Pathologist: Slain Alabama child could have survived

[ccharles000]

GADSDEN, Ala. -- A 5-year-old boy who prosecutors say was brutally beaten to death with a wooden board was likely paralyzed by the assault but could have survived if he had received medical attention, a pathologist said Friday.

Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences pathologist Dr. Emily Ward testified in the capital murder trial of Kevin Andre Towles, who is accused of killing Geontae "Gee" Glass on Dec. 3, 2006.

Ward performed an autopsy on Dec. 5, 2006, just hours after the boy's body was found wrapped in a quilt in the trunk of his mother's car.

She said he was beaten several different times in the days before his death but all the wounds would have been survivable. The Gadsden Time reported on the trial Friday.

Towles, 34, was dating Geontae's mother, Shalinda Glass, at the time of the boy's death. The two are accused of staging a fake abduction outside a convenience store at Albertville the day after he died. Shalinda Glass also is charged with capital murder and is awaiting trial.

http://blog.al.com/live/2009/10/pathologist_slain_alabama_chil.html

[RubyDuby in GA]

1. What the fuck is wrong with people?

A 5 year old boy?

This is what the death penalty is for.

[Maru Kitteh]

2. Male bears, wolves, birds, etc. will often kill or drive off the offspring of a female they want

to mate with. It's amazing and sickening how often this pattern is repeated within our own species.

Sometimes females engage in the same behavior although they kill less often than males, they sometimes drive competing offspring away through neglect or aggression.

Hopefully neither of these assholes will be anywhere near any child ever again.

[Yehonala]

4. I know what it's like

I fully respect that when animals do it, but as humans we know better and we damn well should behave like it. Fry the fucker who did this and then shoot the enabling parent.

"they sometimes drive competing offspring away through neglect or aggression."

Ah yes, my step-mommy dearest. She has her nails into my Dad and I've been shoved out. Believe me, nothing worse than a stepmother who wants you out so everything your father has to offer will go to her spud and not you.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. My nephew came into his 2nd marriage w/custody of his two children

At first, his new wife seemed very loving and devoted to his children, but the very second after she popped out her own, his kids became the source of all evil in the universe. It was like watching a bad episode of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

She's dead now (aplastic anemia) and I can't say anyone in our family other than my nephew was very busted up about it. Their children were young and I feel sorry for their loss but on the other hand, in some ways they may be better off now. She loved her kids, but she was a poor parent and not a very admirable human being in general.

[Yehonala]

9. Good Riddance

"She loved her kids, but she was a poor parent and not a very admirable human being in general."

It's a Christian thing to say that that way, but I say !good riddance!. That woman (and my stepmother) was a source of cruelty that children have no business going through. When you target a kid for anything, you deserve all the suffering that comes with it. With my stepmom it was like living with a landmine; publicly gregarious, but in private you never knew what was going to set her off.

Being blamed on a regular basis over things I had no control over, the demented inconsistency, let them all rot.

[get the red out]

7. I have so often said the same

Every time, and it is OFTEN, that I read a local story of a man murdering the girlfriend's child I call it a "Tomcat killing" because as a small child I will never forget a tomcat killing my cat's new kittens.

God it seems to happen every day, and these are supposed to be human beings.

[PDJane]

3. I sometimes wonder if we are fit to breed......

I'm sorry, this is just one of a litany of awful stories this week; a grandchild sexually assaulted by her stepbrother; he's 17, she's barely heading to school. A young woman in jail because her husband beat their child to death; and of course, since this is Texas, she's going to be tried too. A young woman who has disappeared from school, that business in texas of an innocent man put to death, a 'terrorist' in Denver...shit, people. This is not civilized behaviour......

[Yehonala]

5. Frightening

This whole country is falling to pieces. I don't know how or why, but people in this country are getting more animalistic in ruthlessness. It's frightening because there's no real logical reason for it. There's enough to go around and all you have to do is work for it and obey the law.

[bertman]

6. This is terrible shit, of course. I hate to say it, but it's as natural for our species as it

is for a male lion to kill lion cubs in its own pride.

We are deluged by these horrific news items now that we have access to everything that transpires anywhere in America (or the world for that matter). So we begin to think that it's us. Well, it is. But, the good news is it's nothing new, this is an ongoing defect. If you consider THAT good news.

Humans have been doing horrific deeds to others since recorded history. Every nation, every religion, every race, every ethnic group is as guilty as the next.

How they ever came up with the name "homo sapiens", which translates to wise man, is beyond my comprehension.

[varelse]

10. It is unacceptable behaviour

that is why it is illegal in many countries, and is generally viewed as evil and cruel everywhere. "Natural" doesn't justify evil.