To: State of kansas
In light of recent child homicide rates during child abuse id like to ask the State of Kansas to re evaluate the punishment for this crime. We feel that if you take a child's life then the punishment should fit the crime.
No less than life in prison without parole or the death sentence for in the event of a childs death, no less than 10 yrs for permanent damage. These children did not deserve the horrifying ends the came to.
In the recent death of Karsyn Young I began researching child homicides.i immediately found 10 cases of severe child abuse 9 children died from extreme child abuse,1 will live with permanent damage.
examples of children who lost there lives:
1)Karsyn Young Wichita,Kansas
2)Vincent Hill Newton,Kansas
3)Natalie Pickle Doge City,Kanas
4)Brooklyn Brown Wichita,Kansas
5)Zayquon Hammond Pittsburg,Kansas
6)Robby Cox Wichita,Kansas
7)Chivara Brown Wichita,Kansas
8)Gerold McGee Wichita kansas
9)Zerion Thomas WIchita,Kansas
examples of long term physical damage:
1)Julian Dunson Dodge City,Kansas
One is to many so please consider making changes to the laws where these children can be placed in safe enviroments. It disturbs me in several cases child protective was notified of previous abuse. Several of these children had extended family available and willing to keep these children for their safety this would saved the state foster care.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
The news report on priliminary hearing
Judge orders trial over toddler's death
Fire captain recounts seeing lifeless boy
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BY TIM POTTER
The Wichita Eagle
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* Wichita Fire Department Captain Larry Matthews points to Shawn Blackburn when asked who the man was that he found kneeling next to 10-monthold Karsyn Young's dead body.
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Wichita Fire Department Captain Larry Matthews points to Shawn Blackburn when asked who the man was that he found kneeling next to 10-monthold Karsyn Young's dead body.
* Shawn Blackburn enters the courtroom during his preliminary hearing. on one count of first-degree felony murder and one count of child abuse in the death of 10-month-old Karsyn Young.
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Shawn Blackburn enters the courtroom during his preliminary hearing. on one count of first-degree felony murder and one count of child abuse in the death of 10-month-old Karsyn Young.
Hearing for man charged in infant's death
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When Wichita fire Capt. Larry Matthews arrived at 8703 W. Nantucket late the night of March 22, he saw 10-month-old Karsyn Young lying lifeless.
Matthews was struck by something that didn’t add up.
He was quickly responding to an initial 911 dispatch of an infant having difficulty breathing. But when Matthews saw Karsyn lying on his back in the duplex, the child’s mouth and eyes were open. He had no pulse. Matthews was struck by the child’s deathly skin color. His body felt cold. It didn’t seem to Matthews that Karsyn could have been alive when the difficulty breathing call came in.
And another thing: Matthews could see bruising on Karsyn’s face and undressed body. Matthews testified about what he witnessed that night during a preliminary hearing Monday for Shawn Blackburn, the 22-yearold ex-boyfriend of Karsyn’s 20-year-old mother. She had left Karsyn and his older brother with Blackburn at the west-side duplex.
At the end of the hearing, defense attorney Charlie O’Hara said nothing indicated the death was intentional.
O’Hara argued that Karsyn’s mother had neglected the boy before he died: that the 10-month-old was failing to gain weight, that he had a previous broken leg, and that he was missing medical appointments.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Kim Parker said that an autopsy showed that the infant’s injuries were too numerous and resulted from too much blunt force to be accidental.
Parker said Blackburn was the one with the child during the 36 hours or so before he died.
District Judge Joe Kisner found there is probable cause to try Blackburn on charges of first-degree murder and child abuse.
Blackburn, who has pleaded not guilty, now faces trial in August.
During the two-hour hearing, Matthews testified that Blackburn was screaming and crying after emergency crews arrived that night. At one point, Blackburn was down on one knee over Karsyn, pleading, “Come on, buddy. Wake up. Come on, buddy.”
When Matthews asked when the baby stopped breathing, Blackburn said he had been rocking Karsyn in a recliner and saw the baby gag and stop breathing. He also said the boy had fallen down stairs earlier that day.
A Wichita police crime scene investigator found blood in several locations in the duplex, including around the 13-step staircase and on an infant’s one-piece outfit.
Police Detective Robert Chisholm, a veteran of the homicide unit, saw Karsyn’s body when it was still in hospital trauma room. On the witness stand Monday, Chisholm recalled seeing bruises on Karsyn’s head, face, back and abdomen and what appeared to be a possible burn or blister on his foot.
Chisholm also noted cuts in Karsyn’s mouth.
Early the next morning, in a 10-foot-by-10-foot interview room, Chisholm and another detective spent at least two hours asking Blackburn what happened.
Blackburn said he had been dating and living with Karsyn’s mother in Wichita beginning in September 2009 but that the couple were no longer together. He had moved out in late January.
He told the detectives he had been taking care of the Karsyn and his older brother on a regular basis. On the Sunday before Karsyn died, his mother brought him and his brother and left them with Blackburn in the Dillons parking lot at 13th and Tyler.
Karsyn’s maternal grandmother told police that he was fine when she baby-sat him about two days before he died. His grandmother had a video of him playing and learning the word “ball.”
Blackburn told the detectives that on the Monday that he cared for the boys, he smoked marijuana throughout the day.
According to an autopsy report, Karsyn tested positive for components of marijuana, which could come from “passive exposure to smoking of marijuana.”
Blackburn gave different versions of what happened to Karsyn, Chisholm said. First, Blackburn said that while he was playing a video game, he heard thumps and found that Karsyn had fallen down the stairs and was crying and bleeding from his mouth.
Later, Chisholm testified, the detectives told Blackburn that his version of what happened wasn’t consistent with the Karsyn’s injuries. Blackburn then said that he was holding Karsyn in his arm at the top of the stairs — at the same time that Blackburn was trying to deal with a couple of pit bull puppies — and that he dropped the boy. That Karsyn tumbled forward down the stairs.
Blackburn told the investigators: “I didn’t throw the child down the stairs, man.”
Blackburn called a friend, who told Blackburn to call 911, Chisholm said.
Blackburn did not call 911 earlier or take Karsyn to a hospital because he was hoping that Karsyn was not hurt that badly, Chisholm testified.
Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2010/06/29/1382093/judge-orders-trial-over-toddlers.html#ixzz0sHPBqW00
Fire captain recounts seeing lifeless boy
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BY TIM POTTER
The Wichita Eagle
Photos
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1 of 2
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* Wichita Fire Department Captain Larry Matthews points to Shawn Blackburn when asked who the man was that he found kneeling next to 10-monthold Karsyn Young's dead body.
Jaime Green/The Wichita Eagle | Buy this photo
Wichita Fire Department Captain Larry Matthews points to Shawn Blackburn when asked who the man was that he found kneeling next to 10-monthold Karsyn Young's dead body.
* Shawn Blackburn enters the courtroom during his preliminary hearing. on one count of first-degree felony murder and one count of child abuse in the death of 10-month-old Karsyn Young.
Jaime Green/The Wichita Eagle | Buy this photo
Shawn Blackburn enters the courtroom during his preliminary hearing. on one count of first-degree felony murder and one count of child abuse in the death of 10-month-old Karsyn Young.
Hearing for man charged in infant's death
Click here to see the video in full screen or to e-mail to a friend.
When Wichita fire Capt. Larry Matthews arrived at 8703 W. Nantucket late the night of March 22, he saw 10-month-old Karsyn Young lying lifeless.
Matthews was struck by something that didn’t add up.
He was quickly responding to an initial 911 dispatch of an infant having difficulty breathing. But when Matthews saw Karsyn lying on his back in the duplex, the child’s mouth and eyes were open. He had no pulse. Matthews was struck by the child’s deathly skin color. His body felt cold. It didn’t seem to Matthews that Karsyn could have been alive when the difficulty breathing call came in.
And another thing: Matthews could see bruising on Karsyn’s face and undressed body. Matthews testified about what he witnessed that night during a preliminary hearing Monday for Shawn Blackburn, the 22-yearold ex-boyfriend of Karsyn’s 20-year-old mother. She had left Karsyn and his older brother with Blackburn at the west-side duplex.
At the end of the hearing, defense attorney Charlie O’Hara said nothing indicated the death was intentional.
O’Hara argued that Karsyn’s mother had neglected the boy before he died: that the 10-month-old was failing to gain weight, that he had a previous broken leg, and that he was missing medical appointments.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Kim Parker said that an autopsy showed that the infant’s injuries were too numerous and resulted from too much blunt force to be accidental.
Parker said Blackburn was the one with the child during the 36 hours or so before he died.
District Judge Joe Kisner found there is probable cause to try Blackburn on charges of first-degree murder and child abuse.
Blackburn, who has pleaded not guilty, now faces trial in August.
During the two-hour hearing, Matthews testified that Blackburn was screaming and crying after emergency crews arrived that night. At one point, Blackburn was down on one knee over Karsyn, pleading, “Come on, buddy. Wake up. Come on, buddy.”
When Matthews asked when the baby stopped breathing, Blackburn said he had been rocking Karsyn in a recliner and saw the baby gag and stop breathing. He also said the boy had fallen down stairs earlier that day.
A Wichita police crime scene investigator found blood in several locations in the duplex, including around the 13-step staircase and on an infant’s one-piece outfit.
Police Detective Robert Chisholm, a veteran of the homicide unit, saw Karsyn’s body when it was still in hospital trauma room. On the witness stand Monday, Chisholm recalled seeing bruises on Karsyn’s head, face, back and abdomen and what appeared to be a possible burn or blister on his foot.
Chisholm also noted cuts in Karsyn’s mouth.
Early the next morning, in a 10-foot-by-10-foot interview room, Chisholm and another detective spent at least two hours asking Blackburn what happened.
Blackburn said he had been dating and living with Karsyn’s mother in Wichita beginning in September 2009 but that the couple were no longer together. He had moved out in late January.
He told the detectives he had been taking care of the Karsyn and his older brother on a regular basis. On the Sunday before Karsyn died, his mother brought him and his brother and left them with Blackburn in the Dillons parking lot at 13th and Tyler.
Karsyn’s maternal grandmother told police that he was fine when she baby-sat him about two days before he died. His grandmother had a video of him playing and learning the word “ball.”
Blackburn told the detectives that on the Monday that he cared for the boys, he smoked marijuana throughout the day.
According to an autopsy report, Karsyn tested positive for components of marijuana, which could come from “passive exposure to smoking of marijuana.”
Blackburn gave different versions of what happened to Karsyn, Chisholm said. First, Blackburn said that while he was playing a video game, he heard thumps and found that Karsyn had fallen down the stairs and was crying and bleeding from his mouth.
Later, Chisholm testified, the detectives told Blackburn that his version of what happened wasn’t consistent with the Karsyn’s injuries. Blackburn then said that he was holding Karsyn in his arm at the top of the stairs — at the same time that Blackburn was trying to deal with a couple of pit bull puppies — and that he dropped the boy. That Karsyn tumbled forward down the stairs.
Blackburn told the investigators: “I didn’t throw the child down the stairs, man.”
Blackburn called a friend, who told Blackburn to call 911, Chisholm said.
Blackburn did not call 911 earlier or take Karsyn to a hospital because he was hoping that Karsyn was not hurt that badly, Chisholm testified.
Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2010/06/29/1382093/judge-orders-trial-over-toddlers.html#ixzz0sHPBqW00
ACCOUNTABILITY FOR CHILD MURDERS
Recently a Friend lost a member of their family to child abuse. In the research ive done these men and women who kill a child get on average 20 yrs. I find it heart wrenching that any child suffers.With laws the way they are now there is little to no accountability most of the cases i found had prior calls to department of social services. Mostof these deaths were preventable
In the states the death penalty is available why is not being used on the adults who commit such horrible acts against these babies. these abusers are not going to change and get better they will continue being aggressive and hurting others weaker then them. We have a responsibility not only to those babies who were killed but to the future children these abuser will come in contact with.When these people get parole who monitors them? Is it going to be like sex offend registery that has gave people a false sense of safety. Many children have lost their lives to already known sex offenders that were supposedly monitored example John Gardner. So again if we have the death penalty available why is it not being used to protect these children.
In the states the death penalty is available why is not being used on the adults who commit such horrible acts against these babies. these abusers are not going to change and get better they will continue being aggressive and hurting others weaker then them. We have a responsibility not only to those babies who were killed but to the future children these abuser will come in contact with.When these people get parole who monitors them? Is it going to be like sex offend registery that has gave people a false sense of safety. Many children have lost their lives to already known sex offenders that were supposedly monitored example John Gardner. So again if we have the death penalty available why is it not being used to protect these children.
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