Posted on 11/28/2007 6:06:07 PM PST by Deo volente
HOUSTON — The toddler believed to be the girl whose body was found in Galveston Bay was beaten to death by her stepfather who lost control because she failed to say "please" and "yes sir," an attorney for the girl's mother said Wednesday.
Attorney Tommy Stickler Jr. also confirmed Wednesday that the girl's mother, Kimberly Dawn Trenor, is pregnant. Her pregnancy was first reported by the Houston Chronicle.
The fatal beating happened after Royce Clyde Zeigler II stayed home from work to make sure his wife was following the discpline plan he'd established for her daughter, 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers, Stickler said.
Riley is believed to be the girl dubbed "Baby Grace," whose body was found by a fisherman in a plastic box floating in Galveston Bay last month. The girl's identity was a mystery for weeks, and authorities are still awaiting the results of a DNA test on the body to prove she is Riley.
Police arrested Zeigler, 24, and Trenor, 19, on Saturday, after Trenor told police she and her husband had killed the girl in July and hid her body in a shed before dumping it in the bay.
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Disgusting. I want to be a fly on the wall when the other guys in prison find out what he’s in for.
They'll LOVE it..!
Lets see if his penchant for good manners keeps him out of HELL.
Even if the stepfather didn’t intend for the child to die, he is a poster boy for the death penalty.
As for the mother, at the very least, she should have her current unborn baby taken away and be sterilized.
I hope to gets a little “discipline” in the big house. What a sicko. Poor sweet little thing.
Parents....your children are at HUGE RISK when you DIVORCE especially from step-fathers and BOYFRIENDS!!
MOST of these kid's deaths are among DIVORCED PARENTS...sad but true.
PLEASE...PLEASE think of your children....unless they or you are being abused by your spouse...your children are much safer in your MARRIED home.
Shoot him and leave him to the vultures.
I agree. I don’t expect his new friends to be too impressed with his actions. I can’t imagine what Riley’s future sibling has in store. Just what were their expectations of a 2 year old’s behavior?
Me too!
What a control freak. Anyone with that kind of lack of control is worse than an animal. I'll bet he beat his wife, too.
Something tells me he was a ‘do as I say, not as I do’ kind of guy. It seems likely his manners crude at best. Maybe his cellmate can help him work on his ‘pleases’ and ‘yes sirs’.
My God! SHE WAS TWO YEARS OLD! He deserves the worst death imaginable.
They can argue that it was just a post partem abortion. Women kill their unborn for less reason that convenience.
Such a beautiful baby girl.
String ‘im up.
She was beautiful.
Make him beg for his life, and then kill him anyway.
TRENOR....ZIEGLER and SAWYER!! Three DIFFERENT last names?? Where’s the bio-father, Mr. Sawyer???
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