Baby Thrown Out Of Car On Interstate

I’m seriously going to be sick. God  rest this dear little baby’s soul. I am so upset right now. He’ll (the killer) get his though. How do I know?  Because there IS honour amongst criminals in jail. He’ll be dealt with.

TAMPA – The mother of a 3-month-old thrown from a car onto the side of Interstate 275 early this morning had been frightened for months of the man charged today with murdering the boy.

Jasmine Bedwell, 17, started dating Richard Anthony McTear Jr. about 10 months ago, when she was pregnant with the child of another man, a man in prison.

From the beginning, McTear did not warm up to the boy, said the infant’s great aunt Roberta Thomas. Bedwell told Thomas she was frightened of McTear and feared for her boy’s safety.

“She was always scared of him,” Thomas said. “He didn’t care for the child.”

Last month, Bedwell sought an injunction against McTear for domestic violence. She didn’t appear in court Monday, and the case was dropped. Thomas was trying to help Bedwell navigate that legal system to keep her and her son Emanuel Wesley Murray safe, she said.

But before any of that happened, Bedwell’s fears came true.

Early today, Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies say, McTear battered Bedwell and threw Emanuel on concrete, kidnapped the infant and threw him out of the driver’s side window onto the shoulder of southbound Interstate 275, just south of Fowler Avenue.

Thousand of people drove by the crime scene that snarled the morning commute.

McTear was charged with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, kidnapping, felony battery and burglary with battery. It was the second time this week that an infant was killed. Sunday night, deputies say a Lakeland man killed his wife, two of his sons, aged 8 and almost 5 months, before turning the rifle on himself. A 13-year-old son managed to escape to a neighbor’s house.

Horrific Find

Sometime early this morning, Bedwell, who had been out, returned to her apartment with her baby, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.

There, she found McTear. He had broken in, said HCSO spokeswoman Debbie Carter.

According to a report:

When Bedwell closed the door, McTear began to beat her with his fists. He choked her, leaving abrasions on her neck. He bit her on the right arm and shoulder.

Then he threatened her and the baby. “I’m gonna kill the both of ya’ll,” he said.

Emanuel was in a car seat. McTear picked it up and threw it across the apartment.

He picked it up and threw it again. Emanuel fell out, onto the concrete floor.

Bedwell then ran out of the apartment, leaving her baby behind, to call for help. Deputies received a call from her shortly after 3 a.m.

When she left, McTear grabbed the child, put him in his Chevrolet Impala and drove off, eventually heading southbound on I275, where he tossed the baby out of the driver’s side window onto the shoulder.

At about 4 a.m., Jason Bird, a videographer for WTVT-TV, was driving to work when he saw what he thought was trash on the side of the interstate. The more he thought about it, the more he realized it wasn’t trash. He had seen the eyes of a child.

“It flipped me out, and I started shaking and said, ‘It’s a doll, a baby doll,’ ” Bird said.

It wasn’t. It was the 3-month-old boy.

Bird had stumbled onto a horrific crime scene. Authorities quickly arrived and shut down the intersection. At first they frantically tried to revive Emanuel. Then, after the baby was pronounced dead, they searched for evidence in a murder investigation.

According to the Medical Examiner’s Office, the exact cause of death of the infant was blunt impact with skull fractures and brain lacerations.

Investigators are still trying to determine whether Emanuel died in the apartment or later, said HCSO spokeswoman Debbie Carter.

Investigators found McTear’s Impala about 5 a.m. at his home, 1601 E. River Cove St. Four hours later, Tampa police got a tip from a caller who had seen news coverage on the incident and said McTear might be hiding in the Robles Park area. Officers went to 229 Stratford Ave.

McTear ran out a door, and the short chase began, Carter said. Police found McTear hiding in a backyard at 3803 Arlington Ave.

McTear didn’t resist when he was caught, Carter said, but he didn’t say anything to them.

As he was led from a patrol car at the sheriff’s District 2 headquarters, the handcuffed McTear was asked about the crime.

“It’s a dirty game,” McTear said after cursing the media. “It’s a dirty game.”

No Words

Lillie Bedwell, Jasmine’s Bedwell’s mother, said her daughter has been treated and released from a hospital.

Asked if she could describe what the day had been like for her, Lillie Bedwell said, “Hell.”

She said she didn’t know McTear. Asked if her daughter had mentioned what had happened, Lillie Bedwell said, “She can hardly talk.”

The Hillsborough County School District said Bedwell last attended Adams Middle School in 2005-06. Lillie Bedwell said her daughter has been working on getting her GED.

McTear’s criminal history includes dozens of arrests, several of which involved domestic violence, Tampa police spokeswoman Andrea Davis said. His first arrest on domestic violence charges came when he was 14, Davis said. Details on that case are unavailable because he was a juvenile.

In 2007, McTear avoided prosecution on felony criminal domestic battery by strangulation charges when the victim waived prosecution. That case didn’t involve Bedwell. In that incident, police said, he beat his girlfriend up, stole her car with their 3-year-old child in the back seat, gave the child back and burned the car.

Sheriff’s Maj. Harold Winsett said the infant’s death was tragic. The veteran investigator said it is hard to put into words how or why someone would hurt an innocent child.

“You never get used to this type of a case,” he said. “You never get used to this type of a crime.”

Elizabeth Fuelner, who lives two doors east of McTear’s home, said she didn’t know him but the police were at McTear’s place a lot.

Debra Cohen, who lives nearby, said she was awakened this morning by the sound of a police helicopter.

“They do their thing. Nobody messes with them,” she said of the people at McTear’s home. “There’s always a lot of people on their porch. Every weekend there are parties and a lot of fighting.”

Thomas, the child’s great aunt from St. Petersburg, said the boy’s incarcerated father is devastated and hopes to get a furlough to attend the funeral services.

He’s “not doing good,” she said.

As for Jasmine Bedwell, Thomas said the teenager was a good mother who always tried to do right by her only son.

“She was trying to be the best mom she could,” Thomas said of Bidwell, “If you saw her, you saw her son with her.”

In the injunction Bedwell had sought against McTear, she claimed he had violent tendencies, was armed and dangerous and had a drug problem, court records show. In a document, she said McTear had wanted to get his things last month, she refused and called deputies. Deputies arrived, but after they left, he entered the apartment complex on North 15th Street, got out of his vehicle, forced his way into her home and beat her, she said.

Talking about McTear is difficult for Thomas.

“He should get what he did to that baby,” she said. “How could you hurt a baby? That’s the devil’s work.”

As he was being led into a van that would take him to jail, McTear spoke again to the media.

He said he loves Bedwell.

And he professed his innocence.

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Your Lack Of Confidence Is Transparent – Trust Me

I haven’t finished reading The Memory Keeper’s Daughter yet but I put it aside to read another book. I don’t want to say the title because I’m going to review it once I’m done. In any case it’s caused me to look at my life, specifically one aspect of it, and draw from it a conclusion I wasn’t willing to admit. To myself or others. But today, I’m going to put it all out there.

Women love attention, women crave attention and women need attention. We thrive on it. We get a compliment and we claim humbleness or act like we already know it but “thanks anyway”. There’s nothing wrong with wanting attention, sometimes. Right? Wrong. Why do you need attention? Why do you want attention? Why does anyone elses opinion matter? Here’s the deal: I’m guilty of it. I have done and said things for the SOLE purpose of getting a reaction. From friends, family, the opposite sex, etc. I knew what I was doing. We always know what we are doing. None of us are functionally stupid so therefore we are all well aware of what we’re doing. If you try to state otherwise you are lying to yourself and you are in heavy denial. What separates me from you is that I can admit it. To myself and to whomever is reading this post right now. I have posed for a picture provocatively, angled my camera to capture my cleavage seductively, I’ve flirted with the intent to tease and the list goes on and on. What separates me from you is that I’ve decided to grow up, now. Time to be a WOMAN. I’m no longer a girl. I no longer need to look to others to define who I am. I’ve actually been this way for a couple years now, but I still did my thing here and there to “see if I still had it”. Sad, eh?

I’ve decided that I did it for acceptance. I’ve decided that despite my self love and confidence, on my “down days” I used other people’s praise to lift me back up. I’ve decided that I convinced myself that was OK but then I realized: is that what I keep people around for? To boost me up? That realization is just as bad as realizing I’ve actually come to care what strangers think of me. How pathetic. And with that realization came a power. I AM good enough. I AM smart enough. I AM pretty enough and even if its on my terms, it’s OK.

I’ve seen some real pathetic people in my day. And maybe they have seen the same in me – I’m almost sure at one time or another someone said to themselves: “That girl is trying SO hard to be noticed”. I won’t go in detail about some of the people that were the reason behind me writing this blog, because if you know me you’ll know RIGHT away who I’m talking about but the people that claim to be so confident and give off that air are the most insecure people because they take a gazillion photos of themselves, seek out compliments and then rarely say thank you to the subservient “fans” that hang on their every word. You are not a queen or king. You don’t have to sit upon your throne and ignore the commoners. Last I checked you weren’t much of anything. Except someone that sought out attention. These “fans” make you who you are. Remember that. If you are going to try SOOOO hard to get the reaction you wanted, the very LEAST you could do is thank them. Have some manners.

They THEN make the excuse that “Oh, well I get so many compliments and emails and notifications that I can’t possibly thank everyone …” Think about that for a minute then. If you get so many it means you put OUT too many. Idiot. Furthermore they think people are stupid. They add a couple “bad” pics and call out their flaws to gain sympathy or hear someone say “oh no no you don’t look bad at all”. Trust me, I know all about that. It’s the get yourself before they get you mentality. Make fun of yourself before someone else can, that way it won’t hurt as bad or cut as deep. Old trick. Its as obvious as the sky is blue.

Almost as bad as the people putting themselves out there for consumption, are the people that are so blind and stupid to see it. They are the same ones, like lost puppies, cheering these self loathing creatures on. I speak from experience because I’ve HAD them. You can easily tell when someone is so far up your ass. You either do one of two things with that: a) keep them around for an ego boost or b) cut their pathetic ass loose. Most women opt for choice A because who would ever think of getting rid of someone that makes you feel so great about yourself? But you people being kept around, ask yourselves, what do YOU get in return? Anything? I can bet you get SHIT. If you’re happy being a dirty carpet that someone wipes their shoes on, keep doing you. You will never have that chance, you will never get to hang out and you probably won’t ever get that phone call. You are being TOLERATED. In any other scenario, you’d be a BOTHER. A NUISANCE. And you probably know this but your pathetic ass is hopeful. Aww, how cute. I had to let all those people go. It was as much out of guilt as it was out of pity.

I get angry … because I’ve been on both sides of the coin. I’ve been used and I’ve used others. The change comes when you realize BOTH are wrong. Stop putting your self worth and value in other people’s hands. If you are one of those people that SEE others for what they are, whether its someone seeking or attention or someone giving that attention seeker what they want, don’t add to it. I can see, clear as day, the people that do the shit they do. Takes one to know one. I am NOT helping them along. No ma’am. I shake my head, laugh and keep it moving. I was no better than they are. However, the difference between you and I is I’ve realized the error of my ways and I’m making the necessary changes. Difference between you and I is that I’m a GROWN WOMAN, you are still a CHILD. Difference between you and I is that I don’t need anyone to TELL me how great I am, I already know. And don’t try to tell yourself you do it because you “like” it or are bored. There are other things to do with your time but when you get so used to attention YOU ask for, you don’t know how to do anything else. If you love yourself as much as you think you do, if you are as awesome as you say you are, you don’t need a fan club. You’re not famous. Stop fooling yourself. You’re as transparent as glass.