# Couple beat and burn infant son... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 20, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979 "2002-07-20T16:27:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/1 "2002-07-20T16:27:23Z")
In the fireplace no less. I’m pretty much a lurker here (I came across this on the snopes MB) and haven’t a very good ability at ranting, but this made me cry out loud, along with all the other various horrible attacks on innocents of late. [Here’s the story. Oh my God.](http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAGLO4HU3D.html) I’ll let others with a better grasp on expressing their anquish take over for me. RIP Sage. ☹ And my your parents rot in the deepest bowels of Dante’s hell. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/2 "2002-07-20T16:38:33Z")
Holy God. I didn’t have the heart to read the linked story, by the way. I just hope that all of these stories are the product of a media feeding frenzy, and that the world hasn’t suddenly gone crazy. I had to take a break from the news last September and I may have to take one now. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/3 "2002-07-20T16:44:59Z")
Jeezus. Somebody take their humanity card away. They obviously have no use for it. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/4 "2002-07-20T16:56:15Z")
☹ :mad: :mad: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/5 "2002-07-20T17:26:27Z")
All the outrage and horror aside, I’m fascinated by their stupidity. Just stash the body in a closet and move away? What did they think would happen? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/6 "2002-07-20T17:33:20Z")
Geez. I’m not one to normally recommend burning at the stake, but in this case I think it is warrented. ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/7 "2002-07-20T18:34:54Z")
Sage and I shared a birthday… I don’t know why that should hit me the way it does, but, well, it does. Poor baby… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/8 "2002-07-20T18:46:01Z")
Once again…I have to point out…not to toot my own horn or anything… But I am STILL unable to get pregnant. Some people just don’t understand the gifts they are so graciously given. I hope her suffering was short and that theirs is long. ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Earthworm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dirty\_Earthworm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Earthworm)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/9 "2002-07-20T18:48:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hastur \* > \*\*Geez. > > I’m not one to normally recommend burning at the stake, but in this case I think it is warrented. \*\* Warranted? Hell - _encouraged_! Beat them to within an inch of their miserable lives first, though. Egads, I don’t know how to react. Part of me wants to find the two repugnant fucks and hurt them badly; another part of me wants to cry out of horror. I believe in God and forgiveness and all that, but I have a hard time believing that even the most loving of gods could find room in His kingdom for two vile, sick, evil pieces of filth as these two. May He have mercy on their souls. -Dirty ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/10 "2002-07-20T19:24:17Z")
Goddam. I am gonna stop coming to the Pit because everytime I come here there is always a new post about some evil shit someone did on the first page. How the fuck did they come to think that it would be a good idea to keep his bones in the house? I guess someone dumb enough to kill a baby is really that fucking stupid. They should be boxed up with the murderer of that little girl and dropped in the middle of death row and let the lifers take thier toll. ---
**Author:** ![Macro\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Macro\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macro_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/11 "2002-07-20T20:04:57Z")
JarbabyJ [http://www.fertilityfriend.com/](http://www.fertilityfriend.com/) Nice group of people. ---
**Author:** ![xyzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/e36b37/32.png) [@xyzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xyzzy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/12 "2002-07-20T20:59:11Z")
Yech…just absolutely sick and vile. This is my last post in the Pit. I seriously don’t wanna see that. JarbabyJ, here’s a ton of fertility sites, courtesy of Google: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=fertility&btnG=Google+Search](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=fertility&btnG=Google+Search) I’m gone, off to other forums. ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/13 "2002-07-20T21:37:58Z")
I’m confused. Why didn’t the friends they were living with notice that the baby was missing?? ---
**Author:** ![Beighley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a587f6/32.png) [@Beighley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beighley)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/14 "2002-07-20T22:58:03Z")
I also share a birthday with the baby, and that article made me want to track those two sorry excuses for human beings down and do to them what they did to their poor, innocent, helpless baby. And I agree with Cessandra: what kind of friends WERE these people to not even notice the baby wasn’t there? This story just confirms what I have always believed; the majority of people are amazingly stupid. Except for us Dopers… ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/15 "2002-07-21T01:05:32Z")
The [Mount Holly Courier-Post](http://www.courierpostonline.com/news/southjersey/m072002a.htm) says that the couple was living with a friend from December to June. The kid was killed sometime around April. So, one day the friends living with you have a kid, the next day they don’t, and you don’t think this is weird?? Now after the couple is kicked out for “partying” too much, they go to the grandmother’s house and she wants to know where the baby is. I’m guessing they can’t give her a good explanation, because she calls the cops and reports him missing. Then the article says that the police found the kid’s remains in the closet, but don’t say whose closet, so I am wondering if it was the idiot friend’s. If you are too dumb to notice that your roommates kid just disapears one day, I doubt you’d notice that they killed and cremated him in your home. Now, after hearing that the kid was going to be reported missing by the grandma, the couple fled the state with ANOTHER friend and her two kids! Again, whether this friend knew what had happened is unclear, but apparently when they got to Florida she got uneasy and called her relatives to come get her. Instead, the police showed up. There is no explanation of why the police were knocking on their door, however, because the Florida police did not know the couple was wanted for murder until AFTER they arrested them for drugs found in the motel room. There seem to be a lot of unanswered questions here. ---
**Author:** ![Amulet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Amulet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amulet)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/16 "2002-07-21T01:18:49Z")
Below the circle of total bastards is where sick fucks like this will go. And they will be Satan’s “special” friends. Just drop them in the middle of a desert and be done with it. ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/17 "2002-07-21T04:00:26Z")
Damn…and I was in such a good mood too… Poor baby…☹ ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/18 "2002-07-21T04:39:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cessandra \* > \*\* > Then the article says that the police found the kid’s remains in the closet, but don’t say whose closet, so I am wondering if it was the idiot friend’s. If you are too dumb to notice that your roommates kid just disapears one day, I doubt you’d notice that they killed and cremated him in your home. > \*\* It was the idiot friend’s. It says so in the second paragraph. ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/19 "2002-07-21T05:03:03Z")
So Mom was 19 when the baby was born and Dad was 24. They got busted for drugs. Don’t sound like classy people to me, I’m not surprised they’re selfish fucks. ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979/20 "2002-07-21T05:12:39Z")
Oh, Snoooooooooooooooooooooopy, you’re right. I missed it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-beat-and-burn-infant-son/119979.md?page=2)