Dad Decapitates Disabled Son, Leaves Head for Mother to Find

A Louisiana man has been arrested and charged with murdering his 7-year-old disabled son by decapitation because he had grown tired of caring for the boy, who had cerebral palsy and heart problems, needed a feeding tube and used a wheelchair, police said.

Jeremiah Lee Wright, 30, of Thibodaux, Louisiana, admitted to performing the dastardly decapitation and body dismemberment to his son, Jori Lirette, over the kitchen sink on Sunday. A preliminary autopsy indicated Jori had also been bludgeoned. Police Chief Scott Silverii said Monday that Wright confessed to killing Lirette within a half-hour of being brought to the police station Sunday.

Silverii said the boy’s feet and one hand also were cut off and were found in several white plastic garbage bags.  Police say a passerby saw Lirette’s head on the sidewalk outside the family’s home Sunday afternoon. It was left near garbage bags containing the child’s dismembered body. The passerby called police, who arrived a minute later.

His head was left by the side of the road so the child’s mother, 27-year-old Jesslyn Lirette, would see it when she came home, chief Silverii said. Wright’s explanation was “just that he wanted her to feel stupid when she saw the head,” Silverii said.

Wright told investigators he started killing his son about 30 minutes after Jesslyn Lirette had left Sunday to repair her pickup truck so she could take Jori to a doctor Tuesday.

When Lirette returned from fixing the truck, she found her home blocked by police tape. Upon Lirette identifying herself, Silverii had a captain and Detective Ricky Ross, a department spokesman and a minister for 12 years, tell her what happened.

“These are experienced men. They came out of there in tears. Just absolutely in tears,” Silverii said.

Authorities said the mother was so grief-stricken when she got to the scene, she had to be hospitalized.

Wright was booked with a charge of first-degree murder and is being held in lieu of $5 million bond. Police said he has a criminal record including drug charges and contempt of court though he was never charged with violent crimes. Wright served 10 days for theft in 2005. Police responded to a domestic call exactly a month before the murder and found the mother and father arguing. No one was arrested at that time because there was no physical fight.

Thibodaux police Capt. Calvin Cooks said about the crime, “When you have a 7-year-old child, innocent child, that’s killed, that had no way to protect himself, it’s such a shock…”

Jesslyn Lirette told The Thibodaux Daily Comet that she and Wright had been together for 10 years, but that she had planned for some time to leave him.

“I didn’t get out fast enough,” she said.

 

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Toddler Left Stranded Alone at Train Station by Broken Train Door

A 3-year-old boy was left stranded all alone on a commuter train platform when a door on a train malfunctioned, separating the toddler from his dad, who was already on the train.

At that point the train promptly left the station leaving the bewildered child on the platform and what most probably was a frantic father stuck on the train with no way to get back quickly to his son.

Fortunately for the child, a good Samaritan stayed right with the boy waiting until the father found his way back to the platform.

A story that might have had a tragic ending turned out well for all involved.

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Dad Executes Own Son for Molesting 3-year-old Sister

A Michigan 37-year-old father has been arrested for executing his own 15-year-old son for molesting his three-year-old half sister. Jamar Pinkney, Sr., was arraigned today for first degree murder for allegedly shooting his own son, Jamar Pinkney, Jr., in the head after the son confessed to improper sexual contact with his sister.

Jamar, Sr., allegedly first pistol whipped his son in the living room of the home where Jamar, Jr., lived with his mother, Lazette Cherry, in Highland Park, Michigan. Then Jamar, Sr., forced his son to strip naked, after which Sr. marched his son outside forcing him to a nearby vacant lot over the protests of Cherry.

Jamar, Jr., apparently painfully aware of what his father was about to do, fell to his knees and cried out, begging for his life, “No, daddy, no!” At that point Jamar, Sr., pulled the trigger on his pistol, placing a bullet, execution style, into the head of his own son.

Lazette Cherry, the boy’s mother, told the Detroit Free Press that her son confessed he had improper sexual contact with the three-year-old girl. “I called and told his father. This isn’t something you sweep under the rug,” she said.

“I hope he rots in jail,” Cherry said of her ex. “He did not deserve that,” she said speaking of her son. “There wasn’t nothing that my son wouldn’t do for his father. He loved his father so much.”

“There’s no justification for what he did, you know, downright shoot your child,” she said. “He didn’t rape her or anything. So why did you have to come and take matters into your hands? We said we were going to get him help.”

Corbett O’Meara, Pinkney, Sr.’s, lawyer, called the event a “devastating tragedy.”

“My client is in shock and in mourning, but is hopeful that his family will be able to come out of this in as whole a state as possible,” O’Meara said.

O’Meara said Pinkney Sr. turned himself into authorities and had no previous criminal history. He also said Pinkney had worked “for years” as a letter carrier for the United States Post Office.

Authorities filed a first-degree murder charge Wednesday against Pinkney, Sr., in the Monday shooting death of Jamar Pinkney Jr.

O’Meara said prosecutors should consider evidence of the father’s state of mind because of the sex abuse report.

“If something were to happen that would cause a reasonable person to lose control of himself, that is something the prosecution would have to take into account,” O’Meara told reporters outside Highland Park District Court.

Judge Brigette Officer entered a not guilty plea for Pinkney, who is also charged with assault. The judge ordered Pinkney jailed without bond until a preliminary examination on December 1st.

After the arraignment, Police Chief Ted Caldwell said, “This is something that’s hard to deal with for all the parties concerned, including the police. Highland Park is a small city. These are people who have been members of the community for years.”

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First Photo of Darcey Freeman – 4-year-old Tossed from Australia Bridge

This is the first photo released of Darcey Iris Freeman, the four-year-old girl that Arthur Freeman, her father, allegedly tossed from the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne, Australia last week.

The family stated that Darcey was a beautiful, carefree, spirited youngster who “loved to sing and dance.” Young Darcey was murdered on what was supposed to be her first day of school, and her father had promised her to get her there on time. For whatever reason, he did not keep his promise.

Tim Barnes, one of Darcey’s uncles, told of Darcey’s strong will and determination and spoke of the “extreme sense of loss and emptiness” which has gripped all who knew her, including family, friends and many well wishers around the world.

“She knew her own mind and was prepared to always stand up for what she believed in. One memory that stands out in my mind was her choice of clothes,” he reportedly told the Melbourne Herald Sun.

“She would wear what she wanted to wear, end of story – even if it meant wearing pink Wellington boots to tennis.”

Joe Barnes, another of Darcey’s uncles, said, “She’s given us a lot of fun. She was into everything. She will never be forgotten. She had an effect on everybody.”

Both uncles said that the emotional outpouring from people from around the world in the wake of the death has been overwhelming. Both of the Barnes uncles said they hoped the death of Darcy would remind all parents everywhere that their children are precious and irreplaceable.

Darcey’s maternal relatives have traveled from Western Australia to Victoria to be with Darcey’s mother and to help with funeral arrangements.

Arthur Freeman, the father, has not spoken to anyone. He is detained at the Melbourne Assessment Prison’s acute psychiatric ward, where doctors said he is suicidal and they are keeping a 24-hour watch on his prison cell.

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Australian Father Drops Daughter Off Bridge – Video

A Melbourne, Australia, father was arrested and charged with murder after allegedly dropping his four year old daughter off of Melbourne’s 190-foot high West Gate Bridge during the morning rush hour. 36-year-old Arthur Phillip Freeman allegedly threw his four-year-old daughter off the bridge in front of the girl’s two young brothers, ages 6 and 8, and dozens of motorists.

Witnesses said Freeman allegedly stopped his car suddenly just after 9 AM and, with his daughter Darcey Iris in his arms, walked to the side of the bridge. There he allegedly dropped his young daughter over the side of the bridge into the waters of the Yarra River, 190 feet below.

Freeman then reportedly got back into the large white family Land Cruiser, and simply drove away. Shocked drivers who witnessed the alleged murder immediately called emergency hotlines. Police stated the entire incident occurred in merely seconds.

Young Darcey initially survived her fall, and she was pulled from the water by police within 10 minutes. Paramedics spent the next 50 minutes resuscitating her on the banks of the Yarra River.

Then Darcey, in a critical condition, was lifted by helicopter to the nearby Royal Children’s Hospital where she was treated for four hours. However, a Royal Children’s Hospital spokeswoman said the young girl soon died at 1.35pm on Thursday, January 29th.

Regarding the bridge incident, Victoria homicide squad Detective Inspector Steve Clark said, “It all happened fairly quickly…no one had the opportunity to intervene”.

“He’s got straight out of the car and taken the young girl and walked to the edge of the bridge, so that would have happened in a matter of seconds.”

“Fortunately, the water police were here within 10 minutes so she was given medical attention fairly quickly.”

“It’s a dreadful set of circumstances and, often you think you’ve seen it all and you haven’t.”

Freeman and his wife had been in the middle of a custody battle. He was spotted, accompanied by his two sons, Benjamin, 7, and Jack, 23 months (ages of Freeman‘s children have varied in different reports), outside the Commonwealth Law Courts across town in central Melbourne only an hour after the bridge incident.

He was reportedly in a “visibly distressed” state and was then arrested by police. A member of the court’s staff said the man was crying and looked like “he’d had enough”.

The first video is a report of the incident by “The Australian” Newspaper:

Fox news reported that the security staff at the courts building said Freeman “was shaking like a leaf, and staring with wild eyes” when they initially spotted him and alerted police. Police took him into custody peacefully, but said they were initially unaware he was involved in the bridge incident.

One witness reported that Freeman approached court security guards and ask them “Can you take my kids for me?” while he was led away by police

The next video is an Associated Press report of the murder:

Another witness saw four police officers, two of them holding evidence bags, lead the handcuffed Freeman to a waiting Police van.

The man, whom she described as balding, was “shaking violently”.

“He was pretty down and he had the two other children with him and he tried to enter the court. He couldn’t talk to anyone, he wouldn’t talk to anyone, he was just a mess,” said another eye witness Vince Mascia.

One of the witnesses said the man was shaking uncontrollably and looked like he was “about to have a nervous breakdown”.

The third video is a report by the Telegraph in Great Britain:

About half-an-hour later, a couple at the courthouse saw the arrival of a woman they believed to be the mother of the two boys, who subsequently took them away.

Freeman was charged with murder and set to appear before a criminal court. He was deemed “suicidal” by court psychiatrists and the court remanded him into custody.

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Unbelievable video of man (probably the father) deliberately endangering the life of a nine month old baby for the sake of getting it all on video. Do not watch this if you are squeamish!

The video is hosted on LiveLeak.com and here is the disclaimer presented by LiveLeak:

“Warning: a baby is very fragile and this actually endangers the baby’s life. The possibility of multiple injuries to this child sets this aside from simply “playing with your baby”. If anyone has any information as to either the origins of this video or the person in it please get in touch with a member of the LiveLeak.com staff.”

If you recognize the man in this video, please contact LiveLeak.com or call your local police. This guy has to be stopped before he hurts this child.

How this man can think that he is not harming the child is unbelievable.

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A 48-year-old bus driver has been charged with reckless endangerment after leaving his two elderly parents locked in his sweltering car with the windows closed for hours while he drove his bus route. The 85-year-old disabled father died while in the vehicle, apparently from heat stroke.

Theodore Pressman, of Beacon, New York, left his father, Joseph Pressman, and his mother, Joyce, inside a black Suzuki in an office complex parking lot in Peekskill, New York, for about three hours on Monday, June 7th.

The outdoor temperature was in the mid-80s, but WCBS-TV reported that the temperature inside the car rapidly rose past 110 degrees. 75-year-old Joyce left the car and entered a nearby restaurant because the car became too hot. Since both of the elderly Pressmans suffer from dementia, Joyce was unable to find her way back to the car to help her husband.

Detective Sgt. Eric Johansen of the Peekskill police department said, “it appears they did not have the physical or mental capacity to deal with the situation.” Aside from the dementia, the police would not discuss any of the couple’s other infirmities, although Joyce weighs only 80 pounds.

Johansen did say that there was no indication that the younger Pressman intended to harm his parents in any way.

Johansen also said that Theodore Pressman often left his parents “at restaurants, delis, McDonald’s” while driving a bus. “This was a frequent practice, but as far as we know he had not left them in a car before.”

Peekskill police Chief Eugene Tumolo said an autopsy indicated that Joseph Pressman’s death was a homicide and more charges may be added at a later date.

When Theodore Pressman returned to his car after his route his mother was outside the vehicle but the elder Pressman, who was still inside the car, was not responsive. The younger Pressman called 911 but it was too late, and Joseph Pressman was pronounced dead. Joyce Pressman was taken to a hospital, treated for heat exposure and released.

Rick Tocco, the owner of the nearby Atrium restaurant said that the younger Pressman often left his parents in the restaurant for hours at a time and that he often appeared overwhelmed with the responsibility of caring for his parents.

At an appearance in Peekskill City Court when the judge ordered Theodore Pressman to stay away from his mother, Pressman argued with the judge saying “I know what she needs. … I have to make sure she has food.”

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More About Grandchildren and Grandparents

Sometimes grandparents and grandchildren can add so much to our lives. Here are some precious quotes from grandchildren:

A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like.

“In the winter, we used to skate outside on a pond. In the summer, we had a swing made from an automobile tire. My dad, who was your great grandfather, hung it from a tree in our back yard.”

We also rode our own pony and picked wild raspberries in the woods in the late summer and fall.”

The little granddaughter, wide-eyed in near astonishment, was taking all of this in. Finally she said to her grandmother, “Grandma, I sure wish I’d gotten to know you sooner!”

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Grandson’s First Funeral:

A five-year-old boy was attending his first funeral, which was for the burial of his maternal grandfather. It was a Catholic service in a church, and the priest was up in front of the congregation explaining what happens to one’s soul after death.

After taking it all in for awhile, the young grandson pulled on his father’s pants leg, pointed at the priest and asked, “Dad, is that God?”

Last story Copyright 2007. Seamus McCafferty. All rights reserved.