Posted on 12/05/2006 11:37:32 AM PST by Borges
She now wants prison visits with 5-year-old
In 1998, police say, Heather Corman wrapped her newborn baby boy in a Mickey Mouse towel, then stuffed a blue sock in his mouth, put a plastic bag filled with garbage over his head, wrapped a necktie twice tightly around his neck, stuffed his tiny body into a garbage bag and then threw him into a pond to die.
Now, Corman -- convicted of killing her baby boy -- wants the right to be a mother.
In a Cook County courtroom Monday, Corman asked a judge to grant her regular visitation -- in prison -- with the 5-year-old daughter she had while out on bond.
But the girl's father, Robert Flick, has taken steps to erase Corman from their daughter's life. The girl hasn't seen her mother since she was a toddler, calls Flick's fiancee "mom" and has no memory of her birth mother.
"Heather was already convicted of killing one child," Flick testified. "There's no guarantee [the girl] would not be harmed by Heather."
Corman, 28, says no matter how heinous a crime she's been convicted of, she still has a right to be in her child's life.
"I love her -- she's my daughter," she testified during the weeklong trial heard by Judge Eileen Brewer. "Every child needs to know their mother."
Corman was living with her parents on the East Side when she became pregnant with her second child at 20 --and hid it from them before giving birth on their bathroom floor.
She told police a male friend then came in and took the baby from her. In court, she said it was her sister.
But a month after he was born, a group of kids found the baby floating in a Hammond pond, just off Interstate 94.
For days, he remained unclaimed and residents adopted him, calling him "Baby Angel" and giving him a proper burial.
But among the tampons and candy wrappers wrapped around his head were torn pieces of a note with Corman's name written on it.
She was arrested and charged with killing the boy she's since named "Emmanuel," but while out on bond, met Flick, who said he believed she didn't do it.
Before she could even go to trial, they were married and she was pregnant again.
But as the trial came closer, Flick said, he wondered about how her answers to his questions about the crime changed. In December 2001, when their daughter was 6 months old, he filed for divorce.
After her 2002 conviction, he took their baby on periodic visits to the Dwight Correctional Center -- until, he said, the strip searches and traumatic impact on the girl became too much.
Corman has not seen or heard about her child since.
Corman never cried as details of her baby's death were read aloud in court, though she smiled and wept as she passed through pictures of her daughter at Disney World and heard about how she's taking ballet.
Though Flick, who lives in Indiana, is battling Corman's attempts to re-enter her daughter's life, the child's court-appointed guardian says it would be in her best interest to be gradually re-introduced to her birth mother, no matter what she's been convicted of.
"She needs to be made aware that her mother exists," guardian Lester Barclay said. "[Corman] can never be replaced as [the girl's] mom."
In short...NO!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Mr Flick should move to parts unknown, far far away, without notice.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
How do they do things in women prison? In male prison people who kill kids are not well thought of.
DAMM HELL NO!
I totally agree with your post.
Why is this murderer not on death row? Oh, that's right...she did this in the mushy Mid-West, where they allow such atrocities as this murderer suing for parental visitation. In Texas, she'd be facing the needle and God.
Must be one of them Chicago Democrats.
It's just sickening that she actually said that.
I think she should be allowed to meet her son, first.
Hey, Lester, thanks for the steaming pile of psychobabble.
Sounds like he already lives in another state, but the little girl is not with him. Why else would the child have a court appointed guardian? Sounds like she had the child while separated from Flick, and that he never got custody.
Not much of a guardian that the court appointed, are they?
"I love her -- she's my daughter"
Translation: I want to get my hands on her so I can love her to DEATH.
Go to blazes, psycho mom. You've done more than enough harm for one lifetime.
Rot in jail, you vicious hussy!
never gonna happen. son went one way, she's going the other.
These court appointed guardians are idiots (IMO) just like the people who thought OJ's kids should be allowed to live with him, even after the civil court found him guilty of killing their mother.
The real translation is that she's simply bored, lonely, scared, and desperate to get any semblance of respectability in her life. She has nothing else, and she has nothing else to do with her time (and probably our dime).
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