GUILTY TX - Emma Thompson, 4, dies with STD, skull fracture, Spring, 27 June 2009

[jnTexas]

http://www.montgomerycountynews.net/

The Gulf Coast Task Force arrested Coe in Magnolia around 5:45 p.m. He was reportedly visiting relatives and attempted to flee, but was captured.

A detective with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office who is directly involved in the case said the death was the worst case of child abuse he had seen in his 17 years on the force. Young, a registered nurse, formerly worked at Texas Women’s Hospital in Labor and Delivery.

Additional information and video will be posted later

 

[Fairy1]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6567805.html

A Spring woman and her boyfriend have been charged in the death of the woman's daughter, a 4-year-old who authorities said was beaten and sexually abused.

Abigail Elizabeth Young, 33, and Lucas Ruric Coe, 27, are charged with injury to a child, a first-degree felony. They are accused in the death of Emma Thompson.

Good!!!! I wish the charges were more serious, but maybe they will be. This woman should fry right alongside her BF.

 

[Fairy1]

http://www.montgomerycountynews.net/

Oh! Too bad he didn't put up enough of a fight for LE to shoot him! He's a coward .

 

[Paintr]

http://www.khou.com/news/local/crime/stories/khou090810_mp_4-year-old-child-death-charges.caaacbf6.html

The autopsy determined the girl’s death was a homicide after a blunt abdominal trauma. The Medical Examiner says she had also been beaten and sexually abused.

Now six weeks later, detectives have arrested the child's mother, 33-year-old Abigail Elizabeth Young and her boyfriend, 27-year-old Lucas Ruric Coe.

...

If convicted, felony injury to a child charges could result in a life sentence

 

[Paintr]

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/090729_sex_abuse_child_arrests

Arrests Made in Death of
Child With STD

video...

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6567805.html

A Spring woman and her boyfriend have been charged in the death of the woman's daughter, a 4-year-old who authorities said was beaten and sexually abused.

Abigail Elizabeth Young, 33, and Lucas Ruric Coe, 27, are charged with injury to a child, a first-degree felony. They are accused in the death of Emma Thompson.

 

[Paintr]

http://www.39online.com/news/local/kiah-toddler-death-arrests-story,0,6725423.story

Investigators say from start, Abigail Young and her boyfriend, Lucas Coe gave conflicting stories as to how her 4 year-old daughter, Emma Thompson, sustain a severed pancreas, a skull fracture, bruising all over her body, and oral and vaginal Herpes.


,,,,,,

When I asked Detective AJ Kelly why prosecutors charged the 33 year-old mother and her 27 year-old boyfriend with first degree injury to a child instead of murder, he answered:

"Just from the meeting we had today, it was the best way to proceed as far as charging both in this case. It's still a life sentence charge, they can still receive 5 to 99 years."

 

[CuriousTwo]

Whew! Justice is definitely in order for this little angel!

 

[Paintr]

http://www.familybadge.org/(S(xtp0xk55ay2wu045m51spzuf))/default.aspx?act=Newsletter.aspx&category=News+1-2&newsletterid=14293&menugroup=Home&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Both suspects were arrested at separate locations around 5:45 p.m. on Monday. Coe was arrested by the Gulf Coast Violent Offender Task Force in the Magnolia area of Montgomery County. Kelly said Coe attempted to flee on foot, but was captured. Ironically, Coe was wearing a black graphic t-shirt with a cartoon police car and a panicked looking figure in front of it that read, "It's all fun and games until the police show up." Coe might have been smiling when he bought the shirt, but he did not appear to be amused as he was in custody walking from the HCSO Homicide Division to a squad car en route to the Harris County Jail.

.........

Two other children in the household, one of them Coe's 4-year-old daughter, are now with relatives. Harris County and Montgomery County Child Protective Services have "open cases on all of the children" that have been around the suspects, Kelly said.

The 19 year veteran officer said the Thompson case was the "toughest" of his career because of the injuries to the child that he saw at the hospital and at the forensic center. Thompson has children of his own.

 

[Paintr]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D9A0L2PO0.html

Abigail Elizabeth Young of Spring and Lucas Ruric Coe were held Tuesday in the Harris County Jail. Young was held on $50,000 bond. Jail records indicated Lucas was held without bond.

Electronic jail records had no listing for attorneys for Young or Coe.

 

[IWannaKnow]

From one of Paintr's links above:
http://www.39online.com/news/local/kiah-toddler-death-arrests-story,0,6725423.story

"CPS had been criticized for not removing Emma from her home when they were notified that the girl had a sexually transmitted disease nearly a month before she died.

CPS stated that because genital herpes can be transmitted through other non-sexual methods, they could not automatically remove the child. "

But I found this:
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/74/1/67
~snipped~BBM
"A review of gonorrhea, Chiamydia trachomatis, herpes genitalis, condyloma acuminata, Trichomonas vaginalis, syphilis, chancroid, and granuloma inguinale infections has been made to address the issue of nonsexual transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. Nonsexual transmission of these infections is an infrequent occurrence and when they affect the prepubertal child, sexual abuse must be highly suspected."

I think CPS has some 'splainin to do......

 

[Paintr]

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/090811_nurse_boyfriend_arrested_girl_death

HOUSTON - A woman from Spring and her boyfriend have been charged with felony injury to a child over the death of her 4-year-old daughter.

...

Both Young and Coe are scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.

 

[jnTexas]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6567805.html

The news of an arrest brought some relief to one of Emma's relatives.

“I feel blessed that justice is being serviced, and hopefully justice will be served for my niece,“ said Amanda Young Mathews, Young's sister. “We just want the truth to be known.“

She described her niece as a fun-loving girl. “She had a bright future and was taken away too soon.“

Mathews said she was horrified at what happened to her niece. “She will be missed forever,” Mathews said.

I'm glad to see a family member standing up for this baby. Even if it's after her death!

 

[Paintr]

http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou090810_mp_4-year-old-child-death-charges.caaacbf6.html

In video of the hearing, Young and Coe stood side by side several feet apart as they faced the judge. Other accused criminals in the courtroom could be seen shaking their heads in disgust and covering their faces, shocked by the allegations leveled against Coe.

 

[Paintr]

http://www.khou.com/video/news-index.html?nvid=388093

video of their courtroom appearance.

 

[Paintr]

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/util/prestitialShell?ad=3&goback=http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=6959397

Although the hearing is public record, the sound from the courtroom was turned off so the media was unable to hear what was said during the appearance. Others present in the courtroom had a visibly disturbed reaction to what was reading read by the judge

 

[UnderDog]

"Thompson [baby's father] said his wife told him that the type of herpes their daughter contracted had started out as a “childhood” version and had somehow developed into the sexual disease adults contract. He also said his wife told him that their daughter could have contracted the disease from a toilet seat."

Is this even possible?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/breaking/6551978.html

Herpes can be contracted by the baby at birth if the Mother has herpes.

 

[krt]

Just disgusting; absolutely disgusting. I hope EVERY INMATE male and female knows what these two monsters did when they enter the prison system. May they both rot in he** for eternity. :rage::rage::rage:

Poor innocent child! At least no one can hurt her anymore!

 

[fhc]

Here is the local media link. Don't miss her home town comments
http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/52962227.html

 

[fhc]

Death
http://obit.memorialoakschapel.com/obitdisplay.html?id=685229&listing=Current
Notice by funeral home

 

[KT Can]

I live in Spring...and I have been laying on a beach in Mexico for the past nine days far removed from the horrors of the world...could I come home to anything worse?!! I am horrified right now. I am afraid that if I start ranting about these two I will get put in time out and I really missed my WS's while I was gone.

Off to read my local articles now...