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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharge: Man tied up girl, 4, then shot her with pellets
A Lynnwood man accused of repeatedly shooting his 4-year-old stepdaughter with an Airsoft pellet gun was charged Thursday with second-degree assault.
Documents filed in Snohomish County Superior Court say the pain inflicted on the girl was "the equivalent of that produced by torture."
The suspect, Stetson G. Tedder, 26, of Lynnwood was booked into the Snohomish County jail last week. He was released Saturday after posting $25,000 bail.
Court documents say Tedder bound the girl with zip ties and duct tape, then shot her at least three-dozen times with plastic pellets until her skin looked like chicken pox.
Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/komo/article/Charge-Man-tied-up-girl-4-then-shot-her-with-4242918.php
JI7
(89,276 posts)hopefully the grandmother who reported this will get custody of the girl.
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)SirRevolutionary
(579 posts)removed from his "guardianship" forever. Sick freak.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)SirRevolutionary
(579 posts)I still consider them my girls and I can't imagine anyone doing this to a child. Regardless, he should lose any contact with her for good after that. He doesn't belong anywhere near children.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)had a Dad.
I am jealous of your girls.
SirRevolutionary
(579 posts)I had and still have my step dad in my life and my biological father was never really around, so I learned DNA doesn't matter. We've all been a tight family for many years now and the girls are entering their teen years so the next big step begins lol Family is about who loves you and who sacrifices, that's what I try to teach the girls like my mom and step dad taught me.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)where that "other family" was at. I was 15, 12 and 10 years older than my younger sisters that Mom had with my SD. I wasn't even allowed in family pictures. Now Mom and s-father are gone and my sisters claim I am not their family. My blood father is a molesting pervert, so had very little contact over the years.
I hope your girls grow up to understand exactly how much your gift of being their Dad means. Every little girl deserves a Daddy that adores her. Have fun with the teens coming up! Wild ride for sure!
You are awesome!
I'm not horribly deformed or anything, so it wasn't that keeping me out of the photos.
SirRevolutionary
(579 posts)That's terrible to keep you out of family photos. If anything, I always default as the outsider because a step parent is the one who comes into the existing family and needs to do the work to fit in. At least on the bright side, you know what not to do when creating a solid family. Hopefully, family life is better for you now.
Much of my family is a bunch of pukes and they treat my smaller subset of the family like strangers too, but we're more than happy to celebrate holidays and enjoy life together even though there are not many of us. Makes Thanksgiving much better when you don't have to hear about "family values" while being called a commie by your own family lol
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)that family doesn't have to have a thing to do with blood, it is of the heart, and a much more peaceful and loving family grows.
Thanks for being sweet, SirR.
SirRevolutionary
(579 posts)and like the saying goes "home is where the heart is", family is there as well even if the DNA is scattered all around this big blue globe.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)It's people with that mentality that commit mass killings...people with no compassion...people with no empathy...people with no brains...people that can grow up to be Rethugs.
SirRevolutionary
(579 posts)Hopefully, they'll lock him for a good long time and he'll have no access to guns or kids. Society will be much better off.
Ian Iam
(386 posts)"If only the child had been armed..."
Bloody disgusting!
Berserker
(3,419 posts)Fucking statement.
Ian Iam
(386 posts)But this was merely my speculation as to what those fools would say. I've not actually seen or heard anybody make such a sttatement. I apologise for my insufficient clarity.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)FSogol
(45,529 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)Helpful tip: they are satirical, not literal.
Ian Iam
(386 posts)A disturbingly-significant percentage of them seems to believe that Jesus wants firearms in the hands of every man, woman, and child in America!
krispos42
(49,445 posts)And I lived in South Dakota and Minnesota as well as Connecticut.
Ian Iam
(386 posts)zazen
(2,978 posts)Why do I suspect that people arrested for dealing pot are denied bail while this child abuser/potential-if-not-actual pedophile is free to roam the streets?
Deep13
(39,154 posts)Plus the bond is probably secured by his house. That's just to guarantee he shows up for trial. Otherwise, he would get credit for time served while waiting trial.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Uncontrollable urge to shoot something.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)...although I sometimes have a desire to see how small my grouping can be at the target range. One ragged hole is ideal, but rarely happens.
This guy should not be allowed to drive a car or use hedge-clippers, let alone any kind of gun.
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Deep13
(39,154 posts)That's how I'd indict it, but the law is probably slightly different in that state. I'd argue that every time he pulled the trigger, it constituted a separate felonious assault.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)This was meant for the gun nuts.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)to be able to tie up & assault a 4 year old girl. Did he graduate from taking candy from babies, or does he do both?
mythology
(9,527 posts)some of those babies could be dangerous. Could he bring a weapon to defend himself?
Berserker
(3,419 posts)When he is found out by his fellow prisoners what he did they just may take care of things.
One can only hope.
Ohio Joe
(21,763 posts)Killed?
Pretty fucked up sense of justice you got there.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)even if they're in prison....people on the outside are "too nice"
Ohio Joe
(21,763 posts)Again... That is pretty fucked up. I'm all for justice being served but not like that.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)Her mom left and poor grandma had to take her for care. A big strong guy in jail might make the lunatic think twice about hurting a little kid like that.
I have a 2-yr old granddaughter that if I saw anybody shoot her with a pellet gun, I would have to be restrained in some way from doing I don't know what. But he would regret it....
Ohio Joe
(21,763 posts)Should we pay the kind inmate that exacts the punishment on him? Time off for good behavior perhaps?
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)I don't know. In the heat of anger who knows what somebody would do if they saw him doing this.
Were there, the first thing I'd to is see if the girl is okay, get some cold packs, hug her, and take her to the emergency room and when they find out what happened, I'm sure the law will come up with something...first concern is the kid, not punishment.
RZM
(8,556 posts)Because those are the kind of prisoners who go around beating and raping people. They are just as bad (and usually far worse) than this guy.
That's a seriously fucked-up thing to argue.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)beaten up 36 times, once for every pellet fired, would satisfy my sense of justice.
Ohio Joe
(21,763 posts)How severe can they get... Are broken bones ok? How much recoup time between beatings does he get? Since rape is not out the window for you, can he pay the price partially in rape and partially in beatings?
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)I said rape was not necessary for my sense of justice.... Let's make something clear right now...no matter what happens to him, he will never 'pay the price' for what he did to that little girl. This was neither a victimless crime nor a crime against property, for which one can indeed 'pay their debt to society'. The notion that he can somehow make restitution for the damage he has done to a 4-year-old child, who will carry the psychological scars throughout life, would be ludicrous if it weren't so tragically misguided.
RZM
(8,556 posts)Is there a specific reason that this person is not entitled to basic human rights?
Paulie
(8,462 posts)4 year old, zip ties, shooting pellet gun at her 36 times, from someone who is an adult in a position of trust in their lives? You think it was an accident?
The rest of the linked article. WTF.
RZM
(8,556 posts)He's a human just like you and me and he deserves to pay for his crimes. I just don't believe beatings and rape should be part of the price.
Paulie
(8,462 posts)Let it be thrown in jail, or a Sarlacc pit in the desert. But based on what it did I question the claim it's human.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)I stated a simple emotional reaction, which will pretty much reflect the reality of his life if he is convicted and sent to prison. As to his basic human rights...what human rights did he accord to the child he repeatedly tortured? I'm sorry if that does not square with your liberal sensibilities, but as someone who survived a physically abusive mother, who didn't grow up to abuse my own children I have zero tolerance for this type of behavior and even less sympathy.
mythology
(9,527 posts)It's one thing to hope he goes to jail, it's another to hope that he is beaten or rape or killed.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Incitatus
(5,317 posts)I recall years ago some local radio hosts had a discussion about a child torturer and murderer Donald Mcdougall. He was killed less than a week later in prison.
Fm Station Sued Over Slaying Of Child Killer
Real Radio's Shock Jocks Are Accused Of Broadcasting A Reward For The Death Of Donald Mcdougall In A 1996 Program.
October 2, 1998|By Debbie Salamone Wickham of The Sentinel Staff
An Orlando radio station is being sued over a 1996 broadcast in which callers talked of killing an imprisoned child murderer, who later wound up dead.
Donald McDougall's survivors blame his demise on The Russ and Bo Show, broadcast on Real Radio 104.1, WTKS-FM. The lawsuit, filed this week in federal court in Tampa, accuses the radio station of causing emotional distress and a wrongful death.
McDougall was notorious for the 1982 torture killing of 5-year-old Ursula Sunshine Assaid in Altamonte Springs. The blond-haired child was abused for several months and then dumped in a pond after her death. McDougall was serving time at Avon Park Correctional Institution in Polk County when fellow inmate Arba Earl Barr beat him to death with an iron horseshoe stake on Oct. 1, 1996.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1998-10-02/news/9810020075_1_donald-mcdougall-russ-rollins-broadcast
I heard the show and the news days later. I have a hard time condoning vigilante justice, but I haven't an iota of sympathy for the man.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Smilo
(1,944 posts)It was left to the grandmother to take the little one to hospital.
Poor little one - how do you get over something like that?
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)You don't. She's unprotected and knows it. The ramifications will stay with her the rest of her life.
Smilo
(1,944 posts)........... what is likely to happen is that she will "block" it until something happens - which it will - and then everything will crumble.
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)"On another occasion, the girl said, Tedder tied her up after her room was messy and made her pick up her room with her teeth, court documents say."
WTF is up with this creep?! He needs to be put away for a long long time, and that sorry excuse for a mother that left because she didn't want to hear her daughter cry needs to go with him! This is absolutely disgusting!
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)to the child, in trust for her. She will need help to recover from being subjected to such a bastard.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)2naSalit
(86,802 posts)an obvious waste of good air that could be put to better use by endangered species.
dkf
(37,305 posts)Anyone that can do this is missing something essential to being a decent person.
I have a little girl that age. I can't even imagine.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)This son of a bitch should not be out on bail. He should be in a holding cell having the shit kicked out of him by his fellows as he awaits trial.
This is sickening.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)"The girl told police that her mom left the house when Tedder was shooting at her with the gun because "she doesn't want to hear her cry," court documents say."
"Mothers" who put their men above their children earn a special kind of disgust from me.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)so as to satisfy her man, that's up to her. Putting your 4-year-old up as fodder to satisfy your man is not an option. I know of what I speak. Intimately.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)I am certainly not defending that disturbed excuse for a mother. I immediately thought that there could be another child or children in the home.
The mother obviously has severe issues to walk out and leave her child in that situation.
Thank the universe for the grandmother.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)This story just hit a nerve. Didn't mean to sound snappy to you and I apologize if it came off that way.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)siligut
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He was in the Air force.