Edwin Goitia and Amanda Arsenault violated custody agreement - now their baby's dead

[thehesbomb]

SPRINGFIELD – The state and family members intervened in the six-month life of Naiden Goitia.

“The net result is a dead child,” said Hampden Superior Court Judge Peter A. Velis Friday, who ordered the infant’s mother, Amanda Arsenault, 23, of Chicopee to be held without right to bail after she pleaded innocent to murder and reckless endangerment of a child.

The child’s father, Edwin Goitia, 25, of Chicopee, pleaded innocent to the same charges Wednesday and bail was set at $250,000.

Lawyers for both have said their clients are innocent in the death of the infant, who died in July of blunt force trauma, according to a prosecutor.

Assistant District Attorney Diane M. Dillon said Arsenault’s father and stepmother, Charles and Gail Arsenault, had custody of the boy, but the baby had been living with Amanda Arsenault in violation of the custody agreement for a month and a half. The grandparents have been indicted for reckless endangerment of a child.

She said the state Department of Children and Families had given the grandparents custody after Amanda Arsenault brought the child at less than a month old to a hospital with bite marks and bruises.

Edwin Goitia did not live with Amanda Arsenault but visited every few weeks, according to Dillon.

Amanda Arsenault’s lawyer, Joseph A. Franco, said that his client had nothing to do with the death of the child.

Franco said that the last time she saw the baby, he was in the arms of his father, who put him to sleep.

Franco said that Arsenault and Edwin Goitia went to a convenience store, placing the monitor from the baby’s room with a downstairs neighbor.

When Arsenault, of 373 Dale St., came back from the store she looked into the baby’s room and he was quiet; Edwin Goita told her the baby was sleeping, Franco said.

Arsenault went to feed the baby later and found he was in distress, Franco said. She immediately called her father who took them to the hospital, he said.

Dillon said Arsenault’s roommate reported seeing Goitia holding the baby against his shoulder on July 29 at about 7:15 p.m., with the baby’s legs dangling.

Defense lawyer George M. Nassar said earlier that Goitia denies harming the baby.

Dillon asked that Arsenault be held without right to bail, saying she had checked with the Chicopee Women’s Correctional Center and found out that they had accommodations for someone in Arsenault’s condition and they currently house “eight ladies in the same condition.” Although Dillon did not specify the condition, Arsenault appeared to be pregnant.

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/amanda_arsenault_of_chicopee_h.html

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[Aena]

Pregnant, so she wants another baby to kill. Sick ass freaks! When will this shit end? When we start training people to be parents? When we punish those that hurt or murder a baby more harshly than we punish drug dealers? When we just take these mother fuckers out behind the courthouse and just put a bullet in their head?

[Tundratot]

I can't think of a suitable set of names to call this group of adult humans. They all let that baby down and are responsible for his murder. The paternal grandparents gave the child over to the mother?!! She gave the child to his father?!! If she knew she didn't harm him to begin with, why in the living heaven would she leave the only other suspect alone with him? And the grandparents. Since they couldn't know who hurt that child, and had a court order not to let the parents have the child, what in the blue blazes were they thinking?!!!

And that gangbanger needs his face stomped. I don't like it.

[Silvahalo]

The investigation began on July 29 (http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/edwin_goitia_suspect_in_murder.html), 2009 when Arsenault, called Chicopee police to report the boy’s unattended death. Police, however, determined that Edwin Goitia may have been present when the boy died.

In, January, 2008, Goitia pleaded guilty to a single count of assault and battery and was sentenced to four years of probation for his role in a 2006 baseball bat attack on a University of Massachusetts student.

As part of Goitia’s plea agreement, Judge Mary-Lou Rup dropped a charge of aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Goitia was ordered to stay away from the victim and to complete substance-abuse and anger-management counseling.With his history what the fuck was the mother thinking? a violent offender, can she be any more stupid? yeah, she's apparently knocked up again by this baby killer. The grandparents I hope will never forgive themselves for screwing up as they did. Failed completely, poor little Naiden. Not one of them thinking about his best interest. So sorry baby Naiden Goitia, you deserved to be cherished and protected.
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[Dakota Valkyrie]

A Hampden Superior Court judge has ruled murder charges against a Chicopee mother and father in the 2009 death of 6-month-old Naiden Goitia, their son, will stand and the case will go to trial.
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Although Naiden died July 29, 2009, after suffering two significant skull fractures and bleeding from the brain, the two were not indicted in the death until June 2010.
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Among that background was that medical evidence showed Naiden had been dead for at least one hour before he was brought to Holyoke Medical Center by Amanda Arsenault, her father and a neighbor at 10 p.m.

Carey said the grand jury could have reasonably inferred the only people who were with Naiden from about 7:30 p.m. to 9:50 p.m. were Goitia and Amanda Arsenault.

Goitia did not live with Arsenault at her 373 Dale St. apartment, but went there at about 7 p.m. when Arsenault, Naiden and others were outside.

“Goitia insisted on putting Naiden to bed,” the background in the ruling said. He took Naiden to the third-floor apartment Arsenault and a roommate shared and came back outside.

Goitia and Arsenault walked to a liquor store and eventually went to her apartment. A neighbor heard screams from the apartment at 9:50 p.m.

The neighbor ran there and saw Naiden lifeless and blue. Arsenault said she did not call 911 but called her father, Charles Aresenault, who spells his last name differently than his daughter.

The neighbor did CPR on Naiden in the car to the hospital. She said while they rode to the hospital Goitia, Arsenault and Aresenault tried to devise a story to tell police because Naiden wasn’t supposed to be living with Arsenault or Goitia.
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The neighbor said Goitia got out of the car before they got to the hospital because Goitia had been drinking.

Amanda Arsenault’s roommate said she saw Goitia holding Naiden in the apartment she shared with Arsenault at about 7:15 p.m. She said Goitia had a blanket over Naiden’s head and the baby was not crying.

Arsenault told police she was going up to check on Naiden 20 minutes after Goitia took the baby to bed, but Goitia told her the baby was sleeping and he wanted to walk to the store with her.

Arsenault told police when they got home from the store she kept looking in on Naiden, who she believed was asleep and right before 10 p.m. tried to wake him up.

“It is reasonable to infer, given the medical evidence, that when Amanda went to wake Naiden she found him lifeless and blue,” Carey wrote.
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/02/murder_charges_against_edwin_g.html

[Tundratot]

What have they been doing all this time to only now decide these two amoeba will stand trial? Can we expect another two or three year delay while they compile their case?

[Dakota Valkyrie]

What have they been doing all this time to only now decide these two amoeba will stand trial? Can we expect another two or three year delay while they compile their case?
Dayum! I so wasn't paying attention... didn't even notice the length of time. If I had, I would have included this part of the article:

Lawyers for Edwin Goitia, 26, and Amanda Arsenault, 24, had argued a grand jury should not have indicted the two parents for murder based on what the prosecution presented. They wanted the charges dismissed.

George M. Nassar, Goitia’s lawyer, also argued the prosecution distorted the evidence presented to the grand jury.

Hampden Superior Court Judge Richard J. Carey rejected Nassar’s arguments and those of Joseph A. Franco, Arsenault’s lawyer, and so the cases are scheduled to go to trial April 30.

No excuse included in the article about why this is still floating out there:

Charles Aresenault and his wife, Gale Aresenault, face charges of reckless endangerment of a child for giving Naiden back to Amanda Arsenault in violation of the state order.

Well paid lawyers??? :noidea: