Florida man charged with murder after baby thrown from car

[nonconformist]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/05/florida.child.thrown/index.html?iref=topnews

(CNN) -- A Florida man has been charged with first-degree murder after authorities say he threw a 3-month-old boy out of a moving car on a Tampa interstate.

Richard Anthony McTear Jr., 21, was arrested Tuesday, hours after a confrontation at his former girlfriend's apartment in which he snatched the child, the Hillsborough County sheriff's office said.

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When asked by reporters if he had thrown the child out of the car window, McTear answered, "It's a dirty game. A dirty game."

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Police had been called to his former girlfriend's apartment about 3:15 a.m. The mother, Jasmine Bedwell, 18, told investigators that McTear had hit her several times and threatened "to kill the both of y'all," the sheriff's department said in a statement announcing the charges.

McTear threw a car seat containing the child across the room during the fight, causing the boy to fall onto the apartment's concrete floor, investigators said. He then picked up the boy and drove off in his blue Chevrolet Impala, throwing the child out while on the interstate, the sheriff's department said.

The child's body was found around 4:30 a.m.


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[noiretextatique]

1. i say he deserves the same fate

toss his sorry ass out of a speeding car onto the freeway.
poor baby :cry:

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Works for me.

x(

[KittyWampus]

5. toss him out over the Atlantic. If he can swim back to shore he lives....

[Golden Raisin]

14. Makes sure there are visible

shark fins in the water before tossing.

[LeftinOH]

2. There's special place in hell for him - here's hoping he gets there soon..n/t

[Sebass1271]

4. that's what happens when you have kids at a young age

obviously there is something wrong in this country when teenagers are having babies at a very high rate.. these are still kids having kids!!..

[get the red out]

6. I was thinking that

But I wasn't brave enough to post it. Very young parents with zero parenting skills and no emotional maturity is a factor that always seems to be dodged when this kind of thing happens. Cases like this are pretty frequent in the area I live in, though usually not dramatic enough to draw national attention by someone throwing a baby out onto the freeway. Most often is just another baby beaten to death by a parent that was not ready for the responsibility and lost it one day. The local evening news seems to always have one of these cases that either just occurred or is currently being tried in court.

[Blue Diadem]

7. It wasn't his child and he's 21. And, that's not always the case with young parents.

What do you say about all the older couples where the father/mother is killing each other and their children?

[scheming daemons]

8. Oh bullshit... 21 is plenty old enough to know right from wrong... this guy is a monster

Don't blame it on his age.

He's old enough to drink, vote, and die for his country. He's old enough to know what murder is.

[Blue Diadem]

12. Thank you.

You said it better than I could.

[dorkulon]

15. For nearly all of human history it's been 'kids having kids'

The idea people should wait until they are in their late twenties/thirties is a very recent one historically speaking.

This guy is a shithead. Plenty of teens have babies and don't kill them, for God's sake.

[WI_DEM]

21. I'm sorry but there excuse for what he did.

I don't care how old he is (and there are lots of responsible parents at 21--my parents were).

[closeupready]

9. I'm glad Florida has the death penalty.

Because he'll probably get it. Not wishing that on him, and I am opposed to capital punishment, but if he had to be charged for something like this, he deserves it.

[bighart]

11. What an intellectually dishonest post.

You can't be glad the state has the death penalty and opposed to capitol punishment at the same time.

[closeupready]

17. I can if the scumbag threw a 3-year-old boy onto a busy highway like a piece of garbage.

Or maybe you think I can't, but I am.

[bighart]

18. So you are opposed to capitol punishment under most circumstances

but do make exceptions, so you are MOSTLY opposed to capitol punishment.

[closeupready]

23. I don't know.

Whatever makes you happy.

[closeupready]

10. Just wanted to add: fucking scumbag.

:mad:

[Amonester]

13. in which g-d video game did this evil monster "learn" to do that?

:cry:

[dorkulon]

16. Video games? Really?

Yeah, that must be why it happened. :think:

[noiretextatique]

19. it sounds like revenge

he was angry at the mother and killed her 3 month old son.

[newportdadde]

20. Ow please, I'm in my early 30s and play games, none of my four children have been thrown from a car.

When are we going to give up this video games create violent crazy murderers meme?

This guy is a piece of garbage plain and simple.

If we want to stereotype then why again does this shit always seem to happen in Florida, Texas or Austria?

[riverdeep]

22. I thought the story was going to be a baby was accidentally thrown.

As in, he may have stopped too hard and the baby went flying. I couldn't imagine someone purposefully throwing one.

[BreweryYardRat]

24. Sadly, that's not even the most depressing/horrifying dead baby story we've had IN THE LAST WEEK!

An utter scumbag sexually abused and beat his girlfriend's baby from a previous relationship. The kid died. It's also suspected he may have killed another baby last year.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/article997073.ece
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30528851/wid/11915829/