Posted on 08/18/2009 9:38:26 PM PDT by Steelfish
Mother, Boyfriend Charged in Death of Idaho Boy Found in Canal
August 18, 2009
BOISE, Idaho — The mother of an 8-year-old boy found dead in an Idaho canal and her live-in boyfriend have been indicted on first-degree murder charges by an Ada County grand jury.
Thirty-year-old Melissa Jenkins and her boyfriend, 36-year-old Daniel Ehrlick Jr., were arrested Tuesday in the death of Jenkins' son, Robert Manwill. The two also face charges on accusations that they failed to report the boy's death.
Robert was missing for more than a week before his body was found floating in the canal Aug. 3. No cause of death has been released, but police said evidence showed the death was not accidental.
The boy's disappearance struck a chord in southwestern Idaho, and thousands of residents turned out to search for him. Deputy Chief Jim Kerns, of the Boise Police Department, said during a news conference televised Tuesday on KTVB-TV that officers at his agency logged more than 9,000 hours trying to uncover what happened to the youngster after he left his mother's apartment in Boise on July 24.
"Probably no other case in Boise history has touched so many people," Kerns told reporters. "The turnout of volunteers to search for Robert was unprecedented in this community. The law enforcement effort to find Robert was equally massive and unprecedented."
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At least we know the little boy is resting in the Arms of Jesus.
Murdering a child, particularly by the trusted...unfathomable evil.
Sounds like this poor kid was surrounded by worthless pieces of s-—. Go with God, little one.
Again with the nogoodnik boyfriend.
His parents probably knew that was going to happen. That's what faith is for. Kid dies--no sweat.
In Missouri in the 50s Charles Austin Hall and Bonnie Heady were convicted of kidnapping and murdering the Greenlease toddler. This was in August. The judge sentencing them to death said he didn’t want them around for Christmas. They died together in the gas chamber in mid-December. This was justice. Even if these maggots receive the death penalty, they will be around for ten year at least — playing the system and having liberal pukes kissing their asses. Somethings gotta change. Maybe when Thomas Jefferson’s revolution happens.
Murdering a child should be automatic death penalty - period.
That's it??!! She broke her child's skull, and they gave her 29 days, and 2 years probation? And they let her keep the other child, Robert Manwill - who was recently found dead????
How does Idaho justify that?!
No. Any other children this woman had should have been taken away from her after she cracked the first one's skull. This is what you get when you have bleeding-heart liberals in charge.
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