Texas Mist
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A terrible story breaking right now from the Baltimore police homicide unit, and here's a copy of what I just filed to my editors: The mother of a one-month-old boy, who police said has had four other children taken away by social services, confessed Monday to burying the infant in Druid Hill Park and has been charged with first-degree murder, police said.
Homicide detectives tracked down 28-year-old Lakesha Haynie late Monday afternoon, a day after the boys father led them to the shallow grave in a wooded area of the park. The father told police that his son, Rajahnthon Haynie, had been buried in the park by his mother sometime last month, according to Anthony Guglielmi, the departments chief spokesman.
An autopsy determined the child died from blunt force trauma and suffered head fractures, Guglielmi said. Lakesha Haynie, of the 2300 block of Whittier Ave., told investigators that the boy had suffocated, but police spokesman Donny Moses said other aspects of her story were consistent with the injuries the state medical examiner had documented. Moses declined to elaborate.
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Lakesha Haynie has no criminal record, though she was being sought on a warrant charging her with assault from an October 2009 incident, according to court records. Moses said the homicide investigation revealed that she had four prior children taken away from her by the Department of Social Services, which could not be reached to confirm that information.
The father was not facing charges, Moses said, though the investigation was "open and ongoing."
Rajahnthon Haynie was born Jan. 30, 2010. The boys body was found in a wooded area a few hundred feet from a road within the park, Guglielmi said.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2010/03/mother_arrested_in_death_of_on.html
:rose: RIP, baby Rajahnthon :rose:
I'm sorry there's no laws to protect little ones like you.
ETA: this article said Rajahnthon was 2mos old.....I wish out of respect the facts were straight.
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/22840846/detail.html
Homicide detectives tracked down 28-year-old Lakesha Haynie late Monday afternoon, a day after the boys father led them to the shallow grave in a wooded area of the park. The father told police that his son, Rajahnthon Haynie, had been buried in the park by his mother sometime last month, according to Anthony Guglielmi, the departments chief spokesman.
An autopsy determined the child died from blunt force trauma and suffered head fractures, Guglielmi said. Lakesha Haynie, of the 2300 block of Whittier Ave., told investigators that the boy had suffocated, but police spokesman Donny Moses said other aspects of her story were consistent with the injuries the state medical examiner had documented. Moses declined to elaborate.
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Lakesha Haynie has no criminal record, though she was being sought on a warrant charging her with assault from an October 2009 incident, according to court records. Moses said the homicide investigation revealed that she had four prior children taken away from her by the Department of Social Services, which could not be reached to confirm that information.
The father was not facing charges, Moses said, though the investigation was "open and ongoing."
Rajahnthon Haynie was born Jan. 30, 2010. The boys body was found in a wooded area a few hundred feet from a road within the park, Guglielmi said.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2010/03/mother_arrested_in_death_of_on.html
:rose: RIP, baby Rajahnthon :rose:
I'm sorry there's no laws to protect little ones like you.
ETA: this article said Rajahnthon was 2mos old.....I wish out of respect the facts were straight.
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/22840846/detail.html
