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Man Beats Child For Not Eating

http://www.14wfie.com/story/13873227/police-say-man-beat-4-year-old-boy-to-death-for-not-eating

Northern IN Police: Man beat 4-year-old boy for not eating
Posted by Kelsey Wheatcroft - email
MICHIGAN CITY, IN (AP) - Northern Indiana police have charged a man with neglect for allegedly beating a 4-year-old boy to death for refusing to eat.
Jimmy Isbell, 34 of Michigan City was charged Tuesday with two felony counts of neglect of a dependent.
He is being held in the LaPorte County Jail on $100,000 bond.
LaPorte County prosecutors tell The Times of Munster that no murder charge was filed because there's no proof Isbell intended to kill the child.
Investigators say the boy died Friday after Isbell beat the youngster with his hands and a belt for refusing to eat.
Isbell was not the boy's father but had legal custody of him, the boy's 7-year-old brother, and his own 3-year-old son while the mother of all three boys was in jail.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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1032715 tn?1315984234
Bring back public floggings for this sort of thing,
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So this guy had control issues over a little 4 year old and beat him to death trying to make him conform? Mom in jail? Makes me believe in sterilization. This man should be put in the middle of town and publically beaten. Mom too.
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1032715 tn?1315984234
I'm there with you adgal,and I have never been a violent person,but I just want to get hold of this guy and really,really hurt him.like you I feel sick in stomach just imagining what this young child went through as he was slowly dying at the hands of a murdering monster.Neglect !!!!!!!!!!! - In Aussie language (what a crock of sh!t)
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377493 tn?1356502149
Oh wow.  When I read your last sentence I burst into tears.  I look at my babies innocent little face and cannot imagine anything in the world making me hurt him like that.  They count on us to always care for and love them, and if we do nothing else for them, we must protect them and love them.  Ohhh what an emotional mess I am over this post.  I can't seem to get past it....how horrible.  Once again I come back to maybe the death penatly is appropriate in some cases.  But it's certainly not neglect.  I want to beat him myself!
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973741 tn?1342342773
Really sickening.  It is unfortunate to me that anyone who wants kids can have them.  Not everyone deserves the right.  May that little angel rest in peace and never have to fear those who were to take care of him again.  So sad.
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1461073 tn?1308677548
I agree 100% Narla.  I'd buy front row tickets to watch it.  
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1032715 tn?1315984234
Neglect,!!!!!!!!!
What is our world coming to,
hand him over to some big hefty footy players and let them beat him to death,they won't know they are going to kill him,call it neglect
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1461073 tn?1308677548
Brice and Adgal- I agree with you both.  What is our world coming to?  I think he didn't care if he killed him or not because anytime a grown man beats an innocent child with his hands or any other devices they are out to badly hurt that child, and death is always a possibility.  It's a darn shame the courts are too stupid to see it, and aren't going to make him pay the way he deserves to for murdering this precious angel.  
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377493 tn?1356502149
He should have been charged with murder for that is what this is.  How on earth do you get neglect out of this?  That poor sweet little boy.  I just don't understand the hate and anger in this world sometimes.  4 years old. How unbelievably tragic.  Why do some people even bother to have children.  
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That is frustrating!  And you're right, this guy will walk.  Meanwhile, mom is in jail (I wonder what for) and so there's no semblance of a normal family life for the remaining children.
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1461073 tn?1308677548
When I read this last night it made me SO ANGRY.  I can not believe that man was only charged with NEGLECT.  What is wrong with our court system?  I don't care if he did, or did not mean to kill that child, he still beat that 4 year old boy to death, Period.  If he didn't mean to do it, at least charge him with Involuntary Manslaughter but not Neglect.  That poor little boy is dead because of this murdering monster, and his murderer will probably walk away with probation, if that and go home with the other 3 remaining children.   So Sad
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