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They often pummeled her with an aluminum bat or metal handle. Dixon—six months pregnant—died after weeks of abuse. Police have charged two adults, three teenagers and a 12-year-old boy with murder in the case that has repulsed many in this Mississippi River town. “This is heartbreaking,” police Lt. David Hayes said. “It was almost as though they were making fun of the abuse they were administering. This woman was almost like living in a prison.” Investigators put much of the blame on Michelle Riley, 35, who they said befriended Dixon but pocketed monthly Social Security checks she got because of her developmental delays.
Dixon saw little, if any, of the money, Hayes said. For months she weathered the torment to keep a roof over her head and that of her year-old son, who weighed just 15 pounds when taken into state custody after his mom’s death. “I’ve never seen an almost conspiratorial effort by a group of people to continuously torture someone until she finally died, then not really show any remorse,” Hayes said. “It was just a slow, torturous, tragic way to die.
I highly doubt Dorothy Dixon even knew she was dying.” Riley, 43-year-old Judy Woods and three teenagers, including Riley’s 15-year-old daughter, LeShelle McBride, are charged with first-degree murder, aggravated and heinous battery, intentional homicide of an unborn child, and unlawful restraint. Riley’s 12-year-old son is charged as a juvenile. Hayes watched the autopsy and found her injuries disturbing. X-rays revealed roughly 30 BBs lodged in her. Deep-tissue burns covered about one-third of her body—her face, her chest, her arms and feet—and left her severely dehydrated. Her face and body showed signs of prolonged abuse. Many of her wounds were infected.
Do you think there is ANY hope for the future of the kids in this incident? If there really is an evil force in this world…this would prove it.
#20 – I don’t think her bush had anything to do with it.
Well, If its any consolation, the adults are in the Madison County Jail, Released into the stir cell randomly Due to “paperwork” errors (Jail is in Edwardsville, IL) After everyone there knows what FAMOUS people are on the floor with them ( so far both have been assaulted and taken to Alton Memorial Hospital twice since being arrested ) Unfortunately, a “hostile” situation has been recognized and they will unfortunately be placed in a limited occupancy cell block for the duration. I guess they do a good job of making sure the inmates don’t have lethal improvised weapons. DAMN! Make no mistake, they are not among DUI offenders and run of the mill shitters. They are (or were) among their own kind. Murderers, violent offenders, etc. HeHEHe! I will post more inside info when and if it becomes avail. As for the juveniles, I will have to make some calls.
#27:
I don’t think it’s “the good life”. I would just rather put up the $0.25 to buy a bullet for each of them (personally, if need be), than even pay a tiny fraction of the thousands it will take to keep them in prison, where they won’t get any better, may get worse, and may even escape from.
so, #33, are you advocating the death penalty for certain criminals with the justification, that their lives are worth less than the cost of keeping them in jail. Interesting concept and one that can be flexibly adapted as well.
I rather think you yourself have the “killer gene”, you would justify killing someone yourself if the conditions are right. As you say, you would buy the bullett to kill those people of whom you hardly know more than what’s in the press and I guess you would also be there and cheer when they are executed and who knows, maybe you would take it as an honour if you could pull the trigger on them yourself.
This, I’m sorry, shows that you’ve probably been hiding in the woods during the last 200 odd years of social and ethical development. I doubt that you will, but I’d send you off to read Nietzsche’s amazing books “Beyond good and bad” as well as “The genealogy of morality”. One of them (I can never remember which) nicely explains how the law system evolved from personal revenge over revenge by proxy to justice as most of the western world has it today (minus a few dictatorships and the USA).
Oh, and – I don’t think that money can be the issue. Just look at your military budget this year. Seems like killing is rather expensive after all, so I doubt that prisons are having a big impact on the US overall budget.
pj
I dont know why I would wonder how the system allowed a mentally challenged person to be impregnated not once but Twice !!! And the cold-hearted bitch who only took her in for her “MONTHLY CHECK”, Wake-up people, this is going on everyday across the country, and nothing is ever done until something like this happens, then the State Agencies do an “investigation”, (what a joke). Your liberals will say “they can be rehabilitated”, my only satifaction is the hope that they get what they deserve from another inmate, who takes what they did personal. If our country continues this way, GOD HELP US !!
EM
Well, you can thank the republicans in general for all the cutbacks in aid for people with disabilities. Not that they are responsible for what happened to this poor woman. I live in fear of something like this happening to my son who is mentally challenged. He will most likely outlive me. Luckily we have pretty much family around … I’m sure he will be taken care of. This poor woman may not have had any family around … or at least no one that cared. I normally do not advicate the death penalty … but in this case … I don’t know. It hits so close. I do agree with #33, even inmates have their “ethics”. Child molesters and rapist don’t normally last long … neither will they
I am so exhausted from the name calling and finger pointers on here, trying to blame this group or the next. Get real people. It starts at a very basic and fundamental level with educating our young at a very early age. As a professional therapist, we call that blocking, or simply, passing the buck. Why step in if someone can do it for us. It should be mandatory in our society that every single adult must volunteer X amount of hours to a particular organization. The problem begins with us. What have each and every one of you done lately for mankind? Sitting around with nasty jabs sure isn’t accomplishing anything worthy for change. Of coarse this story is horrendous, disgusting, and frankly, nearly intolerable. If it weren’t then I’d need to see you in my office first thing in the morning. But, instead of all of us spouting out at the mouth, let this be the impetus to help you to make change in your community, no matter how small and insignificant it may seem. I’m busy too, need to support my family, and all the other reasons that you all have as to why you aren’t volunteering your time and services to others. But, I decided to make the time, and so should you.