None of the women victims of the 'baby tosser' followed through with charges

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/article998389.ece

Tampa man charged with tossing ex-girlfriend's baby from car on I-275

TAMPA — If she had gone to court Monday, maybe the domestic violence charge she had filed would have stuck.

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McTear has been accused by the women in his life of stalking, dragging and beating them unconscious, of breaking into homes and threatening murder, at least once, of a child. None of those women, including the mother of the baby who died, followed through to secure injunctions against him.

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March 2006: He was supposed to be watching his 2-year-old son in a second-story Temple Terrace apartment when a neighbor found the boy wandering near a pond outside, a police report says.

The neighbor called police, who found McTear lying on the couch, stinking of alcohol. An officer had to shake him to wake him up.

The neglect charge: Dropped.

November 2007: Five days after Rekale Hill failed to appear in court for an injunction against McTear, he forced his way into her car, a police report says. He punched the mother of his child, choked her and brandished a knife. Their 3-year-old son witnessed it all.

She escaped, the police report says. He took off with the boy, but brought him back two hours later. The vehicle was found on fire.

Charges of domestic battery by strangulation, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and grand theft motor vehicle: Dropped.

He was convicted of misdemeanor trespassing.

February 2008: He knocked on the front door, my room window, then went around the back of the apartment. Then, he proceeded to check back doors. One of my back doors were opened, where he entered and began cursing at me, wrote Louvena Cromartie on a petition for a restraining order.

He grabbed me and beat me unconscious.

The restraining order: Denied because of incomplete paperwork.

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[EFerrari]

1. Doing what you suggest can be very dangerous, even lethal.

A woman has to have a lot of support and her safety has to be secured in order to do that.

[csziggy]

2. The OP just quotes from the linked article

Read the linked article for as much of the story as we're likely to get.

Both the man and the mother sound like pieces of work. But the baby did not deserve to be thrown on the interstate to die.

[EFerrari]

5. Oh, right! I didn't mean any disrespect to the OP. n/t

[Lyric]

3. Why does it matter?

Most of the stuff mentioned there involves the kind of crime that doesn't require any action from the women--the STATE should have prosecuted him. What kind of sense does it make to blame the women for the state choosing to drop charges and plea him down?

[DCKit]

8. It's FLORIDA fer Chrissakes.

Add yet another "WTF?" item to the list.

We've got to set up a contest between Florida, Texas and Alaska - prizes for the sheer number of "WTF?"s, and another for magnitude.

[Hekate]

4. In what other violent crime does prosecution get dropped for lack of the victim aggressively...

... insisting that the cops & DA do their jobs?

Hekate

[flvegan]

6. ...and not a single man stood up for them, either.

The legal system is at times, completely inept. Call me overprotective, but had I a sister/cousin/niece and this pile of shit came sniffing around, OR were I related to one of the previous victims...I don't do plea bargains, and I don't give a shit about "blinded by love" either. "He hit me but he's sorry" will never register with me.

It's not that a woman *needs* a man to stand up for her. It's that men just fucking should, regardless.

[bicentennial_baby]

7. ...

:applause:

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

9. Amen.

[sarge43]

10. Yes. n/t