Bryan James on trial accused of permanently disfiguring his girlfriend 3 yr old.

**Jessiesgirl1108** · January 13th, 2010, 10:20 AM

Testimony was expected to begin Wednesday in the trial of a New Bedford man charged with child abuse. Doctors who treated the young victim called it one of the worst cases they had ever seen.

37-year-old Bryan James is accused of beating and biting his girlfriend's three-year-old daughter . The alleged abuse happened in 2007, according to investigators.

Prosecutors described the young girl's injuries during opening statements in Taunton Superior Court on Tuesday. They claim James bit the girl's lip so hard, doctors had to remove part of it because the tissue had died, leaving the girl permanently disfigured. Prosecutors also claim the girl has disfigured ears from repeated blows from a belt.

Prosecutors said Tuesday one of the doctors who treated the girl will be one of the first to testify at the trial.

The girl herself will also take the stand during the trial, prosecutors said, to describe how the abuse often happened when she wet herself.

Defense attorneys did not present opening statements Tuesday. They are expected to argue that the girl was injured when she fell in the bathtub.
Jessica Silveira, the girl's mother, is accused of trying to cover up the abuse. She is scheduled to go on trial in March.

http://www.foxprovidence.com/dpps/ne...d-man-_3187103

**ineedanap** · January 13th, 2010, 02:25 PM

Prosecutors also claim the girl has disfigured ears from repeated blows from a belt.

WHAT.THE.FUCK.

**Pene784** · January 13th, 2010, 02:28 PM

The girl herself will also take the stand during the trial, prosecutors said, to describe how the abuse often happened when she wet herself

I wish they did have to make that little girl face that monster and relive this horrible nightmare. That will be awful. I hope she has found herself in a warm loving home now and can go through the trial without ill effect.

**MadeaBecBec** · January 13th, 2010, 04:39 PM

Video of the penis and egg donor here : http://www.abc6.com/news/semassachusetts/81220707.html

**MadeaBecBec** · January 13th, 2010, 05:24 PM

Bryan Michael James

Jessica L. Silveira

The three year old girl had a brother??? He witnessed some of the abuse!!

Rudman showed pictures of the girl's injuries during her opening remarks. The child has had several reconstructive surgeries that have improved the condition of her upper lip, though it still remains heavily scarred. She is currently living with a relative, prosecutors said.

James' lawyer, Theodore Barone, declined to make an opening statement Tuesday. But while cross examining New Bedford Police Detective Chris Cotter, who was the lead investigator, Barone noted that the detective testified during a July 2007 dangerousness hearing that the girl first told him that she hurt her lip by falling in a bathtub at home.

Cotter also previously testified that he did not understand the girl's explanations for bruises she had on her arm.

Cotter interviewed the girl on Jan. 11, 2007, when the girl's mother, Jessica S. Silveira, brought her to the Kool Smiles dentist office in New Bedford for a lip injury. Cotter said the child had what appeared to be bite marks on her left arm and elbow, as well as bruising on her back.

The dental visit prompted investigations by the police and the Department of Social Services. In April 2007, Silveira took her daughter to St. Luke's Hospital with swelling on her face. Her lip had also deteriorated since the January visit, police said.

Police said the girl told investigators that James often hit her on the ear with his belt when she misbehaved or wet her pants; her brother said likewise, adding that James had bitten his sister in anger in his presence.

Police obtained arrest warrants for James and Silveira, alleging she tried to cover up the abuse. Cotter said New Bedford police put out a press release and contacted state police to be on the lookout for the suspects after he was unable to find them for several days.

On July 3, 2007, James called New Bedford police to say he was at a campground in New Hampshire and was returning to the city to turn himself in. State police later stopped the vehicle he and Silveira were operating on Route 140 in Freetown, according to testimony.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/...3/NEWS/1130343
So, these children were left with these two Asshats from January to April??? WTH???

**badfish76** · January 13th, 2010, 07:22 PM

Just fucking evil and immature!

FFS!!!!

**thehesbomb** · January 13th, 2010, 10:48 PM

So incredibly sad. In addition to this nightmare her father is a homeless Level III sex offender. It sounds like she had NO ONE.

**crickett** · January 14th, 2010, 01:03 AM

Fucking bathtubs are always biting kids. And I don't think bathtubs should be allowed to even own belts...they are always hitting kids with them.

**Marv** · January 14th, 2010, 06:58 AM

Barone noted that the detective testified during a July 2007 dangerousness hearing that the girl first told him that she hurt her lip by falling in a bathtub at home.

Cotter also previously testified that he did not understand the girl's explanations for bruises she had on her arm.

That's a part of their defense? That the little girl said she hurt her lip when she fell, and she couldn't properly explain where she got the bruises on her arm from? She was 3, FFS!!!

That's just pathetic beyond words. 3 yrs old and being beaten by that fugly asshole, while her own mother failed to protect her. Obviously she was scared enough to say whatever her tormentors told her to say!

If that's the best the defense can come up with (oh yeah, and that good ol' standby ''the bathtub did it''), then these two evil fuckers should hopefully be spending the greater part of the rest of their worthless lives behind bars.

**intenseness4u** · January 14th, 2010, 10:15 AM

fuck'n lawyers will grasp at anything.. adults have a hard time talk'n and explaining abuse... I think she stated pretty clear from what I read and the bothers testimony backed it up. How old is he??? Why didnt he say something??? Cut his nose off and make him stand on the side of the road and hold a sign... my punishment for being a dick and hurting children!!!!!!!

fuck'n sheep bitch

**ImmortalOne** · January 14th, 2010, 03:44 PM

http://sailerfraud.blogspot.com/2007...james-and.html

http://www.boston.com/news/local/art...nt_unfinished/

**MadeaBecBec** · January 14th, 2010, 10:58 PM

Video of her testimony here: http://www2.turnto10.com/jar/news/lo..._abuser/29622/

She is still scared of him, but being brave enough to tell the truth so that he doesn't walk.

Stay strong child, preservere Baby Girl......

**Dakota Valkyrie** · January 26th, 2010, 10:17 AM

Bryan M. James of New Bedford was sentenced Monday to serve 12 to 15 years in state prison for abusing his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter so severely she was left permanently disfigured.

Superior Court Judge Barbara A. Dortch-Okara said she based the prison term on state sentencing guidelines, although she said she could not recall a more egregious child abuse case in her courtroom.

Prosecutors said James bit off the girl's upper lip and punched the child so often that her ears became deformed and her body constantly covered in bruises. Children's Hospital in Boston ranked the child abuse case among its worst ever.
[...]

Barone said there was little evidence for the jury to have convicted James last Friday on three counts of assault and battery on a child causing substantial injury and one count of assault and battery. The jury returned a not-guilty verdict on a single count of mayhem after finding he did not maliciously cause the injuries.
[...]

Bristol County District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter ...said he was disappointed with the judge's decision.

"The sentence was not severe enough," Sutter said. "We gave our sentencing recommendations tremendous thought. I thought they were fair and appropriate."

Though sentenced to a minimum 12-year prison term, James will actually serve at least 9½ years because he already has been held without bail since his arrest on July 4, 2007.

Following his release, James will be placed on probation for 15 years. He will be required to undergo anger management counseling, submit a DNA sample and will not be allowed to have contact with minors.

Lawyers said state sentencing guidelines for someone with James' relatively minor record — he has three prior assault-and-battery convictions and three restraining-order violations — recommend a 12-to-13½-year sentence for a conviction on assault and battery on a child causing substantial injury.

However, Sutter said those guidelines were inapplicable because of the egregious nature of the offense.

"This was a horrid case," he said. "This was the embodiment of human depravity."
[...]

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/...6/NEWS/1260322

**Athena** · January 26th, 2010, 11:59 AM

Meanwhile, pot traffickers are serving sentences of 25 to life.

How long until people hold their elected representatives accountable for this bullshit? 12 years for permanently disfiguring a young child during a period of ongoing abuse? Sorry, but anger management can't fix that.

**62julietandvoid** · January 26th, 2010, 12:47 PM

Weird he targeted the girl, I guess, seeing how there was also a boy in the house(unless it was his own). Seems like so many people accept this type of treatment for children. Even at young ages they use belts and at the head? wtf

And why the pittiful excuses? Sometime befor my youngest had his first toof he fell off my mom's king size bed and his mouth hit the heat register. Her bed is pretty high up off the ground. He developed a small blood blister(?) I took him to the doctor worried about everything from major shit to what that might have done to his toof. Doc said it was it was fine, just a little bruise on his gum and nothing would be wrong with his teef when they came in. He was right, it went away and his teef came in great and he has a beautiful smile. All he got from that fall was a little bruise.

When I was 2 or 3 I was backed up over by a car. My mom said I cried more because my big wheel was crushed and by the time I was taken to the hospital I was swinging my legs and content(the people who were in the car said they'd get me a new one). The only thing that really happened to me is is squished #1 and #2 out of me, I wasn't hurt at all. (I remember most of it btw)

That being said, why do they think these type of excuses will fly? Fall in the tub, floor, wall. Get real

**koochie** · January 26th, 2010, 01:06 PM

serve 12 to 15 years

i am fucking speechless? WTF???? so he'll serve 9 be out and beating up some new poor baby girl...

this is a disgusting disgrace.

**Jerri Blank** · January 26th, 2010, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by koochie

i am fucking speechless? WTF???? so he'll serve 9 be out and beating up some new poor baby girl...

this is a disgusting disgrace.

damn right it is!

it seems unless these kids are killed the monsters who abuse them get a slap on the wrist.
even then when a child dies half the time there out having more kids to maim and kill in 10years. there is no justice for children. I hate this shit.

**Whisper** · January 27th, 2010, 02:25 AM

Child is permanently disfigured from abuseMelissa Sardelli

A judge has sentenced a New Bedford man 12-15 years behind bars, followed by 15 years of probation, for abusing his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter , permanently disfiguring her. A punishment the Bristol County District Attorney is not satisfied with.

On Friday, a jury convicted Bryan James of three counts of assault and battery of a child and one count of simple assault and battery.

Prosecutors say the 37-year-old beat and bit his live-in girlfriend's daughter in 2007 . Doctors said the girl's lip was mutilated, and appeared to have been bitten off, while her ear was completely misshapen from repeated belt blows.

Shortly after the abuse, medical experts told police it was one of the worst cases of child abuse they had ever seen.

After the sentencing, Bristol County District Attorney Sam Sutter said he was disappointed by the judge's sentence. His office was seeking a sentencing of up to 30 years.

"What that defendant did to that 3-year-old child’s lip and ears was the embodiment of human depravity. And, it is exactly for that kind of behavior that our legislature created a maximum sentence," Sutter said. "That is why our office recommended the maximum sentence for the injuries to the lip, and close to the maximum sentence for the injuries to the ears. And, that is why we asked for the sentences to run consecutively and not concurrently.”

Police say the girl's mother tried to cover up the abuse. She is scheduled to go on trial in March.

http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_n...year-old-girl-

**Unamused Cat** · January 27th, 2010, 03:04 AM

Some people just need to die.

**Whisper** · January 27th, 2010, 03:12 AM

I agree 100%,I had to read this 3xs and even then my jaw was still open.I have no clue where they come up with these ideas!He needs to be tied up and bitten 1500 times before being shot and pissed on.

**MC30** · January 27th, 2010, 11:21 AM

my theory is proving true.
she is 3.
he is sentenced 12-15 years.
3 + 15 = 18.
these judges are asshats.

**koochie** · January 27th, 2010, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by mommacrazy30

my theory is proving true.
she is 3.
he is sentenced 12-15 years.
3 + 15 = 18.
these judges are asshats.

James will actually serve at least 9½ years

so she'll be maybe around 13-15 probably being teased and harrassed for her injuries right as he's being let out to prowl once again

**Tundratot** · December 9th, 2010, 02:23 PM

The mother of a 3-year-old girl whose lip was partially bitten off three years ago by an abusive live-in boyfriend has pleaded guilty to child abuse charges.

On Monday in Superior Court, Jessica Silveira, 29, formerly of New Bedford, received a suspended jail sentence and was placed on probation for 10 years, during which she will be required to complete her GED and attend counseling.

Custody of the girl, now 6 years old, has been given to Silveira’s mother in New Hampshire, court records said.

New Bedford police arrested Silveira and her boyfriend, Bryan James, 37, in July 2007, after the girl told investigators at Children’s Hospital that “Daddy Bryan” bit and punched her whenever he got mad that she wet her pants.

In January 2007 at Kool Smiles, the girl had a cut on her upper lip, a scraped chin, bruises around her neck and jaw and an apparent bite mark on her arm. Three months later, at St. Luke’s Hospital, the child’s upper lip had deteriorated to the point that it looked like she had a cleft palate.

Her ears were also misshapen from what a Children’s Hospital doctor testified was severe trauma often associated with “cauliflower ear,” the type of injury also called “boxer’s ear” caused by repeated punches, according to testimony.

The girl has undergone two reconstructive surgeries that have improved the condition of her upper lip, though it remains scarred. . . .

Police charged Silveira with trying to cover up the abuse by lying about when the girl suffered her injuries as well as the true identity of “Daddy Bryan.”

Silveira pleaded guilty to one count of assault and battery on a child with substantial injury and witness intimidation. . . .

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/...941/-1/NEWSMAP

Cauliflower ear, cleft palate and mom gets probation. Worse, the child is with her maternal grandma. While I don't want to discount the love and support her grandma is probably giving her, this is the mother of her own useless, abusive, lying mother. A woman who will probably let her useless, abusive, lying daughter live with her, or have access to her child. The woman who intimidated a witness. I have to wonder which witness? The girl herself or the brother? I hope this woman steps on her wang in some way and violates her probation, landing herself back in jail. Because she's an idiot and shouldn't be allowed to look at her daughter through anything less than chain link fence.