Sex Offender Ryan Durham Killed Girlfriends Son

**Hellsbells** · February 17th, 2010, 10:32 AM

FORT WORTH (CBS 11 / TXA 21) Police say Ryan Durham, 19, was watching his fiancée's 2-year-old at their home in the 2900 block of Spencer Street.

Durham told police the child, Robert Philbin, fell off the toilette last Wednesday, but investigators aren't buying it.

The incident happened after the toddler's mother, along with Durham's stepfather, had left for work.

Neighbors say they didn't know the family very well but they are shocked about what's happened.
"I wish we would have known that they were hurting over there we could have offered to help maybe," next door neighbor Jon Leep said. "That makes me so sad; it's just next door."

According to the medical examiner's report Robert had a fractured skull, bleeding and swelling in the brain and retinal injury. He was rushed to Cook Children's Medical Center, but died there a day later.

"The explanation given by Mr. Durham simply didn't add up. When you look at injuries child sustained they are inconsistent," explained Sgt. Chad Mahaffey with the Fort Worth Police Department.

Department of Public Safety records show that Durham is a paroled sex offender who was sentenced in September, 2003 for Indecency with two children; one a 7-year-old girl and the other a 6-year-old boy.

"Part of his conditions did not restrict him from being near the 2-year-old, consequently he's the only one facing charges in the case," says Mahaffey.

Neighbors finding out about Durham's sex offender registration say they always had a bad feeling about the family

Durham faces capital murder charges and is in the Mansfield Jail.

http://cbs11tv.com/local/toddler.kil...2.1498365.html

**Tundratot** · March 27th, 2011, 01:04 AM

A 20-year-old convicted sex offender is headed back to prison for fatally injuring his fiancee's 2-year-old son last year.

Ryan Durham, who was initially charged with capital murder in the death of Robert Philbin, reached a deal with prosecutors Thursday and received a 40-year sentence in exchange for pleading guilty to the lesser charge of serious bodily injury to a child. If he had gone to trial and been convicted, Durham could have been sentenced to life without parole.

He has to serve at least half his sentence before he is eligible for parole.

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Officials have said Durham had been caring for Robert on Feb. 10, 2010, while the child's mother and stepgrandfather were at work. At some point, Durham phoned the mother and stepgrandfather and also called 911 after the child "started breathing heavily" and became worse. The child was taken to Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, where he died the next day.

Durham initially told investigators that he heard the child fall twice from a toilet inside their home in the 3900 block of Spencer Street in north Fort Worth, but the boy's injuries were not consistent with that story. The Tarrant County medical examiner later ruled that Robert died from a blunt-force head injury and ruled his death a homicide.

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http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/03...#ixzz1HlzLzRtN

So, he'll serve at least 20 years. I'd like to know why he did it. What the hell could that baby have done to set this freak off?