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RipCityRobert
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 Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:17 am Post subject: Xbox fan pummelled toddler daughter to death after she knocked over his console |
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Killer: Tyrone Spellman 'snapped' after playing Xbox
A man obsessed with video games killed his 17-month-old daughter when she knocked over his Xbox console after a six-hour playing session.
Enraged Tyrone Spellman pummelled Alayiah Turman to death, cracking her skull several times, while her pregnant mother slept in another room.
American Spellman, 27, who had been playing the game "Ghost Recon" told detectives: "The only reason I snapped 'cause I thought she broke my brother's $600 Xbox and I don't have any money to pay him back."
And prosecutor James Berardinelli said the sickening attack was carried out "with a wickedness of disposition, a hardness of heart and extreme indifference" to the impact such a battering would have.
"That little baby's head cracked like a walnut," he added.
Xbox: Alayiah Turman was killed by Spellman after she knocked it down
But Spellman's defence lawyers told a court in Philadephia that he only confessed to protect the mother, Mia Turman, from becoming a suspect.
But jurors rejected this claim and yesterday convicted him of third-degree murder and child endangerment.
He now faces up to 47 years in prison.
Spellman, also known as Anwar Salahuddin, was arrested in September 2006 after an autopsy indicated that the toddler's skull had been shattered by blows to the head.
Throughout the trial, defense attorney Bobby Hoof maintained that his client was innocent and tried to cast suspicion on Miss Turman, who had a history of neglecting the child.
Spellman fled the house after the beating, and the mother, Miss Turman, had no reason to go in the bedroom where the baby was found, prosecutors said.
"He (Spellman) spent six to seven hours a day in there playing Xbox," Assistant District Attorney James Berardinelli said.
Spellman,of Philadelphia, confessed to police the next day, but defense lawyer Bobby Hoof noted that his statement came after 24 hours in custody.
An autopsy showed that Alayiah had suffered a broken arm about two weeks before she died - an injury that city social workers did not see on two visits to the house in late August, when they found the baby well.
The city took custody of the couple's second daughter, born after Alayiah's death.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:18 am Post subject: Re: Xbox fan pummelled toddler daughter to death after she knocked over his console |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:29 am Post subject: |
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 There are some pathetic people on this planet.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:30 am Post subject: |
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| Jesus. . .Chriiiist |
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This is why i dont watch the news... All you want to do is depress me! and its too nice of a day outside to be depressed!!!
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Wow~! What the (bleep)? I can't believe that. People in this world are so (bleep) up. They take it way too seriously and personally. This kid steals like $10 g's from his brother and buys all sorts of crap, then ends up killing one of his brothers because he has to sell his Xbox to repay the brother he stole from. Sad world we live in.
That kid's mom is unbelievable, I wouldn't even acknowledge him if I were her. He was abusive and killed one of his brothers; not on accident but premeditated. He also wanted to kill her. How can you love someone who WANTED YOU DEAD?! |
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This kind of thing really makes me rethink my anti-death penalty stance sometimes...
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| 24 wrote: | | This kind of thing really makes me rethink my anti-death penalty stance sometimes... |
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As if beating a baby to death isn't enraging enough, the sidehanded way in which the article tries to cast blame toward video games makes it that much worse.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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| So sad. |
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| Just sick sick people in this freaken world it seems of late....In prison there are a few things inmates do not like...That pediphiles and baby killers....he is going to be hating life and in a small way I am glad |
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He is only facing up to 47 years?  
The dude deserves the death sentence or life in prison. |
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Disgusting...
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| You know...in the middle east...they have some pretty interesting solutions to criminals. |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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| TACH wrote: | | 24 wrote: | | This kind of thing really makes me rethink my anti-death penalty stance sometimes... |
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As a "liberal" I have no problems with the death penalty, just how it is used and carried out. Not the suffering part, but the whole reasons why Illinois put a moratorium on it.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| kaoss128 wrote: | He is only facing up to 47 years?
The dude deserves the death sentence or life in prison. |
I"m sure he won't have very many friends on the inside.
So disgusting. |
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| Exick wrote: | | As if beating a baby to death isn't enraging enough, the sidehanded way in which the article tries to cast blame toward video games makes it that much worse. |
agreed. |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| 24 wrote: | | This kind of thing really makes me rethink my anti-death penalty stance sometimes... |
Death penalty is a mercy killing for that type of person. I'd advocate 100 years of continuous torture interspersed with extreme medical procedures to make sure that he lived long enough to to be tortured for a century.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Lameee...(bleep) psycho. |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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| DaMuleRules wrote: | | 24 wrote: | | This kind of thing really makes me rethink my anti-death penalty stance sometimes... |
Death penalty is a mercy killing for that type of person. I'd advocate 100 years of continuous torture interspersed with extreme medical procedures to make sure that he lived long enough to to be tortured for a century. |
WE should put him in a "live" video game where soldiers with real live ammo get to "Ghost Recon" him......
we can call it......the Running Man......... |
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KBryantisclutch
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| DaMuleRules wrote: | | 24 wrote: | | This kind of thing really makes me rethink my anti-death penalty stance sometimes... |
Death penalty is a mercy killing for that type of person. I'd advocate 100 years of continuous torture interspersed with extreme medical procedures to make sure that he lived long enough to to be tortured for a century. |
. . .man, that is a little too evil for me. I'd say torture him for a few weeks, months maybe. To him it will feel like 100 years believe me. 5 minutes of torture is hell. |
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| chazz wrote: | | ...he is going to be hating life and in a small way I am glad |
He won't be hating life for long once the inmates get wind of his crime. That dude is done. |
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| 24 wrote: | | This kind of thing really makes me rethink my anti-death penalty stance sometimes... |
I'm anti death penalty but only on the basis that I think life without the possibility of parole in the gen. pop. of a maximum security prison is far worse punishment than dying; that's just from my own twisted pov though. |
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