Emery Slayden
Emery Shayden was a 26 year old nobody from Jamaica. He moved from state to state, sponging off girls as 
he went.
He had a special place in his heart for young women with children. He said he liked children, that they were closer to God.
He could recite the bible front to back, enthralling single mothers with his poetry writing, nightly bible studies, and his natural talent for getting the kids to behave.
Unfortunately, his methods for getting them to behave were brutal.
At first, it started with spankings, taps on the behind to “get them in line”.
Then the spankings grew more drawn out, and turned to whippings with a belt. He shook his charges, slammed them against walls and head butted them.
Emery enjoyed the pain he inflicted, and kept a journal detailing his methods.
“It’s now 2:30 p.m. and I’m still disciplining X. I hope he sees the light before I make him see the dark,” Shayden wrote in one journal entry. Another entry noted, “It started off with X, who had a series of spankings for two hours.”
By 1997, Emery had already left two states in a hurry, hiding his convictions for child abuse and neglect as he went. It was in Las Vegas that he met Sandy Dorum, single mother of a two year old named Yazmine, also called “Boo” and “Yazzie-Yums.”
For Yazmine, the beatings began over spelling and math lessons.
From the beginning, Emery ruled the apartment with an iron fist and a belt, forbidding Sandy to communicate with her family, beating her as viciously as he did the children.
He hated many things, especially when he felt “disrespected”. He had a special dislike for children who wet 
their pants, and Yazmine was not yet completely potty trained.
Every accident landed her in a cold shower, and most showers were followed up by a whipping and a forced recitation from the bible.
Sandy covered up for her abuser when CPS came sniffing around, asking about allegations (Emery’s allegations) that Yazmine had been sexual abused by her father, who had been trying to for the first time to gain visitation rights with the girl.
The allegations turned out to be false (Yazmine denied them, Sandy finally admitted they were false) CPS went away satisfied, despite one social worker noting that Shayden seemed very controlling in her file. Nobody noticed the bruises and scrapes on Yazmine’s body. Shortly after CPS’ investigation, the family moved to a new apartment, and both her father and social workers lost track of them.
Meanwhile, things were just getting worse for Yazmine, who was no long allowed to attend daycare. She spent all day in the apartment, subject to Emery’s unpredictable mood swings. The only time she was free was when he was at work, and even then, she was under the care of her mother, who was forbidden to take her out of the apartment.
She was not allowed to play with other children, watch TV or play with toys. It was a lonely life, and it came to a brutal end on Dec. 13, 1997.
Five weeks had gone by since Emery moved into Yazmine’s life. It had been ten days since her last severe beating, when Emery had picked up the thirty seven pound toddler by the feet and slammed her down on the bed, breaking her femur.
Later her mother would claim ignorance, insisting that she didn’t know about the broken leg until after the child’s death.
Emery came home from work in a foul mood. The toddler was lethargic and refused to eat or get up to use the toilet. Her leg was grotesquely swollen. She wet herself, and when Emery found out, he flew into a rage.
After taking Yazmine into the bathroom for another cold shower, he began to shake her. Yazmine lost consciousness, and Emery accused her of faking.
She came around again, but as Emery began shaking her as punishment for passing out. She lost consciousness a second time. Emery responded by slamming her head against the edge of the bathtub.
Emery called 911, and told the operator that Yazmine choked to death in her sleep.
Paramedics arrived, but Yazmine’s pupils were so dilated that they occupied almost the entire colored area of the eye. She was already brain-dead.
After 25 minutes of resuscitation, the doctor on call at UMC pronounced Yazmine dead on arrival.
When he told Sandy and Emery that the child had died, the woman screamed and fell to the floor while Shayden sobbed.
The doctor called the police, to whom Sandy immediately confessed the truth, blaming Emery for everything.
Emery was tried and convicted of first degree murder, felony child abuse, and neglect for the condition of the girl’s leg, which was so badly broken that even if she had survived, she would have never walked normally again.
Although Emery Slayden had been convicted of murdering a 2-year-old girl and was going to prison for life with no chance for parole, he maintained his innocence at his sentencing hearing.
Chief District Judge Lee Gates, who presided over the April trial, wasn’t impressed with Slayden’s soft-spoken presentation laced with biblical references.
At the trial the defense claimed the girl’s mother, Sandy Dorum, was responsible for her death, but the jury was unconvinced.
“I’m sorry Sandy lost her daughter and pray she takes better care of her new one,” Emery said.
Shayden beamed when the judge told the 27-year-old defendant how he “seems to be a very respectful young man.”
The smile vanished when Gates added that in reality Slayden “turned out to be a monster.”
“I’m convinced of your guilt beyond any doubt,” Gates said. “I don’t know anyone so void of compassion who has shown so much hate, misery and torture.”
“That’s your opinion,” Shayden responded quietly.
“You don’t deserve to walk the streets again,” the judge snapped before handing Slayden his sentence.
Much Love to Regina For Writing This Fine Post….
Does Emery Slayden deserve Hell?
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I swear I must be losing my reading abilities..because I KNOW that article did not just say he was only in her life 5 weeks and I KNOW he was not beating on that child for her having problems with her math lessons and such. She was two! Maybe my son is just behind cause he’s two while he can count to 20 and say his ABC’S he isn’t adding! And when he starts I won’t beat him for not getting it all the way! I’m sorry if some people won’t be with me on this but her mother deserves hell just as much, if not more ,than he does! This is a PRIME EXAMPLE of letting you “penis of the week” ruin your childs life. WHY would you let some man you just met move in with you, and keep YOUR DAUGHTER from seeing HER FATHER?! Why is this man alreading controlling your life and beating your daughter. You didn’t even know him WHY would let him have that much power. This just disgusts me! R.I.P. SWEET YAZMINE
More dead babies huh?
Your right Lena, that woman deserves hell. I hope she is living in it, knowing that she let some one kill her daughter.
I think it did say that BURN IN HELL FUCKER!!!
Good write up. So sad.
Once again CPS didnt see signs of abuse. Why am i not surprised? What sort of training are these guys getting? Its obviously piss poor.
Emery desreves pure unadulterated hell.
So does her mum. She should have done something to protect her child. A man has to sleep sometimes and im sure there was a kitchen knife somewhere in the house. She should have killed that mother fucker and saved her daughter.
When I think of a family, I think of love not fear.
Big red flag if fear is a dominant feeling in your relationship.
I’ve got too many worries about how shit will be when I step OUTSIDE my front door. Why should I be shook up when I come home?
Why should I have to wear my armor inside my home?
If you are reading this and experiencing this, GET OUT NOW.
Damn straight. And fear is no excuse to stand back and watch a child be beaten.
If an adult is scared in that situation, just imagine how much more so a child would be.
Perfectly said, Turtle. I have such a hard time understanding abused women who stay with their abusers, but once it moves on to their children, I think enough is enough.
CPS is usually so busy checking up on calls that people make to them just to harrass the other party. It happened to me. Lots of times. My now ex-husband was cheating on me, I kicked him out, he moved in with the girl and they wanted my daughter, so they called CPS about 10 times on me. And, get this, CPS took my daughter from me. I have never laid a hand on her or anything. Never done drugs around her. NEVER, EVER abused her in any way. But the judge took her away from me because I didn’t have an attorney to protect me from this BS. And left this poor baby girl to be killed. Does anybody else see anything wrong with this picture?
Why didnt you have an attorney? You would have been entitled to a court appointed one, or what we call here in Australia, Legal Aide.
After ten years of having no contact with my sons ( he was in prison for rape) their father decided to file for custody. He tried the same shit. Rang CPS and made a whole heap of allegations about me. They investigated. They visited my home, randomly i might add, and always found it to be clean ( besides everyday kid mess) and calm. They checked my criminal record ( with my permission) and found it to be spotless. They interviewed my neighbours, who said that while my kids did in fact make a lot of noise, it was always happy noise.
They checked at the boys school and they were told that both my boys were settled and seemed well adjusted.
They were very thorough, so i can only assume that the complaints made against me were very severe.
After their investigations, they were more than happy to leave my children with me.
When things went to court, i was a single mum paying a mortage and could not afford a lawyer without losing my house, so the Government gave me Lagal Aide and supplied me with a kick ass lawyer who slayed my ex everytime he tried a new tactic. Within four days it was over. I retained full custody of my children and he got no contact at all.
Is your child still with this man? If so, go talk to Legal Aide. They can offer you free advice and financial help.
If it was my child, i would not give up fighting until she was back with me.
Dont let this man win, go kick his ass woman!!!
I have tried, Amy. I have written to every agency in the state of Texas and could get no help. He won. For now at least. Skylar is 13 years old now and has been with them off and on since she was 4, this last time for 5 years now. She is happy in her school with her friends even though she doesn’t care much for her step-mother. I have recently gotten visitation reinstated so that she gets to spend a LOT more time with me. Legal Aid wouldn’t help me because they said I make too much money. What a joke. Every attorney I spoke to were unsympathetic and wanted around $5000 before they would even begin with a custody battle. There was no way in hell I could afford that, a place to live, a vehicle and groceries. I just finally gave up. The last time we were in court, the judge didn’t even listen to me. I might as well have not showed up, that’s how bad it was. They just took her one night for the weekend and then on Monday morning they had custody of her. How is that for Texas justice?
My heart breaks for you Kim. That must be terrible. You may not be able to get any help through the courts, but dont ever give up. Children are smart, and they see and hear what goes on. Im glad that you have at least some visitation now. Use that time wisely ( as im sure you do) and make it all about quality.
As for the lawyers etc…im glad i live in Australia. I have nothing but parise for our legal aide system.
wtf is wrong with these so-called “mothers”? after 5 weeks you would trust a random man with your child? would allow that man to abuse your child? would be so frightened of him that you’d actually listen to everything he said? and do these kinds of pathetic women not have any friends or family around to suspect anything? if i even thought one of my friends or family was going through something like this, i’d be over there throwing out his shit, changing the locks and calling a policeman to escort his ass far away whenever he came back.
how can someone have such a hold over someone else after such a short period of time (if ever)? there has to be a mental condition that explains this crazy mess.
I know of women who let a man move in after knowing them for only 24 hours. And then they cry and wonder why these men turn out to be such wankers.
As for a mental condition…i think that some women are just piss weak and pathetic.
I have been blessed with never having to deal with a physically abusive spouse, so it is very hard for me to understaand why you just don’t run the first time there is abuse. Once they hurt your kids and you don’t leave you have crossed the line of victim to abuser yourself. Can someone please explain what drives loving caring mothers to allow a man to totally take so much control of their lives that they let their own children get hurt.
I cant explain that one im afraid. I have asked my own mother the same question, and she cant even explain it herself, except to say that she was scared.
I love my mum, no doubt about that, and i forgive her for not standing up for me as a child, but i will NEVER understand her lack of action.
I myself am a Christain, and I find myself always on the guard for counterfeits ready to con me.
At first it can be hard to tell the difference, but at some point one must make the decision to test the waters.
Some questions to ask
1. Who is benefiting?
If ony this person is, something is wrong. In ANY relationship with Jesus, ALL should get some benefit. Also anything done in the name of Jesus should glorify God.
2. Why yje isolation?
The Bible stated that no one hides a lamp under a basket, so why let someone isolate you? If anything, as tyou become closer to Jesus, you should become an example to these people. You may wish to not accept some of their behavois, but NO OONE should place a basket over you!
3. If you are accused of being unlike Jesus because you are not being nice or sharing…
Big one here – America has this idea that Jesus was nce & loved by all – then why did he end up on the cross?
There were people that HATED Jesus because he was good, and there are times that good is not nice. Calling someone a liar is not nice, but honest and honest is good. Jesus was a master at turning the tables on anyone who asked a question with unpure motives. Try upsetting anyone with an agenda and wrath will be the result!
While the Bible does encourage charity, it condemns laziness. So when asked to share, are you sharing with the less fortuante or with te lazy?
Those who benefit from the sharing – are they grateful or demanding?
Lazy or demanding people are not Christains, as God requires something from everyone no matter how small such may be. Remember tithing????? (Granted I do not give the full 10%, but I do make a point to give something)
Here are some reasons why women get into and stay in abusive relationships:
–They were abused as children by their father, and/or had a father who battered their mother, and are subconsciously repeating this pattern with their boyfriend/spouse. This is the only pattern of relationship they know and their self-esteem is so low they don’t believe they deserve anything better
–They want to leave but are afraid to because their boyfriend/spouse has told them that if they leave, he will find them them and kill them
–They want to leave but don’t have anywhere to go or any way to support themselves and children. Their abuser has isolated them from their families, or their families are unwilling to take them in. They frequently have no education, or job skills, or child care available even if they found a job. They could go to a shelter, but this would only be a temporary solution.
–They’ve been brain-washed by their fundamentalist pastors that they need to submit to their husband and stay together for the sake of their children.
I just want to clarify that I’m in no way excusing Yazmine’s mother for not getting the heck out of that situation the moment he laid a hand on that child. Allowing a man to beat the crap out of you is one thing, but allowing him to beat the crap out of your child is another!
You know a guy FIVE WEEKS and you let him discipline you kid AT ALL????? No way. These stupid mothers make me sick. I’m so tired of it. Take care of your babies and don’t let your “man” mess with them.
I have known my husband for almost six years and we have been married for almost one and besides sending them to their room,or having a talk to them he does not dicipline them at all.
I have always said that i dont hit my children, so why would i allow anyone else to?
I don’t care what kind of father or mother she had, or how afraid she was, or how low her self-esteem was, whether she had job skills, child care, shelter, blah, blah, blah. Once you have a child it is your DUTY to protect your child, regardless, and it should be instinctive and unwavering! For anyone with half a brain, or even a heart, this is obvious. Like missmarie, it blows my mind that these idiots are so desperate to have a man that they let the man not only discipline their children, but even beat and KILL their children. She deserves the same punishment, if not more. Make that more. She is the one that’s supposed to love and protect her child.
So was it worth it, Sandy, keeping your man, covering up for him when CPS came around? Stupid evil bitch. May you never breed again.
So sorry for that sweet baby – she never had a chance with such a pathetic selfish, stupid sorry excuse for a mother.
I know most men are very proud of their dangly bits, but there is no way its worth watching your child get beaten to death over.
The amout of women who will tolerate any behaviour in the name of ‘love’ disgusts me.
No excuses for the mother, her name should be up here too.
Well said Kay! I swear idk why out of all the horrible stories on here THIS ONE JUST BUGS THE HELL OUTTA ME! No amount of time is acceptable to let a man just beat on your children or control your life, but 5 weeks?! Thats just sad, pathetic, and ridiculous! These mothers need to STOP thinking about having “someone to hold them”at nite and START watching who you let in your house around your children! Please! Im soo tired of these kinds of stories! Its soo preventable!
I bet the “mother” is an obese pig as many american women are!
This pig killed her daughter EVEN if she never laid a hand on her.
My God… why does that picture have to be so big? I’ll never get that nappy headed piece of shit out of my head.
That poor little girl. I hope he’s raped so many times his chicken eye looks like the bottom of a coffee cup.
LOL…..It is a huge pic.
Why dont I get the chicken eye thing? Sherry HELP!!!
chicken eye AKA asshole
Oh okay I get it now, LMAO…….sorry
Tis okay dear. ;)
Part of the mas “victim sympathy therapy”. We have to look at that. This poor child had to look at that with an angry look, with load shouting and flying objects coming her way.
Just seeing that smug look on someone so filthy is reason enough for the death penalty.
This POS may argue that we are all God’s children and should be loved. a half truth at best.
It’s time that this POS learn what else the Bible contains – like “it would be better to have a mill stone tied around your neck and cast into the depths of the ocean than to harm a little one…” Bet you he did not quote from that section ofthe Bible much.
So if he loves the Bible so much, it’s more than time to live the Bible…….
For those who feel he should be imprisoned for life – there are still a few decent state rooms available in the Titanic..
Kat, calm down. Someone asked why women stay with their abusers, and I tried to answer the question based on my clinical experience. As I wrote in the post after that one, by explaining the reasons why this happens I was in no way excusing the mother for allowing the abuse to her child. I trust she is suffering in her own hell right now because she’s as guilty as the guy who murdered her child for not protecting her child, and she has to live with that regret and remorse the rest of her pathetic life.
not exactly a subject to stay calm about, imo. There is no logical reason to stay with an abuser who abuses your child – and that is my answer based on my experience as a mother and a human being. I certainly hopw she is “suffering in her own hell” right now.
Your right Kat, there is no excuse that would make it ok for a man, or anyone for that matter, to beat up your child.
Kathy is just trying to point out the reasons that some women use to excuse their lack of action.
I have lived with spousal abuse. On hindsight, i can say that i was an idiot. Weak and foolish. I dont even know what i was thinking, and these days, if a man threatened me or hit me, i swear i would go ape shit on his ass. ( hopefully the kick boxing lessons would pay off.)
I never let him hurt our children, and as soon as i thaught that he might,i was out of there, and i never went back.
I really believe that the mother of this little girl should be charged with failing to protect her child. I dont know how any parent could physically stop themselves from attacking someone who was hurting their children. I know i couldnt.
The mother should have been charged right along side of her “boyfriend”! When are these “kinds of bitches” going to realize that standing by and watching someone abuse your child is a crime? Seriously….who does that? What kind of mother allows this?! There are shelters and domestic violence workers in every single state in our country…there is no excuse for getting help.
“I’m sorry Sandy lost her daughter and pray she takes better care of her new one,” Emery said.
This statement suggests that she is either pregnant or had another baby….lord please be with this child.
I am happy to see more mothers are being prosecuted for their role in their children’s abuse. Wish there was a class for girls in school that could teach them to better cope with relationships.
I was so fired up I made a typo. I meant to say there is no excuse for not getting help….LOL. She is still a bitch though….
I was soo pissed by the end of the story that I must have missed that quote. Is that “woman” having another baby or did she have another one already?
Doesn’t really specify does it? I imagine if she was pregnant the babies already been born. Poor child. :(
Damn, I hate this kind of shit.
idk, but itook it to mean WHEN/IF she ever had another, not that she WAS having another. whicnh i hope she’s not, because her complacency, to me, makes her an accesory to murder. she doesn’t deserve anymore children.
Another woman for the steralization clinic me thinks.
Hey you, your live-in penis is attacking your child…
It should hurt the mom to hear the child screaming and crying really hard (coughing/choking). Then mom would hear the thumping sounds of the child getting thrown around and sounds of an open hand against the childs face.
Then the dagger…if the child can speak, they say struggle to say the word “mommy”.
Of course it would be broken by all the crying. But you’d know what they’re trying to say.
So I ask the mothers out there, will you still sit on your ass? Or will that rage that I love to feel, strike a match to your ass and make you rush into action?
Exactly! I don’t get it. I would be so fucking enraged someone was hurting my baby I wouldn’t have time to feel “scared” of the bastard. No way would I just stand by and do nothing. That fuck would have been hurtin by the time I was done.
Not only did she manage to sit through all that on a regular basis, but she followed it up by pleasuring this peice of shit. UUUggghhhh!!!
eww, i just don’t get it. and i had never thought about it in those terms either, amy. please don’t make me barf.
you know what? when i’m out and i hear a child scream or cry, it’s like a reflex that i turn to see what’s wrong and the adrenaline starts pumping. even when you know your own child is either safe beside you or perhaps not even in the store (or wherever you are) that day. it’s just a mom thing. and knowing how i react when it’s not my child, i can’t even imagine someone sitting around hearing a child crying and screaming in pain and knowing it IS your child. but then just sitting on your ass doing nothing. wtf???
OK. This is it. We need a way to deal with these idiots who don’t seem to think anyone deserves hell. I for one am down with the idea of the exploding screen and keyboard.
We could also go with CO2 poisoning, very slow but in the end they go to sleep. Hell, we can even let these 2 pieces of Horse Fly Shit to spend a lifetime in Depends living with Good Old Emery.
Some years ago I remember a story of a girl who was murdered in an outhouse pit. A nun witnessed the execution and spoke of the inhumanity of the way the POS was executed, the pain the POS went thru, ect….
I REALLY wanted to meet this nun and dump my cats litter box on her and let her know that is is only a sample of what the victim went thru.
So in short, people who feel that no one should go to hell should also receive “Victim Sympathy Therapy” – in most cases less intense than the perp, unless of course we are discussing defense lawyers who are not allowed in hell because even Satan is concerned about his property value these days!
I don’t care what anyone says the mother deserves to go to jail too. Any mother that can sit back and let a POS like this beat on their child is just as guilty as he is. in our household it was “now, now” That is what my grandmother said when one of her kids took to thumping on me or one of my siblings becasue my mother was a selfish raging alcoholic, so we got shuffled off to grannys house. “now, now” that was fucking it! I look at my worthless aunts & ucles now and I think about how cruel they used to be. No one stuck up for us and we managed to live through it, but his poor baby… there is no excuse for her death. Her mother needs to rot in HELL!
“now, now?” Jesus like thats was gonna fix anything. Sorry you were let down so badly. And i agree, the mum needs to go to hell too.
Fucking Bible thumpers….
This is awkward? Nice to meet you Iris, I’m Iris? What kind of shit is this? You are not me, and I am not you? Who are you?
There are two of you? You could use her as your stunt double whiteiris…could come in handy;)
who the hell voted no?? now that is creepy…
Who are we to make decisions for GOD!! God will handle Emery the way he sees fit.
My daughter and I where the previous victims before Sandy and Yazmine. Emery deserves to rot in prison and feel the torture and pain he inflicted on others. I have a child with slayden, conceived from pain, torture and hate. I know exactly what Sandy and Yazmine endured.
My Blessings go to the mother and father’s family.
GOD BLESS
Who are we to make decisions for GOD!! God will handle Emery the way he sees fit.
My daughter and I where the previous victims before Sandy and Yazmine. Emery deserves to rot in prison and feel the torture and pain he inflicted on others, BELIEVE ME THAT’S HELL FOR EMERY!!! I have a child with Slayden, conceived from pain, torture and hate. I know exactly what Sandy and Yazmine endured.
My Blessings go to the mother and father’s family.
GOD BLESS
You really don’t think anyone on this blog (I mean, other than you), seriously thinks we are sending Emery Slayden, convicted baby killer, to Hell or influencing God’s decision in any way. God doesn’t need our help with those kinds of things. But I do know this much, he frowns on men who beat little children to death, because that’s just plain evil. No judging involved there, that’s a fact.
Really Max?!? I am so disapointed!! Every time i click my mouse on the ‘go to hell, go directly to hell, do no pass go do not collect $200′ button i get a warm happy feeling…and you just ruined it for me!!! ;)
Yes Amy, I’m sorry, although we are currently in negotiations with The Almighty for the rights to actually send people to the infernal regions. All I can tell you is they weren’t kidding when they said you can’t bargain with God.
Your arms are too short to box with God – can I hear an Amen?
Amen :-)
Carmel, yea bad Idea to admit you stuck around long enough to have this bastards baby. When you got pregnant you should have left, not hung around and allowed your daughter to suffer the same abuse. Did you ever press charges? One more thing, THIS IS A MESSAGE BOARD!!! We have no bearing on God’s decisions and we know that! This is America and last time I checked we still had the right to sound off, and voice opinions on this piece of shit!
Another bitch who put her dick before her child. If my fiance laid one hand on our son I would slit his throat. I want to bash this bible thumper over the head with a huge iron cross…and then crucify him upside down.
Okay this is the part that I don’t understand, this woman was only with this man for 5 weeks and he already was disciplining her child. I be damned. You have to prove you love that child before you are allowed to discipline. Discipline only works if after it your child is not afraid of you. This is so sick. I know that alot of you on her do not spank but I do. Now, it has to extreme cases but my God I cannot imagine allowing a virtual stranger lay a hand on my son. In my opinion that mother deserves hell more than the buttwipe.