Posted on 11/16/2005 6:26:04 AM PST by Liz
It's a crime both horrific and crass — a welfare mother smothers her crying baby in his crib, dumps him in a trash bin, then continues to collect public assistance on him for the next 4 1/2 years.
That's the case that was laid out in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday against Diatra Hester-Bey, charged killing 14-month-old Devon Rivers on Feb. 29, 2000. "She smothered his face in a pillow, and then left him for dead as she took a nap," in the West 41st Street Red Cross shelter where they lived, Assistant DA Andrew Seewald told jurors.
Later, she dressed the baby's corpse and took it in a carriage, by subway, to Queens, where she tossed it away like garbage.......
The body has never been found. She continued to collect welfare checks on Devon's behalf — just over $100 a month — and has been charged with manslaughter and grand larceny.
Hester-Bey, of Brownsville, Brooklyn, was only arrested after an August 2004 fight with a boyfriend, Robert Potter.....ratted Hester-Bey out on the alleged smothering.
Hester-Bey first told cops that the baby died in his crib, and that she abandoned his corpse, still in the stroller, in Queens. After some two days of questioning, Hester-Bey tearfully admitted to the smothering.............
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Another chunk out of the bulwark of Western Civilization that once upheld the sactity of life.
Another sign that the rule of law is no deterrence against the me-first, self-absorption culture.
What's next?
Pedophile priests?
Hey now, she's just exercising her Right to Choose....
Where was the little one's dad?
Gosh I love this women.
What a role model for the young mothers of today.
The sooner we realize that it is not degenerate adult human lives that are worthless but rather new born dependant life is the day we reach true leftist enlightenment.
Go! I say you GO GIRL!
And the difference between this and what they did to Daniel Pearle is what?
Isn't it ironic that if she had a partial birth abortion they would not have been able to charge her. It's a sick world.
It's the George W. Bush economy that is causing people to kill their babies and continue to collect dole for them.
What's the big deal?
Justa a really late late term abortion
/sarcasm off
Dear Lord, Why do you allow these parasites to reproduce?
It's just a post-birth abortion. Who are we to interfere with her right to choose?
But then she would not have been able to collect all that "free money".
No, the poor women was "depressed".
"Isn't it ironic that if she had a partial birth abortion they would not have been able to charge her."
Of course, she wouldn't be able to collect that check every month. She's gotta get hers, you know.
Good question. Ask a feminist.
Did the journalist mention the dad in the article?
Amorality is a right. This is immorality, something that laws are made to fight.
If I were in charge?
Summary execution of "Miz" Hester-Bey, preferably by smothering.
ping
Whats next?
Republicans who agree that homos should be allowed to teach our children and that they deserve special rights. Beastility and pedophillia to become protected because our citizens are afraid to stand up to the racists liberals who scream for diversity while they silence Christians. Porn will be seen as natural subject for your first grader to watch and learn from as dictated by the ninth circuit which said that you have no control over your childrens education in public school. Hate will continue to foster because good people do nothing.
Very nice. Just don't go around whining when I start posting about rapist rabbis or jailbird Jews.
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