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“The defendant admitted to taking her child to Rush Run in Preble County where she placed him outside of her vehicle. Defendant said she was going to leave the child in the park,” Detective Jon Hoover wrote in the court documents.
The boy attempted to get back in the vehicle, and Gosney told police she sped off, dragging James for a distance.
Gosney told police she left the park and returned about 30 to 40 minutes later and found the boy in the middle of the parking lot with a head injury. He was dead, police said.
“(Gosney) stated she picked the child up, put him back in the vehicle and drove back (to her residence) where she took the child in the house and placed him in an upstairs bedroom,” the complaint states.
The following day she drove to the Ohio River and disposed of the boy’s body in the water, she told police.
Hamilton admitted to police he kept the boy’s body in the Crawford Street house and then took part in disposing of it in the Ohio River
It is a small wildlife area rather than a typical park...not used much in the winterHorrible monsters, those poor siblings witnessing it!
She came back 40 mins later? NOONE found his body until then in a parking lot? How?
Why didn't she take them ANYWHERE else to surrender them??? She had been involved with Children's Services before, and should have known that that was an option!This was premeditated. What was wrong with her to think she could abandon 3 kids and no questions asked. Unfortunately James never made it back. Then the bf gets involved and goes along with her. These TWO are not normal. MOO
This is an excellent example of why I would like to see a “no questions asked” safe drop off option for children of all ages, not just newborns.Why didn't she take them ANYWHERE else to surrender them??? She had been involved with Children's Services before, and should have known that that was an option!
it's not exactly criminally excused but it's heavily mitigated from a general child abandonment charge in my 3rd world country s-hole, fwiw.This is an excellent example of why I would like to see a “no questions asked” safe drop off option for children of all ages, not just newborns.
If parents knew they could take their child or children to a designated place such as a fire station without repercussions it would save lives!
Inhuman monsters. If those horrible details are what they admitted too, I can only imagine how much more happened to this sweet child.
Bull-carp, and I bet a jury would agree with me!!!Police said Monday that the mother "is not showing much remorse" and and has not said why she left James at the park.
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Gosney told the judge she had a learning disability and didn't understand what was happening. Birk said at the press conference she knows right from wrong and understood her rights.
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The only "learning disability" I can think of that causes a parent to murder a child is psychopathy.GMAB. She certainly understood what she was doing when she dragged James alongside her car.
What's frustrating is that we have other threads here where adoptive parents harmed their kids and the bio moms are claiming they were removed from their care for "minor" reasons. Then we have threads like this where we're left shaking our heads that CPS didn't remove kids.The kicker here - her fourth child was already taken away from her and in states custody -- For the love of God, why was the other 3 left in her care! Someone explain this to me..... CPS failed this child.