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PROUD PARENTS: IN THE NEWS
This is probably the saddest Proud Parents: In The News feature we’ve ever done. Pictured above is Staci Lynn Barbosa and Jonathan Edward Vandergriff, accused of first degree murder in the death of their one month old son. The child was brought to the hospital with his eyes swollen shut, several broken ribs, a broken femur, was malnourished, dehydrated, and showed signs of sexual abuse and shaken baby syndrome. The most recent story we can find on this says the the couple wasn’t facing the death penalty, does anyone know more? Regardless, check out the full news story after the jump.
Source: PhoenixNewTimes
A Bullhead City couple was arrested yesterday after their 1-month-old baby died as a result of what police are calling a “brutal sexual assault.”
Bullhead City police spokeswoman Emily Montague tells New Times police believe the baby was “raped” by his parents, 19-year-old Staci Lynn Barbosa and 23-year-old Jonathan Edward Vandergriff.
Montague — for good reason — wouldn’t go into detail about the sexual attack but says authorities believe both Barbosa and Vandergriff were involved in raping their one-month-old son.
According to police, at 11:20 a.m. yesterday, police were called to Western Arizona Regional Medical Center’s Emergency Room where a baby was “fighting for his life.”
Police say they saw bruises and sores all over the baby’s body and his eyes were red and swollen shut.
Doctors then told police the baby had several broken ribs, a broken femur, was malnourished, dehydrated, and showed signs of sexual abuse and shaken baby syndrome.
The baby was airlifted to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas — the closest hospital with a trauma center, according to Montague — and Barbosa, who brought the one-month-old to the hospital, was immediately taken into custody.
Doctors were not able to save the baby and he died early this morning.
Vandergriff turned himself into authorities yesterday and police served a search warrant at the house where the couple had been living, which turned up marijuana and other items of “evidentiary value.”
Vandergriff and Barbosa were arrested for molestation of a child, child abuse, aggravated assault, and sexual conduct with a minor.
Police say more charges are on the horizon for the two, including murder. Both parents were booked into the Mohave County Jail in Kingman where Vandergriff is being held on a $500,000 bond and Barbosa’s bail was set at $250,000.
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This is awful. I vote the death penalty for the both of them so they can rot in hell.
Scum of the Earth.
I’m almost at a loss for words. I can only hope that there is in fact a place called hell, and if there is, it may even be too good for them. I can barely even think of them as human.
Cant wait for the “boys” to get a hold of his PUNK ass…he’ll know the pain he caused!
I have no words…
Utterly vile creature’s who are not fit to walk amongst us as free people.
That is absolutely disgusting… poor little baby.
I cried after reading this story. How anyone can do that to a child, I’ll never know. And quite frankly, I don’t ever want to know.
WTF. What is wrong with people these days? These people are sick. They need done to them what they did to that little baby. I hate people like this. Lately there are to many stories about parents doing these kind of things to there kids. If you dont want them give them to someone that does. There should be a test that you have to take before you can become a parent. If you fail, your reproductive organs are taken away from you.
holy sh*t!!!!! nasty pieces of dung. I agree with BigbadO. johnnie boy is going to somebody’s bitch once they get ahold of why he is in the big house.
Stad Lynn Barbosa should of had an abortion. The baby would be dead and the parents out of jail. Kill your baby before he or she in born, not after.
They should bring back the stocks and public punishment these animals should be beatin to death just like that poor baby was. Make the punish fit the crime and it will stop a lot of the crime.
@BigBadO, I completely agree, he needs to get the meanest and most sadistic ass-raper in his prison for a cellmate!
ANYONE who would do that to a baby is BETTER OFF DEAD!!
All I can say is the same should happen to them repeatedly in HELL!!!
The death penalty is too good for them… They need to spend the rest of their lives being raped and beaten, over and over again!
everyones talking about the guy ya hes sick but the mother shes beyond words she should have here ass beat a mother is to protect theyre child at and cost and she failed to do so she should be sterilize him too f*cking nasty pos i just think god should never have blessed them with that gift that WAS theyre son rip baby
these kind of people are the reason im going to school to be a social worker. We need more people to protect our children.
I’m with doesntsufferfools on this one. I feel so awful for the baby.
I want to see life sentences on them both just for the fact death would be to easy of a punishment
From what I was reading after I read this, the parents (and I use this term loosely) of the baby will not be facing the death penalty. Apparently, the Deputy Mohave County Attorney Greg McPhillips was quoted as saying, “he took the death penalty off the table because of the struggling financial situation facing the county and the state. It is too costly for the county to have two death penalty cases at the same time.” The County Attorney is already trying a death penalty case of a 52 year old man who murdered an 18 year woman and attacked her mother.
They deserve the death penalty, but I do agree that in this case it is to good for them. Send them to me, I was raised in the back hills of Michigan and I moved down to the south, I know a lot of people that would love to handle there punishments. And it wouldn’t cost the state anymore than the airfare or bus fare to send them to me and my friends.
Wow…words can hardly describe how I’m feeling about this story. Those bastards are sick beyond belief, and the fact that they aren’t given the death penalty makes me wonder WTF is wrong with our damn court systems. They beat the baby (only one month old!), raped it, and did God knows what else with it, and they’re being held on bonds.
Also, why is the guy’s bond more expensive than the girl’s? She was just as involved as he was. And they’re 19 and 23? They’re not mature enough to handle a baby; not if they’ve got drugs and other things like that in the house, which the police found. Why did they do this to the baby? My guess is the poor thing was crying and they wanted him to be quiet, so they silenced him the only way they could figure out…by killing him. After beating and raping him, that is.
People like this shouldn’t breathe the same air as us. They’re a waste of oxygen, and what do you want to bet their income was from the tax payers’ money? And what do you also want to bet that they didn’t use any of it for the baby? White trash scum that should be strangled and killed by having the same fate as their innocent child.
Sick, maybe…but that is how people get away with this type behavior.
Abortion…why not give up for adoption as many in the USA want to adopt.
Educatation…The National Exchange Club ( http://www.nationalexchangeclub.org ) has clubs all across the USA and our national project is the Prevention of Child Abuse.
Funding…more people give money to the prevention of cruelty and abuse of animals than to prevention and neglect of children programs. WHY?
It should not hurt to be a child.
They won’t need the death penalty. Their fellow inmates will kill them. But not before raping and beating them.
They’re screwed. Prisoners have no mercy for people that are convicted of crimes against kids.
I can’t believe sick people like this just walk around freely before being caught. What a world we live in.
http://pysih.com/2011/04/26/update-jonathan-edward-vandergriff-and-staci-lynn-barbosa/
Came across this update regarding the parents and it gives a much more detailed (AND SICK) account of what happened to this poor child. I cannot believe such demons are considered human. I sincerely hope that what happened to this child happens to his parents.
This is why I still believe in “eye for an eye”
I hope ith all my heart that they get what they deserve. Rape is a terrible, horrible thing, no matter what age or gender… but an infant… and you people think there is a GOD??
Sick %^#@s
It’s one thing to harm somebody who might be able to defend themselves, that is horrific enough. But to cause such harm a child who’s sole existence relies on your protection – that is beyond evil.
I can only wish they will be put away and never see the light of day again – they deserve no leniency.
i worked as a corrections officer 6 years, It doesnt matter what fresh meat does when it comes in nothing happens like that anymore, there is a whole new breed of inmate in prison..yeah they will turn another inmate out but its not done forcably. they pretty much talk them into it.i dont really think inmates would actually do anything like that starting in the mid 80′s. the inmates y’all are talking about are 70′s and earlier inmates…
bury them in the yard and cut their heads off with a weed whacker
OMG… I actually agree with Jami on this one!
My fiance works as a guard in a prison and let me assure you, the other inmates WILL beat the living hell out of them and probably either kill them or make them kill themselves. It doesn’t matter if they tell the others what they’re in for or not because the guards will wait until they are getting ready to open the pods and walk through and loudly make sure everyone knows what cell they are in and what they are there for. Guards make sure justice is served when the courts have turned a blind eye to it.
@ In disbelief : Trust me when I say that I have read the Bible cover to cover and it ensures that these two will receive a fate worse than death. In fact if you want verbatim it says ” It is better that they tie a millstone around their necks and drown” Which means that their punishment from God will be much much worse. If I had to imagine, I would say think of the most horrible pain that anyone can deliver and times it by eleventy billion.
My God, demons do walk among us. I’m not and have not been religious or prayed for over 10 years, but this story brought me to my knees to pray. I didn’t ask that the same fate be brought onto these ‘parents’ , or that they even get the death penalty, but that they have a moment of clarity, a moment where they think like us, or ‘normally’. Recognize the levity of their actions, feel actual empathy towards their sweet baby that they killed. I can only hope their minds are plagued with the reoccurring nightmare they played out that day. To look at the mother with her Mona Lisa smile and the father looking like a drunken/drugged ‘I don’t give a fuck’ sort. I only wish I had the opportunity to spit in their faces, and remind them why they are hated. I don’t know if death is even good enough for them. I only wish they had some sort of daily reminder…maybe a picture of their son Matthew’s remains permanantely posted in their cells. I just couldn’t be more disgusted or disappointed that walking flesh like this exists..I died a little today learning people like this exist. RIP Matthew, my prayers are with you.
im so angry after reading this… i want to beat the fkn crap out of these 2 over and over again… rest in peace poor baby x
i hope and pray that they will meet a horrible agonizing death…
do to them as they did to that poor child … the poor bubba is in a better place now, so sad that his short time in this world was so awful, i cried reading this, that poor baby didn’t deserve to be treated so horribly, why on earth would anyone want to treat someone so preciouse and innocent in such a way i’m am in total disbelief, they are not humans, this baby deserved so much more better, RIP little baby
poor baby they need to have the same thing done to them and then put a 9 mm to their head and blow their brains out
I hope they go to prison, not the death penalty…In prison, even the most vicious killers look down on and will punish child molesters! I hope they both get three fold for what they did to that precious little baby.
This made me cry
That poor helpless little miracle. I’m relieved that he is with God now, and doesn’t have to live a life that those people woud have given him. How unfair for him to be born to parents that didn’t see him as the gift that he was. I’m actually glad that they will not get the death penalty. That would be too easy. They will have to sit in a cell for the rest of their lives and replay the things they did to this baby every single day. They are not his parents, he has God and everyone who is praying for him and crying for him.
Into Paradise little one.
Don Wright: Funding…more people give money to the prevention of cruelty and abuse of animals than to prevention and neglect of children programs. WHY?
Animals shouldn’t be abused either, and I have the same opinion about animal abusers as child abusers – they’re scum and should have the same thing done to them that they do to the innocent animals/children.
Oh, and that article Michele posted states: Prosecutors will still seek the death penalty against Darrell Bryant Ketchner, 52, who is charged with the murder of 18-year-old Ariel Allison and the attack of her mother, Jennifer Allison on July 4, 2009, at their Kingman home.
But they won’t seek the death penalty for these two “because of the struggling financial situation facing the county and the state. It is too costly for the county to have two death penalty cases at the same time.”
WTF? That’s so ridiculous, and I’m not condoning the other guy, but I think it’s a much more serious and death-worthy offense for raping and beating/killing an infant than it is killing an 18-year-old and just attacking her mother. That’s what’s wrong with the court system in this country…they’re too lenient to the more serious crimes.
Scroll down past the article and read what the author wrote, about exactly what happened regarding the sexual assault. It makes me sick both physically and emotionally. And yet, like the guy says, they won’t give the baby justice because it’s too costly. Find the damn money somewhere then.
Kendall – I agree with most of what you say but I dont think murdering an 18-year-old is any less serious. I know people feel that way because we should be protecting our children, but both deaths are absolutely horrible.
How can it be too expensive? A couple of rounds of ammo cost under a BUCK.
There is a pecking order in prison.. being put to death is the easy way out.. let them go to prison and then let those do to them what they did to their baby!! They will want a fast trip to Hell after this!! You know whats sad, is this isnt as rare as you all may think.
I will gladly volunteer to put a 22 bullet in each of their brains!
I Could not stop crying when i read this at 5am this morning when my one month old woke up for a feeding….i am still sick to my stomach.
Hell, the death penalty, all of that is WAY TOO good for these two evil pieces of shit….if i had nothing, living on the street, no friends or family kids NOTHING to live for, id make my way to where these two are and i would gladly become a fellow inmate just to do what they did to their child….if he/she was malnourished and dehydrated at one month!!!! let alone the broken bones and everything else, then these pieces of shit did NOTHING whatsoever to care for that poor child…..they said they found pot in the house along with other “valuable” evidence, pot did not cause them to do this, whatever the “valuable” evidence was most likely had something to do with why these people are how they are…. and why did not a single person report these people? im pretty sure some one could hear this child screaming/crying for hours at a time.
R.I.P Little one, may you finally be at peace.
these people should not be on bond. they should go straight to the front of the line for the death penalty
Either put each of them in permanent solitary confinement, or put them with the meanest and most sadistic cellmate they can find in their prisons!
These people should be tortured 10 times worse then the torture they inflicted on that poor baby boy.
I don’t believe in the death penalty, for various reasons. In general, I do not feel that killing people out of vengeance is moral or rational. Someone kills another, and we respond by killing? Not a lot of sense there. Plus there is the issue about appeals and such – it is pretty damn expensive.
Oh, and there’s another thing – execution is done as painlessly as possible. The person is injected with a drug to render them unconscious, a drug for pain, and a drug to slow down breathing. The person eventually stops breathing and dies within 10 minutes. There have been cases where it has taken 30 minutes or so to bring a person to death, and there has been some debate as to whether or not the person being executed experiences pain in some circumstances but cannot express it because they are essentially paralyzed. The drugs are not administered by medical professionals, as they find it unethical, and there have been errors. In general, though, the people go quickly and more or less peacefully. (Apparently this is OK to do to felons but not people in inexplicable pain from incurable diseases that will eventually kill them anyway – but I digress.)
Minus a few weeks of knowing death is nigh, the person to be executed doesn’t suffer all that much. Considering what these people did, I don’t think their families would ever speak to them again, and I doubt they’d last long in prison. The death penalty would not be much of a punishment, if you ask me.
However, being completely stripped of freedom, receiving substandard medical care when they will inevitably be beaten (assuming they live, of course), being crammed in an overcrowded cell, getting very little sunlight per day, possibly doing sweatshop labor (there are prisons that have factories) – that would be punishment. And hopefully they don’t get parole.
But if they do get parole and manage to get out, they’re screwed. They will always be known as the people who raped and murdered their newborn child. They will have no friends and their families will shun them. They’ll be forced to live in a ghetto, because they won’t be able to obtain employment from a company who would pay them a living wage – and even if they could, only a slumlord would be willing to rent to them. They’ll probably end up on benefits, which is no picnic. Medicaid health care is minimal, and food stamps are not enough to get by. They may very well end up homeless. If they aren’t murdered and do not commit suicide, they’ll likely die young from illness. Just as it should be.
This, my dears, is punishment.
I often feel sadness for a mother whom kills her infant due to postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis. These women are suffering, and once they inevitably receive medication for their condition, they will be in psychological hell for the rest of their lives.
These people, though, are sick. There is no excuse for raping a newborn to death. I have worked with a lot of people with some severe psychiatric shit, and not one would cross that line. There are things that, no matter how crazy you are, you simply do not do. Or even cross your mind.
There is no God.
I think that we should bring back the days of the lions and public punishment for people that hurt children like this. I have had 4 miscarriages and a still birth. It absolutely kills me when I see that people can have healthy children and not want them so they hurt them. Sterilize stupid people!
This absolutely, utterly repulses me. I am a parent myself, and let me say – I want to personally beat these people!!!! No child should EVER get hurt, much less sexually assulted at one month. Those people are clearly messed in the head!
OMG. Stories like this break my heart into a million pieces. This poor, innocent, defenseless little child’s short life was filled with extreme torture and pain by the people who were supposed to protect him. If a case like this doesn’t deserve the death penalty I don’t know what does. I personally think they should be tortured just like they tortured this poor baby and then lit on fire and hopefully rot in hell.
I never used to believe in the death penalty, and then I had a daughter. If something like this ever happened to her I would feel that the only solution would be the death penalty, there is no rehabilitating people like this, and I certainly don’t want my tax dollars paying for them to hang out, watch tv, have 3 hot meals in prison for the rest of their miserable lives.
I’m sure if the state asked for donations there would be enough money to try these people 10 times over. I’d for sure donate.
How could somebody be so disgusting and cruel to such an innocent, helpless baby. It makes me want to vomit. I am a mother and I would kill anyone who even considered hurting my child…I couldn’t imagine what would posess someone to do that. I hope they die horrible deaths.
I hate people that do these things to children. Children don’t deserve to be abused in any way. The baby deserved life not to have life taken away from him by these two abominations of parents. BURN IN HELL YOU DISGUSTING PIECES OF WHITE TRASH SHIT.
WTF?! I cannot even process this right now. I’m crying and I think I may be sick. I really may go to where these people are, hire a couple big burly dudes, and let them go through what they did to their son. THEIR SON for god sake!! And no, they won’t live either. I can’t come to this site anymore, I’m going to go be sick now.
Some states, not many, but some still have the electric chair. Now there is execution done right.
This is disgusting..people like this should not be allowed to have children.
People like this make me sick. I hope to god they cross my path one day so i know for sure they will be killed
Shame they are not in Texas. After they have a bit of payback from other fellow prisoners, we fry ‘em like Fritos. Not enough punishment but God will provide the rest.
First, I have to say I cried while reading this story, and after I was done crying I picked up my daughter and just expessed to her how much I love her, because that is what a real mother does. She loves her child.
Second,a person on her named Kendall posted that they were not fit to be parents because they are 19 and 23. I just want you to know that is not true, and it is bullshit that you would even think their age had anything to do with it. I am 19 years old, and I had my daughter at 18. I am a DAMN good mother. My daughter is 6 months old in the 95th percential for height and weight, never been sick a day in her life, never gone hungry, never been harmed, never gone without, and has hit every developmental milestone early. She was crawling at 5 months old, and is already supporting her weight on her legs. In the next 3 months she will be walking. So you are wrong for thinking their age was the problem.
Their problem was that they are two sick individuals, who desevere to sit in prison for the rest of their lives, so that people will learn of the despicable crime they commited, and make them pay for it. I would be so overjoyed if they did not receive the death penalty, because that would just shorten their sufforing. If they received life they will both have to sit their and think of the discusting things they did, as well as have everyone around them know what they did,and my brother did time, so I know from what he told me that people who harm children do their share of sufforing in prison.
I’d love 5 minutes with each of these fuckers…
Sitting in prison won’t do much.. Kill them.
I hope the inmates have a good time with them both.
I live in the town where this happened. If the circumstances of this baby’s death are not horrific enough, local media has found that Jonathan has previously abused his other children but was never prosecuted. The other children were removed from his care, I personally know one of his daughters and at 4 years old, she is mentally unstable, trying to abuse adults by stabing them with any sharp object or attempting to sexually abuse other children. Sad sad sad
Before I read this article I actually thought I was desensitized to violence in all its various forms, I wouldn’t even batt an eye! I sincerely wept for poor baby Matthew, and after I was done I held both my children. Words cannot express my soul-deep horror!! this was truly the most horrendous thing I have EVER read in my life! the author of this article even went easy on the details…in earlier comments you will find links to a full description, that I seriously wish I had mind bleach for…..I hope those shit stains get whats comin to them!!
This is one of those things where, cruel and unusual punishment should be allowed…..
This is why I fully support the Death Penalty. Of what possible use are these two sub-humans to anyone? Either of them? Why should she have a lesser bond, or receive a lesser sentence? She may well have encouraged him, or committed manual or object rape.
As for adoption over abortion, have some of you ever tried to adopt? Been asked what religion you are? If you’re going to raise the child with “faith”? How many windows are in your house? And been told that your potential as an adoptive parent is low because you are an agnostic or an atheist…even if you have better core values and ethics than your religious neighbors? Then there is the outrageous cost, and the sickening racial profiling that states that a child must be raised with its own race…which is unmitigated BS. And the birth parents who arbitrarily decide they want their child back…and win their cases.
This poor little human would have been better off if its parents had been aborted, not to mention if its life had been terminated before it spent its single month outside the womb in unknowing agony. I am a liberal by nature on most things, but I’d gladly push the button or pull the switch on these two.
There are some cases where we should be able to say the perpetrators are no longer considered human. They should be placed in a category of “danger to man” just like a rabid dog or a predator which will not leave humanity alone. If I were to call in a bear that has been removed several times and now has killed a family pet it would be shot and the carcass studied, then burned.
Those who claim to be human and do something like this should be treated the same..a .9mm to the head and done with..burn the bodies.
Bring back the guillotine with a dull blade.
I can think of 2 ways to handle these so-called “people”:
1) have prison guards let them “escape” but only after releasing a statement of when & where they’ll be so we can be waiting for them; use your own imagination on what you’d like to do with them, but please make it slow & painful;
2) strap them down on tables; starting with genitals, drill 1 hole in them at a time with a power drill & 1-inch spade bit; fill hole with acid; cauterize hole with welding torch; repeat, repeat, repeat.
I’m so offended that they’re sharing my air. I’m stunned soul-deep that anyone could do something so filthy, foul & …ugh, there are no words. The very best couple I know can’t have kids but monsters like this are blessed? Omfg I am going to puke.
even if they don’t get the death penalty, the guy will definitely face it when he goes to prison. they love these kind of fuckers that mess with kids. and when they read what this fucking piece of shit did to the baby they’re going to have a field day with this fucking idiot. the same goes for the so-called mom. jesus fuck, how sick can these fucking people get???
These “parents” need to be put to death RIGHT AWAY. How in the WORLD could you do that to a sweet, innocent, tiny little baby!? WTF!? Or any one for that matter! WOW. I am in disbelief. Not much can make me physically ill, but reading the more detailed, which I suggest you don’t, make me want to literally throw up. I hope that in prison, they both get murdered, raped, and everything worse than Matthew went through. That kid did not deserve that. They should have adopted him out when he was born, rather than “taking care” of the so-called “Problem” that was Matthew. Why the **** would you do something like that to someone? A baby for Christ’s sake! Damn dippity damn.