‘I Didn’t Want To Hurt Her, Just The Baby!’ Dumped Boyfriend Kicks Unborn Baby To Death

[Sugar Cookie]

Trial started Monday for an Alabama man who may face the death penalty after police say he beat his former girlfriend to “near death,” killing her 37-week-old unborn baby daughter in the process.

Al.com reports that Christopher Ammons Kemp, 31, is accused of fracturing the skull and bones of his unborn baby during a gruesome beating he doled out on his ex-girlfriend, Jessica Jackson, in 2016, in her Hoover home. The infant also had lacerated organs and displaced ribs after Kemp allegedly beat Jackson so brutally that she was taken to the hospital with significant injuries.

On March 15, 2016, authorities responded to an incident off of Larkspur Drive when someone called the police about a woman with severe injuries walking along a roadway. After medical help arrived, they found Jessica at a nearby gas station and immediately started medical treatment. The Hoover Fire Department rescue unit then took her to UAB Hospital.

While at the hospital, Jessica lost her baby. She told authorities that her ex-boyfriend, Kemp, was the one responsible for her injuries. The following day, Birmingham police caught Kemp at his home. He was arrested and charged with capital murder and first-degree domestic violence.

Prior to his arrest, Kemp reportedly sent a Facebook message to friend, which read that he “didn’t want to hurt her, just the baby.” The message was read aloud during opening statements on Monday, by Deputy District Attorney Neal Zarzour.

Jessica and the suspect met in middle school, according to court documents. They broke up shortly before starting college, then met up again and rekindled their romance in 2014. Kemp and his daughter moved in with Jessica shortly after, in her home in the Bluff Park area of Hoover. The arguing began shortly after and according to Zarzour, Jennifer kicked Kemp out of the home numerous times, but there were never any previous reports of physical violence.

Each argument, however, seemed to intensify. Zarzour said on News Years Eve in 2016, Kemp fired a rifle outside, scaring Jessica. He later had her power turned off because she refused sex with him, which prompted Jessica to end the relationship for good.

At this point, Jessica didn’t think Kemp would physically harm her, so she made plans to meet up with sometime in March to discuss their baby’s future. She planned to tell him she wanted the baby to keep her last name and that she didn’t want his signature on the birth certificate.

On one of his “drive by” outings to Jessica’s house on March 6, he noticed Jessica’s ex-husband loading gifts into a car after a baby shower.

Nine days later, the suspect allegedly snuck into Jessica’s garage and waited for her to return home. By that point, Jessica was afraid of Kemp and had been staying at her former mother-in-law’s home. However, on the day in question, she happened to stop by her home to pick up some items when she was confronted by Kemp in the garage.

As Kemp started attacking her, Jessica tried to fight back, according to Zarzour, but he overpowered her. Jessica told authorities the next thing she remembered was being at a gas station with her ex-husband, surrounded by officers.

Jessica was in a coma for a few days, and although doctors prepared her family to “expect the worst,” she pulled through.

http://www.crimeonline.com/2018/07/...-dumped-boyfriend-kicks-unborn-baby-to-death/

 

[CbabyRKO]

He deserves that capital murder charge and everything else they can throw at him.
This is by far the most heinous thing I have laid my eyes on this week and I can't quite put into words how awful it makes me feel.
How evil do you have to be to plan out an attack like this with the intent to murder a baby?

 

[Keepalowprofile]

The DP is good but
I hope he gets life without parole.
Because there will no doubt be some ass kicking in his future.

We sometimes talk about mother's in prison missing their littles. I'm pretty sure there are some dad's that miss their babes and will no doubt expend some energy kicking this losers ass.

 

[Sejanus]

May he know no peace for the rest of his days on this rock.
Everyday bring new threats and beatings.
Every night new terrors.
First one to lacerate his liver gets a box of banana cream twinkies

 

[CentreAussie]

Remember Vince in 'Pulp Fiction' when he's talkin to that POS junkie dealer about his Malibu convertible getting keyed?
I would have given anything to have caught him doing it. It almost would have been worth him doin' it just so I could have caught him him doin' it.

When I look at his mugshot, I'm thinking the exact same thing that the person taking that picture was thinking. He's in Alabama. For what he did, he's going to suffer beyond anything that he is imagining right now.

Nothing can put this right, but he will pay.

Dearly.

 

[Craygor]

Christopher "I'm not a smart man, but I know what being confused is" Kemp

Did anyone read the fucking lead-up story to the unborn baby killing assault? If not, here you go, grab a cup of joe and have look-see.

The unborn, 37-week old baby at the center of a Jefferson County murder case died from injuries including lacerated organs, displaced ribs, fractured bones, and a fractured skull, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Opening statements kicked off the trial for Christopher Ammons Kemp, a 31-year-old Birmingham man accused of attacking his pregnant ex-girlfriend in 2016. She had serious injuries, but survived the attack- her unborn baby, who Kemp fathered, died.

Jury selection began Monday, and the trial started Tuesday in Jefferson County Circuit Judge Laura Petro's court. Kemp is charged with capital murder during the course of a burglary and first-degree domestic violence. If convicted on the capital murder charge, he could face the death penalty.

"I didn't want to hurt her, just the baby," is what Kemp told a friend via Facebook just after the attack, Deputy District Attorney Neal Zarzour said in his opening statement. He described the case as a murder about a "jilted ex who felt like he was being pushed out."

Kemp and the surviving victim, Jessica Jackson, met in middle school and dated in high school. They broke up before college, but reconnected in 2014. In 2015, Jackson allowed Kemp and his young daughter to move into her Bluff Park home.

Jackson kicked Kemp out of the house multiple times, Zarzour said, but there had never been any physical violence between the two. Jackson let Kemp move back in, and in August, she told Kemp she was pregnant.

On New Years Eve of that year, Jackson was frightened by Kemp when he grabbed a rifle and fired it into the air outside her home. Days later, she said Kemp got mad at her for not wanting to have sex and cut her power off. When she turned the power back on, Jackson was finished with the relationship. "That was the last straw," Zarzour said.

Jackson and her father moved Kemp out and changed the locks to her home, and Jackson tried to prepare for her baby girl's arrival. Her ex-husband offered to help, and starting coming to the Hoover home periodically to paint the nursery and move furniture. Jackson cut off all contact with Kemp, Zarzour said, and the only way he could contact her was through email.

Zarzour said Kemp sent daily emails, and mentioned seeing Jackson's ex-husband at her home. In February 2016, he started leaving gifts on her doorstop and mowing her lawn while she wasn't home. Jackson was annoyed with Kemp, but she wasn't afraid. She planned to meet with him in March to discuss her plan for raising their daughter, and tell Kemp that she wanted the baby to have her last name and Kemp not to be identified on the birth certificate.

On March 6 - nine days before the attack- Jackson had a baby shower. Her ex-husband was helping her unload the presents from her car when Kemp pulled up in the driveway, Zarzour said. Kemp left before anyone confronted him, but Jackson was scared.

After that incident, Jackson was afraid to be in her home alone and was staying at her ex-husband's mother's home. Zarzour said Jackson had to stop at her house occasionally to pick up clothes or pack overnight bags.

On March 16, 2016, Zarzour said Jackson left work and intended to go home, pack a bag, and leave. She didn't know Kemp was waiting for her in the garage.

According to Zarzour, Jackson pulled into the garage and entered the home. She realized she forgot something in the car and walked back in the garage, when she saw Kemp standing to her left with something pink in his hand. Kemp then knocked Jackson to the ground and pulled the item over Jackson's head, choking her. She tried to fight but kept losing consciousness, Zarzour said, and was "preparing that this was it for her."

When Jackson woke up, she was in her ex-husband's car at a nearby gas station and surrounded by police, Zarzour said. She was confused, and severely beaten. Authorities took Jackson to St. Vincent's hospital, and then UAB Hospital, where doctors performed emergency surgery and the baby girl was pronounced dead. Jackson was in serious condition, and her family was told to prepare for the worst.

That's when a friend of Jackson's contacted Kemp and told him what was going on with his ex-girlfriend, Zarzour said. Kemp asked how bad Jackson's injuries were, and then said via Facebook: "I didn't want to hurt her, just the baby."

Zarzour said the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on the baby's body described her injuries as "devastating."

Kemp's lawyer John Robbins said during his opening statement that Kemp isn't innocent. "He is responsible for his conduct that day. He caused injury to Jessica [Jackson], he caused injury to his unborn child."

He said the two were high school sweethearts, who rekindled their relationship in 2014 while Jackson was married. Not long after her divorce was finalized in December 2014, Kemp and his daughter moved in.

"[Jackson] became the surrogate mother," Robbins said, referencing Kemp's young child.

Robbins said that rifle incident on New Years Eve wasn't done in anger, but was actually Kemp shooting at a target to celebrate the holiday. He said Jackson kicked him out in January 2016, but Kemp still wanted to work things out.

"He was told, your baby is not going to have your name. He was told, you're not going to be involved," Robbins said.

Kemp did go by Jackson's house and leave presents or do yard work, Robbins said, because he wanted to show that he could make the relationship work. He also drove through the neighborhood from time to time.

Robbins said the most important factor about the day of Jackson's attack was that it was a Tuesday-- that's the day Jackson always picked up Kemp's daughter from daycare and took her to dance lessons. But, Jackson couldn't pick up the child that day and told Kemp's mother to take her place. No one told Kemp that, Robbins said.

That afternoon, he said Kemp went by Jackson's home so he could figure out how to get in her garage to retrieve the stuff he had left there. He asked Jackson for it in January, but since he still didn't have his belongings, he wanted to see if he could get into the garage without setting off the alarm. Kemp wasn't expecting Jackson to be home because she was supposed to be at dance lessons, Robbins said.

When Kemp was in the garage, Jackson came home and screamed when she saw her ex-boyfriend. "Chris snaps, and he beats her. He does. There's no question," Robbins said.

Jackson sustained "horrible injuries" in the attack around 5:30 p.m., Robbins said, and Kemp tried to give her a juice box from the fridge. Jackson spit out the juice, and he took her phone to call 911. But, Robbins said, Kemp couldn't get into the locked phone and smashed it out of frustration. He left, with Jackson still on the floor.

According to Robbins, Jackson wandered around the house in a daze for about an hour and a half, before her ex-husband found her.

When Kemp left Jackson's house, he went home and told his parents what he had done. Robbins said they told Kemp to turn himself in. At this point, he didn't know the extent of Jackson - or the baby's - injuries.

Kemp had been taking Xanax all day, Robbins said, and sent the Facebook message around midnight when he learned about Jackson's condition. He was high, and he was scared. "That is not a reflection of what he meant," Robbins said.

Robbins said Kemp didn't go to Jackson's house intending to harm anyone, and just snapped in the garage. He said Kemp should be held responsible for his actions, though, by being convicted of a lesser charge like felony murder or manslaughter.

The trial continues Wednesday.

Deputy District Attorney Joe Roberts is also prosecuting.

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/07/capital_murder_trial_begins_fo.html

 

[DamagedGoods]

he took her phone to call 911. But, Robbins said, Kemp couldn't get into the locked phone and smashed it out of frustration. He left, with Jackson still on the floor.

I'm really interested to hear from the girlfriend as to the accuracy of this scenario, because I find it far more likely that he took her phone and smashed it so she couldn't call for help after he left, and that he told this bullshit story to make himself look better instead.

Does he not have his own phone? Why not call 911 the moment he got to another phone if he really intended on calling for help for her?

 

[cubby]

His lawyer's version of what happened and the emotions and intentions behind it is nothing but absolute bullshit from the first sentence to the last. No matter what he intended or how marginalized he felt, he still made the decision to beat a pregnant woman to almost to death, killing their baby. I think his FB post is the most honest: He meant to kill the baby, not her, but if it meant killing her then so be it.

Death penalty is too easy for him. He needs to be taken out back, rolled in honey and tied face down on the biggest fire ant bed they can find (they are fairly plentiful down in these here parts) then give him a good kick (wearing your best steel toed shit kickers) to the kidneys every time he makes a noise. Hopefully he'll die from so many stings, but it'll take awhile and he'll be in misery until he does.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

. Robbins said Kemp didn't go to Jackson's house intending to harm anyone, and just snapped

That's total bullshit.
Because he hid and he had something to put over her head.

 

[CentreAussie]

Death penalty is too easy for him.

Even though I'm all for the the death penalty, I'm inclined to agree with you here. I wanna see him get LWOP.

Like I said before, he is in Alabama, there will be no automatic segregation for this sucker. In the mainline, the best fate he can hope for is sucking cock and taking it in the ass 10 times a day to earn the right to continue drawing breath for himself, and packets of ramen noodles for his husband. If anything that is understating it dramatically. If he does punk out and somehow manage to get the C.Os to listen to him, he'll go off to P.C. If you want to know what that would be like for him, take a pen and a pad of paper, a TV that only works 8 hours a day, go into your bathroom and lock the door. Now stay in there, 23 or 24 hours a day alternately, everyday, for the rest of your life.

 

[EKJay]

I get still being attached to another person's child after a relationship has ended, but she was still hauling his daughter to dance classes 3 months after the breakup? But yet "made plans to meet up with sometime in March to discuss their baby’s future." So-- she kept contact with the guy's child, and apparently his mother, but not him. This poor girl should have just cut all ties when she gave him the boot. Also makes me wonder where his older child's mom is...?

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Sep 28, 2018

The man convicted of killing his unborn child and nearly beating his ex-girlfriend to death was ordered to spend his life in prison.

Christopher Ammons Kemp, 31, was originally charged with capital murder for the March 2016 beating of his pregnant ex-girlfriend. She had serious injuries, but survived the attack. Her 37-week-old unborn baby, who Kemp fathered, died. He was convicted in July of the lesser charge of felony murder and first-degree domestic violence.

Kemp spoke at his sentencing hearing and apologized to Jackson and her family. "No woman deserves what happened to you," he said. "I took so much from you and caused so much pain... I've ended the life of a little girl and destroyed the life of another."

"I don't deserve anybody's sympathy. I did a horrible thing, and I deserve to be punished," Kemp said.

Man sentenced for beating ex, killing unborn baby: An 'angel born sleeping'

Christopher Kemp was convicted of killing his unborn child, a 37-week-old baby girl. The baby's mom called her an "angel born sleeping" in court on Thursday.

www.al.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

He appealed...

His sentence was affirmed in part.

Inmate: KEMP, CHRISTOPHER AMMONS

Incarceration Details:
ADMIT DATE: 09/27/2018

TOTAL TERM: 999Y 99M 99D

TIME SERVED: 10 YEARS 2 MONTHS 1 DAY

JAIL CREDIT: 927 DAYS

MINIMUM RELEASE DATE: 12/31/9999

PAROLE CONSIDERATION DATE: 02/01/2031

Sentences:

Case No.	Sentenced	Offense	Term	Jail Credit	Pre Time Served	Type	Commit County
CC2016-002693	DOMESTIC VIOLENCE I	999Y 99M 99D	927	0	JEFFERSON
CC2016-002694	MURDER	999Y 99M 99D	927	0	JEFFERSON	CONSECUTIVE