GUILTY OH - Austin Cooper, 4, scalded to death, Franklin, 15 March 2016 Arrests

Tssiemer · Mar 17, 2016

http://www.fox19.com/story/31489569...legs-in-scalding-hot-water?clienttype=generic

On Facebook they released the 911 tape and it sounds like the father is laughing. I'll try to find a link.

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Tssiemer · Mar 17, 2016

Can I post a Facebook link???

Here is the 911 call.

https://www.facebook.com/141410459208966/videos/1276550599028274/

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passionflower · Mar 17, 2016

Punish them the same way!! so mean!

ninij9 · Mar 17, 2016

Please, someone tell me, what can a four year old baby do that is so bad, so horrible that you decide to torture him like that? What?

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ninij9 · Mar 17, 2016

Tssiemer said:
http://www.fox19.com/story/31489569...legs-in-scalding-hot-water?clienttype=generic

On Facebook they released the 911 tape and it sounds like the father is laughing. I'll try to find a link.

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I listened. To me it sounds like a reflexive sob. I'm thinking (hoping) he was just in shock at the time. I don't think I can follow this case. That baby, I cannot imagine that babies pain. Omfg. I just can't.

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Tssiemer · Mar 17, 2016

This is close to where I live. Same county. I don't think I have a choice.

I kinda wonder what else she has done to him.

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al66pine · Mar 18, 2016

Am I reading link correctly, hearing aud-vid correctly? The father of 4 y/o, his 4 y/o son who died, said this???
"That little boy would want me to keep going everyday," Ritchie told WDTN. "He'd want me to go out and have fun for him and do everything I can for him."

Have fun for him?
Do everything for him? Now? What can the father do now for his son?
He said this w'in 2 days of his son dying at stepmother's hands.

RIP little one.

_______________________________________________________________________________
"Now, Austin's father is asking himself why this happened.
"He was so young, so innocent. Just why? The Lord taught me, even through the hardest things in life, you gotta forgive he can't forgive you either. Especially, even something like this, you gotta have faith and you gotta keep your head on straight.
"That little boy would want me to keep going everyday," Ritchie told WDTN. "He'd want me to go out and have fun for him and do everything I can for him."
He said his son was a huge fan of Star Wars.
"He was a big R2-D2 guy and he loved Darth Vader," Ritchie said. "I actually got him of those Kylo Ren's a few weeks ago. He loved it."
http://www.fox19.com/story/31489569/police-4-year-old-dead-after-stepmom-puts-his-legs-in-scalding-hot-water?clienttype=generic. Mar 16, w Mar 18 update

MsMarple · Mar 18, 2016

JMO but the type of "punishment" the stepmother doled out tells me she has probably abused the poor child in the past. If so and if the father was aware of her "discipline" then shame on him.

Theres no punishment that you could do to a 4-year-old to kill him, said Sherri Gredig, the boys maternal grandmother. What could a 4-year-old do to get scalded to death?

The grandmother of Austin Derreck Cooper spoke at a video arraignment for Anna Ritchie on Friday in Franklin Municipal Court.

Ritchie, who is in the Warren County Jail, could have more charges filed against her, according to police.

http://www.whio.com/news/news/crime...epmother-arrested/nqmxk/#sthash.DM5pwa7Q.dpuf

gregjrichards · Mar 18, 2016

Tssiemer said:
http://www.fox19.com/story/31489569...legs-in-scalding-hot-water?clienttype=generic

On Facebook they released the 911 tape and it sounds like the father is laughing. I'll try to find a link.

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Just disgusting pure evil. How can any person look into an innocent child's eyes and harm them causing them agony? Where were social services as I bet this wasn't an isolated evident this poor child probably suffered their whole short life.

What's the worst the parents are facing is the death penalty a possibility?

JeannaT · Mar 18, 2016

I think the dad is just in total denial for his role. It's like, he has a child's attitude.

He brought his horrible woman into his son's life, and ignored that his son's legs were burned to the point that he would die during the night. NO, he did not "get into a bath with his wife". His wife placed him in burning water.

And now he's going on about how you have to forgive, you have to go on, he would want me to keep having fun. No, he would have liked you to rescue him from this witch you brought into the house.

In an aside, I keep posting this in cases like this - why is the household water heater cranked up high enough to burn a child to death? That should be against city code. You do not need tap water heated to the point of burning you to death.

But I don't think the dad is laughing in the 911 call. That sounds like a gag and a sob.

wendybtn · Mar 18, 2016

I agree with everything you said. My own spouse won't turn the water heater above 120 degrees unless he and I need it for a specific thing we are doing. It then gets turned right back down.

grillzgirl · Mar 18, 2016

I just.....I can't even..........I'm just beyond words. I can't bring myself to listen to the 911 call. Some people are so evil that it is beyond my comprehension as a human being.

SweetT · Mar 18, 2016

What a stupid ignorant dad who seems to be in denial. There is nothing he can do for his son now, that time has passed, except for justice. I feel he knows that his wife was abusing him, I seriously doubt this was the first time. That lady has those crazy eyes Sanpaui or what ever you call them and her Right eye seems a tad bigger than her left. Just saying. I guess I'm just a witch cause forgiving someone for killing my kid would not be a thought in my head especially only a couple days afterwards.

Tillicum · Mar 18, 2016

JeannaT said:
I think the dad is just in total denial for his role. It's like, he has a child's attitude.

He brought his horrible woman into his son's life, and ignored that his son's legs were burned to the point that he would die during the night. NO, he did not "get into a bath with his wife". His wife placed him in burning water.

And now he's going on about how you have to forgive, you have to go on, he would want me to keep having fun. No, he would have liked you to rescue him from this witch you brought into the house.

In an aside, I keep posting this in cases like this - why is the household water heater cranked up high enough to burn a child to death? That should be against city code. You do not need tap water heated to the point of burning you to death.

But I don't think the dad is laughing in the 911 call. That sounds like a gag and a sob.

According to maternal grandmother in video, it was boiling water heated on the stove :tears:

Tssiemer · Mar 21, 2016

Funeral arrangements set for 4-year-old scalded to death

http://www.fox19.com/story/31522217/funeral-arrangements-set-for-4-year-old-scalded-to-death

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birdsmomma · Mar 21, 2016

I just do not understand how you take a child and hurt them. How do you feel water, know that it's hot and then put a child in it? I will never understand people like this.

From what I've seen, the father and step mother have been married since 2014 so it seems this woman has been with Austin the majority of his short little life.

I do wonder, and maybe it has been said and I missed it. Did dad have primary custody?

Tulessa · Mar 28, 2016

http://www.lex18.com/story/31570910...?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_LEX_18

Tulessa · Mar 28, 2016

FRANKLIN, Ohio (AP) - A detective says the stepmother of a 4-year-old Ohio boy found dead at home told police she'd put his legs in extra-hot water as punishment because he didn't like baths and then tried to hide his burns.

http://www.lex18.com/story/31570910...?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_LEX_18

birdsmomma · Mar 28, 2016

Tulessa said:
FRANKLIN, Ohio (AP) - A detective says the stepmother of a 4-year-old Ohio boy found dead at home told police she'd put his legs in extra-hot water as punishment because he didn't like baths and then tried to hide his burns.

http://www.lex18.com/story/31570910...?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_LEX_18

Thank you for the link Tulessa, this is just disgusting.

As a parent, I do not understand how the dad heard the little boy crying but since the step mom told him not to check on the little boy, he didn't.

jjenny · Mar 28, 2016

I think he already stopped crying by the time father got home. She told father not to check on the child to not wake the child up.
She says she kept the child's leg in hot water for 25 minutes. Child cried for 2-3 hours after that, she didn't check on him. Father came home later.

"According to a police detective, 25-year-old Anna Ritchie held Austin Coopers legs under the water for 25 minutes before pulling him out."

http://www.fox19.com/story/31569042...m-left-child-in-scalding-water-for-25-minutes

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