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Parents Beat Baby to Death To 'Beat the Demons Out'
By KENNETH DEAN
Staff Writer
HENDERSON — The parents of a 13-month-old were arraigned on capital murder charges this morning after they beat their 13-month-old baby to death to “beat the demons out.â€
Blaine Milam, 19, and Jessica Carson, 18, have been informed of their rights in a case that even seasoned lawmen say is shocking.
Ms. Carson sat in the courtroom as she waited to be arraigned with her arms folded, sobbing silently. Milam sat with no expression on his face. Officials told TylerPaper.com that Milam was sentenced in August of this year on a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child.
Rusk County Justice of the Peace Precinct 5 Bob Richardson, who arraigned the two, said he did not arraign them yesterday because the scene was so disturbing.
“Yes, it did bother me,†he said. “It was gruesome to see the 13-month-old lying there, and what they had done to it.â€
Richardson also said that the couple reportedly went to a local pawn shop yesterday to sell tools so they could afford to hire a priest to perform an exorcism.
“I guess they decided to take care of the demons themselves,†Richardson said.
The Rusk County Sheriff’s Department will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. today, as both suspects remain jailed on $2 million bond each.
Rusk County District Attorney Investigator William Brown said sheriff officials received a 911 call about 11 a.m. Tuesday.
Brown said what investigators found at the home near Lake Cherokee on County Road 2125 was a crime scene that was hard even for seasoned lawmen.
“These crimes involving children are always hard, so yes, it was very unpleasant,†he said.
Brown said it was apparent the child, identified as Amora Bain Carson, suffered blunt force trauma, and a hammer may have been the murder weapon. He added that Rusk County Justice of the Peace Bonnie Miller ordered the baby’s body sent to the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas for an autopsy.
“We will know a lot more after the autopsy results come back on what the weapon was, but we believe they may have used a hammer,†he said.
Brown did say that he had learned the stepfather had been in trouble before for child abuse, but that the child killed Tuesday was not involved in the earlier cases.
“Those cases involved other children,†he said. “We will release more information after they are both arraigned.â€
Updated Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008 at 11:35 a.m. CST
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