Charles Tyson
The world has a new hero.
That hero is the Honorable Sandra McSorley, a circuit judge down in Florida whose information you can find here.
Please write her a letter, or give her a call. Let her know how you feel about her dealings with Mr. Charles Tyson.
22-year-old Charles Tyson and Shameka Mosley – his baby’s momma – had a fight one day in April of 2006.
During that fight, Charles Tyson tossed his 9-month-old son, Charles Tyson Jr., out of the car window.
While that would be enough for most sensible, sane mothers to take their baby, run and possibly call a SWAT team or two, Shameka Mosley stood there and watched as Charles Tyson grabbed his son by the leg and slammed the infant onto the hood of the car hard enough to dent it.
The car hood, not the baby.
After beating Charles Tyson Jr. against the hood of the car, Charles Tyson Sr. casually tossed his namesake into one of the ubiquitous Florida canals, telling his baby’s momma, “You better go get him before the gators do.”
Well then.
Charles Tyson Jr. died, and Charles Tyson was arrested and charged with first degree murder and aggravated child abuse.
For a while, the prosecutor’s office was making noises about trying to hit Charles Tyson with everything in the power of his office and seeking the death penalty.
Then something happened to Assistant State Attorney Lanna Belohlavek. What happened, we may never know. Was it a UFO that beamed some “love and kindness” rays into her head? Did she find teh Jesus?
Did she just listen to the baby’s momma’s family?
Joanne Mosley’s opinion was that because Charles Tyson has had mental and emotional problems throughout his life, because “something wasn’t right” that night, that those factors should allow Charles Tyson to kill babies and walk free.
If anybody should have hard feelings, it’s us. It happened to us. He doesn’t deserve life in jail. We need to find out what caused this to happen. Something was wrong with Charles. I told people he had emotional problems. Charles didn’t do this out of spite. I love my grandson. I miss him dearly, but I also love Charles.
Joanne Mosley said this despite the fact that she called police and child welfare officials five months before the baby died to explain to them that Charles Tyson and Shameka Mosley weren’t capable of caring for their baby. She also accused Charles Tyson of pulling his son out of her arms during a fight, pulling on his little arm and leg so hard that she thought they would pop off.
For whatever reason, Assistant State Attorney Lanna Belohlavek decided to side with the defendant’s attorney and gave Charles Tyson an offer he couldn’t refuse – plead guilty to second-degree murder and child abuse, and we’ll give you 30 years in prison and take the death penalty off the table.
According to Assistant State Attorney Lanna Belohlavek:
Mosley and her mother are people of amazing forgiveness. They feel like this was a night unlike any other and feel it wouldn’t happen again.
Duh! The baby’s dead. You can’t kill a baby twice.
Well, that little arrangement was suitable for just about everyone involved. The prosecutor, the defense attorney, the defendant…
But the Honorable Sandra McSorley said, “Hold up a minute.”
The Honorable Sandra McSorley was of the opinion that the circumstances that led to Charles Tyson Jr’s death “were egregious to say the least.”
Glad to know that someone else thinks that way.
The judge said she didn’t understand how the prosecution could go from a possible death sentence to 30 years in prison, when he could also be put in prison for life.
Both the prosecutor and the defense attorney hounded the judge for eight minutes out of earshot of the courtroom spectators, trying to get her on their side.
Didn’t work.
Instead of allowing the plea deal, the judge said that Charles Tyson will, indeed, go to trial and the death penalty is still on the table.
We can all look forward to seeing Charles Tyson in court in April of 2008.
Does Charles Tyson deserve Hell?
- Yes (99%, 268 Votes)
- No (1%, 4 Votes)
Total Voters: 272
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That chick is fucking awesome. She is the definition of Justice!
kudos to this woman!! Major Kudos!
Thank all that is holy that there is still at least one person in the entire United States’ judicial system that values the lives of the innocent defenseless. My letter to the Honorable Sandra McSorley is drafted and ready to mail.
Thank you, as well, to pysih for giving me the chance to send it. You are doing good work.
P.S.-
I’ve sent the link to pysih.com and this story to everyone in my address book. Let’s all show our support of a case in which true justice is, so far, being served!
@Jamie
I noticed there’s a raising number of regular posters on this here blog (i guess it’s a blog). i say the more the merier!
Much respect for the judge here, i hope the guy gets the death sentence.
That’s sick. I mean, really. What’s with all the baby crimes recently? Slamming him down on the car hood? What the hell is wrong with someone who is willing to do that? Let alone all the other stuff he did. Not cool. Not at all.
As for the Judge, good for her.
Who cares? One less useless mouth in the world. Anyway, it’s their baby, they can do what they want with it.
Not very nice and I’ll hardly be hiring them to babysit my kids, but honestly I couldn’t care less.
I am hoping that last post was a joke
usually with a name like that, it probably is.
At least Florida Cracker got the figure of speech right, Im so tired of people saying, “I could care less.” It makes my blood boil and I yell, “COULDNT!! It’s COULDNT. Why would you say ‘could care less’?”
becuase it’s america, and us americans are completely un-educated
Here’s hoping that this retard gets the death penalty. One less horrid person out of my beautiful state, and one less mouth being fed off of my tax money.
Is there an update on this story yet?
Was the family hurt? Immeasurably. Were they angry? Absolutely. Are they bitter and bent on revenge? Wouldn’t anyone be? Anyone yes, but Mrs. Mosley is a Christian woman and she has chosen to forgive. This response has evoked a lot of ire from the general public but it is the only decision she and her family can live with. As Christians they choose not to compound this tragedy by committing or condoning yet another murder. That’s a hard thing to swallow for some but this family has the right to be respected for having that kind of faith in the power of God to forgive.
According the gospel, life comes from death. As a result of this experience Mrs. Mosley has started the Charles Edward Tyson, Jr. Outreach Foundation as a private 501(c)(3) non-profit. Established in loving memory of its name sake, the mission of the Foundation is to serve all those touched by violence. It seeks to come to the aid, support, uplifting, education, and encouragement of children and families caught in the cycle of violence. The Board of Directors wants the Foundation to be both a source of assistance and advocacy to meet the needs of children who have small voices and few choices.
One of its first projects is to provide a blessed and loving Christmas for a group of young children in Delray Beach who have a parent in prison and are struggling in single-parent families. In order to accomplish that goal the Foundation is planning a series of fundraisers that are worthy of public attention and support. Please contact the Foundation and watch for on-line and media announcements of these events.
If anyone even THINKS about giving this “foundation” a dime, they are insane!!!
501(c)(3) foundations are the biggest scams around! The foundation format is used by most reputable charities (Red Cross, etc), but here’s how the scam works for the unreputable:
Usually after a tragedy, families start getting donation from strangers. If the family gets enough exposure, LOTS of donations come in. In order to keep as much of that money, without needing to pay taxes, the recipient forms the foundation. All the money is channelled through the foundation, and the recipients start paying themselves “consultant fees” from the donations. There are no requirements that the foundation spend the donations on any charitable deeds at all. And the head of the foundation can pay themself ANYTHING they want.
So the victim’s survivor (aka Foundation CEO) uses the media contacts they have made through the tragedy to promote fundraisers. Good-hearted people send checks and donate goods and services. The cash rolls in. The CEO (or whatever title they pick) gets paid FIRST. Then, if any money is left over, it might be used for charity.
This family’s 501(c)(3) is almost certainly a SCAM and a swindle!
Good to know Mazzi, grazi!!!!
Fancy trying to make a few dollars on the publicity of a baby’s death. And if im not wrong, its his grandmother thats doing it!!!
Now thats low.
That thing has some big ol’ soup coolers…lol
What a piece of shit.
Here the story of a guy who murdered 2 hikers on the Appalachian Trail back in 1981. With plea bargain and parole, served 15 years for double murder. This year cold bloodedly shot 2 fishermen camping on the trail multiple times with .22.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070801657.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2008070801140&pos=
“The world has a new hero.”
Yes, he is a hero because he favors Antonio Mcdyess.
I just watched that case on Dateline Sam and I was flabbergasted that someone could get out of prison after killing two people. I am thankful that the two hikers survived but they were talking about their medical bills and how much money it has cost them to just stay alive. That is the kind of charities that people should be donating to not to some pos that wants money.
Someone has anger issues. This dumb fuck was arguing with the baby mama so he whips the kid out the window, picks it up and SLAMS it onto the car hood, then tosses it into some water…Why do people do this? It’s frackin’ ridiculous!!!!
And thank goodness someone like Judge McSorley didn’t just turn a blind eye to this.
Hell for this colossal idiot. Hope he’s popular in prison; people who attack kids usually are.