Melissa Alexander
I love babies. I love the way they feel and smell and sound and look. I turn to mush when I see a baby, and have even learned to say in Mandarin, “Your baby is adorable,” and, “Your child is beautiful.” Alas, I was never blessed with a child but get such joy from the babies of friends and relatives. So it is incomprehensible to me that a uterus-owner like Melissa Alexander can exist and breed. I refuse to consider her a mother.
Melissa Alexander, a 26-year-old from Toronto, Canada, had a perfectly beautiful little boy, Miguel Fernandes. Beautiful… with big dark eyes and thick curly hair. Miguel Fernandes lived to the ripe age of 19 months when Melissa Alexander had a bad day in September, 2007.
I don’t know how it happened, if she was distracted, not paying attention, or was mad and murderous, but Melissa Alexander plopped little Miguel into scalding hot water. She left him in that water for up to 10 seconds.
For those who don’t know, tap water at 140°F ( 60°C) can cause a full-thickness burn in 5 seconds. That means that every layer of his scalded skin was burnt through. And Miguel was in that watery hell for 10 seconds before he was pulled out.
Miguel’s hell was just beginning.
The poor little baby suffered (and I mean suffered) serious burns to 40% of his little body, from his little toes to his shoulders.
Scalding causes blistering of course, and swelling, and then the skin splits. The agony little Miguel must have felt I cannot imagine!
And what did the uterus-owner Melissa Alexander do? Did she take him across the street to the walk-in clinic? Nope. Did she take him to a hospital for treatment? Nope. Did she call for an ambulance? Nope, none of these things.
What Melissa Alexander did was apply some ointment, wrap his wounds in gauze, and then dress him in a sleeper! All of those actions must surely have increased Miguel’s agonizing pain as his skin bubbled and split.
And then this incredibly selfish, soulless creature LEFT THE HOUSE! She left her mortally injured baby Miguel with his 29-month-old brother Shawn home alone! So she could do what? Go shopping!
Melissa Alexander probably had a lovely relaxing trip to the stores. She bought gloves, some CDs and some food. And finally she returned home.
Miguel’s father Sergio, who had been at work, came home and was very concerned when told of the “accident.” He wanted to check the injuries but Melissa Alexander told him not to wake the baby.
It wasn’t until 2 a.m., about 12 whole hours after she scalded her baby, that Melissa Alexander finally called 911. Baby Miguel was, by then, needlessly and irrevocably dead.
The autopsy photos of that poor little boy show the third degree “immersion burns” he’d suffered were so frightfully horrid that the first layer of skin on his back side was scalded off from below his shoulders all the way to include the soles of his feet. On his front, his burned skin had peeled right away from his pelvis down to his toes.
“Human skin was located in both the kitchen garbage can and bathroom garbage can – it was tested and was found to be Miguel’s,” Crown attorney Barry Stagg said. “A child sustaining this type of injury would scream and yell and fuss and kick…these burns would have been extremely painful.”
In October, Melissa Alexander was found guilty of manslaughter.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy wrote in her decision, “It is difficult to comprehend how any human being could fail to get help for that poor child.” That is exactly why I consider Melissa Alexander more of a hellbeast than a human being.
Justice Molloy continued, “It is impossible to fathom the depths of self-interest that would permit a mother to betray her own tiny, vulnerable and utterly dependent child in this matter.”
I know I cannot fathom it.
Melissa Alexander’s lawyer, Catherine Currie, asked for a sentence of 18 to 24 months. Miguel’s death was, after all, a “horrible accident” that her client thought she could treat herself.
Really? It was just a “horrible accident” that Melissa Alexander neglected to even cross the street to get her injured baby medical care?
In a note she sent to Justice Anne Molloy, this hell bitch said she was “so overwhelmed and stressed out” and that she thought she could heal her son’s wounds herself.
“To your honour I will do my time whatever you give me and I’m just letting everyone know how truly [I] am sorry for everything that I have done…my stubbornness, carelessness and pride got my lovely son gone from me and this I’m going to have to live with for the rest of my life,” she wrote.
Justice Molloy read this note and after considering she concluded it was proof that Melissa Alexander was consumed with her own “self-absorption and self-interest.” Justice Molloy also had doubts that this creature could be rehabilitated.
“Melissa Alexander shows no remorse,” wrote Justice Molloy. “Her sorrow is only for what she personally has lost. She remains focused only on her own suffering and continues to see her crime… as an “incident” that “happened” to her.”
So Justice Molloy handed this hell bitch female Melissa Alexander an 11-year sentence in prison for her “shocking” indifference to a “literally horrific” crime.
Hopefully Melissa Alexander, hellbeast creature that she is, will spend every day of that sentence in prison. No shopping for her, not for a long time! That probably bothers her far more than the memory of her dying baby boy.
Rot in pieces, Melissa Alexander. And I pray that nobody impregnates you ever again.
Does Melissa Alexander deserve the deepest depths of hell?
- Yes, she should roast forever for making that poor baby suffer and die. (99%, 661 Votes)
- No, it was an accident that Miguel was scalded. (1%, 11 Votes)
Total Voters: 671
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My daughter’s mother on many occasions told me to “let the baby cry”… Some of the times I did, but there were times the cries were not that of a normal baby trying to control the parents.
Many of the times I was wrong, but there was one time I was really right. Somehow my daughter fell through the sleeper bed and her neck was caught…. of coarse her cousins did not do shit…..
I yelled at them to get off the bed – the weight I feared made the problem worse – one just sat there and suddenly grew wings (I tossed him off).
When her mother left, I told her that ANY injuries that happen to our daughter do to abuse or negligence I will personally inflict upon you. Bruises will be put into place with a sledge hammer, I have a regular one and a “baby sledge” that fits nicely under a jacket.
I was told by my mother the whole bit about “let the baby cry”. I was never good at listening to my mother. By not listening to her I have kept my babies safer than if I had just “let the baby cry”. Kudos for taking control, and not just letting the baby cry, because babies NEVER cry for no reason.
Even if they do just want to be held….:)
Babies come into the world to be loved by their parents and no one should take any notice of ‘rules’.
if it’s some consolation to anyone for this horrific crime against a child, this woman will be punished severely by her peers in prison. i hope they shove a mop handle up her ugly, fat ass.
this sentence sounds really brief? I don’t understand.
You need to understand Canadian Law. We here in Canada focus on rehabilitation, rather than punishment or deterrence or public safety or common sense. Yes, she horribly killed her child. And yes, she might do it again. But it would violate her rights to punish her for any significant length of time.
I’m serious, Canadian justice is sad. Until last year, first degree murder here was 15 years in jail before full parole. We finally have a decent Prime Minister who wants to clamp down on crime (raised murder to 25 years, raised age of consent to 16 from 12 in some provinces). And of course, the old guard of hug-a-thug liberals are screaming bloody murder.
I should be really, really interested to know how they hope to rehabilitate this monster.
And if they don’t know how to do it, why give her a sentence based on the hope of rehabilitation?
(There’s no offence intended, it’s just the same — and worse — where I live. And of course it is because prisons are full, and money is scarce. It seems, children everywhere are just lucky if they survive childhood.)
When I read stories like this, “eye for an eye” punishments are sounding better and better all the time. The only differences are that Melissa would deserve what she got, and she would know why she was getting it.
Goodness Gracious, and I thought our country (South Africa) was too lenient!!
I can’t imagine the enormous pain this poor baby went through on his way to heaven. Thermal burns have to be the world’s worst way to go.
I think I’m going to have nightmares about this kid’s skin coming off.
I was thinking the same thing. I’ve had lots of broken bones and stitches but burning is the worst pain. It’s absolutely the worst torture I can think of. It’s unimaginable, the amount of pain that poor baby would have suffered.
Let her stay the time in jail, then force her to sit down in 212 degree water. Just unreal how stone cold hearts can be.
I’m sure most people have heard about the lady who sued McDonald’s for the coffee spill incident. I read a more detailed account of what really happened to her recently and was appalled to find out that the coffee was 210 *F, almost boiling! She suffered 3rd degree burns on 6% of her body. There are pictures of the burns on that poor 79 year old woman’s body out there if you choose to find them, but they are graphic and show what hot liquids can do to a person’s skin. I cannot imagine what this poor baby went through, but I believe it was nothing short of torture. What an awful way to die :(
HBO has a documentary about the incident, called “hot coffee” I think…. Very Good.
In 2007 a pressure blew up on me and I tell you the burns I sustained were far worse pain than anything I’ve ever felt. I’ve shot myself in the leg(accident), gave birth, been ran over by a truck, broke and had surgery on my ankle, and many other injuries and the burn was way worse. God help that baby and please allow Big Bertha/Stella whatever to beat that bitch, Melissa, to sleep…eternal sleep that is!!
I sure hope the remaining child is safe and with someone that loves him and protects him. I hope that egg donor never sees the living child, shit hopefully she won’t be alive too much longer. One can only hope though.
Burns hurt a lot, dunno if childbirth topped that for me tho. (I swear he held on to the walls with claws instead of coming out!)
I had hot coffee spilled on my arm at school, by a teacher in a rush. Left scars for years and years… And it ruined my Jordache Jersey, lol (circa 1980)
My senior portraits from high school show, in the ones that show me seated in a chair with my hands folded in my lap, that I’m very carefully hiding my right hand with my left sweater sleeve. That was because at the restaurant where I worked, a coffee pot full of hot water broke all over my right hand the week before the pictures, and my hand was covered with bandages. I was lucky, I had no scarring, but I remember the pain.
My husband, before I met him, dropped a pot of pasta, water and all, on his foot. His sister told me that the skin was coming off his foot. He somehow has no scarring, and says he barely remembers the incident.
But yeah, burns are very painful. I can’t imagine what that poor baby must have experienced at the hands of his so-called mother.
I just cannot even imagine the pain. A burn hurts but the pain gets worse as time goes on!! This poor baby!!! Yes, I hope she ROASTS in hell. This makes me really angry, I can’t even put into words the anger I feel towards this “woman”. It’s stories like this that make me wish with all my heart that there is a heaven so that baby can be happy and in peace.
This is no woman. This is a purely selfish, evil thing. She lost the right to be considered human when she chose to not seek help for her baby (who I’m sure she didn’t seek help for because she was afraid she’d get in trouble for what she did) and chose to go shopping. She should endure the same pain her poor baby did. Oh, wait, I already posted that…
This was no accident! I have a 2 1/2 year old and if his bath water is even slightly uncomfortable, he screams “hot” when his toes touch the water. There is no way that in 10 seconds she didn’t know how hot that water was and how bad that baby was hurting!! And she lived across the street from a clinic? Are you serious?!!! I cannot imagine how much pain he was in after being burned then stuffed into a sleeper. I know after I stay in the sun too long I can’t stand having anything touch my skin.
All of the stories I have read on here are heartbraking, but this one touched me in a different way. Just thinking about that poor baby’s skin coming off and being thrown in the garbage is just….too much.
RIP Lil Guy
Not to be distasteful, or disrespectful, as this enrages me as much as anything ever has, but this certainly put a new meaning to “don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater”! Definently a sad and sickening event.
I wish there was some way to extradite her to a foriegn country that would actually punish her, rather than just stick her worthless waste of flesh in prison for 11 years.
My 3 1/2 year old prefers her bath water somewhere around “arctic”. A couple degrees over her preference has her shouting “too hot! Too hot!” My baby prefers warm, and cries if the water is too cool. I’ve learned to stick my arm in each of their baths to test the temp. And hold it there about 10 seconds to make sure its comfortable. Any doubts at all and I’ll re-draw the bath.
I can’t stand the sounds of a child screaming in pain. There is a huge difference between an “I don’t want a bath” cry and a “this water is so hot it’s killing me!” cry. This poor little angel did not have a whole foot in the water before he started screeching in pain, probably flailing around in an attempt to get out, I can promise you that. If this wench didn’t get some scalding hot water splashed on her it would be a miracle. I wonder if she got a burn herself and still didn’t pull her baby out.
I hate taking my baby to the doctor for her shots because she looks at me as she cries out in pain with a confused, why are you letting this happen to me? face that breaks my heart. Did Miguel give his egg donor that face? Could any mother with a soul ignore it? She did.
11 years is too short. Any time is too short. This bitch needs to spend her life behind bars until she dies of natural causes or decides to be dunked into scalding water and held there for 10 seconds herself.
My god, this is horrific. I am shaking with anger, these cases that involve children always make me so furious and begin to doubt humanity.
This is no mother, this is a MONSTER. She needs to be serilized immediatly and boiled alive. She doesn’t deserve to breath oxygen.
Rest in peace Miguel.
I have one question:
How could she stand the screaming? A 19 month old child will have a set of lungs. When they are hurt the screaming is pretty loud. The pitch and volume goes up with the degree of injury. I am pretty sure the clinic could hear it from her house.
And does this woman have a habit of accidentally burning the skin off her hands when she does the dishes? If this was an “accident” she obviously didn’t test the temperature of the water, which is unfathomable to me because I think every person ever (including my four year old) checks the water temperature before sticking anything into it.
Just saying.
I have choice words for her but I think they are too offensive.
I don’t think she could stand the screaming, hence the shopping trip. But her other little one had to listen to Miguel’s cries of agony until the poor little dude succumbed to shock and fell unconscious. I really hope that’s a memory that never resurfaces for that child.
Heck, I don’t care if it WAS an accident. If a toddler in my care were so badly burned that his skin was falling off, I would call 911 the second he’d been removed from immediate danger. She murdered this child. There’s no other way of looking at it.
“Accident”? A child learning to walk, falling down, and bumping thier head is an accident. A child who gets a little too close to a heater, touches it, and gets a very minor burn (that recieves prompt attention) is an accident. A mother who doesn’t test the water before she gives her child a bath is neglectful. A mother who doesn’t get thier child out of hot water before 10 seconds is malicious, and a monster who let’s thier child suffer like this is a murderer. Other you calling this atrocity an “accident”, I agree.
as a human this story sickens me but as a mother it makes my head boil over with rage that a mother could do this to the same child she carried and protected till birth!
a very close friend of mine found out today she miscarried for the 5th time and my heart is breaking knowing someone i love is hurting and i cant even take a little bit of the pain away and yet monsters like that POS have healthy children they abuse and in this instance kill.
sweet dreams little man she cant hurt you any more <3
I had a miscarriage at 21 and as a result can’t get pregnant. I’m all too aware that the world is filled with people who shouldn’t be parents, and they seem to bring babies into the world all too easily, and then don’t know what to do with them, or worse, end up on PYSIH.
This ignorant egg donor needs a little taste of what he precious baby felt…hmmm…what’s on the menu today:
Let’s fill a tub with water. Hot water. Water at 140 – 200 degrees will do nicely. Then, let’s make her lie in it at gun point for 10 seconds. Then, we’ll “dry” her off (as she obviously must have attempted for her child’s skin to be found in trash cans around the house), apply some “ointment” (preferably in the form of lemon juice and salt), wrap her ass in gause, and leve her in a room alone to die horribly. Yep, justice is served.
RIP Miguel Fernandes. Heaven has another Angel taken too soon by a worthless POS who lived way too long. Condolences to Miguel’s family. This was a senseless crime, and one day, maybe, justice will be done.
Really, some of you ppl want to say this was an accident? I have a 20 month old and I NEVER forget to check the temp of the water. So I guess it was an accident that she didn’t take him to the hospital? I guess it was an accident that she left him at home with his toddler sibling to go shopping too right, instead of atleast being there to attempt to console the poor baby since she wasn’t taking him to the doctor? For those of you that think this was an accident? You are straight stupid! Just the facts of this story alone tell you it was on purpose! Hope y’all don’t have kids either bc you might do something like this and call it an accident!
Hey Shannon,
Try exercising your reading comprehension skills a bit, will ya? Not one person commenting her excused or made excuses for this pathetic POS “parent.” In fact, the mildest condemnation she got was that at the outset of the incident she was at the very least, negligent. (neglecting her child, in simpler English)
Most of us expressed our disgust and dismay at her behavior quite vociferously. (loudly, for those of you still reading at the third grade level…)
your mistake here is assuming Shannon knows how to read.
” I have a 20 month old and I NEVER forget to check the temp of the water.” You have common sense. Let’s have a ticker tape parade.
I am quite disturbed at the leniency of these sentences. 11 years for murdering your baby. The sentence should be life in prison, no parole.
Why have you learnt to say things in Mandarin? Are you in china or do you have a big chinese population where you live?
I dread to think the pain that little boy went through. When i’ve been cooking and have gotten splashed with got oil, shit that really hurts, so imagine that little boy 40 percent of his little body burnt. She could have got that child help. Even when the partner came home she said no don.t wake him why. That baby boy would have had an agonizing death, what a cruel self centred bitch. And she left them and went shopping for fuck sake how evil can you be. I hope she gets a good battering when her new family in jail find out what she’s done, and eleven years thats just a fucking joke.