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discocrisco01

(1,666 posts)
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 07:54 PM Nov 2015

The Most Shocking Thing That I heard this Weekend

This is most shocking thing that I heard this week as reported by Australian Broadcasting Network


"A toddler has suffered fatal burns at a Texas home after being left alone with her pre-school siblings, who put her in an oven and switched it on, US media reported.

J'Zyra Thompson, 19 months, was left unsupervised along with her three-year-old twin siblings in the Houston apartment. A five-year-old was also present.

Court records obtained by ABC-13 News in Houston said the twins told child protective services that one of them put their little sister in the oven and the other one made it "hot."

Their mother Raqual Thompson, 25, reportedly told police she had gone out with her boyfriend to collect a pizza and a prescription at the drug store when her child burned to death on November 16.

When they returned home they found the three other children crying and pointing to the kitchen. The oven had toppled over with the door face down on the floor.

Ms Thompson is set to appear in court Monday on four counts of child endangerment, according to the Harris County Sheriff's office.

Child protective services said the couple had failed to alert a grandmother, who lived in the same apartment complex, that they were leaving the children unsupervised, according to local medics


This is most disgusting thing that I have heard in a long time. This is considered to be involuntary manslaughter/child neglect with an especially aggravating sentence. I would sentence her to 20 years in Texas penitentiary.
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The Most Shocking Thing That I heard this Weekend (Original Post) discocrisco01 Nov 2015 OP
I read that they then went to the boyfriend's brother's house, where they "visited" tblue37 Nov 2015 #1
The mother is expecting another child exboyfil Nov 2015 #2

tblue37

(65,442 posts)
1. I read that they then went to the boyfriend's brother's house, where they "visited"
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 07:57 PM
Nov 2015

for two hours.

Yeah, I can just guess what kinds of substances they were "visiting" while there.

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)
2. The mother is expecting another child
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 09:16 PM
Nov 2015

One which will be born in jail I guess.

Dysfunctional on so many levels.

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