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Judi Lynn

(164,135 posts) Mon Jul 17, 2017, 06:19 PM Jul 2017

Police: Mississippi girl dies after beating over math lesson [View all]

Source: Associated Press

Updated 4:58 pm, Monday, July 17, 2017

MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) — Police say a Mississippi man fatally beat a 3-year-old girl with a bamboo rod and a cellphone cord because she couldn't correctly answer questions about numbers and then soiled her pants.

The Meridian Star reports that police detectives testified in city court Monday about 25-year-old Joshua Salovich's confession to the beating.

Bailey Salovich died Saturday after being taken to a hospital for injuries including bleeding in the brain and lungs.

Detective Thomas Abate quotes Salovich as telling police "the streets are hard ... for her to survive, she has to be hard, too."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Police-Mississippi-girl-dies-after-beating-over-11294866.php

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Police: Mississippi girl dies after beating over math lesson [View all] Judi Lynn Jul 2017 OP

This shit is parenting as usual in so many parts of "merica." ehrnst Jul 2017 #1

Might want to actually click the posted link. UnFettered Jul 2017 #16

Where's the fun in that? n/t QC Jul 2017 #20

I did. To clarify - Yes, I know he's not white ehrnst Jul 2017 #30

Uhm , yeah about that-why not read up? How about that Georgia couple on their honeymoon? 58Sunliner Jul 2017 #26

To clarify: ehrnst Jul 2017 #31

If the mother was there, she should be charged, too. Honeycombe8 Jul 2017 #2

She was in another room with the door closed and the TV on. pnwmom Jul 2017 #4

No way she didn't hear it. I've heard such screams before. nt Honeycombe8 Jul 2017 #14

If you read the link it was not the first time just as you suspected had been going on lunasun Jul 2017 #24

Just so evil. pnwmom Jul 2017 #25

Prison is harder. Solly Mack Jul 2017 #3

Other prisoners... SergeStorms Jul 2017 #18

Here's another article with more. Cases like this pnwmom Jul 2017 #5

i'm willing to give up the death penalty but not when it comes to the beating death of demigoddess Jul 2017 #15

I swear I didn't know Parchman Farm is still functioning. So, see ya there, Joshua Salovich. Leghorn21 Jul 2017 #6

. . . GaryCnf Jul 2017 #11

3 year old--Math lesson? Seriously? mtngirl47 Jul 2017 #7

I'd like to give this shitbag my own math lesson RhodeIslandOne Jul 2017 #8

... shenmue Jul 2017 #9

What was Joshua brought up by rabid wolves ? magicarpet Jul 2017 #10

One article said he's a boxer in training TexasBushwhacker Jul 2017 #12

Oh that stands to reason... magicarpet Jul 2017 #33

We have Christians in America who teach how to beat babies. These must be some lovely people (sarca keithbvadu2 Jul 2017 #13

charge the Mother and any other adults who knew this man was brutal. Sunlei Jul 2017 #17

The mother said she was in another room but he had been doing this repeatedly Not the 1st time lunasun Jul 2017 #22

That is so awful. leftyladyfrommo Jul 2017 #19

3 yrs old ? Math question? lunasun Jul 2017 #21

So sad.... Stuart G Jul 2017 #23

People like this guy create a situation of failure to "justify" their abuse. 58Sunliner Jul 2017 #27

OMG 3 yrs old? benld74 Jul 2017 #28

That's What I Was Thinking, Too ProfessorGAC Jul 2017 #32

That poor baby Beaverhausen Jul 2017 #29

May he meet a similar end. EllieBC Jul 2017 #34