Mother of slain girl gives chilling details of her short life (Seriously sick freaks of the week)

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[chance33_98]

Mother of slain girl gives chilling details of her short life

Connie Knight testified Friday about the short and painful life of her daughter, Raysate.

By Deborah Wrigley ABC13 Eyewitness News

(5/22/03 - HOUSTON) — The mother of the little girl known as 'Angel Doe' took the stand Friday, testifying against her husband. That testimony provided some chilling details of the child's short life.

Raysate Knight was six-years-old when she was killed two years ago. But death came in small doses before then. Her stepfather is on trial for her death.

On Friday, a picture was shown of her room - a small closet stained with feces and urine, where she'd sleep at night. Her mother, Connie Knight - charged with injury to a child - testified it was because "just different things she'd do, behavior I didn't know any other way to deal with."

One way apparently was for Raymond Knight to whip, beat, and burn the girl. Her mother was in tears Friday as pictures of her daughter's scars were shown.

This all went on for more than a year while Connie Knight doted on her other children. Then in September of 2001, Raysate spread feces on a bedroom door. According to Connie Knight, Raymond Knight kicked her to death. The prosecutor asked her why she didn't call 911. The response from Raysate's mother was "I was afraid because of the abuse, scars. When I picked her up, she was already dead."

Connie Knight's last memory of her daughter, she said, was the sound of a splash as Raymond Knight dumped the small body in an isolated ditch.

Connie Knight continued to testify Friday that she didn't want to go to the police or to CPS because she didn't want to be in jail and didn't want to lose her other children.

[chance33_98]

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[ikka]

I do't quite understand why the mother was not also charged with something, like criminal negligence, accesory to murder, something like that.

[AmericaUnited]

Nope, much, much too humane a punishment for this maggot.

[mylife]

And They wonder why Texas has a death penalty!!

[babaloo999]

I'm wondering the same thing. I caught some of this on the news yesterday afternoon. They showed a picture of burns on the childs's hand. Autopsy photos, I think. Pretty gruesome.
I'd hate to see the rest of the body. "Mom" should sit on the man's lap as he's getting electrocuted, eh?

[MEG33]

She is charged with injury to a child....probably to be dealt with after her testimony.

[FITZ]

It seems she should be charged with murder too. Why would a woman let some boyfriend torture and kill her kids? What does she get out of such a relationship?

[MEG33]

The child seemed to be the family scapegoat....beyond my armchair psychology degree. I know of two other cases like this where the other children did not receive the same treatment.The mother is an accessory to murder.They may have needed her testimony thus the injury to a child charge.

[gg188]

A civlized society of decency, truth and justice, would deal with this mom and dad in the most swift and severe manner possible. Pain, retribution and death. Anything less, I assert, is UNcivilized. (Liberals have it---as usual---backwards.)

[MizSterious]

No. Electrocution is too easy for both of them. At the risk of sounding both un-PC and inhumane, I'd like to see both of them undergo exactly the same treatment they dished out to that poor little one. Beat them, lock them in closets, burn them, duplicate every wound. Only then might they begin to understand the horror of what they did.

[Lady Jag]

This is too sad, chance33.

[babaloo999]

I would rather have them meet their maker as soon as possible and let Him deal with it, but your suggestion would be ok, too.

[MotleyGirl70]

This is just sickening to me. How can anyone hurt a child.

[chance33_98]

Indeed, it breaks my heart to no end when I see such things as this. So many evil people in the world, and what is sadder is that saddam hussein made these two look like pussycats and people were still out there protesting his removal.

[CathyRyan]

I do not understand why anyone would hurt a child I understand even less how someone can hurt one child and dote on the others. Can someone explain it to me?

[ChemistCat]

Among us are trolls who *pretend* to be appalled at this kind of thing so that they can go back and collapse with laughter in their friends' arms at http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID69/6361.html.

So far I've only posted on anti-drunk driving and anti-child abuse threads,

So you see, CathyRyan, some "good" comes of the torture-deaths of children. It contributes to the entertainment of the good folk at DU. And gives our Admin Moderators something to do.

Isn't that special?

No, I'm not reading DU. My profanity filter melts if I try. Someone posted this link on a ZOT thread, and it disgusted me that our genuine feelings about child abuse are being used this way.

Is this the same child who was thought to be Florida's missing Rilya Wilson? Precious Doe?

[MEG33]

No.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Her stepfather is on trial for her death.

So he was her stepfather. I wondered. Fathers are less likely then stepfathers to do this and their last names were different.

Hang him and HER!