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Lennonite Priest
Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA
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For those against the death penalty:
What would you do to these animals?
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Mother of 'Baby Grace' Told Police She Tortured, Beat Daughter to Death, Court Documents Show
Tuesday , November 27, 2007
Authorities are trying to determine if the 2-year-old dubbed "Baby Grace" after her body was found in Galveston Bay was repeatedly abused by her mother and stepfather, an investigator said Tuesday.
A woman believed to be the mother of the girl told police she and the girl's stepfather beat and tortured the child to death, court documents show. The girl, believed to be Riley Ann Sawyers, was found by a fisherman in a plastic box Oct. 29, but her identity was unknown for weeks.
The mother told authorities how the girl died "of her own volition," sheriff's Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo said Tuesday on CBS' "The Early Show." One of the things authorities are looking at is whether or not there was a pattern of abuse against the girl, he said.
"In a little over 20 years of doing this, I've seen a lot ... of heartbreaking cases," he said. "I think this one certainly still remains in our hearts and always will."
Investigators are awaiting DNA test results, but said Monday they are fairly confident of the girl's identity. Her mother, Kimberly Dawn Trenor, and stepfather, Royce Clyde Zeigler II, were arrested early Saturday and are in custody on charges of hurting the girl.
The details in an arrest affidavit paint a chilling picture of the girl's last days. In a statement to police included in the affidavit, Trenor, 19, said she and Zeigler, 24, killed Riley July 24.
The girl was beaten with leather belts, had her head held underwater in a bathtub and then was thrown across a room, her head slamming into a tile floor, the mother said in the document. She said they kept the body in a storage shed for one to two months before they put it in a plastic bin and dumped it into Galveston Bay.
An autopsy revealed that Riley suffered three skull fractures, but the cause of death has not been determined.
Zeigler attempted suicide last week and wrote a note saying, "My wife is innocent of the sins that I committed," according to the court documents.
Trenor said in the document that after her daughter was killed, Zeigler had her forge a document that the Ohio Department of Children's Services had taken Riley away because of allegations of sexual abuse.
Tuttoilmondo said Trenor had told relatives that someone claiming to be a social worker from Ohio, where Riley's father lives, took the girl in July. Riley's paternal grandmother, Sheryl Sawyers, hadn't seen her granddaughter in months when she saw a police sketch of "Baby Grace." Thinking it might be Riley, she called authorities in Texas.
In Mentor, Ohio, on Monday, Sawyers wiped away tears at a news conference and held up the Elmo doll she had already bought Riley for Christmas.
"It's hard to think that I'll never see her again," she said.
Trenor's attorney, Tom Stickler, said she has cooperated with authorities. He declined to comment about her statement to investigators.
"But from what she said, there is no doubt that the girl found is Riley Sawyers," Stickler said.
Trenor and Zeigler were charged with injury to a child and tampering with evidence, Tuttoilmondo said. Bail was set at $350,000 each. The couple's next court appearance was expected to be scheduled on Tuesday.
Trenor and Zeigler met a couple of years ago playing an online game, World of Warcraft, and she moved with her daughter from suburban Cleveland to Spring in June, Stickler said.
Wendell Odom, Zeigler's attorney, declined to comment on the case except to say Zeigler grew up in Spring, about 75 miles north of Galveston, and works as an instrument technician in the oil industry.
The Sawyers family's attorney, Laura DePledge, said they take comfort in knowing that the girl is "resting peacefully and is no longer subject to abuse."
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Or a more detailed version:
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Police: Mentor mother admitted role in murder of Baby Riley
GALVESTON, TX -- Court documents show toddler formerly from Mentor was beaten with belts, held under water before final blow. The grim details of the murder of the innocent two year old, Riley Ann Sawyers, were released Monday afternoon. In court documents, Kimberly Trenor and her boyfriend, Royce Zeigler, admitted their guilt.
The former Mentor woman told investigators that the morning of July 24th, she and Zeigler beat Riley with two leather belts, and then held her head under water in the bathtub. Zeigler then tossed the little girl across the room causing her head to slam into the tile floor.
Trenor then claims that Zeigler tried to give the injured child some pain medication moments before the little girl died.
The pair then concealed the body in a blue plastic Sterilite container hidden in their storage shed for almost two months.
The blue box was then tossed into Galveston Bay near the Galveston Causeway where it was later found by a fisherman.
Kimberly Trenor says that her boyfriend, Royce Zeigler, attempted suicide last weekend by taking a large amount of blood pressure medication and anti-depressants. Zeigler left a note that said, "My wife is innocent of the sins that I committed."
Zeigler's suicide attempt failed. He and his wife, Kimberly, could face the death penalty if convicted of first degree murder in Texas.
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I know people hate me playing with sizes and colors.... but this needed to be.
HOW the Hell can you allow those 2 animals to live? A 2 year old defenseless baby and you would have them live? WTF?
These 2 people deserve to be beaten mercilessly, and then just as they are dying, stop let them get a little air then do it over again. But, I have a feeling, finding someone that sick and without mercy would be almost impossible to find. I may have rage towards them but I would give them a fast and as painless as possible death... solely because my faith and beliefs tell me that is the most humane way to handle it.
IT WAS A FUCKING 2 year old..... how can anyone defend these people from not getting the death penalty.
When you say you don't believe in the death penalty think of this.
I'm not saying the death penalty or torture in anyway is acceptable in all cases but there are those that are extreme, like this, that torture and death should be allowed.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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