Posted on 04/02/2019 10:46:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
Biloxi, Miss. -- A former Mississippi Gulf Coast police officer is headed to prison for the death of her 3-year-old daughter, who was left in her mother's patrol car while the woman had sex with a police supervisor. CBS Biloxi, Miss. affiliate WLOX-TV reports ex-Long Beach, Miss. police officer Cassie Barker was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison in the 2016 death of Cheyenne Hyer.
The 29-year-old pregnant woman pleaded guilty last month to manslaughter in a plea bargain after being indicted on a charge of second-degree murder.
Cheyenne was strapped in her car seat in the patrol car for four hours while Barker was with her then-supervisor. The car's air conditioning was turned on but it wasn't blowing cold air. Cheyenne was unresponsive and had a temperature of 107 degrees when Barker returned.
Barker, who was working two jobs at the time, originally claimed she had been talking to Clark Ladner at his house early on a hot weekday morning when she fell asleep.
Ladner and Barker were fired by the city of Long Beach within days. Ladner hasn't been criminally charged, telling officials he didn't know the girl was in the car. Reports at the time indicated Ladner told authorities he had taken a sleep aid and also fallen asleep.
The mother had left her daughter alone in a car at least once before, at a store in nearby Gulfport in April 2015. Police responded and child welfare officials took temporary custody of the girl at the time. Barker was suspended from the Long Beach police for a week without pay.
The girl's father, Ryan Hyer, said he was never notified of that first incident.
"Every time I close my eyes, I picture her suffering and then I picture her laying in this coffin," he said. "I still see her smiling and laughing in my head and I would assume that smile and laughter turned to pain and suffering in that instance."
The father is suing the Long Beach Police Department and the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services for the wrongful death of his child, saying the child welfare agency should have taken stronger action after the first incident.
"As a parent, you are supposed to protect your child, and Cheyenne is gone because her mother didn't protect her, not once but twice," Hyer said.
Barker herself was hospitalized after the girl's death for what officials described as shock. A psychological exam showed Barker suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder attributed to childhood trauma and her daughter's death. She was found competent to stand trial.
He did.................
Never attempt to analyze insanity.
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Does that mean we can’t argue with liberals?
At least this child will be 20 years old before ‘mamma’ can do anything to kill it................
Not if he didn't even know she had left the kid in the car.
There are on average 30+ children a year who die left in hot cars.
Check out the UPward trend since the Rats stepped up their War on America:
https://www.kidsandcars.org/how-kids-get-hurt/heat-stroke/
Big Media never reports more than 2,3,4 a year, or they’d lose believers.
God bless that baby
she’s pregnant? I hope she never gets to see this baby after its born.
White trash falling in bed with every man in town and beyond. Her daughter had a different last name from the former cop or her lover that day. Pure white trash.
As a female friend of mine who is 35 told me....
A switch just goes on in your late 20’s and women know what its like to be a teen age boy.
“Not the first time and she’s pregnant again.”
And who on earth would be the father of this second baby?
If you want people remaining virginal before marriage, then we need to go back marrying young. Like 16.
Married couples can live with parents until done with education.
two-bits says he did - but the urgency of the moment overruled all rational thought - I may be an octogenarian but I do remember some things!!!
Too bad she wasn't in Caliph-phony-a. A diagnosis like that would get her a 30-day stint in the psych ward, then total freedom once she was "cured".
White trash looks down on such behavior..................
A third party.......................
There is no vetting process when your skin is the right color AND your a woman!!!
Why was a 3 year old having sex with her mom’s supervisor?
Did any headline writer take English in high school?
Story is not what I was thinking after reading the title.
(Neither story...the one in my head, nor the actual story...are good.)
...and these are the police! Imagine what the crooks do in this town.
I am glad to see a woman finally being punished for frying their child in a car. Most of the time, the women just turn on the faucets and says she’s sooooo sorrrrrrry (sniff) and gets off with a wristslap while men who forget the child in the back seat are treated like a monster.
You *can* --- it just won't do any good.
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