Pregnant woman's death by torture described

[Mugu]

Several accused of murder; killing stuns Ill. town

By Jim Suhr Associated Press

ALTON, Ill. - Banished to the basement, the 29-year-old mother with a childlike mind and another baby on the way had little more than a thin rug and a mattress to call her own on the chilly concrete floor, police say.
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Dorothy Dixon ate what she could forage from the refrigerator upstairs, where housemates used her for target practice with BBs, burned her with a glue gun, and doused her with scalding liquid that peeled away her skin.

They torched what few clothes she had, so she walked around naked. They often pummeled her with an aluminum bat or metal handle.

Dixon - six months pregnant - died after weeks of abuse. Police have charged two adults, three teenagers, and a 12-year-old boy with murder in the case that has repulsed many in this Mississippi River town.


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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/22/pregnant_womans_death_by_torture_described/

[Taverner]

1. Those inhuman fucks

This story just brings so much rage...so much sadness...

Fuck them

I hope they all rot in jail for life

[acmavm]

5. You are obviously a much better person than I am. I would hand her an

Academy Award for best actress and then I'd give her a needle in the arm. Not only for what she did to this woman and her unborn child and infant child, but for what she turned her kids into.

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Riley and Dixon, police said, had lived in Quincy, a Mississippi River town about 100 miles north of St. Louis, Mo. Quincy is where Riley worked as a coordinator for a regional center that helps the developmentally disabled with housing and other services. Dixon was a client.

For years, an impoverished Riley struggled raising her children. Her use of methamphetamine and cocaine brought drug convictions in 2002 and 2004. But with treatment and housing help from the Quincy YWCA, Riley put her life in order - so much that in February of last year, the Quincy Herald-Whig did a story on her comeback.

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What a fantastic actress she must have been. And how damn evil to the core. Evil walks amongst us and it does wear an amazing disguise.

[Taverner]

11. I just find it unethical to kill

Besides a lethal injection lets her off easy

Solitary for life would be a better punishment - that way she *might* come to grips with the heinous shit she did.

[Mnemosyne]

6. I have no words right now, but second your sentiments, Taverner.

:nuke:

[Tab]

2. This is just some sick shit

Unfortunately stuff like this crops up every year. People never cease to amaze me as to the depths that they can go.

[slinkerwink]

3. oh my god. that's sickening.

[malaise]

4. Human beings are often worse than all other animals

How do you do this to a human being.

[Mnemosyne]

7. Animals could never have such cruelty in them.

:grr:

[Taverner]

26. Ever see a cat play with a mouse before eating it?

We all have it in us.

[Mnemosyne]

29. Good point. And I agree, we all have the potential. I'm not so sure

though that cats are being deliberately cruel. It's more instinct than intent, imho.

:hi:

[jwirr]

8. They deserve the worst that can come to them. But there is another

group that deserves punishment - the murderer was hired by an agency to help people like Dorothy - did they never do a background check on her? What about the social services who were responsible for this Developmentally delayed individual. Damn it I am a social worker and a mother of a disabled individual - Illinois is not a backwards state - how did they let this slip by them?

[libodem]

10. The perps were monsters

but I feel it is a failure of the system to provide a sanctuary for people with developmental disabilities and mental/emotional illness. It is a challenge to provide a safe caring environment with training and assistance in the activities of daily living. Poor dear woman. My God how she must have suffered. These are the people who will slip through the cracks of the system with all the Bush tax cuts. Services and programs will suffer. Everyone seems to hate state institutions, like State Schools, Mental Hospitals, Deaf and Blind Schools, Reform Schools, and Orphanages. Give all the extra money to School vouchers for rich kids private school and to Faith Based Initiatives. Where is the fucking religious money for this poor girl? Where are all the anti- abortion fanatics when you need them to provide a safe Maternity Home? I hate Bush for this. I hate the rich for this. I hate the snobs with their inherited billions sitting in a mutual fund piling up capital gains. Fuck them ALL!

[jwirr]

17. I am deathly against the institutions - if you think people did not die

in them you are mistaken. Not only did they die but there were sadists there also.

In community based living like we have in Minnesota there is transparency. My daughter lives in a foster home I can visit any time I want to - unlike when they would not let me visit her in the state institution that the state convinced me would be able to help her. She also goes to a day care center (private but overseen by state and us parents) and rides public busses, see local doctors (not one hired by the institution) and has volunteers from outside these facilities. All of these different places and persons would report abuse immediately unlike the abuse in that institution which I only found out because I asked to have my daughter home for Christmas. The whole side of her head and eye were black and blue - I told them that they were not getting her back and then asked for an investigation - it had happened no less that 6 times and no one had informed me because it would have gotten the institution and their jobs into trouble.

[libodem]

23. Group homes are good too

and you are right about rampant abuse in some institutional settings. Just look at Walter Reed and many Nursing Homes. I just believe that there stands a chance at oversight in state institutions where people are watching each other. Of course if the leadership is corrupt and the abuse is endemic a whole facility can be infected. I worked in state facilities most of my life. We had the strictest standards. Most of the people I worked with were honest and caring. I hate locking people up and a locked facility is different than some type of voluntary commitment. The pendulum always swings from one extreme to another. Either everyone is committed and removed from the community or everyone is kicked out on the streets to starve. I suppose picking up crazy street people and putting them in prison to be mishandled beats a State Hospital. Huh?

[jwirr]

24. Minnesota gets around the oversight issue in private facilities by

laws which require oversight for clients who pay for their care through public moneys such as Social Security, SSI and entitlement programs. If they get any kinds of government funds, and most do, then they have a social worker who is responsible/liable for several visits to the facilities for each client placed there, staffings, reports, individual service plans and is also the person that the facility must report abuses to. There is also a licensing process that has inspector visitations at lease every 6 months for facilities. There are no exceptions. If they are a vulnerable person they have someone looking out for them. They also have legal guardians and family that are separate from the government & private facilities.

What happened at the institution where my daughter lived was a blatant cover up by government workers. I am happy to report that the facility is now no longer for vulnerable clients - it now houses sex criminals for the state prisons. I once overheard some of the residents from the town complain because of the change because they are no longer safe - I didn't quite have the courage to turn around and tell them that if they would have taken better care of our children they might still have them.

[Iris]

9. I wonder what will happen to the 1 year old child.

Poor baby. Witnessing his mother being treated that way

[seabeyond]

12. you are very consistent with your threads that you start. have you had one that is not about woman

in some horrible way?

[gollygee]

14. Look down the page a bit

he's got threads about a man getting mugged, Sarkozy, etc. It's just stuff off some news wire it looks like. Is there some reason why news about women treated horribly shouldn't be here?

[seabeyond]

19. thanks gollygee for pointing it out. will take a look. n/t

[goodgd_yall]

16. You trying to make a point?

Just spit it out.

[seabeyond]

18. no. i was asking a question. more if he had a point he was trying to make

question. when i wonder i find it better to ask than accuse. works for me.

[Mugu]

22. I post articles that I believe folks might find interesting.

I make no effort to look for trends. It's just whatever happens to be in the news. You clearly didn't look at all the stories that I've posted today.

If I count correctly I have posted 28 threads today and 7 had something to do with women. One where a woman broke down a door to save an elderly neighbor woman (posted both in GD and the lounge.) This story about a pregnant woman being tortured to death. One about Oprah being sued. One about the wife of a county official caught in a sex sting. A woman sacked from her job for smacking her kid. A child that was accidentally crushed by a morbidly obese relative that turned out to be a woman. And then my personal favorite, Holly strips off for shower photoshoot.

Along the way there was a story about a couple arrested for having sex in a church and the NY governor's woman problems.

Then there was posts about a star exploding, Repubs voting in Democrat's primary, the world's first gigayacht, Germans losing their marbles crown, China staying at the top of world road death list, Plastination revealing truths about us welcome or not, Taking Christ out of Christianity, Beijing launching a new anti-pest campaign, China vowing to crush freedom-seeking Tibetans, Cyber Vigilantes, Climate Change, Aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy scheduled to arrive in Philadelphia today, Colombia's Rebels Facing Possibility of Implosion, The opposition winning Taiwan presidential vote, Sarkozy pledging 1,000 more French troops for Afghanistan, MRSA superbug reported at King County Jail, and finally a Man being mugged while training for Army test.

I'm not seeing a trend.

Edit to fix snark.

[Breeze54]

28. Women are the target of much violence in the USA and across the world

Stop bitching about that topic being predominant and do something to change it!!

[gollygee]

13. How sad and horrible

I'm constantly amazed by what human beings will do to other human beings :(

[goodgd_yall]

15. I read this in my local newspaper

That poor, poor woman. The suffering she endured and the sadism of her perpetrators is just horrendous.

[Poll_Blind]

20. Holy God, that is just fucking medieval. Sick! n/t

PB

[Thickasabrick]

21. I am so sad about this - for this poor girl - and for the lack of

empathy and cruelness these people displayed. What happens to people to make them this way - child abuse? Being allowed to be cruel to animals as children?

[Warren DeMontague]

25. Jesus fucking christ.

Horrible. :cry:

[Mugu]

27. Kick n/t