cincinnati,oh:teen kills baby over toilet training

[Qdawg]

Teen accused of killing boy over toilet training
Jul 19, 2007

CINCINNATI - A judge ruled that a teenager will be tried as an adult for the death of an 18-month old boy whose mother testified was repeatedly swung like a bat against the wall when the teen became frustrated during toilet training.

Derris Smith, 18, the mother's live-in boyfriend, has been charged with murder. He was 17 on June 27, when authorities say he delivered the beating that led to Malakai Glenn's death four days later.

The impact of the child hitting the wall left drywall stuck to his head and cracked a wooden door, said the boy's mother Sasha Glenn, 20, who cried often during her testimony Wednesday.

"When I picked him up he put his arms around me," Glenn said. "He was staring at me for a minute with big eyes, then he went limp." The child never regained consciousness and died after being hospitalized at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Following the Wednesday hearing, Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Thomas Lipps said Smith should be tried as adult. The case will now go to a grand jury.

During the court hearing, Smith and his parents, who sat by their son, also cried.

Glenn said she was folding laundry when she heard a "boom, a thump" and found Smith gripping the front of the toddler's pajama top. She said she took her son to the bathroom to wash the drywall off his head and that Smith told the boy "he needed to start listening."

When Glenn said the boy had had enough, Smith told her, "Don't tell me what to do," she testified. "He picked him up and hit his head on the wall" before dropping him on the bed.

The couple tried to get the child to drink water and put him in the shower before calling 911.

Glenn said the ordeal began when Smith put the toddler on child's toilet that was in the room where the three were sharing a bed and the couple went to sleep. She said Smith became angry when he saw the child resting his head on a pillow that she had placed on a stool in front of the toilet.

Glenn said she had initially told police her son fell down stairs because she didn't want Smith to get in trouble, but changed her story when the child didn't recover.

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said it has not been determined whether Glenn will be charged in connection to the death.

According to testimony, Glenn is pregnant with Smith's child, and Malakai Glenn was not his son.

Smith is being held in the Hamilton County Juvenile Detention Center on $500,000 bond.

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[MiChuhSuh]

Glenn said she was folding laundry when she heard a "boom, a thump" and found Smith gripping the front of the toddler's pajama top. She said she took her son to the bathroom to wash the drywall off his head and that Smith told the boy "he needed to start listening."

When Glenn said the boy had had enough, Smith told her, "Don't tell me what to do," she testified. "He picked him up and hit his head on the wall" before dropping him on the bed.

The couple tried to get the child to drink water and put him in the shower before calling 911.

Glenn said the ordeal began when Smith put the toddler on child's toilet that was in the room where the three were sharing a bed and the couple went to sleep.

Glenn said she had initially told police her son fell down stairs because she didn't want Smith to get in trouble, but changed her story when the child didn't recover.

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said it has not been determined whether Glenn will be charged in connection to the death.

WTF?? And she just washed the kid's head like that would make it okay??? As if it had happened before????

What is wrong with families here.

[MiChuhSuh]

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And I'm still on
As I stroll down the same street so many like me once before, were killed on
Steady mobbin', thinkin' bout the Black Panthers
And the babies that were born in the late '80s
That now have babies that lack Pampers
No Kwaanzas and they lack Santas
And the father who thinks shoe-shopping is the answer
Skipped out on parenthood classes so she don't know how to handle her
And never learned from her grandmother
One day got hot, couldn't take it, dropped her in a vacant lot
Album of Life, now condensed into a sampler
See the shapes these little girls is gettin'?
Somethin' say the steroids in the chicken is the cause of the thickening in the young women
Livid, see some shorties playin' Cops & Robbers, livin'
Bittersweet thoughts is what I had for them
I can picture colder feelin' Police chasin' after them
Catchin' up to, friskin' and askin' them
Where the packs at? Who yo' cheif is? Where the straps at?
Am I thinking too hard? Or perhaps that's reality
In a project mentality, but through it all
I hope we learn more than how to be whores and how to move a ball
Steady mobbin'

['X']

We dont even be giving these babies chance to live sometimes..muf!@#in shame...

[KINGFEAR62]

That guy is gonna burn in the deepest darkest part of hell I felt sadness deep in my heart when I read that story

[EmperorPenguin]

This is extremely saddening. Having a child I couldn't even fathom doing something like this, and if someone had done this to my child they would have never made it to the court house to stand trial.

[KINGFEAR62]

This is extremely saddening. Having a child I couldn't even fathom doing something like this, and if someone had done this to my child they would have never made it to the court house to stand trial.

I feel the same way brother

[MiChuhSuh]

And don't forget the mother who was letting this happen. Prioritizing he boyfriend's reputation over her baby's life

[senseofhumorgirl_]

So sad. After reading those lyrics to that Lupe Fiasco song, I often wonder that myself. Surely the city or even the state has programs for young parents(in the case of Ms. Glenn and Mr. Smith, even though Smith wasn't little Malakai's biological father), to attend. I'm guessing they either didn't know about or didn't feel they needed to attend. Either way, the child is only 18 months old, plus he needed to sleep. I wonder what's going to happen to the new baby that Ms. Glenn's carrying once she gives birth? Will the baby be taken into state custody and placed in a foster home?

[MiChuhSuh]

Derris Smith, 18, the mother's live-in boyfriend, has been charged with murder. He was 17 on June 27, when authorities say he delivered the beating that led to Malakai Glenn's death four days later.

Anyone else notice this? Her live-in boyfriend was 17, the father of her next child, and expected to raise a child which was not his?

[Mcminister]

iDAMNED SHAME