murdered toddler's father speaks out
Thursday, November 22, 2007
EL PASO, TX - The biological father of the three-year-old girl found beaten and stashed away in the trunk of a car says her mother and stepfather are to blame. 21-year-old Marco Gonzales says his worst nightmare come true. He tells ABC-7 he had not seen his daughter , Jacqueline Gonzales, for several months because of an on-going custody dispute with her mother, Yara Perez. Perez and her common-law husband Franscisco Castaneda were arrested and charged in the toddler's death. Gonzales says the news of his daughter's death has him and his family devastated and now they want answers. According to him, the last few times they saw the toddler, she showed clear signs of abuse. The alleged abuse was reported to Child Protective Services but nothing was done, he says. He is convinced Perez and Castaneda are responsible for the death. "They did it. They both have something to do with it. Now, I don't want to go to court for them to plead insanity. They are not insane, they're just sick," he said. Gonzales says he and Perez were due back in court next January for another hearing related to the on-going custody battle for the toddler. "I hope (they) go through what Jacqueline went through, you guys will pay for this. Justice will be served," he says, in regards to Perez and Castaneda.
Woman accused of stuffing baby in toilet tank
WACO, Texas — A former prison guard is accused of stuffing a full-term baby in the tank of a toilet after giving birth in a motel bathtub.
Khaliliha Baucom, 24, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of abuse of a corpse after her recent indictment, but she may be charged with capital murder, Marlin police detective Sgt. Michael Baker said. She was released from Falls County Jail on Wednesday after posting $2,500 bond.
Baker said Baucom, of Lott, gave birth by herself in a Marlin motel bathtub in April. Then she was taken by ambulance to a hospital after she complained of bleeding and stomach pain, Baker said.
She was airlifted to a Waco hospital for an emergency C-section, but when doctors discovered she had already given birth, they called the police, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported in its online edition Wednesday.
Marlin officers found the baby's body in the toilet tank along with the placenta and bloody towels used to clean up the bathtub, Baker said.
Child Protective Services initially took custody of Baucom's three children, but they have since been living with their fathers, Baker said.
I see another great bias case in Texas, Mother kills child and get a $2500. pr bond, where if it was daddy or any man for that fact the bond would have been 10 to 30 times higher, are no bond at all.
btw, you notice they said woman, not mother of child.
Mom pleads guilty in infant son's death
Saturday, November 17, 2007
A 31-year-old mother from Windsor has pleaded guilty in the death of her two-year-old son. Tammie Steinhoff pleaded guilty to manslaughter during a pre-trial hearing Thursday and sentencing is set for Dec. 21. This came for an email list that I'm on, she pleaded guilty to manslaughter, how nice. Now I sit and wonder what if? Yes, what if? If this was a father who has done what she had would he get to plead to manslaughter charge, I think NOT. We know that there are two types of justice and sentencing for men and women, i.e. fathers and mothers. It would seem that women get off easier than men do. This is neither right nor fair. Father are today in this country nothing more than ATM and throw aways. There are to be blame for all the ills of the world. Pbw, child death, abuse by mother
In June of last year Steinhoff was seen carrying the body of her son River along a road in the city.
Police allege the woman threw him to the ground in the middle of a busy thoroughfare and ran off.
An autopsy found he died of stab wounds.
Police say when an officer gave chase and apprehended the woman, she flailed at him with a knife, stabbing him twice in the arm and back