Blake Rupee, 14-month-old, dies from abuse; ruled homicide.

**Peeperann** · February 16th, 2009, 12:45 PM

Hmmmmm, she says she never said that. Heres her response to my message:

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fuck you lady and no I didn't say that. I hope you die and relive all the pain you are causeing all the wrong people

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Emmalee Fore, the boy's mother, remarked to a reporter that state child-welfare workers should have seen it coming: "I'm 21 -- I don't know much about kids."

'It was their job'

One has to wonder whether Emmalee is more current on effective methods of human torture -- because that's exactly what her baby endured in the months before he was murdered.

Excuse fucking me???? You actually said that about your baby being tortured to death!!!!!!!!!

**Peeperann** · February 16th, 2009, 12:46 PM

She's blocked me now.

**calidreamin09** · February 16th, 2009, 12:52 PM

21 is not a child by any means. She was a grown women and weather she knew how to take care of a child or not she knew damn well that you cant beat a child. Her age is absolutely no excuse, Im 27 now but I was barely 17 when I had my first child. Ill be the first to admit that when he was young it wasnt always easy. We didnt have alot of money, or a nice house or material possesions. He did have a safe loving environment though. He was fed and warm and had a mom who would protect him from anything. Luckily I never had to protect him from a man, I have dated since he was born but the few men who were allowed to even come in to contact with him or any of my kids were good to them. Shame on her for acting like her age would keep her from knowing that she needed to protect her children from being beat.

**Sister Iroz** · March 4th, 2009, 06:33 PM

TAVARES - Tavares Police have made an arrest in connection with the December death of a Tavares toddler.

Police have taken David Tatara, 27 into custody, according to Sue Underwood, administrative assistant to Tavares Police Chief Stoney Lubins. It was not immediately clear what charges Tatara faces.

Fifteen-month old Blake Rupe was rushed to the hospital on December 15 after the Tavares Police Department received a report that he wasn't breathing.

Tatara, who was Blake's mother's boyfriend was watching Blake and his 2-year-old sister. The mother, Emmalee Fore, 21 wasn't home.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...,2374302.story

**Marv** · March 4th, 2009, 07:08 PM

good. I hope they fry his ass. And I sincerely hope the bitch he was shacked up with (I refuse to refer to her by the 'm' word) is also going to pay the highest price for allowing her children to be beat, tortured and abused (and in Blakes case, murdered)???

**Dakota Valkyrie** · March 4th, 2009, 07:13 PM

I caught him in mid-booking process so full charges and other info are not available yet...

**Sister Iroz** · March 5th, 2009, 05:33 PM

TAVARES - Police released new details today about the December death of a Tavares toddler, after his mother's boyfriend was charged with the child's death yesterday.

David Tatara, 27, faces one count each of second degree murder and aggravated child abuse in connection with the death of 15-month-old Blake Rupe. He was released from the Lake County Jail last night after posting $60,000 bond.

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"I think it's important to stress that we're by no means done," said Tavares Police Chief Stoney Lubins. "This is the first step to trying to unravel what happened on December 15."

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...,2337548.story

**seductress** · March 5th, 2009, 05:50 PM

My heart has once again been broken by two heartless people........ pretty fucking simple, you don't want them, don't have them. You think they are being abused BY ANYONE, you report it and let the police ask the questions. You find yourself knocked up, because God only knows how that happens, you don't want it, give that gift from God to someone who wants him/her.

And for all the stupid bitches that think they have a right to call themselves "mom, mommy, momma, mother" you earn that title it's not a right. No fucking man/woman is worth the life of your child EVER.........

And this is not just for all the physical abuse, this is also for all the mental abuse...... it's never too late to see the signs and get help

For poor baby Blake it is too late, but maybe not for his sister.

**Tazzzz** · March 5th, 2009, 06:03 PM

Tard already made bond and is out of jail.

Police reveal new detail in death of Tavares toddler Suspect was "aggressive" with children
TAVARES - Police released new details today about the December death of a Tavares toddler, after his mother's boyfriend was charged with the child's death yesterday.

David Tatara, 27, faces one count each of second degree murder and aggravated child abuse in connection with the death of 15-month-old Blake Rupe. He was released from the Lake County Jail last night after posting $60,000 bond.

On December 15, Tatara called 911 and told the operator that Blake had been injured. Tavares Police officers and paramedics arrived at Tatara's apartment and found Blake struggling to breathe. The toddler was taken to Florida Hospital Waterman, then to Orlando Regional Medical Center, where he died two days later, according to a probable cause affidavit.

At the time of the incident, Tatara was caring for Blake and his two-year-old sister. The mother of the children, Emmalee Fore, 21, was at work. Tatara told police that he'd left Blake alone in a playpen and was in a different room when he heard a loud "thud" and screaming from Blake's bedroom. When he went to check on Blake, he said he found the toddler on the floor and the play pen overturned, according to the affidavit.

Tatara initially told police that he had left the room to check his e-mail, but in his written statement, he said he was getting ready to take a shower, according to the affidavit.

An autopsy revealed the Blake died from a skull fracture, and his death was declared a homicide. The medical examiner told police that the child's injuries were too severe to be caused by a tumble from his play pen, according to the affidavit.

Investigators also found vomit in Blake's playpen, indicating that he had been vomiting before the crib was overturned, according to the affidavit.

When investigators spoke to Fore, she told them that Tatara was often very aggressive with her children, especially when they cried, and investigators concluded that Tatara likely became angry with Blake and hurt him, leading to his death, according to the affidavit.

"I think it's important to stress that we're by no means done," said Tavares Police Chief Stoney Lubins. "This is the first step to trying to unravel what happened on December 15."

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...,2337548.story

**Shizz** · March 5th, 2009, 06:05 PM

WTF? - this fucking child killer is released on 60,000 bond ?!?!?!?

FUCK!

**Morgana** · March 5th, 2009, 08:19 PM

I'm so angry and right now!!!!!!!!!! that dumb cunt is online, chillin and the whole nine. God only knows what the penis is doing!!!!

Another torture, another baby dead by people who do not give a shit, that don't want to see pain, that when they see or hear suffering it angers them in a way that they want to shut that child up rather than to comfort that child. This is their inherant fucking scum ass, bottom of the barrel, lost, stupid, hateful nature that makes them the worst to be on the Earth. They beat children and watch them vomit and get mad that they have to clean the shit up, so they don't. They will then murder that child for making a mess. This is who we are dealing with. People who would rather watch porn or masterbate than take a half hour to feed their children....It just goes on and on. She is probably relieved deep down inside that one of her problems is gone now!

So yeah, be mad, be mad that these fucks are breathing and still walking among us, they aren't even in jail at this moment. Yet, the lost conscience of a baby boy tortured and struggling with all he knew- willows through the air on the way to a different place as his battered body is still hurt and cold in the flesh, here----alone----always cold. He never had a place and no one made room for his saving. He is one of the many that we lose each and every day and that someone could have saved and ultimately, we would hope it would be the child's mother, his blood. Nothing says I love you more than "your own", that bond is primitive and natural and pure in essence. If you don't have this with your children, then you don't need to keep your children. Give them up because you cannot possibly be a parent without this bond. A perfect demonstration is when we read about "Baby Grace", whom during the middle of her tortured day, she reached out to her mother and said "I love you" before being pummeled again. Her most basic instinct was to love. Children love....they love so much and yet they are not loved in return by their own keepers.

Personally I feel if you have failed this love and protection so blatently, then you too should be killed or at the least charged and jailed for murder. Any real parent knows you see everything in your child, whether it is fear, pain, uncertainty, hunger, a "story", imagination, a violation, you can see it...if your child didn't eat enough, you can see it in their basic expressions. Any parent knows this. But you HAVE TO LOOK! This girl blames others for not intervening when she never loved nor looked at her own son!!! That is why she deserves to be dusted away from this Earth!!!!!!

**Silvahalo** · March 5th, 2009, 09:22 PM

At the time of the 911 call, Blake was alone with David Tatara, his mother's 27-year-old boyfriend. Rescue workers found the little guy vomiting and having trouble breathing. Hours later at Orlando Regional Medical Center, doctors diagnosed Blake as clinically dead. His brain had swelled so badly that the retinas in his eyes hemorrhaged.

When investigators spoke to Fore, she told them that Tatara was often very aggressive with her children, especially when they cried, and investigators concluded that Tatara likely became angry with Blake and hurt him, leading to his death, according to the affidavit.

This is just sick shit, sick, sick, sick!! and the mother left her baby with this mother fucker with a history of being aggressive with children especially when they cry???? last I checked, babies cry...a lot.

The thought of what baby Blake's last moments were like is nightmare, a demented, twisted person was the last face he saw. I want this baby killer dead. He does not deserve to breath the same air we are all breathing....please, just die.

I'm so sorry precious Blake, so sorry...kisses.

**Dakota Valkyrie** · April 4th, 2009, 06:17 AM

A Lake County grand jury Friday indicted a 27-year-old man on first-degree-murder and aggravated-child-abuse charges in the death of his girlfriend's 15-month-old son.

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Tatara was arrested last month and initially charged with second-degree murder and aggravated child abuse.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...,5462425.story

**Tazzzz** · April 4th, 2009, 03:50 PM

David Tatara, 27

They uped the charges to 1st degree murder, and his sorry ass in in jail now.

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - A 27-year-old Tavares man has been charged with 1st degree murder in the death of his girlfriend’s 15-month-old son.

David Tatara was babysitting Blake Rupe in December when police say the toddler suffered fatal injuries.

Tatara was first arrested in March for Blake’s death, but was re-arrested April 3 after a jury indicted him for additional, more serious charges of 1st degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated battery and two counts of child abuse.

Tatara, who had been out on $60,000 bond on the previous charges, is now sitting in the Lake County Jail

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news...n_childs_death
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**Marv** · April 4th, 2009, 05:13 PM

I hope they fry this bastard.

And the cumdumpster should be strapped in right next to him.

**Wicked Doll** · April 7th, 2009, 03:48 PM

TAVARES - On the very day he was arrested and charged with murdering his girlfriend's son, the Department of Children and Families sent a Tavares man a letter saying it had found no evidence he had hurt the child.

The letter, which DCF now says was sent in error and contains incorrect information, thanks David Tatara, 27, for his cooperation with investigators and say investigators found no evidence that 15-month-old Blake Rupe had been abused.

"At the conclusion of the investigation, the Department determined that there are no indicators of bone fracture, failure to protect, physical injury, death, or inadequate supervision," the letter reads.

Blake died in December from blunt force trauma injuries to his head. At the time of his death, doctors found six partially healed bone fractures throughout his body.

Continued here:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...tory?track=rss

**Kalehue** · April 7th, 2009, 04:44 PM

"It was clearly a mistake," Ester Tibbs, circuit administrator for DCF circuits 3 and 8, which include Alachua County. "Unfortunately errors get made sometimes and this is one that I wish hadn't happened but it did."
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This isn't the first time DCF has made errors regarding Blake. Four months before the toddler died, DCF closed a case stemming from allegations that Blake was being abused. After conducting an internal review, the department admitted it and its contracted agencies had been negligent in monitoring Blake's well-being.

So what are they going to do to CHANGE? How many times does this have to happen? It's infuriating....

**Wicked Doll** · April 7th, 2009, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by Kalehue

So what are they going to do to CHANGE? How many times does this have to happen? It's infuriating....

Until like a whole lot of kids die and stuff. That's the kind of explanation I can envision some idiot giving anyway.

It is infuriating.

**Silvahalo** · April 7th, 2009, 09:58 PM

This isn't the first time DCF has made errors regarding Blake. Four months before the toddler died, DCF closed a case stemming from allegations that Blake was being abused. After conducting an internal review, the department admitted it and its contracted agencies had been negligent in monitoring Blake's well-being.

I would say DCF has made "errors" and "negligent in monitoring Blake's well being"....he's dead. Dead you hear me. You can't take it back, it won't matter now. He's dead.

Rest in peace baby Blake, you were let down by too many people not just your mother....kisses sweet one.

**Dakota Valkyrie** · December 23rd, 2010, 03:46 PM

A Lake County father is suing the Department of Children and Families (DCF) because he says case managers didn't protect his 15-month-old son before his death.

Blake Rupe died of blunt force trauma in 2008. He was allowed to stay with his mother even after DCF found signs of child abuse.

The agency has admitted it failed in Blake's case and that workers did not follow protocol.

http://www.wftv.com/news/26255180/detail.html