Whatcom County (WA) baby beaten to death

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I am so sicken by all these sad story about babies being beaten or killed.

http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_020605WABwhatcomchilddeathSW.81c5329a.html

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1. Any details?

It would be nice if a paragraph were posted for those of us who aren't registered at every dinky site on the web.

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2. Here is the detail!!! Sorry.

Whatcom County baby beaten to death

06:27 AM PST on Monday, February 7, 2005


By ERIC WILKINSON / KING 5 News and Wire Reports




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BELLINGHAM, Wash. - The pain is unbearable for Christina Kuoppala. Her little nephew, Zachary Commissaris, was apparently beaten to death, four months shy of his second birthday.

"I actually slept with his clothes last night so I could smell him … that's how much I loved him," she said.

The family said doctors told them Zachary was likely beaten, strangled, dragged on the ground, shaken and ultimately killed by a massive blow to the back of his head.



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Zachary Commissaris

"He had cuts from head to toe on his ears, eyes, nose. He had a cut on his hand that looked like he was protecting himself," said Kuoppala.

Police say a 29-year-old friend of the boy's family brought the boy, unconscious, to the emergency room of Bellingham's St. Joseph Hospital Friday afternoon. Doctors called police but the man disappeared before they arrived.

The man had been watching Zachary for four days because the boy's parents had been evicted from their home. Exactly what happened over the course of those four days is still unclear, but the results are brutally obvious.

"He barely had begun to live and somebody took his life away. It's not fair, it's you know, a monster," said Kuoppala.

In his death, little Zach helped save the life of another child by donating a vital organ.

Police are refusing to name the man who dropped Zach off at the hospital in Bellingham. They are calling him a "person of interest" and hope to talk to him soon.

Deputies served a search warrant at the man's home, and questioned several people, including his girlfriend, the boy's parents and other family members.

A second child belonging to the man and his girlfriend was placed with Child Protective Services.


The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[indie_voter]

3. Disgusting, poor poor baby. :( n/t

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4. Almost seems like some kind of campaign

cynical, I am

Sure does generate an atmosphere of babies being in danger - something a sudden push for anti-abortion legislation would find helpful. Fits right in with that w-christian, murdering evangelicals thing,

Yes, I see it in almost everything.

A bought media and a lying dictator wouldn't hesitate.

paranoid and cynical, i am

[Delphinus]

6. It is weird,

how all of a sudden we're being innundated with stories of horrible abuse. From a wide-range of places, too: Texas, Washington state, Florida, Indiana. And those are just the ones I remember.

[salin]

5. Horrific, tragic, and frighteningly

not rare enough. :-(

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7. Top story news here in Seattle

The news has shown pictures of this little angel today.

I remember my little one at 20 months old. Kids at that age are so sweet and just developing their personalities. Kids like that aren't bad or mischievous, they are curious and playful and loving. Never never, ever deserving of brutality.

I can't imagine being brutal or abusive to little ones like that. Mercy on that little angel, he's finding peace he never found on earth.

Now to the angry mom side. I understand the parents were evicted from their living quarters and had left this child with the man for about a week. I suspect there is more to this story. If I were homeless, I'd not want to leave my child with anyone. I would provide some form of stable, safe shelter at any cost.

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8. I agree with you!!!

I was raised in Orphange (Korea) and since I was mix race, I was not treated very well and abused badly. However, I turn out to be a good loving and caring person without permement damage.

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9. Perhaps more economic assistance to the poor

would have helped.

...The man had been watching Zachary for four days because the boy's parents had been evicted from their home...

Could be that he would have been safe with his parents.