Mother LOCKED Daughter inside Washing Machine
 

LibraSoul hipped me to this news this morning while GC was offline.

Girl rescued from washing machine
Monday, May 26, 2003 Posted: 2:53 AM EDT (0653 GMT)

POMONA, California (AP) -- A 2-year-old girl was rescued from a locked, running washer at a coin laundry and her mother was arrested after a surveillance tape allegedly showed her putting the child into the machine, police said.

An officer smashed the window of the machine with his baton to rescue the girl, who was "submerged in water," police Sgt. Matt Stone said.

The child was unconscious when she was pulled from the washer Saturday but breathing. She was taken to a hospital where she was listed in serious condition with cuts, scrapes, bruises. She had inhaled some water but was expected to survive, Stone said.

Her mother, Erma Osborne, 35, of Pomona, California, later was arrested for investigation of child endangerment and held on $10,000 bail.

Surveillance camera footage showed that the woman placed her daughter in one washer, then removed her and placed her in a second front-loading washer, which turned on when she closed the door, Stone said.

"She wasn't drowned but she was getting there," Los Angeles County fire Capt. Dan Ramirez said.

The machine apparently locks automatically when the wash cycle begins and does not unlock until the cycle ends, Ramirez said.

Efforts by the girl's mother and bystanders to unlock the door failed.


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The little girl is BLACK.:(



JUST DON'T HAVE CHILDREN!!!

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That is just terrible. I can't watch that video. It would be too upsetting. Poor little baby girl. :(

What is the world coming to?
 

I just caught this on CNN and that mother shouldn't be in jail, somebody needs to put her UNDER the jail. That's a shame! I'm glad the little girl is ok though.

May the mother be locked up with Big Bertha and become her. . .

Hell, in jail, they should give her laundry duty, I bet you she experiences what her daughter did.

There is a code of ethics in jail. :mad:

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So it wasn't just me having problems? Dayum GC!

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Dang near 7 hours. :mad:

I swear I'm so mad at her I could do bodily damage. I hope they get her in jail. JACK HER UP!!!!!!! Doing that to some little kid. That's why my daughter stays at home. Hell, even that's not safe anymore. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Lawd, cast down these evil thoughts
 

See! Bumpkins like this woman PISSSSSSS me off to the utmost!!! I can't wait 'til the day that God blesses me with a beautiful child and here is this fool with a beautiful baby girl and this binch locks her up in a frickin' washing machine?:mad: :mad:

If you can't take raising your child anymore give her to your momma, your sister, your brother, your neighbor, give her to SOMEBODY!! :mad:

This is just so sad. I have no words.

WHY??:confused: :(

ME EITHER!!!!!!!:mad: :mad: :mad:

Ditto..........:mad: :confused: :(

Mother of girl in washing machine charged
California woman in custody; child still in hospital
Tuesday, May 27, 2003 Posted: 11:01 PM EDT (0301 GMT)


LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A mother accused of placing her 2-year-old daughter in a washing machine and turning it on was charged with felony child endangerment Tuesday and is being held on $50,000 bail, authorities said.

Sgt. Joann Crabb of the Pomona Police Department said officers responded Saturday to a report of a child stuck in a washing machine at a laundromat.

Upon discovering the child trapped inside the commercial washer, Crabb said, police had to break the machine's front glass to extricate the child from the washer, which was filled with water.

According to an Associated Press report, surveillance camera footage showed that the woman, Erma Osborne, placed her daughter in one washer, then removed her and placed her in a second front-loading washer, which turned on when she closed the door.

The child was unconscious when she was pulled from the washer but breathing, the AP said.

Osborne, a 35-year-old resident of Pomona, California, was arrested at the site, and her daughter was taken to the intensive care unit of Children's Hospital in Orange County, where she received stitches in her arms and legs.

Osborne is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday morning in Pomona Superior Court on the felony count. Her daughter remains in the hospital, authorities said.

The heffa should've been charged with attempted murder. :mad: :mad:

Took the words right outta my mouth. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: My friend brought up the point that the broad would have had to have got change and actually insert quarters in the thing to turn it on. But here it says it came on by itself. But why did she switch machines?????????????? WTH????? :mad: :mad: :mad:

The mother would have had to insert quarters into that machine. Why she switched from one machine to another is uncertain, but what is certain is that she had to have put money in the machine, then put her daughter in it, shut the door, and pressed the start cycle button.

How is the little girl? I haven't heard anything on the news.

Which should mean that her actions were premeditated and calculated - I say throw the book at the heffa!!!!:mad: :mad:

Pic of the little sweetheart
 

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I agree. Throw the book at the HEFFA! :mad:

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Awww. What a cute lil' baby. This story makes me angry, considering my age and lack of prospects for a babyperson.:(

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THAT BABY is precious!! If you don't want her give her to me. :mad:

Still no articles in terms of an update from CNN, but I will keep looking.

Forgive me for crashing your board, but !!!!!!! :eek: :mad:

The poor little thing must have been so scared. :( I hope she comes out of it ok and her mother gets prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

A little repetitive, no new news but seems like the little girl is okay.

Mother of girl found in washer is charged

POMONA - Prosecutors charged a woman with felony child endangerment Tuesday for allegedly putting her 2-year-old daughter into a washer at a coin laundry and closing the door, which started the machine.

Erma Osborne, 35, of Pomona, was scheduled for arraignment today in Pomona Superior Court, said Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Gail Ehrlich.

Osborne remained jailed in lieu of $50,000 bail.

The woman allegedly put the girl into a washer at Lucy's Laundromat in Pomona on Saturday. Authorities said the washer had unexpired time, and when the door closed it began operating.

The woman and bystanders were unable to unlock the machine, so police were called. They used batons to break open the washer's glass window and rescue the submerged girl. She required stitches on her arms and legs and was in stable condition Tuesday at Children's Hospital in Orange County, the District Attorney's Office said.

Most front load washers cannot be stopped mid-cycle so this sounds odd to me. Bottom line, there is NO reason to put your child inside of a washing machine, let alone CLOSE THE DOOR. . . put her in the little laundry carts.

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Us ----> http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/punch.gif <---- Her; What do you say, folks?

some PLEASE tell me this woman was on drugs or something, that would let her LOSE her mind.
I mean, there has to be a medical malfunction with her that lead her to this...

how sad..how so very sad:( :(

TTT/More crazy ass-moms. I'm really pissed
 

This ISHT happened up over the weekend. I'm beyond sick to read this:

.:mad: :mad: :mad:

Woman throws self, twins into river; infant body believed to be victim's

HASTINGS, Minn. (AP) — Boaters found the body of a young child in the Mississippi River, and authorities said it appeared to be a 14-month-old boy allegedly thrown into the river by his mother.

Sheriff Don Gudmundson said Monday that authorities were working to confirm it was the body of Sincere Understanding Allah.

Boaters found the body Sunday evening just off an island in the river, between the St. Paul suburbs of Inver Grove Heights and St. Paul Park.

Police have said the boy's mother, Naomi Gaines, 24, of St. Paul, dropped him and his twin brother, Supreme Knowledge Allah, 75 feet into the river from a downtown bridge on Friday and then jumped in after them.

Bystanders pulled Gaines and one of the boys to shore. Both are expected to recover; police have arrested Gaines.

The sheriff said the body was recovered 11 to 12 miles downstream from the bridge. He said the body was swept that far downstream because the river is about 4 feet higher and the current is faster than usual due to recent heavy rains.

Investigators spoke with Gaines throughout Friday night and Saturday. Police Cmdr. Brian Coyle said Gaines was clear-headed, but he would not discuss what she told police.

Gaines' sister, Phyllis Chew, said Gaines "has always been a very caring mother who has experienced continuous and emotional distress over a long period of time."

Tony Saley of La Crosse, Wis., jumped into the river on Friday after hearing a splash.

He first grabbed the woman. "She didn't resist at all, she just screamed," Saley said. He said he couldn't make out what she said.

Then he found one baby with his head slightly under the water. He let the woman go, and brought the baby back to shore.

"I hope the child is taken away and put in a good home where it won't ever have to worry about that again," Saley said on Sunday.

This pix is a covered body of one of the babypeople.
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:( :(

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how about i drown her.

How that B*TCH got the nerve to survive? :mad:

I hope they straight torture her azz in prison!! That won't even be compared to what is waiting for her after this life!

Lord, this is insane!!:eek:

Needless to say we are all saddened here. As of the last report I saw, the surviving twin is released and the mother is still hospitalized. They had a pic of the twins when they were newborns in todays paper and it was heartbreaking to say the least.

oops, didnt realize I was logged in on GC as my sister. (I am at home on her computer.) This is actually Ladygreek posting.

When will the madness end? :confused: :mad:

Thanks for the update, LadyGreek. This story is more than heartbreaking. It's infuriating. I read the www.twincities.com story yesterday.

This happened in my city and I'm very hurt and devastated. People are going through a lot...we need to go in prayer for people who are losing their sanity.

Newborn Allah twins pix and trust fund story
 

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A law firm is setting up a trust fund for the surviving baby who was allegedly thrown off a bridge into the Mississippi River by his mother, the child's grandmother said today.

Supreme Knowledge Allah survived the 75-foot fall from the Wabasha Street Bridge in downtown St. Paul on the Fourth of July, as did his mother, but his 14-month-old twin brother, Sincere Understanding Allah, died.

The boys' paternal grandmother, Sharon Sanders of Duluth, said the Apple Valley law firm of Guzman, Kallheim and Sharpe was doing the trust work for free.

Checks should be made out to the Baby Supreme Trust and sent to P.O. Box 16228, St. Louis Park, MN 55416, the grandmother and the firm said.

The boys' mother, Naomi Gaines, 24, of St. Paul, was charged Monday with second-degree murder and attempted murder. She did not enter a plea at her first court appearance, where bail was set at $500,000.

Prosecutors said Gaines pushed her stroller partway across the bridge, which was crowded with onlookers, kissed her babies and said she was sorry before throwing them into the river and then jumping in, shouting "freedom" on the way down. Gaines and Supreme were rescued. Sincere's body was recovered Sunday.

The boys' father, Khalid Allah, said Supreme seems lonely now.

"He's used to being right next to his brother," Allah said. "They sleep together, they bathe together, they eat together."

Ramsey County court records show Gaines has a history of depression and manic behavior. Last year, a doctor wrote in her file that she was "unable to care for self; found wandering street talking and singing nonsensically, with her four small children; psychotic." In August, Gaines agreed to treatment for mental illness at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis to avoid a pending court-imposed commitment.

Family members described Gaines as an artistic single mother who struggled with mental illness

Gaines grew up in Milwaukee, had her first baby at age 16 and, afterward, was a different person, her brother Nathaniel said. This wasn't just a teenage mother forced to grow up quickly - she seemed depressed, he said.

In 1996, Gaines moved to St. Paul and started a life with the father of her son Jalani, now 7. They had a second child, a daughter, Kaylah, now 2, before splitting up. Once again, Gaines' mood suffered. She eventually was diagnosed with postpartum depression and other mental illnesses, family members said.

"I don't think she got the help she needed," said aunt LaLita Stevenson, who added her niece was still suffering from depression when she came home from the hospital.

The twins were named in the fashion of the Five Percenters, a sect that split from the Nation of Islam and believes black people are gods. Five Percenters often adopt Allah, the Arabic name for God, as a surname during their quest to be "self-sufficient as a people," according to a Web site for the group.

The family said Gaines didn't practice as a Five Percenter, but that similar themes of overcoming oppression were present in her poetry and other artwork. Gaines recorded a CD of songs at a friend's St. Paul studio and, infrequently, took the stage at local clubs for spoken-word poetry performances Very often, she focused on a long-standing concern that society oppressed women, especially African-Americans.

"My niece has a big problem with how society was. She basically felt we were slaves without the chains," McMillan said.

Family members said they couldn't speculate on whether those themes may have echoed Friday night as she jumped screaming "Freedom."

"We don't condone what happened. I can't say we even understand it and I don't know if we ever will, but we still love our niece very much and will continue to support her," said Gaines' aunt LaShon McMillan.

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Why were the children not taken away from her? :confused:

If all of this was going on, someone should ahve intervened. Now, there is a child that is dead, a child without his twin, and overall, three kids left to face life with the knowledge that their mother is "crazy." That is terrible.

This is terrible. It sounds like the Andrea Yates situation (the one who drowned her 5 kids in Texas) She had been battling post partum depression since her first child and was advised not to have any more, but she did. How do you explainn to a little boy what really happened to his twin brother?

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That's what I wanna know too. :mad: :( I mean, was she required to take any psychotropic medications???:confused:

So sad, so sad.

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Agreed. I wonder why the twins' father, not to mention her other kids' father (s) didn't intervene.

more MESS...
 

W.Va. Woman Charged in Trying to Sell Son

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A mother has been charged with trying to sell her toddler son for $500 so she could buy a stash of the addictive painkiller OxyContin.

Brianna Marie Burns, 23, could get up to five years in prison if convicted.

Burns' grandmother contacted authorities after Burns allegedly offered to sell her the 2-year-old child. An undercover officer wired the grandmother and provided her with $500 for the exchange, according to police documents.

Burns was arrested Monday after receiving the money and signing custody of the child over to her grandmother. She was being held on $102,500 bond.

Child Protective Services has placed the child with another family member. :confused: is this a wise move?

OxyContin is a prescription painkiller often given to cancer patients. If chewed, snorted or injected, it produces a quick and potentially lethal high. The drug has been linked to more than 100 deaths.

The sale of a child was a misdemeanor in West Virginia until 1994, one year after a Charleston woman was convicted of trying to sell her 1-month-old baby to undercover officers for $1,400 so she could buy a mobile home. That led the state to change the law, making the crime a felony.

Jesus, keep me near the cross!!

What is wrong with people??? These stories are so incredibly sad. You know, there are people who would love children, but can't have them. This just breaks my heart.