Police: Boy beaten to death while mother serves in Iraq

[OrangeEmpire]

Police: Boy beaten to death while mother serves in Iraq - CNN.com

CALUMET CITY, Illinois (AP) -- A man beat his girlfriend's 4-year-old son to death after she left the boy in his care while she was deployed to Iraq, police said.
Donnell Parker, 23, was charged Friday with first-degree murder in the death of Cameron Smith. The boy was found dead in his bed Thursday in a suburb south of Chicago.
Parker told police he beat the boy, but would not say why, said Calumet City police Chief Patrick O'Meara. It was not immediately known if Parker had an attorney.
Cameron was punched in the head, stomach and chest, and whipped with a belt from Tuesday to Wednesday evening, O'Meara said. An autopsy found he died of blunt-force trauma to the abdomen and head, O'Meara said.
The boy's 7-year-old sister and 8-year-old brother had also been in Parker's care, O'Meara said. They were put in the custody of their maternal grandparents after Cameron was found dead.
Cameron's mother, Sgt. Lavanda Smith, 28, was headed back to Illinois Friday after spending only 10 hours at her new duty station in Iraq.
She was called to active duty in April with her Army National Guard unit and was sent to Fort Benning, Georgia, on May 12 in preparation for deployment, said Lt. Col. Alicia Tate-Nadeau, an Illinois National Guard spokeswoman.
Family members said Cameron's father, Gary Smith Jr., 27, had been deployed to Iraq last August and last saw his three children on a brief leave in January.
Family members said the Smiths had been married for eight years, and had both been in the military most of that time. O'Meara said Lavanda Smith had apparently been living with Parker for about a year.
Parker was scheduled to appear Saturday in bond court in suburban Markham, Illinois.

Thoughts?

 

[JTrainDavis]

Disgusted, though i don't know what the mother being in the ARNG has to do with anything, though the fact that the boyfriend was left in custody indicates another out of wedlock birthing spree. The story is absolutely awful, though.

Here's one about as bad...here in CT, a mother and her boyfriend were sentenced to only 10 years each, for "BEATING HER 6 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER AND DENYING MEDICAL TREATMENT TO THE POINT WHERE HER ARM HAD TO BE AMPUTATED". But god forbid the police arrest someone from the ghetto, then it's racism. Thank God I'm a country boy.

 

[JTrainDavis]

take the SOB out on the town green, horse whip him, then hang him high....the problem with the justice system is that we don't make examples of people who pull this crap.

 

[vader]

Nothing they could do that piece of garbage would be too severe.

 

[Business]

People like this guy are wastes of life. It's evil, demented, unfair, the list could go on forever.

Killing a man for whatever reason is evil. Killing a young boy like that is just above and beyond evil. If his inmates get wind of what he did, he will be served.