Oregone for a few hours today

March 12, 2018:

In Bendover, Bend, Oregon, a woman who would temporarily abandon the children in her care in order to work out at the gym and go to a tanning salon has been sentenced to 21 years and 4 months in prison.

January Neatherlin, 32, who ran a daycare with 7 children (ranging from 6 months to 4 years old), pleaded guilty to 11 counts of first-degree criminal mistreatment and a count of third-degree assault.

She gave the children melatonin to induce sleep so that she could leave them unattended while she exercised and got a tan.

Other incidents at her daycare include a child who suffered from head trauma and a child who was burned by being given scalding hot milk.

<<Yes,it’s cloudy; not enough sun in parts of Oregon. Yes it’s hard to find time or make time to exercise.  But you get paid to watch kids, not to “look good”.  But with so many women, it’s all about them and their “needs” (read: WANTS).  Who cares about anyone else (including helpless kids)?>>


Neatherlin was on a list of subsidized child care for students at Oregon State University-Cascades.

<<I guess hers is one Beaver that won’t be seeing any action for at least 21 years (or maybe less, for good behavior).>>

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Link and text of original article:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bend-oregon-day-care-owner-january-neatherlin-gets-21-years-for-leaving-kids-to-go-tanning/


CBS/AP March 12, 2018, 7:02 AM

Oregon day care owner gets 21 years for drugging kids, leaving them to go tanning

BEND, Ore. -- A woman who abandoned children at her home day care center in Bend, Oregon to go tanning has been sentenced to 21 years, four months in prison. The Bend Bulletin reports 32-year-old January Neatherlin was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty in February to 11 counts of first-degree criminal mistreatment and a count of third-degree assault.

Neatherlin was arrested last year after police found seven children left unattended at her illegal day care center. CBS affiliate KOIN reported that the children ranged in age from 6 months to 4 years old.  Authorities said she forced the children to take medicine to induce sleep before heading to the tanning salon or to the gym.

The other counts of criminal mistreatment are for previous incidents with children, including several that left children with injuries including head trauma and burns from scalding-hot milk, the Bulletin reported.

"She has shown no remorse, after being confronted multiple times by multiple sets of parents," mom Audrey Torrance said.

In court Neatherlin apologized, telling families that she had failed them and let them down.

Neatherlin has prior felony identity-theft convictions under the names January Livsey and January Brooks.

Neatherlin took out a business license for Little Giggles in 2010, but it lapsed in 2012 and was not renewed, The Bulletin reported last year. A day care license is only needed if a provider cares for more than three children.

Neatherlin was on a list of subsidized child care for students at Oregon State University-Cascades.

Total Downer

An Adoptive"mother" from Birmingham, England has been sentenced to life in prison (minimum 18 years) for the beating death of a toddler.

Kandyce Downer, 35, had been beating 18-month old Keegan Downer (formerly known as Shi-Anne Rose) over the course of a few months.

Overall, Keegan’s body had more than 200 separate injuries, which included 153 scars, abrasions and bruises.  Other injuries included a spinal leg fracture (which would have made the slightest movement agony), seven broken ribs, and severe head injuries (of which the resulting scar tissue was preventing the brain from growing, stunting Keegan's development).

The toddler had been beaten so violently that "she resembled a car crash victim".  During the court hearing, the judge stated that "Keegan suffered considerably in the last days and months of her life".  Forensic officers had found 80 blood splatters near Keegan's cot.

The toddler had originally been taken from her heroin-addicted mother (a distant relative of Downer), after which Downer was given legal guardianship of the toddler.

Prior to gaining custody of Keegan, Downer had tried to adopt Keegan's older sister, but was unsuccessful (thank heavens for that).

Downer, who has 4 other children, had left Keegan alone at home for 2 hours to take another child to a wedding rehearsal, during which time Keegan suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed in her cot.  Downer came home to find her unconscious.

Before calling emergency help, Downer tried to get rid of the evidence by dumping Keegan's blood-stained mattress near a large garbage container (dumpster, or skip), but she was recorded on CCTV.  Afterwards, she even tried to blame her teenage son for Keegan’s death after claiming most of the ‘day-to-day’ care was down to him and her three younger children.

Keegan was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital, her death attributed to a combination of head injuries, septicemia (blood infection) and blunt chest trauma.

It never ceases to amaze me what people will do for money (she was getting £125-a-week maintenance payments from the government).  Why should taxpayers pay for a baby to be tortured?

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Sources: 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kandyce-downer-jailed-for-at-least-18-years-135047098.html

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/04/kandyce-downer-jailed-18-years-toddler-murder

Bitch's Cauldron

An evil stepmother (no, not a Grimm fairy tale, but a real grim story) killed her husband's son by placing him in scalding water.

In the Cincinnati, Ohio area, 25-year old Anna Ritchie allegedly put a 4-year old (Austin Derreck Cooper) into 134 degree water for almost half an hour. By the time he was let out, he was so burned that his skin was falling off, and he was bleeding.

However, I have suspicions about this story.  According to story in the Washington Post (source below), The father, Robert Ritchie (no, not Kid Rock) was allegedly unaware of what had happened, and that though the child was crying through the night he never got up to check up on the child because he was told "not to check on him" by his wife.

Really?  You're just going to ignore a crying child just because your wife tells you to?  He is either lying or a bad father.

I feel sorry for the 'poor oppressed woman' - NOT.

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Source:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/19/pure-evil-stepmother-put-4-year-old-in-burning-water-and-let-him-bleed-to-death-prosecutors-say/

Cannon Fodder

A Washington woman killed one daughter and slashed the other with a knife in an attempted double-homicide.

Jessica Smith murdered her 2-year old toddler by drowning her, and then attacked her 13-year old daughter with a knife at a hotel in Cannon Beach, Oregon.

(the teenager, who suffered cuts to her throat and wrists, is now living with her father)

The incident occurred just before she was suppose to let the children’s father visit them (she had been denying him visits, claiming the children didn’t want to see him).  She had tried to get a restraining order against her ex-husband but was denied.

Oh the irony.

It now appears that Smith is looking for the insanity plea.  Even though a psychologist declared she is mentally fit to stand trial, her sleazy lawyers (Lynne B. Morgan and William Falls), claim otherwise.

Scumbag Attorney Falls provided the court with “more than 140 pages of discovery that included psychology journal articles on postpartum psychosis” - (whatever dude; it had been 2 years already).

Cretin pond scum Attorney Morgan stated: “I have had ample opportunity to observe her [Smith] behavior and thought process,” It is my opinion Ms. Smith currently suffers from a mental disease or defect and is unable to aid and assist in her own defense.”

Oh really?  So now Morgan is both liar lawyer AND psychologist?  What a load of bull crap.  I’m guessing Ms. Morgan is probably some feminist whack job.

The judge fell for the ruse and said Smith could meet with another psychologist.  On the day of, Smith feigned a mental breakdown in front of the sergeant for the Tillamook County Sheriff (where she is being held).

According to the sergeant, Brandon Roberts, Smith was “incoherent” and was “lying in a fetal position on her bunk bed, sobbing and clutching a white cotton blanket that she had folded into a ‘"baby-sized bundle ... as you would a small infant,’''

Really?  Who would write something so contrived?  Either the sergeant is an idiot, or maybe Smith offered to sleep with him if he gets her off the hook.

Roberts also reported that she is “solemn” and “disturbed” and “shows signs of depression”.

Well, I won’t argue with the ‘Disturbed’ part.  But that’s putting it mildly.

That's the face of an obvious killer.


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Sources: 

https://gma.yahoo.com/mom-arrested-charged-2-old-daughters-murder-053337397--abc-news-topstories.html?bcmt=1407160768756-3b29ad8d-bc67-470e-89a0-9bd7bacf2fe0

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/01/jessica_smith_told_state-hired.html

 

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/11/mother_accused_in_cannon_beach.html

https://kobi5.com/news/regional-news/attorney-oregon-mother-jessica-smith-not-fit-to-stand-trial-in-toddlers-murder-19973/