Posted on 09/22/2006 6:22:28 AM PDT by Ellesu
Tonya Edwards spent a lot of time wiping tears away from her eyes today at the Justice Center. The 37-year-old Cleveland woman has been inside the legal center many times over the years as a repeat drug offender.
"You've been involved in the criminal justice system at least five times," Judge Daniel Gaul pointed out. "You've been indicted in Cuyahoga County alone at least five times."
According to court records, Tonya Edwards has had nine children with six different fathers. Each baby removed by Cuyahoga County Children's Services.
"You're not a fit mother," said Judge Gaul. "You lost custody of all your other kids."
Last July Edwards sliced off the top part of her 10-month-old son's ear with a kitchen knife. She was arguing with the child's father at the time.
"We got into a fight. Allright?" Edwards admitted. "I slashed his ear."
Assistant County Prosecutor Pinkey Carr told Channel 3's Mike O'Mara that the baby boy "will have a deformity. He's actually missing that piece of his ear. Even though they did surgery, that part of his ear is forever gone".
The child's father told the court he supported a prison term for Edwards.
"On behalf of me and my son, I defer to this court from two years to four years," said Micah Belcher. "I'm OK with the sentence."
Tonya Edwards will now spend the next four years in prison.
But now the director of Cuyahoga County Social Services is worried about what might happen if she has another baby after her prison term.
"The community, the hospital, or a relative or someone who knows needs to call us," James McCafferty said. "Because there are just some people who shouldn't have children."
According to Gaul, Edwards is now at the top of the list of worst mothers in Cleveland.
Ahhh...she'll be out in two months.
And they'll give the kid back to her.
I love defensive victims, so indignant even when admitting they're guilty of something. Give me ten minutes with this POS, I'll take some of her ear off with one of my Sushi knives. We'll see how blase she'll be then.
Scumbag, hope she rots there.
Some people don't need to waste food or air on this planet.
They should have slashed her ear as part of the sentence.
Your time would be better spent removing her ovaries.
"According to court records, Tonya Edwards has had *nine* children with *six* different fathers. Each baby removed by Cuyahoga County Children's Services."
No comment.
And she and her offspring will be suckling at the big gubment teat for years to come. She is the poster child for Liberal American Society and Core Democratic Party Values and what is KILLING this country.
I hope she gets lots of jail time and they treat her terribly in jail. This stuff really upsets me. I hope to God she has no more children to abuse.
According to court records, Tonya Edwards has had nine children with six different fathers. Each baby removed by Cuyahoga County Children's Services.
"You're not a fit mother," said Judge Gaul. "You lost custody of all your other kids."
Never heard of birth control? These are the people who usually use abortion as their method of birth control. This criminal should be executed, not kept in a luxury prison.
This makes me want to scream!
Take out the trash...
She should have to serve enough time that when she gets out she will be physically incapable of having any more children.
Nice sharp sushi knife? How about a dull butter knife instead?
Geez! Talk about your squandered opportunities!!
All her lawyer would have had to do is invoke the "Religion of Peace" Defense; claim she was a Muslim, and she was saving her child from the Evil of the Whispering Devil, by removing the ear George Bush whispered into through her TV set....
She would have walked...
I vote for a hysterectomy with a rusty spork, myself.
}:-)4
I do have a cheap old steak knife that I bought a few Halloweens ago, cheap, stamped serrated edge -- perfect for hacking (I emphasize hacking) away at pumpkins, but not much else.
I'll bet that's just the thing any mother would want to do when getting in a fight with the kids father.
Spare me the crocodile tears, lady, I'm sure they're not out of remorse for the pain and damage done to that poor helpless baby.
Eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. If we would do this there would be less of this sh-t going on in the world!
Unrelated to topic, but momma looks like Marcus Allen suffering an allergy attack.
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