Denise1972
12-16-2004, 10:10 AM
This happened awhile ago... Its not too far from where I live. about 25 miles. How in the world could this lady do this???? This woman is a MONSTER
http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/42740.asp
Mother pleads guilty to fatally scalding son
By JAMES WASHBURN
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
LINCOLN - Robin Graham showed no emotion Wednesday as she pleaded guilty to murdering her 11-month-old son last year by placing him in a bathtub of scalding-hot water, fatally burning him.
The 20-year-old San Jose woman faces a prison term of 20 to 60 years when she is sentenced March 3 by Logan County Circuit Judge David Coogan.
In black-and-white-striped jail garb, Graham sat quietly next to her defense attorney, Tim Timoney of Springfield, as she agreed to waive her right to a jury trial and enter into a plea agreement with Logan County State's Attorney Tim Huyett.
In exchange for Graham's guilty plea, Huyett agreed to drop two other counts - that the murder was "brutal and heinous" and the victim less than 12 years old - that carried the most severe potential punishments of life in prison and an extended prison term of 60 to 100 years.
Graham, who also has a 3-year-old son, was indicted by a Logan County grand jury a year ago on three counts of first-degree murder alleging she placed her 11-month-old, Austin Graham, into a bathtub of scalding water, knowing it would cause great bodily harm, and probably death.
Coogan told Graham that, because of the seriousness of her crime, she must serve 100 percent of her prison term and will not receive any day-for-day credit that typically reduces the length of sentences for lesser crimes.
As Huyett provided Coogan with a factual basis to support the conviction, he spent about five minutes summarizing the evidence he planned to use if the case had gone to trial.
"I'm a bad person. I murdered my baby. Take me to jail," Huyett said, quoting what Graham told Mason County chief sheriff's deputy Paul Gann, the first officer to arrive at Graham's mobile home Nov. 14, 2003 - the day Austin was murdered.
Graham admitted to police that she became angry with the 11-month-old because he had wiped feces on his clothes and hair while left unattended in his crib as she was doing laundry at her sister-in-law's neighboring trailer, Huyett said.
He said she told police that, as she was drawing his bathwater with the infant in the tub, she decided to return to her sister-in-law's, believing that her son probably would drown.
Huyett said water drawn from the faucet in the bathtub by police the following morning maintained a maximum temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit for up to seven minutes. The pathologist who performed Austin's autopsy said 30 seconds' exposure to water at that temperature would have resulted in third-degree burns to the child. And, any further exposure would have been fatal.
The autopsy revealed that Austin died from second- and third-degree burns to more than 80 percent of his body. Much of his skin had fallen off by the time he was removed from the tub by his mother more than two hours after she abandoned him.
Huyett said that as Graham returned to her sister-in-law's trailer clutching the infant's body, Graham threw Austin at her and told her, "Help him. He's dead." :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/42740.asp
Mother pleads guilty to fatally scalding son
By JAMES WASHBURN
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
LINCOLN - Robin Graham showed no emotion Wednesday as she pleaded guilty to murdering her 11-month-old son last year by placing him in a bathtub of scalding-hot water, fatally burning him.
The 20-year-old San Jose woman faces a prison term of 20 to 60 years when she is sentenced March 3 by Logan County Circuit Judge David Coogan.
In black-and-white-striped jail garb, Graham sat quietly next to her defense attorney, Tim Timoney of Springfield, as she agreed to waive her right to a jury trial and enter into a plea agreement with Logan County State's Attorney Tim Huyett.
In exchange for Graham's guilty plea, Huyett agreed to drop two other counts - that the murder was "brutal and heinous" and the victim less than 12 years old - that carried the most severe potential punishments of life in prison and an extended prison term of 60 to 100 years.
Graham, who also has a 3-year-old son, was indicted by a Logan County grand jury a year ago on three counts of first-degree murder alleging she placed her 11-month-old, Austin Graham, into a bathtub of scalding water, knowing it would cause great bodily harm, and probably death.
Coogan told Graham that, because of the seriousness of her crime, she must serve 100 percent of her prison term and will not receive any day-for-day credit that typically reduces the length of sentences for lesser crimes.
As Huyett provided Coogan with a factual basis to support the conviction, he spent about five minutes summarizing the evidence he planned to use if the case had gone to trial.
"I'm a bad person. I murdered my baby. Take me to jail," Huyett said, quoting what Graham told Mason County chief sheriff's deputy Paul Gann, the first officer to arrive at Graham's mobile home Nov. 14, 2003 - the day Austin was murdered.
Graham admitted to police that she became angry with the 11-month-old because he had wiped feces on his clothes and hair while left unattended in his crib as she was doing laundry at her sister-in-law's neighboring trailer, Huyett said.
He said she told police that, as she was drawing his bathwater with the infant in the tub, she decided to return to her sister-in-law's, believing that her son probably would drown.
Huyett said water drawn from the faucet in the bathtub by police the following morning maintained a maximum temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit for up to seven minutes. The pathologist who performed Austin's autopsy said 30 seconds' exposure to water at that temperature would have resulted in third-degree burns to the child. And, any further exposure would have been fatal.
The autopsy revealed that Austin died from second- and third-degree burns to more than 80 percent of his body. Much of his skin had fallen off by the time he was removed from the tub by his mother more than two hours after she abandoned him.
Huyett said that as Graham returned to her sister-in-law's trailer clutching the infant's body, Graham threw Austin at her and told her, "Help him. He's dead." :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: