Police have identified the little girl known as “Baby Grace”, whose body washed ashore in a box last month near Galveston, Texas, and have arrested her mother and stepfather. Authorities believe she is actually 2 year old Riley Ann Sawyers who, according to her grandmother, Cheryl Sawyers, has been missing since June.
According to CNN.com:
The child’s mother, Kimberly Dawn Trenor, 19, and a man identified as her boyfriend, Royce Clyde Zeigler II, 24, were arrested Saturday on charges of injuring a child and tampering with physical evidence, the sheriff’s department said.
The couple lives in Spring, Texas, a Houston suburb about 75 miles north of Galveston.
Their bonds were set at $350,000 each.
The arrests followed searches conducted Saturday after a November 7 tip, the sheriff’s department said.
What I want to know is why are they not charging those two monsters with murder??? At the very least it should be child abuse resulting in death! What’s with the “injuring a child” crap? She was a lot more than just injured! Maybe they’re waiting for all the other evidence, including DNA evidence, to be confirmed before adding more charges. I’m thinking perhaps they used those far-too-lenient charges as a way to place them in custody. I hope those two get what they deserve — and it ain’t just life in prison!
Tuesday, 27. November 2007
Lighten up Leigh. Here in the State of Texas lesser charges are initially filed to “hold” suspects prior to more serious charges requiring a grand jury to hear the evidence and subsequently indict on the DA’s recomendation. In a case like this, the Galveston Co DA will eventually bring charges of Capital Murder to these two sub-humans which carries the death penality in our fine state.
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Tuesday, 27. November 2007
Hi, mussdog.
Yeah, that’s what I thought. I think I said that, didn’t I? I assumed with charges like, it’s what they had to do in order to take them into custody and keep them.
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Tuesday, 27. November 2007
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Tuesday, 27. November 2007
I just read some of the details of the woman’s confession today and am appalled. I can’t even call her a ‘mother’ — to torture a child, ANY child, is the most appalling act any adult can commit.
I hope she gets the death penalty, but only after staying in prison for a while — NOT in solitary confinement, either.
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Thursday, 29. November 2007
I just saw the biological father and grandmother interviewed on The Today Show this morning. The entire story is just so strange and I think there is a lot more to this story yet to come. In the end it will remain a very sad end to a very beautiful little girl.
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