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DOOL Discussion Group
I will post this and then go away. Need to get ready for church. Sorry to be a board hog, but if I do not grab this out of our online paper, it will be gone tomorrow. READ AND DISCUSS among yourselves (if you want to).
I will tell you right now that this just turns my stomach and makes me so very angry. I think they should give this guy something to almost paralyze him and beat him while he is helpless! Not a good thought, but I am just so angry about this!
I ALSO think that his lawyer is no better than he is! I will highlight some of the stupid remarks made by the laywer.
Baby killer gets life in prison
An Alamogordo man was sentenced to life plus 13 and one-half years in prison for intentionally and brutally killing his 5-week-old infant daughter.
Larry Pone, 28, who was convicted on multiple counts for the crime, including first degree child abuse, was sentenced by Judge James Waylon Counts to six consecutive sentences to be run concurrently with a life sentence in prison for the intentional death of his daughter, who died from massive injuries at Thomas Trauma Center in El Paso, Texas on Nov. 13, 2006. Merissa Kishbaugh was only 5 weeks old.
Family members filled the courtroom, along with detectives from the Alamogordo Department of Public Safety who worked the case. An emotionless Pone sat staring at a piece of paper during the duration of the proceeding with no outward sign of remorse for his crime.
Grace Gutierrez read a letter to Counts that has been penned by the child's grandmother, Kala Kishbaugh.
''Larry intentionally beat his 5-week-old daughter,'' Kishbaugh wrote. ''There were so many fractures to her skull that they could not all be counted. There used to be hope for him, but he went bad. He made this choice. And he has no remorse or regret for what he did. I sincerely feel he deserves the death penalty.''
As Edward Kishbaugh, Merissa's grandfather, read a message to Counts, several family members began to weep.
''I was put on this earth to protect my grandchildren,'' he said. ''But I failed. and now my granddaughter is gone because of a cold-blooded murder. He (Pone) took a piece out of the lives of every one of my family members.''
''This is a case in which not only was such a heinous crime committed, but this man did nothing to help his daughter after beating her,'' said Janice Schryer, representing the state. ''He didn't even tell her mother what had happened. He maintained his composure, even after his daughter was airlifted to Thomason (Hospital) even after she was taken off life support. ''
Schryer told the court that Pone's story has progressed from where his daughter has simply slipped in the bathtub to throwing her across the room -- where she missed the couch to running through a doorway and intentionally striking his daughter's head on the door frame.
''It is doubtful she would have survived if he had sought immediate help, but it may have painted a different story had he done so.'' she said.
Schryer said the autopsy of the infant revealed retinal hemorrhages in both eyes, a depressed skull fracture, and blunt force trauma.
''She also had healing fractures and new fractures to her ribs, and prior bleeding to her brain,'' she said.
Schryer told Counts that Pone had shown no remorse, and never shed a tear until DPS detectives later drove him to the graveyard where his daughter was buried.
''He then began a campaign writing letters to his other two daughters,'' Schryer said. ''But his daughters cannot even read. The letters were talking about forgiveness and were obviously intended to be seen by others.''
Schryer presented before and after photos of the infant to Counts.
Pone's attorney, Mario Torres, began his statement by telling the court he was amazed at words he was hearing like ''hate.''
''As parents, we have to have tolerance and patience,'' he said. ''There was simply a lot of frustration in the giving of a bath to this child. We were all born with a great many faults. None of us can tell what caused things to happen that day, but I think it was just frustration, and then not knowing what to do after the fact. Everyone hides their agony and grief in different ways. This ended up badly for everyone, but it was all caused by frustration and the inability to deal with a traumatic situation that's all.''
Pone then read a brief statement to Counts, begging for the court's understanding and mercy.
''I'm sorry this happened, and if you show some understanding, I would like to go to college and make something of my life.''
''I've heard 'I am sorry for what happened,' '' Schryer said in her closing statement. ''But I have not heard 'I am sorry for what I did.' This is not a case of any accident. It was deliberate.''
Counts spent nearly five minutes reading letters Pone had written to his other daughters, and then spoke.
''I'm sure there are a lot of things I don't know about what all happened the day this child died,'' he said. ''But what I do know is that a child is dead, and that this defendant is going to spend the remainder of his life in prison.''
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Sorry Denim but I couldn't handle reading the whole thing. I get the jist of it. It makes me so sick. I would love to see some huge guy in prison treat him like a rag doll.
However, knowing the Ultimate Judge will take care it helps.
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I don't even have words to describe how I feel!
First of all, where was the mother in all of this? Obviously, he is a piece of trash and was before he murdered that baby, so why was he in charge of bathing? (IF that really happened) Something tells me, that by bathing the infant...made him look like he had a shred of humanity. However, that could never be proven that a bath was even involved. I think the lawyer drummed up that little tidbit, since he used the excuse of 'frustration'.
My guess is that the baby was crying and this piece of filth permanently hushed her up by throwing her around the room.
I suppose, he ended her life early--maybe because of her death, she won't have to put up with years of abuse he obviously is capable of.
Castrate this man....make him unable to have any more children at the very least.
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