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Child thrown to death on Hawaii freeway
Yahoo News ^ | AUDREY McAVOY

Posted on 01/18/2008 3:20:50 PM PST by Soothesayer

HONOLULU - The man in hospital scrubs threw the toddler like a doll from a pedestrian overpass to the freeway humming with traffic. The 2 1/2-year-old boy fell 30 feet to the asphalt and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The horrifying incident Thursday on the highway cutting through the heart of the city shocked Honolulu residents, causing panicked parents to phone day care centers to check on their children.

Police arrested a 23-year-old man they say occasionally baby-sat the child after witnesses saw him throwing something, followed him and called authorities.

Kraig Hengst told The Honolulu Advertiser he was working in an apartment garage across the street from the overpass when he saw a man "toss the baby" at about 11:40 a.m.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: child; hawaii; thrown
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May that guy be slowly cut into small pieces and fed to dogs...
1 posted on 01/18/2008 3:20:55 PM PST by Soothesayer
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To: Soothesayer

A woodchipper or guillotine comes to mind./Just Asking - seoul62.....


2 posted on 01/18/2008 3:23:19 PM PST by seoul62
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To: Soothesayer

Or placed in a pool of piranhas.


3 posted on 01/18/2008 3:24:42 PM PST by McLynnan
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2.5 YEARS old is not a “baby”.

I know a toddler would have the recognition that this was bad and was terrified. A baby (2.5 months? old) probably not. I can’t imagine this. The animals that do this should be killed asap.


4 posted on 01/18/2008 3:28:43 PM PST by geopyg (Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory. ---- www.gohunter08.com ------)
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I don't think it's too far off to believe that there's an aspect of hell that's taken hold of our society.
5 posted on 01/18/2008 3:30:09 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: seoul62

Much too quick.........


6 posted on 01/18/2008 3:30:30 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Soothesayer

What is happening to the world????

Is everyone going insane!!!


7 posted on 01/18/2008 3:34:13 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Soothesayer

I don’t think Hawaii imposes the death penalty. Sad.


8 posted on 01/18/2008 3:35:08 PM PST by onedoug
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There are some things that just warrant cruel and unusual punishment.


9 posted on 01/18/2008 3:36:04 PM PST by Hoffer Rand
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I don’t think Hawaii imposes the death penalty. Sad.

Too bad the perp didn't resist arrest.

Prisoners do have a way of taking care of certain predators....

10 posted on 01/18/2008 3:38:46 PM PST by lightman (The Office of the Keys should be exercised as some ministry needs to be Exorcised.)
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To: Soothesayer
Horrible enough the child was tossed off the overpass...but then he was run over by a couple of cars and what was left of his little body was indescribable, according to a witness.

sw

11 posted on 01/18/2008 3:39:13 PM PST by spectre (spectre's wife)
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To: doorgunner69

How about rat poison or just release him to the general prison population at San Quentin./Just Asking - seoul62........


12 posted on 01/18/2008 3:44:09 PM PST by seoul62
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To: PetroniusMaximus
Is everyone going insane!!!

Fortunately... not everyone. Just this guy. And a few others.

I really can't grasp how this is possible. How diseased does a mind have to be to commit an atrocity like this? I mean... there's some *really* bad crazy and evil people in the world and even they would stop short before doing this.

13 posted on 01/18/2008 3:47:13 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: PetroniusMaximus
I've been thinking the same thing for years now. Some people have countered that things have always been this way, just that the reporting of these horrifying events now reach more people. After all, you had to find this story on the Internet, didn't you? It wasn't in your local paper, I'd bet.

I just don't know for sure what the world is shaping up to, but even as bad as it is these days I know that we're still kinder, more polite, more genteel, and socially stronger than Medieval Europe.

So, there you have it: It's still not as bad as the Dark Ages. We're getting there though.

14 posted on 01/18/2008 3:51:43 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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The first thing I thought of was how horrible the person in the car who couldn’t stop, the car who first hit the child must have felt. I had checked the traffic cams for my husband yesterday who had heard H1 was closed for some reason - I didn’t see any cars at all in either direction around 2:30 so I relayed the news that it did appear to be closed. I didn’t realize why until several hours later. The poor mother didn’t hear about her son until late last night. One of the networks had video of her arriving home to an apartment building surrounded by police. It was heart rending. The guy had a mental health history but had never been violent. I wonder if she knew about his history when she let him babysit.


15 posted on 01/18/2008 3:56:08 PM PST by BuckyKat
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To: Soothesayer

No big deal. Just an 11th trimester abortion.


16 posted on 01/18/2008 3:59:42 PM PST by pabianice
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To: BuckyKat
Hello,

This story has brought me to tears. My God, how horrible.

MOgirl

17 posted on 01/18/2008 4:02:50 PM PST by MOgirl (Prayers for my Mom and GO FRED!!)
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To: onedoug

Should he be convicted, perhaps his fellow inmates might do the job Hawaii’s judge and juries won’t do.


18 posted on 01/18/2008 4:02:52 PM PST by skr (How majestic is Thy Name, O Lord, and how mighty are Thy Works!)
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To: Soothesayer

This is the most sickening story I’ve ever heard. Unfortunately, it was more sickening than the other story that ran the same day where a woman’s “boyfriend (6’2” 300 lb) rammed into her car, pulled her out and beat her to death in the street in the presence of bystanders with a loaded shotgun. A bystander trying to help the helpless woman was hurt and hospitalized. She was a petite woman, mother of 5.
There isn’t a punishment I could conceive that would be appropriate for either crime.


19 posted on 01/18/2008 4:02:58 PM PST by caisson71
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To: Soothesayer

I read in another article he had been in and out of mental hospitals.


20 posted on 01/18/2008 4:05:28 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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