Joe1orbit <joe1...@aol.com> wrote in article
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> Hello,
>
> Yes, folks, Yet another mommy has murdered her little son, this time in
> good old New York. This case certainly is very intriguing, a bit more
> perverse than most of the mommy killings that occur.
>
> We have a mommy named Christina Stark, aged 25. She had a four year old
> son, and she is eight months pregnant. Wowzers, that bun is getting ready
> to pop. You'd think she'd have enough things to do, in taking it easy and
> preparing for this new baby to arrive. But apparantly that was not the
> case.
>
> Tuesday night, police responded to Christine's home concerning a
> possible suicide attempt by her. Police then found her 4 year old son,
> Joshua, dead behind the house. Joshua had been stabbed about 100 times,
> and decapitated. A murder weapon was recovered, but police are not
> identifying it. Mommy Christine did seem to have made a feeble suicide
> attempt, but she is recovering and police say they will charge her with
> the murder of her 4 year old son. No word on how the 8 month old fetus,
> stuck inside of Christine for the time being, is doing.
>
> Christine's father says that his daughter is and was manic-depressive
> and a schizophrenic. But of course she was the mommy, and your society
> refuses to do mandatory competency testing of all parents. So Christine
> took possession of her helpless newborn son 4 years ago, and managed to
> avoid killing him, until Tuesday night. Your society is directly
> responsible for this tragedy of an innocent and helpless little boy
> falling into the hands of an incompetent and mentally ill woman, solely
> due to the fact that she managed to impregnate herself and to belch a
baby
> out of her vaginal cavity. I don't feel like ranting & raving about it
> today. This case, the FACTS of this case, speak for themselves.
>
> Take care, JOE
>
> The following appears courtesy of today's Associated Press news wire:
>
> MASSENA, N.Y. (AP) - A 25-year-old woman will face charges she murdered
> her 4-year-old son, whose mutilated body was discovered by police
> investigating the mother's attempted suicide.
>
> Christina A. Stark was recovering from emergency surgery at Massena
> Memorial Hospital Thursday. Massena Police Chief Tim Currier said Stark
> would be charged with second-degree murder upon her release.
>
> Stark, who is eight months pregnant, was under guard at the hospital.
>
> An arrest warrant for Stark was issued Thursday by Massena Village
Justice
> Lawrence X. Dalton charging her with the death of Joshua D. Sharlow, who
> suffered over 100 stab wounds, according to police.
>
> Currier declined to elaborate on the child's wounds or comment about a
> report by the Watertown Daily Times that the child had been decapitated.
> Currier said the murder weapon had been recovered but he did not identify
> it.
>
> Police officers found the child behind his mother's house Tuesday night
> after responding to a possible suicide attempt. It appeared he had been
> killed about three hours earlier, police said.
>
> Neighbors described Stark as a strange, even ``psychotic'' single mother
> who was often inattentive to her skittish, quiet boy.
>
> ``I wanted to turn her in for child abuse because she had serious mental
> health problems,'' said neighbor Jackie Spoon. ``If I did, this never
> would have happened.''
>
> Spoon said her 11-year-old daughter often found Joshua playing alone
> outdoors.
>
> Harold Stark told the Watertown newspaper that his daughter is
> manic-depressive and schizophrenic. He said the family has tried to get
> her help and tried to get the mother and son placed in different homes.
>
> ``She refused. ... We couldn't make the system realize how bad things
> were.''
>
> Stark never married the boy's father, who works in Massachusetts. David
P.
> Sharlow had planned to seek custody of his son, said David L. Sharlow,
the
> boy's grandfather.
>
> The father of Stark's fetus has not been determined, although it is
> definitely not Sharlow, Harold Stark said.
>
> AP-NY-06-20-97
>