Sentenced: Hailey Renfroe wished she "didn't have any children" & Shannon Gargis made her wish come true

[Sugar Cookie]

Nov 8, 2018

After three days of deliberating, a Franklin County jury found Shannon Gargis guilty of manslaughter and aggravated child abuse in the death of his live-in girlfriend’s baby.

Forensic experts testified during the trial that Serenity Renfroe had numerous injuries and died from blunt force trauma to the head. Reports indicated she had more than 100 bruises on her body at the time of her death.

Gargis admitted to investigators, and then testified in court to the fact that he “grabbed” the child after she spilled cereal and then “tossed” her onto a love seat.
He maintained throughout the trial that he didn’t kill the baby.

The child’s mother, Hailey Renfroe, testified Gargis took her to work the night of March 21, 2016, and the baby was fine at that time. She said when she got home during the early morning hours of March 22, 2016, she discovered the child dead.

Attorney Eddie Beason, who along with Rebecca Thomason defended Gargis, said he was disappointed with the verdict.

“We were confident in our client and our client’s story and we are very disappointed,” Beason said after the jury’s decision.

https://www.timesdaily.com/news/cri...cle_dd82f40c-74bc-5274-8f45-1eeb13105638.html

July 7, 2017

According to the Franklin County District Attorney’s office, a settlement has been reached in charges against Hailey Rose Renfroe.

Renfroe was sentenced to six years, 18 months in community corrections and four years probation. It will be up to the Department of Corrections, Rushing said, how the 15 months Renfroe has served thus far will factor in.

Additionally, Renfroe “has agreed to fully cooperate and give truthful testimony” during Gargis’ trial, Rushing added.

https://www.franklincountytimes.com/2017/07/07/renfroe-pleads-guilty-to-hindering-prosecution/

Apr 12, 2016

Sgt. Jason Holcomb testified that multiple witnesses saw bruises on Serenity in the weeks before her death. One woman who allegedly saw the baby with bruises all over her face said she was told the child had fallen and hurt herself.

Another woman reportedly told Holcomb that Hailey Renfroe told her she suspected Gargis of abusing Serenity and that she wished she "didn't have any children," the Times-Daily reports.

Renfroe also allegedly told at least one witness that Serenity had been sick, but she was not taking her to a doctor because of the bruises.

https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2016/04/franklin_county_mom_to_face_gr.html

 

[Sejanus]

Frigging neckbeard.
Set him on fire then beat out the flames with Casey Anthony 2.0 here.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

@Sejanus

Casey 2.0 got away with killing her baby and was probably just as abusive to this child a s neckbeard.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Nov. 20, 2018

An Alabama man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the death of his girlfriend’s toddler daughter, Serenity Irene Renfroe.

Shannon Gargis 31, was convicted of manslaughter and aggravated child abuse.

Gargis was accused of grabbing 22-month-old Serenity by the throat and throwing her against a couch, causing blunt force trauma to her head. Serenity’s mother, Hailey Renfroe, was at work at the time.

https://www.al.com/news/2018/11/alabama-man-gets-40-years-in-prison-for-toddlers-death.html

 

[lithiumgirl]

40 years ... good, he deserves it.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The mother should have been locked up as well.

 

[ghosttruck]

Wish I knew someone where he's going...a case of honeybuns and some lifer would squash him like a roach

 

[Kimberix]

Came across this joke of a page
https://www.facebook.com/prayersforshannongargis/

 

[Sugar Cookie]

@Satanica
this is so sad

Serenity Renfroe, not quite 2, spilled her cereal.

It scattered across the floor of the little house on Rail Splitter Road where Serenity lived with her mom and her mom’s new boyfriend. They mostly kept to themselves. Rail Splitter Road cuts through a sparsely populated area near Phil Campbell in the rural northwest corner of Alabama.

Her mother’s boyfriend, Shannon Gargis, 28, had moved in with them two months before.

That Monday he was babysitting Serenity after driving her mom, Hailey Renfroe, 20, to the McDonald’s where she worked third shift.

The spilled cereal made Gargis mad. He’d gotten mad at Serenity a lot that week, investigators would later learn.

Shannon Gargis admitted to investigators that he physically disciplined Serenity more severely than his own children, and he said he’d been too rough with her in the days leading up to her death, according to court documents filed by the DA’s office.

He also admitted to hitting her in the face and spanking her “harder than appropriate.”

In the week before Serenity was killed, Gargis claimed she accidentally injured herself at least three times while he was babysitting her, according to testimony he gave investigators, said Franklin County District Attorney Joey Rushing.

“Every time he was alone with that child, the child ended up bruised or hurt or injured,” said Rushing.
Gargis claimed Serenity had a seizure a week before her death and that he tripped and fell on top of her, injuring her, according to Rushing. A few nights later, Gargis said, she climbed up on a pile of bicycles and fell, hitting her head.

The night before her death, he said she crammed too many chicken nuggets into her mouth at dinner and he had to dig them out, leaving bruising on her cheeks and forehead.

Her mother saw the bruises, she later told investigators, but Gargis continued to babysit Serenity. Renfroe declined to comment for this story.

It’s unclear if anyone called child protective services to report possible abuse.

Gargis was charged with capital murder and aggravated child abuse. In November 2018, after a three-week trial and two days of deliberation, the jury convicted him of manslaughter and of aggravated child abuse. He received the maximum sentence, a total of 40 years in prison.

“I do think,” said Rushing, “(Gargis) is one of the worst abusers we’ve ever dealt with.”
Renfroe pleaded guilty to hindering the prosecution, for lying to police about where she found Serenity’s body. Her aggravated child abuse charge was dropped as part of her plea deal and for lack of evidence.

What happened the night Serenity spilled her cereal is a story Gargis changed multiple times in the wake of her death.

The version Gargis finally settled on, the one he told at trial, was that he picked Serenity up by the neck and threw her against the love seat in the living room.

She tried to sit up but couldn’t, he later told investigators, and then she was still.
Gargis went to bed.

Hailey Renfroe arrived home around 2:30 a.m. to find her daughter laying at the foot of the bed where Gargis slept. The little girl looked bruised, and wasn’t breathing, according to court documents.
The couple called 911 about 30 minutes later. Paramedics found Serenity lying on the love seat. She was pronounced dead.

‘One of the worst abusers’: An Alabama case highlights the state’s physical child abuse problem

More than half of Alabama’s child abuse and neglect victims experience physical abuse, at nearly three times the national average.

www.al.com

 

[Satanica]

 

[Keepalowprofile]

I think this stems from his mother naming him Shannon.

 

[Ripley]

I think this stems from his mother naming him Shannon.

I had a boyfriend in junior high named Shannon. His mom named him after a river in Ireland.

It’s one of those names that started out as a boy’s name & got appropriated by girls. Like Ashley.

 

[Babs]

When I think of the name Ashley, I think of Gone with the Wind and the Southern slut Scarlet crooning over limp toast Ashley. I just want to slap her! LOL!

 

[Keepalowprofile]

I had a boyfriend in junior high named Shannon. His mom named him after a river in Ireland.

It’s one of those names that started out as a boy’s name & got appropriated by girls. Like Ashley.

Should have just named him River.
Shannon is a pussy name I don't care what century it is.