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.............
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The "mother" should be executed. It's the right thing to do. And until murderers are executed, justice will not be seen in this country.
Exactly.
She was "shacked up" with Russell Yates, who kept the secret of how totally deranged she was (she had, among other things, carved the numbers 666 into her scalp), while he left her home with all those little children every day, while he went off to work like nothing was wrong. And within a very few months of the murders, the still legally married Russell was attending the "singles group" at his church. Andrea clearly had an organic mental disorder, but Russell is IMO in the same ethical/moral basket as this woman who smothered her baby and tossed it in the trash.
I would have put Andrea in a mental hospital (permanently) and Rusty in the ground.
I would have hung both of them. I don't believe that "post partum depression" is an excuse.
I wish this mother from hell would get the max.
Lucky abortion is freely available. It's supposed to stop things like this from happening, you know.
Gee, I better make a note of that.
Nice of the pro-aborts to take care of it (/sarc).
Probably will get off with a "warning."
Authroities should determine if there was another circumstance that impelled the killing.
Did she have a new boyfriend who thought the baby was in the way, ala Susan Smith?
What Andrea Yates had went well beyond "post-partum depression". She had been diagnosed with post-partum psychosis, and i'd be surprised if she isn't also diagnosed schizophrenic by now. She had also been prescribed some powerful anti-psychotic drugs, which IIRC she had stopped taking at some point prior to the murders. Some kinds of mental illness really make the sufferers unable to perceive reality. Andrea appears to have had such a mental illness. Russell, on the other hand, was apparently fully functional in that he was performing satisfactorily in a full-time professional job. He simply failed to take the common sense actions in response to his wife's obvious complete insanity. Among other things, although she had had severe post-partum depression, and I believe also psychosis, after the next to last child, and doctors had warned the Yates against another pregnancy, he wasted no time in getting her pregnant again AND leaving her alone every day with the even larger group of young children.
She/He seems harmless other that the stench of arrogance.
The race baiting is interesting, like fishing for confirmation of a groupthink thought with no hope of ever accepting the opposite reality... When the freeper calls, its a passionless submissive response meant to keep the heat off until another lure can be cast.
What a pathetic existance.
You know it is customary at FR to ping someone when you discuss them, particularly when you make an unsubstantiated charge, or attack, based on absolutely nothing, except maybe your own paranoia. Maybe you don't know the rules of the road.
I know the rules of the road. In this case, I ignored them for a reason.
Your rudeness.
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