Cops: Woman killed boy, falsely reported abduction (update to yesterdays Amber Alert)
Source: Omaha World Herald-AP
BERNE, N.Y. (AP) A 19-year-old woman strangled a 5-year-old cousin who had been in her parents' care, then discarded his body along a road before calling in a false report that two masked intruders took the boy from their Albany-area home, authorities said Friday.
Tiffany VanAlstyne's bogus 911 call on Thursday afternoon set off a search for Kenneth White that lasted into the night, authorities said. A search dog picked up a scent at about 9 p.m., and Kenneth's body was found in a culvert, covered with snow VanAlstyne used in a bid to hide the crime, Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple said.
"We're angry we had a 5-year-old taken from us, a senseless death," he said. "It's sinful and it's sad."
VanAlstyne was charged Friday with second-degree murder. She said nothing at her arraignment. She is due back in court on Tuesday for an initial hearing to enter a plea.
FULL story at link.
Read more: http://www.omaha.com/news/nation/police--year-old-boy-found-dead-wasn-t-abducted/article_f8f2a226-625d-590c-b61e-dce0577464cb.html
Rather than update the OP, I decided on a new post.
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MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)I guess that if she had described the "kidnappers" as actual "black men," the cops might have let her get away with that story for just a LEEEtle while longer.
Skittles
(153,138 posts)MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)The current international attention to the case of the missing American white girl in the resort island of Aruba (to the exclusion of the 37,000 other yearly missing persons) provides a classic study in racist scapegoating. The incident merited top story status only when the perpetrators were believed to be two ferocious Black bucks whose handcuffed images were worth a week of news fodder. When it became clear that the murderer was likely a preppie teen-aged white boy from a prominent Dutch family, the American media dropped the story from their headlines just as quickly and quietly as the Black suspects were released.
One of the most successful and central tenets of white supremacy is its insistence on the natural depravity of all non-whites. As long as the history of the caucasian has been recorded (and invented), whites have sought to justify their racism by pinning their debased acts upon the innocent Black man. Even the Bible has been disgraced by an absurd but profoundly influential concoction in the form of the so-called "Curse of Ham." Ancient rabbis reinterpreted the story of Noah in order to claim the natural inferiority of the entire Black race. Slavery, Jim Crow, and all their peculiar forms of violent oppression descended from this hateful Jewish heritage. Later, celebrated acts like the Boston Tea Party found cowardly whites disguising themselves as Indians to vandalize a British ship and its cargo of tea--all to make the British authorities believe that Indians had done the crime. This was a strikingly common, destructive, and successful anti-Indian practice of the time. Black "crimes" -- often against the presumed chastity and innocence of white womanhood -- were the stated grounds for thousands of lynchings, where the actual criminals were white people. And as with the on-going Aruba case, this white racial scapegoating persists today, unabated by standards of common human decency.
There are many, many more, but these fifteen cases are representative of the thousands more:
http://destee.com/index.php?threads/top-fifteen-white-crimes-blamed-on-blacks-non-whites.38483/
BOONTON, N.J-Kashif Parvaiz admitted to orchestrating the killing of his wife, Nazish Noorani, with his mistress, Antoinette Stephen.
Noorani and Parvaiz were both shot in the Boonton, New Jersey but police began to suspect he was involved after they discovered flaws in his story. Parvaiss original story had police suspicious of a hate crime after he claimed three Black men shot him and his wife while yelling terrorists.
The Bend Bulletin reports:
Parvaiz, according to prosecutors, initially described a trio of attackers: one white, one black and one whose race he said he could not determine. He later changed his story, describing all three as black, before finally admitting to setting up the shooting, according to his arrest affidavit.
http://newsone.com/1475225/kashif-parvaiz-nazish-noorani-antoinette-stephen/
Pennsylvania mom Bonnie Anne Sweeten is the latest white person to falsely report black males as her assailants in a crime. Criminologist and law school Professor Katheryn Russell-Brown tracks hoaxes made with racial implications and explains why they continue to happen.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105096024
Its no secret that blame the black man is a time honored tradition in America. And since there is still so much fear and suspicion that lingers when it comes to black men, its proven quite effective, even today, when you want to pin a crime on someone.
But luckily, four year old Abby Dean of Whatcom County, Washington was there to save the day with her heroic honesty. As a child, it can be hard to speak truth to authority figures, hell even as an adult. But when Abbys 17 year old babysitter claimed that her employers home had been burglarized by two black men, it was Abby who stepped forward to set the record straight.
The extremely intelligent four year old told a Fox affiliate that Wednesday was the worst day in my life. She was there when the house was burglarized and told reporters that the robbers told us to get out of the house cause they wanted to steal stuff.
- See more at:
http://madamenoire.com/441616/4-year-old-destroys-babysitters-plan-blame-black-man-home-robbery/#sthash.nyjRoQ0u.dpuf
Skittles
(153,138 posts)but even people just reading this story knew it was bullshit
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)None of this had to go to the "detaining innocent black people as suspects" phase. I'm glad that everyone's been spared that mess again.
Skittles
(153,138 posts)Mopar151
(9,976 posts)I knew that the whole deal was wrong.
liberalhistorian
(20,814 posts)cases. I'm a middle-class white chick and I remember just how apoplectic many whites I knew at the time of Charles Stuart's murder of his wife and attempt to blame black carjackers for it (even going so far as to shoot himself to make it look as "real" as possible) were about it, ranting that the police should swarm into black neighborhoods and question every black man they could find. My parents, neither one of whom has a racist bone in their bodies, and unlike most other people we knew at the time, smelled the bullshit right away and my mom said "I'll bet you we find out that HE did it himself. It just doesn't add up and Boston is racist as hell, so he probably figured he'd get away it." She taught at a reform school for boys and many of her white students were very adept at blaming their in-school bullshit on the non-white students, a fact she was more than familiar with.
Which he very nearly did. I remember how the police did, in fact, swarm into Roxbury like an invading army and no one at first, not even the police, even stopped to consider that the murdering motherfucker may just not have been telling the truth. Had his brother not had an attack of conscience, some poor innocent black men might very well have been literally and figuratively hung for it.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)case of the so-called 'Central Park 5' and 'wilding'?
Big surprise when it turned out to all have been bullshit, the 5's 'confession's tricked and coerced out of them.
That was one where, as a much younger man, I initially found myself joining the 'rush to judgment,' my instincts for bullshit not having had the benefit of 8 years of the Bush-Cheney regime. I do not remember when I first became aware that the 5 had been railroaded and improperly interrogated, but when they were eventually exonerated, I was not surprized. (I hope the city of New York has to pay dearly for its 'lynch mob' mentality.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)This happened a few months ago. Twenty five years later.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)got off pretty cheaply. I'm glad the CP 5 were finally exonerated. That was a dark chapter in race relations.
Nay
(12,051 posts)telling the truth even at the very beginning.
Skittles
(153,138 posts)I remember thinking someone surely would look directly into the camera to plead to whomever may be watching, for information
Nay
(12,051 posts)unobservant or socially inept to think she was telling the truth.
Derek V
(532 posts)I'm not one of these people who sees the movie's plot twist coming from ten miles away, but I was very pleased with myself for immediately calling bullshit on her story.
PS: I saw the plot twist of The Usual Suspects coming from two states over, but that one was so freakin' obvious that I take no pride in detecting it.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)dead child was found - was that one of the two alleged kidnappers was white and the race of the other was "unknown." FWIW
Skittles
(153,138 posts)my sympathy to the little boy's family and to the family of Ms. VanAlstyne
madokie
(51,076 posts)toast her ass
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)I'm thinking its time NY re=opens a couple of the black holes just for people like her.
7962
(11,841 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)story was, because that was obviously incomplete.
herding cats
(19,558 posts)I was afraid of this when I read the original article. The parents were both out of the child's life, one in another country and the other in another state. The situation described was so sensational, it didn't feel credible. It all pointed to the babysitter who made the outrageous claim.
The poor little guy! My heart goes out to those who loved him, and I hope he was loved like any child of his age should be.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)MrsMatt
(1,660 posts)So I suppose that will be used as a defense.