Where's Rodricus Williams?Not in the Water; Daddy's Arrested

[Whisper]

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Police have called off the search for a missing toddler near the Battery in downtown Charleston. The boy is still missing, but police say he did not fall in the water as originally reported.

Summerville police helped Charleston police arresting Roger Anthony Williams, 28, the father of missing 2-year-old Rodricus Fred Williams, at an Economy Inn Hotel around 4:00am. Authorities and search teams spent Tuesday night and Wednesday morning looking for Williams' missing son.

Police said they do not believe that 2-year-old Rodricus Fred Williams fell into the water at the Battery, and called off the search just before 7:00am Wednesday. Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen said the child was never even near the battery, and police have confirmed the story was made up.

Police say Roger Williams had custody of the boy for the past two months, and was supposed to return the child to his mother Tuesday night. The boy's parents are in a custody battle.
[...]
During Williams' arrest, a police officer smelled burnt marijuana and when asked, Williams told police he had just smoked marijuana. During a search of the hotel room, officers found three burned hand-rolled marijuana cigarettes.

Williams also had four outstanding warrants for his arrest, and police said he is not cooperating with authorities as they search for his son. Police say they still do not know where the child is.

Rodricus Williams was reported missing around 7:35pm, when initial reports suggested the boy had fallen over the Battery wall. "There is no confirmation the boy fell in the water," said Public Information Officer Mark Ruppel.

Rodricus Williams is a 2-year-old black boy with twists in his hair. He was last seen wearing a red shirt, blue jean shorts and black shoes.

The Charleston County Volunteer Rescue Squad, Charleston City Police, the Department of Natural Resources, the Coast Guard and the Charleston County Sheriff's Office are all involved in the search for Rodricus Williams. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and the FBI are also involved.http://www.wistv.com/global/story.asp?s=12766733
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Rodricus Fred Williams http://i31.tinypic.com/2ynpawj.jpg
Roger Williams

[carolinablue]

Oh, this is not good. I hope I just have a suspicious mind, and that l'il guy is found safe somewhere. No more dead babies..just for one day, please.

[Rawrehz]

Oh what an angel of a face that little baby boy has! For someone to hurt him, especially his own father is just sickening to my stomach. i really really hope they find him and daddy dearest had nothing to do harming him.

Hopefully further details will emerge and FAST! There's really just not enough info here...
Be safe babyboy.

[Kufismacka]

i dont think the dad killed him or that he is even really "missing", he's probably long gone w/ relatives.. i mean he did have 2 months to hide him.

[Rawrehz]

That's true...2 months is a fair time for anythign to really happen. Daddy needs to speak up though and soon. I wonder why officials thought that he had fallen in the water in the first place.

Rodricus Williams was reported missing around 7:35pm, when initial reports suggested the boy had fallen over the Battery wall. "There is no confirmation the boy fell in the water," said Public Information Officer Mark Ruppel.

Like who reported him falling over the wall??

[Whisper]

That's true...2 months is a fair time for anythign to really happen. Daddy needs to speak up though and soon. I wonder why officials thought that he had fallen in the water in the first place.

Rodricus Williams was reported missing around 7:35pm, when initial reports suggested the boy had fallen over the Battery wall. "There is no confirmation the boy fell in the water," said Public Information Officer Mark Ruppel.

Like who reported him falling over the wall??

Like who reported him falling over the wall??

I have no clue yet this is all breaking now so more will be coming out

[AngelFire]

He has such a beautiful bright smile.:stupido3:

[Hellsbells]

Rodricus Williams Found Dead in Orangeburg County


Bowman, SC (WLTX) - A child who had been reported missing in Charleston has been found dead in Orangeburg County.

The body of two-year-old Rodricus Williams was found in the town of Bowman. Additional details of the discovery have not been released. A news conference was scheduled for 5 p.m. to give more information.

Crews began searching for Rodricus around 9:15 Tuesday night. They first said that the 2-year-old fell over the railing at the Battery and into the Charleston Harbor.

Rescue squads including police, volunteers, and the Department of Natural Resources all searched for the child.

http://www.wltx.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=89469&catid=2

[Kufismacka]

damn you hells bells & your sad news.:dong:

[Kufismacka]

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Sources with knowledge of the investigation into the disappearance of a 2-year-old Charleston boy say the child's body was found in a trash can in a rural town off I-26.

Charleston police called off the search for the missing 2-year-old boy near the Battery in downtown Charleston early Wednesday morning.

Police said Wednesday afternoon they would be providing assistance to other Lowcountry law enforcement agencies as the search for the missing boy continued.

Police said they did not believe that 2-year-old Rodricus Fred Williams fell into the water at the Battery and called off the search just before 7 a.m. Wednesday.

Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen said that the child was never at or even near the battery and that police have confirmed that it was made up.

Summerville police have arrested the child's father, 28-year-old Roger Williams. He had the boy the past two months and was supposed to return the child to his mother Tuesday night. The boy's parents are in a custody battle.

Williams has four outstanding warrants for his arrest and police said he is not cooperating with authorities as they search for his son. Police say they still do not know where the child is.

The search for 2-year-old Williams began near the Battery area of downtown Charleston Tuesday night. The boy was reported missing around 7:35 p.m. Initial reports suggested the boy had fallen over the Battery wall.

Williams is described as a 2-year-old black boy with twists in his hair. He was last seen wearing a red shirt, blue jean shorts and black shoes.

"There is no confirmation the boy fell in the water," said Public Information Officer Mark Ruppel.

The search on water was suspended earlier Wednesday morning, but resumed at 6 a.m. Volunteers and search crews continued the land search on foot through the evening and early-morning hours.

The Charleston County Volunteer Rescue Squad, Charleston City Police, the Department of Natural Resources, the Coast Guard and the Charleston County Sheriff's Office are all involved in the search. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and the FBI are also involved.

A reverse 911 call was sent out to everyone living on the Peninsula on Tuesday night, which said that if you see the boy, please call 911 immediately.

http://www.live5news.com/Global/story.asp?S=12763964

[Dneilz]

OH MY GOD.... Kill the father and stuff his ass in a trash can. Disgusting piece of shit.:dong:

[carolinablue]

A trash can. He put the body of his precious little son in a garbage can. I'd like to tear his head off with my hands. His son was born a perfect little baby boy with everything in place he needed to have a good and happy life...and this monster killed him and threw that small body away as if it were a piece of trash. This is making me cry. I want to rain curses on him, but I have to go cry. May he live in misery, die screaming and roast in hell.

[Whisper]

DAMN,DAMN,DAMN Thanks guys but not what I was hoping for
cant scream to much hubbys threatening to take all 3 of my comps b/c I get to upset sometimes!!

[Whisper]

Charleston Toddler's Body Found In Trash Barrel
CHARLESTON, S.C. --
Sources confirmed to news organizations in Charleston that law enforcement found the body of 2-year-old Rodricus Williams in Bowman Wednesday afternoon.

The Orangeburg Times and Democrat, an area newspaper, says, “investigators went into a wooded area where they said they discovered a body inside a cement-filled trash barrel behind a vacant mobile home.“

Charleston Police called off the search that started in the Battery of Downtown Charleston around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. That’s where the woman who was supposed to meet the child’s mother at a Burger King in North Charleston claimed she ended up, and the child vanished.

Rescue crews saturated the Battery area by land, air, and water.

The parents of Rodricus were locked in a custody battle, and police arrested 28-year-old Roger Williams in Summerville just after 4 a.m. Wednesday morning. Officers said he refused to cooperate. Williams is still behind bars for bench warrants.

Rescue crews saturated the Battery again at 6 a.m. by land, air, and water.

However, just before 7 a.m. Wednesday Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen told reporters the child was never near the Battery and that portion of the search ended.

A few hours later, Charleston Police relinquished control of the investigation and search.

[...]

http://www2.wspa.com/news/2010/jul/07/charleston-toddlers-body-found-trash-barrel-ar-524106/

[Whisper]

The Berkeley County Sheriff’s office says that Roger Williams and his girlfriend Grace Trotman are both being charged with homicide by child abuse for the death of 2-year-old Rodricus Williams.

Both are in custody following arrests on separate charges.
[...]

http://www2.counton2.com/cbd/news/local/article/breaking_news_father_and_girlfriend_charged_with_m urder_of_2-year-old/153577/
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Roger Williams and Grace Trotman have both been charged with homicide by child abuse

[Darsa]

:cry: OMG how horrible, poor little guy! :sad: This breaks my heart, how COULD they?????

[Whisper]

Boy's remains encased in concrete, put into trash bin
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. - A South Carolina toddler's remains have been found encased in concrete in a trash bin and a man and his girlfriend have been charged in the boy's death.

Investigators were awaiting a DNA test before positively identifying the boy as 2-year-old Rodricus Williams, but Berkeley County Sheriff Wayne DeWitt said Thursday the body matched the description given to police when Rodricus was reported missing in Charleston on Tuesday night.

DeWitt says 29-year-old Roger Williams and Grace Nichole Trotman have been charged with homicide by child abuse.

[...]

http://dailymail.com/News/NationandWorld/201007080889

[AngelFire]

YOU FUKING UGLY BASTARDS.

How could they do that to him?? He was perfect. He was a little boy that I am almost certain loved to play with toy cars, and just run and do all the stuff lil kids his age enjoy.Encased in concrete and thrown away like trash....

DIE YOU WORTHLESS BITCHES. YOUR MOTHERS SHOULD HAVE HAD ACID FLUSHED INSIDE THEM WHEN PREGNANT WITH YOU MONSTERS.

[Whisper]

this ones got more and better info

Boy's remains buried in concrete
[...]
Roger Williams, 29, and Grace Nichole Trotman, 24, were charged with homicide by child abuse.

An autopsy revealed the concrete held the body of a young black boy who matched the description the couple had given Charleston police for Mr. Williams' missing son, Rodricus Williams, said Berkeley County Sheriff Wayne DeWitt.

Rodricus had been staying with his father and Ms. Trotman when his mother unexpectedly called wanting to see her son, police said. Rodricus' mother was told she could pick him up Tuesday at the Battery in Charleston, a tourist area and Civil War site on the city's peninsula about 30 kilometres from where police believe the boy was killed.
The couple claimed the boy had fallen from the Battery into Charleston Harbor, touching off a more than 10-hour search by police and rescue workers on foot, and by boat and helicopter. “It was a concocted story,” Mr. DeWitt said.

Ms. Trotman has been charged by Charleston police with filing a false report and her bond was set at $250,000. She and Mr. Williams were to have bond hearings on the more serious charge later Thursday.

Investigators were awaiting the results of a DNA test to confirm that the boy found in the bin was Rodricus. Police think he was killed at Ms. Trotman's Summerville home, but his death was revealed only after Rodricus' mother wanted to visit him.
Police do not know exactly how long the boy had been dead. “We do know days, maybe longer,” Mr. DeWitt said.
[...]
Because of the weight of the container, a farmer was asked to hoist it onto a county vehicle using a backhoe. The bin was disassembled and the remains examined Thursday at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.

Mr. DeWitt said the boy's body was inside 200-litre garbage bags and the concrete was poured on top. He said investigators think the boy was dead before he was put in the bin.
[...]
Rodricus had been admitted to a Charleston hospital several times, and Mr. DeWitt said he had been beaten before.
“During interviews, there was some talk about the child being struck on occasions,” Mr. DeWitt said. “Our interpretation is, it was not by accident.”
Officers were serving the hospital with search warrants to get information on the boy's treatment. His cause of death has not been released.

Ms. Trotman has been cooperating with police while Mr. Williams has given investigators false information, Mr. DeWitt said.
[...]
“She is still being cooperative,” Mr. DeWitt said. “Mr. Williams has refused to answer any questions.”
In Ms. Trotman's neighborhood, residents were shocked.
“It just can't be understood,” said Norm Reece, whose home is across the street from Ms. Trotman's. “A 2-year-old, innocent child — if you don't want them, give them to social services. Don't kill them.”http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/boys-remains-buried-in-concrete/article1633444/?cmpid=rss1

[AngelFire]

Seriously these sick, child beating, bastards must be exterminated like the vermin they are. This baby, because he was a baby, had a mother. Why was that option not a good one, and murder is okay.

There are so many options. Even great parents get to a point where they have to just walk away, and get a breather. I will never understand

[Rhoni]

Damn it, I was reading through this, trying to have some faith then bam Hellsbell's post hit me and took my breath away. I actually yelled out loud. I am so fucking sick of these parents using their kids to get back at each other or the fathers not wanting to pay,or using the kids for punching bags..Whatever the case may be I am sick of babies being murdered...For Christ's sake STOP KILLING THE KIDS...

He was such an adorable little boy :(

I went and finished reading and went from yelling to crying. How can anyone throw a baby in the garbage... It is just so disturbing..

[Joevma]

He probley didn't ever even want that baby. He was using him to torture the Mom and dodge child support payments I bet a million. Controlling abusive freak. Can't just leave baby alone...snatch him from the place where he is treasured and adored and squirrel him away to torture him. And F his girlsfriend too. Bitch. F anyone who allows that to happen to a baby.

[Whisper]

Is it me or does his GF look about 12??

[Whisper]

Family Seeks Strength In Their Faith After Death Of Toddler
CHARLESTON, S.C. --
[...]
“At this point we’ve come back to the place where we redirect ourselves, back to God,“ says Karen Carter, a family member to Shaneka Washington, the deceased boy’s mother.

“God is our center, he’s our source. So at this point we’re just focusing and trusting in God to see us through,“ says Carter.

All day Wednesday Shaneka Washington and her mother Colette Washington prayed and asked for prayer that the child would return home safe.

Now they ask for prayers to comfort the family during this time of mourning.http://www2.wspa.com/news/2010/jul/08/family-seeks-strength-their-faith-after-death-todd-ar-530137/
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Rest In Peace Sweet Boy

[momof3]

I love my children dearly but I keep telling hubby that getting a divorce and 50% of my time back sounds like a good plan some days! When the other parent "wants" the children how flipping hard is it to say, hey I have had enough I am walking away see ya after a bit, and run to the store or go for a walk. Hubby and I do this all the time! But day after day we see this happen to exact "revenge" on the other parent. Makes you wonder about that other parent. You would think they would know that they just handed their precious child off to a narcissistic and abusive nut job? How could you not? There is no freaking way these stupid ass people featured on here are smart enough to "hide" their sadistic side, especially to someone they now have "control" over because they just knocked them up.

[Rawrehz]

Sadly enough, I actually had high hopes for this baby boy. I thought we here @ the DD would be fortunate to hear that lil Rodricus was found safe and picked up by a concerned citizen and taken to officials. But no.

Asshole and Shanananaae Afro here had to do the unthinkable. Like really? They loathed this boy this much to throw him in a garbage can, full of actual disgusting garbage... and then top it off by pouring cement on his withered little frame??? How in the world can ppl have such immorals and lack of self control? I am just appalled really. He even had a MOMMY, a real life MOMMY who did want him, who wanted to be with him.


*SIGH* (dont cry dont cry!)

:argh::argh::argh:

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link to video ^^

[Whisper]

2 years of pictures: A mother remembers her son's life
CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Shaneka Washington now only has pictures to remember her son Rodricus Williams, the 2-year-old reported missing and feared dead, allegedly at the hands of his father.

Sitting on the steps of her Morrison Drive home, Washington flips through the mementos of her son's short life, tearfully recalling each moment captured on film.

He loved to play with cars, she said.

"His second birthday he was driving. He loved driving, to be in control of everything," Washington said.

In a picture showing Rodricus and two cousins sitting in a toy car, he's in the center and behind the wheel. Washington says he wouldn't let anyone else behind the wheel that day.

Washington alternates between smiling and laughing about her adorable son and his vibrant personality and fighting back tears at the thought of never seeing him again. As difficult as coping with the loss of a small child is, she's also at a loss when it comes to Rodricus' sister.

Many of the pictures show Rodricus and his older sister together. Quietly, Washington admits that she has not told her daughter what happened to little Rodricus.

"She accidentally saw the news and she started asking why he was on that channel," she said. "I still don't know what to tell her."

Washington is also at a loss when it comes to the claims that her son had health problems. She says the only health problem she knew of was eczema.

According to reports, young Rodricus was in and out of hospitals, being treated for various ailments. Roger Williams' affidavit indicated the boy had sustained prolonged abuse.

"I never heard he was going to the hospital," Washington said.

But that may have been a result of Williams' deflections, says Washington. She says she last talked to her son on the phone two weeks ago.

"I barely got to talk to him," Washington said. "Most of the times I would call and they would always have an excuse. He [Williams] would say 'He's with my mama. He's sleeping. He's at the park' with his girl [Grace Trotman], you know."

The excuses and deflection started to concern Washington, however. She says she knew it was lies and that's why she pressed Williams to deliver her son Tuesday night.

"And that's how all this started," she said.

Her concerns were well founded, it seems.

In interviews with the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office, Williams' live-in girlfriend Grace Nichole Trotman pointed authorities to a vacant trailer in an isolated area of Orangeburg County.

There, deputies found the body of a small African-American boy encased in 450 pounds of concrete inside a plastic 30-gallon trash can.

While DNA evidence from the Medical University of South Carolina's forensics lab has yet to come in, many people -- including law enforcement -- have prepared for the seemingly inevitable conclusion that the body is that of Rodricus Williams.

The affidavit, in fact, says the elder Williams killed his son.

Before the body; before the forensics team; before the arrest of the father and his girlfriend were arrested and charged with homicide by child abuse, a bogus 911 call was made by Trotman.

"And when I turned back around to make sure everyone was together, my daughter was walking by herself. And I was like, 'Oh, my gosh.' So I asked some people that were around me if they saw a little boy with a red shirt on," Trotman told the 911 dispatcher Tuesday night.

The couple had concocted a story in which Rodricus had slipped through the rails at White Point Gardens and fallen into Charleston harbor.

That story was a costly lie in more ways that one.

Trotman was charged by Charleston police with obstruction of justice. Trotman and Williams were charged with homicide by child abuse.

[...]

http://www.wistv.com/global/story.asp?s=12783690

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Rodricus Williams' birth

[Silvahalo]

I am utterly shocked....sickened to read on this sweet childs ending.
My heart goes out to little Rodricus and his mother and sister.


Shaneka Washington now only has pictures to remember her son Rodricus Williams, the 2-year-old reported missing and feared dead, allegedly at the hands of his father.

Sitting on the steps of her Morrison Drive home, Washington flips through the mementos of her son's short life, tearfully recalling each moment captured on film.

He loved to play with cars, she said.


[...]
Washington is also at a loss when it comes to the claims that her son had health problems. She says the only health problem she knew of was eczema.

According to reports, young Rodricus was in and out of hospitals, being treated for various ailments. Roger Williams' affidavit indicated the boy had sustained prolonged abuse.

"I never heard he was going to the hospital," Washington said.

But that may have been a result of Williams' deflections, says Washington. She says she last talked to her son on the phone two weeks ago.

"I barely got to talk to him," Washington said. "Most of the times I would call and they would always have an excuse. He [Williams] would say 'He's with my mama. He's sleeping. He's at the park' with his girl [Grace Trotman], you know."

The excuses and deflection started to concern Washington, however. She says she knew it was lies and that's why she pressed Williams to deliver her son Tuesday night.

"And that's how all this started," she said.

Her concerns were well founded, it seems.

Video/source (http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12783690)

[Whisper]

Where is the grief?
Father continued to promote nightclub events after allegedly letting boy die
SUMMERVILLE - In the days after he allegedly let his son die, Roger "Tony" Williams promoted late-night parties at local nightclubs featuring scantily clad women and cash giveaways, his Facebook page shows.

Williams, 29, is accused of refusing to get medical care for his 2-year-old son after the boy's health failed on June 7 in Summerville. When Rodricus Williams died, investigators said, Williams and girlfriend Grace Trotman dumped him behind an abandoned house in Bowman in a garbage can filled with 400 pounds of cement.
Authorities said the pair then concocted a story about the toddler falling into Charleston Harbor on Tuesday while walking along The Battery sea wall. That led to an exhaustive, 12-hour search by police, fire and Coast Guard personnel that cost nearly $58,000 to conduct, according to city officials.

Charleston police released a tape Friday of the 911 call Trotman placed that night. In a calm voice, she is heard telling a police dispatcher that the boy simply disappeared when she was walking with her children.

"When I turned back around, he wasn't there," she said. "Um, I have some people right now that's helping me try to look for him, but we don't seem to find him."

That's because he had been dead about a month at that point, according to arrest affidavits.

If the couple was plagued by grief, Williams gave no indication of that on his Facebook page, which he used to promote events for Pipeboyz Entertainment. He was busy hawking one event just two days after his son reportedly died. The page, on which he goes by his middle name, shows a shirtless Williams hoisting a middle finger to a camera. Late Friday night the page was taken down. The events pitch "Wasted Wednesday," "Wet Bikini Wednesdays" and "Hypnotic Exotic Fridays" at Skyy Lounge in Goose Creek and other locations. In expletive-ridden posts, Williams boasts of having naked and near-naked women on hand, cheap drinks and cash giveaways.
"WE ARE A MAN OF OUR WORD," Williams wrote in a June 20 post. "WE DROPPED A 1000 DOLLARS LAST NIGHT, WE PARTIED TILL 5, WE HAD NO DRAMA, AND NO POLICE! WHO ELSE DOES IT BIGGER! PIPEBOYZ ENT. FELLAS WE GOT BIKINI NITE 2NITE, SO CME ENJOY URSLEF AND RELAX LIKE SME REAL PIMPS!!!"
Roger 'Tony' Williams and his girlfriend Grace Trotman are being held without bail on charges of homicide by child abuse.
Trotman, who worked part time at a Dorchester County fiberglass plant, wrote on her Facebook page that she is a 2005 graduate of Summerville High School and has two children, a 2-year-old and a 9-month-old. Rodricus reportedly died in her home on Longbourne Way in Summerville, and investigators have credited her statements with helping to lead them to the concrete-filled trash can on Wednesday.

Berkeley County detectives are awaiting DNA tests to definitively identify the badly decomposed body chipped from the cement.

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http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/jul/10/where-is-the-grief/
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Homicide victim Rodricus Williams celebrates his second birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese in November 2009

[Silvahalo]

An angel of a face that now graces the heavens. So sorry little Rodricus, you deserved life and all that it might hold for you.

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[Whisper]

Funeral arrangements made for 2-year-old Rodricus Williams
CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Funeral services for 2-year-old Rodricus Fred Williams will be held at noon Tuesday in Ebenezer A.M.E. Church.
[...]
The boy was never in the water and his father, 28-year-old Roger Williams, and the father's live-in girlfriend, 24-year-old Grace Nichole Trotman, are in jail after being charged with homicide by child abuse last week.
[...]
According to Roger Williams' affidavit, he acknowledged the boy had an ongoing health condition that needed to be monitored. However, when Rodricus Williams fell ill, he instructed Trotman not to contact health care providers. He admitted to investigators he did not call for medical help either.
After the boy allegedly died, authorities were directed to an abandoned mobile home near Bowman in Orangeburg County where they found the body of a small African-American boy encased in 450 pounds of concrete inside a plastic 30-gallon trash can.
http://www.wtoc.com/global/story.asp?s=12790016


Friend of Trotman says she feared Williams
CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - A longtime friend of the woman charged in the apparent death of a two year old boy says the suspect feared her co defendant in the case.
Grace Trotman, 24, and Roger Williams, 29, are charged with homicide by child abuse.
Berkeley County sheriff's deputies say a body found encased in cement in a trash can in Orangeburg County may be that Williams' son.
Rodricus Williams, 2, was reported missing by Trotman Thursday night.
A woman who asked her to hide her identity said Williams had control over Trotman.
"I don't know what she was thinking," said the woman who asked us to call her "Cindy." I mean, I know he had mind control over her. If he says stand up she would stand up. if he says sit down, she will sit down."
Cindy said Trotman feared Williams and that she was afraid to leave the father of her two children.
"Think she should have been a long ago got out of this situation. It wouldn't have even come to this."
She believes Williams told Trotman to lie to police that the boy fell into waters on Charleston's Battery.
And she thinks it was Williams who came up with the idea of encasing the body of a young African American boy in cement in a trash can and leaving it in woods in Orangeburg County.
"That's his child. You gonna put your child in a trash can, in cement? 'Cindy' said."That's what you're really gonna do? That's just basically saying that he was nothing, that he meant nothing, and you're not showing any remorse."
She said when things are sorted out, the chips will fall on both Trotman and Williams.
[...]

http://www.live5news.com/global/Story.asp?s=12775711


Missing boy's babysitter speaks out
MOUNT PLEASANT, SC (WCSC) - There are reminders of little Rodricus Williams scattered all over Connie Huger's living room. From his favorite toys down to the spot where he carved a number two on the coffee table. Williams' memory lives on.
"We loved him dearly we loved him so much. He was a loving child, he was smart and he was happy when he was here," Huger said.
Connie and her daughter Sade babysat Williams off and on over the past two years. The Hugers met him through a family friend when the child was five months old. According to them, the boy's mother knew how much they cared for him.
"She knows whenever she called on us...if she wanted us for anything, whatever he needed. If she wasn't able to provide she could call, and we were there," Huger said.
Huger worries what might have happened if she hadn't contacted Rodricus' mother to check up on him.
"Had I not been aggravating her and bugging her 'let's go look for him' or what not- his body would still be where it was, nobody was going to be looking for him," Huger said.
The last time the Hugers saw Rodricus was in May. That's when they said his mother sent him to live with his father Roger.
ince the announcement of his mysterious disappearance Connie and Sade have a hard time coping.
"At night, it's hard for me to close my eyes and imagine what was going on, but I have to keep praying. I can't imagine things like that because it would kill me," Sade said.
Her mother Connie said she's equally hurt by the boy's disappearance, but said it's also scary.
"Even though the little boy they're describing is him they haven't really confirmed it's him and I'm just worried if it's not him then where is he? If it is him, then I thank God he's in a better place now and that no one can ever harm him again," Huger said.
In response to Rodricus' alleged health problems, Huger said the child did not have a medical condition while she took care of him.
[...]

http://www.live5news.com/Global/story.asp?S=12783947
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Connie & Sade Huger

[Rawrehz]

Exactly how did his health fail him? Any update on that as of yet?
Apparently no one knew of any health risks and then BAM! just like that he begins to die??

Doesn't add up.

[Whisper]

Exactly how did his health fail him? Any update on that as of yet?
Apparently no one knew of any health risks and then BAM! just like that he begins to die??

Doesn't add up.
I cant find 1 thing about his health and Ive looked and looked
I think its a side order of bullshit b/c mom and babysitter both have done interviews and not 1 mention of a health prob

[Rawrehz]

Exactly, doesn't make sense. And if there were a health issue, I think officials would have at least released that kind of info to the public, like they do when children have diabetes, collapsed lung, mental disorders, a missing arm, etc...
I just don't see how this kid, who seems perfectly fine in all his pictures and from talk of the babysitter and relatives, just randomly starts to die off without a little push'n shove from his gaurdians. They did something to that precious boy, no matter what is and is not being said here.

I hope his autopsy proves otherwise and these murderes get their asses handed to them.

[Whisper]

Yeah I think they are blowing smoke outta their ass thinking we all are stupid and maybe trying to make a story start about his health
If he had any probs it would've been mention in the first article when he was missing saying "he needed meds or continued medical attention" etc,etc
Kinda to late to start a cover up after the fact

[Whisper]

Coroner: Body found in concrete that of Berkeley Co. child
MONCKS CORNER — A coroner says DNA tests have confirmed a body found in a barrel of concrete was that of a missing South Carolina child.
The Post and Courier of Charleston reports that Berkeley County Coroner Glenn Rhoad said Wednesday tests by the State Law Enforcement Division confirmed the remains were those of 2-year-old Rodricus Williams.

The child's father and his girlfriend were arrested after authorities say the couple said the boy fell into the water off Charleston's Battery.

Authorities say Roger Williams and Grace Nichole Trotman later led them to an abandoned mobile home in a rural area about an hour from Charleston where the remains were discovered.

[...]

http://www.goupstate.com/article/20100714/articles/100719843

[Whisper]

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) - As the fruitless search was on for a missing 2-year-old boy with an infectious smile, authorities believe that all along he was buried under 400 pounds of concrete in a trash can.

The boy's father and his girlfriend were arrested Thursday, two days after the couple concocted a story about the boy falling into the Charleston Harbor near a popular tourist destination, authorities said.

Human remains were found that matched the description of the boy the couple had iven. The body was wrapped in 32-gallon trash bags encased in concrete in a bin so heavy a farmer had to hoist it onto a county vehicle using a backhoe.
[...]
Police are still trying to figure out how the boy was killed, but Berkeley County Sheriff Wayne DeWitt said he had been beaten in the past and they were serving a hospital with search warrants to get more information on the treatment he received.
"During interviews, there was some talk about the child being struck on occasions," DeWitt said. "Our interpretation is, it was not by accident."
[...]
Trotman has been cooperating with police while Williams has given investigators false information, DeWitt said.
Trotman has been charged by Charleston police with filing a false report and her bond was set at $250,000. Another judge denied bond for both on the more serious charges later Thursday.
Police think Rodricus was killed in Trotman's quiet neighborhood in Summerville, about 30 miles northwest of Charleston.
Norm Reece, who lives across the street, said Trotman had rented the one-story, vinyl-sided home for less than a year. Reece said she kept to herself and was often seen with Rodricus and her two other small children.
[...]

http://www.kboi2.com/news/national/98112194.html
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The boy's body was found in a wooded area near this abandoned trailer in Orangeburg

[Dakota Valkyrie]

According to the Berkeley County Coroner's office, 2-year-old Rodricus Williams, whose body was found in a cement-filled trash can two months ago, died from blunt head trauma.

Autopsy results were released Thursday. Rodricus Williams' father, Roger Anthony Williams and his girlfriend, Grace Trotman, are still behind bars. They are both charged with homicide by child abuse.
[...]

A Berkeley County sheriff's office spokesman said the autopsy results will not change the charges against the couple. The couple has said Rodricus Williams died because of a health issue.
[...]
http://www.wistv.com/global/story.asp?s=13094199

[Dakota Valkyrie]

A woman who helped her boyfriend wrap his 2-year-old son’s body in garbage bags, stuff it into a plastic trash can and fill the can with 400 pounds of cement in 2010 pleaded guilty last week to her role in the child’s death.

Grace Trotman pleaded guilty to one count of homicide by child abuse and one count of desecration of human remains. She faces 20 years to life in prison on the homicide charge and as long as 10 years in prison on the desecration charge.
[...]

Authorities say 2-year-old Rodricus Williams died after his father, Roger “Tony” Williams, refused to get him medical help and forbid Trotman from contacting a doctor. The pair dumped the dead child behind an abandoned mobile home in Orangeburg County, officials said, and then spun a tail about the boy falling into Charleston Harbor while strolling along the Battery seawall downtown.

Police launched a massive search for the child that lasted 12 hours on July 6. In reality, the child had been dead about a month, and Williams concocted the story because the boy’s mother was headed to town to see him.

Arrest reports say Rodricus died around June 6 of that year while in Trotman’s care at her Summerville home. Trotman reportedly called Williams about a medical problem with the boy, but Williams told her not seek help and then, when he returned home, he refused to take action himself, according to arrest reports.
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2012/feb/21/woman-pleads-guilty-role-2-year-old-boys-death-201/

[MotherManderkin]

Good! I had never heard of this case, I read through this thread and this was my first time hearing about any of this. I was afraid that the girlfriend would get off very lightly since she claimed to be sooo terrified for her own life, and seemed to be more of an accessory. Very happy to hear that she could end up spending at least the majority of the rest of her life behind bars, although I wish it were life... I would have guessed she would have gotten basically a slap on the wrist though. Hopefully now that she plead guilty they give her the max and not some bullshit probation or suspended sentence.

As far as the commenters wondering why the mother handed over the son, she may have been court ordered to do so since they were in a custody battle. She may have known that the father was a monster but had no choice. Another reason I thank my lucky stars every night that I decided to never ask for a dime or any kind of support and just raised my son alone. Custody battles are no joke. I wouldn't ever want to be in one.

[Whisper]

Man accused of dumping son's body in trash can out on bond

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) -
A man accused of dumping his 2-year-old son's body in a trash can and then filling it with 450 pounds of concrete is out on bond.
According to the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office, Roger Williams is out on a $250,000 bond on charges of homicide by child abuse. Court records state that Williams also posted bond in Charleston County where he is charged with obstruction of justice.

In February, Williams' girlfriend, Grace Trotman pleaded guilty for her part in the death of 2-year-old Rodricus Williams.
[..]http://www.live5news.com/story/17384877/roger-williams-out-on-bond

[Tundratot]

The GF monster is in jail and the paternal monster is out on bond?!! No f***ing s***!! Somebody kill him! Rub him out like the insect he is!!

[Whisper]

BERKELEY COUNTY, SC (WCSC) -
The trial of a man accused of dumping his 2-year-old son's body in a trash can and then filling it with 450 pounds of concrete is scheduled to begin with jury selection Monday.
Jury selection for the trial of Roger Williams will begin at 2 p.m. at the Moncks Corner Courthouse. Williams is charged with homicide by child abuse for the 2010 death of his son, 2-year-old Rodricus Williams.

According to the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office, Roger Williams posted a $250,000 bond back in April 2011. He also faces a charge of obstruction of justice in Charleston County in connection with the case, but that will not be addressed at this trial.

In February 2011, Williams' girlfriend, Grace Trotman pleaded guilty for her part in the death of Rodricus.

The tragic story started on July 6, 2010 with reports that the boy was missing after falling in the water at The Battery in downtown Charleston. Authorities launched a massive search for the boy, who was actually never in the water. Williams and his live-in girlfriend, Trotman, were arrested a short time later.

[...]http://www.live5news.com/story/19746651/trial?hpt=ju_bn4

[Dakota Valkyrie]

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Roger Anthony Williams was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the death of his 2-year-old son Rodricus.

In sentencing Williams, Judge R. Markley Dennis echoed the prosecution’s statement about Williams’ indifference toward his son, saying that calling him indifferent was a gross understatement of his treatment of the boy.

Williams was also sentenced to 10 years for unlawful neglect of a child, to be served concurrently.

A jury found him guilty on both counts after deliberating for less than an hour.

The trial, which began on Monday in Moncks Corner, featured testimony from Grace Trotman, Williams’ ex-girlfriend. She pleaded guilty to homicide by child abuse in February.
[...]

During closing remarks this morning, Williams’ attorney James Falk told the jury his client was not responsible for Rodricus’ death.

“I know none of you want to be friends with my client,” he said. “Now rest assured, my client will be punished for what he’s done regarding disposing of Rodricus’s body.”

Falk reminded the jury Williams admitted to disposing the body, but argued, the jury cannot use that to find him guilty of homicide by child abuse.

Grace Trotman is the one to blame, according to Falk. At one point she told investigators her 2-year-old daughter at the time, Yaya, had pushed Rodricus into the wall, he said.

“She wants to blame anyone in this tragedy except herself,” Falk said.

9th Circuit Assistant Solicitor Anne Williams told the jury during her closing remarks that Williams is the one on trial and talked about the alleged abuse of the child by his father. He told people he needed to “man-up” his son because he would stand like a girl, she said.

“He took a happy little boy with all of his little songs and he beat him down until in the end, he was just sitting there dazed,” Anne Williams said.

At the end of the prosecution’s closing remarks, a photo of Rodricus Williams was projected on the screen - smiling and appearing happy.

“This is what this case is about,” Anne Williams said. “Think about this little boy. Think about what his life was like and think about justice.”
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20121011/PC16/121019807

[Tundratot]

Williams is the one on trial and talked about the alleged abuse of the child by his father. He told people he needed to “man-up” his son because he would stand like a girl, she said.

“He took a happy little boy with all of his little songs and he beat him down until in the end, he was just sitting there dazed,” Anne Williams said.

God, I hate hearing that excuse. Like you can put a small child into some kind of boot camp situation to make him all hard and strong. It kills little ones. Save the f***ing manly campaign for teens who really need an attitude adjustment.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

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The Summerville woman who pleaded guilty to charges related to the death of her boyfriend's son has been sentenced to 15 years in prison with credit for time served.

Grace Trotman pleaded guilty in February in a Charleston County court to one count of homicide by child abuse and one count of desecration of human remains for her part in the death of 2-year-old Rodricus Williams.
[...]

In pleading guilty, Trotman agreed to fully disclose what she knew about the boy's death. The information was used in her boyfriend, Roger Williams' case.
[...]

Trotman originally faced up 20 years in prison. The maximum penalty is in the range of 40 years to life.

Her lawyers told the judge that she had also been a victim, facing "constant, constant abuse at the hands of Roger Williams" for over four years.

A psychology expert also took the stand to testify about the abuse, saying that Trotman is "emotional, depressed and suffers from PTSD."

Rodricus' mother, Shaneka Washington, took the stand and thanked Trotman for her part in William's trial, but said she wished Trotman had come forward sooner.

""I would've always protected your child," Washington said.

In the end, the judge sentenced Trotman to 15 yrs for homicide by child abuse, credit for time served since July 2010 and 10 years for desecration of remains, all to run concurrently.
http://www.abcnews4.com/story/20313837/grace-trotman-sentenced-in-death-of-rodricus-williams

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[Tundratot]

It's not enough.