7-WEEK-OLD BABY DIES OF STARVATION; PARENTS ARRESTED

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

BY JEFF BARNARD

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon couple involved in online pornography has been arraigned on murder by abuse charges alleging they let their baby starve to death.

Authorities say 26-year-old Stephen Michael Williams Jr. and 21-year-old Amanda Marie Hancock were ordered held without bail when they appeared in court in Roseburg on Wednesday.

Deputy District Attorney Shannon Sullivan says Judge Stephen Tiktin authorized a court-appointed attorney, but the public defender's office has not named the attorney yet.

A district attorney's statement says the couple showed extreme indifference to human life by causing the death of 7-week-old Data Toria Hancock through neglect and maltreatment by failing to provide adequate food and medical care.

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This Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015 booking photo provided by the Douglas County Sheriff's Office shows Stephen Williams Jr., 26, of Glendale, Ore., and Amanda Hancock. Williams and Hancock were arrested Tuesday at their home in Glendale, Ore., on charges of murder by abuse after their seven-week-old baby boy, Data Hancock, was determined to have died of starvation. (AP Photo/Douglas County Sheriff's Office)

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[shenmue]

1. ...

[KamaAina]

2. WTF?

Couldn't they have worked some feedings into their day job? Breast milk porn is a thing, believe it or not. I once heard the title "Margie's Milky Breasts"!

[phylny]

12. It seems that's what she was doing.

"Self lactating" for online viewers instead of feeding her infant.

[ColesCountyDem]

3. Sigh...

[7962]

4. Good candidates for the death penalty right there. Or at least life in a shithole nt

[TBF]

5. They named their baby "data"? nt

[Dont call me Shirley]

6. Data Toria...

I am so sorry baby you were forced to suffer so tremendously in your short life. I sob for you.

[olddots]

7. chances are this was " methed up "

Sick . Sick .sick .sad..sad ...sad

[Arkansas Granny]

8. My first thought, as well.

[JI7]

13. Yes they have that look

[Nay]

14. They sure do -- that poor, poor baby.

[displacedtexan]

9. That asshole is smiling for the damned camera.

This is a sad, sad story.

Truly heavy sigh.

[heaven05]

10. the love of MANY

is growing cold..........

[Shrike47]

11. This is a tragedy and I don't mean to minimize it but his beard alone should be a crime.

I agree, probably meth. So sad for the poor baby.

[freshwest]

15. Not exactly the picture of grief, either of them. And I hate to say it, but the boy would have been

abused more by these soulless creatures the longer he lived.

RIP, little guy. Too bad no one was able to save him while he still had a chance to live somewhere else free of these two.

[hedgehog]

16. Those of you living in small, depressed towns -

(my town has lost several major employers in the past 20 years, and it seems all the smart kids get jobs elsewhere) -

does it seem to you as if there are more and more young people, say 16 - 30, who are living in an entirely different world of petty crime, drugs, general stupidity? We didn't have these problems when there were jobs to be had.