Mendota, California - Very little information on this one, but here’s what I got. Alex Christopher Mercado, 4, was reported missing last Friday evening. Alex had been left in the care of an older sibling when he disappeared. About 24 hours after little Alex vanished, his body was found stuffed in the clothes dryer of a neighbor’s home. The body had been placed in the dryer after he was killed. Though police aren’t releasing the cause or manner of death, it is being reported that a 14-year-old boy has been taken into custody and charged with murder. We will update this story as more information is made available. …
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Cleveland, OH - Arshon Baker, 5, was born behind bars and his life pretty much went downhill from there. His mother, 24-year-old Angel Glass, was serving a three year stint in prison on a felonious assault charge when she gave birth to Arshon. For five years, she beat the child. When Arshon was admitted to the hospital in full cardiac arrest last Friday, medical personnel noted that the child was covered in cuts, burns, and bruises from his head to the bottom of his feet – some old, some new, some scars suspiciously shaped like an extension cord. For five years that child suffered hell, pain, and tears at the hands of his mother. Well, Angel put a end to all that suffering and misery. She killed him. …
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Kissimmee, FL – The guy you see before you, with the bad-ass stripey-head ‘do, is 19-year-old Jonathan Alicea. Much like many of the men we feature here on the Dreamin’ Demon, Jonathan has a girlfriend with a couple of rugrats. And, much like many of the women we feature here, that girlfriend trusted her man with the lives of her children while she went about earning a living. And, like many of the stories we feature here, it doesn’t end well. Jonathan was playing Mr. Mom on Sunday and whipped up some dinner for the kiddos, ages 2 and 6. The 2-year-old may not have been extremely thrilled with Jonathan’s culinary skills and refused to eat. (Dinner was hot dogs and scrambled eggs – doesn’t sound very appetizing to me either). Jonathan was displeased. Already angry at the child’s refusal to eat, his temper boiled over when the kid peed his pants. What Jonathan did next both angers and baffles.
Jonathan ordered the child to change his clothes. When the little boy didn’t, couldn’t, or wouldn’t do it fast enough to please the big bad Jonathan, he got knocked into next week.…
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Pulaski, VA – I’m looking at that fabulous mugshot and all I can think is “Boo-fucking-hoo bitch, cry me a river.” Lisa Hylton, has plenty of reason to turn on the waterworks, but I am not sure which one she is actually using. Could one of them be the fact that her 3 year old son has died or could it be because she has been arrested for his murder? Some time Tuesday, Hylton left her drug stash out where a curious toddler could get a hold of it. The 3 year old boy ingested some of the drug and while Hylton was aware of this, she chose not to seek medical attention for him for approximately 14 hours. I guess when the boy stopped breathing, she thought it would be a pretty good idea to call 911. Unfortunately, the kid did not make it and was pronounced dead at 5:30 AM Wednesday morning. Several hours later, Hylton was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and felony child neglect. Reports indicate the drug the child swallowed was a Schedule II controlled substance which include OxyContin, cocaine and methamphetamine. I’m placing my bets on meth or crack. Who’s with me?…
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Casselberry, FL – Nioshka Bello is considered by neighbors to be an excellent and doting mother. That’s weird, because based on the fact that her mugshot and story are being featured here on the Dreamin’ Demon, you gotta figure that the chick is lacking in the most basic of parenting skills. Nioshka used to have a 2-year-old daughter named Janessa Sandoval, who, according to neighbors, was very well kept, doted upon, and happy. That happy little girl is dead – her mommy strangled her with a bra. Yes, Nioshka managed to rid this earth of one more toddler, but failed miserably when it came to taking her own life. …
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Brooksville, FL – David McBurnett looks lonely. Look at that smug mug, sitting there all by itself. You know what that mugshot needs? A partner. Yes, David’s girlfriend, Breanna Underwood, should have her worthless turd mug sitting right next to his – for she is just as guilty as David in the death of her 1-year-old son, Hunter Morris. Beginning in the month of March, and all the way up until last Thursday, she did absofuckinlutely nothing to protect her toddler from her current swinging dick, David McBurnett. After having suffered months of abuse, Hunter Morris was hospitalized on Friday with numerous injuries – including fractured ribs, internal bleeding, and multiple contusions – and was declared brain dead. The little dude gave up the fight for good on Saturday.…
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Hookstown, PA - Wyatt Smitsky, 4, was reported missing at 7:30 Friday evening – he was last seen playing in the yard with his sisters, ages 3 and 6, around 6:30 that evening. It was believed that Wyatt had simply wandered away from home and got lost. Authorities were especially concerned when it was revealed that Wyatt suffered from an congenital heart defect and required medication. Authorities, family, friends, and neighbors searched for Wyatt until 4 a.m. – coming up empty. The search started anew at 11:00 Saturday morning, but was called off a little less than two hours later. Wyatt had been found – face down in a septic tank filled with solid waste. And authorities don’t believe Wyatt accidentally made his way into the tank. The lid on the tank, which is similar to a manhole cover, was way too heavy for Wyatt to maneuver on his own. Besides that, the heavy lid had been moved back into place after the child was placed in the tank. Curious… …
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Cheyenne, WY – Southeast Wyoming is hell. It’s a gray, desolate, nightmarish wasteland full of howling wind and the ugliest, most desperate shrubbery in the world. When the wind isn’t sucking all rational thought from your skull like a passenger jet with the windows blown out, I’m almost certain that it actually rains road kill. It’s the least populous state in the nation, which means most people have chosen slightly lesser hells like Bakersfield, CA, or even Delaware. Stop and ask a local why the fuck you just saw a sign with a picture of a rabbit with antlers growing out of it’s head. They jokingly call this taxidermy-for-tourism‘s-sake a “jackalope”, but I call it mutilating at least two corpses. It is a place that warps the mind, sickens the soul and ruthlessly chaps the lips of any who dare enter it. That’s why whenever some horrible, bloody tale makes it’s way from those barren hills and into the news, I can’t say I’m all that surprised. Even when Joy Hofer shot her husband, strangled their son and killed herself.…
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Oshkosh, WI – On May 18, emergency crews were called to David Reimer’s home on a report of an unresponsive infant. When paramedics arrived, they found 2.5-month-old Logan Boyer unconscious and lacking a pulse – Logan died four days later. Autopsy revealed the cause of death was traumatic brain injury and further revealed numerous rib fractures in various stages of healing, a broken arm, and trauma to the head. Investigators believe that Logan had been an ongoing target of abuse. Targeted? W.T.F. After a lengthy investigation and a consultation with a national expert on shaken-baby syndrome, an arrest was made. David Reimer, 25, has been placed under arrest and charged with first-degree reckless homicide and child abuse in the murder of Logan Boyer. Now…what the hell happened? …
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Gary, IN - Have I mentioned lately how much I hate people? Really – I do. Especially people like Cordell Richardson. When the mother of his child mentioned that she would be moving out of state and taking the kiddo with her, Cordell came unhinged. Instead of taking it like a man, he threw a ginormous hissy fit – telling a friend that, “nobody is going to take my daughter away.” After spending a day with his daughter, 18-month-old Eboni Richardson, Cordell refused to give the child back to her mother. After much begging and pleading with the asshole to return the child, Cordell agreed to meet with his brother-in-law, Jamell Campbell, in the parking lot of a Bennigan’s restaurant Thursday evening, to transfer custody of Eboni. As Jamell approached Cordell’s vehicle, he saw a flash and heard two gunshots. Yep. One for Eboni and one for Cordell. Little Eboni was shot in the stomach and was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Cordell, unfortunately, survived the bullet to his head and remains hospitalized in intensive care.…
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Hamilton, OH – Asuncion “Suzie” Avila-Villa is one callous, putrid, vile, waste of skin. Nature mistakenly saw fit to bless this worthless sack of shit masquerading as a human being with the ability to create a little human, and what does she do with that gift she managed to create? She allegedly abused him, neglected him, crushed his tiny skull, and threw him in the trash can. Then the wretched beast thought she could lie her way out of it. On Monday, the gargoyle called 911 and tearfully reported that her baby’s daddy had taken off with her precious little gift on Sunday and she hasn’t seen either one of them since. Boohoo. Sniff. Well, right away, shit didn’t add up and cops were suspicious from the start. And for good reason – the child’s tiny body was found in a trash can in the alley behind the degenerate’s apartment complex on Tuesday. Little Israel Santos was just 5-weeks old. Autopsy confirmed that he had died from a crushed skull prior to being thrown into the trash.…
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Pasadena, CA - I know there are about as many ways of parenting as there are parents, but none of them should be stuff banned by the Geneva convention. At around 6 am Tuesday, Maria Palaez, age 29, called 911 and reported that her child was not breathing. Emergency personnel arrived to find 2 year old Rene Torres dead at the scene due to asphyxiation. His parents admitted to duct taping him up as a form of punishment and also said that they had taped his mouth occasionally. Though police are keeping the details of the case quiet, they have arrested both the mother and live-in boyfriend, 32-year-old Gabriel Diaz, due to the “suspicious nature of the call” and other evidence found in the course of the investigation. …
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Bloomington, IL – There isn’t a whole lot of information on this one, but apparently, Jeff Meece beat the shit out of his 14-month-old daughter with a baseball bat. Thursday morning, police were called to the home Jeff shared with his mother, Shirley, and nephew, Scott, on a report of a man breaking windows with a bat. When they arrived at the home, Jeff repeatedly told officers, “Someone killed my baby,” and, “I killed my baby.” He later said someone killed Erika with a bat. Jeff, who was acting aggressively toward responding officers, needed to be taken down with a couple doses of pepper spray and a good old tasing. After he was subdued, officers discovered an unresponsive Erika inside the home – she had visible signs of trauma to her face and head – she was brain dead. Erika Meece was pronounced dead shortly after she was transferred to the hospital. Autopsy proved her death was due to head injuries consistent with blunt-force trauma. Jeff’s nephew stated that Erika lived with her mother and only visited Jeff a couple times a week.…
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Dalton, GA - The details are sparse, but the 911 call is chilling – one-month-old Piper Hester’s mother, Kristen Hester, can be heard screaming in anguish as she tried to save the life of her baby. Kristen called 911 at 3:28 a.m. Sunday after finding her husband passed out on the floor and the child next to him, bloodied and not breathing – in that call, she could be heard blaming the child’s father, Nathaniel Hester, for injuring the child. “Nathan why the fuck is she bleeding, why do you have her blood on you, You mother-fucker, I’m gonna kill you, you’re going to jail, why are you bleeding, Nathan you killed her.” Later in the call, Kristen could be heard saying, “What are you high on, you’re going to jail, I’m not high on anything.” When emergency crews arrived on the scene, they found that Piper was dead and Nathaniel had fled the scene. …
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Lakeland, Florida Young children are fascinating. You can show them how to tie their shoes 50 times, step by step, and when they can’t even seem to get step 1 completed, you know they’re either brain damaged or simply haven’t paid attention. You can show them how to pick up their toys, explain the importance of the task, offer them great rewards if they do…and great punishment if they don’t. But as we grow older and a bit wiser, we realize just how smart children are. And we learn this during the most inopportune times…in the grocery story when they repeat the choice words you’ve once uttered about the person you’ve just run into…the precise placement of swear words…and the demonstration of what daddy did to baby sister to CPS investigators. Timothy King found out the hard way that his 5 year-old son paid a lot more attention than he originally thought.…
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Jacksonville, FL - Tiffany Sykes-Cecconi started out life as a foster child but was adopted into a family where she was loved and she considered her siblings her very best friends. She was beautiful, a young mother and unlike some of the other women featured here, seemed to have her priorities straight. On her MySpace page, she states “My daughter is my life…school and my daughter are currently my focus.” Unfortunately, Andrew Gomez put an end to that focus and the lives of both Tiffany and her 18 month old daughter, Kaylani, in one of the most puzzling murders in recent memory.…
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St. John, MO – If ever there were a perfect tool for parenting, it’s the pacifier. On one hand, I can’t tell you how many hours of much needed sleep I can attribute to the beloved binky…with a couple of my own children, and later, my grandson. On the other hand, binkies can be a real pain in the ass – especially if the kid really doesn’t want to be corked. My son, who never was a fan of the pacifier, was a world class binky spitter…he could pop that thing out of his mouth and across the room in the blink of an eye, without a break in the screaming. I did what many parents do, let him scream until he wore himself out or walk the floor with him until he fell asleep. It never crossed my mind to tie a blanket around his little face to keep that cork in his mouth. Authorities believe that is exactly what Stacey Johnson did to her 2-month-old son, Tyler. …
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Pueblo, Colorado–Her life started off rough…born behind bars to a drug addicted mother 9 months ago, Iyana Perez had very little chance of growing up in a happy and healthy environment. Her mother, Selena Olsen, who struggles with drug addictions and other criminal activities, has been in and out of jail and/or detox on a fairly regular basis. Iyana’s father, Ted “Chewy” Perez, is a convicted child molester with drug problems and a criminal history of his own. Back in May, Ted allegedly kidnapped Iyana – though he threatened to kill the child, she was found alive and unharmed eight days later. After that nonsense, DCF stepped in and placed Iyana in the care of her grandmother, Snowie Buehler, a recovering addict. Snowie was already caring for Selena’s two older children. Three weeks later, Iyana was found dead in a dumpster. …
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Schenectady, NY- From the very beginning the police suspected arson. Around 4:30 a.m. on June 13, firefighters responded to call of a burning apartment building. The brave firefighters risked their lives as they fought through the smoke and the flames inside the burning structure searching for helpless victims. It was on the second floor in a bedroom where they found 10-year old Avion Bell lying on the floor. Once outside, the firefighters had to resuscitate Avion twice before she was taken to the hospital. From there she was flown to Westchester Medical Center to be treated for smoke inhalation and listed in critical condition. The three firefighters who rescued Avion were also injured. Out of the three, Capt. Douglas Faulisi, 38, suffered the worst and may be off the job for up to a year due to a seriously injured hand.…
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La Quinta, CA–Delilah Urrutia turned 3-years-old on May 14. And, if she was anything like my children were at that age, she was a busy little toddler. Kids that age are curious about everything, always on the move, and forever grabbing anything and everything within reach. Yolanda Pena, Delilah’s mother, discovered how crafty and sneaky a toddler can be after she left a pot of extremely hot water sitting on a kitchen counter. According to Yolanda, the child accidentally tipped the pot over onto herself. Yolanda has a severely scalded and screaming child on her hands and a mess in the kitchen. What’s a mom to do? I know, punish the kid!…
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