Posted on 05/16/2005 11:47:58 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
A Chicago woman was charged today with first-degree murder in the weekend hanging death of her 4-year-old son in their Northwest Side home, CLTV reported.
The Cook County medical examiner's office initially declared accidental the Saturday afternoon death of Jaqueir Dancy, but police this morning reclassified the incident as a homicide and charged the youth's mother, authorities said.
Nicole Harris, 23, of the 2000 block of North LaPorte Avenue, is in custody pending a bond hearing in Cook County Criminal Court, police said.
The boy's parents found Jaqueir on the floor next to a bunk bed shortly after 4:30 p.m. Saturday, police said.
He was still alive when he was transported to Resurrection Medical Center but was pronounced dead shortly after 6 p.m. at the hospital, according to the medical examiner's office.
An autopsy Sunday returned a finding of accidental death, but police subsequently reclassified the case as a homicide. Their reasons for doing so were not immediately available.
The state Department of Children and Family Services received a call to its hotline about the boy's death Saturday night, WGN-AM 720 reported. What the caller told DCFS was not disclosed.
The agency reportedly had no prior contact with the family.
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Say, how's the Salty Dog doing? Elmo says "Hey".
One wonders how this mothers life (and consequently the sons life)would have turned out had she gave it to The Lord. I dont mean to sound preachy, truth is I am backsliden but still believe.
Oh My Sweet Jesus. This is truly disturbing and downright sick. How on earth can this woman do such a thing to this baby. And then go finish laundry. For who? Who will wear that childs clothes now. Little good clean clothes will do anyone now.
Prosecutors said Harris left the boy and his 5-year-old brother home alone Saturday afternoon while she left to do laundry. She discovered the boy outside when she returned about 45 minutes later, beat him with a belt and sent him to his room, prosecutors said.
When he would not stop crying, she wrapped a sheet from the top bunk of a bunk bed around his neck and hanged him, according to prosecutors' statement in court.
Chicago Police Officer Patrice Harper said Harris confessed to killing the boy in a statement to police.
"She became angry at the child for being outside and ended up killing him," Harper said.
If they abort their fetus, drown their babies, etc., etc., it should be a perfunctory procedure. 1 strike and you're getting sterilized.
I read yesterday about a woman that had 6 abortions in 12 months. (The world record). If that's not reason to tie the tubes I don't know what is. Actually, that record holder needs to be sewn shut!
By their fruits you will know them..a surrendered heart
could never be pushed into doing something this heinous.
Backslidden..ahh been there..
You are not out of the family only 'currently' out of fellowship...
you be aw'ite
EXACTAMUNDO! I'm with ya brother!
Disgusting and vile women who killl there children should be executed the same way they kill there kids!
Hanging
Drowning
Stoning
Strangulation they deserve all of it!
This is a good time to tell you Ive always appreciated your posts, and the love you show. FR is better because of you.
As insane and horrible as this is, it is probably best not to give her the death penalty. Remember, she has a second child, and he could still visit her in the big house. He would know what she has done, but to deprive him of his mother via death is a cruelty. Even is he is ported off to foster care, he would always know his mother is somewhere.
When he gets older and comes to terms with this, he will probably have many questions and much anguish, for which she should have to answer.
If there were no other children involved, I would say fry her. I am a big believer in the death penelty, but in this case not for the sake of the other child.
Thanks Joe. :)
It's happened all throughout time, even here.
It's just now, with the internet, you get to hear about each one of them.
The other article says "Jaquari". Maybe she was trying for "Jaguar"? One of my kids was in preschool with a boy named "Lexus" (in an upper-middle income Oklahoma suburb, too!).
Some parents kill their children before birth, some after.
Such a wonderful post that I wanted to post it again. Thank you.
Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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