Posted on 09/09/2014 8:30:00 PM PDT by Morgana
On Monday Kansas Judge Patrick Thompson sentenced Desirah N. Overturf to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years in connection with the death by starvation of her three-month-old son.
Overturf, 21, pled no contest to first degree murder charges in the death of her son Jordan, whose “skin just hanging on his bones,” according to Saline County Attorney Ellen Mitchell. When Jordan died last December, he weighed less than when he was born.
desiriahNicholas Corbin, the baby’s father, also pled no contest and will be sentenced later this month, KSAL’s Todd Pittenger reported.
According to Pittenger, Mitchell
“said that the couple was not happy about having a child. Shortly after the baby was born they discovered that their lives would never be the same again, and decided to do something about it. At a two week doctor appointment Jordan was fine. At four weeks, though, the doctor had some concerns about nutrition and other issues.
“According to Mitchell the couple felt they were being judged, and chose not to go back to the same doctor. They also decided that they no longer wanted Jordan, wanted their own lives back, and made a conscious decision to stop feeding him. Mitchell said that in the last 30 days of his life Jordan ‘at most ate just a little bit of food every other day.’ The couple knew he would starve to death. Mitchell added that at times when Jordan would cry because he was hungry, Nicholas would drug him with a sleep aid medication to quiet him.”
Mitchell described the baby’s last day—the day after Christmas. When the couple walked into a Wendy’s a female customer took one look at Jordan, gave the couple $20, and told store employee of her concern. “The couple then walked home,” Mitchell said.
Pittenger explained
“They discovered that Jordan was not breathing, was cold, and was rigid. They placed him in warm water, but did not do anything for several hours. During that time they cooked a meal and ate. They eventually called Salina Regional Health Center, and were told to immediately call 911. But they still didn’t right away, instead cleaning the house first.”
“He had only a short life, and was only taken care of properly for the first couple of weeks,” Mitchell concluded.
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Overturf’s attorney, Julie Effenbeck, asked for lenience, telling Judge Thompson that her client had a personality disorder. Wichita Psychologist Dr. Jarrod Steffan concurred, testifying that “she was not the promoter of what happened, but she did not do anything to prevent what happened.” Overturf’s mother placed much of the blame on Corbin.
According to Pittenger, Judge Thompson told Overturf
“that while he empathizes with her mental issues, ‘it does not excuse the actions toward your son.’ He said that the death was not the result of one single action or decision, but rather a ‘repetitive decision to starve this child.’ The Judge added that ‘every time this child cried out in hunger you made the decision to continue to starve him. You chose to starve him to death, and stood by while Nicholas administered drugs.’”
Ever heard of adoption, ever heard of dropping your kid off at the local fire station (no questions asked), ever heard of compassion?
Should have been death sentence.
You know honestly I think these kids have the IQ of an ash tray.
“...her client had a personality disorder.”
That’s one way to put it.
How despicable are these people, they could have given that baby to the next person that walked down the street and he would be alive today.
RIP, poor little child, you deserved better.
This is just horrible.
Again, why not try to adopt out the baby, then? Geesh.
There you go, insulting ash trays.
I hope their fellow prisoners take care of them.
The sick thing is that if they’d have aborted him before birth, they wouldn’t have been punished at all (at least in this life)!
In a culture of death, why would this be so unconscionable to the death-worshipers?
A Wendy’s customer- a total stranger- had more compassion than the bio parents.
These people are two of the most cold-blooded murderers in history as far as I am concerned
The American people never cease to commit horrors in the name of fighting poverty.
... And the heart of an earthworm. That poor baby! Sometimes I wonder how God lets these kinds of things happen. :(
Look at those photos. Second-generation dopers, you can see it in their eyes. Their own parents probably used drugs while these two were still in the womb, and they were born defective as a result. All the “coke babies” produced by the last generation are grown now, and they have no souls. And if we let them, they will wreck our society.
I thought the mom did not look right. Thought it was just me. You may be on to something. I remember being told about babies being “born hocked” in the late 80’s. Yea now they’s be grown and having kids. What a nightmare.
I couldn’t stand to read it all.
In addition to 25 years w/o parole, they should also both have been ‘fixed’ so they could never again conceive a baby that they could torture and kill.
Words fail me.
“Look at those photos. Second-generation dopers, you can see it in their eyes.”
You can also see it in her name. Nice of her mom to give her a stripper name from the get-go so she wouldn’t have to go through the trouble of making one up (or coming up with a “creative” spelling for it) later.
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