Marlene Medina and Edwin Garcia
It is generally thought that the country of India “loses” about 500,000 infant girls a year due to selective infanticide.
Maybe they know something we don’t.
Take 24-year-old Marlene Medina, for example. A modern woman in every sense of the word.
She never knew her own father, she was abused by her alcoholic mother until the state took her away and placed her in a succession of foster and group homes.
Once she was too old to live in foster homes, Marlene Medina stayed in New York’s homeless shelter system for a while, eventually hooking up with Manuel Gonzalez, who gave her a baby girl they named Hailey Gonzalez.
Manuel Gonzalez, who had a lengthy arrest record and was out on parole, stayed with Marlene and little Hailey in a succession of homeless shelters until, while staying at a shelter in Brooklyn, he hit Hailey in the face, giving her a black eye.
That didn’t sit too well with the folks who oversaw Manuel’s parole, and they put him back in prison for two years.
Maybe if Marlene had done a background check on Mr. Gonzalez, things might have gone better.
Marlene Medina continued screwing men she found in homeless shelters until she met 30-year-old Edwin Garcia, who was a Domino’s Pizza deliveryman.
Shortly after she started dating Edwin Garcia, New York placed Marlene Medina and her daughter Hailey in a small apartment in New Brighton. Edwin, being homeless, stayed with Marlene and now 19-month-old Hailey.
Somehow, Edwin Garcia never picked up parenting skills while he was a homeless ex-felon, and his girlfriend Marlene Medina would leave Hailey with him for long stretches of time while she went out and did whatever it was that she liked to do.
It should come as no surprise that leaving a toddler with someone who might have anger issues might end up with the toddler being hurt, and that’s exactly what happened.
Hailey Gonzalez was making too much noise at 1:30 in the morning to suit Edwin Garcia, so he picked up the toddler, shook her for a while and threw her down, slamming her into a playpen full of hard toys.
Little Hailey lay there, her broken body desperately holding onto life, for five hours. Five hours of wheezing, twitching and light crying. Five hours of her eyes rolling back into her head and bloody froth coming from her mouth while Marlene, her mother, did nothing.
When it finally appeared that Hailey wasn’t going to magically get better on her own, her mother finally called 911.
Paramedics arrived and took the unconscious toddler to the hospital, where she was put on life support with head injuries and a punctured lung.
Edwin Garcia and Medina were arrested and questioned. It didn’t take long for them to start pointing fingers at each other.
Garcia confessed to losing his temper and throwing Hailey into the playpen, but pointed out that Marlene had hit Hailey before and once hit her hard enough to cause her to fall off their bed.
“I saw her smack the baby off the bed and she hit the floor hard,” said Edwin. “I didn’t want to say it, but she has hit the baby before. She’s smacked her in the face.”
Both Garcia and Medina even accused Hailey of having “behavior problems.”
“She doesn’t listen. She screams and cries for no reason,” Garcia said during questioning.
While Marlene Medina was being questioned, she expressed more concern over losing her apartment than she did for little Hailey.
“Am I going to jail? If I go to jail, I’m going to lose my apartment. All my stuff is in the apartment,” she said.
Hailey Gonzalez didn’t get better. She was declared brain dead and taken off life support at 8 in the morning on the 13th of August of 2007, six days after being admitted into the hospital.
Her heart was donated for transplanting.
Garcia is charged with second-degree murder; Medina with second-degree manslaughter.
When Marlene Medina found out that she was only being charged with manslaughter, she announced, “That’s not too bad, I’ll be out in three to five,” and went on to complain about jail food.
Sonia Cintron, Hailey’s paternal grandmother, told the press, “Here’s a woman who has really shown no remorse at all. None.” She added that she thought Medina’s attitude and conduct was disgusting.
I think we can all agree on that, can’t we? At the very least?
Do Marlene Medina and Edwin Garcia deserve Hell?
- Yes - both do (94%, 303 Votes)
- Yes - only Marlene Medina (3%, 9 Votes)
- No, neither (2%, 6 Votes)
- Yes - only Edwin Garcia (1%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 321
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Some people were never meant to have children. This mother was one of them. I think she should be a child in hell, just so she knows how her daughter felt.
I don,t think you should say that about her cause i know her and her daughter was my goddaughter, yes am upset about want happened to her but its not her mothers fault, its edwin Garcia fault his the one that killed her and i hope he burns in hell.
Dawn, Marlene didn’t seek medical attention for your goddaughter for over 5 hours. Edwin Garcia had hurt this little girl before but Marlene still let him stay with her. She is responsible for the death of your goddaughter and you should be furious about that. Hailey would have lived if Marlene had helped her sooner. I suggest you pick your friends more wisely.
A-Freaking-Men LLt!!! I swear I can’t stand the damn supporters. I mean seriously do they think we’ll just over look all the evidence in the court transcripts and other various news sources and take their word for it? I mean since you are so trustworthy supporting the SCUM of the earth.
where do these people come from? i just do not understand how people can behave like this
God, what is wrong with people? They should be killed the exact same way as they killed that little girl and see how it feels, before they go to hell and suffer even more. Killing any human being is horrible, but little children… I can’t even stand to think about it.
everything about marlene medina is a lie. why do you write things that are not even true. im her brother. we had gotten adopted me a my second oldest sister. so i now the whole entire story so dont lie .
Yeah, yeah, yeah, everybody’s innocent and the world is full of puppy dogs and sugar cubes. Undoubtedly your sister is an angel as she selflessly screwed all those men in homeless shelters. After all, men in homeless shelters need love to. What a slut… I mean saint.
SEEMS TO US THAT EVERY TIME WE HEAR THE STORY ABOUT MArLENE AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BABY THE STORY SEEMS TO GET MORE AND MORE DISTORTED BECUASE PEOPLE SEEM TO ADD THERE OWN PART OF THERE STORY WITCH HAS NOTHIN TO DO WITH THE ORIGENAL HAPPENING THERE FOR THE STORY GETS STETCHED OUT OF PERPORTION.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…….
Not so loud, its a library don’t you know.
look jason ur really not gunna do anything cuz marlene shudnt even be outta jail she shud have been still in there shes stupid and is not a suitable mother and if theres a problem towards this she knows where to find me
WTF is with the one ‘r’ not being capitalized? I’m confused. How the hell do you manage to do that?
Please feel free to let us know about any incorrect statements in the above article. Once verified, they will be corrected.
Hey admin, I guess there weren’t any mistakes or JG woulda said something in the past two years, huh?
they are gonna die in prison!!!thats a good thing!!!
what is wrong with that hoe….that sluts baby should have gotten taken away from her as soon as that precious bundle was born!!!
what is wrong with that hoe….that sluts baby should have gotten taken away from her as soon as that precious bundle was born!!!i got a big smile on my face knowing that shes goin down…
what’s with August?? that month brings out the crazies
“It is generally thought that the country of India ‘loses’ about 500,000 infant girls a year due to selective infanticide.
Maybe they know something we don’t.”
What a stupid, stupid opener.
Then don’t read it.
For the record admin… I thought it was a good opener! This poor little flower just didn’t stand a chance really… Earlier post said it all, some kids should be removed at birth, if you try to adopt a pet from an animal shelter, the shelter do a home visit to ensure the suitability of the home, but its ok to take a newborn to a homeless shelter… WTF? Maybe i am a little narrow minded in these matters as i’ve never been homeless but my gut feeling is that a shelter no place for a newborn… Poor little soul, RIP hailie and god bless xx
the sick bitch hte world gone sick thay both should have got life
What a disgusting waste of human life! In “three to five” when she’s out, I’ll guarantee she pops out a few more children to shake to death… =(
She hasn’t learned any lesson…because she obviously didn’t care for her baby in the first place. All hail the mighty (homeless) penis!
/gag
Another pathetic excuse:
She had behavioral problems. “She doesn’t listen. She screams and cries for no reason.”
That’s kind of what babies do until they start growing up and getting used to the world around them. Many Many MANY people have personally been through this and managed to resist the urge to kill the child.
Idiots.
Sadly this sorry excuse for a human was right – she only got 2-6 years.
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/05/staten_island_mom_sentenced_in.html
Actually scratch that – that bitch is already out:
http://nysdocslookup.docs.state.ny.us/GCA00P00/WIQ3/WINQ130
What??? Are you KIDDING me? Someone PLEASE tie her tubes stat!! She should never be allowed to breed again.
Tie her tubes? For Christsake. They need to tie her tang shut!
Oh, God. She helped kill her baby and she’s already free? Please tell me her first stop upon getting on the outside was Planned Parenthood so she could get a tubal ligation.
yes she out and i cant wait to see her cause she has alot of explainin to do to all of the rockaways so help me please find her
whats crazy is that i lived with her.. she didnt seam this careless.. makes me sad to see that this is what she turned out to be
WTF? She’s out? What did she learn? She was certainly not punished. What have we learned? The justice system is usually as bad as the pos criminals. Its all a travesty, an extreme shame.
Max for president!
marlene is a good mother me and her have a 10 year old daughter marlene would always do whatever she could for her i know this is outdated but i surport marlene anyway i can and if any one has a problem with that they can always find me and we can deal with that
What if we do want to find you? How do we do that? WHERE IN THE WORLD IS JAYSON SANTIAGO?? (sorry, had to!)
A terrible person usually isn’t a terrible person all the time. Sometimes they’re only a terrible person in certain instances, but those instances do have a way of defining a person as ‘terrible’. Then again, after reviewing the story, perhaps you only have a living 10 year old daughter because YOU are not a terrible person. Take a look at Marlene’s dating/mating history, and that’s the obvious conclusion you will come to.
Well obviously from this story she is a GREAT mother, I would totally leave my kid with her and feel comfortable /sarcasm.
I really hope she doesn’t hurt your daughter, but your daughter is old enough to tell what happens so she’ll probably be fine….
Just do me a favor and don’t impregnate this woman, no other babies need to die or be neglected.
& Really I do have a problem, where can I find you?
She might not seem so bad, but her daughter is dead, and she was more concerned about losing her apartment than her daughter’s health. Even if she came to me acting totally reformed, her daughter is still dead because of her inaction. That’s no human to me.
Has it ever occurred to you that your daughter has reached the age of 10 because you have the child and that baby killing bastard hasn.t been in the child’s life. I dread to think what would have happened had she been. At the end of the day she let that little girl die, if she would have gotten help sooner then i wouldn’t be commenting on this blog. Unfortunately, she didn.t get help, and thats why im commenting. I just pray to god that she doesn’t have anymore children and if she does, i hope the state remove them from her care, sorry care is the wrong word, remove them from her evil grasp.
your mistake here is assuming that our good buddy jayson has put any though into…anything. ever.
Reading his comment here, defending a person who cared more for her material possessions than a child she created, and who only called for help when the child was unconscious, personally I’d be surprised of Jayson here could have a rational thought.
Hell, if he can get dressed without hurting himself I’d consider that a major achievement
that poor little baby. this story sickens me.
This is why people still commit these atrocious crimes because the punishment doesn’t fit the crimes they need to redo the legal system and consider the victim just cause they are no longer alive does not mean they shouldn’t have rights
That’s it, I’m running for president. On the ‘you kill a kid, you go into the tank with the laser beam sharks’ platform. Fuck life without parole. Fuck three to five. You kill a kid, you should forfeit your right to live.
Travis’ Cujo idea would work well for those who didn’t actively kill the child, but didn’t step in and take action.
Though I personally think Marlene deserves both for caring more about her apartment than her child. The least the state could have done would be to alleviate her need for an apartment forever.
I’d vote for it, if for nothing else I’d like to see a laser shark
I know I hit reply there. it even said reply to KHR….meh.
I’m having the same problem sometimes. Oh, well, I don’t mind looking crazy.