Joseph Miller and Nickella Reid
Future holiday get-togethers are going to be a little awkward for this family.
27-year-old Joseph Miller and 24-year-old Nikki Reed lived with their five boys, all of whom were younger than five years of age.
Well, that was what they reported to the State Department of Human Services, at least.
Relatives of the family hadn’t seen the youngest, one-year-old Deuntay Miller, for a while.
Two years, in fact.
They were beginning to wonder if the little guy was dead. While Miller and Reed told family members that the boy was being taken care of by relatives, Tammy Johnson, Joseph Miller’s sister, told relatives:
I’m getting the feeling that the baby is not alive.
While nobody had seen Deuntay Miller, Nickella Reid had been collecting her $822 welfare check and food stamps for five kids every month.
I’m sure it was well-spent.
Strangely, a baby that had apparently disappeared isn’t what brought the authorities to the door of the Miller/Reed residence.
What brought the investigators around was a report of a child that had been burned over a third of his body by hot water in the Miller/Reid kitchen.
It didn’t take long before Nickella told the officers that the scalding was Joseph Miller’s fault.
While the police were taking that down, Nickella Reid told them about the death of her son two years ago.
Nickella Reid, a virtual cornucopia of knowledge, also told the investigators that they could find the baby’s remains in Tammy Johnson’s house, specifically in the ceiling of Tammy Johnson’s basement, about five miles from Joseph Miller and Nikki Reed’s home.
According to police reports Nickella told the authorities that Joseph Miller attempted to dispose of the baby’s remains by setting them on fire on a barbecue grill, in an attempt to avoid cremation costs.
At some point, probably while coming over to his sister’s house to do laundry, Joseph Miller hid Deuntay’s charred body in the ceiling.
Nobody is quite sure exactly how long the baby had been in Tammy Johnson’s ceiling. I’m sure more information will reveal itself. After all, it’s not every day that parents either kill their children or let them die, slap them on the grill for a while and then try to hide the remains.
The other Miller/Reid kids are going to need therapy for a long time. I’m sure it’s hard for a five-year-old to understand why mommy and daddy killed and hid your baby brother in your aunt’s house, you know?
Nickella Reid and Joseph Miller were arraigned on the 24th of November, 2007, on charges of first and second-degree child abuse.
Once the baby’s remains are examined and a cause of death is confirmed, it is possible they will both be facing murder charges.
Tammy Johnson, in an interview with the local news, told reporters:
It’s my brother and I love him, but I’m trying to figure out what happened, what happened to your mind? What state of mind were you in to do this to your child?
That’s pretty much the question everyone asks when they hear these kinds of things happening.
I’ve yet to hear a good answer.
Do Joseph Miller and Nikki Reed deserve Hell?
- Yes (95%, 378 Votes)
- Yes - only Joseph Miller (3%, 12 Votes)
- No - neither of them (2%, 8 Votes)
- Yes - only Nikki Reed (0%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 399
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14 Comments »
how can they put there baby on a barbecuer and…oh my god!!!they have no soul!!they are defanitly gonna burn in hell.but first they will be tortured before they die.a very slow torturous death!!!
I was under the impression that ‘welfare’ was dead. That legally, any person only gets a once in a lifetime 2 year period to collect welfare on children?
Is this just a state-by-state thing?
Not that it matters much in this case, since they seemed to get gov’t $$$ while their bbq’d baby was in a basement.
I believe in welfare. I believe in charity. I don’t believe in making it profitable to make babies that you end up bbq-ing.
There’s the pill. There’s condoms (which I do NOT understand why any guy would not use in order to sidestep years of court over child support they refuse to pay)… there’s the ‘morning after’ pill, there’s the abortion pill. There’s ‘not effin with people you don’t want to have children with’. Lots of choices for the ‘adults’.
Not so many choices for the unwanted children they carelessly have. Being found in a basement ceiling is a shitty choice for a kid. After being BBQd. ???
Other people have mentioned it, and in principal I am against it, but it is hard not to see that an appropriate part of sentencing for EVERY party involved in child abuse should be involuntary sterilization. Your rights stop the second you burn your kid… or bbq them. Jail and surgery.
Abuse yourself. Abuse your partner if they have so low of self-esteem to stick around. And get fluffy sentences for that. Mess with a kid? Get fixed surgically. I’m very ok with that.
So many of these loser cases try to play a ‘card’. a sex card, a race card…. some card. An ‘I was abused as a child’ card.
I’m sick of it. There are many, many people who were abused as a child who grow up to never so much as spank their children, and I am one of them.
It’s a choice, how you choose to treat other people, including your own children. I think those people should be judged even harder—
if you know how much it sucks to have been abused as a child, then you are even MORE at fault than someone else who abuses their children but was never abused themselves.
If you think that, because you were abused, that you will end up abusing any children you have… then don’t effen HAVE any. Abortion is cheaper in the long run, and might help you avoid a life sentence for killing the kid you didn’t want anyway. Would the kid you abused all their life choose to be born, or would they choose to be aborted knowing how you were going to treat them before you killed them?
Not having sex with losers is another. That seems too hard for many people to do… so I think snip, snip is a good solution for everyone.
I’m a vegetarian. It offends me to be around animals on someone’s grill. Your kid on the grill?
Fry, baby, fry.
And I don’t mean bbq, I mean death sentence.
tl;dr.
Anyways, so there still hasn’t been a cause of death confirmed yet I am understanding that correctly yes? I can’t really say much until I know, or at least know as well as I can from the internet how he died. Was it quick and painless? Or was it drawn out and slow?
Granted it doesn’t matter too much in the end as he ended up dead either way, but it’s still an important detail. Call semantics if you will, I don’t like to overlook things.
Somehow, Anon, I doubt they were actually trying to cut down on funeral costs.
According to what Nickella said, that’s why Joseph put the baby’s body on the grill.
Thrifty folks.
i’m 100% with Glorybug, i’m from a rather abusive background as well (bullied extremely at school, dad was an alcoholic and beat the shit out of me and my siblings), yet i turned out quite ok (ok, that’s relative, i’m a nutter for sure, but not a killer or a child abuser). people who claim they commited their crimes due to events in the past are even worse in my book, as i suffered the same thing and have never commited any such crimes.
I do not think it matters what the cause of death was.
The admin’s got a point. ;)
Anyways, I’m afraid I disagree Trace. I’m not saying that they should necessarily get a lighter sentence if the death was painless, but rather a harsher one if it was worse. We judge things as heinous based on the severity. I mean take for example the grilling thing, yes, that’s disgusting, disrespectful, and just plain wrong.
However, we all can admit that it would have been worse had the boy still been alive when he had been placed on that grill. You see my point yes?
Video here if anyone is interested:
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/14681620/detail.html
Any new info on this. Im interested to find out the results of the autopsy.
Im getting a little worried..I am from Michigan, and Ive seen some pretty disgusting stuff on here thats happened in my glorious state!! Scary.
I think, and please correct me if Im wrong, but I do believe I read something about the charges being dismissed on this case. Absolutely disgusting if you ask me.
(heres a link about the charges being dismissed: http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17669952/detail.html)
I dont know what the world is coming to, but I seriously think law enforcement should simma down on piddly dumb stuff…but baby killers and touchers should absolutely take precedence. These sentences should definitely trump just about anything else.
The charges were dropped. I am from Florida where every other week we seem to loose or find out someone has killed one of our children and I thought it was because they were not prosecuted harshley enough. I am definately pro death penalty in cases against the defenseless. I am thinking maybe we should post this news article in Florida so these killers can find out there is a state easier on these beasts.
The abuse charges were not dropped, and to be fair, if there is no evidence of foul play, a murder trial would fail. Instead they can – and will – throw the book at them for abuse, neglect, welfare fraud, and anything else they can think of.
But that started me thinking.. I don’t recall ever hearing about a law that would require parents to notify officials of the death of an infant. It could be done and stand up to constitutional scrutiny because parents have what is called a “special relationship” with their children. That is a legal principle that requires parents to attempt to save the life of their children, where the average person has no such legal (as opposed to moral) requirement. So, if you see a kid drowning, you are not required by law to help the kid. Unless you are the parent.
So, if states wrote laws making it a felony to not report the death of their child, cases like this could be prosecuted as serious felonies – regardless of cause of death. It would not be murder charge of course, but it could very likely be treated as harshly as negligent homicide.
I need to do some research…..
I’m just curious as to how the baby died….that and why these two’s first thought was to GRILL THE POOR THING, second thought being to STUFF IT IN THE BABY DADDY’S SISTER’S BASEMENT!!
Sheesh….and I’m glad to hear the sister didn’t just immediately jump in and defend this twat. She loves him, but she still questions his state of mind rather than blindly defending him.
Idiots.