Tynisha Carlton 15 months old

Tynisha Carlton

Nov 27, 2007 - March 2, 2009

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

 

Mildred Carlton had gone to Grady hospital Monday since she was having stomach and back pains most likely related to being pregnant. While she was gone she left her 15-month-old daughter in the care of her live-in boyfriend, 24-year-old Walter Caldwell. Walter is the father of her unborn child, but not her

15-month-old..

Apparently Walter called Mildred Carlton the day and was very vague in his explanation as to what was going on at her home in her absence.

He told her there was an accident with the baby and that he wasn’t in town.

When Mildred came home later that night at 11:30 she found her daughter on her bed, beaten to death, and Walter Caldwell nowhere to be found. She first called one of her roommates and then called 911.

According to the Fulton County Medical Examiner, Tynisha T. Carlton died from blunt force trauma to her torso. She also showed visible bruising on the right side of her face, but it was the harsh blows to her chest and stomach that actually killed her. Police obtained a murder warrant for Walter Caldwell and hunted him down.

 

 

Mom’s boyfriend arrested in toddler’s death

Girl’s beaten body was left on bed

By TIM EBERLY The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Atlanta police arrested a 24-year-old man Tuesday evening on charges that he beat to death his girlfriend’s 15-month-old daughter.

Police arrested Walter Caldwell, 24, after he arranged to meet his girlfriend at Underground Atlanta’s food court, said Atlanta police Lt. Keith Meadows.

Caldwell is accused of killing Tynisha T. Carlton on Monday night while the mother, who is seven weeks pregnant, was at Grady Memorial Hospital seeking treatment of stomach and back pains.

The mother, Mildred Carlton, 28, said in a phone interview Tuesday night that Tynisha’s death had left her feeling suicidal.

“I feel hurt,” she said. “I feel like, if I’m by myself, I might wind up killing myself.”

Tynisha died from blunt force trauma to her torso, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office. Tynisha also had visible bruising on the right side of her face, Meadows said.

While she went to the hospital, Carlton left her toddler daughter with Caldwell, the father of Carlton’s unborn child, but not Tynisha’s father. Four to five hours later, when Carlton returned home about 11:30 p.m., the door was unlocked and Caldwell was gone.

Carlton found Tynisha on her bed. She thought the child was asleep, she said, until she saw bruising on her face.

“When I touched her, she was real hard,” Carlton said in a phone interview Tuesday night.

She called another roommate and then called 911.

During the day Tuesday, Caldwell, who then was sought by police, called Carlton and told her the baby had an “accident,” Meadows said.

Carlton said she hadn’t noticed any prior abuse between Caldwell and Tynisha. While she worked, Caldwell routinely took care of her daughter, she said.

“She liked him,” Carlton said. “She played with him. She enjoyed him being around her.”

Seven people lived in the couple’s three-bedroom apartment in the 900 block of Conley Road, including another couple and their child and one of Carlton’s two sons.

The apartments are southeast of Hapeville and in the southeastern edge of Fulton County.

 

 

Trevor Noel Jr - 5 years & Lillian Noel 4 months

Trevor Noel, Jr., 5

Lillian Noel, 4-mons

 

 

July 5, 2012

 

Bronx, NY

 

Poisoning

 

Lisette Bamenga, 29, was arrested Saturday in the deaths of her 5-year-old son Trevor Noel Jr. and her 4-month-old daughter Lillian Noel. The children were found shortly before midnight Thursday when police responded to a 911 call of a gas leak. Authorities told CBS New York that Bamenga poisoned the children with windshield de-icing fluid before turning on the gas in her kitchen and slashing her wrists. The two children were pronounced dead at the scene, while Bamenga was rushed to a nearby hospital. Police said she left a note and was attempting a murder-suicide.

 

 

 

 

Lisette Bamenga, NYC mother, arrested for allegedly poisoning 2 kids in double murder-attempted suicide, police say

July 9, 2012 11:29 AM By Casey Glynn  Topics  Daily Blotter  CBSnews.com

 

(CBS/WCBS/AP) NEW YORK - Police say a woman who turned on the gas in her Bronx apartment and slit her own wrists has been arrested in the deaths of her two children.
Lisette Bamenga, 29, was arrested Saturday in the deaths of her 5-year-old son Trevor Noel Jr. and her 4-month-old daughter Lillian Noel.
 
The children were found shortly before midnight Thursday when police responded to a 911 call of a gas leak
.
Authorities told CBS New York that Bamenga poisoned the children with windshield de-icing fluid before turning on the gas in her kitchen and slashing her wrists. The two children were pronounced dead at the scene, while Bamenga was rushed to a nearby hospital.
 
Police said she left a note and was attempting a murder-suicide.
 
Witnesses told CBS New York that they were awakened by the strong smell of gas and heard the children's father, who the New York Daily News identified as rookie NYPD Officer Trevor Noel, banging on the door trying to get inside. Police said Balmenga was distraught over her relationship with the officer.
 
CBS New York reports that witnesses say the children's father lives in Bronx apartment as well.
Published reports say Bamenga was a city schoolteacher. The Daily News reports that she has been charged with two counts of murder.

 

 

Two Children Dead in Bronx Murder, Attempted Suicide

July 6, 2012, 12:41 PM ET   By Sean Gardiner

 http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2012/07/06/two-children-dead-in-a-murder-attempted-suicide-in-bronx/


A Bronx mother penned a suicide note then gave her two young children a fatal drink containing chemical de-icer before slitting her wrists and turning on the gas on her stove, authorities said.

Neighbors smelled the gas emanating from elementary school teacher Lisette Bamenga’s 9^th floor apartment inside 1500 Noble Ave. in the Bronx and notified building security officials, who called 911 around 11:55 p.m. Thursday. New York City firefighters and police officers responded and took down the locked door.

In the kitchen, they found Bamenga, 29 years old, unconscious on the floor with cut marks on her wrists. Near the mother were the bodies of her five-year-old son, Trevor Noel, and four-month-old daughter, Liliane Noel, officials said.

Authorities also found a note the mother wrote stating that she was taking her children “to a better place,” according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the incident.

That official said Bamenga gave her children the de-icer to drink before unsuccessfully attempting to kill herself. She was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where she is in stable condition.

Bamenga just completed her first year as a teacher at Public School 58 in Brooklyn, according to the Department of Education. She previously taught from September 2005 to August 2006 at PS 58 in the Bronx.

The father of the two children, Trevor Noel, is a New York City police officer.
 

 

BX. mom 'poisoned' kids in suicide bid to get back at 'cheating' hubby: sources

By LARRY CELONA and JAMIE SCHRAM   NYpost.com

Last Updated: 8:02 AM, July 7, 2012 

 

A city schoolteacher, convinced her cop husband had cheated on her, allegedly murdered their two kids — poisoning them, then sealing their Bronx apartment’s windows with plastic before turning on the gas, sources told The Post yesterday.

Lissette Bamenga, 29 — who slit her wrists in a suicide attempt during the Thursday horror — believed Officer Trevor Noel had gotten another woman pregnant, and she allegedly wanted to punish him by killing 5-year-old Trevor Jr. and Liliane, who was just 4 months old, the sources said.

The children were declared dead at the scene. Bamenga was rushed to Jacobi Hospital, where she remained in stable condition.

 

“You got what you wanted,” she allegedly wrote in one of two suicide notes. “Me and the kids are in a better place now.”

Bamenga also wrote “DNR,” meaning “do not resuscitate,” for whoever found her in the gas-filled apartment at 1500 Noble Ave. in Parkchester.

Noel, who had just finished the night shift at Manhattan’s 28th Precinct, was unable to speak when he arrived at the scene.

Sources said Bamenga believed her husband fathered a child with a woman in Spain — and she was furious.

“In a jealous rage, his wife killed her children and then tried to kill herself,” a law-enforcement source said.

The ghastly final act, however, appeared carefully thought out.

First, Bamenga allegedly fed her kids juice spiked with a de-icer, which is colorless, odorless, sweet — and deadly. Police found a bottle containing de-icer in the apartment.

Then she slashed her wrists. But the wounds weren’t deep enough to be fatal.

Finally, she allegedly sealed off the windows of the ninth-floor apartment with plastic sheets and turned on the gas burners of the kitchen stove.

At around 11 p.m., another tenant called 911 to report the heavy smell of gas.

Firefighters knocked down the door, and EMS workers administered CPR to the 5-year-old on the floor of the apartment hallway, said Davis Rodriguez, 17, who lives on the same floor.

Another neighbor, Gwen Richardson, 71, said she saw Bamenga in the hallway surrounded by firefighters who were trying to get her to respond.

“I could hear them going, ‘Miss, Miss, can you hear me?’ ” Richardson said.

Bamenga, originally from France, moved to the United States from the Democratic Republic of the Congo about 12 years ago and eventually married Noel, 31.

Bamenga taught at PS 58 in The Bronx from 2005 to 2006 before giving birth to Trevor Jr. She returned to work, teaching at Brooklyn’s PS 58 last year while pregnant with their daughter.

 

 

Jada Williams 18 months old

Jada Williams

 

 

 

July 3, 2012

Jackson, MS

 

Child-Abuse

A statement released by JPD spokeswoman Colendula Green said officers responded to Central Mississippi Medical Center in reference to a deceased female child after doctors discovered severe bruising to the child’s body. Jada Williams was pronounced dead at the hospital. Green said the child’s mother, Jasmine Porter, 23, was arrested and charged with felony child abuse. After the autopsy was performed Wednesday and Jada’s death was ruled a homicide, the charges against Porter were upgraded to capital murder. In addition, a capital murder warrant has been issued for Johnny Williams, 28, who is Jada’s father.

 

 

 

Toddler dead, mother facing charges

18-month-old suffered severe bruising, police say

Published 8:09 AM CDT Jul 04, 2012 www.wapt.com

JACKSON, Miss. — A Jackson toddler is dead and her mother is facing charges, police said.

 

Jackson police were called to Central Mississippi Medical Center about 4 p.m. Tuesday. Investigators said 18-month-old Jada Williams was dead at the hospital. She had suffered severe bruising to her body, police said.

 

The child's mother, 23-year-old Jasmine Porter was arrested and charged with felony child abuse, police said.

An autopsy could determine if charges against Porter will be upgraded, police said.

Parents Charged with Capital Murder of Baby

By JFP Staff Last updated on Monday, July 9, 2012 1:24 p.m. CDT  

Jackson Free Press

The Jackson Police Department has charged the parents of deceased 18-month-old Jasmine Porter with capital murder. JPD sent the following verbatim statement this morning:

 

On July 3, 2012 @ approximately 4:00 pm, Precinct 1 officers responded to the Central Mississippi Medical Center (CMMC) in reference to a deceased female child (18 months old). It was discovered that the child had severe bruising to the body. The child’s mother (Jasmine Porter) was initially arrested and charged with Felony Child Abuse.

An autopsy was performed on July, 4, 2012 and the child’s death was ruled a homicide. The charges against the mother were upgraded to Capital Murder. A Capital Murder warrant was issued for the child’s father (Johnny Williams).

On July 6, 2012, Johnny Williams turned himself in to the Jackson Police Department on the Capital Murder warrant.

 

Victim

 

Jada Williams—18 months

Suspect

 

Jasmine Porter —23

Johnny Williams—28 

 

 

Bond denied for father charged in toddler's death

Parents accused in 18-month-old's death

UPDATED 3:01 PM CDT Jul 09, 2012 ww.wapt.com

 

JACKSON, Miss. —

A judge denied bond Monday for 28-year-old Jackson man charged in connection with the death of his 18-month-old daughter.

 

Johnny Williams surrendered to police Friday. He and the child's mother, 23-year-old Jasmine Porter, are charged with capital murder in connection with the death of their daughter, Jada Williams, police said.

Jada Williams was taken to Central Mississippi Medical Center last Tuesday, where she was pronounced dead, police said. She had suffered severe bruising to her body, police said.

 

Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham Stewart said an autopsy revealed indications of prior abuse, including burn scars she said were consistent with scalding from hot water.

Porter was denied bail during a hearing Thursday. She has denied the charges.

 

Aniyah Stephany Batchelor 2 Years Old

Aniyah Stephany Batchelor

 

 

July 3, 2012

Fort Washington, MD

 

Blunt Force Trauma

Police say a 12-year-old boy is being charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of a 2-year-old foster child living with his family.

The boy is being charged as a juvenile and his name is not being released. Police spokeswoman Julie Parker says the boy's father called 911 Tuesday night to report the girl was unresponsive. The man performed CPR on the child, but she was pronounced dead at a hospital. Parker says an autopsy confirmed the child, identified as Aniyah Batchelor, died of blunt-force trauma. The 12-year-old, who lives in Fort Washington, was charged Wednesday and made his first appearance in court Thursday. He is being held at the Cheltenham Youth Facility.

 

12-Year-Old Charged In Toddler Aniyah Batchelor's Beating Death

07/05/12 04:24 PM ET

PALMER PARK, Md. — Police say a 12-year-old boy is being charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of a 2-year-old foster child living with his family.

The boy is being charged as a juvenile and his name is not being released. Police spokeswoman Julie Parker says the boy's father called 911 Tuesday night to report the girl was unresponsive. The man performed CPR on the child, but she was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Parker says an autopsy confirmed the child, identified as Aniyah Batchelor, died of blunt-force trauma. The 12-year-old, who lives in Fort Washington, was charged Wednesday and made his first appearance in court Thursday. He is being held at the Cheltenham Youth Facility.

 

Preteen arrested in fatal beating of toddler

A 12-year-old boy allegedly beat a 2-year-old foster child to death

Posted Fri, 2012-07-06 12:22 by admin s2smagazine.com

 

A 12-year-old Maryland boy is being charged with second-degree murder for the beating death of 2-year-old Aniyah Batchelor, Tuesday morning.

According to reports from The Washington Post, Aniyah, a foster child who had been living with the family, was beaten multiple times in a single incident and killed.

Prince George’s County police have not released a motive, but the Maryland Medical Examiner’s office confirmed that Aniyah died of blunt-force trauma.

The foster parents were not home when the tragedy took place, and had left the oldest of their biological children, a 15-year-old girl, in charge.

The father was summoned home and called 911 after finding Aniyah unconscious and unresponsive to CPR attempts. She was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead shortly thereafter.

According to Aniyah’s mother, Stephany Cunningham, the toddler had been placed under the care of this foster family in November when (along with Cunningham’s other two children) Aniyah was taken by the state after an incident involving Stephany’s 3-year-old son who was scalded by a bathtub full of hot water.

The 12-year-old boy, who neighbors described as "the sweetest child you'd ever want to know," was charged on Wednesday and is currently being held nearby at the Cheltenham Youth Facility.

—Jacob Rohn



12-year-old charged with murder of toddler
By Paul Duggan and Ovetta Wiggins,

Jul 05, 2012 08:45 PM EDT

The Washington Post Published: July 5
A 12-year-old boy in Fort Washington has been charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of a 2-year-old girl who was staying with his family as a foster child under the supervision of social services officials, Prince George’s County police said.
The victim, Aniyah Batchelor, had been in foster care since November, according to her mother, Stephany Cunningham, who has two other children, both being cared for by other people. Aniyah, who turned 2 in March, had been placed with a family of five in a house in the 1800 block of Taylor Street, where she was beaten by the 12-year-old boy Tuesday, police spokeswoman Julie Parker said.

Parker would not say whether detectives had determined a motive for the attack, but she said the 12-year-old boy had “beaten the child repeatedly” in a single incident. No weapon was used, she said.
The foster parents, a man and a woman, were not at home at the time of the incident, Parker said. She said the parents have three biological children — girls ages 15 and 4, in addition to the 12-year-old boy — and that the older girl was in charge of the other youngsters when the beating occurred.

Without providing a specific timeline of events, Parker said the foster father “was summoned home” late Tuesday morning, after the beating, and found Aniyah unconscious. He called 911 at 12:09 p.m. As an ambulance headed to the house — a neatly kept brick-front split-level with red shutters and a small front lawn — the father tried to revive Aniyah with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Parker said.
The girl was pronounced dead at a hospital. After an autopsy Wednesday, Parker said, the Maryland medical examiner’s office concluded that the girl was a homicide victim and that the cause of death was blunt-force trauma. Shortly afterward, the boy was charged with second-degree murder.

Second-degree murder, or murder that is not premeditated, is a lesser crime than first-degree murder. Because the boy was charged as a juvenile, police declined to identify him, who they said is being held at the Cheltenham Youth Facility.

Cunningham, 25, of Landover said her other children are a 5-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy. Last fall, she said, she had custody of Aniyah and her other daughter, but her son was being cared for by a relative. Cunningham said she was living in an Adelphi apartment at the time. One day in November, she said, the relative brought the 3-year-old boy to visit her, and a horrible accident occurred.
Cunningham said someone — not her — mistakenly put the boy in a tub filled with scalding water while trying to give him a bath. “He got all burned,” she recalled, sobbing loudly on the phone. “His skin was coming off real bad.”

As a result of that incident, Cunningham said, a Prince George’s County judge removed the two girls from her custody. She said that the 5-year-old girl went to live with a foster family in the District and that Aniyah was placed with the family in Fort Washington.

Foster children in Prince George’s are the responsibility of the county’s Department of Social Services and its parent agency, the Maryland Department of Human Resources. Police referred all questions about the Fort Washington family to Pat Hines, a spokesman for the state human resources agency. Citing privacy rules, Hines would not discuss Aniyah or the foster parents’ history of caring for children under state supervision

 

Maurice Brown, Jr - 3 Years Old

Maurice Brown Jr

  

 

July 1 2012

Memphis, TN

 

Maurice's father, Maurice Brown Sr., was arrested Monday on charges of aggravated child neglect and endangerment charges. Blood evidence was found in Brown's apartment that appeared consistent with a beating, according to a police affidavit.

Maurice Brown Jr., was reported missing by his father Sunday evening.

Brown told police he napped for about two hours and woke up to find a door open and his son gone. He also told police that he thought gang members took his son to retaliate against him. A witness however told police that Brown left the apartment with a child draped over his shoulder at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday. The witness said the child was Maurice Jr. The boy was later found dead in a nearby dumpster.

 

 

 

Missing toddler found dead in dumpster

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/03/missing-toddler-found-dead-in-dumpster/?intcmp=trending
July 4, 2012

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A 3-year-old boy who disappeared Sunday from his father's Memphis home was found dead in a nearby dumpster Tuesday, MyFoxMemphis reports.

Police confirmed the body found was that of Maurice Brown Jr., who was reported missing by his father from his home a few miles away.

Maurice Brown Sr. reportedly told police he fell asleep for a few hours Sunday evening, and when he awoke his son was gone and the door was open. He claimed the child had been kidnapped.

However, a police affidavit contradicted his account. A witness told police that he saw Brown Sr. leaving his apartment with a child draped over his right shoulder and walk toward a parking lot on the north side of the apartment building between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday, according to the affidavit.

Police say they found evidence of spattered and pooled blood in the man's bathroom that was consistent with a beating. Police also found a white piece of cloth with blood on it, the affidavit said.

"Based upon the age of the missing child, and the blood evidence in the bathroom, which is consistent with blunt force trauma, the affiant has probable cause to believe that the child has sustained serious bodily injury," said the affidavit, signed by homicide detective Darren Goods.

Maurice Brown, Sr., was charged with child neglect or endangerment on Monday night. He is now in jail and could face additional charges.

 

The boy's mother, Latoya Kanneh, told The Commercial Appeal that she drove to Memphis from Pine Bluff, Ark., after being told by police that her son was missing. Kanneh, 23, said her son lived with her in Arkansas but was visiting his father in Memphis.

 

 

Missing Memphis boy Maurice Brown, Jr.'s body found in dumpster

 July 4, 2012 10:48 AM

By Crimesider Staff  Topics Daily Blotter

 

 

(CBS) MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The body of missing three-year-old boy Maurice Brown Jr., was found in a Memphis dumpster Tuesday afternoon, according to police.

CBS affiliate WREG reports that the boy's father, Maurice Brown Sr., was arrested Monday on charges of aggravated child neglect and endangerment charges. Blood evidence was found in Brown's apartment that appeared consistent with a beating, according to a police affidavit.

Memphis Police Department Director Toney Armstrong Tuesday told the station that it is possible that Brown may face serious charges as the investigation develops.

Brown told police he napped for about two hours Sunday night and woke up to find a door open and his son gone. He also told police that he thought gang members took his son to retaliate against him, according to local station WMC-TV.

But according to CBS affiliate WREG, a witness told police that Brown left the apartment with a child draped over his shoulder at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday. The witness said the child was Maurice Jr.
The exact details will take some time to figure out, but police are starting to piece together evidence from both the dumpster and from Brown's apartment.

"As the father of a small child, I certainly can't even begin to imagine what could prompt somebody, or trigger somebody, to not only react violently to a small, three-year-old child, but to dispose of the body in such a manner...he's just unimaginable," Armstrong said.

The cause of death is still unknown. Police are awaiting a report from the medical examiner.
On Monday, the boy's mother, LaToya Kaeneh, said that she believed Maurice Brown was fully responsible for whatever happened to their son, "Junior."

Kaeneh told WREG that she brought Junior to Memphis from Arkansas in May so he could be with his father for the summer.

Lenora Page, Junior's maternal grandmother, was very upset Monday night, and predicted Brown's involvement with her grandson's disappearance.

Page alluded to a violent past: "Maurice was getting angrier and angrier. And I told Toya."
She may be referring to the time Brown may have beat Kaeneh on Valentine's Day of 2010, according to an affidavit. Those charges were dropped.

Page grew emotional, learning of the blood spattered all over the bathroom of Brown's apartment.
"Maurice, Maurice, how could you do this? How could you do this to your baby?" she said.

Oncwanique Tribblet 15 months old

Oncwanique Tribblet

 

 

Dec. 19, 1997

Chicago, Illinois

 

Joan Tribblet and Everette Johnson choked & beat their infant girl to death to stop her from crying and then,

to cover up the crime, cut her body into small pieces, breaded and fried them, and fed some of her parts to alley dogs and put her head in a blender while the rest of her body soaked in a pot of acid.

Task force lawyers were successful in sparing both from the death penalty.

 

 

Police: Parents Put Baby in Acid June 13, 1998 - AP-NY-2152EDT

CHICAGO (AP) - A couple was charged Saturday with killing their 16-month-old daughter, then putting her body in a pot of battery acid and hiding her body parts that did not disintegrate.

``No one can recall parents inflicting such horrific, unspeakable acts on their child,'' police Lt. Robert Cornfield said.

Joan Tribblet, 27, and Everett Johnson, 29, were charged with first-degree murder and concealing a homicide in the Dec. 19 death of Oncwanique Tribblet.

The girl's maternal grandmother filed a missing persons report Tuesday after becoming suspicious about the couple's stories of the girl's whereabouts.

Detective Steve Glynn said the parents confessed when they were brought in for questioning. They were being held pending a hearing Monday.

Police said the toddler was either suffocated or strangled when she wouldn't go to sleep.

``The father put the girl into a pot and put battery acid into the pot and stirred it around. They buried the body parts at various locations,'' Glynn said.

The couple's three other small children were placed under state care.

 

 

National News Briefs;

Illinois Couple Is Held In Death of an InfantJune 15, 1998 - Source: NY Times


CHICAGO, June 14— A judge today denied bond for a couple accused of killing their 16-month-old daughter to silence her cries and then dismembering her body.

The couple, Joan Tribblet, 27, and Everett Johnson, 29, are accused of beating to death or strangling Onowanique Tribblet on a December night when they were frustrated by her crying, the police said.

The authorities said that some of the child's body parts were soaked in battery acid for four to six weeks so they would disintegrate.

A Cook County judge, William Wise, called the incident ''despicable'' and ordered the couple jailed until a preliminary hearing on Monday. They are charged with murder and concealing a homicide, counts that can be punishable by death.

The couple have three other children, who are in the care of an aunt.

 

 

Parents Accused of Dismembering 16-Month-OldJune 15, 1998|From Associated Press


CHICAGO — A judge denied bond Sunday for a couple accused of the "despicable" act of killing their 16-month-old daughter to silence her cries anddismembering her body.

Joan Tribblet and Everett Johnson are accused of beating to death or strangling Onowanique Tribblet on a December night when they were frustrated by her crying, police said. The couple then cut her body apart, police said.

"There were portions that had been cooked up that [Johnson] then basically distributed at another location so that dogs and vermin would get to the child," said prosecutor Thomas Epach.

 

 

Parents cut up crying tot and fed her to dogs;

They confess to dissolving part of body in battery acid.
June 16, 1998 - The Free Library

A couple killed their baby daughter and fed parts of her body to dogs because she wouldn't stop crying.
They cut off 16-month-old Onowanique Tribblet's limbs and soaked her torsoin a tub of battery acid for several weeks to dissolve it.

Her hands, feet and forearm were fried in a pan and left to be eaten by dogs and other animals. And her head was put in a blender which had been borrowed from neighbours.

Last night, detectives were still searching for Onowanique's remains. But they fear most of them will never be found.

Details of the killing emerged yesterday as her parents appeared in court in Chicago. Everett Johnson and pregnant Joan Tribblet, who have three other children, confessed to murdering Onowanique in their flat in December.

They said they were frustrated by her crying and because she would not sleep through the night. The couple are charged with murder and concealing a killing, and face the death penalty.

Police say the parents either battered or strangled the toddler and then dismembered her. Johnson, 29, and 27-year-old Tribblet were arrested after Onowanique's concerned maternal grandmother reported her missing.

She told police she didn't believe her daughter's story that the girl was being looked after by another relative.
Police swooped on the couple's home in the tough West Side area of Chicago and took them in for questioning.

After several hours, Johnson and Tribblet broke down and confessed. Detectives also began door-to-door enquiries in another part of the city where the family used to live before starting a search for the child's remains.

Detective Robert Cornfield said: "No one can recall a more horrific or unspeakable case than this. The body was dissolved in a container of battery acid for four to six weeks."

Thomas Epach, prosecuting, told the court: "There were portions that had been cooked up that Johnson then basically distributed at another location so that dogs and vermin would get the child."

Tribblet shifted uncomfortably in the dock and kept her head down and her eyes closed. Johnson stood expressionless during the hearing.

Judge William Wise described the killing as "despicable" and turned down their request for bail. They are now awaiting trial.

Yesterday, stunned neighbours gathered on street corners after hearing of the killing.

One, LeRoy Williams, said: "We all feel sick to our stomachs. That poor baby - I just can't imagine what those parents were thinking.

"You used to see the family around but you don't stop to count how many kids there are."

Leah Stewart, who lived next door to the couple before they recently moved, said Onowanique "wasn't any bigger than a handbag" when she last saw her.

She added: "We saw all the other kids and we didn't see her. They told us she was with her grandparents

The couple's three other children - a nine-month-old girl, a boy of three and a six-year-old girl - are being cared for by an aunt.

One detective said: "This was a deliberate and protracted attempt to destroy every bit of evidence.

"For four to six weeks that poor baby's remains were being dissolved in acid. "Other parts had been chopped up, fried, fed to animals or put in a blender. "This is sick, sick, sick. What happened to this baby is unspeakable."

Meanwhile, jurors in another part of Chicago were considering the death penalty for a man who killed his ex- girlfriend and cut her unborn child out of her womb, before murdering her two other children.

Lavern Ward, 26, was found guilty of murdering Debra Evans, 28, and her 10- year-old daughter, Samantha Her seven-year-old son, Joshua, was abducted and later found stabbed to death.

The baby who was cut from the uterus miraculously survived the killing spree in November 1995 and is now being cared for by relatives.

At the time, detectives said it was the most horrific case they had worked on.

Trial begins with grisly testimony

Witnesses dredge up awful details of baby's demise

August 28, 2002 - By Alice Hohl/Staff writer/Southtown Legal

The gruesome details of a 1997 child murder that turned stomachs were spelled out for a judge Tuesday as the trial of the baby's father began.

 

Everett Johnson, 33, is charged with killing his 15-month-old daughter, Oncwanique Tribblet, then cutting up the body and making several revolting attempts to hide it, including deep frying some parts of the baby.

 

The baby's mother, Joan Tribblet, 31, is also charged with the murder but has struck a deal to testify against Johnson in exchange for a reduced sentence. The plea agreement is not scheduled to take place until after she testifies.

 

A Chicago police investigator testified Tribblet and Johnson killed their daughter in December 1997, but hid her death for six months, saying Oncwanique was living with Johnson's relatives in Mississippi.

 

Tribblet's family said they became suspicious of the story after another of the couple's children said Oncwanique had been given away.

 

"She started crying," testified Monica Tribblet, Joan's sister. "She said her mother gave her little sister away."

 

Fredie Tribblet, Oncwanique's grandmother, called the police to report the baby missing in June 1998, when Joan Tribblet defied several requests to bring the baby to Fredie Tribblet's house.

Fredie Tribblet said Joan and the other three children had visited several times without Oncwanique, and she had not seen the baby since Joan and the four children moved out of her South Side home in November 1997 to live in a West Side apartment.

 

Assistant State's Attorney Frank Merek said while Johnson and Tribblet were misleading their relatives about the baby's location, they were engaged in a horrifying series of attempts to get rid of the body.

 

Merek said Oncwanique's parents beat her Dec. 19, 1997, because she wouldn't sleep through the night.

 

"Her face was pushed into the bed to quiet her cries," Merek said.

 

As she struggled to breathe, Tribblet became scared of the consequences of calling for medical help, so the couple left her to die, Merek said.

 

Merek said Tribblet was afraid her other children would be taken away if police found out what happened to Oncwanique.

 

"They formed a plan to dispose of the body," Merek said.

 

Merek said Johnson and Tribblet waited for the other children to leave the house the next morning and put Oncwanique's body in the bathtub.

 

Johnson used a sharp knife from his job at a Willowbrook plastics company to carefully remove the baby's spine, Merek said.

 

"He cut off the hands and feet and gave them to Joan, who put them in hot grease in a skillet and began to fry them," Merek said.

 

But the smoke and the smell quickly became overwhelming, Merek told the judge, and the couple realized they wouldn't be able to dispose of Oncwanique's entire body by frying.

 

Merek said Johnson tossed Oncwanique's spine into the woods on his way to work and bought a large quantity of battery acid and a pot.

 

The fried hands and feet were fed to animals, Merek said, and the rest of Oncwanique was placed in the pot with the battery acid.

 

"The remnants of the body were left in this vat for a period of several weeks," Merek said, until most dissolved in the acid.

 

Of the pieces that were left, the hard pieces and bones were scattered outside in a rainstorm and the softer parts were saved for another attempt at disposal, Merek said.

 

Johnson and Tribblet borrowed a blender from a neighbor, he said.

 

"The blender was used to liquefy some of the remains which were not dissolved," Merek said.

 

In June 1998, Johnson and Tribblet were arrested at their new apartment at 1619 W. 56th St. in Chicago's West Englewood community.

 

Johnson led police on a four-hour search for the place he told them he buried her body unscathed, a police officer testified.

 

Later, Johnson said he left the body in a vat of acid at LeClaire Courts public housing complex near Midway airport.

 

Finally Johnson confessed to the grisly circumstances, police said.

 

Police officers testified none of the body parts was ever recovered.

 

 

PARENTS COOK THEIR BABY GIRL & FEED HER TO THE DOGS.September 11, 2002 - The Free Library

An evil mother and father killed and cooked their baby before feeding it to their dogs, a court heard yesterday.

The mother, Joan Tribblet has already been jailed for 60 years at a separate trial.

The child's father, Everette Johnson, 34, was spared the death penalty by Judge Lon William Schultz, but faces 100 years in jail after being convicted of murder and unlawfully disposing of the body.

The court was told how Oncwanique Tribblet, aged 15 months, met a gruesome death at the hands of the couple on December 19, 1997. Prosecutors told the court: "She was choked and beaten to death with a ruler.

"Johnson cut the girl's body up into pieces and then told the mother to cook it. "The smoke alerted neighbours who thought there was a fire and called the fire department.

"By the time they arrived the body had been fed to the dogs. The rest was dumped in a pot of acid."

Tribblet, 33, had already admitted that she lifted the girl by her neck and strangled her and said Johnson joined in and beat the girl with a ruler. The couple kept the disappearance of the baby from their family and friends for six months.

At a police interview Joan Tribblet confessed to her part in the slaying and implicated Johnson.

Sentence will be passed later.

 

Man guilty of killing, dismembering girl September 7, 2002
BY CARLOS SADOVI CRIMINAL COURTS REPORTER


Everette Johnson was convicted Friday of killing his 15-month-old daughter, then dismembering the body and feeding it to dogs.

Cook County Judge Lon William Shultz spared Johnson the death penalty despite the gruesome way Johnson and the girl's mother, Joan Tribblet, disposed of the frail, 18-pound body of Oncwanique Tribblet on Dec. 19, 1997.

Shultz said the actions of both parents showed "combined malignancies of their hearts.''

"Mr. Johnson and Ms. Tribblet opened a window for everyone to see into the deepest and darkest depravity of their flawed human souls,'' Shultz said.

The judge admitted the way the toddler's murder was hidden from police and even family for more than six months was heinous. But he said the way the girl was killed--choked and beaten with a ruler by both parents--was not extreme enough to warrant the death penalty.

Prosecutors Frank Marek and Veryl Gambino said Johnson could receive up to 100 years in prison for the killing and five years in prison for concealing the murder. They called the way the toddler's body was disposed of the worst case of concealment they had seen.

Johnson's lawyers blamed the killing on the mother. Tribblet was sentenced to 60 years in prison Aug. 30 after testifying against Johnson and pinning the girl's death on him.

She claimed the death was accidental and said the couple had been sleeping when Oncwanique woke up at 4 a.m. and roused her and later Johnson. While she admits grabbing the girl in a stranglehold by the neck, she said Johnson hit the girl with a ruler several times while holding her face down on the
bed. The girl finally went limp, she said.

Johnson cut up the girl's body and told Tribblet to cook it. But they stopped because there was so much smoke that a neighbor summoned a Chicago Fire Department truck. Some of the remains were then fed to dogs, and the rest were dumped into a pot of acid.

 

 

Lilianna LaShea Goodmann 15 Months Old

Lilianna LaShea Goodmann

March 13, 2009

Indianapolis, IN

 

Rachel Goodmann stood by as her boyfriend, Tayuan Chism, beat her daughter in March 2009 inside an apartment near Michigan and Westlane roads.

"She was beat for the reasons by Chism because she would not eat her food and because after she kept pushing this blanket off of her again," when he told her to go to sleep. This apparently so enraged Chism he beat little Lilliana with a belt for two hours.

Tayuan Chism is quoted as saying that 'She's gotta at least respect me, gotta like me.'"

 

Lilliana died two days later from internal bleeding and a skull fracture; Chism is serving a 55-year prison sentence for murder and Goodmann was sentenced to 20 years divided between prison and work-release for felony neglect.

 

 

Prosecutor: man enraged with toddler
Police said Chism hit toddler at least 50 times
March 17 2009 - Wish TV Channel 8

 

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The man accused of beating a toddler to death will face murder charges.

On Tuesday, Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi outlined the details of the beating that killed Lilliana Goodman.

Read the Probable Cause Affidavit - *Warning Graphic Details*
"She was beat for the reasons by the defendant Tayuan Chism because she would not eat her food, because she kept pushing this blanket off of her again," said Prosecutor Brizzi.

The prosecutor said Chism was apparently so enraged with little Lilliana that he beat her with a belt for two hours.

Brizzi said, "Tayuan Chism the defendant in this case is quoted as saying that 'She's gotta at least respect me, gotta like me.'"

Police said Chism hit Lilliana at least 50 times. While being interviewed, Chism admitted he spanked Lilliana pretty hard, saying "I swing hard. I don't swing soft."

Lilliana was on life support for two days before dying from her injuries on March 13.

"Common sense has to prevail here. This was not a parent disciplining a child because the child needed discipline. This was somebody who was acting out of pure rage and literally beating an infant to death," said Brizzi.

There were three other people in the apartment at the time including the 15-month-old's mother and two friends, one of whom was asleep before being awakened by the beating, plus another who saw Chism hit the toddler.

Brizzi is looking into charges against the three people in the apartment, but right now he said they're cooperating with the investigation and does not want to jeopardize them as witnesses against Chism.

Also, the prosecutor said Chism lunged at a detective during his interview. He said the detective tried to defend himself by punching back, but hit the side of Chism's head and broke his hand.

Chism will have his initial court appearance at 9 a.m. on Wednesday.

 

Mother Charged In Daughter's Beating DeathPolice: Boyfriend Beat 15-Month-Old Girl
June 17, 2009 - The Indy Channel

INDIANAPOLIS -- The mother of a 15-month-old girl police said was beaten to death by the woman's boyfriend in March was charged Wednesday with neglect.Lilliana Goodman died March 13 after enduring a prolonged, vicious beating at the hands of Tayuan Chism, 18, in an apartment in the 2100 block of Amherst Drive, police said.Chism was later charged with first-degree murder.

On Wednesday, Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi filed a charge of felony neglect of a dependent resulting in death against the girl's mother, Rachel Goodman, 21. TheIndyChannel originally reported that Rachel Goodman was 29, per the probable cause affidavit, but that information was later corrected by the prosecutor's office.She is accused of allowing Chism to beat her daughter and failing to get medical treatment for the girl.According to the probable cause affidavit, Rachael Goodman told police that she left the room while Chism was beating the girl because she couldn't stand to watch."What we've seen now over the course of a couple years is a disturbing pattern where these young mothers allow their boyfriends to be the disciplinarian, to decide the extent and type of discipline," Brizzi said. "It's whipping with belts, beating to unconsciousness and, in this case, it resulted in death."

Reaction from neighbors was mixed Wednesday night."I think that was bad, but they shouldn't have charged her, because, at the time, she was really standing outside. Then she went inside and he was in the middle of it, so they shouldn't have charged her for nothing," said Shayana Pugh."Yes she should be charged, that's neglect," said Sherice Miller. "The child was helpless. It couldn't do anything."Rachel Goodman was 14 weeks pregnant at the time of the beating. She was also treated for injuries at the time from a beating by Chism the day before, police said.Rachel Goodman agreed to turn herself in to police on Thursday.

 

 

Judge hands down heavy prison time for man who murdered babyBoyfriend sentenced for murdering his girlfriend's baby girl.

February 4, 2010 - Fox59 News


INDIANAPOLIS - An Indianapolis man, accused of beating his girlfriend's baby to death will spend a large chunk of his life in prison.

19 year-old Tayuan Chism was sentenced to 65 years. The judge suspended 10 years.

Late last month, Chism accepted a plea agreement for the beating death of his girlfriend's 14 month-old daughter Liliana Goodman.

Prosecutors say he beat the toddler with his belt for almost two hours. Chism told officers the little girl wouldn't eat her food and no respect.

Thursday afternoon, Chism's family left the courtroom in tears, and they didn't want to say anything about what happened in court.

Chism didn't have too much to say either. He told the judge he thought 55 years is a long time and said he questioned whether or not he should have accepted the plea agreement.

Prosecutors say the time is appropriate. Chism serve the maximum time for murder. The toddler's mother is also facing charges for her role in the incident. She made a plea agreement while ago and is currently behind bars.

 

 

Woman sentenced in daughter's death

June 5, 2010 - The Indy Star


A Marion Superior Court judge sentenced an Indianapolis woman Friday to 20 years divided between prison and work-release for felony neglect in her 15-month-old daughter's death.

Rachel Goodmann stood by as her boyfriend, Tayuan Chism, then 19, beat Lilliana on and off with a belt for as long as two hours in March 2009 inside an apartment near Michigan and Westlane roads.

Lilliana died two days later from internal bleeding and a skull fracture; Chism is serving a 55-year prison sentence for murder.

Before learning her sentence, Goodmann tearfully told Judge Kurt Eisgruber that she has struggled to cope with the loss of her daughter and is trying to put her life on firm footing.