid the fact that there was what would become deadly trouble in her home.

“She didn’t intervene as a mother should,” said Allen. “Putting a time-line together of that weekend left her no wiggle room to get out of the charges. The case against her was strong.”
[...]

Brandon Hayes is scheduled to face trial on September 7, 2011 according to Genesee County Circuit Court records.

Baker told Genesee County Prosecutors she will help them put Hayes away. She will testify against him when he goes on trial.
http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/4-year-old-dominick-calhoun%27s-mother-pleas-guilty-to-his-murder

[Bohring]

I hope Brandon Hayes dies. I don't care how. I just want him dead.

[Whisper]

http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/4-year-old-dominick-calhoun%27s-mother-pleas-guilty-to-his-murder
I remember watching the first news cast she was on all beat up and felt soooo bad for her
Then within a day or so the truth started coming out and was so pissed I had been sucked in at first
I hope they both die a slow painful death beng beaten everyday in prison for many years,,
either that or I say lock them in a house with Brenden and Rachel from BB for a few weeks they will be begging for death

[Dakota Valkyrie]

I remember watching the first news cast she was on all beat up and felt soooo bad for her
Then within a day or so the truth started coming out and was so pissed I had been sucked in at first
Images from "back then":

http://i0.simplest-image-hosting.net/168bf183b2abe8bc9188aacc163dd507/20110831-10.jpg http://i0.simplest-image-hosting.net/168bf183b2abe8bc9188aacc163dd507/20110831-14.jpg http://i0.simplest-image-hosting.net/168bf183b2abe8bc9188aacc163dd507/20110831-13.jpg

[Whisper]

She deserves to be beatdown like that everytime she starts to heal,
she had so many chances to save him and she did nothing
went to the dr for her injuries while he lay at home dying!

[Silvahalo]

One year, 4 months, and 19 days after her little boy’s death, she stopped defending herself.
Well, that is something. She stopped but does she realize how badly she failed her son? really?
You know I feel for any mother in a violent relation, sincerely do. I won't say I know how it feels to be there as a mother but I do know how it is to be beat by your man. Having a kid in the mix must have been a fucking nightmare.
It comes down to life and death in a situation like this. This fucker went out of complete control, lost it all together and took his
rage out on her son. At some point she must have realized the only thing to stop it was to put a gun to his head as he slept.
good-bye darlin', Hell is waiting.

[Morbid]

Flint, MI –*The mother of 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun, the boy who was tortured to death over the course of four days, will spend the next 13 to 30 years in prison after she pleads guilty to second-degree murder. I know a lot of you are familiar with this case, but for those of you who are not and don’t feel like reading our original article, let me ruin your morning a bit. Last April, 4-year-old Dominick was sitting on a couch eating cereal when he accidentally wet his pants. His mother’s boyfriend, 24-year old Brandon Hayes, became enraged and began beating the boy. Over the course of four days Hayes would punch, kick, and burn Dominick. He would even stick his thumbs in the little boy’s eyes. Dominick’s mother, Corrine Baker, would also become the recipient of some of Hayes’ abuse, but at no time did she ever alert anyone that Dominick was being severely beaten even though she had multiple chances to do so and her friends were urging her to call police. It wasn’t until Baker’s younger sister came to the apartment to buy drugs that anything was done to save Dominick, but by then it was too late. Corrine’s younger sibling saw signs of abuse and immediately called her grandfather who in turn called police pleading for someone to go check on the boy. Officers would find Dominick in his bedroom unconscious and moaning. He was admitted to the hospital where doctors had to remove a piece of the boy’s skull to accommodate his swollen brain. He was pronounced dead the next morning and Hayes was then charged with his murder. Baker was later charged with second-degree murder and second-degree child abuse for her actions, or inactions, that led to her son’s horrific death. She had allegedly told friends she couldn’t contact police because she feared they’d think she abused the boy or arrest her for violating her probation by moving without notifying officials. She didn’t take her son to hospital for fear of Child Protective Services getting involved. Both Baker and Hayes were to be tried next Wednesday in a combined trial, but Baker has decided to save a little bit of her skin and plead guilty to both second-degree murder and second-degree child abuse. By doing so, she is no longer looking at a possible life sentence. In exchange, she will still be at the trial on Sept 7, but now as a witness against Hayes. Baker will be sentenced on October 24th where she can get anywhere from 13 to 30 years in prison. I’m going to assume that her performance during Hayes’ trial will factor into the judge’s decision. The prosecution says that this is not a plea deal and that can choose to use Baker’s testimony or not. The family are behind the deal because it means Dominick’s older brother, who was present during the beatings, may not have to*testify. If you’d like to keep up with this case, then check out Justice for Dominick Calhoun!,*the Facebook Page with over 60,000 followers that has everything you want to know about this case and has been following it since the beginning. I’m also including part one of a five part interview with Baker conducted days after her son’s death. You can watch the entire interview, just recently released in its entirety, over at ConnectMidMichigan.com
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[Jerri Blank]

Judge Denies Moving Murder Trial & Excluding Testimony



9/8/11 - Jury selection begins today for a former Tyrone Township man charged with the murder of a 4-year-old boy. 25-year old Brandon Joshua-Frederick Hayes is charged with 1st degree murder and child abuse in the April 2010 death of his former girlfriend’s son, Dominick Calhoun.
Two days have been set aside for selecting a jury, with opening statements expected to begin next Tuesday in Genesee County Circuit Court. In court yesterday, Judge Richard Yuille rule on several defense motions, denying requests to move the trial to a different venue, exclude testimony Hayes made to police after his arrest, prevent testimony from Dominick’s older brother and to sever the drug charges against Hayes from those directly related to the death of Calhoun.
The judge did, however, dismiss a count of Assault with Intent to do Great Bodily Harm Less Than Murder. Hayes would still face an automatic life prison sentence with no parole if he’s convicted on the murder count. It’s unclear whether the boy’s mother, 26-year-old Corrine Baker, will actually take the stand against Hayes, although she has agreed to do so if called on by prosecutors.
That was a condition of her plea last week to 2nd degree murder and child abuse charges. In exchange for being available to testify, prosecutors will recommend she serve between 13 and 30 years in prison when she is sentenced October 24th.

http://whmi.com/news/article/12997

Good to hear they are letting the brother testify. If there is going to be some honesty it will come from him.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Judge sends potential jurors home in Brandon Hayes trial after failure to seat jury

Looks like they are going to have to move the trial.

http://i0.simplest-image-hosting.net/168bf183b2abe8bc9188aacc163dd507/20110915-11.jpg
Hayes at a June 2010 hearing
Genesee Circuit Judge Richard Yuille has sent the pool of potential jurors home after a failure to seat a jury in the Brandon Hayes trial, according to the court.
[...]

Jury selection had been going on for a week.

About 200 questionnaires were sent out to potential jurors, of which 78 were brought into the court, according to Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton.

Potential jurors had too much knowledge of the case from media coverage, according to court officials.

Hayes' attorney has raised a change of venue request, according to the court.