Man Kills 2 Year Old Step-Daughter Over Crying During The World Cup

[PiKA2001]

McALLEN, Texas (AP) - A man accused of fatally beating his 2-year-old stepdaughter in Texas when she wouldn't stop crying as he watched a World Cup match was expected to be charged Monday with murder, police said.
Hector Castro, 27, of McAllen was arrested Saturday and scheduled to be arraigned Monday in municipal court. He told police that the toddler wouldn't stop crying while he was watching the U.S.-Ghana game on Saturday, McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez told The McAllen Monitor.
The girl was severely beaten, and police said a screw or bolt was forced down her throat in an apparent attempt to make it look like she accidentally choked.
"There are no words for this," Rodriguez said. "It makes you want to think about doing lots of things to this guy, but he will face the criminal justice system just like everybody else."
Castro, who was in the U.S. illegally, implicated himself in the girl's death in a confession he gave to investigators, Rodriguez said. The toddler suffered several cracked ribs.
Four other children who lived at Castro's apartment in McAllen were placed into the custody of Child Protective Services, Rodriguez said. There was no word on where the child's mother was at the time of the child's death.
McAllen is just north of the U.S.-Mexico border at the southern tip of Texas.

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[Animate]

Oh, oh, oh oh, oh oh my god!

[mittens]

Idiot.

[christiangirl]

I don't even have words.

[Drolefille]

Where's the hating mankind club when you need it?

I wish it were true that people who hurt kids get it worse in jail. I really do. It's a personal failing.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Where's the hating mankind club when you need it?

I wish it were true that people who hurt kids get it worse in jail. I really do. It's a personal failing.

I taught in the criminal justice system for 20 years and very often, a man who harmed children got it worse in jail, especially if it got around the building. Even though criminals have done bad things, most of them do love their kids.

[GatorGirl27]

Originally Posted by carnation

I taught in the criminal justice system for 20 years and very often, a man who harmed children got it worse in jail, especially if it got around the building. Even though criminals have done bad things, most of them do love their kids.

Exactly. I'm a criminology major and a research assistant... In the criminal justice system, child and sex offenders are at the bottom of the totem pole. You do not want it to get around your prison that you hurt a kid in any way.

[cheerfulgreek]

Wow, another piece of garbage protected by America's crappy justice system. $$$$$$$

eta: and he'll even get an attorney to represent him in court, even though the evidence is there that he did this to that child. More money wasted on garbage. And I'm sure he'll be able to plead something stupid. Only in America where the criminal is protected.

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Wow, another piece of garbage protected by America's crappy justice system. $$$$$$$

eta: and he'll even get an attorney to represent him in court, even though the evidence is there that he did this to that child. More money wasted on garbage. And I'm sure he'll be able to plead something stupid. Only in America where the criminal is protected.

Yeah who cares about a tiny unimportant thing like innocent before proven guilty by a jury of their peers. And I'm confused, how exactly is he protected?

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by carnation

I taught in the criminal justice system for 20 years and very often, a man who harmed children got it worse in jail, especially if it got around the building. Even though criminals have done bad things, most of them do love their kids.

Originally Posted by GatorGirl27

Exactly. I'm a criminology major and a research assistant... In the criminal justice system, child and sex offenders are at the bottom of the totem pole. You do not want it to get around your prison that you hurt a kid in any way.

Yes, well my understanding through a DoC worker is that it rarely actually works like that since so many of those in prison are there on sex offenses and many of them offended against children. It's apparently an old 'myth' and in reality in most prisons - not jails - those are the people running things. :-/

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Yes, well my understanding through a DoC worker is that it rarely actually works like that since so many of those in prison are there on sex offenses and many of them offended against children. It's apparently an old 'myth' and in reality in most prisons - not jails - those are the people running things. :-/

I've heard both things too, it sounds like it might be a general truth, but how true it is is based on the facility being discussed.

I think a lot of it is what we want to believe. Like I mentioned earlier, a family friend was killed in a car accident last week and the commenters on the newspaper's website all put predicted that the guy who hit her would be raped in prison. He was going to the county jail, in solitary confinement, for DUI.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Wow, another piece of garbage protected by America's crappy justice system. $$$$$$$

eta: and he'll even get an attorney to represent him in court, even though the evidence is there that he did this to that child. More money wasted on garbage. And I'm sure he'll be able to plead something stupid. Only in America where the criminal is protected.

I see your and raise you .

Remember that discussion a few months ago on due process? Time to go back to it.

Or just move to somewhere else where they don't worry about piddly things like due process, innocent until proven guilty, right to counsel, trial by jury and instead just go ahead and execute people on the spot. How does North Korea sound?

[starang21]

Originally Posted by carnation

I taught in the criminal justice system for 20 years and very often, a man who harmed children got it worse in jail, especially if it got around the building. Even though criminals have done bad things, most of them do love their kids.

good.

[AZTheta]

No. No. No.

Tell me this just cannot be true.

I simply cannot wrap my mind around this.

[NinjaPoodle]

He will burn in hell.