Melissa M. Calusinski threw a 16-month old boy to the ground

**Sister Iroz** · January 17th, 2009, 11:44 PM

A 22-year-old Carpentersville woman was charged today with two counts of first-degree murder in the death of a 16-month-old boy at the Lincolnshire day care center where she worked.

Lincolnshire police said that Melissa M. Calusinski, of the 500 block of Apache Avenue in Carpentersville, worked as a teacher's assistant at Minee-Subee Day Care Center on Marriott Drive. She was being held in custody Saturday in lieu of $5 million bail.

Police say Calusinski told investigators in a videotaped statement that on Wednesday, she threw 16-month-old Benjamin Kingan of Deerfield to the ground at the day care center. The boy was taken to the hospital, where he later died. An autopsy confirmed the cause of death to be blunt force trauma to the head, police said.

The Lincolnshire Police Department, with help from the Lake County Major Crime Task Force and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, are investigating the death.

Kendall Marlowe, a spokesman for DCFS, said the agency is looking into an allegation of death by neglect of the day care center.

"We have had no prior child protection investigations of this center," he said.

The facility has been licensed since 1994 and has the capacity to hold 145 children, ranging from ages of 6 weeks old to 12 years, he said. The facility operates from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=265258

**Spitfire77** · January 17th, 2009, 11:49 PM

Evil bitch. If I was that baby's mother, I'd do something just so I could be put in jail with her...

**theskyisfalling** · January 18th, 2009, 12:10 AM

I swear to God if someone did something like this to my kid I would have their fucking head on a plate.

**Tazzzz** · January 18th, 2009, 12:11 AM

Melissa M. Calusinski. 22

A 22-year-old daycare center employee has been charged in the murder of a toddler after police say she confessed to forcefully throwing the boy to the ground at the Lincolnshire center.

Bond for Melissa M. Calusinski, of 528 Apache Ave. in Carpentersville, was set at $5 million Saturday. Calusinski is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the death of 16-month-old Benjamin Kingan, authorities said.

Benjamin died from a head injury and his death was ruled a homicide, Keller said. Investigators determined the boy’s injuries were consistent with being struck by a hard object, the release said

Calusinski was interviewed and a videotaped statement was given. She told investigators she forcefully threw the boy to the ground and called other staff members for help on the phone. Although CPR was initiated by staff members the boy was taken to Condell, where he was pronounced dead, the release said.

The center is licensed for a capacity of 145 children, ranging in age from 6-weeks to 12-years-old and has been in operation since 1994, Marlowe said.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/13...011709.article
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Here is the cunts, Myspace page
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endID=98336652

*~MELISSA~* POLISH PRINCESS's About me:

Hi my name is Melissa im 21 yrs old i work for a daycare for the age of three i love it there I've been there for almost a year... I love kids alot i babysit for 5 boys they're like my little brothers lol... I been livin in Carpentersville my whole life. My parents own a family business that me and them run its a bait and tackle shop in algonquin. I live wit my parents the only left in the nest. Im jus lookin for a guy who is trust worthy, resonable not fake or a two face, someone whos real and honest and that loves to party and have a good time and not embarrassed by ne thin wat so ever, and someone who knows how to treat a girl wit the right respect that a girl needs to b treated in a relationship...

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**Silvahalo** · January 18th, 2009, 01:40 AM

No doubt I would have taken this piece of shit down where she stands.

Benjamin Kingan...kisses sweet baby.

**Tazzzz** · January 18th, 2009, 01:40 AM

Her mug shot kind of makes her look like a METH Head.

Calusinski said she was angry and frustrated with the toddler because he was noisy. Calusinski admitted throwing Kingan to the ground. Kingan was found unresponsive on Wed. Jan 14. The prosecutor said Kingan’s skull was fractured

http://celebgalz.com/melissa-calusin...kingans-death/
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Wednesday at the Minee Subee in the Park Center and later pronounced dead. Scheller says the boy's skull was fractured with force consistent with a drop from the top of a one- or two-story building.

Scheller says Calusinski was a teacher's aide at the center. He says Calusinski said she was frustrated and angry with the boy because he was being noisy.

http://www.fortmilltimes.com/124/story/426304.html
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An autopsy also revealed that Kingan's skull was fractured and there was massive bleeding inside his brain.

Calusinski, a teacher's assistant who had been working at the facility for a year, told investigators while inside the large classroom with seven other children and another adult that she "forcefully threw the boy to the ground" unnoticed by the other adult in the room, said Lincolnshire Det. Adam Hyde.

It was then that Kingan crawled to grab a blanket, and climbed into a chair before passing out several minutes later, authorities said.

Calusinski said she became frightened and called other employees for help.

Keller said even though the child suffered a tremendous blow to the head, those types of injuries are not immediately fatal.

Investigators who interviewed staff members at the center were able to identify Calusinski as a teacher's assistant who was in contact with Benjamin throughout the day, Hyde said.

http://chicago.craigslist.org/nch/kid/997033033.html

**TheLittleFriend** · January 18th, 2009, 02:03 AM

"...Calusinski said she was angry and frustrated with the toddler because he was noisy..."

Walk, bitch, walk. That's all....just walk away. My kids are noisy. When they're getting on my nerves, I walk outside or in my room alone.

**Uvgottabkiddin** · January 18th, 2009, 02:10 AM

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endID=98336652

SHE LOVES KIDS !!!!!

Looking for a babysitter? I'll keep your kids quiet..... forever

**Death Bed** · January 18th, 2009, 02:11 AM

That's so sad, the kid grabbed a blanket and crawled in a chair to die. This story fucks with me.

**Uvgottabkiddin** · January 18th, 2009, 02:15 AM

Looking at her, I think the baby jumped. Eeh God!!!!

**ImNotLisa** · January 18th, 2009, 02:21 AM

You gotta wonder with these cases..... did the gal just have a one time major freak attack??? Or did she do this in the past, with less severe consequences or injuries. I find it hard to believe a person just totally LOSES it in one instant, especially because the kid was noisy? WTF?? And she's been working there a year... certainly there's been some noise before now.

This just chaps my hide.

**AussieMum** · January 18th, 2009, 05:47 AM

OMG! I was reading through this thinking how awful, just terrible etc. Then I read how the little boy grabbed a blanket, headed to the chair and just started bawling. Poor little guy!!

I think I'm feeling particularly sensitive as my daughter has just had a brain scan (waiting on the results). Completely different circumstances though.

This poor darling boy, kids are noisy and should be 200% safe in an approved child care facility!!

**Jaded** · January 18th, 2009, 11:27 AM

She's front-paged....

http://www.dreamindemon.com/2009/01/...ki-loves-kids/

I hate her.

**Nell** · January 18th, 2009, 02:42 PM

That bitch needs Proactiv bad.

I woke up this morning to the baby yelling. It was still dark. I had been up 3 times with her already. I lay there thinking, "I need a fucking break. One day to myself, it has been 5 fucking months!"

Then I read this on the front page, kissed my ALIVE child, and decided she wasn't that bad for waking me.

**DogMom** · January 18th, 2009, 10:05 PM

It was then that Kingan crawled to grab a blanket, and climbed into a chair before passing out several minutes later.

Oh that poor child. My heart is breaking.

**Sister Iroz** · January 18th, 2009, 10:12 PM

That bitch needs Proactiv bad.

LOL Nell when I saw her mugshot I thought the same damn thing. Now if that were my child, she wouldn't be alive to go to jail because I will have killed the bitch.

**Sister Iroz** · January 18th, 2009, 10:17 PM

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. - In his last moments of life, 16-month-old Benjamin Kingan picked up his blanket and crawled to a bouncy chair police later said was his "comfort zone."

The toddler, who died of a skull fracture and internal bleeding by a blow to head, was allegedly killed by a suburban Chicago daycare worker earlier in the week.

Melissa M. Calusinski, 22, of Carpentersville, spent her first night behind bars and remained jailed Sunday on $5 million bond.

Police said she confessed to growing angry with the child and throwing him to the floor of the Minee Subee daycare in Lincolnshire on Wednesday. She was charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

The daycare's attorney, Matt Walsh, released a statement that said the center had put Calusinski on administrative leave and she "will not be returning to the facility pending resolution of the matter."

A message left Sunday for Walsh was not immediately returned. It was unclear if Walsh would be representing Calusinski.

Police said Calusinski initially claimed she wasn't involved. There were no outward signs of Calusinski's alleged actions and a preliminary investigation showed that Benjamin died of natural causes, Lincolnshire Police Chief Randy Melvin said.

But, "it is even more tragic than we thought," he said.

The child's family postponed funeral services set for Saturday after Lake County Coroner Richard Keller found a blow to the head had fractured Benjamin's skull and caused internal bleeding. The wound caused slow swelling that allowed the child time to crawl to his chair.

It "was his comfort zone, his little bouncy chair," Lincolnshire Detective Adam Hyde said.

There were seven other children and another adult in the room when Calusinski, a teacher's assistant, threw Benjamin, police said. But the other adult didn't see what happened, they said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...,5309683.story

**DogMom** · January 18th, 2009, 10:53 PM

The daycare's attorney, Matt Walsh, released a statement that said the center had put Calusinski on administrative leave and she "will not be returning to the facility pending resolution of the matter."

What a stupid thing to say. "Pending resolution of the matter". As if she what...stole a couple of checks? Hid a carton of milk in her purse? Chatted too much on her cell phone during pick up and drop off?

She murdered a child. And this attorney thinks resolution of the matter is all that's required? I'll give them resolution of the matter. Fedex this bitch straight to hell.

**weavergroupie** · January 18th, 2009, 11:49 PM

Fedex this bitch straight to hell.

FedEx doesn't accept human waste. Or even pure clumps of asshole like this one.

**Silvahalo** · January 19th, 2009, 02:49 AM

Originally Posted by DogMom

Oh that poor child. My heart is breaking.

It was then that Kingan crawled to grab a blanket, and climbed into a chair before passing out several minutes later.

This too broke my heart. He just lay there with his blankie and went unconscious...the last fucking face he saw was that ugly bitch. For that alone, she deserves life in prison, better yet, kill her, she's a waste of space.

Kisses sweet Benjamin...

**Jaded** · January 19th, 2009, 05:48 AM

Her friends are suprpised and mystified!!

People who know Melissa Calusinski said Sunday that they could not understand how someone who had worked with children for years could have lost her composure so tragically that, police say, she killed a toddler in frustration.

A teacher's assistant at a day-care center in Lincolnshire, Calusinski, 22, of Carpentersville had cared for older children "as long as I can remember," said Brittany Baker, who said she has known Calusinski for 10 years.

"She loved kids," Baker said. "As far as I knew, she liked everybody she worked with."

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As Benjamin's family on Sunday completed funeral arrangements for the boy, Matt Walsh, an attorney for the Minee Subee in the Park day-care center, said Calusinski and another employee in the room that day were suspended pending an investigation by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. The other employee was not a suspect in the criminal inquiry, authorities said.

A criminal background check turned up nothing when Minee Subee hired Calusinski a year ago at a northwest suburban location, Walsh said. The woman later transferred to the branch in Lincolnshire. The center will be open Monday, he added.

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Officials said Calusinski originally told them the child fell, but changed her story when autopsy evidence showed injuries more consistent with a one- or two-story fall.

"It's not at all the person I know," said Jason Strackany, 22, of Elgin, a childhood friend of Calusinski. "I really think there has to be more to this story."

Part of it played out on Calusinski's MySpace page, which was decorated with lipstick kisses, music and the nickname "Polish Princess."

Benjamin's visitation has been set for 3 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Kolssak Funeral Home, 189 S. Milwaukee Ave., Wheeling. The funeral service is set for 11 a.m. Wednesday.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,1092450.story

**Sister Iroz** · January 20th, 2009, 11:53 AM

Melissa Calusinski -- the day care aide charged with murdering 16-month-old Benjamin Kingan -- often spoke of her love for children and juggled several jobs, friends and neighbors said Monday.

"She's a very nice girl. She has a lot of patience," said Linda Gutierrez, a neighbor of Calusinski in northwest suburban Carpentersville. "She's really good with kids. She's baby-sat for years.

"She was good even with her dog -- her [Chihuahua] dog died in her arms," Gutierrez continued. "She held [the dog] in her arms until she died."

Longtime friend Usheka Field saw Calusinski a few weeks ago when Calusinski was at the grocery store where Field works.

"She said 'I love kids,' and she said she loved her job, but she did say she was looking for a new job" to better herself, according to Field, who has known Calusinski since they attended Barrington High School.

Calusinskitold Field she was miffed about being dropped from a sister's wedding party after a spat. "She was mad" about that, Field said.

Calusinski, who lives with her parents, previously worked at a music store at Spring Hill Mall in West Dundee; in the shoe department at the Kohl's store in the mall, and at her family's bait shop in Algonquin, friends and neighbors said.

"Those girls were earning their own money, they were mowing the lawns" as well, Gutierrez said. Calusinski would tell people: "'I have four jobs. I do this; I do that,'" according to Gutierrez.

Another neighbor said Calusinski was the youngest in her family. She has two sisters and two brothers, the neighbor said.

The Minee Subee day care center in Lincolnshire, where Calusinski worked, was open Monday. An attorney, Matt Walsh, was there to answer parents' questions.

A sister of Calusinski -- who also works for the company but at a different location -- was on a self-imposed leave and chose not to work Monday, Walsh said.

Oh, so she is a nice girl who treated her dog well, but not children.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/13...care20.article

**Sister Iroz** · January 20th, 2009, 11:56 AM

The twin sister of 16-month-old Benjamin Kingan was in the room when an aide allegedly threw the toddler to the floor of a Lincolnshire day-care center, fatally injuring him, friends and relatives said Monday.

With visitation for the toddler set for today, his parents must not only grapple with losing a child but with how to support a "twinless twin."

"It's horrific,'' said one friend of the Deerfield family who asked not to be named. Losing a child is tragic enough, but "with twins, there's a specialness to it for the parents and the twin that loses the other one.''

Benjamin died Jan. 14. Two days later, Amy and Andy Kingan took Benjamin's twin sister, Emily, and 3-year-old brother, Jacob, to a pediatrician for tests to see if they carried any genetic abnormalities that could have led to Benjamin's death.

"At that time, we didn't know about the murder investigation, so there were certain tests the pediatrician wanted to do,'' a relative said. "He went over her [Emily] very carefully.''

However, by the next day, day-care aide Melissa Calusinski, 22, had been charged with murdering Benjamin.

It was unclear whether Emily -- among eight children in the room -- saw what happened.

Andy Kingan's aunt, Sharon Young, said she can't help but wonder how Emily is responding.

"Even though she is so young, you bond with your twin,'' Young said. "I'm sure she knows that he's not there.''

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1...yfam20.article

**Silvahalo** · January 20th, 2009, 12:07 PM

Certainly makes it more tragic...Benjamin's sister no longer has her twin brother. I know she must feel a loss...something missing. So sorry little one.

Kisses Benjamin...your sister will live life for you, I know she misses you.

**theskyisfalling** · January 20th, 2009, 12:10 PM

Myspace has been deleted. I guess the backlash was too much for her or her family to handle.

**Sister Iroz** · January 22nd, 2009, 03:59 PM

Even as investigators continue their probe into the death of a toddler at a Lincolnshire day-care center, a parent and a former co-worker said they raised concerns about the suspect, Melissa Calusinski.

The teacher's aide "was sitting in the middle of the room, on a bookshelf . . . staring off into space, like she wasn't even there mentally," said parent Adina Williams, recalling an incident last August when she picked up her daughter at the Arlington Heights day-care center, where Calusinski then worked.

"The kids were running and chasing each other. There was no discipline."

Williams of Palatine said she wrote a letter last August to the administrator of Minee Subee Grand in Arlington Heights, saying that Calusinski needed additional training to work with children.

Calusinksi worked in Arlington Heights until her transfer a few months ago to Minee Subee in the Park in Lincolnshire, where police say she killed the toddler by throwing him forcefully to the ground because he was noisy.

A former co-worker, who asked not to be identified, said she verbally raised concerns about Calusinski to the Arlington Heights administrator after allegedly seeing the aide grab a child's arm.

On Wednesday, relatives and friends packed a Wheeling funeral home to remember 16-month-old Benjamin Kingan. Police say that on Jan. 14, Calusinski threw Benjamin down hard enough to fracture his skull. The toddler crawled with his blanket to a bouncy chair, where he later died, according to police.

Calusinski, 22, of Carpentersville, was charged over the weekend with two counts of first-degree murder and has been held in lieu of $5 million bail. Her father declined to comment on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, a 2007 state inspection uncovered three violations at the day-care center where Benjamin died, Minee Subee in the Park, a Department of Children and Family Services official said Wednesday.

The 2007 report said the center failed to notify the agency of "an emergency, accident, unusual incident, disaster or medical problem," and also failed to notify parents. DCFS spokesman Kendall Marlowe did not elaborate.

The Lincolnshire center was also cited with failing to supervise children, Marlowe said.

Williams said she removed her 4-year-old daughter in August from the Minee Subee in Arlington Heights, in part because the aide seemed unable to control children in her daughter's room.

In a letter, Williams said she told the Arlington Heights center's director, Beth Katz, that Calusinski needed more training to work with children. Katz, the daughter of Minee Subee president Judith Katz, did not return a call for comment.

"This is a tremendously serious matter, and a comprehensive investigation by authorities is still under way," said the day-care center's lawyer, Matt Walsh, in a statement.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,3036628.story

**Tazzzz** · January 22nd, 2009, 04:07 PM

I still think the bitch was on drugs of some kind. My heart goes out to the little twin, poor little thing lost a part of herself.

**sanityslipping** · January 22nd, 2009, 04:16 PM

The teacher's aide "was sitting in the middle of the room, on a bookshelf . . . staring off into space, like she wasn't even there mentally," said parent Adina Williams, recalling an incident last August when she picked up her daughter at the Arlington Heights day-care center, where Calusinski then worked.

Williams said she removed her 4-year-old daughter in August from the Minee Subee in Arlington Heights, in part because the aide seemed unable to control children in her daughter's room.

In a letter, Williams said she told the Arlington Heights center's director, Beth Katz, that Calusinski needed more training to work with children. Katz, the daughter of Minee Subee president Judith Katz, did not return a call for comment.

Why was she still there?? If someone had taken heed to what people were saying this poor baby would still be alive. I mean shit, this didn't come out of nowhere. Kudos to the mom who removed her child from her care.

**DarkPrincess** · January 22nd, 2009, 04:23 PM

She looks like she has meth face. Not that I care if she was on drugs. I say toss her off a building and be done with it. That would resolve the matter, wouldn't it?

**Sister Iroz** · January 22nd, 2009, 06:54 PM

An attorney for the woman accused of killing a 16-month-old boy in a Lincolnshire day-care center last week says his client is "scared and nervous" as she's being held in the Lake County jail.

Scott Gordon, the defense lawyer, filed a motion Thursday in Lake County circuit court seeking a reduction in the $5 million bond for teacher's assistant Melissa Calusinski, 22, of the 500 block of Apache Avenue in Carpentersville.

Gordon said 10 percent of the $5 million that Calusinski would have to post to be freed before trial is "unfair" because she doesn't have a criminal history and isn't a flight risk. A hearing on the motion is set for Feb. 17.

"She's scared and nervous," Gordon said after Thursday's hearing in Waukegan. "She's never been in jail before."

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=266478

Fucking cry me a river, who gives a shit if she is scared. I bet the little boy was scared when she picked him up and threw him to his death.

So Jaded there is another article 2 or 3 posts down from this I posted as well today.