Posted on 02/09/2014 2:57:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
Two US parents accused of killing their daughter by making her drink more than two litres of soft drink and water in a cruel and bizarre act of punishment have pleaded not guilty to her murder.
Father Randall Lee Vaughn, 41, and stepmother Mary Vaughn, 58, face charges of murder and child abuse following a two-year investigation into the death of 5-year-old Alexa Linboon. A discoloured and unresponsive Alexa Linboon was taken to an emergency room in the state of Tennessee on January 1, 2012, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Alexa experienced seizures and was legally declared brain dead.
She died two days later from "acute fluid/water intoxication" which caused her sodium levels to plummet and her brain to swell with water leading to the severe damage; her death later ruled a homicide.
Her parents said they disciplined Alexa after she stole one of her stepmother's cans of grape soda.
Her punishment was being forced to drink 2.4 litres of fluid including several cans of grape soda with in the space of two hours.
Three hours before she was taken to the hospital she had vomited and urinated in her pants. In an effort to calm her stomach, Alexa's parents fed her porridge but she passed out while eating, investigators were told.
An autopsy revealed the 5-year-old was bruised from head to toe and her face bore several scars.
The report also states Alexa — who has two brothers and three sisters — moved to Tennessee only three months before her death because of allegations of neglect at a previous, unspecified home.
Alexa's father and stepmother have been charged with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and two counts of aggravated child neglect.
They are due to appear in court in October and their bail has been set at half-a-million dollars.
Alexa's other five siblings were taken into state care in February 2013.
Execute both of em
The two monsters were sadists. The child is in a much better place...
“The child is in a much better place...”
imo that is twisted thinking
the child should be alive and the “parents” on an elevator down to hell
I’ve never heard of a person dieing from drinking to much (otherwise non-poison) liquid.
Sure. It’s just the opposite of death by dehydration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
They don’t look like the kind of people the American people would vote for, but you never know.
The Child is with God... that’s better - before she was with demons from hell.
Not only outrageous that it took 2 years to charge these troglodyte cretins, BUT it took them a year to take the other children away from them.
From the write up, hard to tell the time line BUT it appears that they will not be going to court until October - that doesn’t sound right?.....
“Killing is just too good for some people”.
The brain swells and its curtains its not as un common as it seems
I’ve heard of people dying from drinking too much carbonated liquids every few years.
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“Sure. It’s just the opposite of death by dehydration.”
I didn’t know that. I have to ask what’s the likelihood of the perps or for that mater the jury knowing that? For first degree murder, aren’t they going to demonstrate that they did (know that)?
As they say, poison is in the dose. Try pouring all that corn syrup and artificial flavor down your kid's throat.
Put a wig on Smelly Harry and you’ve got stepmother - absolutely a close mitochondrial match there.
What’s up with the female beast? Her chin looks like a sucker from an octopus.
So you saw it as well.
;>)
So you saw it as well.
;>)
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