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    • UPDATE: Jessica Carson and Blaine Milam

    JURY GIVES MILAM DEATH SENTENCE
    excerpts from an article by Howard Roden – The Courier Of Montgomery County (TX)

    Labeled by prosecutors as a “monster” who deserves “the ultimate penalty,” convicted murderer Blaine Keith Milam was sentenced late Thursday night to die by lethal injection for his role in the beating death of his girlfriend’s daughter.

    Milam, 20, was convicted of capital murder May 17 for killing 13-month-old Amora Carson, the daughter of his girlfriend, Jessica Carson.

    Amora Carson died from blunt-force trauma inflicted on her Dec. 2, 2008. Milam and Jessica Carson, both of Rusk County, said they repeatedly struck the toddler with an unknown object in an attempt to remove demons from the child during an exorcism. An expert during the trial said 23 of 24 bite marks found on Amora Carson’s body belonged to Milam.

    Jessica Carson is in the Rusk County Jail awaiting her trial. Milam’s trial had been moved to the Montgomery County Courthouse from Rusk County because of pretrial publicity.

    The six-woman, six-man jury deliberated more than eight hours Thursday before unanimously deciding to send Milam to death row.

    For Milam to receive the death penalty, the jurors ruled he would be a continual threat to society and had a role in Amora Carson’s death. Although Milam’s attorneys argued their client was mentally retarded and was faced with mitigating factors in the murder, the jury rejected both claims.

    After discharging the jury, Rusk County Judge J. Clay Gossett sentenced Milam to death by lethal injection, pending a mandatory appeal by the state. Because of the automatic appeal, no date for Milam’s execution was set.

    As the decision unfolded, Milam’s mother, Shirley Milam, and his sister Teresa sobbed as they embraced each other.

    While Rusk County District Attorney Micheal Jimerson and Texas Attorney General Assistant Prosecutor Lisa Tanner declined comment, Rusk County Sheriff Danny Pirtle lauded the jury for providing “some closure” for the family of Amora Carson.

    Conroe attorney Stephen Jackson, a member of Milam’s defense team, said Milam “doesn’t really understand what just happened. He just keeps asking, ‘Why are they doing this to me?’”

    “He is child-like and mentally retarded and this is wrong. We look forward to our appeal,” Jackson said.

    Earlier in the day, prosecutors spent Thursday asking the jury to find Milam capable of committing acts of violence and that he would remain a continued threat to society.

    Defense attorneys, however, argued Milam should be spared the needle because he is a person with mental retardation, and that there were mitigating factors in the murder of Amora Carson, such as Milam’s limited education and his substance abuse.

    Tanner and Jimerson did not concur with that argument.

    Tanner said there was only one reason for the trial – and that was Blaine Milam.

    “It was his conduct, actions and decisions,” she said.

    Milam was the primary actor in Amora Carson’s death, Tanner said.

    “He is a monster,” she said, adding that Milam deserves the “ultimate penalty.”

    “If he (Milam) was abused as a child, that would be mitigating evidence, but what could mitigate this, this, this and this!” Tanner said as she flashed a series of autopsy photographs of Amora Carson. Crystal Zapata, a high school friend of Jessica Carson, turned her tear-stained eyes away from the images.

    Jimerson began the day posting a photograph of Amora Carson on the overhead viewer and talking about how the “special days” Milam had enjoyed while growing up would never come for the toddler.

    “She looked to make people smile,” he said. “You can’t look into those eyes and imagine the pain she suffered.

    The only day Amora Carson will enjoy is “a day of justice,” Jimerson said.

    Lead attorney Rick Hagan, of Longview, reiterated the defense team’s argument that Jessica Carson bore the greater responsibility for her daughter’s death.

    “(The crime) didn’t take place in a vacuum,” Hagan said.

    The evidence is “obvious” that Jessica Carson is “equally guilty of murdering Amora Carson,” he said.

    Hagan also brought up how Milam, a registered sex offender, had been on a work release program with Rusk County several days before Amora Carson’s death.

    “I’m not telling you Rusk County had blood on their hands. If they had done their job and put him away, Amora Carson would still be dead.”

    Jackson said Milam would not be the worst person on Texas’ death row and that Milam is not shrewd or cunning. Instead, Milam is a “simple person” who is “unintelligent.”

    “He will be victimized if he goes to prison,” Jackson said. “He will be picked on from the word go.”

    Although Milam had parents who loved him, Jackson said they provided him with “nothing” to extend his life.

    Because of Milam’s family history of heart problems, Jackson told the jury that Milam would, in all likelihood, face a short life span whether or not he’s sent to death row.

    “He’ll be dead within five to seven years if you say the death penalty,” Jackson said. “Given the medical conditions (in prison), I don’t think he’ll live much after his mid-40s.”

    Jackson said life without parole would confirm that the state’s criminal justice system works and is “good.”

    “Otherwise, we would take Blaine Milam and hang him from the highest tree,” he said.

    I’d also like to post some addition remarks by Texas Attorney General Prosecutor Lisa Tanner, from her closing statement. I found that her words really touched me, and forced me to feel the pain 13-month-old Amora Carson’s murder must have caused. Courtesy of the Tyler Morning Telegraph:

    “I thought I had seen everything. I thought I had seen meanness and I even thought I had seen evil. I have stood before juries and told them they had seen the worst of the worst and I believed it at the time.” she said.

    Hagan objected, saying Ms. Tanner was interjecting her own opinion into the case and not evidence.

    Gossett sustained the objection and Ms. Tanner continued, saying the jurors should have never had to see what they had in the case, and Amora should never have had to endure what she did during her death.

    “This is the worst of the worst. I can’t even fathom how it could ever get any worse,” she said.

    Raising her voice and with her eyes red from tears, Ms Tanner asked how the jury could possibly find mitigating circumstances to sentence Milam to life.

    Showing a photograph of Amora’s body Ms. Tanner asked, “What could possibly mitigate this? Or this?” she said, clicking to another photograph. “Or this, or this, or this? How can there really be any mitigating circumstances that could be sufficient for that? There isn’t.”

    Some crimes cry out for the ultimate punishment. This is most certainly one of them. The cruel way that Jessica Carson and Blaine Milam beat and tortured little Amora to death can only be made right by taking the lives of these two animals in return.

    You may also have noticed that Blaine Milam’s defense team attempted to play the mentally retarded card, and the substance abuse card too. Now I understand that there is a point where a person can be so mentally challenged that they are no longer responsible for their actions. It’s been proven both medically and legally, and I have no problem with that. But when talking about Blaine Milam, the court appointed psychiatrists decided it didn’t apply to him.

    Of course, it didn’t stop his lawyers from trying. Fortunately the jury wasn’t mentally retarded, and didn’t buy into that nonsense.

    But, as a recovering drug addict, I am always offended when a lawyer tried to claim that his client had substance abuse issues, and that they somehow mitigate his crimes.

    Speaking from my own experience, I was just as aware of right and wrong under the influence as I was sober, and if I chose to do something illegal while I was stoned, it wasn’t any less wrong because of the effects of the drugs.

    To me this is the ultimate cop out. People watch these idiot celebrities blame addictions to everything from coke and Oxycontin to sex for their legal and personal problems, and see how they get away with murder, and they think they can do the same. But out here on the real world, those same people usually find out that all those excuses will get you is a good laugh.

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    Filed under Updates | . Written on May 28th, 2010 by Max The Cat


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    44 Responses to “UPDATE: Jessica Carson and Blaine Milam”

    1. ApriL says:
      May 28, 2010 at 6:28 pm

      I really hope the DP sticks. There is no reason for this, no excuse. It never should have happened. Her mother failed her as a mother, and as a human being. They BOTH deserve to die, I don’t care who’s final blow it was, she sat back and let it happen. Fuck them both, and fuck lethal injection, I want him to fry!

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    2. vcbecky says:
      May 28, 2010 at 7:10 pm

      We have the satisfaction of knowing that, not only was he convicted and at least he will end up serving life in prison, but other prisoners will have access to him. AND his own attorneys called him a mentally-retarded drug-addict in the process.

      Retarded people know when they cause pain. If someone isn’t capable of knowing when they’re causing pain, and if they don’t stop, I don’t care WHY. If he’s mentally retarded, there is no rehabilitation for that. It doesn’t excuse his actions. HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING. Get him the fuck off of our planet!

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      • jen says:
        March 9, 2011 at 12:52 pm

        ummmm no they dont always know that their causing pain. how do you know? i have a good 20 years experience working with the mentally handicapped

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        • Maelstrom says:
          March 9, 2011 at 1:09 pm

          Well you certainly have the grammar of one.

          Just saying.

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        • VCBecky says:
          March 9, 2011 at 1:50 pm

          You’re right, that blanket statement was unfair and I apologize. THIS SPECIFIC FUCKHEAD knew what he was doing. ‘Stupid’ and ‘simple’ people understand the basics of human emotion. Pain is one of those very basic emotions.

          The rest of my comment stands. I hope he’s getting a taste of hell in prison right now.

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          • GODSLADYOFLOVE says:
            January 17, 2013 at 12:46 pm

            LOOK I LIVED 2 DOORS DOWN FROM THEM FOR AWHILE AND I FEEL MORE THEN ALOT OF HURT 4 AMORA BUT U HAD TO B AROUND THEM 2 UNDERSTAND HE WAS VERY CONTROLING AND HE WOULD CHANGE AT THE DROP OF A DIME HE WOULD MAKE HER TAKE OFF HER CLOTHES WITH THE APT. DOOR WIDE OPEN ACCUSIN HER EVERY DAY OF HAVING MEN OR WOMEN IN THEIR HOUSE WHILE HE WAS AT WORK. WHEN I 1ST MET THEM JESS WOULD TALK BUT OVER A TIME PERIOD SHE WOULDNT TALK MUCH OR EVEN LOOK AT ANY1 EYE TO EYE BECAUSE HE ALWAYS STARTED MESS WE DIDNT EVEN KNOWN THAT AMORA WAS 13 MONTHS BECAUSE HE WOULD TREAT HER LIKE A NEWBORN AND I JESS HAD ANYTHING 2 SAY HE WOULD SHOW HIS ASS. HE WOULD RUN HER AROUND THE COMPLEX TRYIN 2 JUMP ON HER HE WOULD BEAT ON OUR DOORS OR RUN UP 2 YOUR CAR WHEN WE WOULD BE COMING IN FROM WORK OR ANYTHING ACCUSING HER OF EVERYTHING ANYTHING JESS WAS VERY DIFFERENT AFTER THEY STARTED USING THAT DAMN BOARD SHE WAS SO WITHDRAWN FROM EVERYBODY AND WHEN WE STARTED BEIN NOISEY HE MOVED THEM SO WE WOULDNT TALK 2 JESS ABOUT LEAVIN HIM HE REALLY CONTROLD HER AND NO THERE IS NO EXCUSES 4 JESS ALLOW WHAT HAPPEND 2 HAPPEN 2 AMORA BUT N MY HEART I KNOW SHE WAS SCARED AND DEPRESSED I HAVE BEEN DEPRESSED AND KNOW U R NOT YOURSELF I DONT THINK I WOULD HAV LET THINGS GO THAT FAR THOU BUT I AM JUS SAYIN U HAVE 2 KNOW THE REAL BLAINE AND THE SITUATION JESS WAS IN TOO.

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            • Minerva says:
              April 12, 2013 at 10:50 am

              For the love of god DON’T TYPE IN CAPS! On top of horrible punctuation and grammar it is unintelligible.

            • Lexi says:
              April 12, 2013 at 1:29 pm

              Hold on there!!! Why are you yelling at us (in caps)? WE have done nothing wrong!

              You witnessed all of this jackassery and yet not one of you in that community stepped forward to have that piece of wasted flesh removed, or jailed? Surely people knew he was mistreating poor little Amora too!

              Why in heaven’s name didn’t any of you call the cops on this tool? Maybe that dear baby girl would still be alive if someone had spoken up about Milan’s behaviours!!!

            • Travis says:
              April 12, 2013 at 2:24 pm

              That is one long ass run-on sentence.

            • Goatgirl says:
              April 13, 2013 at 11:19 am

              Lol… If Jess had anything to say he would show his ass? What the hell does that mean? Did he have such a hairy, scary ass that seeing it was some horrible form of mind control or abuse?

    3. hazzard2myself says:
      May 28, 2010 at 7:34 pm

      There is no excuse for killing a child. Do the Crime do the time!!

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    4. Smith says:
      May 29, 2010 at 8:49 am

      This is great news. This story has haunted me…I truly hate these people and this is the only punishment that fits this crime.

      thanks for this update

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    5. Miwist says:
      May 29, 2010 at 9:25 am

      So the Defense is arguing that he shouldn’t be executed because he’s an uneducated retard with a drug problem?
      Even without killing the baby it seems like we’ve got 3 good reasons to execute.

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    6. brent says:
      May 29, 2010 at 12:22 pm

      Max I am so with you on this. As a recovering alcoholic/addict myself I get sick and tired of people trying to, once again NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THEIR ACTIONS!!! What’s the retard excuse is it low IQ or what are they really claiming here? If nobody is responsible for their own actions anymore just who the hell is. Is it the boogey man causing all of these people to commit these crimes?

      Hey as bad as it got when I was an active user the thought of killing anyone other than myself just didn’t occur, much less a child. If it would have by some chance guess who would be responsible……..me, myself no one else.

      I posted earlier about my nephew who is probably going to be getting a life sentence for murder while messed up on drugs and at one point the defense attorney through the addiction card out there. I’m sorry that’s not going to flush.

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      • NavyCop says:
        June 5, 2010 at 5:34 pm

        Gee, brent, we can’t expect anyone to take RESPONSIBILITY anymore… Most of the people in this world have given away their honor and integrity by the time they hit puberty and silenced their consciences to the point of non-existence.

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      • USS Yorktown says:
        June 5, 2010 at 7:05 pm

        Blame shifting. It is whether blaming your childhood, addiction, or the the victim. It is all the same.

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    7. Frozen says:
      May 29, 2010 at 1:26 pm

      I hope they still got the electric chair in texas. Injection is too swift for this coward.. Make him feel pain, pain and more pain. And if he gets life… Fuck it, i just hope he suffers

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    8. minjofu says:
      May 29, 2010 at 4:15 pm

      She was a beautiful baby.. she looked perfect.. I dont know how people can look at such a perfect being and have their first thought be to destroy it? .. and forget the word “it”.. Amora was a person with a right to live.. All of that being said I’m not so much concerned as to whether or not these to people (and I use the term loosely) suffer at their executions.. I’d just like to see it swift, and over with.. I’m still a strong believer in bringing back the Guillotine .. Modern innovations could do away with the bloodiness by super-heating the blade .. instant cauterization.. Or, better yet, develop a laser-based cutting method.. See, they’re trying to phase out the death penalty, thats why you won’t see any innovations in the field of executions – but it really is necessary to remove certain inividuals from society.. it just is.. thats NEVER going to change.. so, why not put more thought into doing a better more efficent job of it??

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      • NavyCop says:
        May 29, 2010 at 5:06 pm

        Well, you know, you can never trust babies, what with their faux-innocence and all…. Demons lurk within their evil little souls.

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        • Smith says:
          May 29, 2010 at 9:47 pm

          Yep just ask Banita Jacks, Meghan Lippiatt or Awilda Lopez and her husband, Carlos Lopez. can’t let those innocent cherub faces fool ya.

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      • Frozen says:
        May 29, 2010 at 10:29 pm

        Guillotine? I never thought of that:( I second that shit. Bring it back, and televise the use of it

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    9. NavyCop says:
      May 29, 2010 at 6:07 pm

      Oh my crap. Anyone hear about the asshole who got his TWO YEAR OLD stepdaughter drunk on gin & ice tea, to the point where she nearly died!? What a waste of flesh!

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      • ApriL says:
        May 29, 2010 at 7:06 pm

        yea, Nancy Grace was talking about him. Stupid fuck, I would have kicked him in the face, literally. WTF was he thinking? Very glad to hear he didn’t give the 6 month old (that he was also watching) any alcohol. Also, very very greatful the 2 y.o. didn’t die, though likely will have problems the rest of her life from it, experts said. EVIL!

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    10. dooflotchie says:
      May 29, 2010 at 8:17 pm

      “Otherwise, we would take Blaine Milam and hang him from the highest tree,”

      Sounds like a fine idea to me!

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    11. MEL says:
      June 1, 2010 at 1:37 am

      I found this link from when the trial was just beginning: http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20100504/NEWS01/5040318/-1/RSS01

      “During his opening statement, Rusk County District Attorney Micheal Jimerson told jurors the death of Amora Carson did not last a few minutes, but that her murder lasted several hours. He also divulged for the first time that Amora had been sexually abused and her arms, legs and ribs had been broken. He added she also suffered multiple skull fractures and a detached retina.”
      —-
      Also, I think the blue-eyed baby’s pic you have up isn’t Amora (I read somewhere else that it’s a relative and keeps getting linked to this story).

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    12. MEL says:
      June 1, 2010 at 2:08 am

      Oops – I may have been wrong about her eye color looking through other photos. Sorry.

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    13. emy10284 says:
      June 1, 2010 at 8:04 am

      i went to a forum that was posting statements made in court they said they found a pipe wrench covered in astro glide in a ziploc bag hidden under the home a fu*king pipe wrench wth is wrong with this piece of crap i hope he does suffer on death row i hope( “He will be picked on from the word go.”) , haha like we are supposed to feel bad about that one may he rot in hell

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    14. The Bosses Secretary says:
      June 1, 2010 at 10:02 am

      Can I switch on the lethal injection machine? Can I? Can I? Please?

      Cases like this should allow a lottery for who wants to kill the POS.

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    15. Pookster says:
      June 1, 2010 at 2:10 pm

      At least he was convicted in Texas. We actually flip the switch here!

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      • brent says:
        June 1, 2010 at 9:09 pm

        Amen to that. We need more of Texas Law!!!!

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        • Pookster says:
          June 2, 2010 at 7:08 am

          I agree. What’s the point of giving someone a death sentence if they die of old age before the actual sentence is carried out. Give them their one appeal and if there is no doubt, fry em!

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    16. emy10284 says:
      June 2, 2010 at 8:30 am

      i almost forgot there was one thing i actually did love about texas but they need to bring in ole sparky

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    17. emy10284 says:
      June 2, 2010 at 8:34 am

      old**

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    18. E says:
      June 2, 2010 at 9:34 am

      Mentally retarded my ass. If he’s mentally retarded then I’m Maria von Trapp. Fucking attorneys and their excuses. Now I’ll grant you, maybe his drug abuse has destroyed some brain cells and made him “slow.” But if he is slow and still violent enough to torture and murder an innocent little baby, then society is better off without him. Tell him ol Sparky is an amusement park ride and strap his ass down. I’ll play the guitar and sing “My Favorite Things” while he jitters up and down and goes “uh uh uh” and smoke comes out from under his cap.

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    19. Peach says:
      June 10, 2010 at 8:56 pm

      “He is child-like and mentally retarded and this is wrong. We look forward to our appeal,” Jackson said.”

      Yeah…….cause all child-like individuals bite and beat someone to death, right?

      Grrrrrrrrrrr

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    20. diana says:
      June 12, 2010 at 6:00 pm

      Max, I absolutely could not agree with you more on the substance abuse issue. The choice to abuse drugs or alcohol is exactly that. A choice. I should know, nearly 14 years ago, I made that choice. I have since kicked that addiction but will forever consider myself an addict. I cannot rationalize what I did but, I can say that being an addict was a conscious decision that I made, therefor, every action I carried out because of that choice was mine and mine alone. That should never be considered a mitigating factor as we have always had a choice in the matter. Never a moment passed when we we could not have said enough is enough. I am done. No more. We always had that decision. It simply takes willing yourself to carry out that action and to see it through to the end.

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    21. alyxzandra says:
      June 22, 2010 at 5:50 pm

      “He will be victimized if he goes to prison,” Jackson said. “He will be picked on from the word go.”

      So what? No pity for this one. Go get him, inmates. Can someone sneak in a pipe wrench to use up his ass too?

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    22. evil punisher says:
      August 22, 2010 at 3:34 pm

      thats what im talking about BURN EXCREMENT!!!!!! ALIENS LIKE THESE NEED TO BE PUT ON THEIR MISERY AND IM SO FUCKING GLAD ITS TIME CAME HELL YEAH!!! AND YOU CAN TELL THIS SHIT WAS MENTALLY RETARTED THE WAY IT STANDS THE WAY IT LOOKS, ITS ALMOST DROOLING….. WELL AINT NO PITTY IN SATANS CITY AND EVEN IF IT WAS THE MOST RETARTED PERSON IN THE WORLD IT WILL GET 10 TIMES WORST THE BEATING IT INFLICTED UPON THIS HEAVEN’S ANGEL IN HELL!!!!!! OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN COWARD MUTHERFUCKER THIS STORY SADDEN ME SO MUCH IT MADE ME CRY WELL ALMOST ALL THE STORIES IN HERE DID C’ MON COWARD BASTARDS FROM HELL THESE ANGELS ARE BORN PURE AND INNOCENT AND ITS OUR JOB TO STAND OUT AND PROTECT THESE DEFENDLESS LITTLE PEOPLE FROM HEAVEN its o muthafucking easy to kill a child only cowards and hell made aliens would do this retarted shit HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY LOOK AT A GORGEOUS ADORABLE BABY AND HURT IT MAN C’MON!!!!!……… PAIR OF FUCKING PUNK RETARDS THAT DUMB BITCH LOOK DUMB AS HELL TOO THAT WAS THE MOST COWARDLY ACT THEY COULVE DONE AND THEY PROBABLY DID IT TO FELL LIKE SUPERMAN BUT THEY WERE SUPERTARDS TO DO SUCH THING TO A 13 MONTH OLD BABY THAT CANT RUN AND HIDE OR FIGHT BACK!!!!!!! AND TO ALL OTHER RETARDS VOTING NO BURN AS WELL

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    23. Susie Q says:
      November 18, 2010 at 10:58 pm

      I went to school with this guy. Sat in the same classes with him for years. I never remember him being mentally challenged. Just a lil strange! How could some one do this to their child! A poor innocent child that had never done any wrong in their world! The proper punishment was served!

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