NM - Sarah Dubois-Gilbeau, 5, beaten to death by dad for not doing homework, Albuquerque, 5 Apr 2019

[gitana1]

Didn’t do homework, spilled drink, colored on picture, wet pants, cried - excuses parent/boyfriend/girlfriend give to justify beating an innocent child to death.

Precisely.

 

[Lmustang89]

God there's another thread where step dad to be beat a little, precious four year old with Down syndrome to death for "interrupting" him.

I mean beating a child - any child - to death is bad enough but my God. Special needs children are our angels on earth.

I'm devastated.

How awful - do you have the link for the little 4 year old? Thank you

 

[gitana1]

Do we really care about our children? Why does this happen all the time?

I don't think we do. Not enough. Because the penalties in most states for child abuse are often lower than for drug sales.

As a society we still approve of someone four times as huge, with a hand the size of a child's head, hitting that child as a means of discipline. We still believe culturally that physical punishment is the best way to teach kids right from wrong and how to behave. Little kids who trust us implicitly and look to us for protection and education.

And I know, I know, many of us have given our kids a swat and aren't child abusers or in any way comparable to a person who beats their child to death. But we empower violent people to feel inflicting pain on children is an acceptable means of controlling their behavior.

IMO, until we have a society that understands that any physical punishment or humiliation is counter-intuitive and detrimental to small, developing minds and bodies, and that children aren't property, and shouldn't be expected, with their lack of cognitive ability, to be more in control of their behavior and emotions than we expect fully grown adults to be, we are enabling situations where people like this creature can exist and evolve into someone who can destroy children.

It usually doesn't start right away with beating their child to death. You know?

We have this attitude that kids are resilient. They're not. They're actually quite fragile. Our prisons are filled with people who have been subjected to harsh discipline as children. And most mental health issues can be traced at least in part to trauma or neglect in childhood.

I don't think we value our kids enough in this nation.

That's my soapbox.

 

[Medstudies]

How awful - do you have the link for the little 4 year old? Thank you

CA - Kylee Willis, 4, beaten to death for interrupting mom‘s boyfriend, Rancho Cucamonga, Mar 2019

 

[gitana1]

How awful - do you have the link for the little 4 year old? Thank you

CA - Kylee Willis, 4, beaten to death for interrupting mom‘s boyfriend, Rancho Cucamonga, Mar 2019

 

[Trudie]

CA - Kylee Willis, 4, beaten to death for interrupting mom‘s boyfriend, Rancho Cucamonga, Mar 2019

Too bad the two murderers are not in the same state, they’d be perfect cellmates, imo.

 

[MyBelle]

So, does that mean if her teacher hadn’t given her homework, she’d still be alive and everything would be okay?

Isn’t that blaming the teacher for this evil man’s violence?

The evil man is blaming the teacher and I'm not buying his story.

I don't believe a teacher gave the child any homework. I think the father made it all up.

 

[musicaljoke]

The evil man is blaming the teacher and I'm not buying his story.

I don't believe a teacher gave the child any homework. I think the father made it all up.

I agree with you. I seriously dislike it when newspaper and/or WS headlines include the victim blaming excuse put forth by the murderer. It deflects the blame from falling soley on the monster who killed the child. Here, it diverted the discussion into the unrelated topic of whether or not 5 yr olds should have homework. Plus, in the mind of the murderer, it validates the "reason" for his action and puts his pathetic excuse into the public mind.

 

[cybervampira]

I agree with you. I seriously dislike it when newspaper and/or WS headlines include the victim blaming excuse put forth by the murderer. It deflects the blame from falling soley on the monster who killed the child. Here, it diverted the discussion into the unrelated topic of whether or not 5 yr olds should have homework. Plus, in the mind of the murderer, it validates the "reason" for his action and puts his pathetic excuse into the public mind.

When all information you have is ”Child beaten to death by father“, threads would be very short. That’s the point of a discussion forum, discuss all angles of a crime, even the bad excuse given by this murderer. All this doesn’t change the fact that he murdered his child. I don’t see where anyone in his right mind would blame the victim, even if what dad said was true. That’s no reason to beat a child!

Looking at the pathology of a murderer, his background, abuse he may have suffered as a child himself, mental health issues, drug use, red flags, his ”defense“ and his way of thinking is not victim blaming.

Of course, one can label all killers as evil and end of story. I prefer looking at the big picture and how society can improve to prevent these things from happening.

MOO.

 

[moonriverfarm]

The father was the teacher. The little girl was home schooled.

 

[2Hope4]

Police say Reynolds, 36, beat his daughter to death because she refused to finish the homework he had assigned her.

Father accused of beating 5-year-old girl to death

 

[2Hope4]

Reynolds initially told police a couple of different stories about what had happened, including that Sarah “suddenly stopped breathing” while drifting off to sleep, that she had come into the bedroom while he was smoking marijuana, and that she said she needed to use the bathroom and then began to spit up.

But one of the neighbors had a different story to tell.

She told police she overheard Reynolds yelling “get up” followed by sounds of someone or something being struck, as if with a shoe.

Police say the bruising on the child’s body stretched from her neck to her buttocks, much of which was consistent with “the tread of a shoe.”
Father accused of beating 5-year-old girl to death

 

[gitana1]

Reynolds initially told police a couple of different stories about what had happened, including that Sarah “suddenly stopped breathing” while drifting off to sleep, that she had come into the bedroom while he was smoking marijuana, and that she said she needed to use the bathroom and then began to spit up.

But one of the neighbors had a different story to tell.

She told police she overheard Reynolds yelling “get up” followed by sounds of someone or something being struck, as if with a shoe.

Police say the bruising on the child’s body stretched from her neck to her buttocks, much of which was consistent with “the tread of a shoe.”
Father accused of beating 5-year-old girl to death

Jesus.

 

[KJS1961]

Jesus.

Heinous. The only words I have for that behavior. Beyond shocked and grossed out.

 

[MyBelle]

The father was the teacher. The little girl was home schooled.

The father is a liar. It's not rocket science to figure out the child wasn't in school in order to hide all the horrific abuse he inflicted upon her.

Too bad NM no longer has the death penalty.

JMO

 

[Cubby]

The father was the teacher. The little girl was home schooled.

Ok, then. This explains why their wasn't any mandatory reporter who may have noticed signs of abuse.

 

[mrz]

Abolished in 2009. Sucks! That little girl deserves justice big time. Hopeless child beaten by a full grown mutt.

 

[Cubby]

The father is a liar. It's not rocket science to figure out the child wasn't in school in order to hide all the horrific abuse he inflicted upon her.

Too bad NM no longer has the death penalty.

JMO

My thoughts exactly. I hate even having to think of "home schooling" as a cover for abuse, but I do.

So sad. I'll bet the coward pleads not guilty, too. .

 

[MyBelle]

My thoughts exactly. I hate even having to think of "home schooling" as a cover for abuse, but I do.

So sad. I'll bet the coward pleads not guilty, too. .

"home-schooling" absolutely has been cover for abuse in too many cases yet increasing oversight has been met with resistance and these horrific cases keep happening.

JMO

For some, home schooling is not about learning. It’s about hiding child abuse.

“Home schooling should be a viable option when done well,” she said. “But we have a duty to make sure kids are safe whether they are in public school or in a home.”

 

[MsMarple]

Reynolds initially told police a couple of different stories about what had happened, including that Sarah “suddenly stopped breathing” while drifting off to sleep, that she had come into the bedroom while he was smoking marijuana, and that she said she needed to use the bathroom and then began to spit up.

But one of the neighbors had a different story to tell.

She told police she overheard Reynolds yelling “get up” followed by sounds of someone or something being struck, as if with a shoe.

Police say the bruising on the child’s body stretched from her neck to her buttocks, much of which was consistent with “the tread of a shoe.”
Father accused of beating 5-year-old girl to death

From your link, all bolding mine:

Police say the bruising on the child’s body stretched from her neck to her buttocks, much of which was consistent with “the tread of a shoe.”

That tells me other bruising came from something else. Maybe fists.

At the police station, Reynolds told detectives the little girl refused to do her homework around 8:30 p.m., which “triggered” him and “that’s when the discipline came in.”

Reynolds told police he didn’t call rescue for hours, and instead had put ice on her bruised back. He also put her in bed and listened to her heartbeat.

WTF?? Changing his story, blaming the innocent little victim for "triggering" him, not seeking help immediately. Add it up and it screams murder. He could have stopped at hit number 2. Or 3. Or 5. Or 7. But he didn't. SMDH.