Any parent will tell you that raising children has its challenges. They tell lies sometimes, they touch your things and they generally run around and make noise.

Hey, that’s kids for you.

Well, 5 year old Melanie Beltran did all of those things and sometimes it got to be too much for her parents to handle (Even Mum and Dad need a time out sometime). So, as any loving parents would, her mother and father thought it was best to take Melanie aside and talk to her about appropriate behavior and time out. This worked a treat and they all lived happily ever after…..right?

Wrong.

So remember Becky Jo? The not so hot mom having sex with 14 year old girls? Read all about it. Go ahead we aren’t going anywhere and neither is Ms. Tatum.

Well she has a long hard road ahead of her. First off she has to serve 5 years in prison. After which she has to register as a Tier II sex offender. That means for the next 25 years every 6 months she has to register her address with the Sheriff’s department. Additionally, she had to give up custody of her daughter and son.

Here is a sample of her daughter’s eloquence

Oakdale teen gets life for killing her newborn

A Judge found an Oakdale teen guilty of premeditated murder in the grisly stabbing of her newborn and sentenced her to life in prison.

From the Minneapolis/Saint Paul Star Tribune article
December 2nd, 2008

Nicole Beecroft, the Oakdale, Minnesota teenager who was 17 when she stabbed her newborn baby 135 times in the neck, chest and abdomen and dumped her mutilated little body in a trash can outside her house in April of 2007, was found guilty of First Degree Murder on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 and sentenced to Life Without Parole by Judge Mary Hannon.

CALGARY – Jeremy Allen Steinke has been found guilty by a jury of three counts of first-degree murder in the gruesome deaths of an Alberta couple and their eight-year-old son.

The jury, which began deliberations Thursday afternoon following a two-and-a-half week trial, found Steinke responsible for the premeditated slaying of his then-12 year-old girlfriend’s family in their Medicine Hat home in 2006.

Steinke, 25, kept his head down as the guilty verdicts were read out in court. His mother Jacqueline May, clutching a Bible, dropped her head and wept.

“I did not expect first-degree,” she said afterward.

Most of us here at PYSIH are polite enough to invite a guest over, maybe even two guests. We expect, after the visit, that if we see them again it will be under the similar pleasant circumstances. Well for Michael and Virginia Spevak their chance meeting with Angela Hernandez proved to be the exact opposite.

Michael and Virginia Spevak lived in the affluent area of Chevy Chase, Maryland. This is a suburb of the District that borders Montgomery County, Maryland, and where crime is rare. Michael and Virginia Spevak were community leaders. They provided foster care to several children, and they were environmentally conscious. Michael worked as a doctor, while Virginia was a teacher until she retired to care for one of their adopted children.