How can a father do this??
A father threw his four-year-old daughter off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean to avoid paying child support to her British mother, a court in the US has heard.
Opening the murder retrial of Cameron Brown, 47, yesterday, prosecutors said the accused had no interest in his child Lauren Sarene Key and motivated by financial gain, hurled the girl off Inspiration Point in Rancho Palos Verdes, California in 2000.
It is the second time that Brown has faced a jury over the allegations. In 2006 a mistrial was ruled after members of the jury failed to reach a verdict over the severity of the crime. Some favoured a first-degree murder conviction, while others were convinced it should be second-degree murder or manslaughter.
Brown has pleaded not guilty to the charges. His lawyer Pat Harris told the Los Angeles Superior court that the cliff fall was an accident.
But deputy district attorney Craig Hum painted the defendant, a former baggage handler for American Airlines, as an uncaring father who was motivated by financial claim.
The prosecution argue that he threw the young girl to her death to avoid paying around $1,000 a month in child support to Sarah Key-Marer, a British woman who emigrated to the US.
They allege that he took Lauren to the cliff where the pair couldn’t be seen and “hurled” her into the Pacific Ocean.
Mr Hum said: “This man picked up Lauren, whom he fathered but was never a father to, and threw her off a cliff into the waters below.”
But Brown’s defence team dismissed the prosecution’s case as based on “character assassination”.
Mr Harris painted his client as a loving parent.
He said Brown carried a picture of Lauren in his wallet, gave her gifts and celebrated with friends when he won visitation rights after the couple’s split.
The defence also pointed towards court documents filed two weeks before the girl’s death that indicated that Brown was seeking more contact with his daughter.
“It doesn’t make sense,” Mr Harris said.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/World/eycwaueymhql/rss2/
similar case reported few months back..
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article5609138.ece
...yes the fatheer deserves the severest punishment...but only if found guilty.For some reason I think this story has more to do than what meets the eye...May be it was just an accident.
If Animals Could Talk What would they say about us?
on this planet......need appropriate punishment for such cruel crime.
In the snap, even though she is smiling, you can sense sadness...
Kids are innocent...roses of our Gardan..
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Sorry for her dead.... she looks so pretty, innocent and adoring girl just like a Doll :-(
i wish he gave her to me...
Simple.. He's never read this verse:
and that ye slay not your children because of penury - We provide for you and for them ."
Poor girl.. He could've given her to me I don't have a daughter :(
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Really feel sorry for the kids at the hands of such merciless parents ...
As regards Tallg's idea of license to reproduce... can that guarantee 100% avoidance of such incidents???.. if it cannot, than otherwise these are stray incidents as in the case of violation of traffic rules even if possessing a driving license... just my thought..
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has to be a retard
How can a man do such a thing?
How can he do this to such a sweeet girl...even if its not his dughter? can a human do this to a innocent child?
Retard :(
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exactly as Tallg mentioned in one thread..make it mandatory for everybody to get a License to reproduce
interesting to see what proofs/arguments the prosecutors have come up with. Crimes like these are very difficult to prove.