Posted on 04/02/2019 10:46:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
Biloxi, Miss. -- A former Mississippi Gulf Coast police officer is headed to prison for the death of her 3-year-old daughter, who was left in her mother's patrol car while the woman had sex with a police supervisor. CBS Biloxi, Miss. affiliate WLOX-TV reports ex-Long Beach, Miss. police officer Cassie Barker was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison in the 2016 death of Cheyenne Hyer.
The 29-year-old pregnant woman pleaded guilty last month to manslaughter in a plea bargain after being indicted on a charge of second-degree murder.
Cheyenne was strapped in her car seat in the patrol car for four hours while Barker was with her then-supervisor. The car's air conditioning was turned on but it wasn't blowing cold air. Cheyenne was unresponsive and had a temperature of 107 degrees when Barker returned.
Barker, who was working two jobs at the time, originally claimed she had been talking to Clark Ladner at his house early on a hot weekday morning when she fell asleep.
Ladner and Barker were fired by the city of Long Beach within days. Ladner hasn't been criminally charged, telling officials he didn't know the girl was in the car. Reports at the time indicated Ladner told authorities he had taken a sleep aid and also fallen asleep.
The mother had left her daughter alone in a car at least once before, at a store in nearby Gulfport in April 2015. Police responded and child welfare officials took temporary custody of the girl at the time. Barker was suspended from the Long Beach police for a week without pay.
The girl's father, Ryan Hyer, said he was never notified of that first incident.
"Every time I close my eyes, I picture her suffering and then I picture her laying in this coffin," he said. "I still see her smiling and laughing in my head and I would assume that smile and laughter turned to pain and suffering in that instance."
The father is suing the Long Beach Police Department and the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services for the wrongful death of his child, saying the child welfare agency should have taken stronger action after the first incident.
"As a parent, you are supposed to protect your child, and Cheyenne is gone because her mother didn't protect her, not once but twice," Hyer said.
Barker herself was hospitalized after the girl's death for what officials described as shock. A psychological exam showed Barker suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder attributed to childhood trauma and her daughter's death. She was found competent to stand trial.
What is wrong with these people?
Never attempt to analyze insanity.
20 years is not enough-—she murdered her child====for sex.
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Waste of skin.
They turned their back on God?
That sounds like somebody’s worst nightmare come to life.
Another graduate of the School of Bad Headline Writing.
Yep. But deys gots a callage edukation.
I’m not sure that any explanation could make sense. A low IQ? A lack of moral teachings during childhood? No religious background? All of that and more?
The mother had left her daughter alone in a car at least once before, at a store in nearby Gulfport in April 2015. Police responded and child welfare officials took temporary custody of the girl at the time. Barker was suspended from the Long Beach police for a week without pay.
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Not the first time and she’s pregnant again.
That was exactly what I was thinking.
There are a whole lot of people who have sex, and sex alone, on their minds.
As R Lee Ermey said in FMJ, “Did your mommy not give you enough love?”
These people are defective animals who need more stimulation each and every day.
What’s wrong with their vetting process?
It wasn’t their backs that got them in trouble.
Is is Affirmative Action. The only qualification is that one has to be a member of a approved minority. In her case it was female.
You mean the daughter DIDN’T have sex in a hot patrol car?
I’m so confused.
Is part of the punishment phase for prisoners in Biloxi, Miss a requirement to dress them up like the Cat in the Hat?
Just wonderin’.
but we're a sex crazed society, and now women are abandoning their babies to get in the game....
nice work playboy/hooters, etc....satan couldn't have been more efficient.......
And what about her supervisor? Has he no responsibility in this matter?? Who set up the tryst?? From my experiences, the male initiates sexual encounters - such is nature!!! It seems to me to be a shared responsibility for the death of the neglected child.
Yes.................
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