Father indicted for putting baby daugher in microwave oven - The Orange Mane

footstepsfrom#27 · 05-17-2007, 06:02 PM

http://www.fox11az.com/news/topstori....7acfcd93.html

'He's the worst scum of the Earth'

10:53 AM MST on Thursday, May 17, 2007

By Karla Barguiarena / KHOU-TV News

It was behind door 518 at a Galveston motel room where the unimaginable happened: A father put his two-month-old daughter in the microwave and turned it on.

Manager says man calmly called for help after microwaving baby
Last Thursday, Joshua Mauldin, 19, was alone in the motel with his baby when he called for help.

“The father called down here, asked us to call 911, claimed that the child had a bad sunburn and was bleeding,” hotel manager James Marx said.

Marx said he didn’t seem distraught at all.

Mauldin later told police it wasn’t a sunburn, but that he had accidentally spilled boiling water on the child.

Then his story changed again.

Also online

Joshua Mauldin's MySpace page (Warning: Contains offensive material)

“The first time, he tripped,” Galveston Police Sgt. Annie Almendarev said Wednesday. “Then he said, no, he was drinking it and spilled it. There were just too many inconsistencies. He just couldn’t keep his stories straight.”

A tip then led investigators to the hotel room’s microwave, where they discovered the baby had been placed inside.

Mauldin then confessed, saying stress had driven him to burn his child.

“There was no expression. There was no expression at all. No remorse,” Almendarev said.

The baby girl was rushed to Shriners Hospital, where she’s undergone two skin graft surgeries and is in critical but stable condition.

She suffered severe burns to the left side of her face and left hand.

“I’ve been doing this for a lot of years and actually it brought tears to my eyes,” Galveston Police Sgt. Annie Almendarev said. “The baby is burned on the left side here and it’s just really bad. Her hand is so swollen – if you’ve ever touched something hot you know you get that big boil on your hand – it looks like she’s holding a ball in her little bitty hand. It was just heartbreaking.”

Investigators believe the child was in the microwave for ten to 20 seconds.

11 News

Behind this door, the unthinkable happened: Joshua Mauldin put his daughter in the microwave and turned it on.
“I’m sitting there looking at the pictures and I’m sitting there looking at him, and there’s nothing I could really do about it but just keep my composure,” Almendarez said.

Mauldin had checked into the hotel last week along with his baby, his wife and his mother.

Police said he came to Galveston from Arkansas in search of a job as a minister.

“He’s the worst scum of the earth. I can’t … It makes you want to have cameras in the rooms,” Marx said.

At the time of the incident, Mauldin’s wife and mother were reportedly picking up dinner at a nearby restaurant.

According to police reports, he told investigators God ordered him to go to Galveston.

Mauldin was being held in the Galveston County Jail facing felony charges of injury to a child. His bond was set at $250,000.

Prosecutors said, if convicted, he could face anywhere from five to 99 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Smiling Assassin27 · 05-17-2007, 06:04 PM

The culture of death claims another casualty. Sick.

Northman · 05-17-2007, 06:29 PM

He'll get the needle or chair. Case closed.

RkyMtnThunder · 05-17-2007, 06:31 PM

As a father of a small child myself - I am dumbfounded with rage

I cant even comprehend how a father could possibly do that. Stress? Please, stress effects everybody. No sane individual would possibly find microwaving an infant to be stress relief.

Clearly the guy is mentally ill. No pity - string his ass up!

excuse me while I puke

Flex Gunmetal · 05-17-2007, 06:44 PM

Demolish him in the most painful manner...

Dr. Broncenstein · 05-17-2007, 06:58 PM

OMFG I hope he gets ass****ed to death

BMF Bronco · 05-17-2007, 07:30 PM

what a piece of ****, ****ing bring back the electric chair.

shakenbake · 05-17-2007, 07:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BMF Bronco

what a piece of ****, ****ing bring back the electric chair.

I would rather see him doing hard labor until the day he dies. Either way he is a dirt bag and deserves to be treated as one.

Hogan11 · 05-17-2007, 07:33 PM

Put him into an oven....alive.

DomCasual · 05-17-2007, 07:55 PM

Wow. Just, wow. That literally made my stomach lurch. I just can't imagine what it would take for a human to do that. Especially having the perspective of a parent of a baby about that age - she is just so reliant on us. And she trusts us unconditionally. We are literally her world, period. To take that stewardship and so thoroughly abuse it is just unimaginable. I would have no issues with them putting him away and never letting him out. There are some things that can't be fixed in a person.

You know, I sometimes have sympathy for people who abuse their babies. I know that sounds terrible, but every parent has had situations in the middle of the night where you're exhausted, and the baby is screaming, and you're just not thinking right. I have never hit my children, but I think I was close to it a few times - especially with our first one. But this? It's not like it's losing it and smacking the child, is it. It's sadistic, cruel, and premeditated. There is something irreparably broken in a person to be able to do that. I wouldn't see locking him up for the rest of his life as punishment. Do you keep a lion in a cage to punish him? No, you keep him there so that he won't hurt people. I don't see sickness like this any differently. If he suffers in the process, then so be it.

watermock · 05-17-2007, 08:11 PM

I'm with Hogan. Take out the oven racks, stuff him in an oven and turn on the self cleaning cycle. If he's a fat pig, just have an open pit with a spit.

bronco610 · 05-17-2007, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hogan11

Put him into an oven....alive.

My plastics oven does 700 degrees!! Let me have this a-hole.

theAPAOps5 · 05-17-2007, 08:23 PM

This is why the death penalty shouldn't be reserved solely for 1st degree murder. In fact he should be ordered to recieve the same treatment. He should be microwaved but kept alive and then everyonce in while taken back to the microwave and cooked up again. This makes me completely sick. If I was the responding officer I would have been kicked of the force because he would be leaving that hotel in an ambulance himself. Sick ****.

-Slap- · 05-17-2007, 08:30 PM

Footstepsinhismouth already said on another thread that he only posted this because, in his twisted mind, he's trying to further race relations in this country. Somehow, by exploiting this child's agony, Footy's teaching all the snivelling racists on this board a lesson.

Personally, I think his momma put too much oxygen into the womb when he was a fetus and now we're all paying the consequences.

Moon§hiner · 05-17-2007, 08:38 PM

After reading the Vick thread, I bet Mike is berating his cousin because he didn't think of this in the first place to destroy the evidence.

And yes this dude should get the chair...the only thing I am stumped by is how big was the microwave?....I'd have to literally cram a newborn in the ones that I have ever had in a hotel.

RkyMtnThunder · 05-17-2007, 08:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ApaOps5

This is why the death penalty shouldn't be reserved solely for 1st degree murder.

I agree, just realizing that our tax dollars will go to feed and house this abomination makes me ill.

epicSocialism4tw · 05-17-2007, 08:47 PM

This guy has to be sick. There is no other explaination for behavior like that.

Blueflame · 05-17-2007, 10:15 PM

How anyone could do something like that is beyond comprehension. Poor baby... may she recover and be put in the care of a responsible adult.

Los Broncos · 05-17-2007, 10:20 PM

Eat **** and die slow you ****ing loser! Makes me sick.

Los Broncos · 05-17-2007, 10:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blueflame

How anyone could do something like that is beyond comprehension. Poor baby... may she recover and be put in the care of a responsible adult.

Amen.

Atlas · 05-18-2007, 12:16 AM

This is outrageous! Everyone knows kids taste better off the grill.

Atlas · 05-18-2007, 12:40 AM

CNN ran some video on it.

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/play...microwave.khou

theAPAOps5 · 05-18-2007, 12:54 AM

What gets me is his claim of being a minister. No religious, god fearing, GOOD person would even entertain this kind of thought, let alone actually act on it. Man the image of that poor baby in there just makes me physically sick.

Los Broncos · 05-18-2007, 12:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Atlas

CNN ran some video on it.

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/play...microwave.khou

What the hell is a 19 yo having a kid anyways.

gunns · 05-18-2007, 01:04 AM

I happened to have my 3 month old granddaughter over when I read this. It literally brought tears to my eyes. I'm with Blueflame, hopefully she will go on to live with a person who is responsible and loves her regardless of the stress.

Put his a** in prison. They'll take care of him. They don't like that sh**

05-17-2007, 06:02 PM	#1
footstepsfrom#27 helmet to helmet hitter Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Arlington, TX Posts: 16,126 Adopt-a-Bronco: Joe Mays	Father indicted for putting baby daugher in microwave oven http://www.fox11az.com/news/topstori....7acfcd93.html 'He's the worst scum of the Earth' 10:53 AM MST on Thursday, May 17, 2007 By Karla Barguiarena / KHOU-TV News It was behind door 518 at a Galveston motel room where the unimaginable happened: A father put his two-month-old daughter in the microwave and turned it on. Manager says man calmly called for help after microwaving baby Last Thursday, Joshua Mauldin, 19, was alone in the motel with his baby when he called for help. “The father called down here, asked us to call 911, claimed that the child had a bad sunburn and was bleeding,” hotel manager James Marx said. Marx said he didn’t seem distraught at all. Mauldin later told police it wasn’t a sunburn, but that he had accidentally spilled boiling water on the child. Then his story changed again. Also online Joshua Mauldin's MySpace page (Warning: Contains offensive material) “The first time, he tripped,” Galveston Police Sgt. Annie Almendarev said Wednesday. “Then he said, no, he was drinking it and spilled it. There were just too many inconsistencies. He just couldn’t keep his stories straight.” A tip then led investigators to the hotel room’s microwave, where they discovered the baby had been placed inside. Mauldin then confessed, saying stress had driven him to burn his child. “There was no expression. There was no expression at all. No remorse,” Almendarev said. The baby girl was rushed to Shriners Hospital, where she’s undergone two skin graft surgeries and is in critical but stable condition. She suffered severe burns to the left side of her face and left hand. “I’ve been doing this for a lot of years and actually it brought tears to my eyes,” Galveston Police Sgt. Annie Almendarev said. “The baby is burned on the left side here and it’s just really bad. Her hand is so swollen – if you’ve ever touched something hot you know you get that big boil on your hand – it looks like she’s holding a ball in her little bitty hand. It was just heartbreaking.” Investigators believe the child was in the microwave for ten to 20 seconds. 11 News Behind this door, the unthinkable happened: Joshua Mauldin put his daughter in the microwave and turned it on. “I’m sitting there looking at the pictures and I’m sitting there looking at him, and there’s nothing I could really do about it but just keep my composure,” Almendarez said. Mauldin had checked into the hotel last week along with his baby, his wife and his mother. Police said he came to Galveston from Arkansas in search of a job as a minister. “He’s the worst scum of the earth. I can’t … It makes you want to have cameras in the rooms,” Marx said. At the time of the incident, Mauldin’s wife and mother were reportedly picking up dinner at a nearby restaurant. According to police reports, he told investigators God ordered him to go to Galveston. Mauldin was being held in the Galveston County Jail facing felony charges of injury to a child. His bond was set at $250,000. Prosecutors said, if convicted, he could face anywhere from five to 99 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

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05-17-2007, 06:04 PM	#2
Smiling Assassin27 STOP! KIPER TIME! Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: In a van down by the river Posts: 11,104 Adopt-a-Bronco: Von Miller	The culture of death claims another casualty. Sick.

05-17-2007, 06:29 PM	#3
Northman The Enigma Prognosis Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Maryland Posts: 17,925 Adopt-a-Bronco: Bryci	He'll get the needle or chair. Case closed.

05-17-2007, 06:31 PM	#4
RkyMtnThunder Perennial Pro-bowler New to the Forum Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 899 Adopt-a-Bronco: None	As a father of a small child myself - I am dumbfounded with rage I cant even comprehend how a father could possibly do that. Stress? Please, stress effects everybody. No sane individual would possibly find microwaving an infant to be stress relief. Clearly the guy is mentally ill. No pity - string his ass up! excuse me while I puke

05-17-2007, 06:44 PM	#5
Flex Gunmetal Icy Fresh Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: COLORADO Posts: 3,036 Adopt-a-Bronco: Francis Daytona	Demolish him in the most painful manner...

05-17-2007, 06:58 PM	#6
Dr. Broncenstein Oldeskool Homeskool Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sterile Fields Posts: 11,857 Adopt-a-Bronco: Wesley Woodyard	OMFG I hope he gets ass****ed to death

05-17-2007, 07:30 PM	#7
BMF Bronco Offseason sucks... Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Bozeman, MT Posts: 11,724 Adopt-a-Bronco: ME	what a piece of **, **ing bring back the electric chair.

05-17-2007, 07:33 PM	#9
Hogan11 Rock-N-Roll Historian Let's take these SOB's out!!!!!! Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: W.NY.B.C. Posts: 21,300 Adopt-a-Bronco: Floyd Little	Put him into an oven....alive.

05-17-2007, 07:55 PM	#10
DomCasual The Dude abides. Shameless Homer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Cocytus Posts: 13,211 Adopt-a-Bronco: Gus Frerotte	Wow. Just, wow. That literally made my stomach lurch. I just can't imagine what it would take for a human to do that. Especially having the perspective of a parent of a baby about that age - she is just so reliant on us. And she trusts us unconditionally. We are literally her world, period. To take that stewardship and so thoroughly abuse it is just unimaginable. I would have no issues with them putting him away and never letting him out. There are some things that can't be fixed in a person. You know, I sometimes have sympathy for people who abuse their babies. I know that sounds terrible, but every parent has had situations in the middle of the night where you're exhausted, and the baby is screaming, and you're just not thinking right. I have never hit my children, but I think I was close to it a few times - especially with our first one. But this? It's not like it's losing it and smacking the child, is it. It's sadistic, cruel, and premeditated. There is something irreparably broken in a person to be able to do that. I wouldn't see locking him up for the rest of his life as punishment. Do you keep a lion in a cage to punish him? No, you keep him there so that he won't hurt people. I don't see sickness like this any differently. If he suffers in the process, then so be it.

05-17-2007, 08:11 PM	#11
watermock "Hoodie Jr" "Hug me!" Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hot Springs, Ouachitah Posts: 77,090	I'm with Hogan. Take out the oven racks, stuff him in an oven and turn on the self cleaning cycle. If he's a fat pig, just have an open pit with a spit.

05-17-2007, 08:23 PM	#13
theAPAOps5 A new beginning! Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Denver Posts: 26,152 Adopt-a-Bronco: Watermock - RIP	This is why the death penalty shouldn't be reserved solely for 1st degree murder. In fact he should be ordered to recieve the same treatment. He should be microwaved but kept alive and then everyonce in while taken back to the microwave and cooked up again. This makes me completely sick. If I was the responding officer I would have been kicked of the force because he would be leaving that hotel in an ambulance himself. Sick ****.

05-17-2007, 08:30 PM	#14
-Slap- Ring of Famer Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 31,895	Footstepsinhismouth already said on another thread that he only posted this because, in his twisted mind, he's trying to further race relations in this country. Somehow, by exploiting this child's agony, Footy's teaching all the snivelling racists on this board a lesson. Personally, I think his momma put too much oxygen into the womb when he was a fetus and now we're all paying the consequences.

05-17-2007, 08:38 PM	#15
Moon§hiner Skipper of the Minnow Lightning in a Bottle Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 4,888	After reading the Vick thread, I bet Mike is berating his cousin because he didn't think of this in the first place to destroy the evidence. And yes this dude should get the chair...the only thing I am stumped by is how big was the microwave?....I'd have to literally cram a newborn in the ones that I have ever had in a hotel.

05-17-2007, 08:47 PM	#17
epicSocialism4tw Tebowing the long haul all the way to the title Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: TX, USA Posts: 37,072 Adopt-a-Bronco: Champ Bailey	This guy has to be sick. There is no other explaination for behavior like that.

05-17-2007, 10:15 PM	#18
Blueflame Miss Congeniality Welcome to Peyton's Place Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: in my cups... lol Posts: 33,073 Adopt-a-Bronco: Randy Gradishar	How anyone could do something like that is beyond comprehension. Poor baby... may she recover and be put in the care of a responsible adult.

05-17-2007, 10:20 PM	#19
Los Broncos Flaw Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Utah Posts: 18,803 Adopt-a-Bronco: Ryan Clady	Eat ** and die slow you **ing loser! Makes me sick.

05-18-2007, 12:16 AM	#21
Atlas Draft Defense Early&Often Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 18,526	This is outrageous! Everyone knows kids taste better off the grill.

05-18-2007, 12:40 AM	#22
Atlas Draft Defense Early&Often Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 18,526	CNN ran some video on it. http://www.cnn.com/video/player/play...microwave.khou

05-18-2007, 12:54 AM	#23
theAPAOps5 A new beginning! Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Denver Posts: 26,152 Adopt-a-Bronco: Watermock - RIP	What gets me is his claim of being a minister. No religious, god fearing, GOOD person would even entertain this kind of thought, let alone actually act on it. Man the image of that poor baby in there just makes me physically sick.

05-18-2007, 01:04 AM	#25
gunns I WANT DEFENSE! Defense, defense, defense Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Always Hoping Posts: 11,745 Adopt-a-Bronco: Defense	I happened to have my 3 month old granddaughter over when I read this. It literally brought tears to my eyes. I'm with Blueflame, hopefully she will go on to live with a person who is responsible and loves her regardless of the stress. Put his a in prison. They'll take care of him. They don't like that sh