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..... The idea of losing a child is the biggest fear of any parent which is probably why people who commit such hideous crimes are never forgiven by the law and the society. The idea of a mother killing the baby she kept inside for nine months is incomprehensible, but here we have a list of ten most evil mothers who Killed their kids brutally..... Lindsey Lowe is a 25 year old woman who is now behind bars because she killed her twins only a minute after each was born on September 12. The babies were given birth to in...

Lynn Giovanni was able to fatally bludgeon her 14-year-old daughter using a claw hammer and shovel while the girl slept only be cause she could not see her child's face. The 47-year-old Giovanni told her good friend Elise Bernardo that if her only child, Nicole Ashley Gio vanni, had been facing her, she could not have gone through with the killing. In the early morning hours of Feb. 6, 2005, Lynn Giovanni, depressed and paranoid, sought out Nicole in her bedroom and began pummeling her in the back of the head with the hammer. When her daughter still showed signs...

A mother and grandmother face homicide charges in the death of a 3-year-old boy who was dipped in scalding water as punishment on Christmas Day and suffered at home for a week until dying on New Year's Day, Broward Sheriff's investigators said Monday. Valerie Kennedy, 30, had lost custody of toddler Jaquez Mason and his seven siblings because of abuse. She was not supposed to have contact with them. Her mother, Annie Williams, who was raising five of the children, violated a court order when she allowed Kennedy to have Jaquez for a Christmas visit, investigators said. Within hours, Kennedy...

The Iowa Department of Human Services takes several steps to determine if a child is in danger. Decisions are based on criteria outlined by the law. This is how the Department of Human Services handles an abuse report:

The high profile murder cases involving the deaths of two little girls Jetseta Gage and Evelyn Miller, prompted Channel 13 to spend two months looking into their cases. Both had active files with the DHS at the time of their deaths. That investigation turned up information about how the Department of Human Services handled their cases, but we also found a federal report exposing some flaws in Iowa's system to prevent abuse. (Be sure to click on link in article for part 2 which includes video)

Report airs DHS issues in the tragic murder of five-year old Evelyn Miller and others under DHS care. Click on DHS Invesitgation to view video

Authorities spent more than one hour on Friday at Casey Frederiksen’s father’s Charles City home. An investigator with the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office spent about an hour on Friday assisting the U.S. Postal Inspector with “an ongoing investigation” at 807 B St. Dennis King, Frederiksen’s father, resides at the address. “It was nothing bad,” King said of the visit. Frederiksen, 26, was indicted last month on one count of possession of child pornography for allegedly having more than 1,000 images on a computer of children being sexually abused. Floyd County Attorney Marilyn Dettmer said the charge is separate but intertwined...

Who Killed Evelyn? Who Killed Evelyn? Her tiny body was found along a riverbank in Floyd county two months ago today. Now there are new details in the investigation into who killed five-year-old Evelyn Miller. Channel 13 has learned that a grand jury will convene Thursday in the investigation and one of the witnesses is a relative of Evelyn Miller.  A grand jury will convene to decide if there is enough evidence to make an indictment in the Evelyn Miller murder investigation. We don't know who the focus of the grand jury is. We only know that one of the witnesses is Jeremiah...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Evelyn Miller's uncle says he was questioned for more than two hours about a computer in the child's apartment before a federal grand jury in Cedar Rapids. The five-year-old girl disappeared from the apartment in Floyd on July first. Her body was found six days later in the Cedar River about two miles away. The child's death has been ruled a homicide, but details about how and when she was killed have not been released. Police have not announced any arrests. Jeremiah Christie of Waterloo told The Des Moines Register that he was called to testify...

Egads. I was aware that mainstream Feminists, such as the members of the National Organization for Women, NARAL, and Voters For Choice enjoyed defending filicide and abortion. Whether it's a baby being drowned, a la Andrea Yates, or Planned Parenthood dismembering prenatal innocents, Feminists are really into the whole killer mom motif. They like it, it thrills them. Thankfully, there are millions of good women like those at the extraordinary Concerned Women for America, whom I adore, who are better than that.  But the nihilistic Feminist crowd still obsessively plunges into degeneracy. Just recently, their deified icon, Gloria "I...

Egads. I was aware that mainstream Feminists, such as the members of the National Organization for Women, NARAL, and Voters For Choice enjoyed defending filicide and abortion. Whether it's a baby being drowned, a la Andrea Yates, or Planned Parenthood dismembering prenatal innocents, Feminists are really into the whole killer mom motif. They like it, it thrills them. Thankfully, there are millions of good women like those at the extraordinary Concerned Women for America, whom I adore, who are better than that.  But the nihilistic Feminist crowd still obsessively plunges into degeneracy. Just recently, their deified icon, Gloria "I...

KCRG-TV9 News News Video VIDEO (Cedar Rapids – KCRG) -- A grand jury met once again Thursday at the Federal Courthouse in Cedar Rapids. People questioned during the hearing said they were asked about Casey Frederiksen. Frederiksen is the fiancé of Noel Miller. Miller is the mother of five-year-old Floyd County murder victim Evelyn Miller. Evelyn's father Andy Christie testified before the grand jury along with his brother, Jeremiah Christie. "They just asked about Casey's drug use and his computer," Jeremiah Christie said. A different grand jury questioned Jeremiah about Frederiksen's computer last month. That grand jury indicted Frederiksen...

Miller's Fiancé Faces Child Porn Charge Indictment Stems From Images Allegedly On Frederiksen's PCPOSTED: 11:07 am CDT September 30, 2005UPDATED: 11:32 am CDT September 30, 2005DES MOINES, Iowa -- The fiancé of Noel Miller, the mother of a 5-year-old girl who was found in the Cedar River, was charged with one count of possession of child pornography.Evelyn Miller went missing July 1. Her body was found six days later.On or about about July, Casey Frederiksen possessed computer images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to court documents.Frederiksen was arrested by the U.S. Postal Inspection service Thursday night, according...

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051026/NEWS01/51026007/1001 Can't post article due to copyright, but apparently the grand jury is hearing more testimony tomorrow.

Governor Vilsack to Review Evelyn Miller Case File Tuesday, July 12, 2005, 6:39:22 PM (Cedar Rapids – KCRG) -- Investigators are looking for five year old Evelyn Miller's killer and there's new information that the Department of Human Services had contact with the girl's family before her July 1st disappearance. Her body was found on the banks of the Cedar River six days later. It was reported that DHS had more than a dozen complaints made about the safety of Evelyn's home life from other relatives, friends and even school officials. Now Governor Vilsack is stepping in to review the...

"They have Evelyn's blood on their hands. Also, besides whoever killed her because they didn't follow through. They didn't do a good job. They could have prevented this if they did their job," she said.

Five-year-old Evelyn Miller of rural Floyd was found dead in July. The grandfather of the northern Iowa girl who went missing this July and was found days later, murdered, is outraged by comments Governor Tom Vilsack made yesterday (Monday) about the case. This summer, Vilsack reviewed five-years-worth of files kept by Department of Human Services social workers who investigated complaints about the child's welfare. On Monday, Vilsack said the complaints came from family members who had "an ax to grind" and whose "credibility" was "a bit suspect." Richard Christie, Evelyn Miller's grandfather, contacted Radio Iowa to rebut Vilsack's comments. "I...

DES MOINES — Gov. Tom Vilsack said Monday he remains satisfied the Iowa Department of Human Services responded appropriately to complaints that 5-year-old Evelyn Miller had faced abuse or neglect before she was kidnapped and slain. The Floyd County child disappeared from her home July 1 and was found dead in the Cedar River five days later, the victim of what authorities say is homicide. No one has been charged in her death and abduction. But since her death, Casey Frederiksen, the live-in boyfriend of the girl’s mother, has been charged with possessing more than 1,000 images of child pornography....

CHARLES CITY — Floyd County Attorney Marilyn Dettmer this week rejected a request for the July 1 911 recording of Noel Miller reporting her daughter missing. In declining the request, made by The Globe Gazette and Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Dettmer cited Iowa code, stating it was part of the murder investigation. “The 911 tape in question became part of the Evelyn Miller murder investigation,” Dettmer wrote in responding to the request, “and all of that is being kept confidential, as you well know. “I believe that disclosure of any part of that investigation would plainly and seriously jeopardize the investigation...

Evelyn's father, stepmother suspected she was a victim of neglectBy JESSICA MILLER, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier   WATERLOO — Evelyn Miller’s father and stepmother say they worried about the 5-year-old girl’s safety throughout her short life. Andrew and his wife, Lindsey, of Waterloo, contacted the Department of Human Services numerous times about Evelyn’s living conditions, primarily concerning alleged neglect. They and other members of the Christie family said Evelyn was the subject of at least a dozen reports. The DHS made one cursory investigation. Andrew was 19 when his daughter was born in 1999. He was in the delivery room, although her mother,...