Sacramento Area Father, Stepmother Arrested After 3-Year-Old’s ‘Horrific’ Burns Left Untreated for 10 Days
A Sacramento County father and stepmother are under arrest for allowing their young daughter to be badly burned in their apartment and then failing to take her to the hospital for 10 days, according to KTLA sister station KTXL in Sacramento.
Karina Feliz Davis, the toddler’s 25-year-old stepmother, was spending her ninth night in jail on Thursday.
Then on Thursday, the 3-year-old’s father, 29-year-old John Lolley, stopped running from a warrant deputies have had out for him and surrendered.
They are now facing felony charges for endangering the life or health of a child.
One neighbor, who did not want to be identified, has been friendly with Davis and Lolley.
“Whenever I’ve seen them with the kids they always seemed like nice, functioning adults,” the neighbor told KTXL.
He said there were other circumstances involved besides just not wanting to take their 3-year-old to the hospital.
“From what I know she ain’t the type of person to do something like that,” the neighbor said. “They didn’t have a car.”
When pressed about the lack of a call for help he said, “No matter what, you call 911.”
According to investigators, the toddler was in Davis’ care on July 31 when she was left alone in the kitchen of a North Highlands apartment. She somehow pulled down a bowl of hot soup right onto her head.
Her third-degree burns are described as “horrific.”
“The top of her head, her face, cheeks, chin, lips,” said Sgt. Shaun Hampton with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department.
Davis allegedly treated the little girl at home with aloe vera.
Professional medical attention was not rendered until almost two weeks later.
“You have to watch any children you are in the care and custody of,” Hampton said. “And when those children become injured it is your duty as an adult to find aid for them and make sure they receive proper medical attention.”
Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies say a request from the public for a welfare check on a child is what led them to discover the toddler in trouble.
The young girl has had to have several skin grafts on her head and is still hospitalized.
Child protective services has now taken her and three other children away from Davis and Lolley.
Woman blows off fingers after mistaking dynamite for candle
BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut — A Connecticut woman blew off several of her fingers after lighting a stick of dynamite that she thought was a candle.
It happened in Bridgeport on Thursday night. According to CTPost.com, the woman was trying to light a candle during a power outage in a thunderstorm. Instead, she lit a quarter stick of dynamite.
One of her children called 911 and she was transported to the hospital with a serious hand injury. Nobody else was injured in the accident, which is under investigation. Police and fire crews on the scene found a second device that they described as a “makeshift firework.”
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/07/woman-blows-off-fingers-after-mistaking-dynamite-for-candle/
Black grandson riding with white grandma gets mistaken for robbery suspect
A black man headed home from church with his white grandmother was taken into custody by police in Wisconsin after two witnesses falsely reported that he was robbing her.
Attorney Joy Bertrand believes the 18-year-old man who was detained for roughly six minutes by police in Wauwatosa on Sunday was harassed, and the lawyer has requested all documents pertaining to the traffic stop, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
“After we take a look at whatever basis they have for stopping and harassing this family, we will be able to comment further,” Bertrand told the newspaper.
Police officials said in a statement that an officer was flagged down by a black couple who indicated that a robbery was either in progress or had just taken place. The suspect was a black male in the back seat of a blue Lexus, the couple reported, according to police.
“The citizen pointed out the car to the officer,” the statement continued. “A traffic stop was conducted. A non-approach traffic stop was made, in which the officer called the back seat passenger (who was said to be the robbery suspect by the citizen) back to officers instead of the officers approaching the car.”
The 18-year-old man — identified by the newspaper as Akil Carter — was then detained “based on reasonable suspicion” for approximately six minutes as an investigation ensued. Carter and the other occupants of the vehicle were then allowed to leave. The person who reported the allegations to police, however, did not stay in the area as requested by officers and has yet to be located to get a formal statement, police said.
“Officers removed their handgun from their holsters based on the original information of a possible violent crime (robbery) in progress, but kept their weapons pointed in a safe direction during the stop. The officers acted professionally during the entire interaction.”
But Carter was actually inside the car with his grandmother and her friend. They were on their way home from church at the time, Bertrand told the newspaper.
Carter’s grandmother can be heard in squad-car footage released by the department surmising exactly what she thought the man who reported the purported robbery had been thinking.
“I’m sure he saw two old white ladies in a car with a black kid and made some assumptions,” Carter’s grandmother told the officer, who apologized on behalf of the man.
Carter, who was released without incident, declined to comment to the Journal Sentinel. Bertrand said Carter is currently keeping “all options” on the table, including filing a lawsuit against the department.
“It seems to me that the police officers’ suspicion that this car was involved in a crime dissipates when his grandmother said, ‘He’s with me,’ if they had a suspicion to begin with,” Bertrand told The Post.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/06/black-teen-riding-with-white-grandma-gets-mistaken-as-robbery-suspect/
Nurse admits to fatally burning baby in scalding bath in plea deal
A Queens nurse admitted Wednesday to fatally burning a 23-month-old baby by dunking her in a scalding hot bath, getting a promise of just four years in prison for her plea.
Oluyemisi Adebayo, who was a 20-year licensed nurse practitioner, cruelly placed Naomi Mondesire in the bath at the child’s Rosedale home on April 21, 2015 and the baby succumbed to the burns days later.
The 58-year-old woman pleaded guilty to one count of attempted assault and is expected to receive the agreed upon sentence at her next court date on Sept. 24.
Adebayo — who was arrested in April 2015 as she was about to board a flight to Africa — will get credit for the three years she has been in jail since her arrest.
Judge Richard Buchter asked Adebayo, “Did you place the baby in hot water?” Adebayo responded, “yes.”
Adebayo, a Nigerian immigrant, could face deportation upon her release from prison.
She was originally charged with second-degree murder, which was dismissed as part of her plea deal, and she faced 25 years to life in prison if convicted at trial.
The child’s mother, Cynthia Mondesire, filed a negligence lawsuit in Queens in 2015 against Adebayo and the company she worked for, Harry’s Nursing registry. Adebayo settled with Mondesire but the multi-million dollar case against the company is still pending.
“The baby just melts in the bathtub, it’s tragic,” Mondesire’s lawyer, Eric Shaevitz, said adding, “It’s just a tragedy, an absolute tragedy that this woman has gotten away with murder. And especially horrifying, she had a record of child abuse and the company hadn’t vetted her at all.”
“She’s a monster,” Shaevitz said of Adebayo.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/05/nurse-admits-to-fatally-burning-baby-in-scalding-bath-in-plea-deal/
Cincinnati Cop tases 11 year old girl for shoplifting – then tells girl “That hurt my heart to do that to you”
“You know, sweetheart, this is why there aren’t any grocery stores in the black community.” That’s what Cincinnati police officer Kevin Brown told an 11-year-old African-American girl moments after tasing her for allegedly shoplifting $53 worth of food and clothing from a Kroger on Aug. 6.
Police say the 55-year-old off-duty officer, also African-American, was working security at the store when he tried to apprehend three girls. In violation of department policy, he used a Taser on one without warning and only turned on his body camera afterward, reports the Cincinnati Inquirer.
“That hurt my heart to do that to you,” he tells the girl in the video released Tuesday, before addressing store closures in black communities. An internal review took note of the latter comment, which comes a year after Brown was written up for using a homophobic slur.
Brown defended the comment, however, on his belief that “the closing of a number of Kroger stores in black communities … resulted from large amounts of theft losses,” the review states, per ABC News.
“This guy, from what I am hearing, has serious issues,” says Councilman Wendell Young, a former police officer. “He’s building a case that makes it difficult for us to continue with him as a member of the police department.” But it’s up to Police Chief Eliot Isaac to decide the officer’s fate, which could include counseling or termination.
While promising to review department policy relating to Taser use on children, Isaac on Tuesday described Brown’s use of the device as “unnecessary in this circumstance.” Police say the girl took a backpack, “candy and beef jerky, as well as infant clothing,” worth $53.81.
Theft charges have been dropped.
Naked Intruder Arrested After Being Found Masturbating in Sleeping Girl’s Bedroom in Fontana
Police on Tuesday said they were searching for possible additional victims of a man accused of entering a Fontana home and masturbating in a 13-year-old girl’s bedroom.
Officers responded to the 14100 block of Stanislaus Court last Thursday after a resident called around 2:42 a.m. to report a male intruder in her home, according to a Fontana Police Department news release.
The woman told police that a naked man went into her teen daughter’s bedroom and started masturbating while she slept, the release stated.
The victim woke up to find the man hovering over her and screamed, causing the suspect to flee, according to police. He ran from the girl’s room, down the stairs and left the home.
Officers arrived at the home within minutes, but the man was gone by then.
However, they were able to obtain surveillance video from the residence that showed the naked man inside. At one point, he “looked directly into the camera and placed his finger over his lips as if signaling to be quiet,” the release said, describing what some of the footage showed.
Detectives quickly identified the suspect as 21-year-old Jonathan Emmanuel Ward of Fontana. He was arrested at his home in the 7000 block of Nebraska Street later that same day, authorities said.
When detectives interviewed Ward, they identified other potential victims — and believe there could be others who haven’t contacted police yet, according to the release.
Ward possibly focused on a dance studio in the Inland Empire, though they did not give the name or area where it was located. He allegedly “became infatuated with several young girls” at the studio, police said.
The suspect is accused of targeting girls through social media, using photos posted to their accounts to figure out where they lived.
“Ward would often enter the rear yards of the victim’s residence and on occasion, enter their homes when he would find an unlocked door,” the release stated.
He was booked into the West Valley Detention Center on suspicion of burglary, child annoyance and indecent exposure, according to inmate records.
Because of a similar arrest last year in Fontana, a $1 million bail enhancement was issued.
Police have scheduled a news conference for Wednesday morning where they are expected to release images and video of the suspect as they try to locate other possible victims.
Man testified he chopped up wife’s body to keep his children
OLATHE, Kan. — A man testified Tuesday that he spent about eight hours cutting up his wife’s body after she died at a Missouri hotel because he was afraid authorities would take away his children.
Justin Rey, 36, said protecting his family was the reason he didn’t call for medical help after his wife delivered a baby at the hotel in October and afterward when she killed herself, The Kansas City Star reported. Investigators later found Rey with his newborn and 2-year-old daughter, along with bags of body parts, at a storage shed in Lenexa, Kansas.
Rey is not charged in his wife’s death, but faces child endangerment charges in Kansas and Missouri and is charged with abandonment of a corpse in Missouri. He took the unusual step of testifying at his preliminary hearing in Kansas, with defense attorney Zane Todd saying Rey wanted to correct some witness testimony. After Tuesday’s hearing, a not guilty plea was entered for Rey to Johnson County, Kansas, charges of two counts of aggravated child endangerment and two counts of contributing to a child’s misconduct.
“It’s something I had to do,” Rey testified. “My family is very dear to me. It’s something I had to do to protect my family.”
One officer who met Rey at the storage unit said the 2-year-old appeared unhealthy and “almost looked like she had cancer.” The baby had a serious eye infection, according to several witnesses. The children were put in protective custody.
Rey has said in the past that his wife died in childbirth, but Lenexa police detective Shannon Murphy testified that Rey told her his wife had killed herself. After having his children pose for photographs with her body, Rey said he “skinned her like a fish,” Murphy testified. Murphy said Rey flushed body parts that would not fit in containers down the toilet.
Deputy Johnson County Coroner Charles Glenn testified that “a number” of stab wounds were found on some parts of Jessica Rey’s body but that it wasn’t possible to tell whether the injuries were inflicted before or after she died.
Rey told the court that he and the children had not been living at the storage locker, as witnesses said, but had been there for only about 11 hours while preparing to travel to Arizona, where he said he intended to give his wife a proper burial. He also said his children were well cared for.
“I didn’t endanger my children,” he testified. “My children were perfectly healthy.”
Rey also denied flushing anything but a placenta down the toilet.
His trial on the Kansas charges was scheduled for Nov. 5.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/04/man-testified-he-chopped-up-wifes-body-to-keep-his-children/
Parents arrested after teen dies following religious fast
REEDSBURG, Wis. — Wisconsin prosecutors charged a father and mother Tuesday with child neglect for allegedly allowing their teenage son to starve to death and his brother to become severely emaciated during a religious fast.
Sauk County prosecutors charged Kehinde Omosebi, 49, and Titilayo Omosebi, 48, with child neglect causing death and child neglect causing great bodily harm. Both charges are felonies and carry a combined maximum sentence of 37 years in prison, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
Sauk County Circuit Judge Wendy J.N. Klicko set bail at $5,000 for Kehinde Omosebi during his initial court appearance Tuesday. His attorney, listed in online court records as Leonie Dolch, didn’t immediately return a voicemail. Assistant District Attorney Linda Hoffman said Kehinde Omosebi told police he believes he has done nothing wrong, the State Journal reported.
Titilayo Omosebi is due to make her initial appearance Wednesday. Online court records didn’t list an attorney for her.
Kehinde Omosebi walked to the Reedsburg police station Sunday to report the death of his 15-year-old son, according to police Chief Timothy Becker. When police arrived at the family’s home they found the dead teen and an extremely emaciated 11-year-old boy. The mother was also found to be emaciated.
Becker said the father told police he was a minister affiliated with Cornerstone Reformation Ministries and that the family had started a religious fast on July 19. Investigators do not believe the father is a minister and made up the name of the ministry, Becker said.
“There’s no IRS number, no corporation,” he said.
No food was found in the house and police had to force their way into the home because doors were padlocked on the inside.
“The residence had no phone, no power, no food,” Becker told the State Journal. “There was a gym bag in the garage with some clothes in it. That was it, with the exception of a tambourine that was found.”
Hoffman, the assistant district attorney, said Kehinde Omosebi told police he was planning to move his family to Atlanta. He sold all the family’s belongings and hadn’t paid rent in several months, she said in court.
Dolch told the court that Kehinde Omosebi had worked at a Reedsburg foundry but has been unemployed since February.
The younger boy and his mother were brought to the hospital. The mother refused treatment, citing religious reasons, and was taken to the Sauk County Jail.
The 11-year-old is in protective custody at Children’s Hospital in Madison. Becker said the parents are eating while jailed in Baraboo. Reedsburg, a community of about 10,000, is located approximately 130 miles west of Milwaukee.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/04/parents-arrested-after-teen-dies-following-religious-fast/
Trans man jailed after tricking women into sex with fake penis
A transgender man who used a fake penis to have sex with women — and made one feel ashamed for not getting pregnant — has been jailed.
Carlos Delacruz, 35, hoodwinked two women for years but was eventually turned in to the cops after they discovered what he had been doing.
Delacruz, who was born a woman in Madrid, Spain, appeared in August at Edinburgh Sheriff Court in Scotland, where he admitted penetrating both women with an unknown object without their consent.
Delacruz, from Banknock, Scotland, had refused to allow the women to see him naked and always performed in bed with the lights out.
Both victims, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, were said to have suffered “extreme pain” during intercourse, while both women also suffered from thrush afterward.
Delacruz was jailed for three years and handed a five-year non-harassment order against both women. He was also put on the sex offenders register.
Defense lawyer Cameron Tait said Delacruz had developed “a male appearance” at age 8 before officially changing his name to Carlos when he turned 16.
The court heard Delacruz’s gender is now officially recognized as male and his gender is stated as male on his birth certificate, passport and Spanish identity card, though he has not fully transitioned.
Tait also told the court Delacruz considers the prosthetic penis he used during sex with the women “to be part of him.”
The lawyer added Delacruz is currently in a long-term relationship with a woman and that she is fully aware and consenting to the use of the prosthetic penis he uses during sex.
The judge in Delacruz’s case told him that he had caused “physical and psychological harm” to both women by repeatedly sexually assaulting them with “a flesh and blood penis” during their relationships.
The judge said the first victim was “made to feel like it was her fault” she was not getting pregnant and that “she now suffers flashbacks and panic attacks” due to the incidents.
The judge, who read the victim impact statements, said the woman “now feels dirty and used” and that she was forced to move to get away from him.
The second victim was said to have “bled for days” after having sex with Delacruz around 10 times over an eight-month period and currently suffers from “difficulty with sleeping and eating.”
Prosecutor Kirsten Cockburn told the court that Delacruz had been in a relationship with both women at separate times between May 27, 2013, and May 14, 2017.
The prosecutor added that Delacruz and the woman would have sex around once a month despite her suffering “extreme pain” and only being allowed to touch his body “over his clothing.”
“During their relationship, the woman continued to believe he had a penis,” the prosecutor added.
The prosecutor told the court the woman suffered from thrush following lovemaking sessions with Delacruz.
The couple split up in January 2016 and the woman informed the police in May that year Delacruz had been lying to her and did not have a penis.
Delacruz began a second relationship with another woman in August 2016, and after two months of dating, they moved in together.
The second victim also “believed Delacruz had a penis” and the couple always had the lights off during sex.
The relationship failed in May 2017 due to “financial matters” the couple were having and the court was told the woman discovered Delacruz’s sordid secret the following month.
Cockburn said Delacruz made no comment in a police interview and that he was medically examined while in custody, where it was “found he did not have a penis.”
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/05/trans-man-jailed-after-tricking-women-into-sex-with-fake-penis/
Couple accused of abusing foster children, forcing them to put dirty diapers in mouths
DEARBORN COUNTY, Ind. – A couple in Dearborn County, Indiana has been arrested for “horrific” abuse against foster children in their care.
Diane and Timothy Combs were arrested last Friday on numerous charges, WXIX reports.
At the time of their arrests, there were eight children in their home: four foster children, one adopted child and three children they were babysitting.
The oldest child is the couple’s adopted daughter. She is 16 years old, and has intellectual and physical disabilities. The other seven children ranged in age from 2 to 8 years old.
Timothy, 59, faces charges of:
- Aggravated battery that causes serious permanent disfigurement
- Domestic battery against a disabled person with bodily injury
- Battery resulting in bodily injury of a person under 14-years-old
- Domestic battery committed in the presence of a child younger than 16-years-old
Diane, 55, faces charges of:
- Aggravated battery and knowingly inflicting injury that creates a substantial risk of death
- Domestic battery against a disabled person causing bodily injury
- Domestic battery with bodily injury to a person under 14-years-old
- Battery on a child
- Domestic battery by bodily waste
- Battery by bodily waste when the victim is 14-years-old, strangulation
- Sexual battery
Authorities told WXIX the arrests came after one of the children recorded video of the abuse and showed it to another person who then called the Dearborn County Sheriff’s Department.
The video shows Diane slapping a naked 6-year-old boy, causing him to fall to the floor. She then slaps him again and forces him to put a dirty diaper into his mouth.
The children told investigators anyone who wet the bed had to put their diaper into their mouth.
The court documents detailed other abuse, including “whoopings,” getting dropped on their heads, and causing injury to their “private parts.”
The abuse detailed in court documents occurred between December 2016 and July 2018.
The couple has fostered 38 different children since 2014.
They’re currently being held in the jail on a $100,000 bond. Their next court appearance is scheduled for October 15.