“We all pray that we still find him safe but that’s just not the way it’s pointing at this point,” Hampton police chief Terry Sult said at a Friday news conference.
I don't think it was from the beginning they just didn't want to admit it & had to go through procedures to keep from blowing the case against her. the way that one looked on the first announcement, he knew but had to maintain, it reminded me of that couple that knew the guy had killed their pregnant daughter but had to sit there with him in an interview“We all pray that we still find him safe but that’s just not the way it’s pointing at this point,” Hampton police chief Terry Sult said at a Friday news conference.
Tomlin spent five months behind bars, after her then 1-year-old daughter was severely burned when she sat the child down on a hot stove, and then failed to take her to the hospital for days. According to the records cited by WTKR, Tomlin had five kids at the time.
The body of a 2-year-old Virginia boy was recovered at a steam plant Wednesday morning, 10 days after he disappeared, police said.
A police officer searching the plant found the remains of a child believed to be Noah Tomlin, though formal confirmation is pending, Hampton Police Chief Terry Sult said at a news conference on Wednesday.
Noah was last seen when he was put to bed at about 1 a.m. on June 24 at his mobile home in Hampton, police said. His mother, Julia Tomlin, told police she went to check on him around 11 a.m. Monday and didn't find him, authorities. She reported him missing at 11:36 a.m., launching an extensive search, police said.
Julia Tomlin, 34, was charged with three counts of felony child neglect, police said on Friday. The charges involve three children, including Noah, according to police.
Crews searched a landfill, dumpsters, homes and sheds in the massive search for Noah. Sult said searches sifted through 2 million pounds of garbage.
Sult said the search for the little boy took "a toll on our community and our first responders."
"There are officers who are shedding tears. I was holding one of our employees in my arms this morning that was crying," he said.
"It will take time for all involved to recover and heal," Sult said.
I'm hearing "steam plant" and seeing a facility that makes steam for heating and power in my mind's eye.whats a steam plant? did she put him in the trash?
good, I am not the only one tried looking it up and wtfI'm hearing "steam plant" and seeing a facility that makes steam for heating and power in my mind's eye.
Wikipedia doesn't have an entry for "Steam plant", but there are several entries for various power-generating sites that use the words in their name. The article linked in this thread doesn't say where in the steam plant he was recovered, so I don't know how he came to be at the plant.
--Al
. Remains believed to be those of a missing 2-year-old Virginia boy were found Wednesday morning in a steam plant that converts trash to energy
that was what I & apparently all law enforcement there as well as others thought: they were immediately searching bins ads well as the woods from day one, maybe this weird ass steam facility is part of the garbage thing before it goes into the landfill
I'm hearing "steam plant" and seeing a facility that makes steam for heating and power in my mind's eye.
Wikipedia doesn't have an entry for "Steam plant", but there are several entries for various power-generating sites that use the words in their name. The article linked in this thread doesn't say where in the steam plant he was recovered, so I don't know how he came to be at the plant.
--Al
Found ten days after his death... how horrible for whoever had to see that.
Hampton mom Julia Tomlin is charged with murder and disposal of a deceased person in the death of her 2-year-old son Noah Tomlin.
Hampton Commonwealth’s Attorney Anton Bell announced Thursday morning that according to an autopsy report, Noah died from blunt force trauma and battered child syndrome.
The signs of abuse included “the types of injuries that you would find that would literally stop the growth of bones ... due to either some severe disease, such as cancer, or some type of abuse – or even malnutrition.”
Bell says based on the autopsy report there is “no question” in his mind that Noah was tortured.
“There were injuries that were healing and so we know some of those injuries could be from days to actual weeks, but there are indications that they were not necessarily fresh,” said Bell. “The injuries that caused the death were two fractures to the skull. Those injuries had not healed at all. As a result, we know they were absolutely the cause of death.”
The charges against Julia Tomlin comes four months after Noah was first reported missing from his Buckroe Beach home. His body was found in the Hampton Steam Plant more than a week after he disappeared.
Noah’s mother, Julia Tomlin was arrested a few days after Noah was reported missing. She was originally charged with three counts of felony child neglect.
HAMPTON — A Hampton judge has removed two public defenders who have been representing a mother charged with murdering her toddler in 2019.
Circuit Court Judge Michael Gaten ordered the Hampton Public Defender’s Office off the Julia Tomlin case last week following a motion by Hampton’s top prosecutor who accused the office of dragging its feet.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Anton Bell asked Gaten to replace — and impose sanctions on — the defense lawyers after they asked that a trial scheduled for later this month be postponed, even on the heels of prior delays.
“This is procrastination — at best,” Bell said he told Gaten at the hearing. “We’ve been prepared each time to go forward. We want — the community wants — some resolution of this case.”
Though Gaten declined to hand down sanctions, he removed Hampton Deputy Public Defender Dan Mazzio and Assistant Public Defender Dave Anderson from the case after hearing from both sides.
“The judge said that (Julia Tomlin) has a constitutional right to have prepared counsel,” Bell said this week. Gaten appointed Tyrone Johnson, a Hampton lawyer in private practice, to take over Tomlin’s defense.
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Two years after the death of 2-year-old Noah Tomlin, his mother, Julia Tomlin is scheduled for a plea hearing.
The Hampton Commonwealth's Attorney's Office said Monday that Tomlin was expected to plead guilty Tuesday to charges related to her son's killing.
Tomlin reported Noah missing on June 24, 2019, and on July 3 of that year, police found his body at the Hampton Steam Plant.
When police found his remains, they said they were in an "advanced state" of decomposition. The police officer who found his body had to leave the scene, it was so graphic.
After an autopsy, the medical examiner found that Noah had fractures to his skull that likely caused his death. Hampton Commonwealth's Attorney Anton Bell said the evidence of child abuse was almost to the level of "torture."
"The type of injury this child suffered was as if a child had fallen several stories," Bell said. "His abuse was of such a nature that his bones stopped growing. There was evidence of that."
His official cause of death was blunt force trauma.