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Arrest made in Sherman child abuse investigation
Sep 10, 2010
SHERMAN, TX - Sherman Police tell us they have made an arrest in a child abuse investigation that's left a 15-month-old boy fighting for his life in a Dallas hospital.

According to police 23-year-old Micah Troy Duncan was booked into the Grayson County Jail Thursday morning after an officer responded to a disturbance involving an injured child at an apartment in the 2300 block of West Taylor Due to confidentiality laws, that's all police could tell us.
But family members tell us the baby boy was flown to Parkland Hospital yesterday and is now on life support.
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http://www.kxii.com/home/headlines/102661539.html
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Micah Troy Duncan​

UPDATED
Sherman toddler pronounced dead; one man arrested
A Sherman toddler was pronounced dead at noon Friday, and one man was arrested, suspected of child abuse.
Micah Troy Duncan was arrested on a charge of injury to a child with intent to cause serious bodily injury, and has been taken to Grayson County Jail. Bail is set at $500,000 at the written request of the Grayson County District Attorney's Office. District Attorney Joe Brown said Duncan will be charged with capital murder.

Information on the incident is still forthcoming, but it is known through court documents that the child, 15-month-old Gabriel Goshorn, was in Duncan's care on Thursday morning while the toddler's mother took another child to school.

When Gorshorn's mother returned to the apartment on FM 1417, Sherman paramedics were at the apartment, treating her son who had severe head trauma. Paramedics transported the child to Texas Health Presbyterian-WNJ Hospital. The child was later transferred to Children's Hospital in Dallas.
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The baby's father, Samuel Goshorn, is currently serving in Iraq and is being flown home.
http://www.heralddemocrat.com/hd/News/Sherman-toddler-pronounced-dead--one-man-arrested
 
This guy actually looks like he is smiling or is it just me looking at him wrong - he just looks like he is just so pleased with himself about something - hmm.... maybe he is thinking about all those nights he will be spending in Bubba's arms!
Seriously folks, I bet that baby's daddy is pissed enough to stomp home and when he gets here Lord help all the people involved in this mess - Just what is moms culpability in this mess?
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The only thing I was able to find out about the boyfriend is that he is a gamer so maybe the baby upset him while he was trying to play his video game!
 
tenntitanfan found this so Ill add it
thanks tenntitanfan!!


Iraq Soldier Returns to Severely Injured One Year Old Son
SHERMAN, TX--A soldier from Iraq is returning to his family this weekend, but instead of a happy reunion, he's facing what may be the most difficult time in his life. His one year old son Gabe may not live.

"We're praying that he holds on until Sam gets home form Iraq, but we know he's on a plane," Rebecca Goshorn said, Samuel's sister. "So, we have faith that he'll make it."

Samuel Goshorn was able to see his son Gabe be born in May 2009 before he left for Iraq that December. Now he's flying to the Children's Hospital in Dallas to see his baby on life support.

"They said he was brain dead and he wasn't going to wake up, and they were just keeping his body alive till Sam gets home," Goshorn said.

Sherman police say the case is still under investigation, but Micah Duncan now sits in the Grayson County Jail, charged with injury to a child.

According to Goshorn's family, Duncan was the was the last person left alone with Gabe, while his mother Meagan Goshorn took another child to school.

"She said she was gone for about 15 minutes and whenever she came home the ambulance was there and he wasn't breathing," Rebecca Goshorn said.

Gabe was taken to Wilson N. Jones, then flown to Dallas. According to Rebecca, Duncan said that Gabe fell from a high chair.

The one year old now suffers from a cracked skull and severe brain damage.

"We ran up to the hospital last night," Goshorn said. "We saw her [Meagan] and her family there. They're very torn up obviously about everything."

His family is now hoping for a miracle. Samuel is racing the clock, so he can see his little boy.

"He doesn't deserve it," Goshorn said. "It's a situation that doesn't make sense that never should've happened. Whatever he needs, he knows that we're here and--you know--whatever we can do."
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http://www.kten.com/global/story.asp?s=13134496
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Something seems off about the 15 mins. Either it was slightly longer than that or something happened the instant mom walked out the door.

I HATE these stories where the daddy (or mom) is off fighting for the freedom of some ASSHOLE that abuses the soldier's baby to death while they are gone. Like that one cunt that starved the baby to death and hid the child in the attic while dad was off fighting the war in Iraq.
 
*yawn* Another baby beater

It's a terrible thing and all too disgusting that it IS all too common. Nothing to say that hasn't been said in a thousand threads on here.
 
Guessing that the video gamer was a boytoy for mommy and ooooh bet she's in trouble now. That, or perhaps a roommate to help pay the bills?

Bet she did it before she left...
 
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Gabriel Taylor Goshorn

I'm a little late but I was looking up this sweet boy and found two things..
First, this is from Nov. 11, 2010

Sherman man indicted for 15-month-old's murder
SHERMAN, TX - The 23-year-old Sherman man charged in the the death of a 15-month-old baby has been indicted by a grand jury for capital murder of a person under six years of age.

Micah Troy Duncan is accused of beating his girlfriend's 15-month-old son, Gabriel Goshorn, to death on September 9 inside a Sherman apartment.

Gabriel's father, who was serving overseas at the time, flew home from Iraq to say goodbye to his infant son while he fought for his life in a Dallas hospital.

Grayson County District Attorney Joe Brown says, if found guilty, Duncan could face the possibility of life in prison or the death penalty.

Duncan is being held on $750,000 bond.
http://www.kxii.com/home/headlines/107346354.html

Then this post is from Dawn Goshorn (Dad's Sister) on Deserved Justice - For Juliette S Geurts, it's pretty disturbing..
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My nephew, Gabriel Taylor Goshorn, was murdered too. My brother was serving in Iraq on September 10, 2010 when his wife's boyfriend threw 15 month old Gabe against the wall with enough force to separate his brain from his spinal stem, break his back and rupture some organs. While Micah Duncan does sit in jail indicted for capital murder in Texas, the mother is now in Georgia trying to resecure he place by my brother's side though she tested positive for cocaine when Gabe was admitted to the hospital. She was resently arrested for shop lifting and yet she is able to cross state lines in an effort to keep my brother to herself.
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Where do these piece of shit guys come from??
Micah Duncan is a f^&king scumbag!
 
This guy used to be best friends with my son in law several years back here in the KC area....He had moved down to Texas to get his life straight, apparently it didnt turn out that way.
 
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His trial is on now:
Several jurors in the 15th state District Court put their hands over their mouths or cast their eyes toward the floor Wednesday as prosecutors showed autopsy photos of 18-month old Gabriel Taylor Goshorn. The graphic photos and description by the man who conducted the autopsy weren’t the only gut-wrenching things the jurors faced as they continued along the path toward finding justice for the toddler.
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Micah Troy Duncan’s defense attorney Garland Cardwell told jurors in his opening statements that Duncan intends to take the stand and tell them his side of the story. Jurors, however, didn’t have to wait for the defendant to testify to start hearing from him. Prosecutor Kerye Ashmore called Gabriel’s mother, Meagan Goshorn, to the stand to introduce taped conversations she had with Duncan in the days after the toddler’s death.

But first jurors heard doctor after doctor talk about the severity of the skull fracture Gabriel suffered on Sept. 9, 2010. They also heard doctor after doctor say it was one of the worst of such injuries they had ever seen and that it was completely inconsistent with a claim that the baby injured himself by falling over or falling from a high chair.

Dr. Matthew Cox, the clinical director of Children’s Medical Center of Dallas’ Referral Evaluation of At Risk Children program, said Gabe’s injuries “(were) among the most severe head injuries I have seen,” even though he routinely looks at head injuries suffered by children.

When asked by defense attorneys if the injury could have been the result of a fall the child suffered several days earlier from a bed, Cox said it was not medically possible that Gabriel would have sustained that injury in a simple fall or that he would have lived for ten days after the injury. Cox said Gabriel’s brain was swollen and already starting to die when he arrived at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas. He said, in addition to the blow that cracked Gabriel’s skull from the base of his head up the back side to the top of his head, the infant most likely suffered other blows that left him with bruises on the left side of his face.
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After spending hours listening to doctors and nurses talk about Gabriel’s last hours, jurors finished the day hearing from the person who knew the toddler best, his mom. The 23-year-old told prosecutors she got up on that fateful day in September of 2010 to find Duncan already up cooking pancakes. She admitted to smoking marijuana with Duncan before the children got out of bed. Then she said, she and Duncan argued over getting Gabriel up or letting him sleep. The mother testified she wanted to let her son sleep because he was teething and cranky, but Duncan wanted him up. She said she gave Gabe some pain reliever to help with the teething.

Ashmore asked her what her son was doing the last time she saw him conscious, and the air in the courtroom seemed to evaporate as the young mother said, “He was crying.”

Meagan Goshorn said her son routinely cried when left alone with Duncan, and it had gotten so bad that she was planning to leave Duncan. She described being gone just 15 minutes or so and then returning to the apartment complex to find an ambulance waiting there and Duncan running toward her.

Meagan Goshorn said she got into the ambulance with her son. She said she was in still in her pajamas hours later when she made the trip to Children’s Medical Center in Dallas. She stayed there with her child, she said, until he died.

The young woman then identified for prosecutors voices on several taped conversations. They were played for the jury. In one of those conversations, she repeatedly begged Duncan to tell her what happened to her son.

“I did not beat our boy,” Duncan said.

“That is not your boy. That is my boy,” she replied in a voice that had an icy tone.


“Micah, just tell me what happened. You owe me at least that much,” she said to him.

His reply was lost in sobs as he repeatedly begged her to come to the jail to see him.

“I can’t come look at you,” she replied.

“I swear to God I didn’t hurt him. I would never,” Duncan said and then cried again.

“I have to go to the funeral home today to make arrangements for my son,” she replied.

While Duncan seemed close to telling the baby’s mother what happened in some parts of the conversations, in others he remained focused on his own problems.

In one conversation he said, “They had to take me and put me in a cell by myself” after media reports surfaced about the charges he faced.

“I am in here by myself. I never hurt Gabe. I tried to save him,” he said.

Later in the conversation, he said, “I wanted to be there. I am supposed to be there at the hospital with you.”

When she talked about getting off the phone, Duncan’s voice broke and he asked her to send him photos of his two daughters.

“I have to go, I have to go to the funeral home,” she said again.

“You can’t keep the phone on your ear? I only got a couple of minutes left,” he replied.
http://www.heralddemocrat.com/hd/News/capital-murder-case-10-27-2011
 
Yep - That didn't come up on my search but checking the link above led to it. Thanks :hello:

Soft tears fell in the hallways outside District Judge Jim Fallon’s 15th District courtroom after a Grayson County jury declared Micah Troy Duncan guilty of capital murder Wednesday. Grayson County Sheriff’s Office investigators stayed in the background, making themselves available should they be needed by any one in any of the small clusters of family and friends.

There are only two sentences allowed on a capital murder conviction, life without parole, or death. The Grayson County District Attorney’s Office did not seek the death penalty, so, pending the possibility of a new trial or successful appeal, Duncan will now spend the rest of his life in prison.
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Cardwell said his client was shocked about the verdict when he heard it, and was visibly emotional and upset before corrections officers escorted him back to the Grayson County Jail. Cardwell said later Wednesday that he had not had a chance to speak with his client, and there were several matters that would be discussed together and soon.

One of those in the courtroom when the verdict was read was Gabe’s father, Samuel Goshorn, who had been serving in the the military and stationed in Iraq when his son died. Samuel Goshorn’s sister, Becky Goshorn, said at the time that doctors had been keeping the toddler on life support until his father could be flown back. Even though doctors had pronounced Gabriel dead, they held hopes that, with life support equipment, Samuel Goshorn could have a few minutes with his son upon his arrival, Becky Goshorn said at that tragic time.
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Grayson County Criminal District Attorney Joe Brown said that since 2009 in Texas, a capital murder conviction in a case where the state does not seek the death penalty results in an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole. “Therefore, unless there is a change in the law, Mr. Duncan will die in prison. Mr. Duncan had the opportunity to plead to a sentence that would have given him a chance to get out of prison, and he turned it down,” Brown said.

Cardwell said that two of those matters he must discuss with his client, Duncan, involve the appeal process, which is mandatory in capital murder convictions, and also a case with Child Protective Services which involve his own two children. Appeals, he explained, could take up to a year, or possibly even longer, to wind their way through the court process.
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Regarding Duncan’s two children, Cardwell said that they are living with maternal grandparents for the time being, and their mother is working with CPS to be involved in their lives. He added that their paternal grandmother is also working to keep her rights of visitation secure with the children.
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http://www.heralddemocrat.com/hd/SiteSearchResults/JuryTrialEndsWithCapitalMurderVerdict
 
*yawn* Another baby beater

It's a terrible thing and all too disgusting that it IS all too common. Nothing to say that hasn't been said in a thousand threads on here.

DV!?!?!?!

The thing that is different here is the kid's name. Doesn't that count as enough?
 
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