Ten Executions Gone Shockingly Wrong
Shantaniqua Scott Busted on Video Smothering Her 4-Month-Old; Faces Life in Prison
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 2:57 pm
The four-month-old, perfect little boy kept experiencing gastroesophageal reflux, which caused him to stop breathing. He was flown from a Waco hospital to one in Fort Worth for specialized treatment. It was there doctors grew suspicious his condition was the result of child abuse...
Medical personnel placed a hidden video monitor in Rhaidyn's room. During a visit when his mother Shantaniqua Scott came to see him, the camera caught what was really happening to him.
It was one day last year when Scott was seen throwing a Winnie the Pooh blanket over the baby, holding it down over his face for more than 20 seconds.
When a nurse came into the room to check on the babe, Scott halted her infanticidal assault, walked across the room and checked her cell phone.
After the nurse left, Scott resumed her attack -- this time taking her hand and placing it over Rhaidyn's mouth and nose for 74 seconds. The child could seen flailing his arms and legs before going limp.
Medical equipment monitoring the child's breathing and heart rate began to howl, indicating that he was in trouble. Doctors and nurses stormed the room.
They resuscitated him and his condition was stabilized.
When interrogated by authorities, Scott -- age 18 and single with no job and zapped on hope -- said she tried to kill her infant because she wanted him "out of my life."
Last week, a Texas jury convicted the teenager of injury to a child. She faces life imprisonment.
During the trial, defense attorney David Jones took the perplexing position that his client didn't cause the child any physical harm.
Conveniently setting aside the fact she aimed to kill her boy, Jones argued, "She had no business having a baby at her age. But what were the injures? You didn't hear of any injuries."
See our last story from the Child Abuse file: Janella Lewis & Tonya Gooseberry Charged With Murdering 2-Year-Old Grandson.
See our last story from the Child Abuse file: Janella Lewis & Tonya Gooseberry Charged With Murdering 2-Year-Old Grandson.
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If you have a kid you don't want, they've invented something called an orphanage. This lady is ignorant and needs severe jail time or worse!
I was 18 when my oldest son was born. He was born with cystic fibrosis (but neither I or the doctors knew this). So when he was about a month old he started breathing funny, I took him into the ER and was told it was a cold. They gave him a shot in his leg and told me to take him home (even though he was almost a pound under his birth weight), so I did. That was on a fri. and all throughout the weekend my son would just sleep and eat. On monday morning I could not get him to wake up. So I again brought him into the hospital where he was put into an incubator. The hospital placed a nurse in the room and she made notes of everytime I touched my son, where, how and so on. The dr.'s and nurses treated me like absolute shit, often kicking me out of the room while they talked or performed tests on my son and not including me in on anything.The hospital called social services on me and I was investigated for child abuse. They thought I was not feeding my child.To make a long story short my son was tested for CF and it came back positive, the dr.s and nurses then KNEW it was not my doing that made my lil one so sick. Although at the time I was so mad! I could not understand why they would treat me so awful, this was my son, my heart and the biggest blessing I had recieved. Was it because I was a young mom? Did they think I didnt know my baby needed to eat? How could they think I would do something so awful and vile?Reading this I now know it is because of pieces of shit like THIS, that young moms are looked at in such an awful light.How in the world could a mother do this to her child??????? After 9 months of having a baby grow beneath your heart...it just makes no sense to me! This woman is pure trash!!!! I honestly pray that the lil one makes a full recovery and is placed within a home that shows him love!
She could have simply given up the baby but didn't. She is an extreme narcissist and incapable of empathy. She deserves nothing less than to be put on her knees and have a bullet put through the back of her head.
if she can suffocate an innocent baby then lock her ass up for life, should have sat her hot ass down and listened to the damn sex-ed videos
she is a lousy nasty wench and I hope she rots in hell or in jailim so glad they put those cameras in that roomwhat a loservisit my bloghttp://ethicalfutures.wordpres...
"She had no business having a baby at her age. "
Nobody has any business having babies at her age.
I'm glad this story is coming from texas! Maybe if we are lucky, in around 8-10 years! I will read the headline where this worthless human has been put to death!
Can I hold my hand over this cunts face for 72 seconds ? I will gladly save the great state of Texas all the hundreds of thousands of dollars they would waste keeping this miserable twat locked up and fed. They can then use that money for the education of that poor child and maybe educate other young girls that it isn't cool to make babies that you can't support and don't love. Good luck to the little boy and I hope you end up with a family that wants you and loves you.
Lock her up and throw away the key! She should have thought about how much time and money it takes to raise a child while she was doing the horizontal bone dance with her boyfriend. At her age I was focused on graduating from high school and choosing which college to attend.
Oh yeah and adding to the fuck stain lawyers comment there was "no injury" Is he a fucking idiot or what?
Fucking horrific, and this bitch acted like it was like wating in line at the check out nothing to it. Un-fucking-believable...how the hell could she? How the hell could ANYONE. I hope that aside from the fact this child may grow up NEVER knowing what exactly was done to him, I hope he never has to see this footage..It could in no way help him move forward in life....Holy shit what a shit stain on this earth this bitch is!!!
And now we all get to pay for this delightful example of motherhood to get her daily dose of tv and shit now that her kid is really "out of her life". I hope that child didn't suffer any long term physical/brain damage from her assault. I;m actually shocked she got so much time..there must be an appeal in there somewhere...I remember stories of women who killed their kids that got much less time, if not probation. What a waste of oxygen. After hearing about the gal in NY that was "scared" and threw her baby down a garbage chute and now this....Nice day all around. Oh, and bless those in Joplin, MO. Let's send some good thoughts that way.
you know what i want to do to you sasquatch-ita,tye your ass down (so you cant fight back) and put both of my bare hands over your mouth and nose and watch as you suffer with no air and fight to breathe..and add a note DNRdont kill your children , there are plenty of families out there that will love that child more then you could ever think of doing yourself...so glad that baby is in foster care where he can be taken care of and loved
That fucking cunt...yeah, I said cunt, I think if anyone deserves to be called one it's this piece of shit here. Watching that video pissed me off and made me tear up, seeing the baby laying there helpless then limp when she's done smothering him. Fuck her, put her away and keep her far far far away from cock, this shit does not need to happen again...
CLEARLY THERE IS INJURIES IF HE HAD TO BE IN A HOSPITAL IN THE FIRST PLACE BECAUSE HE WOULD STOP BREATHING AND THERES PROOF ON THE VIDEO TAPE OF HER TRYING TO SUFFOCATE HER SON , THATS FUCKN BULLSHIT MOTHERS WHO DO STUPID SHIT LIKE THAT SHOULD JUST GET THE ELECTRIC CHAIR !!!! WHY BOTHER TO HAVE KIDS IF YOU DONT FUCKN WANT THEM THIS WORLD IS STUPID AND THE GOVERNMENT THAT COMES ALONG WITH IT FOR LETTIN THESE PEOPLE GET AWAY WITH SHIT LIKE THAT AND SAME GOES FOR RAPISTS AND PEDOPHILES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a stupid ass piece of shit. Its terrible to think she'll get a chance to see the light of day again. I hope word goes around about her crime and they smother her
No she wont. She will be put in a facility full of women/girls just like her. Then she'll be housed, fed, entertained, educated, babysat and given health care benefits. She'll be told that the real reason she killed her baby was because of some fun little mental disorder or some bullshit like that. Then she'll be released and have another kid that she probably wont give a shit about while there are people in the world that would give their left arm for a baby let alone two. (Or however many more this breeding bag will have.)
That girl has some major issues. Why take the time to kill a baby? Why not take it to the hospital, church or to a fire department or something and abandon it? That baby is better off without her and she deserves to be punished to the fullest. Attempted murder is what it should be.
Injury to a child? How about attempted murder! That should leave no legal loophole that her scumbag lawyer can try to manipulate.
This is just so wrong on so many levels. I don't know how difficult it is for teenagers in Texas to access birth control or, in a worse case scenario, abortion. (For the record, I'm talking first trimester, not third trimester here...) Adoption is another option that immediately pops into my mind. People have been using adoption as a safe way to ensure a better outcome for their child (or children) than what they themselves can provide for longer than any of us can remember. So WTF is with some stupid bitch trying to off a little baby that an adoptive family would love and cherish? (I know a lot of adoptive families leave something to be desired, and the whole experience is less than ideal but it beats being killed by your mom!)
I don't understand why the staff watched for 74 seconds that poor baby struggling and going into distress. 74 seconds just seems like an awful long time to me. Thank God nothing bad happened during that 74 seconds, I just couldn't stand there and watch that happen and not jump in sooner.
from what i saw on the news the alarms are what sent them running and they watched the tape afterwards. at least thats what i got out of the news report.
welcome. i know, the whole thing is crazy! just so sad....at least the baby is safe and the "momma" is in jail.....maybe her ass will be taken care of in prison!
i think they watched a tape of the incident, i don't think they watched it live on the monitor
I dont know Mecede the way I read it, it sounds like they saw her the first time and sent a nurse in. Then watched the second time for 74 seconds(maybe making sure they got enough proof?) It just sounds like a long time for that poor baby to be struggling to breathe. Am I reading this wrong?
i'd have been in complete panic draggin em down the hall. they couldnt move fast enough for me!
i think they were suspicious b.c the alarms were going off when the mother was there and i guess b/c it doesn't look like the mother was worried about the baby--if it was mine i would be screaming for the nurse or doc to help him.
Sounds like you guys are right Thank God, that was a horrible image I had going there lol.
I doubt that they had the technology to stream the video. I'm sure it was being recorded based on suspicion, and once the alarms when off for no reason, they decided to watch the video.
This bitch needs to be killed period. Hello moron haven't u heard of protection? Or even adoption. There should be no trial shes a bitch a dumbass and needs execution. Poor baby!!! How could anyone do this to a baby!! I hope that bitch rotts in hell!!
Not to be mean or anything but I'm sure you meant, 'I'll pay for it' rather than "...I pay for it."BTW, your improper use of "you're" when commenting on other peoples' poor grammar doesn't make me laugh. (It should be "your" as "you're" is a contraction for "you are.") Don't take it too personally, though. Even great writers have editors and Lord knows the rest of us have lots of room for improvement.
Atoshu, you're poor grammar has made a my day..I've laughed so hard..hahahahahahaha bless your jacked up lingo...
isn't it? glad the doc's got suspicious and put a camera in there, otherwise i don't think the baby would've made it...
