justice’s posterous

Paternate "Curtis Lee Morris Jr., 27, remains in jail on $300,000 bond... Barry Mitchell of Shelby County Juvenile Court said Morris gained custody of the child in September from the baby's mother, Erica B. Snipes, also 27, of Memphis. Police have not been able to locate the mother... Mitchell said he could not go into detail about why Morris was given custody." http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/nov/19/dad-accused-beating-his-son-had-just-gotten-custod/  Commentary at http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2009/11/dad-gests-custody-this-fall-then-beats.html

"Audrey Mabrey, 23, is reported in critical condition". The alleged perpetrator, "Christopher Hanney, 44, is listed as stable at Tampa General Hospital... According to the Hillsborough Sheriff's Office, deputies were called to the Apollo Beach home for a report of domestic violence on October 20, but no one was arrested." http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Woman-set-on-fire-in-critical-condition/5Fulfbc2q0SeRgLxMnIDbg.cspx

Stephen P. Wolf, M.D., murderer and family man. http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=12&articleid=20091117_12_A11_TommyW35758 Apparently there first was some kind of "altercation" in the child's room in the wee hours of the morning. WTF? What was he doing in the first place in the child's room at 3 a.m.? Wolf apparently told police when they arrived that the child had "the devil in him" and tried to stab the boy with a third knife, but was restrained. http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=11523777

"The unidentified man surrendered to Palm Bay SWAT team members at about 6 a.m. and was taken to the Palm Bay Community Hospital after appearing under the influence of an unknown substance... The woman and the children, a 14-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl, managed to escape the home during the overnight hours, police said." http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20091117/BREAKINGNEWS/91117002/1006/news01/Dad+arrested+after+hostage+situation+ends+in+Palm+Bay
          Lucky them that they are still alive. Note to defense-minded apologists: neither the woman nor the children were able under these circumstances to make the 911 call. Had this "event" somehow been managed, and then reported after the fact, perhaps in a family law case or in connection with the seeking of a restraining order, how seriously would you have taken it?
          And get this idiotic media statment: "Investigators said it began as a fight between Christopher Lynch and his estranged wife. They said Lynch had two guns on him at the time of the standoff." http://www.wesh.com/news/21636380/detail.html  (First the media unidentifies him -- in case it's yet again just some "dad" -- see the floridatoday.com URL -- accused wrongly of domestic violence. And then another news source describes barging into someone else's home armed with two guns as a "fight".)

"Teresa Beiser was asking for joint custody of her two children with Robert Beiser in what appeared from court documents to be an amicable dissolution of their marriage." Excellent commentary and links to the news stories at http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2009/11/mom-files-for-joint-custody-but-gets.html

Bryon Hilburn "was divorced and had custody of the boy and his two siblings." The child has said that the man was "punishing him". http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gZv2u8UDawH7vbUI65uG1fF7NQ8QD9BODFHO0

Melissa Charbonneau had returned with her father to the marital home to collect some of her belongings, thinking Jonathan Charbonneau would be at work. http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=At+least+two+shot+on+Jewett+Street&articleId=e7be83fe-a2d6-486a-b4d9-a120cbf7dacd
http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/2009/10/23/Mother-shot-in-murdersuicide/1256333747.html
                     An issue unaddressed by the news media is why this abusive and violent man, who also had a 7-year-old with his current wife, had "two children by a former relationship" living with him.
                     Also unaddressed is why he was not arrested and jailed based on the incident that prompted the restraining order, and why he wasn't ordered out of the marital home. Choking, drug-taking, and depression are warning signs of possible lethality. See http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/will-he-kill.html

"Two weeks before she was killed, Dawn Axsom pleaded with Judge Jose Padilla of Maricopa County Superior Court to let her leave Arizona with her son because she feared Gabriel Schwartz, the toddler's father, would harm her or their boy... Padilla denied the 26-year-old's request and ordered the pair to attend parental counseling together.   Axsom's body was found in her Peoria residence Friday. Police also found the bodies of Schwartz, 28, and Lisa Braden, 56, Axsom's mother." http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/10/19/20091019peomurder1020.html This judge should be removed from the bench.  Also see liznotes at thelizlibrary.org on these misguided fatherhood exaltation, joint custody and anti-relocation laws.

"Palm Beach Circuit Judge Krista Marx sentenced Jakaris Taylor, 17, and Nathan Walker, 18, to life in prison while Tommy Poindexter, 20, was sentenced to life in prison with a mandatory minimum of 25 years in prison. A fourth defendant, Avion Lawson, 16, pleaded guilty and will be sentenced in December... The four were convicted of barging into the then-35-year-old woman's West Palm Beach apartment in 2007 and raping her repeatedly, then beating her then-12-year-old son and forcing her to perform oral sex on him. They then doused the two in chemicals and left when they could not find a match... [Prosecutor Aleathea] McRoberts said 'there is a huge population of kids who were raised by single moms without much money who don't have jobs that never go on to commit crimes.'
http://www.reflector.com/news/nation/3-sentenced-to-life-for-gang-rape-of-mother-894666.html

"By about 6 p.m. Monday, the usually busy playground at Happy Days School in Lakeland had emptied of children, all except for Kelly Laird. The 7-year-old brunette waited in vain for the mother who would never come again... Sheryl Laird's body was found in the trunk of a car set afire on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa. The child's father, Robert Laird, had plunged to his death from the span... If she was plagued by problems with her ex-husband... [she] didn't seem to show it... Even if they didn't get along, she didn't let that rattle his relationship with [the little girl]..." http://www.theledger.com/article/20091013/NEWS/910135042/1410?Title=Ex-Husband-Suspected-In-a-Murder-Suicide
More http://www.bradenton.com/news/breaking_news/story/1775670.html http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/a-troubled-relationship-before-jump-from-skyway/1043633