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doc_bean
12-15-2006, 13:41
Trial for father in killing of tot who broke video game (http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/16225843.htm)


This was Tyrone Spellman's explanation to police: He "snapped" after he thought his daughter had broken a $600 Xbox game console.

Alayiah Turman was only 17 months old, born March 29, 2005. Spellman beat her to death, prosecutors say.

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"She pulled the cord and the whole game console fell over," Spellman said in his statement, read by Homicide Detective John Cummings. "I thought it was broken. I popped her in the face. I picked her up and tossed her in a chair."

Later that day - at 12:37 p.m. - Alayiah was pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital.


A sad case, but I feel the article is also trying to make fun of the type of people involved..


"My baby don't deserve that," she said.
BDC
12-15-2006, 14:59
"My baby don't deserve that," she said.

Stating the obvious maybe...

What is it with people killing kids over games consoles?
Lemur
12-15-2006, 15:04
It would have been much the same story if the psycho dad had been watching football and the kid had unplugged the TV.

I hope this Tyrone fellow gets put in a really nasty prison for a really long time.
Kralizec
12-15-2006, 15:08
Jesus. Incredibly disturbing what some people are capable of doing against defenseless children, and that over such petty issues :no:


A sad case, but I feel the article is also trying to make fun of the type of people involved..

If that's an accurate quotation, I don't really see a problem...
doc_bean
12-15-2006, 15:17
If that's an accurate quotation, I don't really see a problem...

Don't they usually correct grammatical mistakes ? This story has a 'look what happened in the ghetto !' to me (or trailer park).
Ronin
12-15-2006, 15:18
wacky situation :dizzy2:

if it was something worth while....like a Playstation 3.....who would do such a crazy thing over that microsoft piece of crap?
Don Corleone
12-15-2006, 16:15
Doc Bean, no, they're not making fun of the victim's mother. American editorial standards are such that they take the quote verbatim, exactly as it was made (though they usually put an editorial comment 'sic' immediately following so that you know they knew that wasn't grammatically correct).

I find this story heartbreaking. That poor little girl. :shame:
caravel
12-15-2006, 16:22
The fact that he lashed out with that much aggression is disturbing, the fact that he shows not remorse is more disturbing still. What is wrong with the world?
Moros
12-15-2006, 16:34
The fact that he lashed out with that much aggression is disturbing, the fact that he shows not remorse is more disturbing still. What is wrong with the world?
Mankind.
ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88
12-15-2006, 17:02
Sad. Poor Child. Should give the guy the needle,crazy wackjob..
doc_bean
12-15-2006, 17:33
Doc Bean, no, they're not making fun of the victim's mother. American editorial standards are such that they take the quote verbatim, exactly as it was made (though they usually put an editorial comment 'sic' immediately following so that you know they knew that wasn't grammatically correct).


Thanks for the explanation Don :bow:
Mithrandir
12-15-2006, 17:49
edit: Deleted highly offensive post and it's quotes.
Please continue on topic.

Thanks

:bow:.
Vuk
12-15-2006, 18:29
It would have been much the same story if the psycho dad had been watching football and the kid had unplugged the TV.

I hope this Tyrone fellow gets put in a really nasty prison for a really long time.

Nasty prison? Please explain.
Lemur
12-15-2006, 18:37
Nasty prison? Please explain.
While there's no such thing as a nice prison, some American prisons are real hell-holes. I'm just hoping that this sad excuse for a man gets put in one of our more horrible lockups.
Don Corleone
12-15-2006, 19:00
It's not technically capital punishment, so it doesn't violate my personal ethos..... Why can't we just use guys like this as the study for very, very, very experimental drugs (i.e. they live, they may not).
Scurvy
12-15-2006, 19:05
Why can't we just use guys like this as the study for very, very, very experimental drugs (i.e. they live, they may not).

:laugh4: --> wait, i hope your not serious?! :2thumbsup:
Vuk
12-15-2006, 19:06
While there's no such thing as a nice prison, some American prisons are real hell-holes. I'm just hoping that this sad excuse for a man gets put in one of our more horrible lockups.


Or instead of torturing him and everyone he comes into contact with in the prison, we could just put the phsyco to death...
It makes no sense to expose other jail-birds (who may be innocent or put there for petty crimes) to his filth and insanity! Kill the bastard and you won't ever need to worry about him again!
Redleg
12-15-2006, 19:14
Well we can all see that the man valued the life of his own daughter less then the value of the xbox.


Edwin Lieberman, the city assistant medical examiner who performed Alayiah's autopsy, testified that in addition to bruises around her head, Alayiah suffered "tremendous injury" inside her head "caused by at minimum three separate blows" to the right side, top and back of her skull.


Sort of belie's the father's statement that he just snaped and hit her and then threw her into a chair.

Losing one's temper and causing harm is one thing - but this seems to be far more damning then what is on the surface.


DHS visited Spellman's rowhouse on the 1500 block of North 29th Street twice in August - each time seeing only the baby's mother, Mia Turman, 21, and Alayiah, inside. Turman told the agency that no one else lived there.
Mooks
12-15-2006, 20:35
My little brother destroyed my RTW disk. The most I ever did was a few punches in the stomach.