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She had made a ghastly discovery: a dead little boy, buried in the sand.
For nearly a week, who the toddler was, how he died, and who put him there were a chilling mystery until Thursday, when a drawing of the youngster circulated by police led to the arrest of a young mother on murder charges.
Albuquerque police said Tiffany Toribio, 23, confessed to suffocating her 3-year-old son, Tyruss "Ty" Toribio, as he slept on the climbing gym — a crime so cold-blooded that neighbors struggled to comprehend it, and even veteran officers became choked up.
NM mom charged with killing son on the playground | Comcast.net (http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090521/US.Playground.Body/ - broken link)
I read that story earlier and it was pretty sad.
I agreed with some of the people they interviewed and said the boy would have probably been better off had she left him on the playground. He could have been with a foster home or something.
It made it even harder to read once it said she revived him and then decided to kill him anyway.
The local liberals are defending her - I kid you not. They claim she needs emotional help, and she is a victim! She is a Native American and deserves special consideration. It was on the news today.
The local liberals are defending her - I kid you not. They claim she needs emotional help, and she is a victim! She is a Native American and deserves special consideration. It was on the news today.
I think even some Conservatives would say she needs emotional help.
As for being a victim, I don't know about all that.
An incredibly heartbreaking story...especially this part:
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The police chief said Toribio told detectives that she suffocated her son in Alvarado Park before dawn on May 13 by putting her hand over his mouth and nose. She said she had second thoughts and performed CPR on the boy, resuscitating him, but reconsidered and smothered him again. Investigators said she then buried him under the climbing gym's hanging bridge, where the body was found two days later.
I don't believe in the death penalty, but there are cases where I really could reconsider it, I'm ashamed to say.
All the same - whatever her emotional problems were (and I would guess drugs or alcohol play a part) there is no excuse for what she did. She could have given him to foster care, she could have taken him to an adoption agency and relinquished him. She chose murder - twice! - and the thought that this poor excuse for a human being will be given another chance at a happy life, and god forbid more children, horrifies me.
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