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| 2007-07-11 |
| A Dorchester woman who has already had three children taken from her lost a fourth to the state yesterday after her 3-month-old daughter’s neck was allegedly slashed by one of three homeless men she was partying with. Prosecutors said Kyanna Davis, 24, knew Andrew Vaughn, 31, was “known to carry a razor blade secreted in his mouth,” yet allowed him to be alone in a bedroom with her infant daughter early yesterday morning after he’d spent the night getting drunk and urinating on her furniture. "This family felt bad for him," prosecutor Megan O’Rourke said of Vaughn, who’d been living at 119 Maxwell St. for two days. “They took him into their home. This was the end result.” The Department of Social Services took legal custody of Inaiza Davis, born April 7, even as she remained hospitalized in stable condition. Vaughn was ordered held on $500,000 cash bail after pleading not guilty to assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and mayhem in the Dorchester Division of Boston Municipal Court. No weapon was found on him, however, Boston police seized pocket knives from two of Davis’ five guests. “The facts of this case are so brutal as to speak for themselves,” said Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley. The infant’s siblings, ages 6, 4 and 1, were turned over to relatives last year by DSS and their mother’s case closed by the agency after Davis pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment of a child, was sentenced to six months and ordered to attend a program on mothering. According to a DSS service plan that was in effect from June 13 to Dec. 13, 2006, on March 24, 2006, Davis abandoned another daughter, then 6 months old, on the porch of the child’s father, Tyrone Jackson, “unannounced and unsupervised.” DSS spokeswoman Denise Monteiro said the agency only learned yesterday Davis had given birth again. Jackson, 31, has taken out multiple restraining orders against Davis in the past, alleging she threatened to “hurt me” or “burn my house down,” according to court documents. Davis left court yesterday with tears streaming down her face, but is due to return on July 18 to face charges she scratched up Jackson’s mother’s car and flattened the tires. Defense attorney Matthew Luz said Vaughn may have a problem controlling his liquor and his bladder, but he’s no baby slasher. “He went to the bathroom, heard the baby crying and picked the baby up. That’s when the cuts were noticed,” Luz said. “Mr. Vaughn suggests that not only was he intoxicated, but there were six people present in the house and they were all intoxicated.” |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #10 Funny thing: they licence driving a car, but a child... |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-07-11 19:36 |
| #9 Can someone make having a child you cannot afford/are not capable of looking after a jailable offence? In jail until ovaries/testes stop, or sterilisation. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2007-07-11 18:09 |
| #8 Might be a good idea if Kyanna had her legs duct taped together Hey tu, that doesn't work and for me to post the the reason I know that would rate a sinktraping for sure. But if GORT was king, two little snip snips would take of the problem. |
| Posted by: GORT 2007-07-11 15:16 |
| #7 but can she say 'sputum?" |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-07-11 14:46 |
| #6 A Dorchester woman... ...and you can stop reading from there! |
| Posted by: Raj 2007-07-11 13:47 |
| #5 ...and pisses on your furniture. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-07-11 13:06 |
| #4 Don't be too hard on Davis. Everyone knows that homeless guys make the best party guests. I mean, what's not to like about a guy who walks around with a razor blade in his mouth? |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2007-07-11 13:04 |
| #3 Sounds like the business model for the "Syd Vicious preschool and daycare center" franchise. |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2007-07-11 12:03 |
| #2 Might be a good idea if Kyanna had her legs duct taped together. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-07-11 12:00 |
| #1 Sonds like she has all the qualifications to be a Duchess. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2007-07-11 11:42 |