GUILTY Canada - Marissa Whalen, 2, Fort Erie, Ont, 29 July 2011

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HAMILTON - Det. Lynda Hughes travelled to Vanier jail in Milton to deliver news to Roseanne Whalen, arrested two days earlier in the death of her daughter.

The remains of two-year-old Marissa had been found.

“She had no reaction,” Hughes testified Thursday in Whalen’s second-degree murder trial. “She asked about Mandy (Dipota) and whether or not she was released.”

In the jailhouse meeting, Hughes testified Whalen said she knew Hill was in the same facility. She asked if her mother knew about Marissa’s remains. And she asked: “Was it out of the ground in one piece?”

http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2014/03/27/whalen-didnt-react-when-marissas-body-found-cop

 

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Hold on folks......

‘I really don’t understand why I got arrested’

Roseanne Whalen repeatedly told an officer she didn’t understand what she did wrong after being arrested in the death of her daughter.

“I really don’t understand why I got arrested,” she says through tears as Det. Const. Steve Magistrale begins a five-hour interview with her in the St. Catharines police station.

Up until her arrest, Whalen had been considered a witness in the disappearance of her two-year-old daughter, Marissa.

http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2014/03/28/i-really-dont-understand-why-i-got-arrested

I've never used this until today....:thud:

 

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Roseanne Whalen said her daughter was looking at her as she dug Marissa out of a hidden grave to remove possible incriminating evidence.

In a shocking police interview played for a jury Monday, Whalen described removing her two-year-old from a makeshift plot in Ohsweken, near Brandford five days after she’d been put in the ground and re-burying the girl because ex-lover Rainbow Hill made her do it.

“It was hard. I broke down because I had to do all the work. I had the smell on my hands of her. I was gagging the whole time,” Whalen told Det. Steve Magistrale in the Oct. 14, 2011 video made at the St. Catharines police station.

http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2014/03/31/shocking-video-of-police-interview-in-whalen-trial

 

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Defence begins its case today:
Collins, the first witness to testify for the defence, said Whalen and her brother were left alone so often, an aunt and uncle took Whalen's 12-year-old brother in. But the couple couldn't take nine-year-old Whalen too because they had enough responsibility with a new baby. "She was alone once her brother was gone."

Collins, who wears Marissa's ashes in a locket around her neck, broke down when talking about the girl she once offered to take while Whalen was pregnant.

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/04/01/whalens-defence-begins-its-case

 

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Bit of extra info in this report about the first witness the defence called:

Collins, 42, of Crystal Beach, testified Whalen had trouble learning basic skills as a child like telling time and adding and subtracting without a calculator. Collins tried to teach her to read but said to this day, Whalen can only read print writing.

Whalen would later live with an aunt and then a cousin before moving in with Rainbow Hill while pregnant.

Collins said she saw Whalen with Hill twice during chance encounters but was never introduced and didn’t know who Hill was until court proceedings. In both instances, Whalen stopped to talk to Collins and Hill called her away.

“At that time I took it that they were in a hurry.”

http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2014/04/01/whalen-trial-defence-begins-its-case

 

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Bit of extra info in this report about the first witness the defence called:

Collins, 42, of Crystal Beach, testified Whalen had trouble learning basic skills as a child like telling time and adding and subtracting without a calculator. Collins tried to teach her to read but said to this day, Whalen can only read print writing.

Whalen would later live with an aunt and then a cousin before moving in with Rainbow Hill while pregnant.

Collins said she saw Whalen with Hill twice during chance encounters but was never introduced and didn’t know who Hill was until court proceedings. In both instances, Whalen stopped to talk to Collins and Hill called her away.

“At that time I took it that they were in a hurry.”

http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2014/04/01/whalen-trial-defence-begins-its-case

I hope this isn't the start of making excuses as to why this poor little girl died. My little boy can't read or write very well and struggles to tell the time, however he wouldn't hurt a fly or ever be mean to anyone.

There are absolutely no excuses or reasons to justify a single second of what they did to that little girl. She had enough intelligence to use her child to claim financial benefits, she had enough intelligence to cover her tracks and get other people to lie for her ..... so don't tell me she didn't have the intelligence to know that beating a child is dangerous, as is force feeding or slamming them into a bath.

It makes me feel so angry just typing these words. I think this is the worst case of long-term abuse I have ever heard about. No sentence can ever be long enough, or tough enough or horrible enough. I hope some of her jail buddies feel the need to find one though.

 

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Roseanne Whalen said her daughter was looking at her as she dug Marissa out of a hidden grave to remove possible incriminating evidence.

In a shocking police interview played for a jury Monday, Whalen described removing her two-year-old from a makeshift plot in Ohsweken, near Brandford five days after she’d been put in the ground and re-burying the girl because ex-lover Rainbow Hill made her do it.

“It was hard. I broke down because I had to do all the work. I had the smell on my hands of her. I was gagging the whole time,” Whalen told Det. Steve Magistrale in the Oct. 14, 2011 video made at the St. Catharines police station.

http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2014/03/31/shocking-video-of-police-interview-in-whalen-trial

Suffer lady and smell it for the rest of your days. Sick. No "I miss my baby."

 

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HAMILTON, Ont. — A psychologist testified a Fort Erie, Ont., woman accused of killing her toddler is low-functioning, highly gullible and a low risk for committing a future crime.

But the Crown hammered defence expert Dr. Giorgio Ilacqua Wednesday for not having watched or read transcripts of police interviews with Roseanne Whalen before writing a report that found she has the intelligence of an eight-year-old.

"We've sat through hours and hours of interviews where she played cat and mouse with the police. And if you'd bothered to watch those interviews, you'd have seen it too," assistant Crown attorney Timothy Hill fired in cross-examination the Hamilton, Ont., courthouse.

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/04/0...ng-tot-incredibly-low-functioning-court-hears

 

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HAMILTON, Ont. — A psychologist testified a Fort Erie, Ont., woman accused of killing her toddler is low-functioning, highly gullible and a low risk for committing a future crime.

But the Crown hammered defence expert Dr. Giorgio Ilacqua Wednesday for not having watched or read transcripts of police interviews with Roseanne Whalen before writing a report that found she has the intelligence of an eight-year-old.
"We've sat through hours and hours of interviews where she played cat and mouse with the police. And if you'd bothered to watch those interviews, you'd have seen it too," assistant Crown attorney Timothy Hill fired in cross-examination the Hamilton, Ont., courthouse.

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/04/0...ng-tot-incredibly-low-functioning-court-hears

Perhaps fifty years ago she would have been sterilized prior to the age of majority.....but our ''humane'' laws have changed that.....too bad huh

 

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Evidence in the second-degree murder trial of a Fort Erie woman accused of killing her toddler wrapped up Thursday with the continued testimony of a psychologist.

Jurors are expected to begin deliberations in Hamilton early next week in the Roseanne Whalen murder case.

http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2014/04/03/evidence-concludes-in-roseanne-whalen-trial

 

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As we all know, there are many types of academic learning disabilities and they don't necessarily affect one's ability to parent a child in a safe and loving manner. JMO

 

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OK it's actually taking this long to come up with a verdict? come on!

 

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Suffer lady and smell it for the rest of your days. Sick. No "I miss my baby."

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So sick.

 

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OK so deliberations are only beginning on Tuesday after the judge gives instructions. I thought all of this was already underway since last Thursday.

The jury is expected to start deliberations at Hamilton’s John Sopinka courthouse on Tuesday, after Judge Robert Reid gives them instructions.

Maybe the jury needed time to shake off the feeling of contempt and disgust before turning up a guilty verdict. JMO

http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2014/04/07/whalen-jury-ready-to-begin-deliberations

 

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Karena Walter ‏@karena_standard 46m
Jury is beginning deliberations in Roseanne Whalen second-degree murder case in death of her two-year-old daughter Marissa.

Lisa Hepfner ‏@HefCHCHNews 46m
Jury will soon begin deciding whether Whalen is guilty in death of her 2yrold Marissa. Sequestered until conclusion

Lets hope this doesn`t go too long. JMO

 

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Karena Walter ‏@karena_standard 1h
Jury is taking a dinner break in the Roseanne Whalen murder trial. They've been at it since noon.

 

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Carly Conway ‏@carlyconwayCHCH 13m
#Breaking #HamOnt MT @CHCHNewsguyNick: Verdict reached in Marissa Whalen murder trial. @ScotUrquhart on his way to courthouse. Details @ 11

YES!!! Thank you jury for being so fast! I hope to find out before 11 pm though.

 

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YES!!!!!! GUILTY!!!!!!!

Karena Walter ‏@karena_standard 1m
Jury has found Fort Erie's Roseanne Whalen guilty of second-degree murder in the death of her two-year-old daughter Marissa.

 

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But does she still wonder why she was arrested? :shakingmyhead:

 

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I really needed to see this case to the very end. Poor Marissa.