Sometimes a facepalm doesn't quite do the trick. A man has been convicted on charges of beating his 17 month old daughter to death because she accidentally knocked his Xbox 360 over during a game. Tyrone Spellman is said to have cracked his baby's head open "like a walnut" for disrupting his game session.
Due to the fact that it was an act of anger and death wasn't intended, Spellman has been convicted of third degree murder and endangering the welfare of a child (I'd call cracking a skull open more than endangering). He faces up to 47 years of prison and, most likely, more than a few instances of knowing how his daughter felt when the other inmates find out what he did.
Prosecutors had used his obsession with videogames in the case against Spellman, and that could possibly have been a factor. Hopefully though, this doesn't get used to attack the games industry, because anyone who'd use this is a very low individual indeed. Let's just take this for what it is -- a very sick, scummy man who has to live with what he did for the rest of his life and a child that won't have a life to live. All because of an Xbox. Facepalm.
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10:51 AM on 01.30.2008
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His ass deserves to get raped by a giant man named Avacado
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May she rest in peace, away from that shitty father.
Welcome to OZ, bitch.
1. He's in prison. that's reason enough to assume he will
2. He's in for killing a baby, his own, on top of that. That's probably second on the ass rape scale, right under child molesters.
I bet Jack Thompson's boner is extra hard after hearing this
What a scumbag.
[i] BY BALLABOY311 AT 08:03 AM
I hope he gets eaten alive in prison. Stupid mother fucker. I once kicked my cat really hard for doing something similar. But thats a fucking cat. He killed a child over a fucking game. Burn in hell asshole. Sorry if that sounds harsh but I am a parent and this just sickens me.[/i]
Well, shit, glad we've decided that raging against animals is all ok now. Obviously a prime candidate for raising a child, just like Tyrone Spellman...
My youngest cat Loki plays with every cord he can get his hands on, but only because the little brat knows he gets attention and thereby I will play with him. All my cats crawl in and around my consoles. I've spent more money on them for vet visits in a year than the cost of a PS3. I can buy another freaking PS3 or 360.
Sorry, /end rant.
This is terrible news. I hope he sits in solitary for a long time, and then is "allowed" to come out every so often. That way, he will have absolutely no hope, which is living death (unless you are a vampire).
The way the justice system works you would get charged with the crime and await trial at a later date. Because of all the trials going on you can't just get one going right away, sucks but that's how it works. Unless he plead guilty and then had to await sentencing.
But this is just terrible, you have to be one angry person to strike and kill your child for knocking over your game system or anything for that matter. At least the kid is in a better place than with this asshole, just sucks the kid isn't alive anymore. He should prepare to hear this phrase a lot when he goes to the pen, "this here next part is gonna feel like someone parking a greyhound bus up yo ass."
I really can't fathom killing your own flesh and blood over a video game. Hell, the kid knocked over the 360. So? If it's broke, send it in for repairs or buy a new one. Don't take it out on your kid.
Now, when they are teenagers and sell off your sealed Symphony of the Night to buy tickets to a concert...well, that's a different story.
Beating your own daughter to death for something so fucking stupid, I hate to imgagine what would have happened had she did something SERIOUS....
O_o
You’re 100% right, Jim...some people are just unfit to have children.
How, in the name of God, can someone do something like that?
My 6 months girl recently tossed my DS Lite on the floor.
What I did? Wiped the tears, kissed her forehead and rescued the console.
It was my fault she had access to the console. Adults, parents the most, must be careful.
Monsters like this evil, horrid person, must be destroyed. I just fell very sorry for the monster's family.
Stupid idiot, rot in hell.
Hopefully he gets more years in the hell hole.
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