GUILTY NH - Camden Hughes, 6, suffocated, Hampton, 14 May 2011 #2

[KaraKitty]

This little boy stays on my mind, knowing he is at peace. My heart still breaks for those that loved him in life and those that now love him in his passing. I hope his brother and mother can find some way to heal their pain and make peace with each other.

Sarah, my hubby and I were out all weekend walking the SoCal coastline like we do every weekend but unlike past weekends; every time I saw a little blond tyke I immediately thought of Cam.

 

[IWannaKnow]

I haven't followed this story, but this line really caught my eye:
http://www.examiner.com/missing-per...es-mom-juli-mccrery-on-suicide-murder-mission
Attorney: Camden Hughes’ mom Juli McCrery on suicide-murder mission
May 19th, 2011 4:23 pm ET

When asked why she dumped Camden’s body in South Berwick she said, “I had to go to Maine.”

I haven't seen who the bio father was, but he seemingly was "the love of her life" and didn't want anything to do with either of them. Wonder if he lives in Maine and that was why Camden had to die there. Interesting that she didn't get around to killing herself since she is telling everyone that is what she wants. MOO.

 

[ela_ss teacher]

So it seems like speculation that her religious beliefs may be that with suicide you automatically go to hell were correct if she's telling the truth here. She wanted to be in heaven with Cam but thought if she committed suicide, she wouldn't get to be with him.

I'm not sure I REALLY believe that but it's plausible. It's a bad plan if that was her intent since the death penalty is a very long and drawn out process. She could have pointed a gun at a police officer and committed "suicide by cop" if she want to be with him right away,,, right??

http://www.examiner.com/missing-per...es-mom-juli-mccrery-on-suicide-murder-mission

Murphy said McCrery admitted to killing Camden and told him, “I want to go to New Hampshire … if it’s the death penalty, then I can get to heaven.”



Continue reading on Examiner.com: Attorney: Camden Hughes’ mom Juli McCrery on suicide-murder mission - National missing persons | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/missing-per...crery-on-suicide-murder-mission#ixzz1NCwqUVCy

 

[stillwatersc]

So it seems like speculation that her religious beliefs may be that with suicide you automatically go to hell were correct if she's telling the truth here. She wanted to be in heaven with Cam but thought if she committed suicide, she wouldn't get to be with him.

I'm not sure I REALLY believe that but it's plausible. It's a bad plan if that was her intent since the death penalty is a very long and drawn out process. She could have pointed a gun at a police officer and committed "suicide by cop" if she want to be with him right away,,, right??

http://www.examiner.com/missing-per...es-mom-juli-mccrery-on-suicide-murder-mission

I thought staying in Texas would have been her best shot at the death penalty?

 

[greenpalm]

I thought staying in Texas would have been her best shot at the death penalty?

Yup. We certainly have the death penalty down here in the Lone Star State.

 

[GypsyPrincess]

I saw this picture on the FB page being managed by Ian and burst into tears. The other picture is of my precious little man. They could be twins in these pictures. Never before has my hurt so much over a situation like this. I wish I could put little Camden out of my mind. It helps to post here with you all and share our thoughts and feelings. Thank you guys for that.....

I have all of these awful questions running through my head, and it hurts so badly. I want to believe that JM drugged Camden and he was asleep when she did this. I don't want to think that he was awake and knew or saw what she was doing. I HAVE to believe that he didn't suffer. I know I am not the only one feeling this way. Such a beautiful little boy, such an unnecessary tragedy. :cry:

 

[summer_breeze]

http://www.wmtw.com/news/27988237/detail.html

POSTED: 7:19 am EDT May 23, 2011
UPDATED: 7:47 am EDT May 23, 2011

PORTLAND, Maine -- Funeral services for Camden Pierce Hughes are expected to be Saturday in Texas.

 

[MsFacetious]

I saw this picture on the FB page being managed by Ian and burst into tears. The other picture is of my precious little man. They could be twins in these pictures. Never before has my hurt so much over a situation like this. I wish I could put little Camden out of my mind. It helps to post here with you all and share our thoughts and feelings. Thank you guys for that.....

I have all of these awful questions running through my head, and it hurts so badly. I want to believe that JM drugged Camden and he was asleep when she did this. I don't want to think that he was awake and knew or saw what she was doing. I HAVE to believe that he didn't suffer. I know I am not the only one feeling this way. Such a beautiful little boy, such an unnecessary tragedy. :cry:

You are not the only one and I understand.

My daughter could be Kyron's twin... we've been stopped several times when she was dressed like a boy. It makes the case unbelievable more painful and personal... it is amazing how much more of an impact a case can have when it becomes personal in some way.

Normally I can be optimistic and objective... point out the Elizabeth Smart situations. Keep emotions almost completely out of it... I am and always have been a pretty emotionless person.

Sometimes emotion is inevitable. Sometimes getting more attached to a case is unavoidable.


When you look at your child and see the little boy they found on the side of the road.

Or you look at your child and see the little boy who has been gone almost 1 year, with no clue where he is.


I have to believe he didn't suffer as well. He appeared to have a good life up to that point. I want to believe he died still believing that life was good, people were wonderful and Mommy was there to love and protect him.

I don't want to think it ended badly. I can't.

Okay... yeah, time to go now. No drinking before reading here. Feeling things, not good. fftobed:

 

[SarahEcho]

I still see this little boy every night before I go to sleep. The picture of him in the snow, smiling so purely with delight.

I know that he is at peace and no longer has to be troubled with this world, he just makes me realize how fragile life is. I still feel for his mother somehow but more so with Camden's brother, Ian. Ian has lost so much and will have to deal with such grief and the loss of a mother being part of his life. Such a heavy burden.

 

[MsFacetious]

Obituary

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/da...=camden-pierce-hughes&pid=151307057&fhid=2698

Brother of Camden Hughes speaks at funeral (Video)

http://www.wgme.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wgme_vid_8006.shtml

The Camden Hughes Memorial Ride at Dover's Hilton Park on Sunday was organized to raise money for the Child Advocacy Center of Rockingham County.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/28141159/detail.html#ixzz1OZ3VpCeR



May 31, 2011

Phippsburg lobsterman Jackson Percy was hauling traps near Mile Rock not far from Seguin Island late last week when he found a balloon floating in the water. Then he found another.

Percy recognized the balloons, and believed them to be those released on May 21 in remembrance of the late Camden Hughes, the 6-year-old boy who went unidentified for several days after his body was found off a rural road in South Berwick.

http://www.timesrecord.com/articles/2011/05/31/news/doc4de51e0161aac342961910.txt

Irving woman accused of killing 6-year-old needs help, not judgment, her mom says

A woman charged with killing her 6-year-old son did not do it out of malice but "something snapped" and she needs help, the boy's grandmother told mourners at his funeral Saturday.

As more than 100 people gathered to remember Camden Pierce Hughes, the curly haired, blue-eyed boy who loved reading and playing the guitar, his grandmother said the family's world fell apart when he was found dead under his favorite blanket along a dirt road in Maine two weeks ago.

But she cautioned against judging her now-jailed daughter, Julianne McCrery, and said the family was suffering a "double loss."

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7585846.html#ixzz1OYzwmQxh

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/05/28/3111718/boys-grandmother-says-his-mother.html

 

[MsFacetious]

The older brother of a Texas kindergartner whose body was found recently in Maine said he is struggling to understand why their mother, charged with second-degree murder, would allegedly commit such a crime.

However, her oldest son said he did not believe his mother had a mental illness.

"I don't think she snapped," said McCrery.

"To drive from here to Maine, you know, that's three days of thinking about it," he said.

http://www.wcti12.com/news/28131314/detail.html

Article and Video

For 23-year-old McCrery it is still difficult to accept that his 6-year-old brother Camden is gone, allegedly killed by his own mom.

“That's horrible if you think about events and how it might have went down, you ask yourself questions and blame yourself,” said Ian.

“The main point she says was to send my little brother to heaven whatever that meant for her. She's in her own personal hell right now to have done that. She's a good mom and she knows what she did,” said Ian.

McCrery has talked to his mother twice from the jail where she is being held in New Hampshire, charged with second-degree murder.

“She sounds scared and that she needs someone right now, so when I talk to her I just try to talk to her as if she wasn't in jail,” said Ian.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/28135500/detail.html#ixzz1OZ836p3L

WFAA Article with Video -

Brother of Irving boy allegedly killed by mother speaks out

http://www.wfaa.com/home/related/Br...ly-killed-by-mother-speaks-out-123192213.html

Julianne McCrery's self-help book of sleeping tips sheds some light on a troubled woman overwhelmed by her life circumstances.

It takes her only 19 pages to mention her son, who became nationally known and mourned after his body was discovered May 14 in South Berwick, Maine.

She writes that her "little guy" was ill for eight months.

He had major ear problems and difficulty eating.

He was prone to "tantrums" that apparently took their toll on McCrery.

"It was insane! He was up in the night in pain, but would go back to sleep with the pain medication," she writes, explaining later, "He's well now after surgery and still rocks one wild tantrum after another when frustrated."

She makes no mention in the book's 68 pages about the bright-eyed intelligence others described in Hughes. The only other direct reference to Hughes is a comment about taking daily naps with him.

An oblique reference to Hughes can be found in perhaps the book's most disturbing section. McCrery goes on for pages about "attack thoughts" spurred by aggravations that "will blossom like madness" if unchecked.

"Toys left out to booby trap the trip to the rest room in the dark generally mean more attack thoughts," she writes.

In the same section, she jokes about killing an incessantly barking neighborhood dog and other angry thoughts that "go around and around like vicious sharks."

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20110603-NEWS-106030319

 

[Etilema]

[snip]
Julianne McCrery's self-help book of sleeping tips sheds some light on a troubled woman overwhelmed by her life circumstances.

It takes her only 19 pages to mention her son, who became nationally known and mourned after his body was discovered May 14 in South Berwick, Maine.

She writes that her "little guy" was ill for eight months.

He had major ear problems and difficulty eating.

He was prone to "tantrums" that apparently took their toll on McCrery.

"It was insane! He was up in the night in pain, but would go back to sleep with the pain medication," she writes, explaining later, "He's well now after surgery and still rocks one wild tantrum after another when frustrated."

She makes no mention in the book's 68 pages about the bright-eyed intelligence others described in Hughes. The only other direct reference to Hughes is a comment about taking daily naps with him.

An oblique reference to Hughes can be found in perhaps the book's most disturbing section. McCrery goes on for pages about "attack thoughts" spurred by aggravations that "will blossom like madness" if unchecked.

"Toys left out to booby trap the trip to the rest room in the dark generally mean more attack thoughts," she writes.

In the same section, she jokes about killing an incessantly barking neighborhood dog and other angry thoughts that "go around and around like vicious sharks."

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20110603-NEWS-106030319

This is so sad. I wish someone or something had been able to help her situation and her little boy.

No more news on this case at this point, I take it?

 

[MsFacetious]

Ian McCrery said it was a relief to see his mother as they tried not to focus on what happened and reminisce about happier times.

"I asked her why, and she kind of broke down and asked me not to," Ian McCrery said.

http://www.wmur.com/news/28315314/detail.html#ixzz1PzvSDgDy

Ian is a far better person than I am. That's all I can say. I don't have a lack of compassion for Ian's mother... however, I wouldn't forgive my mother if she did this to my dog... much less my sibling. Especially without her answering WHY. (And yes, my mother is a bit crazy.)

 

[CN2Souls]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Court officials say a Texas woman accused of killing her 6-year-old son in New Hampshire and disposing of his body in rural Maine will plead guilty.
Forty-two-year-old Julianne McCrery will plead guilty to second-degree murder in Camden Hughes' death.
A clerk in New Hampshire's Rockingham Superior Court confirmed McCrery has filed a notice of intent to plead guilty and will be sentenced to 45 years to life in prison. No date has been set for her to formally enter her plea.
The boy's body was found alongside a dirt road in Maine in May.
A medical examiner says Camden died of asphyxiation. The mother and son had stayed in a New Hampshire motel the weekend before his body was discovered.

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-mom-plead-guilty-death-son-nh-140653270.html

 

[greenpalm]

Here's the same info from my local Dallas paper: http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Irvi...of-son-found-off-road-in-Maine-130700758.html

 

[mrsu]

Ugh. I still don't get it? He's one of the faces I'll never forget.

 

[Claudette]

I don't know what excuse she's going to use but IMO, after reading those excerpts from the book, sounds like another case of "parent can't handle having a young child around anymore". Her other kids were much older so it had been about 20-something years since being around a small child.

 

[Jaxson]

Why on earth does she think she will go to heaven if she gets the death penalty? It doesn't make sense to me that she didn't commit suicide because her belief was she wouldn't go to heaven, but thinks she will if she is convicted of murder and put to death.

 

[gitana1]

I feel so sadly for Camden's brother, the young Navy sailor. How he copes now, with no dad, no mom and the center of his universe, little Camden, gone, I don't know. The anger, confusion, grief - it must be so intense.

I have admired how he has handled this incredible tragedy and how he keeps on living as best he can, poor thing. How his mother did not think, for the three days driving to Maine, about what this would do to Ian, - well, she killed Camden so obviously neither of her sons' well being was her priority.

It's funny - he said he planned to raise his son when he got out of the Navy. Does that mean he knew his mom was having problems or does that mean he would have taken them both? The intense bond he had with Camden makes all of this even more senseless. He had a good job on base. The mother could have simply dropped him off at the base to live with his brother and the child could have gone to the base school and be cared for by babysitters - like Navy wives, when Ian couldn't care for him. Clearly, he wanted him badly and would have made it work.

I guess there's no use thinking about it now. Camden is dead and his mother did not pursue any other option. Murder is never logical to me.

 

[Salem]

Updated article from UdbCrzy2:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/re...or_julianne_mccrery/srvc=home&position=recent

Salem