The Devil Himself

The news tonight is that the mother of a little 2 month old girl is going to be allowed supervised visitation with her daughter even after her 19 year old husband tried to kill the baby, and she says “the devil made him do it”. Um, yeah, right. Let’s just have a look at the story:

Last Thursday, Joshua Mauldin, 19, was alone in the motel with his baby when he called for help.

“The father called down here, asked us to call 911, claimed that the child had a bad sunburn and was bleeding,” hotel manager James Marx said.

Marx said he didn’t seem distraught at all.

Mauldin later told police it wasn’t a sunburn, but that he had accidentally spilled boiling water on the child.

Then his story changed again.

“The first time, he tripped,” Galveston Police Sgt. Annie Almendarev said Wednesday. “Then he said, no, he was drinking it and spilled it. There were just too many inconsistencies. He just couldn’t keep his stories straight.”

A tip then led investigators to the hotel room’s microwave, where they discovered the baby had been placed inside.

Mauldin then confessed, saying stress had driven him to burn his child.

“There was no expression. There was no expression at all. No remorse,” Almendarev said.

The baby girl was rushed to Shriners Hospital, where she’s undergone two skin graft surgeries and is in critical but stable condition.

She suffered severe burns to the left side of her face and left hand.

“I’ve been doing this for a lot of years and actually it brought tears to my eyes,” Galveston Police Sgt. Annie Almendarev said. “The baby is burned on the left side here and it’s just really bad. Her hand is so swollen – if you’ve ever touched something hot you know you get that big boil on your hand – it looks like she’s holding a ball in her little bitty hand. It was just heartbreaking.”

Investigators believe the child was in the microwave for ten to 20 seconds.

“I’m sitting there looking at the pictures and I’m sitting there looking at him, and there’s nothing I could really do about it but just keep my composure,” Almendarez said.

Mauldin had checked into the hotel last week along with his baby, his wife and his mother.

Police said he came to Galveston from Arkansas in search of a job as a minister.

“He’s the worst scum of the earth. I can’t … It makes you want to have cameras in the rooms,” Marx said.

At the time of the incident, Mauldin’s wife and mother were reportedly picking up dinner at a nearby restaurant.

According to police reports, he told investigators God ordered him to go to Galveston.

Mauldin was being held in the Galveston County Jail facing felony charges of injury to a child. His bond was set at $250,000.

Prosecutors said, if convicted, he could face anywhere from five to 99 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

I hope to God he gets 99 years!! And I don’t care if the devil made him do it or not - he did it, so he pays for it!! As far as I’m concerned, he IS the devil! Not only did he microwave that poor child, he also put her in the motel room refrigerator and shut the door, then put her in the room safe and shut the door, then finally in the microwave - and all of that AFTER he had beaten her in the groin!! He’s a sick son of a bitch and deserves to die! But first, let’s beat HIS groin and put HIM in the microwave! And PLEASE let them be smart enough NOT to give any kind of custody back to that worthless so-called mother! She’s making excuses for her teenage husband and only talks about him and herself, never about the baby - except in the context of when she’s talking about herself and their “family”. Did you know when she gave an exclusive interview to a Galveston TV station she would only do it if they didn’t show her face? You know why? It wasn’t because she was ashamed, guilt-ridden or afraid. She told producers it was because she “doesn’t look like the old pictures they’re showing on TV anymore”. VANITY!

Take the baby away from that woman FOREVER!!

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Leigh
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  1. Ditto, Leigh! A BIG Ditto to everything you said!
    Rotten low-life, bastard! Hope the F####ing arsehole dies!

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