Creepy people: Part V

About ten per cent of the world's population are psychopaths. These people; men, women and children alike are people who have never learned to have empathy with other human beings or even with animals. They cannot and do not care about anyone other than themselves. They are the school bullies, the ice, that they are necessarily part of the ten percenters. All of us at some time or another will do something creepy in our lives and not really be psychopaths. However, this page is created to illustrate just how creepy some people can be at times.

Part three of this series deals with abuses against children.

Back in 2006, an Erie, Pennsylvania woman used her four-week-old baby as a weapon in a domestic dispute, swinging the infant through the air by his legs and striking her boyfriend’s head with that of the child. The infant, whose name was not released, suffered a fractured skull and some bleeding in the brain, The boy was in serious but stable condition at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. Chytoria Graham, 27, of Erie, was charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and simple assault. She pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child under a plea agreement with prosecutors. The charges carry a minimum of five years in prison because the child was under age 12.

A Uniontown, Pennsylvania baseball coach (Mark Downs, 29) of young baseball players offered his team’s 8-year-old pitcher, while he was warming up before a June 2005 playoff, $25 to throw a baseball at an autistic boy on the other team so he couldn't play. The boy who was offered the money said he purposely threw a ball that hit the autistic boy in the groin and then threw another ball another that hit him in the ear on his coach’s instructions. Judge Ralph Warman said during sentencing of the ex-coach, “These acts are extremely outrageous and reprehensible since the defendant was involved in the coaching of a youth league.” He then sentenced the creep to six one-month consecutive sentences for corruption of minors and criminal solicitation to commit simple assault.

On October 11, 2006, a father in Jacksonville, Florida was arrested and charged with keeping his 9-year-old son locked in a bedroom for much of the previous three years and watching his every move with surveillance cameras. The home of Randall Warren Piercy, 41, was like a prison with cameras in almost every room, with the father monitoring the boy on TV and computer screens. For three years, the boy did not attend school, receive medical attention or have contact with people outside the family. Officials were told by the father that his son was home-schooled yet he could not read children's books. Relatives told police the boy usually got to use the bathroom once a day because his father was teaching him to control his body. Piercy was arrested on charges that included aggravated child abuse and jailed on $1 million bail. Social workers took the boy from the home. I don't know what his sentence was.

A couple who lived in Toronto, had caged their two adoptive sons for more than ten years, a crime that was shocking to the conscience of the community. As young children, they were initially tethered, made to sleep in a dog cage and, later, a locked cage constructed out of cribs. The boys were as old as 14 and 15 when they were rescued in June 2001. The couple, who assumed care of the boys in 1988, pleaded guilty to two counts each of forcible confinement, assault with a weapon and failing to provide the necessaries of life. At the trial of these two creeps who were the adoptive parents; they were only given nine months imprisonment by the trial judge however the crown appealed and on November 5, 2004, the Ontario Court of Appeal had a more appropriate sentence in mind for these two. The mother got five years in the women’s penitentiary and the father got five years in the men’s penitentiary. The higher court said, “The sentences now imposed here must clearly signal society's abhorrence and condemnation of the prolonged child abuse inflicted by the respondents. Stated simply, the appalling abusive conduct of the respondents cannot be tolerated and must be met with severe sanction.”

On August 6, 2001, Firefighters in Detroit, Michigan responding to an apartment building fire discovered 11 children ages 6 months to 13 years padlocked inside one of the apartments. The fire department was called about 3 a.m. A 42-year-old woman, believed to be the mother of nine of the children and grandmother of the other two, was arrested on child neglect charges. The children had previously been placed in her custody. None of the children or other residents of the apartment complex were injured. The children were immediately placed into the custody of child protective services.

On October 16, 2006 a Toronto mother was charged after leaving her one-year-old child in the hallway outside her apartment that morning. A neighbour called police after finding the baby in an eighth-floor hallway of an apartment building. The baby’s parents, who shared custody, were in disagreement over who was to be the caretaker of the child the day before. The father admitted that it was his turn but he didn’t want to care for the child that day. He tried to leave the mother’s apartment without the child but she managed to put the child outside with him and closed the door behind them. The father left without the child and the mother left the child in the hallway outside their apartment. The child was found outside her apartment later that night before being taken to hospital by police. “The child was unharmed and in good health nevertheless.” The baby was turned over to the Children’s Aid Society. The mother was charged with failing to provide the necessities of life. The police were meanwhile looking for the father. I don’t know what happened after that but if the Children’s Aid had anything on the ball, they would ask the court to have the baby remain in the custody of the Children’s Aid so that a home with loving parents could be found for the child.

On October 14, 2006, a Toronto 47-year-old labourer was convicted of sexual assault causing bodily harm for giving his 5-year-old daughter gonorrhea. Now divorced and HIV-infected, the Toronto man cannot be named by court order. He sat in a wheelchair and showed no emotion as Justice Bonnie Croll reviewed the evidence of his "despicable" conduct. Tests showed that his daughter had the same strain of gonorrhea as he did. Even though the little girl was suffering from a painful urinary problem in July 2001, the accused didn't tell his then-wife he had gonorrhea, which would have allowed his daughter to be immediately and properly treated, the judge said. Later at the hospital, the girl was "screaming in pain. The judge said the sexually transmitted disease could cause the girl to suffer future fertility problems. The father claimed the girl might have gotten the disease from sitting on the home's toilet seat, sharing towels, touching his dirty laundry, or from bed sheets after sleeping in the same bed. The judge didn’t except that lame explanation. A doctor called by prosecutor Colleen Hepburn testified that such non-sexual transmission is highly improbable. Even one of the defence experts admitted it was extremely rare. The man's former wife testified that while their daughter was sitting on the toilet she told her, "Daddy put his peepee in my bum." The judge found that evidence credible. The father was found guilty of sexual assault causing bodily harm and sexual interference, but not guilty of criminal negligence causing bodily harm or aggravated sexual assault endangering life. I don’t know what sentence he got but I imagine it was a penitentiary term of more than two years.

On November 23, 2004 in Plano, Texas, Dena Schlosser, with a calm, dispassionate voice and a hymn playing in the background, confessed to the unthinkable, telling a 911 operator she'd cut off the arms of her baby girl. When police arrived, her nearly 11-month-old daughter lay fatally injured in a crib in a bedroom of the family's apartment. The child died shortly afterward at a hospital. The police charged the 35-year-old mother with capital murder. Schlosser, who had a history of postpartum depression, had been investigated on child neglect allegations earlier that year, but Texas Child Protective Services had closed a seven-month investigation, concluding that Schlosser did not pose a risk to her children. Neighbors said she seemed to be a loving, attentive mother. A capital murder charge in Texas carries only two possible sentences: life in prison or the death penalty.

I think this is all that you and I both should be subjected to at this present time.