Sandra Renia Joseph Accused of Murdering Son, 11-Year-Old Samuel Utomeh, With Her Suzuki SUV

What could possess a mother to take the life of her child is beyond me. Well, Sandra Renia Joseph of Louisiana is accused of doing just that. She has been arrested and charged with the murder of her son, Samuel Utomeh, who was 11-years-old. This precious baby did not deserve what his mother did to him. This case will shock even the toughest cop who has to investigate this horrific crime. You might ask how this child was murdered. She used her SUV to do it and to make matters worst, this woman was a member of law enforcement. She was a cop.

The incident occurred Saturday morning. At around 9:15am on February 21, a call came into the Saint Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office. A woman said she was walking along a rural road when she noticed a silver Suzuki SUV with extensive front damage. She said the driver told her to contact the police because she had just run over her son.

When the authorities arrived at the scene, they say the driver said the same thing to them – that she had run over her son. They also allege she directed them to his body. The victim was found next to a barn near the road. Samuel Utomeh was 11-years-old. According to the police, there were multiple points of impact that caused severe blunt force trauma to the child. His mother, Sandra Renia Joseph, was charged with first-degree murder. The 49-year-old is being held without bond. Source: CNN

This is a tragedy of untold proportions. This woman deserves the death penalty. She needs to be rammed with a Mack truck instead of a SUV. I don’t care what demons she may have been confronting. I call on the people of her community, to call for her to be fired from her job or suspended without pay. She was a police officer from 1985 to 1990 and now works at the Louisiana Department of Social Services. Right, imagine her trying to help another kid who is the victim of abuse. Nobody, absolutely no-one deserves to die like this and perhaps, worst of all, at the hands of a parent. That is simply reprehensible.

Filed under: Louisiana, Murder with SUV, Police Officer, Samuel Utomeh, Sandra Renia Joseph, SUVs

La. Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Rebuttal to President Obama’s Homerun Speech was Choppy and Simply a Disgrace, First Auto Made in Germany, Not the USA

I must admit, when I first heard about Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, I felt that was a refreshing change and a new face. Well, he opened his mouth the rebut President Obama’s speech and he has removed all doubt. If this was the best the GOP could do, then they are in worst shape than I had realized. Bobby Jindal was a hot mess and his speech bordered on incoherent. I loved when he wrangled over the issue of Hurricane Katrina. He was like a deer caught between headlights. A MSNBC host muttered “Oh God” as Jindal walked out. Hah. He should have waited until after the speech to mutter those words. Watch him implode. Judge for yourself.

As for the issue of who invented the first automobile, President Obama incorrectly said the United States. I believe the honors go to Germany, home of Karl Friedrich Benz, who invented the first true, four-wheel, gasoline powered, internal combustion-engine in 1885 or maybe Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler, who accomplished the same feat. The United States of America, by way of Henry Ford, invented mass production of automobiles. So, while he wasn’t totally correct, he wasn’t totally wrong either.

According to Wikipedia, Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach founded Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (Daimler Motor Company, DMG) in Cannstatt in 1890 and under the brand name, Daimler, sold their first automobile in 1892, which was a horse-drawn stagecoach built by another manufacturer, that they retrofitted with an engine of their design.

Filed under: Bobby Jindal, GOP, Louisiana, President Barack H. Obama, Rebuttal Speech, Republican Party

Cynthia Lynch, 43, KKK Recruit Shot And Killed As She Left Initiation Ritual, Alleged Shooter Raymond ‘Chuck’ Foster

This is a sick story and only proves that the Ku Klux Klan is made up of a bunch of cruel losers. According to media reports, an Oklahoma woman invited to a rural Louisiana campsite for a Ku Klux Klan initiation ritual was shot and killed after she asked to be taken back to town. I guess she realized this was not what she wanted, but the Klan would have none of that.

Eight scumbags were arrested after authorities found the woman’s body hidden under some brush, on the side of a road several miles from the remote campsite where the initiation was planned. Investigators found weapons, several flags and six Klan robes at the campsite, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said in a news release.

Strain said the woman, whose identity was not released, was recruited over the Internet to participate in the ritual and then return to her home state to find other members for the white supremacist group.

But Strain said the group’s leader, Raymond “Chuck” Foster, 44, shot and killed the woman Sunday after a fight broke out when she tried to leave. Foster was charged with second-degree murder and is being held without bond.

Seven others, five men and two women from 20 to 30 years old, were charged with obstruction of justice and were held on $500,000 bond at the St. Tammany Parish jail. All eight of the suspects live in neighboring Washington Parish, but Bonnett said he couldn’t immediately identify their hometowns.

Strain said the woman arrived in the Slidell, La., area last week and was met by two people connected to the Klan group. She was taken over the weekend to the campsite near Sun, La., on the banks of the Pearl River. Sun is about 60 miles north of New Orleans.Authorities said the group’s members called themselves the “Dixie Brotherhood.””The IQ level of this group is not impressive, to be kind,” Strain said, adding, “I can’t imagine anyone feeling endangered or at risk by any one of these kooks.”

Mark Pitcavage, directive of investigative research for the Anti-Defamation League, said the Dixie Brotherhood appears to be a small, loosely organized group of people.

If you ask me, once a scumbag, always a scumbag. I hope these SOBs get locked away for a long time for what they did to this woman.

Filed under: Ku Klux Klan, Louisiana, Raymond 'Chuck' Foster

Jena Six Defendant Bryant Purvis Accused of Assault at Texas School

I guess this kid, who was one of the six in the Jena affair, has not learned anything from that incident. I would have been inclined to believe that since so many people protested for the injustice these boys suffered that a light would have at least gone off in the head of this young man and set him on a path to a better life. Instead, he is looking at incarceration because of this altercation.

News reports have said that Bryant R. Purvis, 19, was charged Wednesday with one count of assault causing bodily injury for fighting with a fellow student at his high school in Texas, his mother said. Purvis who now lives in the Dallas area, was being held in the Carrollton, Texas, jail without bail pending a bond hearing Thursday morning, a jail official said. The charge is a Class A misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of a $4,000 fine and a year in jail. Tina Jones, Purvis’ mother, said her son got into an altercation with another student at Hebron High School early Wednesday after being told the student had vandalized his car the night before.“I wish he could just get in a place where he could walk away from the situation,” Jones said of her son. “I understand he gets frustrated. But he needed to walk away from this situation, being that he’s already in a situation. It’s very frustrating and upsetting to have to go through so much.”Jones said what happened really wasn’t a fight. Purvis went up to the other student, “grabbed him by the collar and pushed his head on the table, talking to him,” she said.“Bryant was very upset because he had a (basketball) game Tuesday night and, when (he went out to his car after) the game, someone made both tires on the passenger side flat,” Jones said.“And (Wednesday) morning, someone told him who done it. That’s the reason the altercation happened. And a few days before that happened, he was driving my brother’s truck and someone stole the tires and busted the windows out of it,” she said.

Purvis is one six black Jena High School students initially charged with attempted murder in connection with a Dec. 4, 2006, assault on white student Justin Barker at the LaSalle Parish school. Soon after Purvis’ arrest, Jones said she sent him to live with his uncle, Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Jason Hatcher, so he could stay out of trouble and out of the limelight.

It has been said that anytime there is a physical altercation at the school, police are called and arrests are made. Jones said the principal has told her Purvis will be suspended for three days and will face 10 days of in-school suspension. After that, he will be back in school normally.As for the charge he faces in court, she said, she is confident the judicial system in Texas will treat her son fairly. “It’s just another struggle that we have to go through.“I’m very upset right now with this situation.

Purvis is scheduled to go to trial March 24 before LaSalle District Court Judge J.P. Mauffray Jr. in connection with the Jena High attack, though Hickman has said that is “not a realistic date.”Purvis faces one count each of aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit the same. If convicted of both, he faces a maximum sentence of 22.5 years in prison.

The bottomline is that this young man should not have found himself in this situation again and it shows that he has not changed his mindset or his behavior in light of the attention many championed for his cause. It has shown that he continues to make bad decisions quite cognizant of the ramifications. Going to the BET Hip Hop Awards is another story and worthy of debate because I believe that, given his circumstances, he should not have been allowed to attend by his mother. You be the judge…….

Filed under: Bryant Purvis, Jena, Jena Six, Louisiana