“Oopsie!”
Chyrotia Graham, the alleged scumbag of an alleged woman who was allegedly arrested for allegedly using her infant son, Jarron Troop, as a club to hit her alleged boyfriend, Deangelo Troop, is arguing that she “didn’t know her baby was a baby” at the time of the incident. Apparently Troop, the intended victim of her assault, agrees:
“People are trying to make a big deal about it, but she did not do it on purpose. … It was just a mistake,” he said.
Just an itty-bitty mistake, which anyone could have made. I mean, what mother has never hated the father of her child so much that she’d love to pick up any large object in sight, without even checking to make sure it isn’t … her own goddamned kid? OK, so maybe Graham made an itsy-bitsy boo-boo, and now her kid suffered a fractured skull and a bleeding brain, all because she hates her son’s father more than she loves her son. Don’t make such a big deal out of it. Gee whiz. Nobody’s perfect, ya know.
To his credit (?), Troop himself seemed to think it was a bigger deal at the time of the incident:
Police said Troop punched Graham in the eye after she put the baby down, and police photos later showed her eye blackened and swollen shut.
Authorities said there was no indication that Troop had hit his son but that they were reviewing the case to see if any charges might be warranted.
“I don’t anticipate any at this time,” Erie police Capt. Frank Kwitowski said Monday.
That’s understandable. I don’t think Pennsylvania law allows the authorities to prosecute someone for not hitting his victim hard enough.
October 11th, 2006 at 12:24 am
So if the baby dies would you advocate the death penalty for the father if he were to tie this lady behind his car and drag her to her death? (I could have made it harder and said “even if the baby doesn’t die”.)
October 11th, 2006 at 7:44 am
If he did it now, premediated, sure. If he had done so in the heat of passion, immediately after the incident, probably not. IOW, touché.
October 11th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
Well, the baby’s not dead yet. But you’re off the jury in any case. You’re still on the bench so in the third phase of the death penalty procedure, and only if the baby has died, will you allow me this instruction: “In considering whether there is sufficient mitigation to preclude imposition of the death penalty (having found in the second phase that the crime was exceptionally brutal and heinous and also that the defendant engaged in torture during the course of the murder of the victim) you may consider as mitigation that it was the result of circumstances unlikely to occur”?
October 11th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
Certainly. I think it would be a gross denial of due process not to allow the jury to consider (or worse, even know about) the acts of the victim that led up to the crime in question. Allowing such information to come in during the guilt phase of the trial would risk the jury accepting the “bitch had it coming” defense, but once guilt has been established, and some punishment is required, then yes, I think such factors should be taken into account.
October 12th, 2006 at 11:05 am
OMG! What a cruel mother! It’s not that poor boy’s fault that he was born in a barbarous family. May God bless him and keep him safe.