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Sentenced: Girl, 3, Found Dead On Porch In St. Paul; Parents Arrested

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St. Paul police are investigating the first homicide in the city this year, trying to determine what led to a 3-year-old girl’s death early Sunday morning. Her parents are in custody on suspicion of murder.

The St. Paul Police Department says officers found the child dead around 2:30 a.m. A man had called the city’s non-emergency line from that address and hung up, prompting a police response. Officers spoke with the child’s father at the home, who said that he thought his 3-year-old daughter was dead on the back porch. Officers found the girl unresponsive, and paramedics later pronounced her dead.

The child’s parents, a 29-year-old woman and a 42-year-old man, were brought to police headquarters and later booked into jail on suspicion of murder, police say. Investigators interviewed the couple but are still working to figure out what led up to the child’s death.

Five other children, ranging in age from 9 months old to 11 years old, were at the home at the time the 3-year-old’s death. Ramsey County Child Protection now has custody of the children, police say
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3-Year-Old Girl Found Dead On Porch Of St. Paul Home; Parents Arrested

St. Paul police say they are investigating the death of a 3-year-old child early Sunday morning.
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Hell yes they killed her.

911 hang up.

Emergency services call back. “Doh. I think my daughter is dead on the porch.”

And you left her there? Just the words dead on the porch implies to me that this POS was in the warm house while his dead toddler was alone on the porch.

Six kids in the house. I don’t want these horror shows to quit fucking. The way I see it, if they’re fucking they are not committing crimes or abusing their children, but for Pete’s sale snip that shit, buy a condom, or put that nasty penis in a place that won’t lead to another abused and neglected child.

Why the hell do these irresponsible assholes saddle themselves with children they obviously never intended to take care of? Dollars to donuts the most loved thing in that home was either a crack pipe or a video game.
 
I'll bet she was being punished by putting her on the cold back porch until she said sorry, or some such shit like that. St Paul Minnesota is too damn cold to put a small child outside for any reason. Too cold to even put an adult outside. Here in Georgia , it's 50 degrees today. Even in my imagination I can't understand just how cold it's been in St Paul.
 
Five other children, ranging in age from 9 months old to 11 years old, were at the home at the time the 3-year-old’s death. Ramsey County Child Protection now has custody of the children, police say.
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3-Year-Old Girl Found Dead On Porch Of St. Paul Home; Parents Arrested

St. Paul police say they are investigating the death of a 3-year-old child early Sunday morning.
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No matter how this child ended up deceased is going to be heartbreaking.
 
Melody Vang spent most of her two years of life in foster care before she was returned to her parents’ custody last year.

Early on Sunday, officers found Melody dead on the back porch of her family’s St. Paul home. Police arrested her mother and father on suspicion of murder, and prosecutors charged Ciashia Lee, 29, with second-degree unintentional murder on Monday.

Lee said she lost her temper when Melody kept crying and waking up her infant, so she “kept hitting” her daughter, according to the criminal complaint, which said she put her face in her hands and cried as she told the police.

The Ramsey County medical examiner’s office determined the toddler died of closed head trauma due to assault.

About 12 hours before Melody’s father called police on Sunday, the family’s landlord was at the Dayton’s Bluff residence. He was so disturbed by bruising on Melody’s face, he took photos of her — they showed her right eye and left cheek had large, dark bruises — and he contacted child protection, the complaint said.

Asked whether Ramsey County Social Services had started to look into the matter over the weekend, county communications manager John Siqveland said they can’t provide details about cases.

Past court records tell some of the story about Melody’s short life and how child protection got involved when she was born.

Melody, who turned 2 last September, was “a good baby,” her foster parent reported; she enjoyed the attention that all her siblings gave her, a child protection worker wrote in March.

The children were returned to Lee and John Vang, Melody’s father, after both parents completed chemical dependency and mental health evaluations, according to court documents.

The investigation continues into whether charges will be filed against John Vang, 42, according to the county attorney’s office.

After Lee’s arrest on Sunday, police told her there was a lot of bruising on Melody and she said she was responsible for all of it, according to the criminal complaint. She said there were bruises on the girl before the last incident and she couldn’t remember how many times she hit her.

Vang called the police about 1:30 a.m. Sunday and said something about wanting to talk to a crisis intervention officer before hanging up. When officers responded to the home Vang asked them “to keep it down as his 2-year-old daughter was not alive,” the complaint said.

He told them he didn’t want his other children to see the girl. He said he and Lee wrapped her body in a blanket, which they took to the back porch so it wouldn’t smell. Paramedics pronounced her dead.
Five other children, ranging from 8 months to 11-years-old, were at the home and placed in protective custody.
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Murder charge: Mom says she lost temper, kept hitting her 2-year-old in St. Paul

UPDATE: Man arrested in 2-year-old daughter’s death released as investigation continues; girl’s mom is charged Melody Vang spent most of her two years of life in foster care before she was returned to her parents’ custody last yea…
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Poor baby was probably taken from a loving safe home and placed back with these two.

Yes it is a slippery slope but certain people should not be allowed to have children or regain the children they have lost.

If financial incentives will encourage abusive incompetent parents to give up their parental rights or agree to sterilization I would support it.
 
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Prosecutors have charged a second parent in connection with the death of their 2-year-old daughter, who was found fatally beaten on the family's St. Paul porch last month.

John Vang, 42, was charged via summons in Ramsey County District Court on Thursday with felony child endangerment related to previous acts of abuse toward Melody Vang.

Vang denied seeing Lee strike the girl that night, charges say, but admitted that he'd seen her do so in the past. He accused the child of being "a drama queen," and "resistant to discipline," according to the complaint.

But Melody's older siblings told a social worker that both parents had history of physical abuse and kept Melody locked in a closet for hours on end as punishment for misbehaving, charges say. She sometimes stuffed food in her diaper so she would have something to eat at night.

One child described seeing Vang strike Melody in the face with his fist about a week before her death. His parents beat Melody, he said — sometimes with a wire hanger.
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Second parent charged in death of abused 2-year-old St. Paul girl

Prosecutors have charged a second parent in connection with the death of their 2-year-old daughter, who was found fatally beaten on the family's St. Paul porch last month. John Vang, 42, was charged v...
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Two year olds are the consummate “drama queens”! It’s like that’s what they’re made for. All those big emotions when you’re still learning words and pooping yourself occasionally and learning 10,000 new things everyday?! Plus, you can’t even get your own damn snacks! I’d cry my face off all day, if I were two. Poor little Melody. She deserved so much better than these two evil dolts.
 
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Vang denied seeing Lee strike the girl that night, charges say, but admitted that he'd seen her do so in the past. He accused the child of being "a drama queen," and "resistant to discipline," according to the complaint.

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Second parent charged in death of abused 2-year-old St. Paul girl

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They couldn't stop fucking and making babies but she this little girl was the cause of all their problems.
 
St. Paul man charged with child endangerment in connection to the death of his 2-year-old daughter has pleaded guilty, but says he does not remember the circumstances

On Monday, in Ramsey County District Court, John Vang, 43, entered a Norgaard plea, which allows the defendant to plead guilty even if he is unable to recall the facts of a case.

His wife, Ciashia Lee, 30, of St. Paul, faces a jury trial beginning April 4. She is charged with first-degree murder (with a pattern of child abuse) and second-degree unintentional murder while committing a felony. The girl, Melody Vang, had spent most of her short life in foster care and had been recently returned to her parents.

According to Vang’s agreement, “the judge may accept my Norgaard guilty plea even though I do not remember the circumstances of the offense, so long as I agree the state’s evidence is sufficient for a jury to find me guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, if I have a trial.”

On Jan. 10, 2021, Vang called 911 about “an incident” that drew police to his home on the city’s East Side, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Ramsey County attorney’s office. When St. Paul police arrived, they found the girl’s mother, Ciashia Lee, distraught. When asked what happened, Lee said she lost her temper with her daughter and said “I just kept hitting her.”

The girl, who was obviously dead, wore only a diaper and her body had been wrapped in bedding and a rug, according to charges. She was cold to the touch and rigor mortis had set in. She had multiple large bruises to her face and body, as well as cuts and scratches on a significant portion of her body.

The Ramsey County medical examiner’s office later found the cause of the death to be head trauma associated with assault.

The children told police that Vang hit the 2-year-old girl in the face with his fist about a week earlier, and that the parents put her in a closet, where she spent most of her time and slept at night while the other children slept in a bedroom, the complaint said.
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A St. Paul man who pleaded guilty to felony child endangerment in connection with the death of his 2-year-old daughter was sentenced this week to 240 days in the Ramsey County workhouse and three years of supervised probation.

John Vang, 43, appeared before Judge Kelly Olmstead in Ramsey County District Court via Zoom.

Olmstead sentenced Vang to an 18-month prison term, which she stayed, and gave him probation and time in the workhouse. He has credit for three days he’s already served. He could receive work release or home detention/electronic monitoring, if eligible.

Vang in January entered a Norgaard plea, which allows a defendant to plead guilty even if facts of a case cannot be recalled. At the plea hearing, he told the court he does not remember everything about of the death of his daughter Melody Vang because he was under the influence of methamphetamine.

His wife, Ciashia Lee, 30, of St. Paul, has been charged with first-degree murder (with a pattern of child abuse) and second-degree unintentional murder while committing a felony. A plea hearing has been scheduled for March 30.

The girl spent most of her short life in foster care and had been recently returned to her parents.

Assistant County Attorney Hassan Tahir said at a court hearing for Vang last month that methamphetamine was detected in the girl when she was born. Tahir said that he reviewed a pre-sentence report for Vang and that he “states that he and his wife, Ms. Lee, were using meth at the time of Melody Banks’ homicide.”

The Ramsey County medical examiner’s office later found the cause of the death to be head trauma associated with assault.

The other children in the home told police that Vang hit the 2-year-old girl in the face with his fist about a week earlier, and that the parents put her in a closet, where she spent most of her time and slept at night while the other children slept in a bedroom, the complaint said.

Conditions of Vang’s probation include no weapons, completing treatment, no alcohol or controlled substances, random testing, undergoing aftercare and mental health counseling and the following recommendations, and obeying six domestic no-contact orders.
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John Vang, 43, appeared before Judge Kelly Olmstead in Ramsey County District Court via Zoom.
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A 30-year-old St. Paul mother has pleaded guilty to second-degree unintentional murder while committing a felony for killing her 2-year-old daughter. The girl’s death last year was determined to be head trauma from assault.

Ciashia Lee entered the plea Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court and in exchange a charge of first-degree murder (with a pattern of child abuse) will be dismissed at sentencing.

Lee told police that she lost her temper when Melody Vang “kept crying” and woke up her infant, so she “kept hitting” her daughter, according to charges.

The presumptive sentencing range is between 128 and 180 months, although prosecutors are seeking up to an additional 36 months in prison for Lee due to the girl’s age and her vulnerability, according to court records.

The girl and her siblings were in foster care together until 2020. The children were returned to Lee and Vang after both parents completed chemical dependency treatment and mental health evaluations, according to court documents.

Melody had multiple large bruises on her face and body, and “cuts and scratches on a significant portion of her body,” the criminal complaint read. An autopsy determined she died of head trauma due to assault.

When police asked Lee what she did to Melody, she said she punched her “too many times because the girl wouldn’t stop crying,” according to the complaint. “Lee also said she put her hand over the girl’s mouth to stop her from crying, but it didn’t work so she continued to hit the girl out of anger. Lee eventually picked up the girl, hit her some more, and took her to a ‘time out’ closet.”

Lee reported that Vang hadn’t witnessed what she did that evening, but had seen her hit the girl in the past.
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I’m wondering what this “workhouse” stuff is about. I’ve read it in Charles Dickens novels and there’s a sad story about it in the “Call the Midwife” books. I had no idea we still had them in the States. I need to look into this. That being said, I’m happy poor Melody is getting some type of justice. I wish it were like in the books, but suppose this will have to do. Rest well, Angel.
 
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I’m wondering what this “workhouse” stuff is about.
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I did a Duck Duck Go search on the term "minnesota workhouse", and if I'm glarking what it turned up then it's approximately a jail run by the state (as opposed to being run by the county).

It is a low-security correctional facility under the the state's department of corrections. People serving short sentences can serve them at the workhouse (or, presumably, in the county jails) and people finishing up a longer sentence can serve the last few months in the workhouse.

TBH when I first read that I was thinking of a Dickensian workhouse too, so ICBW.

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A 30-year-old Minnesota mother will spend nearly two decades in jail for brutally beating her 2-year-old daughter to death last year, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show. District Court Judge Leonardo Castro on Thursday handed down a sentence of 18 years in state prison to Ciashia Lee for the murder of young Melody Vang.

Upon arriving at the scene, police initially encountered the girl’s father, identified in court documents as “JV,” who immediately “asked officers to keep it down as his 2-year-old daughter was not alive.”

“When asked where his daughter was, JV said he didn’t want his other children to see the girl so he and his wife wrapped the girl’s body in a blanket, and he took her body to the back porch so it wouldn’t smell,” the affidavit states.

Officers went to the back where they found Lee and Melody’s wrapped body. Asked what happened, Lee allegedly told police that she “lost her tempter” because the toddler kept crying and waking her other child.

“Medics and additional officers were asked to respond to the scene after an officer had found the girl’s body. The girl was obviously dead. She wore only a diaper and her body had been wrapped in bedding and a rug,” the affidavit states. “She was cold to the touch and rigor mortis had set in. She had multiple large bruises to her face and body. She had cuts and scratches on a significant portion of her body.”
Upon further questioning, Lee told investigators, “I just kept hitting her,” per the affidavit.

“Lee said she had punched the girl with her hands too many times because the girl wouldn’t stop crying,” the affidavit states. “Lee also said she put her hand over the girl’s mouth to stop her from crying, but it didn’t work so she continued to hit the girl out of anger. Lee eventually picked up the girl, hit her some more, and took her to a ‘time out’ closet.”

Five other children ranging in age from 8-months-old to 11-years-old were also in the home and placed in protective custody. All six children had previously been in foster care and had only recently been returned to the custody of their parents.

JV allegedly told police that the his daughter got “spoiled” in foster care and regularly acted out. He added that Lee typically disciplined the child by hitting her “with an open hand” or locking her in the hallway closet, and said he’d recently seen Lee beat her with a stick that was “two feet long and half an inch thick.”

JV said he did not seen Lee hitting their daughter that evening.

Lee later admitted to causing all of the severe bruising on the young victim’s body, some of which were inflicted before the fatal beating.

“She said she lost her temper. Lee said the girl is stubborn just like her. When asked if the girl triggered her anger, Lee said she was just mad at the world. Lee said she’s a victim of the system and does not trust anyone,” the affidavit states. “When further asked what about the girl triggered her anger, Lee said the girl was ‘a little bitch’ several times.”
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'I Just Kept Hitting Her': Minnesota Mom Sentenced to Prison for Beating Her Crying 2-Year-Old to Death

A Minnesota judge sentenced Ciashia Lee to prison for beating her 2-year-old daughter to death in 2021.
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According to the article, bio-dad "allegedly told police that the his daughter got “spoiled” in foster care and regularly acted out."

So in his world, being "spoiled" means being loved and not beaten. Interesting concept.

Melody was returned to people she didn't even know and who didn't know her. She was a stranger to them and they to her. The bio units couldn't even care for one child, much less the SIX who were returned to them, one of whom was only 8 months old at the time. The foster parents who truly cared about her must still be heartbroken.

<<<“She said she lost her temper. Lee said the girl is stubborn just like her. When asked if the girl triggered her anger, Lee said she was just mad at the world. Lee said she’s a victim of the system and does not trust anyone,” the affidavit states. “When further asked what about the girl triggered her anger, Lee said the girl was ‘a little bitch’ several times.”

Clearly, Ciashia should never be trusted either. She's determined to maintain her self-image as a victim. No one and nothing else matters in Ciashia's world except Ciashia.
 
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