"This child went to hell," investigators say of battered 2yo girl

[Ninja0980]

http://www.kmox.com/pages/6490051.ph...tentId=5681646

BELLEVILLE, Ill. (KMOX) -- St. Clair County investigators say a two year old girl was beaten to the brink of death for almost four days straight, because she wouldn't stop crying.

The girl is listed in critical condition at Cardinal Glennon Hospital. Doctors had to remove a quarter of her intestines, she is badly bruised , has both a broken arm and leg and is on a feeding tube.
Police have arrested a boyfriend of the girl's mother. 24-year-old Kraig Monroe (left) was arrested at his trailer earlier this week. He is charged with punching the girl in the stomach and pulling out her hair over a three to four day peroid while she was strapped in a chair.

Police say the girl's mother was at work, came home, but did nothing but to give the girl a dose of Motrin. She has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
Officials at the St. Clair County Sheriff's Department said, "this child went to hell and nobody did anything about it."

First of all, Kraig needs to be burned.... alive. The "mother" needs to be thrown in right alongside him. There is no way she didn't know what pain her baby was in or that she was being tortured. And all she's getting is endangering the welfare of a child?! How about a failure to act as a human being?

[Aslan]

My vote is toss them into an arena full of these

Explain the situation and charge admission. Justice+revenue for the town.
win-win

[AussieMum]

I feel ill!!!

This poor little darling. Strapped to a chair and tortured.... and her bitch of a mother does nothing!!!!!!!!

Oh sweet little angel, be brave, be strong.

[Ninja0980]

My vote is toss them into an arena full of these

Explain the situation and charge admission. Justice+revenue for the town.
win-win

But that is inhumane treatment to the lions forcing them to eat something so putrid.

[Marv]

Saws were common torture devices because they were readily found in most houses and no complex devices were required. It was a cheap way to torture and kill a victim accused of witchery, adultery, murder, blasphemy or even theft. and torturing a child

The victim was tied upside down, allowing blood to be diverted to the brain. This ensured that the victim maintained consciousness for as long as possible, it slowed the loss of blood and caused maximum humiliation. The torture could last several hours.

While some victims were cut completely in half as a symbolic gesture, most were only cut up to their abdomen to prolong the time it took to die.

Choose your favourite from the link:

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...26tbs%3Disch:1

[carolinablue]

i like the saw thing. then throw the still living pieces to a lion. an old one with bad teeth so it takes a long time to eat them.

[Ninja0980]

Sorry Carolina and Aslan.. I can't condone animal cruelty in any form. I wouldn't even leave these two for the vultures to eat.

[thehesbomb]

When the girl was taken to the hospital on Monday, she already had a cast on her leg. DCFS was called to the home last week, Johnson said. The agency was told Feb. 23 about the girl's broken leg, but the Sheriff's Department was not notified.

"When I found that out, that DCFS was notified that this child had a broken leg and they were looking into that, I was very shocked that we were not notified," Johnson said. "There may be more to that which justifies them not notifying us. At this point, I don't know."...


"(The) Illinois Supreme Court does not allow me to talk toward the character of a person, but I can tell you in my experience as a law enforcement officer, that a person who is convicted of this, in these extreme nature of injuries, is just a waste of human space," Johnson said.

http://www.bnd.com/2010/03/04/115922...k=omni_popular

Kraig Monroe



Private MySpace:

http://www.myspace.com/kraig1420

[Ninja0980]

The mother better be facing more serious charges down the line. The broken leg and the prior calls... the I was at work and had no idea excuse isn't going to work. This little girl is going to suffer for the rest of her life (if she survives) because her mother decided her penis was more important than her child.

[ineedanap]

but did nothing but to give the girl a dose of Motrin

A fucking dose of Motrin. I am remembering Riley Ann Sawyers all over again and my heart just screams......

[LadyCygnet]

"(The) Illinois Supreme Court does not allow me to talk toward the character of a person, but I can tell you in my experience as a law enforcement officer, that a person who is convicted of this, in these extreme nature of injuries, is just a waste of human space," Johnson said.

I think I'm in love...

Anyway, I hope that the poor little one doesn't have to spend the rest of her life eating from a feeding tube, and I hope she gets placed with a family where she is hugged, not punched, and has her hair brushed gently and styled, not pulled out in clumps.

Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital sets a standard of excellence, and cases like this prove why. They did not hesitate to contact law enforcement to let them know that they had a child transferred into their care who had critical injuries that were consistent with abuse. I can understand why Memorial wanted to transfer her quickly, and they may have done so right away, but I'd like to think that Illinois DCFS isn't a complete joke statewide.

Incidentally, the surgeons and staff at Cardinal Glennon saved my toddler niece's life. She has some serious cardiac defects, and they were able to repair most of them, and other than having to take measures to prevent blood clots, she is able to lead a pretty normal life.

[TheMorningStar]

The biological father of a badly beaten two-year-old girl from near Belleville spoke Thursday morning about the condition of his daughter. The mother's boyfriend is jailed, accused of the abuse.

Meanwhile, questions are being raised about why authorities weren't notified sooner about the alleged abuse.

Eddie Runyon, the father of Amanda Runyon, said the last time he saw his daughter before her hospitalization was Jan. 25. He said she was very brave before she went into the hospital. Thursday Amanda remains on a ventilator, feeding tube and pain killers as she fights for her life.

As the little girl clings to life at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis the boyfriend of the child’s mother has been charged with the crime.

If the child survives, she may be able to eat only through a feeding tube for the rest of her life, said Capt. Steve Johnson, with the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department.

The mother came home Sunday night and at first gave the baby some Motrin but did nothing else, Johnson said.

By Monday, the girl was vomiting, lethargic and going in and out of consciousness and was taken to Belleville Memorial Hospital. The baby was transported about 4 p.m. Monday to Cardinal Glennon. Cardinal Glennon officials notified authorities.

Johnson said the baby’s life is “hanging by a thread.” The baby had emergency surgery that removed a quarter of her bowels and 18 inches of her intestines. Johnson said the baby has bruising throughout her body and a broken arm and leg.

“The girl went through hell and nobody did anything to help her.” Johnson said.

Monroe was taken into custody after interviews by investigators and is currently in the St. Clair County Jail in Belleville on a $500,000 bond. The mother was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon but no charges have been filed against her yet.

http://www.globe-democrat.com/news/2...-out-thursday/

"Two-year-olds should be watching Sesame Street," 23-year-old Eddie Runyon told reporters Thursday morning at Cardinal Glennon Children's hospital. "They should be playing with baby dolls, playing house, coloring. They shouldn't be laying in bed hooked to fourteen different machines."

Runyon, a native of Marissa Illinois, has taken leave from his job as a coal miner in Kentucky to be at his daughter's bedside.

He says he's never met the man now jailed on charges of physically assaulting his daughter, adding that anger is not his overwhelming emotion right now.

"I'm her father...it's my job to protect her, and I couldn't," he said. "It hurt me bad."

http://www.kmox.com/Father-of-2-year...o-prot/6496391

[Silvahalo]

Monroe is accused of punching the child repeatedly in the stomach, while she sat in an Elmo baby chair, to silence her crying during the course of about four days, ...

"How can you describe it other than hell?" Johnson said.
The girl was vomiting, lethargic and going in and out of consciousness when she was taken by her mother to Memorial Hospital in Belleville about 10 a.m. Monday.
[...]

Monroe's child slept on a bed in the trailer, while the girlfriend's three children, including the 2-year-old victim, slept on the floor, Johnson said.
Police also found drug paraphernalia and a large pit bull in the trailer. "It was a complete trash bin inside this trailer. When I searched it, I was afraid to lean on anything it was so disgusting," Johnson said.

I have absolutely no mercy for baby beaters/killers and the women who fuck these bastards and call themselves mothers. I would be most excited to meet with both and ask directly, "how is it that you find beating, torturing and neglecting a baby acceptable? how is it that your face is still taking in air instead of breathing shit 8 feet under? oh, don't know do ya? let me help you with that!...", well, you get my drift. Seriously tho, I would spit on both if I had a chance, and punch their lights out just for shitsngiggles....oh, oh, must be sitting in an Elmo chair too!

There is nothing funny about child abuse, a child anguishing for days, tortured by a grown adult man, ignored, neglected by her own mother. People like this are in a class separate from other useless fuckers, these people are cowards, and void of any humanity. They deserve swift, and stern punishment. I would be glad to sit on a jury to see that happen but they'd probably never allow such a thing as I would suggest a slow and painful death or a hellish existence for the rest of their useless lives....

Baby girl so sorry sweet one, heal completely and lead a life with joy and bad memories long, long past in a loving home. Kisses little one.

[thehesbomb]

"I'm her father...it's my job to protect her, and I couldn't," he said. "It hurt me bad."

What an incredibly awful feeling this must be.

[thequeenofsorrow]

the dad has some cute pics on his myspace www.myspace.com/erunyon7

but damn there are some dirty backgrounds yuck

[penelopejo]

I bet the booster chair in the pic was the same chair she was tied to....ugh.

[Silvahalo]

Baby Amanda Lynn is so precious!...."If the child survives, she may be able to eat only through a feeding tube for the rest of her life,"...how could he? how could the bitch do nothing???

[TwiztidAngel]

ohhhhhhhh i like this one Ohmarvellousme!!!

they should do this to them:

The Judas Cradle was perhaps a little less sadistic than impalement but still gruesome. The victim’s anus or vagina would be placed over the point of the pyramid-shaped cradle, then lowered on it by ropes. The intended effect was to stretch the orifice over a long period of time, or to slowly impale.

The victim was usually naked, adding to the overall humiliation of the torture and sometimes weights were added to the legs to increase the pain and hasten death. This torture could last anywhere from a few hours to complete days. The device was rarely washed, so the victim could also be plagued with a painful infection.

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...26tbs%3Disch:1

[Gidget]

Disgusting, subhuman piece of shit.

[MadeaBecBec]

Amanda is in critical condition with a feeding tube and authorities want some answers.

First from Memorial Hospital which investigators say admitted the girl at 10:00 a.m. on Monday with severe injuries, but never reported it.

Memorial Hospital gave News 4 this statement: "Memorial Hospital followed its abuse policy and contacted the Department of Children and Family Services."

They also want answers from the state, which apparently started an investigation of its own after Amanda suffered a broken leg on February 23.

Captain Steve Johnson with the St. Clair County sheriff’s department said, “When I found out that DCFS was notified that this child had a broken leg and they were looking into that, I was very shocked that we were not notified."

In fact, they weren’t notified until Amanda was transferred to Missouri.

Once doctors at Cardinal Glennon saw Amanda’s injuries late Monday afternoon, authorities were notified within two hours. Those injuries included severe abdominal trauma and pulled hair.

A hospital spokesman tells News 4 that as soon as doctors suspect abuse, state law dictates the next move.


A spokesperson for DCFS in Chicago says they did investigate suspicion of neglect involving Amanda last month, but they only talk to authorities once they find evidence of abuse. They say they will work with the sheriff in finding out exactly what happened in this case.
There were three other children in the home. At this point there is no evidence they were abused, but the investigation continues.

On Thursday investigators and St. Clair County Zoning and Animal Control responded to the residence. A Pit Bull was taken by Animal Control. The trailer was condemned due to unsafe living conditions as well as the power shut off. Kraig Monroe did not have an occupancy permit to live there.

http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Finge...-86277082.html

Praying for you, Amanda, God still performs miracles, you will be healed back to perfect health and the two that HURT you will receive theirs!

Father God, Divine Physician, Hear our pleading, heal this Child, Your beautiful and wondrous gift, restore Amanda completely, give her the strength needed to overcome, for Your Glory and Honor! bring down Your sword on the evil ones that have injured Your beloved, Holy Spirit, come, with Your comfort and wisdom. Amen

[ineedanap]

Baby Amanda Lynn is so precious!...."If the child survives, she may be able to eat only through a feeding tube for the rest of her life,"...how could he? how could the bitch do nothing???

Silva- The bitch did do something, she gave her a dose of Motrin.

<-----insert eyerolly smiley.......

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Neighbors say they've regularly heard Monroe yell at Monroe's own five-year-old daughter.

"He tells her to get her 'f-in' butt in the house," claims neighbor Kenneth Conklin.

Inside Monroe's mobile home, Johnson says, "The child of Kraig Monroe slept on a bed, at this trailer, but the three children of the (victim's) mother slept on the floor. There's a large pit-bull in the house along with drug paraphernalia."

"I have actually seen him hit his girlfriend a couple of times telling her that he wasn't going to allow her in the house, that she has to sit out on the porch," Conklin told us Wednesday.
[...]

Police say the girl has a healing leg that was broken and put in a cast back in late February, as well as a healing arm, likely broken, but not treated, in the past.

"And also the baby has a large amount of hair that has been pulled out of its head," says Captain Johnson.

All of the other children between the couple are now in the custody of the state.

http://www.ksdk.com/news/regional/st...97185&catid=16

As two year old Amanda Runyan lies in a hospital bed, in critical condition, her mother has been released from jail.

Illinois officials have issued a protection order against the mother...so she can't come into contact with Amanda.

http://www.kmox.com/Beaten-girl-s-mo...owed-t/6509262

A day care does it right and the ball is dropped:

On Feb. 22, Kraig Monroe carried his girlfriend's crying 2-year-old daughter, Amanda Runyon, into the Belleville child care center for her first day of care and handed her off to a staff member, the center's owner said. As the caregiver sat her down in a chair, the boyfriend told them that the girl's brother had slept on her leg that night and it was still asleep. Give it a little time to wake up, he said, staff members recall. Then he left.

The girl stopped crying, but within minutes, the staff noticed her leg was not right. They asked Amanda to go to the changing table so they could check her diaper.

"She could not put any weight on her leg," said Marva Smith, a director of the center.

And then, as she lay on the table for the change, they saw that she was in deep pain.

"It was sore and it hurt her and she winced and she shook."

But, eerily, she did not cry, said Tree Hut owner Paula Jones.

Already suspicious, the staff immediately sent Amanda home with written instructions that she could not return without a doctor's note that her leg had been treated, Jones said. They took scrupulous notes.

When Amanda and her older sister didn't return to the center the next day, the center called her mother. What she said only raised further alarms. The mother said Amanda's leg was broken in two places, and nobody knew why.

"This is two breaks on a 2-year-old that should always be watched, and someone should have heard her cry out," Smith said. "And then for the parent to continually say she doesn't really know what happened. ..."

So the day care center's staff did what it was mandated by law to do: On Feb. 23 at 2:19 p.m., they put in a hot line call to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, alleging neglect. They went even further, calling the mother several times during the week to check on the condition of Amanda. They say they were told she was recuperating.
[...]

Read the full article: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/new...8?OpenDocument

[LadyCygnet]

At least the daycare center was trying to look out for this poor child. It's a pity that her mother wasn't.

On another note, why was the mother willing to sleep on the boyfriend's floor with her children while he and his child had beds? I can understand why women stay with their abusers (been there, done that, was told my t-shirt's in the mail), but one usually finds that staying with the guy *beats* the conditions one might find at a shelter.

[Abroad]

On another note, why was the mother willing to sleep on the boyfriend's floor with her children while he and his child had beds? I can understand why women stay with their abusers (been there, done that, was told my t-shirt's in the mail), but one usually finds that staying with the guy *beats* the conditions one might find at a shelter.

I think you'll find it was her children only who were sleeping on the floor....... The penis likely wanted his sex-aid in the bed with him most of the time.

[Jerri Blank]

I gotta go find a photo of this Dick-Lick, WTF??

[edit] ohh it's above I missed it..

he looks like he just stepped off the short bus

Why would any woman put up with this shit even if he wasn't beating your kids?

I hope I don't end up divorced because i'm never dating again, fuck this shit, damn!

Sorry had to rant this just makes my blood boil over.

[Silvahalo]

"She could not put any weight on her leg," said Marva Smith, a director of the center.

And then, as she lay on the table for the change, they saw that she was in deep pain.

"It was sore and it hurt her and she winced and she shook."

But, eerily, she did not cry,

OMG, that just broke my heart and got me seething all over again. It's truly miraculous she made it as long as she did. How can a mother see their child visibly in pain and not give two shits about it? oh, wait. She's no mother, that explains it.

Six days later, Amanda Runyon was airlifted from Memorial Hospital in Belleville to Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, where she underwent emergency surgery to remove a quarter of her intestines. The St. Clair Sheriff's Department alleges Monroe beat Amanda over a period of four days to stop her from crying.

I'm so glad someone noticed and did something about it. Can't assume a daycare would do the right thing even tho the law says they should. BUT seriously fucked up that it took 6 days before baby girl got help. She could have easily died in that time span and almost did. Now baby Amanda may have to eat from a feeding tube the rest of her life.

The Belleville News-Democrat reports that two-year-old Amanda Lynn Runyon remains in critical condition and continues to recover at Cardinal Glennon Hospital in St. Louis from injuries she suffered from being repeatedly punched in the stomach by her mother’s boyfriend in an effort to silence her cries.

Amanda Lynn Runyon, I hope you make it baby girl. You deserve a fair chance at life with your father.

[AngelFire]

I have to believe that these fucking monsters meet their own disgusting fates here on earth. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to read this and go on. How, on God's earth, can anyone hurt a child to this degree? It's not natural, look at those faces, the faces of the little ones. Do we not see innocence, future, love, happiness? Then why do they wipe it away with one blow? How can anyone take from these small angels what makes them so special? It hurts and we don't even know them. I hate this world sometimes, more times than not sadly, more times than not

[Dakota Valkyrie]

This keeps getting more disgusting.

Despite a sheriff's deputy's call to the state child abuse hot line a year and a half ago about squalid living conditions where a 10-month-old girl was living with her mother and the mother's registered sex offender brother, the Department of Children and Family Services failed to intervene.
[...]

The hot line case launched by a Randolph County sheriff's deputy was the first of two prior instances in two years where DCFS was notified of danger to Amanda. One was in 2008, and the other was in February. In both cases, officials from the agency either failed to ensure that child safety measures were carried out or decided they were not needed.
[...]

Spokesmen for DCFS gave contradictory statements this week as to whether the agency even investigated when Randolph County Deputy Rick Kennedy made the hot line call on July 29, 2008, about living conditions at a home in Coulterville.

Kendall Marlowe said no investigation occurred. Jimmie Whitelow said a limited inquiry was conducted. Both spokesmen said the matter involved a private custody issue and that the agency could not get involved. Neither mentioned anything about a registered sex offender.
[...]

Police in St. Clair County have not released the identity of Amanda's mother, who was jailed and then released regarding the current injuries to her daughter, because she has not been charged.

However, in the Randolph County sheriff's report she is listed as now 25-year-old Dawn Obptande. She could not be reached for comment.

Her brother, Billy Obptande, who was living in the Randolph County trailer, was convicted in St. Clair County of aggravated sexual abuse for having sex with a girl who was younger than 17. He was 22 when charged. Billy Obptande was the biological father of 9-week-old Jason Smith, who was shot in the face with his mother Nicole Willyard and two of her friends by Willyard's boyfriend, Jason Smith, who is serving a life sentence for those 2005 murders in Belleville.

Whatever the DCFS investigator found at the Coulterville trailer, if anything, will never be known because the agency purges its files of all cases where child neglect is not officially determined, said Whitelow.
[...]

However, Kennedy wrote in his report that he had learned that Amanda was in "deplorable" condition after Dawn Obptande dropped her off with her father, Eddie Runyon. The sheriff's department report stated that Dawn Obptande told Runyon, "I can't take care of her anymore. You keep her."

Dawn Obptande showed up a few days later on July 31 demanding the return of her daughter. Runyon refused.

The incident came to the attention of deputies after Dawn Obptande called the sheriff's department and said Runyon would not return Amanda, according to the Randolph County Sheriff's Department report.

Runyon told the officer that Amanda was dirty and didn't have any clothes or diapers with her.

Kennedy then called DCFS caseworker Ken Beams, who told him to return Amanda to Dawn Obptande, the report stated.

Kennedy went to the house in Coulterville and learned Dawn Obptande lived with her brother, Billy Obptande, a sexual predator listed on the Illinois State Police sex offender web site.

Kennedy again called Beams, who then said a case would be started and a caseworker would call the family in 24 hours, according to the police report. Two days later, Kennedy wrote that he received a call from DCFS caseworker Richard Fulton, who said an investigation had been done and no threat to the child was found.
[...]

http://www.bnd.com/2010/03/14/117328...t-girl-in.html

2008 sheriff's report: http://media.bnd.com/smedia/2010/03/...filiate.98.pdf

[Aslan]

Okay I'm sorry but that pisses me off.
At what point did accountability become an option? That article is trying to blame an agency for the failure of a mother and her dick of the month.
WHO was in contact with this child daily? The government or the mother?
WHO should know about any new injuries this child has? the government or her mother?
I think all of us know that CPS sucks.
At the same time, it's about time parents were held accountable.

They need to nail that so called government agency too, assholes trying to pass the buck on the back of tax dollars..

[Dakota Valkyrie]

it's about time parents were held accountable.

I agree... the problem is that there are, and always will be, those people that should never be parents. Further compounding it is the fact that they DO become parents. Someone has to be responsible for the kids if the cumdumpsters aren't. We can't let the families and neighbors and strangers just rush in willy nilly. We can't count on the families and neighbors and strangers. We should be able to count on CPS to pick up the OBVIOUS pieces when all else fails.

If there was a "mother" in all this, all this would not have happened.