Woman admits torturing baby before killing her!

[One2Snoop]

OMG! This poor, poor little baby.

Woman admits torturing baby before killing her
Steve Elbow and Mike Miller — 7/17/2007 2:59 pm

A Madison woman admitted to abusing her infant daughter for weeks before she killed her by slamming her head into a table and stuffing a blanket into her mouth.

Ee Lee, 23, was charged today with first-degree intentional homicide in the July 7 death of 6-week-old Anastasia Vang, first-degree reckless endangerment and two counts of physical abuse of a child in the weeks prior to her death.

A criminal complaint detailed Lee's confession that she pinched the child repeatedly over her body and head, at times in front of others while covering her hand with a blanket, used the wire end of a flyswatter to beat the infant's legs, bit her leg and bashed the girl's head at least twice on the table she used two weeks later to inflict a fatal skull fracture.

Lee also has a 20-month-old son, who apparently was not subjected to the torture Lee allegedly inflicted on her daughter.

The boy has been placed in protective custody, Assistant District Attorney Mike Verveer at Lee's initial court appearance today.

When asked by a Madison detective why things were different with her son, she said through an interpreter that "She can only love one child, and only has enough love for one. She doesn't understand why it's that way," the complaint says.

In her confession, Lee told police that ever since she came to live with her in-laws she had been stricken with feelings of inadequacy, and that her inability to take care of her family had put her under a lot of stress. As she walked into court today she appeared to weaken and nearly collapsed and was supported by Assistant State Public Defenders Svetlana Taylor and Ellen Berz.

Verveer asked today that the bail be raised to $100,000, but Dane County Court Commissioner Scott McAndrew kept the bail at $50,000. McAndrew did impose a no contact provision to prevent her from seeing her son. A juvenile court order last week, though, already placed the child in protective custody and forbade Lee from seeing the boy.

Lee and her husband, Chue Vang, have lived with Vang's parents and other relatives at a Moorland Road home on Madison's south side for about the past year, Verveer said. Lee is a native of Thailand and Verveer said police were not yet sure of her immigration status. She apparently told police her green card was destroyed in a fire before she moved her from California a year ago.

Vang's mother, Doua Lee, had been the primary caregiver for the infant. But when the baby began sleeping in her parents' bedroom, Lee told investigators, she had noticed bruising on the child, but the bruises faded away over time.

On June 27, two weeks before her death, Anastasia's parents took her to Meriter Hospital, and that same day she was transferred to the UW Children's Hospital, where Dr. Barbara Knox, a child abuse specialist, diagnosed her as bruises as the result of "probable abuse."

"Frankly," Verveer said in court today, "the torture then continued pretty continuously." After Lee spent time with her daughter alone in a hospital room, the baby appeared to have new bruising the next morning, Knox told police, according to the complaint.

During a police interview, Lee told police the hospital visit was prompted by her pinching, which she did "wherever she could," the complaint says, including her forehead, cheeks, both arms and legs and her vaginal area.

Hospital officials referred the case to Dane County Human Services, and social worker Xee Lee met with the family and developed a safety plan that allowed the family to take the baby back home as long as two adults were present and awake with the child 24 hours a day.

The plan also included a follow-up appointment with Knox, scheduled for July 12, the day after Lee allegedly killed the baby.

Lee told investigators that she picked the baby up and slammed her head on her bedroom table, using "all her might when she did it," the complaint says.

She then rolled up a blanket, stuffed some of it in the baby's mouth, then covered the baby's nose with the rest of it. She left the baby in that condition for 25 minutes as she changed and used the bathroom. When she returned to the baby she removed the blanket, but the baby had stopped breathing. She said she put the baby on the floor and administered CPR for five minutes, then took the baby to her mother-in-law.

Paramedics arrived a short time later and found the baby dead.

The Dane County Coroner listed the cause of Anastasia's death as "blunt force trauma," and a pathologist didn't detect signs of suffocation, the complaint says.

Hospital personnel told police the baby suffered a skull fracture, a bruise consistent with a human bite mark on her leg, injuries to her mouth consistent with forced bottle feeding, facial bruising, bruising on her pubic mound, and linear bruising on her legs consistent with being struck by an object.

State officials are reviewing Dane County Human Services' child welfare practices in light of Anastasia's death.

http://www.madison.com/tct/news/201683

[sallynuts]

I don't know what to say,,, just that i will never understand this type of abuse..

And i hope this woman gets what she deserves...

for baby xxx u are now at peace..

[beachgirl40]

For the love of Pete, what is wrong with people today? You only have enough love for one child, so you torture and beat the new baby to death!!! The POS had some crazy idea that love is self-limiting. No, love is the ultimate paradox, the more you give, the more you HAVE TO GIVE.

Why torture the baby to death? Many states have "safe haven" laws. We have one here. You take the baby to a designated place and just leave him with the staff. No questions asked, no crime broken. But, nooooo, this brood mare tortures an infant to death.

Hop! Whew, down off the soapbox. I really don't get this. Why not just give the baby away? Surely some of you legal eagles on the board have defended/prosecuted a person such as this. Why torture & beat the baby for weeks? Just give it away.

beachgirl40

[Bailey Boys]

This is awful. Adoption is such a beautiful option, why not go that route, instead of killing the sweet, innocent baby? This makes me so mad and so sad..

[One2Snoop]

Originally Posted by Bailey Boys

This is awful. Adoption is such a beautiful option, why not go that route, instead of killing the sweet, innocent baby? This makes me so mad and so sad..

I agree Bailey no excuse for this to happen but unfortunately it does. The article doesn't state how long she's actually been in the US. She may not have known her options perhaps because of a language barrier? What would happen to her in Thailand had she done this to her baby there?

Quote taken from the article above....

Lee is a native of Thailand and Verveer said police were not yet sure of her immigration status. She apparently told police her green card was destroyed in a fire before she moved here from California a year ago.

[Athena]

I will never, ever understand how a person can abuse a child.

[diamond d]

This type of person needs to be put out of her misery

[rachelslaw]

Originally Posted by beachgirl40

For the love of Pete, what is wrong with people today? You only have enough love for one child, so you torture and beat the new baby to death!!! The POS had some crazy idea that love is self-limiting. No, love is the ultimate paradox, the more you give, the more you HAVE TO GIVE.

Why torture the baby to death? Many states have "safe haven" laws. We have one here. You take the baby to a designated place and just leave him with the staff. No questions asked, no crime broken. But, nooooo, this brood mare tortures an infant to death.

Hop! Whew, down off the soapbox. I really don't get this. Why not just give the baby away? Surely some of you legal eagles on the board have defended/prosecuted a person such as this. Why torture & beat the baby for weeks? Just give it away.

beachgirl40

There is no excuse for that kind of cruelty. None. I don't get it, but I really don't want to get it. I have no empathy or sympathy for any person who treats a child so cruelty, nor do I particular care about her excuses. She's done in my book. Lock her up and throw away the key. Let the other inmates have at her. I don't care.

As for that precious baby, may the angels take her within their warm and loving arms and play with that sweet little baby girl.

IMO

[BeastofBears]

Can there be any clearer example of true evil? That "mother" makes girls who drop their babies into trash cans look like the good ones. Just unspeakable. May she never see her surviving child again, and may he never know what she is like.

[April Keller]

I dont understand how someone could do this.As a mother it is our job to protect our children from harm,but it seems more and more children are being harmed from the very person they should trust the most.How sad

[samanthajane13]

I hate to say this, but abusing and killing a female child isn't all that uncommon in the Orient.

Male children are wanted, spoiled and revered, while females are killed, tortured, sold into prostitution, bondage and marriage to MUCH older men, and generally thought of as a liability, because the parents have to provide doweries to get them married off.

It's a horrible fact of life...

Several years ago, I was watching a show on tv-It may have been on A & E, and it was about AIDS. One part of the show centered on a Thai village who had sent all it's teen-aged girls to Hong Kong to learn to be "hostesses" in clubs and restaurants. The trafficers said they would recieve money from what they girls made when they started working-of course they never got money from their girls. The families were paid well for the girls to leave the village by the traffikers, but the money was used to finance the villagers' OPIUM addiction!!! The whole town was addicted. Of course when the girls got to Hong Kong, they were taken to brothels and never heard from again. Most of them died before the age of 15-from AIDS.

[beachgirl40]

Originally Posted by rachelslaw

There is no excuse for that kind of cruelty. None. I don't get it, but I really don't want to get it. I have no empathy or sympathy for any person who treats a child so cruelty, nor do I particular care about her excuses. She's done in my book. Lock her up and throw away the key. Let the other inmates have at her. I don't care.

As for that precious baby, may the angels take her within their warm and loving arms and play with that sweet little baby girl.

IMO

Rachelslaw,

Please don't misunderstand my questions. ITA, there is no excuse for what she did. But maybe if we study them and pick their minds apart we could identify why these broodmares feel entitled to murder their own children. Knowledge is power. If we could intercept these people before they have kids, we would have a whole lot less murdered kids.

In the meantime, yes let the other inmates take care of her.

beachgirl40

[samanthajane13]

Beachgirl???

Do you have any children??? If so, how many???

Since when does 2 children make the mom a BROODMARE???

By the way-I have 2-10 years apart.

Am I a broodmare, too???

[beachgirl40]

Originally Posted by samanthajane13

Beachgirl???

Do you have any children??? If so, how many???

Since when does 2 children make the mom a BROODMARE???

By the way-I have 2-10 years apart.

Am I a broodmare, too???

Samanthajane13,
Forgive me. I have 2 children. When I use the term broodmare, it is because the woman is not a mother in the true sense of the word. I would never presume to judge a person based upon the number of children they have. I use the term to mean she cares no more for her children than an animal.

I honestly did not mean to insult you or any other mother.

beachgirl40

[Portabella]

How sickening, sad, and totally disheartening. I totally feel for every child that dies too soon at the hands of a monster, parent or not.....

[grandma]

Reading this makes me want to hop on a bus and kick the ever lovin' shyt out of this monster.

[Louisadelmar]

Originally Posted by beachgirl40

Samanthajane13,
Forgive me. I have 2 children. When I use the term broodmare, it is because the woman is not a mother in the true sense of the word. I would never presume to judge a person based upon the number of children they have. I use the term to mean she cares no more for her children than an animal.

I honestly did not mean to insult you or any other mother.

beachgirl40

Don't mean to pile on but I gotta stick up for the broodmares of the world. My horse was a broodmare for 10 years before I put her back into work. Not only did she take fabulous care of her own babies but this spring when my daughter brought in a weanling my mare would stand over and guard him while he napped. When she spontaneously began producing milk we had to separate them.

Perhaps this woman should be called an incubator?

[Eylisha]

Anastasia knew no beauty
though beautiful she was
an angel born in hell
she knew of nothing else

one peaceful moment as pain recedes
then she ceases to exist
yet she came to hell that I might know
a dying angel's kiss


I was moved to write this short poem

[krystal347]

Originally Posted by Eylisha

Anastasia knew no beauty
though beautiful she was
an angel born in hell
she knew of nothing else

one peaceful moment as pain recedes
then she ceases to exist
yet she came to hell that I might know
a dying angel's kiss


I was moved to write this short poem

Thats a lovely poem, Eylisha...just a very, very sad subject...that poor, poor baby...

How a parent that should protect their child can do this is way beyond me...

For baby Anastasia...

[Isabella]

Originally Posted by Eylisha

Anastasia knew no beauty
though beautiful she was
an angel born in hell
she knew of nothing else

one peaceful moment as pain recedes
then she ceases to exist
yet she came to hell that I might know
a dying angel's kiss


I was moved to write this short poem

Thank You, Very nice poem Eylisha. For Anastasia

[TigersPaw357]

Why does everyone think "motherhood" is a natural trait of the female species? Yes, some females have the ability to be caregivers, but a great majority learn mothering and a high percentage never learn. However, society dictates that if you are "really" a woman, you should bear children to prove it. SOME FEMALES SHOULD NEVER GIVE BIRTH and those that are smart enough to recognize this will NEVER HARM A CHILD and those who lack the courage and have children that they will abuse SHAME ON YOU -- what will become of the these children? Even with programs in place that offer to take children intsead of abandoning them - still make strong attempts to get the women to take the child back WHY? - To all you PRO-LIFERS -- get out there and adopt all those unwanted children -- then I will listen to your logic of why a female should not have the right to choose! AND FEMALES --- USE PROTECTION AGAINST UNWANTED PREGNANCY; By the way HAVING A BABY BY A MAN WHO DOES NOT LOVE YOU WON'T MAKE HIM LOVE YOU -- THAT IS SO PLAYED OUT HAVE YOU NOT LEARNED ANYTHING YET?