Sunday, November 2, 2008

Couple receives probation after pleading guilty to the beating death of their infant daughter


DALLAS — Child advocates expressed outrage that a Dallas couple received probation after pleading guilty to lesser charges in the beating death of their infant daughter.
Tameika Hampton, 25, and Tremaine Mabry, 26, pleaded guilty to injury to a child last month under a deal with prosecutors. The pair had initially been charged with capital murder in the February 2004 death of 3-month-old Tyreona Mabry. “I'm certainly no prosecutor and don't claim to be one, but let a jury decide. Let's not give these people probation,” said Lynn Davis, president and chief executive of the Dallas Children's Advocacy Center. More... Magazine Lane - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - South Beach Diet