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Prosecutor: Dad Threw Girl Off Cliff to Avoid Child Support
Foxnews ^ | 7/27/2009 | Staff

Posted on 07/27/2009 2:36:29 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA

LOS ANGELES — A father who had no interest in his 4-year-old daughter did the unimaginable — hurling her off a 120-foot cliff to avoid paying child support, a prosecutor said Monday during the man's murder retrial.

Cameron Brown, 47, has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder in the death of Lauren Sarene Key in November 2000. If convicted, he could face life in prison without parole.

Deputy District Attorney Craig Hum said during his opening statement that Brown killed Lauren because he didn't want to pay about $1,000 a month in child support.

Defense attorney Pat Harris countered that it was an accident when the girl fell from Inspiration Point in Rancho Palos Verdes.

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KEYWORDS: childabuse; childmurder; crime
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To: trisham

I’m with you.


61 posted on 07/27/2009 4:22:01 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: RobRoy
Atheists less than 1% of prison population

During 10 years in Sing-Sing, those executed for murder were 65% Catholics, 26% Protestants, 6% Hebrew, 2% Pagan, and less than 1/3 of 1% non-religious.

Steiner and Swancara surveyed Canadian prisons and found 1,294 Catholics, 435 Anglicans, 241 Methodists, 135 Baptists, and 1 Unitarian. Dr. Christian, Superintendant of the NY State Reformatories, checked 22,000 prison inmates and found only 4 college graduates. In "Who's Who" 91% were college graduates, and he commented that "intelligence and knowledge produce right living" and that "crime is the offspring of superstition and ignorance."

In Joliet, there were 2,888 Catholics, 1,020 Baptists, 617 Methodists and 0 non-religious. .

Michigan had 82,000 Baptists and 83,000 Jews in their state population. But in the prisons, there were 22 times as many Baptists as Jews, and 18 times as many Methodists as Jews. .

In Sing-Sing, there were 1,553 total inmates with 855 of them Catholics (over half), 518 Protestants, 177 Jews and 8 non- religious. .

62 posted on 07/27/2009 4:23:49 PM PDT by Jack Black
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To: trisham
This is the place.


63 posted on 07/27/2009 4:25:12 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: politicalmerc

ur argument about the draconian laws that practically make a divorced man a slave to his ex-wife

My “slave” paid 720 per month for four children under the age of 12. That was 10% of our needed income.


64 posted on 07/27/2009 4:26:45 PM PDT by Chickensoup ("Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.")
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To: girlscout

He looks sorry — that he got caught.


65 posted on 07/27/2009 4:27:58 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Media: quit making things up." --Sarah Palin)
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To: Red in Blue PA
throw him off the cliff to avoid a trial
66 posted on 07/27/2009 4:28:54 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: MrEdd

Go to the link and read the whole thing before deciding everyone else is a lynch mob.


67 posted on 07/27/2009 4:29:14 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Media: quit making things up." --Sarah Palin)
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To: netmilsmom
Beautiful spot, but why would anyone take their four year old daughter to the edge of a cliff like that one?
68 posted on 07/27/2009 4:30:09 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: mc6809e
The problem here is with divorce and child-support law that essentially reduces many men to being slaves to their ex-wives and children. It's one thing to see yourself as a provider that's part of a family. It's another to see yourself as beast of burden and getting little back in return -- no love, minimal family time, nothing. Sure, the guy's a monster, but sometimes our own system creates monsters.

Absolutely not. The problem is men and woman past the age of puberty having sex without being married and intending to raise any children with love that might result from having sex. After blowing that responsibility off, there's really no other point to the discussion. You play, you pay.

69 posted on 07/27/2009 4:32:26 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Media: quit making things up." --Sarah Palin)
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To: MrEdd

‘nuther liberal lowyer in our midst?


70 posted on 07/27/2009 4:35:20 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: autumnraine
Now if I may... how many women do the equivalent before birth for the same reason essentially.

Yep. Unless the mother in this story was given an engagement ring by this man and they had a wedding date set and a down payment in a joint account, she was completely negligent to the child herself. I pity her in her loss; but it all could have been avoided if she had avoided Marxist sex with someone not promised or avowed to her and her future children.

71 posted on 07/27/2009 4:37:32 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Media: quit making things up." --Sarah Palin)
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To: beandog
I suggest if you don’t want to pay child support throw yourself off the cliff. Don’t have children if you don’t want to support them.

As usual, you are right on the money.

How are you doing, beandog? Long time no see (I don't go there any more, either.)

72 posted on 07/27/2009 4:41:46 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Media: quit making things up." --Sarah Palin)
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To: mc6809e

“The problem here is with divorce and child-support law that essentially reduces many men to being slaves to their ex-wives and children.”

Yeah, it is a real drag fathering kids and having to support them financially. The best way I know to avoid finding yourself in that position is....don’t have kids. If you father them...raise them.

As far as being a slave to your kids...welcome to the real world. But, that is part of the responsibility of being a father or mother.

I am proud to say that I come from a State that will hound you to the edges of the earth to get you to pay child support for your children. And it works....

I hope they fry that demon for killing that little girl...


73 posted on 07/27/2009 4:47:11 PM PDT by BlessingsofLiberty
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To: Chickensoup

You don’t have to be defensive. Thank god my ex and I get along. I admire what she does to take care of the children and she is thankful for what I do. You need 7200 a month to take care of 4 children? Maybe you need a budget. I do 6 on less than that. But thank you for your bitter comment. As I tell my wife when she complains about being broke, “Maybe you shouldn’t have left.” Don’t tell me, I’m sure you had a perfectly good reason. If 720 is what he is paying it isn’t easy for him either. Good luck with your children.


74 posted on 07/27/2009 5:26:20 PM PDT by politicalmerc (NObama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Under ObamaCare, he will be able to say “It was just a late-term, or post-partum, abortion, your Honor.” and get off Scot-free!


75 posted on 07/27/2009 6:59:50 PM PDT by 2harddrive (S)
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To: Jack Black
Here's the problem with those statistics: they don't correct for those who converted while in prison.

A significant number of inmates who were members of a denomination but inactive, or weren't anything in particular before their incarceration, have what is known in the trade as a "jailhouse conversion".

The Catholics get a considerable number of these conversions for a couple of reasons: (1) they have extremely active prison ministries, so they're there; (2) you get to go to daily Mass and therefore get out of the block; (3) it looks good on your parole application.

A fellow who murdered one of our family members was a non-church-attending Episcopalian until he got sent to prison. Now he's a Catholic and tells everybody (especially the Parole Board) all about it.

I'm sure there are some who experience an honest conversion and a call to holiness, as well. I haven't happened to meet any of them yet, but . . . .

76 posted on 07/28/2009 8:11:27 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Just sayin’...

An accidental world has no moral relevance - at all.

An intelligent atheist will eventually figure that out and act on it.

Eventually.

Why not?


77 posted on 07/28/2009 2:04:59 PM PDT by RobRoy (This too will pass. But it will hurt like a you know what.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

That’s why I said “intelligent” athiest. Ones that have not thought it through still have a remnant of the God Given sense of morality and actually try to act on it.


78 posted on 07/28/2009 2:06:17 PM PDT by RobRoy (This too will pass. But it will hurt like a you know what.)
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To: Jack Black

>>Being an atheist doesn’t mean you believe murder is OK if you can get away with it.<<

Why not?


79 posted on 07/28/2009 2:47:11 PM PDT by RobRoy (This too will pass. But it will hurt like a you know what.)
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To: Chickensoup

You needed $7200 per month??? Over $86,000 a year to take care of 4 kids?? I guess pretty much everybody I know is short-changing their kids like crazy then....


80 posted on 07/28/2009 3:07:52 PM PDT by WarriorPoet
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