Someone saw Erik Johnston toss the baby out the car window

**Dakota Valkyrie** · April 19th, 2010, 10:58 PM

A man accused of throwing his infant daughter out of the window of a car and onto Highway 9 will stand trial for a long list of felony child abuse and domestic violence charges, according to the District Attorney's Office.

Erik Rebert Johnston, 23, was driving the car home with the 9-month-old girl and a 22-month-old girl, and the girls' mother when he got angry just before 8 p.m. on April 1, the D.A.'s Office reported.

He pulled off Highway 9, then allegedly grabbed the 9-month-old girl by the arm and tossed her out of the car. She flew more than 20 feet, landed on the pavement and skidded into the middle of the road.

She suffered road rash and cuts to her stomach, sides and legs. She also cut her tongue when she landed, the D.A.'s Office reported.

The girl's mother ran after the girl, but then got back in the car with the baby when Johnston ordered her to. They drove home, but then Johnston allegedly punched the girls' mother in the head and elbowed her in the eye while the woman held the injured baby, according to the D.A.'s Office. Johnston also allegedly threatened to kill the mother if she reported the abuse.

Someone who witnessed a portion of the alleged abuse called the Sheriff's Office.

Johnston was arrested the morning of April 2 at a home on the 200 block of Cresta Drive in Boulder Creek, County Jail record showed. He remains in custody.

Johnston was convicted of domestic violence in 2009.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14915980

**Valasca** · April 19th, 2010, 11:05 PM

I still have my 9mm.
I have bullets, too.

**momof3** · April 19th, 2010, 11:10 PM

What a sweetheart. Hopefully he never sees the light of day again. People like this can not be rehabilitated he is pure evil. Lock him up and throw away the key or toss him into the middle of the road from a vehicle going 100 on a crowded freeway.

**AngelFire** · April 20th, 2010, 12:11 AM

I wonder how long it will take before his girlfriend goes back to him? Anyone?

**LadyCygnet** · April 20th, 2010, 12:43 AM

I hope DCFS is keeping an eye on this family. A real eye, mind you, not the eye that goes to happy hour and files a false report.

**thefatmom** · April 20th, 2010, 03:17 AM

I don't understand why anyone would throw an innocent baby out an effin car window.

**Kaylara** · April 20th, 2010, 07:18 AM

Battered women syndrome is a horrible thing. I think that if she can get away, and get mental help, she has a chance. Hopefully this prick will be locked up long enough for her to run to safety.

**Misskittychaos** · April 20th, 2010, 11:06 AM

Oh hell no! Someone intentionally HURT my (future) kids I would need to be sedated and restrained to keep me from mauling them! If someone threw my kid out a window I would explode and the M.E. would need a shopvac to pick up the pieces!

**Silvahalo** · April 20th, 2010, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by Kaylara

Battered women syndrome is a horrible thing. I think that if she can get away, and get mental help, she has a chance. Hopefully this prick will be locked up long enough for her to run to safety.

I agree, this woman is caught in a nightmare, need's to get out asap before her kids and her pay the price!

She suffered road rash and cuts to her stomach, sides and legs. She also cut her tongue when she landed, the D.A.'s Office reported.

The girl's mother ran after the girl, but then got back in the car with the baby when Johnston ordered her to. They drove home, but then Johnston allegedly punched the girls' mother in the head and elbowed her in the eye while the woman held the injured baby, according to the D.A.'s Office. Johnston also allegedly threatened to kill the mother if she reported the abuse.

Battered and controlled. Ugh, I feel for her but more so for her children who don't have the option to run away from the problem. For her childrens sake and her own she must stay away from this fucker or we'll be reading on a dead mom and her 2 children soon. Poor baby girl, amazing she didn't sustain severe head injuries.

I don't think it will matter to him that it wasn't her that reported the incident. He'll likely take his anger out on her and the kids. I seriously hope she see's this as the breaking point and takes the chance as he's not there to get away and never look back. Whatever it might take just do it.

**LadyCygnet** · April 20th, 2010, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by thefatmom

I don't understand why anyone would throw an innocent baby out an effin car window.

Either because he wanted to traumatize the mother further by hurting the most innocent and helpless person in the car, or because she wouldn't fit through the window.

I figure that the first reason is the correct reason. Prince Charming needs to get some road rash from Bubba.

**Dakota Valkyrie** · April 20th, 2010, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by thefatmom

I don't understand why anyone would throw an innocent baby out an effin car window.

Because they think of kids as "things"/possessions and not human beings. Especially pissy about it when the kids are not their own or seem to interfere with their lives.

People like this are so self-centered/self-adsorbed that they don't give a damn about anything that does not benefit them. Little do they know that THEY are the ones that are a monumental waste of space/time/effort/air.

**Tundratot** · April 20th, 2010, 04:40 PM

I see that the press or law enforcment is protecting the mother's identity in this. (And the child's, of course.) So we may never know what she chooses to do. I'm sure she had to get back in the car because her other child was in there and she couldn't just walk away. But I sincerely hope she takes the out given her--courtesy of the witness--and gets away from this guy, with her children, and never looks back. And that she takes this lesson to heart when considering new guys entering her life.

**Cholita** · April 21st, 2010, 01:55 AM

What a little bitch!

**thefatmom** · April 21st, 2010, 03:05 AM

I'm down for throwing him out of a moving vehicle. Who's game? I have a led foot. I Like to see how fast a vehicle goes too. I say we hog tie him, glue his eyelids Open, and toss him out at top speed. Its been a long day. this idea seems appropriate.

**Tundratot** · April 21st, 2010, 03:28 AM

I found one article that alleges the two babies were his!
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_14920246

Another states:

He pulled off Highway 9 north of Boulder Creek near Riverdale Boulevard and the woman tried to get the girls out of the car to run away, District Attorney Bob Lee said.

She freed the 9-month-old from her car seat and was unbelting her sister when Johnston allegedly grabbed the younger girl by the arm and tossed her out of the red Volkswagen Beetle. She flew more than 20 feet, landed on the pavement and skidded into the middle of the road, Lee said.

And:

They drove home, where Johnston allegedly punched the girls' mother in the head as she held the injured baby, according to the D.A.'s Office. When the injured baby wouldn't stop crying, he allegedly elbowed the child in the eye. Johnston also allegedly threatened to kill the mother if she reported the abuse, Lee said.

A resident near Riverdale Boulevard who witnessed a portion of the incident called the Sheriff's Office. The distinctive red VW Beetle led deputies to the woman and her young daughters the night of April 1, but Johnston already had left the home, Lee said.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_...ce=most_viewed

If we can believe it, this guy threw his own daughter out the window. He isn't just some random boyfriend the mother picked up. It sounds like she was trying to get away from him when he got out of control. And, hallelujah, the police got there that night. Too bad they didn't find him until the morning.

**mystery** · April 21st, 2010, 12:01 PM

How about we take him on a train ride and toss himm off the top of one of the cars of the train while it's going full speed,come back for him anddo it again and again till he's near death then through him in a cell with a couple of big Bubbas?

**LestYeBeJudged** · April 21st, 2010, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by mystery

How about we take him on a train ride and toss himm off the top of one of the cars of the train while it's going full speed,come back for him anddo it again and again till he's near death then through him in a cell with a couple of big Bubbas?

"Throw Asshole From a Train"... wasn't that a movie?