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.
She needs to be locked up at least until her baby is an adult and she is well past the age of menopause so she can no longer breed.
AOC’s cousin......................
I wonder what that Virginia governor thinks of that 3 yr old infanticide?
i’m all for sterilizing her!
You have to have so many, females, Blacks, Hispanics...etc. After a point, qualifications are ignored?
I was an engineering manager and hired a lot of engineers in may career....I was told that I had to hire some Black male engineers for diversitys sake. Our hiring requirements were that your college GPA had to be 3.6 or higher.
Guess how many Black male engineers I hired?
I did intern a number but none ever attained the 3.6 GPA requirement and the company would not wave that requirement. I kept very good records of my attempts to hire these people.
Never attempt to analyze insanity.
I don’t like watching reality programs like COPS.
I see these young people with the rest of their life ahead of them and by making bad chooses they end up living in poverty, prison or dead.
Poverty is not the reason, many successful people were born into poverty. I often wonder just what it was that started these people down the wrong track.
It is a rhetorical question because I doubt even they do not know.
THAT, was a police officer?
I might be giving white trash a bad name comparing them to this whore.
It’s all because of auto air conditioning.
In the old days this didn’t happen because people drove with windows down.
Ban vehicle A/C, save the children!
(Why hasn’t the New Green Deal hopped on this bandwagon?)
You have people who say, “Don’t lock them up. Losing their child is punishment enough.” Sounds like a recipe for easy child murder. But, what do Democrats care about that.
“Sounds like a recipe for easy child murder. But, what do Democrats care about that.”
99.999% of the Rats are too stupid and/or brainwashed to realize they’re doing their party no favors by mostly extinguishing future Rat voters.
They long ago had to sacrifice all independent thought and simply believe what Big Media tells them TODAY, because it’s otherwise so contradictory.
Poor bigots.
Yes, I never thought of that before.
“(Why hasn’t the New Green Deal hopped on this bandwagon?)”
To recognize the issue is to call attention to it, and
1) Big Media has a far bigger fish and his family upon which to war, and;
2) Big Media would lose believers and/or bigots devoted to destroying the President and his family.
Their bigoted viewers are all they have left.
Mike can’t come out and run in 2020, or Big Media wouldn’t have the POS to tell us is so much more beautiful than Melania for the next six years.
and it's knocked up AGAIN!!!
Yep, other pics of her show a skinny,petite woman in her uniform..................
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