(Lesbians) Women Charged in Baby's Death

1 posted on 04/12/2004 3:37:24 PM PDT by truthandlife

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Marietta women charged in death of 4-month-old

Saturday, April 10, 2004 4:00 AM EDT
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By Blair Hadley

Marietta Daily Journal

MARIETTA - Two Marietta women were arrested late Thursday and charged with felony murder in the shaking death of one of the women's four-month-old son.

Candis Nikita West, 22, has been charged with murder and cruelty to children in the death of her son, Dante West. According to her arrest warrant, the baby's death was the result of a severe head injury caused by violent shaking.

Ms. West's former domestic partner and roommate, 29-year-old Baretta Harold Pierce, also was charged with murder and cruelty to children, as well as a third charge of deprivation of a minor. The third charge, the warrant states, came after the woman admitted she did not feed or change the baby's diapers for six hours during the day before the child's death.

The women are being held without bond in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center.

According to the arrest warrant, on Jan. 23, emergency personnel were called to an apartment in the Cobb Crossing apartment complex, located on Oakdale Road near South Cobb Drive in Smyrna.

The child was transported by ambulance to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, where he remained for 19 days until he was taken off life support Feb. 11.

Cobb County Police Department spokesman Cpl. Dana Pierce said the two women were living together in the apartment in Smyrna at the time of the incident. He said they are no longer a couple and had moved to separate residences in Marietta after the incident.

Pierce said police waited almost two months to file charges because investigators were waiting for the medical examiner to determine all possible circumstances and the manner in which the child died.

"All that culminated on April 8 when the charges were filed against the two females," Pierce said. "The circumstances, according to the medical experts, fell into the category of the shaken baby syndrome. A medical expert determined that the time frame of this alleged crime occurred while the four-month-old was in the custody of both women."

Pierce said that both women were taken into custody without incident.

2 posted on 04/12/2004 3:38:04 PM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))

To: truthandlife

Thankfully, heterosexual women would never kill their babies.

3 posted on 04/12/2004 3:41:51 PM PDT by jsbankston

To: truthandlife

It's always the boyfriend.

4 posted on 04/12/2004 3:43:27 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie (If we had some eggs, we could have bacon and eggs if we had some bacon. --unknown Freeper)

The point of the article is not to say that heterosexual women don't kill their babies, but more that, a child was killed and the guardians were arrested. Your comment is absurd.

5 posted on 04/12/2004 3:45:15 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Go Fast, Turn Left!)

To: truthandlife

If and when they go to the table for their dirt naps, can I push the button to send them to he!!? There is no reason to kill a child! In fact let's skip the trial and go straight to the punishment!

6 posted on 04/12/2004 3:54:29 PM PDT by TMSuchman (Vote like a lemming, vote demo-RAT! & The only wasted vote, is one not used!)

The best punishment for them both would be to lock them away in a MEN'S prison.

7 posted on 04/12/2004 3:55:29 PM PDT by Viking2002

Well then why is it the poster found it necessary to point out that the accused are lesbians?

8 posted on 04/12/2004 3:55:54 PM PDT by jsbankston

These two women should be locked in the same prison as Deanna Laney who killed two of her children by stoning along with that woman in Houston who drowned her five children.

9 posted on 04/12/2004 4:01:50 PM PDT by jsbankston

Well then why is it the poster found it necessary to point out that the accused are lesbians?

Its no different than if a straight woman (or a man) has been accused of the same. Think about it..."The suspect's husband, Mr. Blah blah, was also taken in for questioning." Whenever a child dies, some background is invariably given on BOTH guardians, even if one is absentee.

10 posted on 04/12/2004 4:05:42 PM PDT by grellis (Mi sento male. Ho fatto un'indigestione!)

To: truthandlife

Are we talking lesbos or crack whores here? Both?

11 posted on 04/12/2004 4:07:55 PM PDT by Tacis

But why did the POSTER and not the article point out that the accused are lesbian?

12 posted on 04/12/2004 4:08:07 PM PDT by jsbankston

Well then why is it the poster found it necessary to point out that the accused are lesbians?

...because they are?

13 posted on 04/12/2004 4:09:12 PM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))

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They will probably get probation - when women kill a baby its always looked upon with pity - dont forget we live in bizarro world where right is wrong and wrong is right.

14 posted on 04/12/2004 4:11:33 PM PDT by sasafras (sasafras (The road to hell is paved with good intentions))

Because they only get "outed" if they're conservative Christians...

15 posted on 04/12/2004 4:14:50 PM PDT by Tuco Ramirez (Ideas have consequences.)

To: truthandlife

Well yes but Andrea Yates who murdered five of her children by drowning and Deanna Laney who stoned two of her children to death both home schooled the kids that they murdered.

However, if posting a story about these women killing their children I would not state that their being home school moms had anything to do with their being murderers.

16 posted on 04/12/2004 4:18:31 PM PDT by jsbankston

To: truthandlife

Being a parent is not for everyone. Obviously, these two had no business trying to raise a child.

17 posted on 04/12/2004 4:22:46 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

You may be right. Last week Deanna Laney of Tyler, Texas was found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity after she stoned her two children and claimed that God told her to do so. A true Texas Tragedy of the Justice System.

In my world anyone gay, straight, Christian, atheist or Muslim that kills their children should be locked up for life. No Excuses.

18 posted on 04/12/2004 4:23:46 PM PDT by jsbankston

Are you trying to defend the homosexual (lesbian) lifestyle? Do you think me pointing out that these murderers were lesbians is offensive?

I notice you do defend homosexuals on this forum. Is that why you are offended by the title?

19 posted on 04/12/2004 4:24:59 PM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))

To: truthandlife

I fail to see what the accused being lesbian had to do with their killing the baby. There is no causation between being a lesbian and killing a child, just as their is no causation between a home school mom and killing your children.

20 posted on 04/12/2004 4:30:21 PM PDT by jsbankston

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