Judge rules 35 y.o.foster Mommy in PA will stand trial for murder,accused of beating & scalding 6 y.o.female slave to death
Joe1orbit
Over in Pennsylvania, a judge has ruled that 35 year old foster Mommy named
Lisa Price will have to stand trial on murder charges. Lisa is charged with
deliberately killing her 6 year old female step-slave, and then calling the
police & concocting a story about the 6 year old never having come home from
school. In point of fact she came home, foster Mommy Lisa burned and beat her
to death, then threw the body into her car, drove to a river, and DISCARDED the
murdered slave like the piece of useless garbage that she considered six year
old Jacqueline to be. She then spent the next 3 days giving TV interviews,
tearfully beseaching the non-existent 'kidnappers" to please release her
beloved foster daughter and spare her life. All this time of course, Jacqueline
was ROTTING at the bottom of a river.
In court yesterday, a detective read aloud the confession that our slaveowner
finally gave to police. Here is what this woman, GIVEN a helpless child by your
diseased society to care for, told the police, finally: ""I hit her because she
was lying to me. She had told my fiance that I was having a romantic
relationship with another man. I confronted her, and she kept lying. The things
she told my fiance weren't true. I lost control. I hit her numerous times."
Foster Mommy Lisa then CLAIMS that after the beating, 6 year old Jacqueline ran
into the bathroom and "accidently fell into a bucket of scalding water, inside
the bathtub". This is almost CERTAINLY a LIE, but it gets her off the MURDER
hook. She almost certainly, IMO, deliberately dunked the 6 year old into the
tub full of scalding water, as a deliberate follow-up punishment to the brutal
beating.
But in her confession she claims that the 6 year old accidently fell in, and
she took her out of the tub, applied ointment to the burns, and then ran to get
ice cubes to soothe the burns. Very CONVENIENTLY, the 6 year old "lost
consciousness" while she was away getting the ice. Her statement to police went
on as follows: "I picked her up and took her upstairs and tried to revive her.
But she was incoherent. She spit up. She lay down. When I checked her one-half
hour later, she wasn't breathing. I touched her and she was cold and stiff."
Very clever scenario by foster Mommy Lisa, to TRY and avoid getting a MURDER
charge or conviction. She obviously realized that there were very few ways she
could explain the BEATING injuries that she had deliberately inflicted upon
Lisa, but by claiming that the BURNS were accidental, and that the slave died
AFTER the burns occured, Mommy Lisa probably thought she could at least avoid
having to answer to a charge of outright murder.
But prosecutors decided to charge her with murder anyway. Our slave murderer
was very calm and composed in court yesterday. That was not wise of her, but it
really didn't matter since this was only a preliminary hearing and NO JURY was
present. When the actual trial begins, she really should try and win the jury's
sympathy by putting on a "bereaved & remoreful mommy" act. Of course this act
wouldn't be as effective as under normal circumstances, because it is
UNDENIABLY true, from her own confession, that she threw the body into a river
and then deliberately lied to the media and to police for 3 whole days, putting
on a "bereaved mommy" act.
Lisa's defense attorney will argue that the confession was coerced and should
not be admissible as evidence. He also will try to USE the confession to argue
that just like MOST slave murderers, Lisa SHOULD be offered a plea bargain and
NOT charged with first degree murder. After all, she only killed that which she
legally owned. Her defense will be that slave Jacqueline accidently fell down
the stairs, causing herself fatal injuries, then accidently fell into a bucket
of scalding water, before dying. In essence, the defense will be: "This six
year old killed herself, and so you the jury must find this bereaved Mommy
innocent of these charges". That might work. As we all know, your society goes
out of it's way to give every benefit of the doubt with regard to innocence, to
all slaveowners accused of killing their slaves. But the fact that Lisa is a
FOSTER Mommy will serve to dilute the stength of the "mommy defense", a little
bit.
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of the 11/6/98 online edition of The
Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper:
Foster mother will stand trial in death of girl, 6
In a packed courtroom, Lisa Price's chilling statement to police was read for
the first time yesterday.
By Linda Loyd
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
11/6/98
Lisa Price's self-portrait as a panicked, angry foster mother was presented for
the first time in court yesterday as a detective read her chilling account of
the rage prosecutors say drove her to kill her 6-year-old foster daughter and
toss the body into the Schuylkill.
Price, 35, who was held for trial without bail on murder, child-endangerment,
and abuse-of-corpse charges, had initially told police that Jacqueline Veney
never came home from her South Philadelphia elementary school on Sept. 18.
For the next three days Price was a grief-stricken foster mother as she did
interviews on TV, as police combed the house in the 1900 block of South 21st
Street for clues, and as neighbors searched nearby alleys calling the girl's
name.
But after five hours of questioning at Police Headquarters on the fourth day,
Price broke down and told investigators that she beat Jacqueline, police said,
and that the child died afterward.
"I hit her because she was lying to me," Price said, according to the
statement. The little girl had told Price's fiance, Edward Jones, that she was
having a romantic relationship with another man.
"I confronted her, and she kept lying. . . . The things she told my fiance
weren't true," Price told police. "I lost control. I hit her numerous times."
The little girl then ran into the bathroom of the South Philadelphia rowhouse
and fell into a bucket of scalding water in the bathtub, Price told
investigators. The foster mother told police that she removed Jacqueline from
the tub and applied ointment to her burns.
"Then I ran downstairs to get some ice," Price said. When Price returned, the
child "was unconscious. I picked her up and took her upstairs and tried to
revive her. But she was incoherent. She spit up. She lay down. When I checked
her one-half hour later, she wasn't breathing. I touched her and she was cold
and stiff."
Price told police that she and Jones drove to the Market Street Bridge and
tossed the body into Schuylkill. "I told my fiance, Ed, that Jackie wasn't
doing too good because I hit her," Price said. "So I needed to get rid of the
evidence."
Jones is awaiting a preliminary hearing on abuse-of-corpse charges.
Price sat erect, calm and dry-eyed as Detective Aaron Booker read her police
statement before a stilled courtroom jammed with spectators, including Price's
family members and Jacqueline's biological mother, Jacqueline Veney.
Defense attorney Charles Mirarchi 3d said yesterday that Price was tricked into
giving that statement to detectives. Mirarchi said he would challenge its
validity and try to have the statement thrown out as evidence before the trial.
Mirarchi said Price's comments had been coerced.
After dumping Jacqueline's body, Price's statement said, "we went home. I
decided to tell the story about taking her to school that following morning."
"I did not sleep. I was terrified. I didn't want my family or anyone to know
what a horrible thing I did. I regret what I did and I'm so sorry."
Mirarchi argued to Municipal Court Judge Marsha H. Neifield that Price should
not be held for trial on higher than third-degree murder or manslaughter. He
said the killing was not intentional and that Jacqueline could have sustained
the same injuries falling down a flight of stairs.
Patricia Kauffman, forensic pathology fellow at the Philadelphia Medical
Examiner's office, testified that Jacqueline died of multiple blunt-force
injuries, including four blows to the head.
"The child's neck had a bruise from being throttled or strangled. Her torso had
a large area of hemorrhage covering the entire rib case. There were injuries to
her wrists consistent with defensive wounds," the pathologist testified.
Assistant District Attorney Gail Fairman contended that the evidence showed an
intent to kill "based on the massive injuries."
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The following appears courtesy of the 11/6/98 online edition of The
Philadelphia Daily News newspaper:
Foster mother held in death Recants tale of sex lie that led to beating
by Yvette Ousley
Daily News Staff Writer
11/6/98
Lisa Price said her 6-year-old foster daughter Jacqueline Veney had told her
live-in boyfriend that Price and another man had showered together and were
having sex.
But in a confession read in court yesterday, Price said it was a lie that so
angered her she beat the first-grader nicknamed "Jackie," who later died.
Price, 35, said she panicked.
Then she wrapped Jackie's naked 41-pound body in plastic, a pillowcase and a
T-shirt, stuffed her 4-foot-4 corpse into a gym bag, with a cinder block, and
threw the bag into the Schuylkill.
At a preliminary hearing yesterday, Price's attorney said police detectives
tricked Price into confessing and said that Jackie died of injuries from a fall
down the stairs.
After two hours of graphic testimony and some tense moments, Municipal Judge
Marsha Neifield held Price, of 21st Street near McKean, for trial on a general
charge of murder. Price, who is being held without bail, will be arraigned Nov.
25.
Price is the foster mother who went on television and appealed for the return
of the little girl whom she claimed she had taken to school on Sept. 18, but
the girl failed to return home. Price was foster mother to Jackie and her
younger brother, Sam Harper, for two years after their biological mother, also
named Jacqueline Veney, had given them up because of a drug problem.
Price faces aggravated assault charges for hitting Sam, 3. Her preliminary
hearing on that charge will be Dec. 23.
Her boyfriend, Edward Jones, was charged with a misdemeanor, abuse of a corpse,
for driving Price to the river, and is free on bail. He sat in Courtroom 306 at
the Criminal Justice Center among spectators.
Throughout the preliminary hearing, Price's lawyer, Charles Mararchi III,
presented a "she-fell-down-the-steps" defense to show that Jacqueline sustained
fatal injuries through an accidental fall. He argued that the murder charge
against Price should be reduced to manslaughter.
But Price's own words read from her police confession during the preliminary
hearing, coupled with testimony from the forensic expert and a homicide
detective sunk her.
Both witnesses were called by Assistant District Attorney Gail Fairman.
Forensic expert Patricia Kauffman said Jackie had injuries to her head, chest,
wrist, elbows and throat. But she died from head trauma, Kauffman said.
Meanwhile, Homicide Detective Aaron Booker read the confession he took from
Price at 3:20 a.m. Sept. 22.