My son works in a prison and this wouldn’t work. It would alert the guards and they’d come down hard. The guards would be totally fine with the other inmates grabbing his food and eating it. No throwing plates, though.
Do they even get plates? I envision trays.
Heh, I stopped asking my son about prison. Anytime he told me things about his job and what he saw/experienced it was always 10x worse than my wildest imagination.
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Early in his career he told me he was too young looking. A pedophile in solitary was gunning him. I asked if it was a real gun or one carved from soap, etc. He just laughed at me. I searched on Google and it made me nauseous.
This guy was really all-in on the hate and violence. At least his lack of subtlety means he’d be easy to avoid, and I’m glad another human boil is off the streets.
A wild guess here that a plan that involves dressing up as Murder Santa at Jewish schools wouldn’t be terribly efficient.
Man arrested for leaving 11-month-old in a canal along the highway in Wichita. Thank goodness a woman driving by spotted the baby moving its arms.
Here’s the loving father:
What confuses me is that this child was reportedly found only wearing a diaper, completely alone, yet…
Officers were dispatched at around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday to a welfare check in canal near Mt. Vernon after a woman spotted the baby. The child was rescued from the canal with the help of the Wichita Fire Department and was taken to get checked out at a hospital.
Police said Tuesday that they were searching for Perez in connection to the incident. WPD said on Facebook Wednesday morning that he had been located. He was booked a short time later. Police have not released additional details regarding the investigation.
So this child was found, obviously can’t tell people who she is because she’s 11 months old and if she can talk at all it would only be a couple of words (surely can’t identify details about her father), but within hours police had a suspect and were searching for him, and found him the next day. How?! I mean, good on them, but was there evidence near the scene? Surely they couldn’t have put the child’s photo up asking the public who the baby was and received a response so quick?
Maybe another relative or someone else acquainted had already reported the child’s disappearance to the police, and it wasn’t hard to put the pieces together. Maybe they even said something like, “Vincent Perez took our baby and came home without it and won’t tell us what happened.”
Further details about this great person:
Perez has an outstanding warrant through the Kansas Department of Corrections, according to WPD. Records show he’s on parole for prior convictions for theft, assault, aggravated burglary, drug possession and criminal possession of a weapon by a felon. He was last released from prison in February.
Surely the authorities were already keeping tabs on this guy so that might explain how he was caught so quickly. As for any other details…
The investigation is ongoing.
So that’s surely why there isn’t more info yet. What a horrible story and I’m glad the baby is okay.
ETA: It occurs to me that the article doesn’t even say that this man is the father, I just assumed. If he’s not, that seems even worse to me.
I’m guessing that there was a camera somewhere that got footage of the guy dropping off the baby, and they were able to run his plates.
Ooh, another good possibility I didn’t even consider.
Looking at the canal, seems to me he must have just chucked the baby over the rail rather than bringing it down there. Good thing the water level was so low.
Good job on the part of the woman who spotted the baby. I hope I would have, though I can be oblivious.
I hope he’s convicted of attempted pre-meditated murder. That person should never be free again.
If I saw someone tossing a baby into the water, I’d assume it was some sort of stunt.
Which would still need to be dealt with, because doing stunts with babies is incredibly irresponsible and dangerous.
If I’m driving and see this I’d assume the “baby” was a mannequin or doll.
ETA: maybe “prank” more than “stunt”.
I drive that route on an irregular basis. As shown in the picture, it’s a goodly distance from the level of the highway to the bottom of the canal. If he indeed did throw the baby onto the concrete, I would think that the child would suffer from some grievous injuries, or perhaps death. I’m going to guess that he entered the canal through one of the many culverts that feed into the waterway.
That’s a busy highway. It’s the main north-south interstate through Wichita. If he was stopped on the (extremely narrow) breakdown lane and was standing at the guardrail holding a child in his upraised arms preparing to throw it, certainly somebody would have witnessed it.
You sweet summer child! ;-D
So did the woman who found the baby, until she saw her raise her arm up.
it wasn’t clear to me that she saw him with the baby; if so, it makes more sense that she saw something. I thought she somehow spotted a baby in the brush, while speeding by, which seemed less likely.
She didn’t.
From another article:
Vickie Wyant, the woman who reported finding the baby and calling 911 said she was driving south on I-135 and looking into the canal when see saw what she described as “this lifelike doll.”
“I thought it was a doll and its head was kind of bobbing in the wind, and all of a sudden it did this (raises arms) and I’m like, ‘That’s not a doll, that’s a real-life baby,’” Wyant said.
She said she struggled to believe what she saw.
“I honestly don’t know how the baby would get there. How do you get into the canal route?” Wyant said.