You’d let this guy look after three girls all younger than 10 years old, right before Christmas, wouldn’t you? In a trailer park with 15 sex offenders as neighbors, this wouldn’t be a problem with you?

Well there was a problem, and it started with a brick. No, maybe it was something else that started it but I’ll get back to that brick in a second.

This is Aliahna Lemmon, 9 years old, excitable, ADHD suffering, but cute as a button I must say, the sort of girl I’d chide about all of her “boyfriends,” and try very hard not to buy a pony for. Aliahna Lemmon deserved a pony for Christmas. She deserved presents under a Christmas tree, but all she got was a brick.

Michael Plumadore confessed in his third police interview(because the first two did not add up) to beating this 9 year old to death with a brick. Afterward, he hacked her to pieces with a hack saw, buried some of her and kept much of her in freezers both at his trailer and other places around the park. He wrapped her up like she was dog meat, and the horror of it all was too much for me to really wait before I wrote this all down. A 9 year old was murdered with a brick, her body cut up and spread around, and afterward, this man walked down the road, bought a cigar and smoked it.

I hope your Christmas was better than this. I’m certain it was.

A Red Bay man originally found guilty of capital murder in 2007 whose conviction was overturned on appeal accepted a plea offer for murder during a hearing Tuesday morning.

Jody Wayne Waldrop, 33, formerly of Red Bay, pleaded guilty to murder and was given a life sentence by Circuit Judge Terry Dempsey.

Waldrop was originally charged with capital murder in 2005 for his role in the death of his three-week-old son, Chance.

A jury found Waldrop guilty of capital murder in August of 2007 following a week-long trial. Waldrop was given the death sentence by Dempsey, but the conviction was reversed in March of 2010 by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

As grounds for the reversal, the court cited a comment was made during the trial concerning Waldrop’s previous assault conviction in Mississippi and Dempsey did not instruct jurors that the comment could not be used as evidence to convict Waldrop of capitol murder.

Waldrop, who was previously held in Atmore at Holman Correctional Facility’s death row, was transferred to Franklin County Jail before his plea Tuesday.

During the original trial in 2007, testimony revealed the baby was left in Waldrop’s care for a 30 minute period on the evening of Sept. 22, 2005.

According to reports, the child’s mother, Starlet Waldrop, left the baby with Waldrop while she visited her grandmother. When she returned the baby was not breathing and appeared to have injuries to his head.

Several theories arose during the trial as to why Waldrop intentionally killed his son, but Rushing said during the hearing on Tuesday that the state contends Waldrop shook the baby because he was angry that the child was crying and as a direct result of his violent shaking, the baby died.

“Jody Waldrop’s actions that day would at least rise to the level of reckless murder,” Rushing said.

When asked by Dempsey if those facts were correct and if he agreed, Waldrop responded, “Yes.”

Dempsey sentenced Waldrop to life in prison, a sentence that will run concurrent with the escape case he is currently serving time for.

After he was sentenced, a visibly emotional Waldrop requested to address his ex-wife, Starlet Waldrop, directly.

“I apologize for everything that happened to Chance,” Waldrop said.

Rushing said he was pleased with the outcome of Tuesday’s hearing.

“Even though Waldrop was found guilty of capital murder once, there is always the risk that a jury could find him guilty of manslaughter based on the circumstantial evidence, so I believe this was an acceptable offer,” Rushing said. “It at least provides the opportunity for [Waldrop] to be in prison until he dies.”

Rushing added that defendants given a life sentence on a Class A felony typically wouldn’t be considered for parole for at least 15 to 18 years.

“Starlet was aware of the plea and agreed with it,” Rushing said. “She always wanted [Waldrop] to spend his life thinking about what he did to their son.

“We told her that no matter when he comes up for parole, we will continue to fight to make sure he stays in prison for the whole life sentence.”

The marriage of Raul and Cathy Sarinana was “a match made in hell” that resulted in the deaths of two defenseless boys, a judge said Friday before sentencing the Corona couple to death.

Raul Ricardo Sarinana, 42, and Cathy Lynn Sarinana, 32, were convicted in March of torturing and murdering 11-year-old Ricky Morales, their nephew. Authorities have said they believe the couple also killed 13-year-old Conrad Morales, Ricky’s brother, in Randle, Wash. Charges have not been filed in that death.

In pronouncing sentences for the Sarinanas in Superior Court in Riverside, Judge Paul E. Zellerbach followed the recommendations two juries made in April. A sentence of death in California is automatically appealed.

Cathy Sarinana will be the 16th woman on California’s death row. Overall, 680 inmates await execution. The most recent execution was in January 2006.

Zellerbach said a dominant factor in his decision was the way Ricky was abused repeatedly by both Sarinanas. In autopsy photos shown at the trial, the boy’s body was covered with new and old scabs, bruises and scars, and a pathologist testified that Ricky had cracked ribs and a torn lung.

“The ongoing and almost mind-numbing extent of the torture inflicted on these boys … is horrifying,” Zellerbach said.

Ricky died in a closet at the Sarinanas’ Corona home on Christmas Day 2005 after Raul Sarinana kicked and beat him for cleaning a bathroom too slowly, according to trial testimony.

Raul Sarinana also told police he had beaten Conrad and later found him dead. The older boy’s body was found encased in concrete in a trash can outside the Corona home.

In a courtroom packed with members of the Sarinana and Morales families and members of the two juries, five of Ricky and Conrad’s relatives told the court Friday how the boys’ deaths have devastated their family.

Rosa Sarinana, the boys’ mother, described how Conrad and Ricky always knew when she was upset and tried to help. Now her main consolation is her youngest son, the child she was carrying when she learned of Conrad and Ricky’s deaths, she said.

She sent Ricky and Conrad to live with the Sarinanas when she and other relatives couldn’t care for them.

“How can I enjoy life after what they’ve done to my sons?” Rosa Sarinana said.

“God has given me another chance, but it’s not the same.”

She and the boys’ sister, Destinee Morales, 19, said they believed death sentences would serve justice, although Rosa added that Raul and Cathy should suffer the torture her sons did.

Jurors were released from their obligations in April but some returned Friday. The harrowing experience of the three-month trial has stayed with Brad Wrightstone, 34, a Riverside resident who was foreman of Raul Sarinana’s jury.

“I pretty much think about it every day,” Wrightstone said. “I wanted to make sure that our decision that we came up with was upheld, and if it wasn’t I wanted to know why.”

Many thanks to Cristina for tipping us off to the good news.