the bellowings of the money-makers

On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:49:39 GMT, "Muddle" <berniesimmons@epix.net>
wrote:

>"We used to amuse ourselves by cynically dissecting spiritual beliefs and
>practices when we might have observed that many spiritually-minded persons
>of all races, colors, and creeds were demonstrating a degree of stability,
>happiness and usefulness which we should have sought ourselves."
>"Instead, we looked at the human defects of these people, and sometimes used
>their shortcomings as a basis of wholesale condemnation. We talked of
>intolerance, while we were intolerant ourselves. We missed the reality and
>the beauty of the forest because we were diverted by the ugliness of some of
>its trees. We never gave the spiritual side of life a fair hearing."
>
>Alcoholics Anonymous, pgs. 49-50
>
>> "safce" <safce@fgc.com> wrote in message
>> news:feov53tg0vp58g8lepbuop8kvvdq2jaimc@4ax.com...
>>> 2/06/2007 MOM AND DAD KILLED GIRL, 4
>>> Hull pair charged with giving daughter deliberate overdose of
>>> prescription pills.
>>>
>>> In a case that defies comprehension, a husband and wife from Hull
>>> appeared in court today on charges of killing their 4-year-old
>>> daughter with a deliberate drug overdose.
>>>
>>> Police said Michael Riley, 34, who was awaiting trial for attempted
>>> child rape, and Carolyn Riley, 32, gave their daughter, Rebecca
>>> Jeanne, a fatal dose of prescription pills on Dec. 13.
>>>
>>> In an affidavit filed with the court, State Police Trooper Anna
>>> Brookes said there was evidence of a ''slow and painful killing of
>>> Rebecca Riley over a period of days.''
>>>
>>> Brookes said the Rileys refused to accept help from agencies that had
>>> identified problems with the way Rebecca was being given medicine.
>>>
>>> The affidavit said the couple was indifferent to her ''obvious pain
>>> and suffering,'' and failed ''to provide any medical care to their own
>>> daughter as she lay visibly suffering, drowning in her own bodily
>>> fluids on the floor beside their bed.''
>>>
>>> The state medical examiner's office said the girl died from the
>>> combined effects of three drugs used to treat bipolar disorder,
>>> including Clonidine, and two over-the-counter cold medicines.
>>>
>>> ''This occurred as a result of the intentional overdose of Rebecca
>>> with Clonidine,'' the Plymouth County District Attorney's office said
>>> in a statement announcing the charges.
>>>
>>> The Clonidine was prescribed by Dr. Kayoko Kifuji, Tufts New England
>>> Medical Center psychiatrist, to treat the young girl for hyperactivity
>>> and bipolar disorder. The other two drugs were Depakote and Seroquel,
>>> which are also used to treat bipolar disorder.
>>>
>>> Authorities said the girl was diagnosed with both disorders when she
>>> was 28 months old.
>>>
>>> James McGonnell, Carolyn Riley's half brother, and his fiancee, Kelly
>>> Williams, who lived with the family, told police they had repeatedly
>>> asked the Rileys to take Rebecca to the hospital or to a pediatrician.
>>>
>>> They said the Rileys told them they has made an appointment, but only
>>> offered excuses for not going. They said Michael Riley told his wife
>>> to medicate the children when he determined that they were acting up.
>>>
>>> The state Department of Social Services placed the Rileys' two other
>>> children, Gerard, 11, and Kaitlynne, 6, in foster care about 10 hours
>>> after Rebecca's death.
>>>
>>> ''There were mitigating circumstances,'' department spokesman Denise
>>> Monteiro said yesterday. ''We had to take custody of the children. I
>>> can't say any more.''
>>>
>>> Carolyn Riley obtained a restraining order against her husband in
>>> October, but allowed it to lapse after a few weeks.
>>>
>>> McGonnell and Williams told police they saw Michael Riley grab his son
>>> by the neck and bang his head against the back window of a pickup
>>> truck ''in an apparent uncontrollable rage,'' the affidavit said.
>>>
>>> McGonnell said Riley was not allowed to live with his family in
>>> Weymouth public housing because of a court order issued after he was
>>> arrested on sex charges in 2005.
>>>
>>> Police were called to the Rileys' home at 70 Lynn Ave. in Hull's
>>> Kenberma neighborhood, opposite Nantasket Beach, at 6:30 a.m. on Dec.
>>> 13. They found found Rebecca dead on the floor of her parents'
>>> bedroom.
>>>
>>> An obituary prepared by the couple and published in The Patriot Ledger
>>> said the little girl had died in her sleep.
>>>
>>> The Rileys will be arraigned today in Hingham District Court on
>>> charges of first-degree murder.
>>>
>>> The couple was arrested yesterday at Michael Riley's mother's home on
>>> Fallgren Lane in Weymouth. He was held overnight at the Plymouth
>>> County jail and Carolyn Riley was held at the Marshfield police
>>> lockup.
>>>
>>> Michael Riley was indicted in September 2005 on charges of attempted
>>> rape of a girl under 14, four counts of indecent assault and battery
>>> on a child and giving pornography to a child.
>>>
>>> Weymouth Police Lt. George Greenwood said Riley was arrested in June
>>> 2005 after police searched his apartment at 43 Memorial Drive in
>>> Weymouth and confiscated a computer, diaries and notebooks.
>>>
>>> He was scheduled for trial on May 29 in Norfolk Superior Court.
>>>
>>> He was free on $2,500 bail posted by his wife.
>>>
>>> Court records show Riley has a bullet hole and the letters ''RRR''
>>> tattooed on his back.
>>>
>>> Michael Riley graduated from Weymouth High School in 1991 and his
>>> wife, the former Carolyn DiSalvo, graduated in 1992.
>>>
>>> On Dec. 30, two weeks after their daughter's death, they attended his
>>> 15th high school reunion at the Weymouth Elks Club. Michael Riley told
>>> a friend he and his wife needed to get out so they would stop thinking
>>> about Rebecca.
>>>
>>> Hull Police Chief Richard Billings praised State Police Sgt. Scott
>>> Warmington, State Police Detective Anna Brookes and Hull Police
>>> Detective John Coggins for their investigation that led to the
>>> arrests.
>>>
>>> A neighbor, Phyllis Lipton, said Carolyn Riley, her three children,
>>> Carolyn's stepbrother, his girlfriend and their son, moved into a home
>>> at 70 Lynn Ave. in mid-November.
>>>
>>> Lipton, 51, said the family told her Carolyn's husband, Michael,
>>> wouldn't be living with them although he appeared to be there all the
>>> time.
>>>
>>> ''They moved in during the middle of the night,'' Lipton said. ''All I
>>> could hear was foul language coming from the house.''
>>>
>>> Lipton said either Carolyn's stepbrother or his girlfriend told her
>>> that Rebecca had a twin who died at age of 2 weeks.
>>>
>>> Lipton rarely saw the children, she said, but added Gerard Riley once
>>> returned hedge clippers he had taken without asking.
>>>
>>> ''He had obviously gone into my shed to get them,'' she said. ''He
>>> said his cousin was the one who got them from the shed.''
>>>
>>> Lipton said when she heard someone had died in the Riley home her
>>> first thought was that Michael Riley had killed his wife.
>>>
>>> ''No one knew there was a child sick in the house,'' she said. ''We
>>> thought they had moved out.''
>>>
>>> Lipton said the Rileys left about two weeks after their daughter's
>>> death. Carolyn Riley's stepbrother and his family followed a few weeks
>>> later.
>>>
>>> Lipton said all three Riley children had special needs.
>>>
>>> Rebecca attended the Elden H. Johnson Early Childhood Center in North
>>> Weymouth. The school provides full- and part-day classes for children
>>> ages 3 to 5. The center's principal, Victoria Silberstein, declined to
>>> comment.
>>>
>>> Michael Riley's mother, Kathleen Riley, would not comment on the case
>>> when a reporter arrived at her home last night.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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