GUILTY FL - Shannon Dedrick, 7 mo., Chipley, 31 Oct 2009 #4

[Melanie]

Bump. Excellent post. This is one of the few cases we here can celebrate. The baby was found ALIVE. LE did an excellent job! We need to focus our anger where it belongs - on the perpetrators of this crime.

I know -- let's celebrate folks! It's not often we get this chance, and we don't know if it will come our way again anytime soon. I'm feeling the anger now from many posters (trust me, I had to walk away myself for a few hours). Then I started watching the case on Court TV (mom kills son/critically stabs another) and thought wow - now that's someone I could get really po'd at.

Susan and the uterus donor will have their day - I'm confident of that. In the meantime, I'll enjoy the spirit of this day.

:dance:

Mel

 

[orb4me]

For a felony of the second degree, by a term of imprisonment not exceeding 15 years.

----I just had to put this in here again............grrrr,though, there is no way for them to get a 1st degree felony.
they could also add on more felony's, and judge could order to be served consectively instead of concurrant.----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

[not_my_kids]

What are with all the posts that Shannon can't cry? Obviously, she can verbalize, we all heard that at last night's presser.
I don't know if sensory deprived babies really cry. (I've never put a baby in a box.)
But if they do, I would have to imagine it's shortlived.
And I'm thinking, in a small, solid box, one of those good head piercing screams and she may have scared herself silent.

 

[mistivon]

For a felony of the second degree, by a term of imprisonment not exceeding 15 years.

----I just had to put this in here again............grrrr,though, there is no way for them to get a 1st degree felony.
they could also add on more felony's, and judge could order to be served consectively instead of concurrant.----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Wonder if they could make her "habitual"...that would bump it to first degree.

 

[x_files]

I'd rather grow up being known as the "baby in the box" than the "boy in the balloon". No wonder she is smiling! :wink:

So excited to see her alive! What good news for once!
She seemed happy in the live footage!

 

[ElizaAvalon]

Here are bits and pieces of the 12:00 Press Conference.

YouTube- Shannon Dedrick Press Conf 11/5/09 12 00 PM ET
YouTube- Shannon Dedrick Pres Conf 11509 2
YouTube- Shannon Dedrick Pres Conf 11509 3
YouTube- Shannon Dedrick Pres Conf 11509 4

Thanks but, it was almost the last thing he said (about the bloggers) and it was cut off in this video, too.

Perhaps he was talking about Tab. I hadn't thought of that when I heard it.

Now, of course, I feel like I'm losing my mind because no one else seems to remember it.

Gah!

 

[3dogmom]

Bond information
http://www2.dothaneagle.com/dea/new..._charged_in_missing_chipley_baby_case/106613/

 

[ElizaAvalon]

Let me also point out that I watched it on Foxnews and it played all the way out until the reporters were grabbing their mikes off the stand at the end.

 

[not_my_kids]

Wonder if they could make her "habitual"...that would bump it to first degree.

Three convictions for a habitual, at least here. She's just under the bar, darn it.

I am starting to hope that they lock her in a mental ward somewhere, she'd never get out. She's too messed up to realize that her world is see through to even semi-normal people.

 

[Liz]

Hi Liz, I was really surprised when I read at Topix that someoner from WS invited Tab to join here :waitasec:

Hi Scandi. Thanks, I hadn't heard that.

 

[not_my_kids]

I watched it all the way thru too...I heard nothing about bloggers. JMO.

 

[pinkpuddytat]

SB shouldn't be eligible to get out on any amount of bond, with her history.

And prohibiting Tina from having ANY contact with Shannon??? Excuse me, but little Shannon's needs have to be figured in here too, and she needs reassurance that her mommy's still around. How could supervised visits possibly be any risk to Shannon?

 

[orb4me]

I heard it. but dont remember exactly. but he said they had to hurry up because of bloggers. hummm, now I gotta go find it.

 

[CarolinaMoon]

Wonder if they could make her "habitual"...that would bump it to first degree.

I think this is my first post on the thread, but I've been here the entire time and have read every post. My thanks to all of you who are so good at sleuthing.

mistivon, I have a feeling you have a good point here. She's been found guilty of child abuse before. That could make the sentencing to the max. and consecutive. I would assume the judge could have the power to do that in FL. I could be wrong!

Mike Galanos at HLN is leading off with the story right now.

 

[CarolinaMoon]

Hi Scandi. Thanks, I hadn't heard that.

I saw that last night. The name the poster used was something like "Websleuther" and assured Tab she would be treated well here. I was :waitasec:.

 

[not_my_kids]

The only way we would have hindered the investigation is if we revealed info that LE wasn't ready to put out there. And in that case, all of the info that we had, re: the true nature of Susan Baker went to them. If they wanted us not to spread the information, or if they wanted us to discontinue discussion, I am sure that would have been mentioned to EastCoast or Cleo. To the best of my knowledge, nothing of that nature was said. Confidentiality was ever requested, subsequently, it wasn't given.
Controlling the dissemination of privileged or sensitive information is the duty of LE in this day and age, so I hope that he doesn't mean to blame us for information that was public knowledge and should have been acted on long before we caught on.
He may have also been responding to a specific idea or thought, like they had to move fast to get her out before the bloggers saw her at the hospital and tipped the media, or something of that nature.
Can anyone give the context of the statement.

Off my soapbox.

 

[not_my_kids]

SB shouldn't be eligible to get out on any amount of bond, with her history.

And prohibiting Tina from having ANY contact with Shannon??? Excuse me, but little Shannon's needs have to be figured in here too, and she needs reassurance that her mommy's still around. How could supervised visits possibly be any risk to Shannon?

When they intend to terminate the parent's rights, they don't allow visitation. She will never get that baby back, so that comforts me.

 

[Steely Dan]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gLo6tkoDmIwiLD0bW7WZ0hpGax4QD9BPC2J80


Court records show that Elizabeth Baker was charged in South Carolina with assault and battery with intent to kill and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature in 1987. After being convicted, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The sentence was suspended to 80 days.

She was extradited to South Carolina from Chipley in 2000, and charged in the disappearance of 3-year-old Paul Leonard Baker, who has been missing since March 1987. Baker wasn't indicted by a grand jury in the case. The child was never found, according to the Beaufort County, S.C., sheriff's office. Police reports don't indicate the child's possible relation.

WTF! :furious:

 

[scandi]

I know -- let's celebrate folks! It's not often we get this chance, and we don't know if it will come our way again anytime soon. I'm feeling the anger now from many posters (trust me, I had to walk away myself for a few hours). Then I started watching the case on Court TV (mom kills son/critically stabs another) and thought wow - now that's someone I could get really po'd at.

Susan and the uterus donor will have their day - I'm confident of that. In the meantime, I'll enjoy the spirit of this day.

:dance:

Mel

She was just found guilty on all 3 counts and the TH thinks she will get life.

 

[mistivon]

Are they talking about termination? I don't know if I'd go that far yet