James is awesome.

James Davis, a man’s man, likes many things that other men like.

He likes drugs.

He likes cars.

He likes sex.

James here is basically like a down-home version of James Dean. Party hard, drive fast, screw as you please.

James picks women he’s comfortable with, and that means they can’t be too independant and they can’t be real deep thinkers.

This is 36-year-old Sandra Davis. Sandra likes James and drugs.

Sandra Davis was married to James Davis for a while, but they’re separated now.

From what information we’ve been able to gather, they did not split up because one of Sandra’s eyes is lower than the other. It’s very sad that such a cute couple split up, but like everyone will tell you, life goes on in Eastman.

In 1996, a girl-child sprang forth from Sandra’s loins. As Sandra herself would tell you, that girl is not really all that important. She just kind of comes into the story later.

This here is 66-year-old Robert Wayne Bearden, the manager of Shorty’s Used Cars – a fine establishment in Eastman, Georgia that only sells the very highest quality pre-owned vehicles at the very lowest prices.

Back in 2007, when James Davis and his wife Sandra met Wayne Bearden for the first time, Robert Wayne convinced James and Sandra that a particular 1998 Dodge Caravan was the absolute best choice for a vehicle for their family. Priced at a low, low $10,678, the minivan was an absolute steal! All the Davis family had to do to drive that baby home was make low, low monthly payments of $281 for a few years.

Now up to this point, this isn’t an especially interesting story. Thousands of people every day go into car dealerships and buy cars. What’s the big deal?

Well, the story really only got interesting when the Davis family sat down in the finance office of Shorty’s Used Cars with Mr. Robert Wayne Bearden. That was because the Davis family financed the majority of the value of the car with their 12-year-old daughter’s vagina.

Somehow in that office that day, the Davis family and Shorty’s Used Cars general manager struck a deal. Robert Wayne Bearden would use their 12-year-old daughter sexually whenever he wanted, and the Davis family would drive an 11-year-old Dodge minivan.

Now, why would anyone have a problem with that?

Everyone was perfectly fine with the arrangement for 2 years.

James and Sandra would get a call from Robert Wayne requesting a payment on the minivan. James or Sandra would put their pre-teen/teen daughter into the minivan and drive her to Wayne. Mr. Bearden would pop a viagra or something and put his sexagenarian sexual abilities to work on a girl who was 2 years older than the minivan he sold to her parents.

As a side note, if you think about it, the now 14-year-old girl never even really got to drive the van, despite the fact that she was really the one who paid for it. That’s kind of unfair.

According to Captain Tony Winborn of the Dodge sheriff’s office, there are no records of the Davis’s making any payments from the day that the van was driven off the lot until the day that the Davis family was caught up in a major drug investigation by the local authorities.

That drug investigation, which had been ongoing for quite some time, revealed that there were a bunch of people in town who had serious drug problems. Someone stole 276 vials of controlled narcotic from the local hospital, other people were selling large quantities of marijuana and cocaine, and there was this one couple (the Davis family) who was paying for their drugs by allowing random drug dealers to have sex with their daughter.

Everyone was arrested, which is kind of a relief.

Sandra Davis and James Clarence Davis have both been charged with pandering and child molestation. James Davis is also charged with aggravated child molestation. The investigation revealed that James and Sandra had both molested their daughter over a number of years, which may have been why they felt comfortable pimping the girl.

Robert Wayne Bearden has been charged with one count of aggravated child molestation, one count of child molestation and with being in possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Robert

The Davis daughter is now in foster care.
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Mr. Bryan Chang, like many Asians, grew up in a household that valued education. They realize that their progeny are, most likely, going to be able to support them in their old age a lot better if they have a college degree of some kind. Usually a medical degree, but a computer degree or an engineering degree will sometimes work out well too.

In this case, Bryan’s mother – 60-year-old Sherry Chu Chang – financed Brian’s stay at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

That was very nice of her.

So Bryan Chang had a technologically-oriented degree, he was young and his future was wide open.

Oh sure, with the economy being what it has been, it can be hard to find a job. Times are tough. Interviews are hard. There’s a lot of competition out there.

Bryan Chang had been without a job for 18 months, living off his mom.

Sherry Chu Chang was getting a bit tired of her son sponging off her. After 18 months, most parents would be. She probably nagged incessantly, kept after her son to get out and find something, make something of his life. Do something with that degree we bought you, for Christ’s sake!

The good news is, Bryan Chang doesn’t have to print up any more resumes or chase after job interviews from now on.

On the 19th of January, 2010, Bryan Chang reported that his car – a car his parents had financed – had been stolen. Four days later, on the 23rd, Sherry Chang drove to Bryan’s apartment in Los Angeles to talk about it. While she was there, she talked on her cellphone with her husband, who also lived in Los Angeles. Apparently the conversation with her husband dealt with the fact that they were both getting a bit tired of Bryan squandering their largess.

Later that afternoon, Bryan Chang and his mother were seen by Sherry’s neighbors pulling into the garage at their Solana Beach home.

Now, we can’t be entirely sure about what they talked about while they were there, but one thing’s for sure – Sherry Chang didn’t expect the conversation to be about hammers.

In an upstairs room, Bryan Chang took that hammer to his mother, giving murder the ol’ college try.

At 2 in the morning that Monday, Bryan Chang took a cab from his mother’s house in Solana Beach to his apartment in Los Angeles. According to authorities, in order to pay for the ride, he tried to charge it on his mother’s credit card.

When Sherry Chang didn’t show up for work that morning, concerned co-workers called the authorities. It wasn’t like her to just not show up for work. They felt something had happened to her.

Which, of course, had happened. Something. A hammer. From her son.

The sheriff’s department showed up at Sherry’s home to check on her, did the usual knock and so on and eventually went inside. They might have expected her to be dead, but they probably didn’t expect the extent of her state of being dead.

She was extra dead.

According to officer reports from the scene, officers found Sherry Chang’s arm and pieces of her skull in her refrigerator. The rest of her body was located on the floor of the downstairs bathroom of her two-story home. From the evidence at the scene, it was obvious that Sherry had died from blunt force trauma to her head.

While the hammer blow to the head had been the injury which had killed her, Sherry had also endured broken ribs, numerous facial fractures and bruises all over her body – all consistent with the injuries one would receive if someone played a 60-year-old’s body like a glockenspiel.

The arm had been removed by one of two knives that had been found in the kitchen – a serrated knife that was located in the kitchen sink or a large butcher knife found in the dishwasher.

Going through the garage, authorities found a trash can that was had a “substantial amount” of blood. Sherry’s clothes – drenched in blood – were also in that trash can.

About the only good thing that officers found about her death was that the dismemberment of her body happened after she died. Which is actually kind of interesting to think that they had to make that distinction – since most people will just die after you start dismembering them. Hard to imagine someone finishing up a dismemberment, wiping off their hands and waiting for their subject to die.

Anyways, according to officers at the scene, the house looked like someone had done a very poor job of cleaning up the crime scene.

On Sherry Chang’s desk, investigators found a credit card statement listing purchases made in San Diego and Los Angeles. The Los Angeles charges – apparently charges Sherry had accused Bryan of making – had been highlighted.

Bryan Chang was arrested at his Los Angeles apartment on the 27th of January, 2010. As he was arrested, officer noticed that he appeared to have blood under his fingernails and toenails.

Of course, that blood could have any number of reasons for being there. Really.

Bryan Chang has been charged with murder. During his first court appearance, he remained expressionless and emotionless as the prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney Rachel Solov, detailed his last encounter with his mother for the judge. Citing what she called “the viciousness of the attack,” Superior Court Judge Joan Weber set Chang’s bail at $5 million.

Chang faces 26 years to life if convicted.
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A few years back, Brandy Foreman had a child, a little girl that was named Daelynn.

Tragically, Daelynn Foreman was born with cerebral palsy and a seizure disorder. She had an abnormally small brain, never walked or talked and wore diapers every single day of her life.

Daelynn was completely dependent on her mother for survival.

Brandy Foreman was dependent on the state for financial support to take care of her daughter.

Fortunately for the little family, Ms. Foreman had applied for and received just about every single social service available to her that the great state of California offers – free food, free doctors, free teachers, paid-for special schools, paid-for therapies. There was free medical equipment and supplies. Brandy Sherrie Foreman is also recorded as receiving Supplemental Security Income payments and an In-Home Support Services salary.

And a $175,000 windfall from a mold lawsuit settlement paid out by a former landlord did help some. Brandy Sherrie Foreman was the trustee of the trust set up in that amount for Daelynn.

With all the support available, life for the Foreman family was manageable – and by all accounts, for the first 11 years of Daelynn Foreman’s life Brandy Foreman did a pretty decent job of taking care of her.

Until 2006.

Sometime in 2006, an old boyfriend of Brandy Foreman got out of prison. He headed straight for Brandy’s duplex and resumed their relationship.

According to witnesses, that was about the time that Brandy really stopped caring so much about Daelynn and started caring much more about methamphetamines.

But even before the boyfriend moved in, there were some signs that Brandy Sherrie Foreman was starting to push Daelynn Foreman out of the nest.

According to police reports, Brandy had not taken Daelynn to the doctor for more than a year, and she had also stopped sending Daelynn to a school for the severely physically disabled about 11 months earlier.

Sacramento’s Child Protective Services had been called a number of times to the Foreman home. Their due diligence ended at the front door, as Brandy Foreman avoided dealing with CPS agents merely by refusing to answer the door and pretending to not be home.

4.5 ounces of methamphetamine and Daelynn’s 23.5-pound body was found by authorities on the 31st of July, 2006 in the duplex Brandy and her boyfriend shared. They arrived after Brandy Foreman called 911 to report that her daughter had died.

A sheriff’s report made by an officer at the scene stated that the girl was “morbidly thin” with her skeletal features “clearly outlined under her skin.” She also had bed sores in which bones showed “through several open holes in the skin.”

That sounds a bit painful, doesn’t it? Open holes in your skin that go down to the bone?

Of course, when you weigh less than the average welsh corgi, your skin is somewhat thinner than someone who weighs a bit more. And you probably have considerably less in the way of muscle.

Average Welsh Corgi

While we will never know how deep the thoughts were that Daelynn had, you can safely assume that she felt loved when fed, when taken care of. You can bet that she enjoyed the presence of those who cared for her.

And, on the opposite side of that coin, you can believe that Daelynn – that helpless person who relied on the kindness of others for her existence – felt deep, deep pain as she wasted away.

Did she feel the horror that we can imagine anyone feeling as their body consumes itself, slowly, over a period of months? Did she understand that her mother had problems of her own scoring enough meth to support her half-gram a day habit and couldn’t be bothered to change her bedding, give her food or give her water?

We’ll never know.

Brandy Foreman was arrested and charged with first-degree murder 7 months after her daughter died. You can be sure that Brandy ate well during that time, probably while waiting for the remaining $153,000 in the trust account – all of which would go to Brandy as the next beneficiary in the case that Daelynn died.

At the trial of Brandy Sherrie Foreman, the prosecutor was nice enough to point out that the only signed withdrawal from the $175,000 trust account was $22,000 that went toward a Dodge Magnum. The reason given for the withdrawal of the money and subsequent purchase of the vehicle was for the transportation of Daelynn to and from school and medical appointments.

However, it was proved that Brandy Foreman never took Daelynn to school in the car – and the back area of the station wagon would have had a hard time transporting any kind of a wheelchair because it contained large sub-woofer type speakers instead.

On the 22nd of January, 2010, Brandy Foreman was sentenced to a 25-years-to-life term, to be served in one of California’s magnificent prisons.

As she read Brandy’s sentence from her perch up on the judge’s bench, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Marjorie Koller said:

This is a particularly egregious case given the vulnerability of the victim and the help that was available to the defendant.

Daelynn’s death came despite six reports of suspected abuse over a four-year period that were made to Sacramento County’s child protective services agency. Since attracting media attention, the case has been heralded as one of the first real signs of how troubled Sacramento’s CPS had become.

Since this case was brought into the light, a series of other child neglect cases resulting in death have come to the attention of those in the media. The outcry has resulted in some people being charged with minor crimes and a few managers losing their cushy government jobs.

But that doesn’t help Daelynn much at this point now, does it?

The question remains – does the 11 years of decent care by Brandy Foreman outweigh the 6 months of intense torture by neglect that her daughter endured that resulted in Daelynn’s death?

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They’ve only recently been arrested, and their victim, Shaniya Davis was only found yesterday, so we don’t even have an autopsy. Antoinette’s sister thinks the charges are false, and Antoinette has not yet entered a plea, so I do feel a bit uncomfortable about establishing a poll, but this is the sort of story that knifes the average reader of PYSIH in the heart. Why would I inflict this on you? My physical proximity to the case has already left a gaping emotional wound in my soul, and my mother always taught me to share.

This is Antoinette Davis.  She’s accused of offering her 5 year old daughter up for prostitution.  A judge informed her she’s facing 40 years in prison.  She does seem to have two jobs, and Shaniya was the product of a one night stand with Bradley Lockhart.  Bradley raised Shaniya for most of her life alongside his seven year old son, but had allowed Shaniya to live with her mother, starting about a month ago–a decision he now regrets bitterly.  Antoinette lived with her boyfriend, initially a suspect, but since cleared of charges so far.

Here we have the beautiful victim herself. We don’t really know what happened to her yet, but Antoinette’s back porch was littered with human feces, as was a blanket that someone threw away in her neighbor’s garbage can. Police found the blanket with a police dog, but forensic results aren’t back from the state lab, to conclusively link them to the girl. After finding the blanket, Bradley Lockhart made an impassioned plea on national television for his daughter’s safe return.

“Drop her off at Wal-Mart, anywhere, I don’t care – just so somebody can find her and bring her back to the people that love her,”

“She’s a precious, little angel, full of joy,” he said. “A little reserved when you first meet her, but once she gets to know you, she just runs around, plays and won’t leave you alone.”

His sister added:

“I just ask that, at this time, please just let her go,” said Shaniya’s aunt, Carey Lockhart-Davis. “She doesn’t deserve this. Have a kind heart.”

Heart breaking… just heart breaking, especially when you add Mario Andrette McNeil into this equation.

Oh him? He’s the man who is accused of kidnapping Shaniya, who Antoinette, Shaniya’s mother, may or may not have sold her to for sex. (click here for McNeill’s arrest record)

Yeah, makes you want to cringe around that blanket thing a whole lot more.

Are these folks guilty? Is there going to be a poll for them? Not yet. Not yet. I’m holding out hope that there’s a giant misunderstanding here. I’m holding out a little bit of hope that Mario carried the girl into his motel room and spent the whole night teaching her how to play Canasta, and that the disposal of Shaniya was a confused woman disposing of a body after a horrible accident…

I’m not holding out much hope, but stay tuned for updates.

Update:

Mario McNeill is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape of a child in his arrest warrant, which was issued after police said they collected hair and fibers, clothes, and a straw from his 1997 Mitsubishi Galant.

Damn it.  Just damn it all to hell.  Mario apparently raped, then strangled the girl to death.

Police say Antoinette Nicole Davis gave her daughter Shaniya to Mario Andrette McNeill for the puposes of prostitution. Simply put, Davis turned her five-year-old daughter into fucking sex slave in order to cover a large drug debt she had.

Mario McNeill was caught on a surveillance camera at the Comfort Suites hotel in Sanford, North Carolina, carrying Shaniya Nicole Davis into a room. An employee at the hotel thought he recognized the little girl from new reports and phoned police, but by the time they arrived McNeill and the girl had checked out.

On Monday afternoon, November 16th, 2009, police recovered the body of 5-year-old Shaniya Nicole Davis. She had been dumped along the side of the road about six miles from her home. She’d been suffocated to death.

God Damn it! God Damn it! God Damn it! Some days I wonder if I really want to do this fucking job anymore.

-Max

Antoinette Nicole Davis was charged with human trafficking, felony child abuse, prostitution, filing a false police report, resisting, delaying, and obstructing a police officer. She is being held at the Cumberland County, NC, Detention Center on a bond of fifty-one thousand dollars. (To view Davis’ arrest warrant, click here)

Yep, here’s their poll.. They’ve earned it.

The jackass pictured on the left, Christopher Swiridowsky, age 30, of Providence RI, took hit and run driving to a whole new level early Sunday morning when he fled the scene of an accident with one of his victims impaled on the windshield of his car. How fortunate for us that before he did this he took this ridiculous picture of himself and posted it on his MySpace homepage. Very fortunate indeed.

The incident started when a two-car accident occurred on Route 95 South inside the city limits of Providence RI. The Rhode Island State Police said the cars, driven by Jose Flores, 24, and Michael Abrames, 33, ended up blocking the far left lane. Christopher Swiridowsky’s car first struck the left rear corner of Abrames’ vehicle, pushing it into Abrames. Swiridowsky’s car continued on, striking Flores and a passenger in Flores’ car, Efron Trinidad, 28, causing Flores to become lodged in the windshield.

Christopher Swiridowsky then drove off, followed for a mile and a half by another motorist, Albert Garcia, who contacted the state police by cell phone. Swiridowsky got off the highway and eventually stopped the car in a parking lot, where he actually had the audacity to ask Mr. Garcia a most amazing question.

“I was chasing him. I stopped my car. That’s when he got out of his car and asked me ‘why are you following me?’.”

Well I’m not sure Chris, but it might be the bleeding man who’s sitting half way through your windshield. Just a guess of course.

After confronting Albert Garcia, Christopher Swiridowsky again left the scene, this time on foot. Cops found him hiding in a closet in the basement of his house and arrested him, according to the state police.

As you may have figured, Jose Flores is the worse off of the three injured men. He is currently being treated for life-threatening injuries in the Intensive Care Unit of Rhode Island Hospital. Efron Trinidad is also in the ICU listed in critical condition with numerous sever injuries. Michael Abrames was lucky – He was treated and released at Rhode Island Hospital.

Christopher Swiridowsky faces three counts of leaving the scene of an accident after injury and one count of obstructing a police officer. He was arraigned in Providence District Court and ordered held on $25,000 bail by Judge Michael A. Higgins, who also ordered Swiridowsky held Tuesday as an alleged bail violator stemming from a July drug charge he was facing.

A Big Thank You Goes To Jason’s Wife For Tipping Us Off To This Story. Way To Keep It In The Family There Guys

The Moirae only gave Matatizo Dunia 14 short years of life, all of which was in Bunyihuna village, in the Bukombe district of Tanzania. No doubt it was a difficult life, made hard enough by being born in a poor rural area where he had little chance of getting an education and health care but then on top of that, Matatizo had another significant problem to contend with- he was an albino.

By some quirk of genetics, albinism is several times more common in Eastern Africa than anywhere else in the world. It occurs in an average of 1 in every 3,000 births, when most other countries see an average of 1 albino in roughly 80,000 births.

Although an albino can have a fairly normal life and have normal, healthy children, health problems such as skin cancer and poor vision are very common in people born with albinism. In the hot sunny climate of Africa where many people must spend a lot of time working outdoors, an albino has a very high risk of dying from skin cancer, but that is not the most deadly threat they face.

They are sometimes hunted like animals, killed for their skin and body parts. Those who believe in black magic will pay large sums of money for witch doctors to cast spells using the blood, body parts, hair and skin of the “ghost people” which are said to make the most powerful charms that bring them good luck and prosperity. Some of the witch doctors’ supply of albino parts comes from grave robbers, but the parts that fetch the highest prices are ones from a living person because it is believed that their screams and agony while being killed imparts even stronger magical power. In the last two years, almost a hundred albino people have been murdered for their body parts in Tanzania, Kenya and Burundi.

Matatizo Dunia had his own rendezvous with three greedy and coldblooded killers who took on the role of the “Three Fates” on December 1, 2008. Masambuko Madata, Emmanuel Masangwa and Charles Kalamuji decided his fate should be for him to die for their financial gain. They invaded the Dunia family home late that night, dragged Matatizo outside and cut his body into pieces. When the killers were arrested, one of them had Dunia’s leg in his possession and his other body parts were found hidden in some nearby bushes.

This vile and despicable murder has only come to the attention of the media because it is the very first time anyone has been jailed and tried for killing an albino in Tanzania since the beginning of an official ban forbidding witch doctors plying their trade openly. Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete urged citizens to come forward with any information involving witch doctor killings, but a BBC Africa analyst has expressed doubt about the hope of stopping the murders entirely, saying “It is likely that some murders will continue because so much money can be made from selling the body parts.”

Perhaps some of the estimated 17,000 Tanzanian albino people living in fear can rest a little easier now with the knowledge that their government is taking the threat seriously and is making good on the President’s vow to crack down on the witch doctors, because the trial of Matatizo Dunia’s murderers made an important first strike in the name of justice on September 23.

Masambuko Madata, Emmanuel Masangwa and Charles Kalamuji were all convicted of murder and sentenced to death by hanging.

A Canadian businessman and founder of the pro-albino organization Under the Same Sun, Peter Ash, himself albino, said authorities must pursue the killers in every case. Speaking before the trial during a tour of the Tanzania, Ash said:

“This is one conviction. There are 52 other families still awaiting justice,” he said.

Ash also highlighted the case of a five-year- old girl named Mariam. She was attacked by a group of men in the city of Mwanza.

“One of them slit her throat, drained her blood into a saucepan and drank it in the presence of her two siblings. The men then chopped off her limbs and ran off.”

“Mariam did not have the benefit of being unconscious first. She was killed, like an animal, by grown men who did this deliberately while her siblings watched.”

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The Police and news media went mad about this case. The Onofris seemed like such a normal family, without secrets, and they were not rich. Nobody ever asked for a ransom. Little Tommy was an epileptic baby who needs daily medications, but days passed and there was no trace of the child or the kidnappers. Investigators looked at every angle. They found traces of child pornography in Mr. Onofri’s computer, and for a short time police suspected him, but it turned out there was no evidence to support the theory that he was connected to the disappearance of his son.

Then, police checked on a man who worked in Onofri house as a builder, some days before Tommy was kidnapped. His name was Mario Alessi and he’d done time for sexual assault; some years before, he raped a girl in front of her boyfriend. But now he was a free man, and he had a wife and a son. Police interrogated him, and Mario Alessi became the first legitimate suspect. But again, they had no evidence and were forced to release him. He went back home and did an interview with his wife for an Italian TV show (for money, I suppose). Video cameras went to their house, they showed what fine, upstanding people the Alessis were, how suspecting them was a huge mistake. “You shall not touch children!” said Alessi to millions of fellow Italians on TV.

Some days later, he, his wife, Antonella Conserva, and another builder who worked with Mario Alessi, Salvatore Raimondi, were arrested for the kidnapping of Tommaso Onofri. But where was little Tommy? It seemed to everyone that now that the case was over, the baby should now be back in his mother’s arms.

Finally, in April of 2006, one month after the disappearance of little Tommy, Mario Alessi confessed. He led the police to a river not far from the baby’s country home. The police found the body of 17-month-old Tommaso Onofri buried in a shallow grave at the bank of the river, in high state of decomposition. It turns out he was murdered just 20 minutes after he was taken from his highchair.

Here’s how police say this crime took place. Mario Alessi and Salvatore Raimondi planned the kidnapping – They had decided to kidnap the baby because they did some work for the Onofris and mistakenly assumed they were rich. They original plan called for them to give the baby to Alessi’s wife, Antonella Conserva, to care for him, while they made arrangements to ransom Tommaso.

But something went terribly wrong: Alessi took the baby and ran off on a motorbike. First he heard police sirens closing in behind him, then he saw police cars on his road, and he started to get nervous. Little Tommy couldn’t stop crying and Alessi began to panic, so he went down to the river. Finally, fearing the police would hear the baby’s cries, Mario Alessi took a shovel and beat Tommaso Onofri to death. He buried the body in the sandy soil at the bank of the river.

Mario Alessi was condemned to life in prison. His accomplice, Salvatore Raimondi, got 20 years (he was the first to confess and he had chosen an abbreviated process), and Antonella Conserva was sentenced to 30 years”.

Behold Cameron Brown, possibly the biggest piece o’ shit you will ever meet.

Cameron had a little problem. He had somehow (clearly by no fault of his own) impregnated a woman named Sarah Key-Marer which, as pregnancies tend to do, led to a baby, despite Brown’s demands that she get an abortion. The couple, who had met at a bar in 1995, dated briefly but Cameron wanted nothing to do with becoming a father to Sarah’s baby. Finally in 1996, the couple parted ways after Sarah was done trying to convince Cameron Brown to take an interest in becoming a father.

After learning that she was carrying a baby girl, Sarah became more persistent in her efforts and went after Brown financially. Rather than step up to the plate and take responsibility for the situation, Brown’s answer was to threaten his child’s mother with calling immigration in hopes of having her deported. Sarah was not however, living in the United States illegally, having moved from England in 1993.

After Brown’s threat against Sarah proved empty, she pressed again for child support from Brown when their daughter, Lauren Sarene Key, was 8 months old. At this point, Sarah was a single mother just looking for at least financial help since it was clear that Brown was willing to take no part in Lauren’s life. After filing for child support through the Orange County District Attorney’s office, Sarah played the waiting game.

A year later, Brown notified the court that he doubted Sarah’s claim that he was Lauren’s father and demanded that a DNA test be done to prove his paternity. As it turned out, Brown was indeed Lauren’s father and was ordered to pay a sum of $1,000 a month in child support. That should have been the end of it, right? Wrong. After all, this is not just some deadbeat dad we’re talking about here. This is Cameron Brown, and he’ll be damned if some court order is gonna tell HIM what to do.

It was no secret at this point that Cameron Brown had no interest in being a dad. So why then, in July of 1999 did he file for joint custody of Lauren? Did he have a change of heart? Had his daughter’s beautiful smile and happy spirit forced him to re-examine how he had treated her, how he had abandoned her? Did he come to the realization that all children deserve a daddy, and resolve to make up for lost time and be the best father he could be?

Nah, he just wanted his monthly payment reduced.

Mediated sessions were set up between Brown and his daughter Lauren, who was 3 years old. At first, Sarah observed that she thought things were going well. But then things slowly began to turn sour. Sarah noticed Lauren returning home from visits with her father appearing frightened and filled with anxiety. She was turning from a bright child with a sunny disposition, into a child that didn’t want to even leave the house before every scheduled visit with her father.

She witnessed incidents such as Brown driving Lauren around without putting her into a car seat and throwing her into a hot tub knowing that the girl did not know how to swim. When Sarah brought up this behavior in their mediation, Brown accused her of being an abusive mother and that from that point on he would not speak to her again. This forced all communication to be done in writing and through their lawyers.

On the morning of November 8th 2000, Sarah reluctantly said goodbye to her daughter. Lauren was going to be picked up from school that day for a court ordered visitation with Brown. As she prepared Lauren for the day, she noticed that her daughter was unable to speak. She was terrified, clinging to her mother in a frantic state. As Sarah said goodbye to her daughter, she knelt down, looked her in the eye and told her how much she loved her.

It would be the last time she ever saw her alive.

“She said ‘No, no I don’t want to see him today.’”

“She was crying and I had trouble getting her out of the car seat.”

A few hours later after talking to her very upset toddler, Sarah decided to leave work early and pick her daughter up. But it was too late. Brown had decided to arrive early that day.

Lauren was gone.

Later that day, Sarah was visited by a police officer who delivered the worst news a parent can ever hear. Her daughter was dead. While visiting with her “father”, Lauren had plummeted off a 120 foot cliff at Inspiration Point in Rancho Palos Verdes, crashing into the waters below. She was just 4 years old. Brown had a story, of course. He told investigators that Lauren had slipped on some rocks and fell to her death in a horrible accident. Funny, I don’t know a whole lot of parents who would let their toddler wander near a cliff. But then again, this IS Cameron Brown we are talking about here, and I’ll say it again, Cameron Brown is a piece of shit.

Now take a listen to Cameron Brown as he speaks to a 911 operator. See if you can pick out the person who is acting inappropriately:

Investigators were not buying the accident claim and Brown was placed under arrest for the murder of his daughter Lauren, going to trial for murder in 2006. He pled not guilty to the charges. In opening statements to the jury, Deputy District Attorney Craig Hum stated “The evidence will show that Lauren did not slip and fall. Rather, this man hurled the child he never wanted over the edge of the cliff and into the ocean below.” Throughout the trial, Brown’s lack of any emotion whatsoever, and his numerous attempts to avoid any kind of parental responsibility were brought to light.

Sarah recalled a time during her pregnancy when she and Brown had been walking along the same cliff where her daughter would die 4 years later. She remembered a story that Brown had told her which had haunted her, the story of 2 children that had fallen to their deaths there. Hum attested that Brown, a baggage handler at the Los Angeles International Airport would do whatever he needed to do to avoid having to pay child support. Other than throw himself off the cliff to avoid paying child support, of course.

Brown’s defense attorney Pat Harris spun a different story to the jury, claiming that Sarah’s prosecution team was only highlighting the not so stellar moments in Brown’s parenting. Harris claimed that both parents had negative qualitites, but that Brown wanted nothing more than to be a loving father to Lauren once paternity had been confirmed.

During Brown’s first trial at the Torrence Superior Court the jury found themselves deadlocked between first degree murder, second degree murder and manslaughter. Brown also faced special circumstances charges on killing his daughter for financial gain, and was looking at a possible death sentence.

At this point, you might be thinking justice is gonna be served, right? Right? Maybe?

Brown’s case ended in mistrial after moving to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, because jurors could not reach an agreement on the severity of his crime. Circuit Judge Nancy Moate Ley declared a mistrial when jurors convicted Brown of murder, but could not agree on first or second degree. He is now, as of July 2009, facing a retrial, where experts will be brought in to further investigate Lauren’s death. Jurors are expected to visit the cliff where she fell. Sarah in the meantime, is just looking for some closure. The retrial is expected to last 6 weeks, but the maximum penalty Brown faces if convicted is life in prison without the possibility of parole.

So, will Lauren Key ever see justice? Is there any justice to be had? Could Cameron Brown have been the involved parents that his defense team claimed him to be? A guy who was trying to turn his life around and make things right with his child? Clearly his own daughter didn’t want to be anywhere near this guy. Most little girls who want to be around their daddy run to them with open arms. They don’t cry, shake with fear, lose their powers of speech and fight to stay in their car seat. Lauren was only 4 years old. Toddlers are probably the most honest little people on the planet. They don’t pretend that everything’s OK for the sake of avoiding conflict. If they are scared or uncomfortable, they let someone know.

Could this have been avoided? It’s hard to say. When courts get involved in people’s lives, sometimes common sense takes a backseat to the laws, and children are always the ones who get hurt. Mothers rightfully want the fathers of their children to step up and take financial responsibility if nothing else. But with that comes the reality that the fathers may be given rights to be around that child, whether it is for the right reasons or not. When I think of the terror that little girl must have felt in the last moments of her life, my heart breaks. Rest in peace, Lauren. May Cameron Brown never see the light of day again.

Editor’s Notes: While I was fact checking Moop’s story, I ran across this blog called “Cameron Brown Trial”, written by two folks who call themselves CountryGirl and loretta. Anyone who doubts that Cam Brown is the narcissistic son of a whore Moop makes him out to be really needs to click on that link and visit the site.

“Cameron Brown Trial” is the best blog of it’s type I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen my fair share of them performing my job as editor for PYSIH. These two ladies are able to walk a fine line between informing the reader of the facts surround the murder of little Lauren Key and rebutting the people who have chosen to sell their souls to the devil and support Cameron Brown, particularly his wife, Patty Kaldis and his brother-in-law, Ted Kaldis. AND they’ve managed to have quite a bit of fun at said supporter’s expenses at the same time – these are two very funny ladies.

BTW, the third photograph down, the one of of the cliffs, is NOT Inspiration Point, the place where Lauren Key was murdered. I only included it for effect.