Police: Mississippi girl dies after beating over math lesson

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 4:58 pm, Monday, July 17, 2017


MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) — Police say a Mississippi man fatally beat a 3-year-old girl with a bamboo rod and a cellphone cord because she couldn't correctly answer questions about numbers and then soiled her pants.

The Meridian Star reports that police detectives testified in city court Monday about 25-year-old Joshua Salovich's confession to the beating.

Bailey Salovich died Saturday after being taken to a hospital for injuries including bleeding in the brain and lungs.

Detective Thomas Abate quotes Salovich as telling police "the streets are hard ... for her to survive, she has to be hard, too."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Police-Mississippi-girl-dies-after-beating-over-11294866.php

[ehrnst]

1. This shit is parenting as usual in so many parts of "merica."

Those of us that got out and made something of our lives know this.

Likely some mental illness, but this is what we are up against in Red States. White men abusing, raping and killing with impunity.

[UnFettered]

16. Might want to actually click the posted link.

[QC]

20. Where's the fun in that? n/t

[ehrnst]

30. I did. To clarify - Yes, I know he's not white

and because my family is white, kids went to the hospital and no questions were asked.

He stated said completely acceptable to beat a child like that for "failings."

This is, and is the result of childcare/parenting that permits the adult to use the child as a toilet for their anger under the guise of "this was a tough world and she had to be tough if she wanted to survive," which is something that I grew up with. Adults shared in the dumping of rage on children at the slightest irritation. And because my familoy w

That is parenting gone horribly wrong - and if the mother was in the next room, and didn't react to what must have been angry words, and cries from the child, she bought into that as well. Or could have been that she was also being abused by him, and didn't want to draw fire.

[58Sunliner]

26. Uhm , yeah about that-why not read up? How about that Georgia couple on their honeymoon?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjxzfuL8ZHVAhXHaT4KHRtNBn4QqUMIMTAB&url=http%3A%2F%2F5newsonline.com%2F2017%2F07%2F16%2Fpolice-georgia-couple-on-honeymoon-kidnap-rape-florida-woman%2F&usg=AFQjCNGa7qeaxYchJ3P_2VtYowspLYVFwA
It would be nice if this kind of insanity was limited to one race, one sex, but we are not that lucky.

[ehrnst]

31. To clarify:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1823093

[Honeycombe8]

2. If the mother was there, she should be charged, too.

That a*hole needs to be hung up by his balls and beaten with a cellphone cord.

That poor baby. That poor baby. How could someone do that?

[pnwmom]

4. She was in another room with the door closed and the TV on.

It's hard for me to believe she wasn't at least aware of something . . . I bet anything this wasn't the first time. You don't go from nothing to murder.

[Honeycombe8]

14. No way she didn't hear it. I've heard such screams before. nt

[lunasun]

24. If you read the link it was not the first time just as you suspected had been going on

repeatedly 5 times a week being beaten for number errors

[pnwmom]

25. Just so evil.

[Solly Mack]

3. Prison is harder.

We'll see how his thinking pans out.

This is not a prison rape comment. I do not approve of rape period. Not in or out of prison.

This is a statement of fact that prison can be brutal.

[SergeStorms]

18. Other prisoners...

are very hard on child abusers. Even murderers look down on child abuse. This guy WILL NOT do well in prison. IF he's convicted, that is.

[pnwmom]

5. Here's another article with more. Cases like this

test my beliefs about the death penalty.

http://www.wtok.com/content/news/Meridian-Man--434962103.html

[demigoddess]

15. i'm willing to give up the death penalty but not when it comes to the beating death of

a child, especially one this young. As far as the idiot goes, this is not the way to teach a 3 year old numbers. He was probably not doing it right. There is a reason that kindergarten starts at 5 years old, not 3.

[Leghorn21]

6. I swear I didn't know Parchman Farm is still functioning. So, see ya there, Joshua Salovich.

Little Bailey, you drew a horrifically bad card this go-round. I am so very sorry this happened to you and to those who knew and loved you.

See you in Paradise, baby girl -

[GaryCnf]

11. . . .

[mtngirl47]

7. 3 year old--Math lesson? Seriously?

[RhodeIslandOne]

8. I'd like to give this shitbag my own math lesson

We can see how many teeth I can knock out of him. Because the streets are hard, after all.

[shenmue]

9. ...

[magicarpet]

10. What was Joshua brought up by rabid wolves ?

What an animal.

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. One article said he's a boxer in training

and isn't the child's biological father.

[magicarpet]

33. Oh that stands to reason...

The three year old did not have the correct answer to her trigonometry and calculus math test. So step-dad put on his boxing gloves and beat the crap out of the three year old

Zero compassion barbaric neanderthal creep.

[keithbvadu2]

13. We have Christians in America who teach how to beat babies. These must be some lovely people (sarca

We have Christians in America who teach how to beat babies.

These must be some lovely people (sarcasm).

Beating Babies in the Name of Jesus? The Shady World of Right-Wing 'Discipline' Guides

http://www.alternet.org/sto...

They even recommend what type of plumbing tubing to use.

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http://www.patheos.com/blog...

This Christian is Selling Child-Beating Sticks (But He Doesn’t Want the Internet to Find Out)

(easily fits in a ...diaper bag).

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http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2016/08/31/son-had-36-bruises-mom-quoted-bible-defense/88998568/?hootPostID=05bee88b4178c6162714e1226bb770b7

Son had 36 bruises. Mom quoted the Bible as defense.

'Religious freedom' of course

[Sunlei]

17. charge the Mother and any other adults who knew this man was brutal.

should be a crime to even hit a child.

[lunasun]

22. The mother said she was in another room but he had been doing this repeatedly Not the 1st time

She had to know the girl was being abused

" said Salovich told police that he was asking the toddler questions about numbers and would "pop" her when she answered incorrectly. Salovich said he had used the same method to discipline the child at least five times per week, Dubose said. Salovich told police he used a bamboo rod until it broke, then switched to a cellphone cord to administer some of the licks. Other blows came from his hand."

[leftyladyfrommo]

19. That is so awful.

It seems like we are hearing more and more of these terrible, terrible child abuse cases.

Social services are so over loaded they can't begin to keep up. In this case they had no previous information on these people but often they do.

[lunasun]

21. 3 yrs old ? Math question?

When investigators asked Salovich how hard he had hit the child, on a scale of 1 being a tap and 10 being as hard as he could, "he rated them all 10s, with no hesitation," Dubose said.

[Stuart G]

23. So sad....

3 years old???

[58Sunliner]

27. People like this guy create a situation of failure to "justify" their abuse.

My father would tell us we cheated if we got a star on our paperwork. His narcissism had to place him at the center of the universe, even if it meant abusing a five year old. He was worse than DT.
He is a very sick guy and mommy was an enabler and maybe his victim as well. But at some level she sanctifies his actions. Maybe borderline.

[benld74]

28. OMG 3 yrs old?

These aren't parents
Heck even animals are better with their young

These people are demons

[ProfessorGAC]

32. That's What I Was Thinking, Too

A 3 year old wasn't getting enough MATH problems right so it required a beating? That's some twisted thinking.

[Beaverhausen]

29. That poor baby

Apparently he did this regularly. Can't imagine anyone thinking it's Ok to do this to a 3 year old...or anyone for that matter.

[EllieBC]

34. May he meet a similar end.

The mother should be charged too. That was her baby. She didn't care that this monster was beating her baby????