Re: Arizona Girl Beaten, Left Dead for Days in Apartment With Sister

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Talk about a horrendous story of abuse.
Arizona Girl Beaten, Left Dead for Days in Apartment With Sister
Tuesday , November 13, 2007

PHOENIX -

A 12-year-old girl was beaten with an electrical cord, and her
parents left
her dead body on the floor of her bedroom for days before they
called 911, according to court documents released Tuesday.

Police arrested the girl's father, 34-year-old Jeffrey Duchane Jr.,
and stepmother, 25-year-old Reiko Troupe, after officers were
called to the house on Saturday. Troupe was jailed on suspicion of
first-degree murder and
child abuse. Duchane was jailed on suspicion of child abuse.

Both were scheduled to appear in Maricopa County Superior Court on
Nov.
19.
The Associated Press asked the county Sheriff's Office to interview
Duchane
and Troupe, but those requests went unanswered Tuesday.

According to court documents, Troupe told police that she didn't
harm the girls and blamed Duchane for disciplining the children.

Police spokesman Sgt. Andy Hill said the case is "shocking to the
conscience, and offended all of us." Police were investigating
whether more
criminal charges should be filed against Duchane and Troupe.

Court documents say that Duchane went to work while his daughter
lay dead in
the bedroom. They said he didn't call authorities until the girl's
body started to smell.

The documents say Duchane first told police that he found his
daughter on the bedroom floor unconscious, but alive. He poured
water into his daughter's mouth, but she didn't respond. Duchane
added that Troupe told him
the girl slipped in the bathroom and bumped her head.

When officers asked why he did not get medical help for his
daughter, Duchane said he thought she would be OK.

Police also found the girl's 9-year-old sister in the apartment
when they arrived. Officers said the sister was "cowering in the
shower with several bruises, burns and a broken arm," according to
court documents.

The 9-year-old gave police a different account as to how her big
sister died.

She told police that she saw Troupe make her sister go into the
tub. She said Troupe poured hot water on her sister as punishment
for not cleaning her room.

The 9-year-old said she heard her sister scream and get out of the
tub. She
saw her step-mom whip her sister with an extension cord. Troupe then
pushed
the 12-year-old against the wall and punched her stepdaughter in
the face until she passed out.

Afterward, the 9-year-old said she put her hand on her sister's
heart and did not feel anything, according to court documents.

The girl also said Troupe previously beat her and her sister.



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311537,00.html


I'm not pro-abortion by any means but some of these stories coming
out lately make me think the kids would've been better off aborted
...at least they wouldn't know how they died. I'm a step-mom and I
wouldn't beat them anymore than I'd beat my own. Punish? absolutely.
Make them responsible for their own actions?Always. We just went
through the room cleaning thing....I told my daughter(11 y/o) she
had until Friday(on a Tuesday)to get her room picked up or I was
going in there with garbage bags. I totally went in there and
anything on the floor(clothes,toys,cds)got bagged up,and she has to
earn it back. What in the blue bloody hell is wrong with some people
that they would be so farkin violent to a kid over a missed chore...



Can't speak for this particular crime, but often times, when there is
abuse in the home, it doesn't matter what the kid did or didn't do.
You can do everything they say, all the time, and they will look for
some reason to beat you.


Very true and very insightful, tiny. I always say the way a kid is
disciplined depends ENTIRELY on the parents. It has nothing to do with the
kid. The same goes for abuse -- no kid deserves it, but those unlucky
enough to have terrible parents get it. These two "parents" should spend
the rest of their lives in prison. They won't, of course.

td


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