I know this is grotesque and a major downer, but I have seen several shocking, heartbreaking and senseless stories in the last week that shake me to the bone. I can't take it. Why God would let this shit happen is beyond me. I hug my little ones that much longer. Precious little cutie pies.
Mother Arrested, Accused of Dumping 2 Kids Off Bridge, Killing Son
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Print ShareThisPORTLAND, Ore. — The mother of a 4-year-old boy whose body was pulled from the Willamette River hours before daybreak on Saturday was arrested and accused of dumping the boy and her 7-year-old daughter off a bridge.
Portland police said 31-year-old Amanda Jo Stott-Smith was taken into custody at a downtown parking garage around 7 a.m. Saturday.
Police say her car was on the Sellwood Bridge moments before residents of the area heard the children's screams and a massive search was launched.
Earlier Saturday, police said the boy's death was suspicious, but did not say how he died.
Officers were called to the Sellwood Bridge area around 1:20 a.m. Saturday after screams were reported by residents.
Upon arrival, officers also heard screams on the river but could not locate their source because of the early morning darkness, said Officer Greg Pashley of the Portland Police Bureau. The U.S. Coast Guard sent a helicopter to assist in the search.
"As you look down into the darkness it's hard to see anything," Pashley said. "I can't imagine what it must be like to be a child in this cold river."
A local resident who was searching with his boat found the children downstream of the bridge. Police searched both sides of the river.
An autopsy for the boy was pending.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,521439,00.html
Mother kills three-year-old son twice
AN American mother suffocated her son, revived him, then suffocated him again before burying his tiny body in a public playground.
New Mexico mum Tiffany Toribio, 23, confessed to the shocking crime eight days after she dug a hole and buried three-year-old Tyruss before dawn.
She had smothered him to death in his sleep.
The murder came to light on Saturday after a woman spotted a black shoe sticking out the sand in Alvarado Park.
As police launched a nationwide appeal for clues to the boy's identity, heartbroken locals nicknamed him "Baby Angel", leaving him flowers, plaques and candles at the site.
Yesterday, Ms Toribio contacted police and told them she would turn herself in.
She gave them a false identity when they arrived to pick her up, but eventually spilled the details.
"She placed her hand over her son's mouth and nose and suffocated him," police chief Ray Schultz said. "She had second thoughts about what she did."
She performed CPR on her son, brought him back to life and then decided to go forward with that original act she had started to commit," Mr Schultz said.
He said she remained severely traumatised.
"What makes this story especially sad is, when asked the reason why she took Ty's life, Tiffany said that she did not want him to grow up with no one caring about him, the same way that she had grown up where nobody had cared about her."
Ms Toribio was on suicide watch in detention, he said.
Mr Schultz said there had been no reports of child abuse filed against Ms Toribio, but he said family members indicated that she did not express the typical love of a mother for her child.
"She did not show the normal relationship that you would see with a mother, son," he said.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...003402,00.html
Blind Bakersfield boy: 'Daddy ate my eyes'
Last Update: 5/15 9:30 am
Police believe a Bakersfield man bit the eyeball out of his son's face and ate it, according to court documents. The 4-year-old's other eye was damaged beyond repair, reports said.
The boy's missing eye could not be located, reports said, and he told a detective, ''Daddy ate my eyes.''
Prosecutors have charged Angelo Vidal Mendoza Sr., 34, with mayhem, torture and child cruelty. He's being held in the downtown jail in lieu of $1 million bail.
Neighbors called police on April 28 and reported they found the child naked and bleeding on the floor of the Mendoza home on Ohio Drive, near Highway 58 and Union Avenue.
Police located the wheel-chair-bound Mendoza at a nearby house, where he had severely injured his own leg, witnesses said, by chopping at it with an ax.
The boy had severe injuries to both eyes and hands, according to a police report. He told officers, ''Daddy bit my eyes and hands.''
''It was determined Mendoza was the only person alone with his son during the time of the assault,'' the police report said.
Hospital staff told detectives the boy's ''left eye and muscle was gone and missing.''
His ''right eye was still in the socket but damaged beyond repair,'' the report said.
The boy ''later made the statement, 'Daddy ate my eyes,''' the report said.
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