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Dead Toddler Was Dumped Along Freeway
LA Times ^ | March 19, 2009

Posted on 03/19/2009 6:59:12 PM PDT by Steelfish

Dead toddler was dumped along freeway

March 19, 2009

A toddler whose mother said the girl had been abducted during a violent attack was dumped near a San Fernando Valley freeway, according to L.A.

County sheriff's homicide detectives who are investigating the 18-month-old girl's death. [Updated 4 p.m.: An earlier version of this post said the girl was 30 months old. The Sheriff's Department reports that she was 18 months old.]

Authorities said the body was dumped near the 5 Freeway sometime in the last 24 hours. The Sheriff's Department spent most of last night trying to find the child.

But detectives found several inconsistencies in the mother's story and received information that suggested Emma Leigh Barker was in Mission Hills and was dead.

The mother is cooperating with investigators and is not now a suspect. But Lt. Pat Nelson told reporters that might change as the investigation continues.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: California
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To: Notwithstanding

It’s been 50-days and God alone knows how this nation will survive the rest of this dumb ass’ term. White liberals and gutter third world types will soon have their comeuppance except of course that we all travel in the ship of state.


21 posted on 03/19/2009 7:15:32 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish
Read the whole story. Mom picked up somebody and they took the baby?

God bless the little one. No one can hurt her anymore.

Does anyone know what happened to the little one in Florida that was left with Dad's 17 yr old girlfriend?

22 posted on 03/19/2009 7:16:16 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: TheConservativeParty

The Lord may have mercy,but a jury won’t.


23 posted on 03/19/2009 7:16:20 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

“I’m sure Zero approves.”

The sad thing is I’m afraid you’re right.


24 posted on 03/19/2009 7:16:25 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Steelfish

Actually liberals would call this Post-Term abortion. No big deal. I lost a child (not a toddler, grown) and I cannot imagine why anyone would harm a child. These stories cut deep and my heart breaks for the child.


25 posted on 03/19/2009 7:16:58 PM PDT by auntyfemenist (Porky little amendments.)
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To: auntyfemenist

Even animals carry their dead and protect them from vultures.


26 posted on 03/19/2009 7:18:33 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Lizavetta

What a sweet face!!! So heartbreaking.


27 posted on 03/19/2009 7:19:38 PM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear; MS.BEHAVIN

It’s just a truly sick world out there, period. Some people are just evil.


28 posted on 03/19/2009 7:20:06 PM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: Steelfish

Oh my! Did you see her photograph! What an adorable, happy-looking, child. What would make her mother do a thing like this to the child?


29 posted on 03/19/2009 7:23:36 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn
Why do you think she did?

Deputies found the mother semiconscious and partly undressed with visible contusions on her head, officials said.

30 posted on 03/19/2009 7:29:42 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Steelfish

Prayers for suffering innocents.


31 posted on 03/19/2009 7:30:44 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Reading the police saying “that may change” in regard to the mother being involved and why would she be in a park with an 18-month-old at 11 o’clock at night. Doesn’t pass the smell test... I hope I’m wrong.


32 posted on 03/19/2009 7:31:41 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Lizavetta

Rest well, little girl. Someday every debt will be paid, down to the last penny.

May God have mercy on us.


33 posted on 03/19/2009 7:31:46 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN

I just don’t understand these people. If they don’t want these kids why don’t they put them up for adoption or let other people take custody of them? Breaks my heart.


34 posted on 03/19/2009 7:32:16 PM PDT by Netizen
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To: darkangel82

We have to keep in mind, that there’s a lot of good, too.


35 posted on 03/19/2009 7:33:24 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: Steelfish

It is so sad, prayers to the soul of that child...


36 posted on 03/19/2009 7:35:51 PM PDT by BigSkyVic
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To: DJ MacWoW
Read the whole story. Mom picked up somebody and they took the baby?

That's not the story linked. It said the Mom hit her head on the steering wheel after placing this precious angel in the car seat at 5 p.m. and was unconscious until 10:30 p.m. and then discovered her baby was missing. She was unconscious for 5-1/2 hours hitting her head on a steering wheel? Either the reporter left out huge pieces of the story or her explanation smells to high heaven.

Hopefully whoever did this to a harmless child will face unimaginable punishment by prison inmates before meeting his/her maker and suffer for all eternity.

37 posted on 03/19/2009 7:38:41 PM PDT by StarFan
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To: AliVeritas

GOOD GOD IN HEAVEN!
What an absolutely beautiful child...what kind of world do we live in?


38 posted on 03/19/2009 7:40:04 PM PDT by Mister Muggles
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To: Arizona Carolyn
She wasn't in a park at 11pm. She was at a city park around 5pm, was knocked out and woke at a city park-n-ride about 10:30pm.

It's suspicious but there's not enough info yet.

39 posted on 03/19/2009 7:40:08 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Steelfish
But detectives found several inconsistencies in the mother's story and received information that suggested Emma Leigh Barker was in Mission Hills and was dead.

Mommy's new boyfriend didn't want the baby.

Just a wild guess, here.

Poor little girl. :(

40 posted on 03/19/2009 7:45:03 PM PDT by thecodont
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