Police: Girl dies after dad's drowning attempt in pond

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By EMERY P. DALESIO

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A 3-year-old girl died Wednesday, three days after her father tried to drown her and her sister in an apartment complex pond, police said.

The girl was fully submerged when an off-duty sheriff's deputy pulled her from the pond on Sunday night. She had been in critical condition at a hospital since then, said Durham Police spokeswoman Kammie Michael.

Alan Tysheen Eugene Lassiter is currently charged with three counts of attempted murder for trying to kill the girl, her sister and their 7-year-old brother. Lassiter is jailed on a bond of $2 million and is awaiting a court hearing next month.

Lassiter's 5-year-old daughter was rescued from the pond, and she has been released from the hospital, police said. The 7-year-old boy got away from Lassiter and ran for help, police said.

FULL story at link. Video: http://launch.newsinc.com/share.html?trackingGroup=92351&siteSection=bigstory_hom_non_non_dynamic_wire_ap&videoId=29730426


Orange evidence flags line the shore of a pond in the Audubon Lake neighborhood of Durham, N.C. on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015. Police say Alan Tysheen Eugene Lassiter attempted to drown his three young children, two of whom remain hospitalized. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Original story here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141214110

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/67d899c9ef5846a8bffcac4884e6dbf8/police-girl-dies-after-dads-drowning-attempt-pond

[shenmue]

1. ...

[packman]

2. Hate to hear/read things like this

What drives a man to take a child's life?

[Art_from_Ark]

4. Perhaps some of the same things that drive women to take children's lives

Drugs, mental illness, total incapacity to cope with having kids...

And for some reason, some people are just plain rotten to the core.

[Oldtimeralso]

7. K & R

I agree with Post #4.

[yardwork]

10. I think he goes on the rotten to the core group.

History of domestic violence, and he was going to lose access to the kids because of self-admitted pedophilia. In other words, he was abusing and raping his children and his wife.

In his 911 call he blamed everybody else.

[840high]

3. ....

[Mira]

5. it is unbearable n/t

[Mnemosyne]

6. ...

[appal_jack]

8. The deputy is a hero, the 'father' is a monster.

May the young girl's spirit rest in peace, and the two surviving kids find peace, solace, and a good home.

-app

[Delphinus]

9. Peace, solace, and love

[Duppers]

11. Cannot post what I would have done to this monster.

The mother? Where was she and why...well, you know the questions.

[iandhr]

12. Just when I thought we have scraped the bottom of the barrel of humanity.