Sickest Thing I've Ever Heard
I came across news coverage on the story below last night on television, and I can honestly tell you, it was by far one of the most disturbing things I've ever heard:
Detective details attacks on microwaved baby
By Scott E. WilliamsThe Daily News
Published May 23, 2007
GALVESTON — A police detective Tuesday morning described a series of attacks on an infant that led to the child being placed in a microwave oven and burned.
Detective Holly Johnson testified in a bond-reduction hearing for Joshua Mauldin, 19, that Mauldin detailed for her everything leading up to the child being put in the oven.
Mauldin and his 2-month-old daughter were alone in a Seawall Boulevard hotel room shortly before 2 a.m. May 10.
“(Mauldin) became agitated,” Johnson said from the witness box in the 212th State District Court in Galveston.
“He picked her up from one bed and threw her onto another one.
He then hit her — punched her in the groin area.
“He placed her in the hotel-room safe and shut the door for approximately five seconds. He then took her and put her in the refrigerator and shut the door for about five seconds.”
After that, Johnson said, Mauldin took the girl out, put her in the microwave oven and turned it on.
Johnson testified that Mauldin had first admitted putting the child in the microwave to Child Protective Service workers May 14. Before that, his tale varied.
When asking the hotel clerks to place the 911 call that operators received at 1:48 a.m. May 10, Mauldin had told the clerks the child had suffered a severe sunburn.
His first account to police was that he did not know how the child was burned but, hours later, he told detective Cody Cazales that he accidentally spilled scalding water onto the child while making coffee.
Johnson testified that Mauldin described the entire course of events in an interview with her May 14.
Johnson’s testimony dominated a court hearing Tuesday morning on defense attorney Charles Kaufmann’s motion to reduce Mauldin’s bond.
During Mauldin’s initial appearance last week, 405th State District Court Judge Wayne Mallia had set his bond at $250,000. Kaufmann had asked Judge Susan Criss to reduce that amount to $100,000.
However, prosecutor Xochitl Vandiver argued that Mauldin was an Arkansas resident with “absolutely no ties whatsoever” to Galveston County, making him a flight risk.
“They just showed up here and, two hours later, this child is in the hospital,” Vandiver told the judge.
On his MySpace.com Web page, which has since been removed from public view, Mauldin said he was bringing his family to Galveston to accept a call to ministry.
Kaufmann said Mauldin’s wife had rented an apartment in Galveston, but Vandiver said the Mauldins already had been evicted.
In another motion, Kaufmann asked the court to appoint a psychiatrist to evaluate Mauldin to determine whether he was competent to stand trial.
In Tuesday’s hearing, Criss asked Kaufmann what assurances she could have that Mauldin would know when to show up for court after bonding out if his competence were an issue.
Kaufmann responded that leaving him in jail until after the evaluation would likely be the best course.
Criss rejected the bond reduction and appointed Dr. Victor Scarano to examine Mauldin.
Scarano is a forensic psychiatrist who has testified for prosecutors and defense attorneys in a career that has spanned decades.
Mauldin faces a charge of injury to a child causing serious bodily harm, which carries a possible prison term of five to 99 years, as well as a fine of up to $10,000.
Copyright © 2007 The Galveston County Daily News
Gah!!
What. In. The. Fuck. How could someone EVER do anything so horrific? Turns my stomach.
This poor child - she was released from hospital into foster care this Tuesday, after recieving 3rd degree burns to her head, face, and left hand.
According to doctors reports, she lost part of her left ear and her hand was so burned that it was split open when EMT arrived at the hotel.
Her hair is burned off, and she has a large blister on her face. They have performed 2 skin grafts on her since she was admittted to hospital.
The bitch ass mother wants to get custody back of her child so that they can "all be a family again". You guessed it, this includes the father of the child. She sees no wrong in what he did and is blaming it on the effing devil.
Grrrrrrrrrrrr. Heaven help this child if she is placed back in the custody of anybody in the mother's family.
I hope the father gets the highest sentence possible and then gets what's coming to him in prison. I'm sure that there would be a few inmates more than willing to even the score in prison with someone who committed such a crime.
I also hope the mother is convicted as an accessory.
What in the hell is WRONG with people these days?? This is just unfathomable.
Detective details attacks on microwaved baby
By Scott E. WilliamsThe Daily News
Published May 23, 2007
GALVESTON — A police detective Tuesday morning described a series of attacks on an infant that led to the child being placed in a microwave oven and burned.
Detective Holly Johnson testified in a bond-reduction hearing for Joshua Mauldin, 19, that Mauldin detailed for her everything leading up to the child being put in the oven.
Mauldin and his 2-month-old daughter were alone in a Seawall Boulevard hotel room shortly before 2 a.m. May 10.
“(Mauldin) became agitated,” Johnson said from the witness box in the 212th State District Court in Galveston.
“He picked her up from one bed and threw her onto another one.
He then hit her — punched her in the groin area.
“He placed her in the hotel-room safe and shut the door for approximately five seconds. He then took her and put her in the refrigerator and shut the door for about five seconds.”
After that, Johnson said, Mauldin took the girl out, put her in the microwave oven and turned it on.
Johnson testified that Mauldin had first admitted putting the child in the microwave to Child Protective Service workers May 14. Before that, his tale varied.
When asking the hotel clerks to place the 911 call that operators received at 1:48 a.m. May 10, Mauldin had told the clerks the child had suffered a severe sunburn.
His first account to police was that he did not know how the child was burned but, hours later, he told detective Cody Cazales that he accidentally spilled scalding water onto the child while making coffee.
Johnson testified that Mauldin described the entire course of events in an interview with her May 14.
Johnson’s testimony dominated a court hearing Tuesday morning on defense attorney Charles Kaufmann’s motion to reduce Mauldin’s bond.
During Mauldin’s initial appearance last week, 405th State District Court Judge Wayne Mallia had set his bond at $250,000. Kaufmann had asked Judge Susan Criss to reduce that amount to $100,000.
However, prosecutor Xochitl Vandiver argued that Mauldin was an Arkansas resident with “absolutely no ties whatsoever” to Galveston County, making him a flight risk.
“They just showed up here and, two hours later, this child is in the hospital,” Vandiver told the judge.
On his MySpace.com Web page, which has since been removed from public view, Mauldin said he was bringing his family to Galveston to accept a call to ministry.
Kaufmann said Mauldin’s wife had rented an apartment in Galveston, but Vandiver said the Mauldins already had been evicted.
In another motion, Kaufmann asked the court to appoint a psychiatrist to evaluate Mauldin to determine whether he was competent to stand trial.
In Tuesday’s hearing, Criss asked Kaufmann what assurances she could have that Mauldin would know when to show up for court after bonding out if his competence were an issue.
Kaufmann responded that leaving him in jail until after the evaluation would likely be the best course.
Criss rejected the bond reduction and appointed Dr. Victor Scarano to examine Mauldin.
Scarano is a forensic psychiatrist who has testified for prosecutors and defense attorneys in a career that has spanned decades.
Mauldin faces a charge of injury to a child causing serious bodily harm, which carries a possible prison term of five to 99 years, as well as a fine of up to $10,000.
Copyright © 2007 The Galveston County Daily News
Gah!!
What. In. The. Fuck. How could someone EVER do anything so horrific? Turns my stomach.
This poor child - she was released from hospital into foster care this Tuesday, after recieving 3rd degree burns to her head, face, and left hand.
According to doctors reports, she lost part of her left ear and her hand was so burned that it was split open when EMT arrived at the hotel.
Her hair is burned off, and she has a large blister on her face. They have performed 2 skin grafts on her since she was admittted to hospital.
The bitch ass mother wants to get custody back of her child so that they can "all be a family again". You guessed it, this includes the father of the child. She sees no wrong in what he did and is blaming it on the effing devil.
Grrrrrrrrrrrr. Heaven help this child if she is placed back in the custody of anybody in the mother's family.
I hope the father gets the highest sentence possible and then gets what's coming to him in prison. I'm sure that there would be a few inmates more than willing to even the score in prison with someone who committed such a crime.
I also hope the mother is convicted as an accessory.
What in the hell is WRONG with people these days?? This is just unfathomable.
posted by Comfortable Chaos at
9:41 AM
2 Comments:
OMG! I just can't even begin to comment on this. Except that religion has brainwashed yet another person. SO it's OK to cook your baby because the devil made you do it. Much like the crap Falwell spewed from his mouth, but because he has reverend attached to his name, it's OK then. We have GOT to get off of this religion shit. It's destroying humanity.
I think this father should be put into a microwave and executed that way. And the mother should be locked up in a psych ward buddying up weaving baskets with those that think everybody has an ego and that the reptiles are controlling us.
By
Jeff Skybar, at 11:32 AM
I can't believe this. Maybe they should start 'eye for an eye' capital punishment down there. Throw that fucker into a microwave for 5 minutes or so and see how he likes it. Then they can tie him up to a lethal injection seat incorrectly and take two hours to kill him, just like routine.
By
MB, at 11:58 AM
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