Jon Phillips and Sarah Berry
Is it possible for an entire family to be made up of individuals whose best traits would be normally be considered character flaws?
It’s possible.
Take the family of 26-year-old Jon Phillips and his 22-year-old common-law wife Sarah Berry, for instance. At best, they could be described as incompetent parents. At worst…
Evil.
Jon Phillips was the guardian of 7-year-old Chandler Grafner. Chandler was given into “Daddy Jon’s” custody after Chandler’s mother was arrested during a traffic stop on the 26th of March, 2007, for possessing drug paraphernalia. During that traffic stop, Chandler’s mom, who used to be in a relationship with Jon Phillips, had her sons in the back seat. According to the officer who made the arrest, both boys looked very thin and complained of being hungry. In the officer’s report, he wrote that the boys had told him they hadn’t eaten in three days.
Well the children needed someone to stay with while mommy was in jail and the courts eventually decided that Chandler Grafner would stay with Jon Phillips, who was the brother of Chandler’s father.
It would seem that the family tree is more like a vine of some kind.
Dominic Phillips, Jon Phillips’ son, was happy to have Chandler around. Dominic finally had a big brother.
While some brothers have a hard time getting along, it’s usually because one beats up on the other. One can usually beat up on the other because one is bigger, stronger, more energetic. Chandler and Dominic didn’t have that problem, because Jon Phillips and Sarah Berry were starving Chandler, and Chandler was too weak to beat anyone up.
It’s hard to starve a 7-year-old, it really is. They cry, steal food, ask neighbors for food and just make general nuisances of themselves. Eventually you just have to lock them in a closet and forget about them. If you have the determination to do it, however, it can be done – despite the safeguards in place that are designed to detect it.
Chandler Grafner, a kindergärtner at Holm Elementary School in southeast Denver, attended Denver Public Schools from the 15th of September 2006 to the 13th of April, 2007. Teachers noticed possible signs of abuse, and reported it, but nothing was ever really done about it.
Jon Phillips and Sarah Berry mostly kept Chandler Grafner locked in a dark closet. While Chandler, telling his younger brother that Chandler was being bad. Chandler stayed in the closet for days. He was given no food or water. The boy didn’t have a chance to use the restroom and really annoyed Jon and Sarah when he pooped himself and ended up smearing it on the closet walls.
Jon and Sarah would regularly punish Chandler Grafner with a “mean shower.” Mean showers were very, very cold. Usually, more closet time followed the “mean showers.”
Dominic Phillips and Chandler Grafner started out getting breakfast, lunch and dinner. Meals for both boys usually consisted of Cap’n Crunch cereal, but sometimes they had actual food given to them.
They loved tacos.
Eventually, Jon Phillips and Sarah Berry started to “forget” to give the boys lunch. Then, dinners started to become less and less frequent. When dinner was served, the boys ate oatmeal.
While 5-year-old Dominic enjoyed delicious oatmeal on a regular basis and never had his food supply completely eliminated, Chandler wasn’t so lucky. When Chandler complained, he would be locked in the closet. Sometimes he was given some oatmeal in the closet.
Chandler, while locked in the closet, would regularly beg his younger half-brother to get him some food while their parents were asleep. According to Dominic:
He said, ‘Dominic, go get me food.’ I didn’t get him any. I told him, ‘I don’t want to get into trouble.’
Easter dinner was awkward in the Phillips’ house that year. While everyone was enjoying the meal, on the 8th of April, 2007, Chandler was eating oatmeal. Again. According to Jon Phillips and Sarah Berry, Chandler had been acting up again at home and at school and part of his punishment was to eat oatmeal instead of what everyone else was eating.
During that family gathering, everyone commented that Chandler looked really thin.
Really thin.
Too thin to go to school.
Jon Phillips pulled Chandler out of school on the 13th of April, 2007.
The closet was used with greater frequency. Food came less frequently.
On the 4th of May, 2007, Chandler Grafner was given food – and locked in the closet – for the last time. He stayed there, in the closet, without food or water until the 6th of May – a Sunday.
Jon Phillips noticed that Chandler had stopped doing much of anything and checked in on him. Realizing that the boy was dead, Jon took Chandler’s body out of the closet, carried him to the middle of the living room and placed him on the floor. While Dominic watched, Jon took the litter box that Chandler had been ordered to use and the curtain that had kept the light out of the closet and threw them in a nearby dumpster.
With the evidence disposed of, Jon Phillips and Sarah Berry changed the dead boy’s clothes, then called 911.
The call came in at a few minutes until 3 in the afternoon that day. Paramedics who arrived on the scene were told by Sarah Berry that Chandler had seemed to have the flu for about five days. She told them that the boy wouldn’t eat, that his weight had been dropping and that earlier that morning he had been foaming at the mouth. She mentioned to police that Chandler liked to hide in the closet and that he may had vomited into the litter box they kept there.
Jon Phillips had a slightly different story, telling police that Chandler had been sick for 10 days. According to Jon, the 7-year-old had been eating oatmeal and drinking Gatorade but that he, “may have lost a little weight.”
Yeah. A little.
Chandler weighed 34 pounds when he was weighed at the hospital. Doctors recognized the symptoms of abuse and concluded that the boy had died due to starvation and dehydration. They also revealed to police that the physical wasting that was evident in Chandler’s body, the loss of weight and muscle mass, could only have happened over a long period of time – months.
Jon Phillips and Sarah Berry were arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of child abuse resulting in death. One of the first-degree murder charges is related to the charge of caused the death of a child under 12. The second is because they committed murder after deliberation.
Jon Phillips and Sarah Berry are eating just fine in jail. They have pled not-guilty, claiming that Chandler died of undetected diabetes.
Their trial is currently underway.
Dominic Phillips was, at one point, asked by the detectives about who lived in the home. Dominic told the detectives:
I had a big brother but my big brother’s dead so he went to heaven. He’s an angel now.
Do Jon Phillips and Sarah Berry deserve Hell?
- Yes (100%, 549 Votes)
- No (0%, 2 Votes)
Total Voters: 551
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When this story broke here in Denver it was among the 12 deaths of children that were among “cases” that were with Social Services. It made me sick, still makes me sick. How anyone could do anything like this to a child is beyond my comprehension. Since then social services has said they have “restructured” and implemented new policies and procedures…..well I find it very sad that it took the deaths of 12 small children to “restructure”. The trial is currently happening and I hope they hang this son of a bitch and his bitch of a common law wife too, I would gladly attend that lynching…….what this story didn’t tell you is that Chandler had many other family members that would have gladly taken him in and given him the love he so deserved, his biological father was never told anything of his son until he was told that his child was dead. So sad, so very very sad. My heart bleeds for Chandler and for the other children born into incompetent, unloving and evil families and who are snared in a troubled and failed system. Most of these children are doomed and it doesn’t appear that anyone really gives a shit!!!
I understand because I cried after awhile in reading this. My heart bleeds for these poor children that have to go through this pain and suffer the lost of a life. So young they’re wiped out. If made aware I think many stable people would gladly adopt these poor kids. God bless.
Someone really needs to do the same thing to these assholes. I hope they spend the rest of eternity burning in hell for this.
It pisses me off more that ‘normal’ people were alerted and did nothing. How could someone do that? If I was notified that a child was going through this, I would do something. Even if it meant kidnapping the poor boy. How could they just let this happen? I hope those shitty excuses for caretakers starve to death themselves for this.
This story truly pisses me off in so many ways. I do hope these assholes rot in hell and food should be withheld from them while they rot in prison.
This is another case of where home school hides abuse. Something has to be done with our current home school system (which is basically non existent). I am not saying every parent that home school is an abuser. What I am saying is people who abuse hide behind Home Schooling as a tool to continue abuse.
Just as an FYI – The POS that birthed this child is due to give birth again any day now. Unbelievable eh?
This is beyond disgusting. Were they getting money for taking care of the kid? I bet you anything that they were.
I am sick and tired of reading about these twisted fuckers who take kids for the state money, and then abuse or neglect the kids. There HAS to be a better way!
It is such a vicious cycle. What’s going to happen to the younger boy now? We may as well face it – he is going to have the same miserable life as his entire inbred clan. He will either go off to a relative who will lock HIM in the closet to play with his own shit, or he’ll go off to a foster home, where he is statistically likely to be abused or neglected.
Either way, unless a miracle intervenes, expect to see Dominic Phillips in a courtroom, or on a mortician’s slab before he’s 21. He is basically doomed. Another generation of trash. It’s fucking sad.
whose the 2 idiots who voted no…probably the parents lol i couldnt see how anyone else could vote no…these people are fuckin sick
exprience has told me quite a few peeps on here vote no just to stir up the shitpot…still chaps my ass however :(
there’s a standard 2 “no” votes, windup merchants/trolls for sure.
who cares, we’re windup merchants ourselves ;)
“…we’re windup merchants ourselves ;)”
Not me DD. I’m here strictly for the intellectual stimulation *laugh*
Does anyone else notice the large urine stain on the boy’s shorts in the picture? And the poor boy is still smiling, pretending to be spider-man, pretty much wanting to be a normal child. Hell would be a blessing for the parents.
I noticed it too, I died a little inside. He was probably so happy to be getting that scrap of attention…
Sometimes I forget how much I love my kids
Beautiful thought Miwist.
Thanks.
Yah you are right Miwist. I’ll call my daughter right now and tell her that I lover her very much. Thanks for reminding me.
Personally…i never forget. But then i do get aweful mad at them and yell quite a bit…especially when they take their disapers off and start finger painting with their poo.
If anything, this reminds me to tone down the shouting a bit.
After reading the Grand Jury report on Danieal Kelly, the 14 year old girl with Cerebral Palsy in Philadelphia who was starved to death by her mother while DCF workers faked their required visits (http://media.philly.com/documents/Grand_Jury_DHS_new.pdf) [Warning: Graphic], I come over to my favorite blog and see this. I swear some days I don’t know whether to eat a bullet or get a sniper rifle and start picking off assholes like these people one be one till I get caught. I’m praying right now there really is a hell, and that there is a special place there for those who torture children. Dear God, there must be, because I can’t punish these people, and we just don’t have enough people on this blog to get every asshole who starves, beats, boils, microwaves, steam cleans, shocks, or uses for an ash tray, punching bag, lover, sex toy, football, etc, etc…..
I don’t know how many more of these people I can take before I snap.
Max
you appear to be good peoples max…get the rifle and start blasting. As for myself…I try to believe in the justice system…but it isn’t nowhere nearly as swift and harsh as it needs to be. If I had my way…after these fucks were proven guilty, they should have been taken out behind the courthouse and shot on the spot. Simply no excuse possible for this bullshit…nor should there be any mercy.
Thanks, but I’m just human like you brother…..
The things that people like these two psychopaths do to children hit me especially hard. Maybe it’s cuz I can’t imagine myself doing these things myself. I don’t even understand the motivation. I know this much: Most child molesters show their true colors the very 1st time they get caught, and they should be removed from society quickly & permanently. It’s not a question of their rights, it’s our fucking duty as civilized people to protected the most helpless among us from the most depraved. Period, the end. Fuck parole for this asshole, send him to my house. I guarantee he won’t be anybodies’ problem anymore, and I won’t feel the least bit guilty.
Max
Max – Your my hero!!!
<3
My vote – sniper option; express trip to hell, do not pass court, do not waste $200,000 of taxpayer money!
Man, that was a tough read. So very, very sad.
“it’s our fucking duty as civilized people to protected the most helpless among us from the most depraved.”
I 100% agree with you sir….although I don’t think they should be sent to your house…maybe a rec center or even a stadium…so we can all enjoy the pleasure of ending these scumnbags personally.
Indeed, since every last one of these fucks seems to have no mercy…and given their crimes…I wouldn’t feel guilty in the slightest to being able to give evolution a helping hand.
heartbreaking :(
the death of a person is always horrible, a child makes it worse and knowing how much he suffered is almost unbearable.
I disagree DD….the deaths of these two sicks fucks will be considered anything but horrible….I can hear the champaigne corks popping now…maybe even a ticker tape parade
DENVER – Chandler Grafner’s weight at the time of his death was on par with a 3-year-old’s weight, according to a doctor who testified during the Jon Phillip’s murder trial on Tuesday.
Chandler Grafner was 7 years old when he showed up lifeless at Swedish Hospital on May 6, 2007.
“His weight was about the 50th percentile for a 3-year-old, which would mean about 50 percent of all 3 year olds in this country weighed more than Chandler when he died,” said Dr. Joel Haas, a pediatric pathologist who on Tuesday was testifying for the prosecution.
Prosecutors have charged the boy’s legal guardian Jon Phillips with, among other things, first-degree murder. They believe Phillips kept the boy locked in a closet for days and days without food or water
Denver Police Detective Larry Moore told a jury the door to the linen closet had a rope around one of the door knobs and screws in place to prevent the door from folding open. Inside the closet, Moore testified, he found feces on the sides of the walls and underneath the bottom shelf.
During opening statements on Tuesday, prosecutors told the jury it is their belief the 7-year-old boy was locked inside the closet underneath the bottom shelf for days. They said the space was not much bigger than what one might find in an oven.
Oh man. I had to bury my head in my hands on that one. Whoa.
Where are all the folks not in favor of the DP?
This is one the reasons I favor the DP.
I hope we NEVER get rid of the DP. It’ll just make me a vigilante for sure.
This is just awful. Now I have to build up my appetite again for lunch.
DENVER – More autopsy photos were shown to the jury on Wednesday. Dr. Nancy Krebs, a pediatric nutritionist, told the jury Grafner weighed 62 percent of his ideal body weight at the time of death.
Krebs proceeded to point out specific details on the autopsy photos which she says allowed her to reach that conclusion. As he has done in the past, Phillips did not look at the presentation.
Thanks for keeping us updated on the trial Liz, it’s a major assist to me. I’m hoping to catch the verdict when it’s read. I was surprised that TruTV didn’t pick up this one. Maybe they’ll do the douchebag wife instead. Too bad you guys don’t have the death penalty over in Colorado…these guys sure earned it.
Hey, btw, I was stationed a Lowry AFB after Basic to do my MOS training for the Army in 1981. There was this Mexican restaurant outside the East Gate I think called ‘Just Binky’s’ that was the absolute bomb. Best Mexican food I ever ate. Do you have any idea if it’s still there?
Max
Max – I don’t believe it is there anymore, actually Lowry is pretty much non-existant now, it has been completely revamped, I don’t get to that area much as I live in Thornton, but I’m sure it is looooong gone. Your welcome for the updates, I am a current criminal justice student so I of course pay very close attention to these particular types of cases. It is my dream to be a child advocate and try my damndest to make a difference where others have not.
Thanks for the 411 Liz, Really happy to hear about your career plans. I feel sorry for the 1st neglectful dumbass that runs across you in the courtroom. Ouch!
Max
DENVER – On Thursday Ellis, a child psychologist that spoke with Chandlers half brother in the weeks and months during the investigation, told the jury the boy told her a number of things about how the crime might have been committed.
“When Chandler stole food,” Ellis said, “he had to go in the closet.”
“Who did (Chandler’s half-brother) say put him in there?” asked the prosecutor.
“His parents put him in there,” Ellis answered as she read of notes from their meetings.
Ellis also showed the jury a number of pictures the boy drew for her during their meetings.
“What did he say he was drawing?” asked the prosecutor.
“Chandler in the closet,” replied Ellis.
In one picture the boy drew “squiggly” lines going away from a boy said to be Chandler. The boy told Ellis “those are Chandler’s screams.”
DENVER – A woman accused of helping to starve 7-year-old Chandler Grafner to death pleaded guilty on Monday afternoon and and agreed to a 48-year in prison sentence.
Sarah Berry’s first-degree murder trial in the case was expected to start on Tuesday, but the 23-year-old pleaded guilty to second-degree murder after meeting with the judge on Monday. She will be officially sentenced to 48 years in prison in late September.
The news came hours after the jury started deliberations in the trial against Jon Phillips, Berry’s boyfriend, who is charged with first-degree murder. If he is convicted, he will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The jury went home without a verdict on Monday, but is expected to resume deliberations on Tuesday morning.
Monday morning, Phillips told Judge John Madden he did not wish to testify in his defense.
Both sides then delivered their closing arguments and the judge gave the jury its instructions before they began weighing whether Phillips will spend the rest of his life in jail.
I really wish that THIS was headlined on all the news reports and newspapers everywhere.
STARVE A KID, SPEND THE NEXT 48 YEARS IN JAIL!!!
I really think that pushing that story would convince at least SOME people that ignoring and abusing kids is not a great idea.
I am guessing that the evidence was so compelling in Phillips case that there was no doubt he will be found guilty – which is why his charming girlfriend pled. The timing is not a coincidence.
**UPDATE**
DENVER – A jury has found Jon Phillips, 27, guilty of first-degree murder in the death of 7-year-old Chandler Grafner.
The jury reached its decision after nearly four hours of deliberations.
Prosecutors told the jury Phillips kept Grafner locked inside a linen closet for days without food or water. The boy weighed just 34 pounds when his lifeless body was rushed to Swedish Hospital on May 6, 2007. Phillips had custody of the boy at the time.
On Monday, Phillips’ live-in girlfriend unexpectedly pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder. Prosecutors had originally charged Sarah Berry with first-degree murder.
The sentencing phase of the trial began immediately, and Phillips will receive a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
*** YAY!!! Those bastards are DONE, justice for Chandler! I have to say I am stoked about this outcome, Chandler is in heaven and knows that jury was on his side!***
This is fair. But I wanted them both dead.
Only then Chandler can have a big smile.
Thank you Liz for the update.
As a father, I’m beside myself reading this…Made me cry just thinking about the poor kids. The trial’s been going on here for a while now, and I can’t help but to think how much I’d enjoy executing these two myself. If they don’t get the death penalty (which God I hope they both do), they’ll be repeatedly gang raped and (hopefully) die hopeless, young, terrified, and alone in prison. Hope they enjoy burning in hell – I believe that there’s a special punishment in store there for ultra-sick fuckers like this.
Starving to death a defenseless child, If I lived next to these people I would harass the fuck out of the entire family, someone aside from Jon and Sara new what was going on.
Jon and Sara deserve to die, painfully
Jon and Sara deserve to die, preferably shoved in a small space, forced to live in thier own excrement and eventually starved to death like they did to Chandler. Why should they get the comfort of three meals and a bed when their crime was to deprive a poor little boy of food and forced him to live in squalor. Their cells will seem like penthouses in comparison to the little closet he was shoved in.
There was an updated article about the situation in June.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jun/18/starving-boy-forgotten-in-death/?printer=1/
I hope Chandler’s grave gets a headstone.
His grave has a headstone now…..finally.
I am just waiting for some bible thumper to come along and try to justify to the rest of us how this was “god’s plan”. Please…one of you useless fucks try and explain it!!
Let Jonny become Bubba’s wife, Bubba needs a bitch and he looks damn close to a female, and I’ve only been in a cubical for 3 hours!
As far as Sarah goes, my wife can not have kids, but she has healthy eggs, so I’d like to have Sarah hatch one of my wife’s eggs as I do not want to raise anything with her DNA. After our child, let someone else use her.
As a mother of a five year old, I cannot begin to understand how anyone can abuse a child. I honestly think hell is too good of a place for either of these pieces of shit. They deserve to be locked in a closet and starved to death-only to be taken out of the closet to have the shit beaten out of them.
What on earth possesses these people! I am founder of Justice For Children which is trying to implement a law called Jared’s Law which would mean every child killer would receive a mandatory sentence of the maximum penalty available – preferably death! These people are sick! They shouldn’t have the chance to live their life – It should be taken away from them through death. How anyone can harm a child is beyond me, how anyone can be that angry at someone so precious and beautiful defies nature, even animals care for their young, when are people going to start?
How do I join? I could be your enforcer. Or your hitman. Every good organization dealing with child abuse needs a good hitman. I’ll do it for free too. I’ll give you money to let me do it.
Seriously though, I’d like to help if I can. My email is maxwellfeline@hotmail.com.
DITTO Teri! Well I wouldn’t be a hitman, I have a weak stomach but any other way let me know! liz30355@yahoo.com
Not so wise to post your addy’s here, I can only hope these are only your “public” emails, and not those that you truly need…..hehehe brb while I go spam the hell outta you guys :) j/k
That why we used disposable addresses (hotmail, yahoo, g-mail, etc…..). As soon as the spammers get ahold of them, I make up a new one, and dump the old one. Only my friends get my real address.
Thank you for your response, the website address is http://www.justiceforchildren.net our focus at the moment is to get as many signatures as possible, we have many paper petitions in various states and we have the online petition for people who have access to the internet.
Take a look at the site, there is some very good information on there, there is even an offenders list for people who are not on the sex register, released offenders who have harmed children. (we are adding to this every day) We should have a right to know who our next door neighbour is in such a time when the justice system release these sick and vile breathing objects!
Will do Teri….Your Website sounds like an interesting read.
I want both parents to die :D
Don’t we all!
Works for me too
Slowly………….. Infact scrub that! Throw all child murderers and abusers into general population with a bright pink jump suit on and then all the guards go on their coffee breaks? ……………Now that works for me!
FYI, the jury today found John Phillips guilty of the 1st Degree Murder of 7 year old Chandler Grafner, after 4 hours of deliberations. Boo-Yah! Score one for the good guys.
More info to come, plus hopefully a link to the rendering of the verdict.
Max
I could not have said any of these comment better….Max and Lisa and everyone else…Give someone u love a hug for me and have a great day!
It’s been my pleasure kristina…this case was special to me, and I’m glad he got the max. John’s going to quickly discover just how popular baby killers are in the Prison, and he’ll be wishing he fed those two kids surf & turf every night.
“Daddy John” was sentenced today.
Life plus 48 years.
His little hottie (puke, wretch, gag) got 40-something years.
Too bad we will have to pay to take care of them but at least they are being punished.
Sick fuckers!
EXACTLY why we should bring back an eye for an eye, you murder senselessly, guess what Mother Fucker now it’s your turn to die…….night night sleep tight…..IN HELL!!!
My sentiments exactly. Not enough bad shit can happen to this loser in prison. As if the life sentence wasn’t enough, he also got and additional 45 years consecutively for felony child abuse, plus one year for tampering with evidence. I’m tellin’ you folks, I love this judge.
As for the waste of skin that is his live-in girlfriend and co-defendant, Sarah Berry-the-kid-I-starved-to-death, must have seen the handwriting on the wall, because she copped a plea Monday to 2nd Degree Murder. She’ll be sentenced sometime in September.
Max
The only thing that makes me feel good about this whole thing is that there are men and women in prison who are seperated from their own children. These prisoners no doubt will exact some sort of revenge on Sara and John. I doubt though that there is any punishment they can deal out that would even up the score.
This one made me cry.
Wow, I’ve read A LOT of posts on this site already and this is one of the very few that actually made me nauseated (the woman who microwaved her baby to death, and men who rape babies were the most heinous) but intentionally starving and basically caging a child? WTF? “I am not equipped to care for this child.” How hard is that to say in court? It wasn’t even their kid! Had to be money, why the fuck else…?
UPDATE!!!
“DENVER (AP) – The parents of a 7-year-old boy who starved to death in the care of his mother’s ex-boyfriend have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the agencies that administer child-welfare services in Denver and Jefferson counties.
Christina Grafner and Joshua Norris filed suit Tuesday in Denver federal court. They’re the biological parents of Chandler Grafner, who weighed 34 pounds when he died in May 2007.
Christina Grafner’s ex-boyfriend Jon Phillips was convicted in August of starving the boy and forcing him to spend his last days in a closet. Phillips’ girlfriend, Sarah Berry, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Chandler’s death.
The lawsuit alleges the Jefferson County Department of Human Services took Chandler away from his mother and placed him with Phillips and Berry without ensuring they were fit foster parents. It says the agencies in both counties failed in their duty to protect Chandler from abuse.
The lawsuit seeks a jury trial and unspecified damages.”
WHERE THE FUCK were these people while that little boy was being treated like a caged animal and forced to starve to death……NOW let’s sue and make a quick buck and place the blame of responsibility on an agency………OMFG!!
This is what makes me want to hunt bastards down and shove my foot up their asses…..Ignorant rat bastards!!
No shit Liz? These assholes deserve a front page treatment.
Yah, amazing isn’t it. I was shocked to see this come out here today. It boggles the mind and ya know what the sadest part about it all is? These pieces of shit will probably win…….mark my words, they will. When that happens, it will be like starving that little boy all over again…his justice never really came and these people are trying to profit from that. Thank god I know there eventually IS a place for these low-lifes…..if it isn’t here……it will be IN HELL!!
They actually announced this back in 2007, but are just getting around to filing it. I’m sure they waited hoping everyone would forget what shitty parents they were. I’m on it though – I’m researching them now. Don’t know if I’ll get enough for a story out of it, but it’s worth a try. Now onto check out their criminal records. It’ll be the best 12 bucks I ever spent.
Oh I’m sure you’ll get lot’s of juicy little nuggest of information on “supermom” but I think that Joshua was actually in the military somewhere if I can remember correctly. Oh, BTW don’t forget all the grandparents who were just “beside themselves when all of this happened”. PUHLEEZ…..why would an EX-BOYFRIEND, who isn’t even the biological father, to a jailbird, un-fit mother get custody of a child unless NO ONE else wanted him??? Even if the other little guy was his half brother. It just doesn’t make sense, then when he is murdered, all of the sudden everyone in that family cares enough to send the very best……hmmm, fishy fishy!! Go get em Max….let me know if you need anything, crime and investigation are my passion. :0)
peal their skin and feed it to them in strips. Starve the shit out of them first for 10-15 days.
Give this pair to me and I’ll give them the best possible treatment they could fear. Hope they’ll get gang raped every day for the rest of their obsolete lives.
I know this is old news but, this little boy will always be special to me.
Unfortunately, Jon will probably not be in the general prison population because of the threat of violence. Therefore, he will have to be housed separately and it will cost the state that much more to keep him. But, I pray to God there is never a chance that he will get out of that prison. I wish I could know when Sarah Berry comes up for parole and I could speak to the parole board. My fear is that she will get out early because of prison crowding, etc. She doesnt deserve that. I want her to spend as much of her life as posssible in jail.
Max, you did a wonderful job on covering this story and I think I may have met Liz on another message board. Either way, she is a good lady.
So I just finished reading this story and the follow up regarding the lawsuit filed by Chandlers parents- all I can say is WOW.
Poor kids. I’m flabbergasted that this kid had a bottle at 4 years old and wasn’t potty trained (speaking of does he look like he peed his pants in the picture with the story). I don’t understand how these idiots didn’t realize that by them being lazy they were just making more work for themselves. I couldn’t wait to celebrate the day I was done with diapers and bottles (a little over a year was too long for me).
What was done to this baby his whole life is disgusting- and then the drug addict mom who caused him to be in his deadly situation, sues. I guess Ill never understand the extent of some peoples greed. If that was me in her shoes, and I caused the death of my child because of carelessness I would have other things on my “to do” list…her first thing to do should be get clean and feel a little remorse. To hell with money its not that important and if you have any conscience it won’t make you feel any better, its not bringing your son back. If 150,000 is enough to lessen the pain of him being gone- what a worthless cunt.
and it was so unmotivated…there was no evidence that the kid had done anything horribly wrong, unless these people consider “existing” and “breathing” to be crimes. Someone should lock them in a poopy closet and make them eat their poopy poop.
Can we send them hate mail?
Max- I discovered your site about three weeks ago and I get on here everyday and read these stories. I live with a severe fear of being raped, murdered, tortured.. Yes, I watch the news and read shit like this far too much. At first when I started reading your stories, some actually floored me. Now, I’m never surprised. Only when a victim survives am I surprised. I love this site and all the writers! Thank you for being a voice for the ones who can’t any longer.
I’m glad you enjoy the site, but I’m also concerned that you describe your fear of being attacked and victimized by the people we write about as “severe”. Have you considered talking to a professional councilor about your fears. I’m no doctor, but I know enough about phobias to know that if something like that affects the way you live your daily life, it’s become a problem that needs to be addressed.
In other words, you’re going to have to deal with it sometime, or it will most certainly deal with you.
They should have the same things they did to this kid done DAILY to them..If they cut the kids throat, then they get theirs cut daily and then stiched up to do it again. This nonsense of slapping these people wrists has got to stop. They need to have done to them what they did to those kids and when they are getting ready to die bury them alive. The parents of htese kids did not kill thier son. The people that DCS gave them to did and DCS needs to be held responsibly for neglect too, The people that were supposed to be checking on these kids did not take and talk to these kid ALONE. They are responsible for the death too and need to be charged in their deaths . Maybe people will do their jobs if they start prosecuting them for NOT doing their jobs., I am so damn sick of kids dying because of adults not giving a damn.,