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[QUOTE=Slydragon;2538974]This pisses me off so bad, give me a bat and have him handcuff to a rail so he can be defenseless like the small girl was. the mom to.
This pisses me off so bad, give me a bat and have him handcuff to a rail so he can be defenseless like the small girl was. the mom to.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5793707.html
When 3-year-old Catherine wet her pants on Monday afternoon, her stepfather got so frustrated that he made her stand in a corner for an hour, soaked in urine.
But after the hour was up, police say, Camilo Garza was still angry. So he started spanking her. His anger turned to rage as he began to hit and kick her tiny frame for nearly an hour, authorities said.
His patience short-circuited by cocaine, Garza beat his young stepdaughter to death over a potty-training accident, police said.
A judge this morning denied bail for Garza, 41, who was charged Tuesday with capital murder in Catherine Martinez's death. The child — beaten until she was black and blue — was pronounced dead Monday at Memorial Hermann Children's Hospital.
State District Judge Brock Thomas said he will appoint an attorney for Garza because he is indigent.
The girl's mother told Child Protective Services workers that after the toddler stood in the corner for an hour on Monday, Garza, who had been using cocaine and taking pills, started to spank her. He then made her stand on a rail about four feet off the floor in their one-room shack, CPS officials said.
The little girl tried to sit down. He made her stand up. She fell off the rail.
He started slapping her on the back of the head, according to the mother's report. His fury built with every blow.
"The mother described everything from grabbing her by the neck and smashing her head into the wall to kicking her while she was down," said CPS spokeswoman Estella Olguin.
The beating lasted for about 45 minutes, police said. When it ended, the girl was turning blue. Her mother tried CPR, then called 911.
"That's when the mother realized it had gone further than she had originally thought," said Officer L.K. Lovelace, a homicide investigator who is working the case.
At a hearing Tuesday afternoon, the mother was denied custody of her two other children: a 6-year-old girl and a 10-month-old boy. They are in foster care and will be kept from seeing their mother and other relatives, for now, Olguin said.
Catherine's mother and grandmother declined to comment Tuesday, on an attorney's advice. At the custody hearing, the mother pleaded the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination. Police are considering possible charges against the mother, Lovelace said.
An affidavit filed with CPS after Catherine's death told of bruises from head to toe, in various stages of healing.
"When they examined her she had old and new injuries," Olguin said. "Bruises on her forehead, back of the head and behind the ear, on the clavicle, back, thighs, shins, feet ... "
There was also bruising that could signify sexual abuse, Olguin said. The other two children will also be examined for possible abuse.
Home visit in April
Catherine's death came in the midst of a CPS investigation into the family, following an anonymous report of child abuse last month.
A report filed in November had not led to any disciplinary action. At the time, Garza and the mother had separated but were seeking counseling and working toward reconciliation.
The last time a case worker visited the home, on April 25, she reported no visible injuries on any of the children.
"She didn't see any signs of abuse, but she still wanted to follow up and talk to family members," Olguin said. "That case had not been completed when this happened."
CPS officials will review the case to make sure workers didn't overlook signs of abuse or miss any steps that could have prevented the girl's death.
In the rural community, south of Hobby Airport, where Catherine and her family lived, 92-year-old Paul E. Paulson wondered Tuesday whether there was anything he could have done differently.
Paulson had let the family stay in the 20-by-20 foot shack in the pasture behind his house after they showed up on his doorstep in February. He said he's a minister who takes in families like this one, who find themselves in dire straits. They paid a token rent.
Garza did odd jobs, as a plumber and electrician, and the mother stayed home with her children, Paulson said.
The shack had basic amenities — water, electricity, air conditioning, a bathroom. The family of five had a queen-sized mattress that everyone slept on, Paulson said.
Paulson and his wife got along well with the mother and adored the children, but found Garza abrasive, he said. Garza complained often about the difficulties of potty-training the toddler.
"He'd say, 'That 3-year-old is really tearing me up,' " Paulson said.
Still, he had no idea about the alleged child abuse or drug use, Paulson said.
"I wish I'd have known he was on drugs. They wouldn't have been here," he said. "I thought I was helping them."
[QUOTE=Slydragon;2538974]This pisses me off so bad, give me a bat and have him handcuff to a rail so he can be defenseless like the small girl was. the mom to.
She was either high as well, or she's the dumbest around. Either way, she should be charged too.The beating lasted for about 45 minutes, police said. When it ended, the girl was turning blue. Her mother tried CPR, then called 911.
"That's when the mother realized it had gone further than she had originally thought," said Officer L.K. Lovelace, a homicide investigator who is working the case.
ARE YOU ING SERIOUS YOU STUPID !?!?!?
After your done let me have a few swings at those ers too.
Prison life won't be nice for him. Even the most hardened criminal who has committed the most heinous of crimes despise child abusers. He'll get his due.
They better keep him on suicide watch. Cowards like him will always try the easy way out.
I hope That bas rots in jail and suffers for the longest time possible. The mother should be jailed as well, how can a mother watch as her child's head is being smashed against a wall. These people are sick!
I felt queasy reading that story. How can anyone BEAT A 3 YEAR OLD TO DEATH!? . Especially over something that everyone has to go through, in toilet training.
Worse still - how can you watch someone do it to your daughter? Where the was her motherly instinct?
My 3 year old daughter is toilet trained, but she has the occasional accident (like most kids her age). Not a reason to bludgeon her to death. As a parent, it makes you mad. As a human being, i hope it makes you mad too.
There is a special place in the darkest of the 12 unholy regions of deep blue for s s like this.
And the stepfather's a worthless piece of too...
2 orders for death penalty please...
the mom's not very smart, wait til she turns blur "oh shes blue, okay now time to call 9-11" Poor little girl
That makes me so mad, in my eyes she is just as guilty for watching it happen and doing nothing. I know most mothers out there would at least TRY to take that er out. I know my wife would. Peice of .
Difficult to be against the death penalty after reading this article.
No it's not.
yes it is. I'm against the death penalty, but when I hear about things like this, it makes my blood boil.
Reading this got me a little teary eyed but also really pissed me off. Why a child I hate it when I read stuff like this, it really angers me.
This is when an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth looks pretty damn good to me.
Sentencing this guy to death a) wouldn't solve anything, and b) would give him the easy way out.
Yeah, I'm not sure the death penalty would be adequately harsh on the guy in this case. I'm generally for the death penalty, but if I were to critique it, one of my reservations against it is that it's not hard enough on creeps like this.
I'd prefer him to be in the middle of the Nevada desert, eating bread and water, turning big rocks in little rocks. And being beaten regularly.
I'm sorry, but there are just some crimes that should be punishable by death. A slow, painful death, much like the pain and suffering they've inflicted upon their child victims.
Severely tortured toddlers mom and her boyfriend arrested
A 17 month old boy who had cooking oil, heated in a frying pan, poured on his genitals as well as beaten to the point of sustaining spinal injuries is recovering, but the extent of his injuries and whether or not he’ll be able to walk again have not yet been reported.
Perhaps the boyfriend and the mother don’t know what it feels like to be punched in the stomach by someone 15X bigger than you and have frying grease poured on their genitals and a hair-dryer used to burn off their skin, so I recommend that they find out. If it’s good enough for their baby, surely it’s good enough for them.
We are failing in protecting our most vulnerable. I don’t know what can be done, if anything, but it seems like this happens far, far too often. Once is too much.
The mother of an Apopka toddler severely burned and beaten was arrested today on one count of child neglect, police said.
Marlita S. Stokes, 23, was at work when her boyfriend Darlanne Toussaint, 24, used his fist to smash the 17-month-old’s chest and back, and a blow dryer to burn the child’s skin. The boy who suffered second-degree burns on his genitals, back, chest and head, is in stable condition at Florida Hospital Orlando this morning.
Toussaint was baby-sitting girlfriend Marlita Stokes’ two children at the couple’s home in the 1900 block of Nicole Lee Circle when the incident occurred Thursday morning, police said. The other child was not hurt.
I couldn't even read the whole article, that's just sick.
Then I won't post the one about the mother who poured boiling water over her son as he sat in a bathtub then waited 4 days to seek medical help and got 6 MONTHS IN JAIL and will most likely regain custody of her son after the sentence is up.
It's so hard for me to read things like this. I nearly slapped a woman in the dry cleaners for asking my five-year-old, "What's wrong with you?" I simply can't fathom how any woman can birth a baby and watch someone hurt it.
The guy should be given the death penalty. That way tax payers don't have to pay for keeping him alive.
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