tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23897492.post7480113528076502326..comments2023-08-27T06:40:13.013-04:00Comments on Hip Hop Republican | Music, Politics & Culture: WHEN LOVE HURTS-VALENTINE’s DAY: You Don’t Hit a Woman or Molest a ChildUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23897492.post-34913095441487033282009-02-19T09:32:00.000-05:002009-02-19T09:32:00.000-05:00And this is what I'm talking about:Police: Mom Sat...And this is what I'm talking about:<BR/><BR/>Police: Mom Sat On, Killed Son<BR/>Woman Tells Detectives She Believes She Sat On Her Son<BR/><BR/>POSTED: 9:45 pm CST February 8, 2009<BR/>UPDATED: 6:38 pm CST February 9, 2009<BR/><BR/>KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas City woman was charged with second-degree murder in the death of her 7-year-old son, who appears to have died of suffocation.<BR/><BR/>Police spokesman Darin Snapp said Esmond Ross died Saturday at his home. Snapp said the boy showed no signs of life when officers were called to the home.<BR/><BR/>The child's mother, 28-year-old Lakeesha Brown, told detectives she believes she suffocated her son by putting her legs across his head and sitting on his chest.<BR/><BR/>Police said Brown had no explanation for why she sat on her son.<BR/><BR/>A body exam revealed that Esmond's right arm was broken in three places, and he showed signs of being suffocated.<BR/><BR/>Edwin I. Ross, the boy's father, said his 10-year-old daughter called him from Brown's house, distraught. He rushed to the house in the 3700 block of Prospect Avenue. He said Brown was sitting on the boy when he arrived, and he said it was clear the boy had been dead for hours.<BR/><BR/>The boy's father said he had been trying to gain custody of his children but that he could not afford an attorney.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14903491767607635274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23897492.post-2217789621042082932009-02-19T09:28:00.000-05:002009-02-19T09:28:00.000-05:00This is what I am talking about:newsday.com/news/l...This is what I am talking about:<BR/><BR/>newsday.com/news/local/crime/ny-limom0210,0,134447.story<BR/><BR/>Newsday.com<BR/><BR/>New Cassel mom pleads insanity in 3 kids' deaths<BR/><BR/>Leatrice Brewer will be sent to secure psychiatric facility<BR/><BR/>BY ANN GIVENS<BR/>7:35 PM EST, February 9, 2009<BR/><BR/>Leatrice Brewer nodded almost imperceptibly when the judge asked her whether she killed her 18-month-old son.<BR/><BR/>"Yes," she whispered.<BR/><BR/>"Take a deep breath and keep going," Nassau County Judge Meryl Berkowitz said, before asking Brewer about the other two children she drowned last February in her bathtub: her daughter, 6, and son, 5. She answered "yes" to questions about them, too.<BR/><BR/>Brewer Monday pleaded not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect, and will now be sent to a secure upstate psychiatric facility indefinitely, prosecutors said. Brewer, prosecutors and Berkowitz all agreed to the plea after two independent psychiatric evaluations showed that at the time she killed the three children, she didn't know that what she was doing was wrong.<BR/><BR/>"My granddaughter loved her children," said Brewer's grandmother Maebell Mickens outside the Mineola courtroom. "I feel she's getting ready to get the help she needs."<BR/><BR/>The deaths of Jewell Ward, 6, Michael Demesyeux, 5, and Innocent Demesyeux, 18 months, drew attention to Nassau's social services agency after investigators learned that caseworkers had gone to Brewer's apartment two days earlier but left when no one was home. They did not schedule a follow-up visit until after the children were dead.<BR/><BR/>Innocent Demesyeux, the father of the two youngest children, said before the court proceeding that he was disappointed that prosecutors accepted Brewer's insanity plea.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14903491767607635274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23897492.post-57061806882913590952009-02-19T09:21:00.001-05:002009-02-19T09:21:00.001-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14903491767607635274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23897492.post-21522666250700465892009-02-19T09:21:00.000-05:002009-02-19T09:21:00.000-05:00Chris Brown needs to be dealt with, should he be p...Chris Brown needs to be dealt with, should he be proven to be guilty of beating Rihanna. However, we need to say that violence must be rejected no matter what the gender of the perpetrator is.<BR/><BR/>Too many of us embrace being confrontational or violent with males. I've had friends who've actually spouted this "you can hit a man 'cause he can't hit back" nonsense. For those of us with sons, we do teach them not to hit ANYBODY. However, that same message must be drummed into our young women as well (and its is not...). <BR/><BR/>Also, what about young children who grow up with violent, abusive single mothers? The news has been filled with these stories of mothers beating and killing their children. If a young boy grows up with a violent single mom, and we refuse to address how we encourage many of our young Black women to be confrontational, what happens when she passes a violent attitude to her son?<BR/><BR/>Let's be balanced here if we are truly trying to address violence in our communities.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14903491767607635274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23897492.post-37937811285509465812009-02-18T02:56:00.000-05:002009-02-18T02:56:00.000-05:00I love the post...So true, couldn't have said it b...I love the post...So true, couldn't have said it better myself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23897492.post-30834105893902859652009-02-17T23:02:00.000-05:002009-02-17T23:02:00.000-05:00Great post! There is no substitute for family valu...Great post! There is no substitute for family values...none!Denney Cranehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18373247143408003226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23897492.post-81229428241967149382009-02-17T21:05:00.000-05:002009-02-17T21:05:00.000-05:00We disagree on politics, but agree on this matter....We disagree on politics, but agree on this matter. Chris Brown had no excuse for abusing a woman. What has surprised me is that some women who have male children have told me that Brown was upset because he had been infected with venereal herpes by the lady in question. "what do you expect a 19 year old boy to do once he finds out that he has herpes?"<BR/><BR/>The venereal herpes story is an online rumor possibly put out by Chris Brown fans (or members of his camp). Even if true (doubtful), it does not rationalize physical abuse.<BR/><BR/>Chris Brown is operating in the post-Obama era, it is time to man up. In the pre-Obama era R Kelly is free after allegations of abusing an underage female. Michael Vick is doing jail time for crimes committed against dogs. Vick had supporters. The dogs had supporters. The female in the R Kelly case had no apparent support base. A change is going to come. Black women are to be valued.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com