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Man Beats Toddler To Death On Shinnecock Reservation

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Pedro Jones
A 20-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter yesterday in connection to the fatal beating of a 17-month-old boy. Pedro Jones was babysitting his girlfriend's child at the Shinnecock Indian Reservation on Sunday, and killed him "by striking him several times throughout his body with his closed fists and grabbing him by the neck," according to court documents. When asked why, Jones said, "I was trying to make him act like a boy instead of a little girl."

The police arrived after a 911 call from the reservation, and found the child in cardiac arrest. He was declared dead at Southampton Hospital. Jones, not a member of the Shinnecock Nation, pleaded not-guilty to the charges, and said, "I never struck that kid that hard before. A one-time mistake and I am going to do 20 years." Shinnecock Nation members were present at the arraignment, and the child's grandmother yelled, "You killed my grandson. I hope you rot in hell." Another Nation member spit on Jones as he was led out of the courtroom.

A tribe spokeswoman said the whole tribe is in mourning, but the child's grandfather said, "He infiltrated my family through our trust, through the heart of my daughter and then stole the life of her child. I hope the justice system turns around and steals his." Jones is currently being held without bail at the Suffolk County jail.

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  • i went to school with this loser, safe to say he hasn't changed a bit. Once a loser always a piece of sh*t loser
  • rocket88

    Oh, my bad: It's TheTruthYouSeek and Pedro Jones that are ShittyCock Nation members now.

  • rocket88

    To Truthbetold AND Pedro Jones: You're both part of the ShittyCock Nation now.

  • rocket88

    To El Izzy: The term is corn ROWS. If you're going to make racist comments, get the terminology correct, microcephalic.

  • kar

    makes me sad...who would hurt a baby? why? it sure doesnt make him a "man" to beat and kill a child!!!! I hope he spends every day in prison getting beaten and raped and told to act like a man!!! R.I.P baby Roy....may you find peace with the angels!!!

  • El Izzy

    Sorry if this sounds judgmental, but I wouldn't let any asswipe that looks like that (corn rolls, obviously into Rap, and I'm sure as uneducated as they come) babysit my kid. I'd put his GF behind bars as well, but the only thing that would do is make her even MORE of a lowlife.

  • becuase he MUST OBVIOUSLY like rap because he's black right?

    you are such a f**king a$$hole
  • isla

    This comment is full of the lulz. Seems like you are projecting a little. Your poor writing skills and post content make it clear you are severely undereducated. Or just plain stupid. Probably both. Definitely ignorant.



    Because you are a confused little man, let me help.

    1. Corn rows not corn rolls

    2. Black =/= liking rap music

    3. Black =/= uneducated

  • jaycjay

    "Sorry if this sounds judgmental"



    Of course it sounds judgmental. It's the very definition of judgmental.



    Personally, I would never let anyone who can not simply speak their views without hiding behind insincere apologies babysit my kid.



    Sorry if that sounds judgmental.

  • isla

    Or what jayclay said.



    It makes more sense to say what he means, "I would not let a black man babysit my kids because I am an ignorant, pathetic racist."



    But I hope to all that is holy this dumbass does not actually raise kids. How sad would that be?

  • El Izzy

    Hey, blame it on his poor education and upbringing, yeah, that's what's up yo.

  • jopnrego

    what a lowlife,killing a helpless baby? What would be next if he does not spend his life in jail?

  • MSJONES198

    I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE IS THE MOTHER WHY IS THE GRAND MOTHER AND GRAND FATHER DOING ALL THE Talking i know if some did that to my child i would of been on the news something is not right something is not right about this story why is it that she does not have her ofter kid why ?????????????????????????

  • rasputinsghost

    you realize you are the 21st century version of these guys right



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing

  • Amanda Harletsch

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing



    great piece of info!



    The right wingers are using Hispanics as the worse thing that ever happen to America!

    I snot the corporate power that has abused all levels of this system, form the media to the bank system, to health care... no the Mexicans are to blame.



    The funniest thing is "guessing" wast somebody said in Spanish out pure bigotry acknowledging not being fluent in Spanish: SMART!



    Not only this rightwing bigots equal a criminal with millions and millions of decent people, but think of themselves as superior by displaying such level of ignorance.





    Globalization is here to stay, corporation will pick which market will favor their wage interests... and only education will save this country!



    So yeah, it is impressive to let the dumbest "freedom" idiots dictate racist policies out their own poor understanding of international dynamics while perpetuating their own level of imbecility!





    That will leave china and India to become the new super powers; both of this nations inhabitants are getting the education teabagers are not!

  • henryhamilton

    It's obvious that many people enjoy a good pity party, but reporting this type of story does no one any good.

  • John L

    Jones said, "I was trying to make him act like a boy instead of a little girl."



    Wait till he see what they do to him upstate so he can act more like girl instead of a boy.

  • Rocknrope

    Indeed, his convict roommate will tell him the exact opposite.

  • John L

    oops I meant to say "sees"



    By the way is the "Receive email notification of further comments" option not working for everybody or just me?

  • duckumu

    homophobia claims another victim

  • Boogie Down

    You mean illiterates such as the racist (presumably) white asshole that responded to me before you got here? This idiot thinks all Hispanics are Mexican, as evidenced by his brilliant comments in the thread about the poor guy who was bludgeoned to death in the streets of Park Slope. He also thinks they all have ten kids. Come to think of it, you two sound like you'd get along very well.

  • TheTruthYouSeek

    How sad that you perceived the entire comment regarding Latinos to mean that I think they are all Mexican. The Mexican line was just my line at the end toward one of the families I was thinking about. I apologize that that wasn't clearly written - but how could ANYONE think all Latinos are Mexican? That doesn't even make sense, it's so ridiculous. There are a million different countries that speak Spanish. You're fucked. Figure out the meaning of what I was saying you filthbag

  • snickerdoodle

    That's a lot of ignorant assumptions on your part.



    You must be a racist.

  • Boogie Down

    Um, ONE assumption, hence the placement of "presumably" in parentheses. Anything else I can spoonfeed to you, simp?



    Also, racist against whom, exactly? That's a hilarious accusation coming from someone who uses terms such as "third-world trash" and "barbaric".



    You truly are one of the biggest ignoramuses around here, and that's really saying a lot. Bravo.

  • Sketto

    Ironically, once in prison that dude is going to be someone's little girl. Perhaps getting raped daily for 20 years will change his perspective on gender roles.

  • angry_pickle

    That's just a fantasy dream that rarely happens.

  • fuboy

    But we can hope.

  • Sketto

    Perhaps not in Lindsay Lohan-kinda prison, but in the kinds of prisons they send unrepentent child murderers to, he'll have serious problems once the doors close.

  • D.Lane

    Wow, I'm certainly impressed by all the cultural diversity on display the last few weeks.

    Black boys shooting babies in Coney island.

    Black boys shooting Black boys in Coney Island.

    Blacks bludgeoning Hispanics in Park slope.

    Blacks stabbing Mexicans in Staten Island.

    And now this! Some kind of Black something beating an Indian baby to death.

    Boo white racists. Hooray for diversity. How can we encourage more of it?

  • Polite New Yorker

    David Lane lives online. I disagree with your views, sir.

  • Kao

    and lets not forget Blacks shooting gas station owners in queens. and before that black youths killing a chinese men inside his car.

  • Rocknrope

    Anyone who says shit like "you have to act like a man" to children are obviously very conflicted and confused about their own masculinity.

  • TheTruthYouSeek

    Wrong. Maybe they don't want their kid to be a fuckin' skinny jeans pussy. Man up.

  • robingee

    And if the woman don't have the roast on the table at 6 sharp there's gonna be hell to pay. (the woman = yer mom)

  • Cannibal

    Why do you hate skinny jeans? Because they force you to look at a man's junk, making you feel uncomfortable when you cant stop start staring? Maybe you should just come out of the closet in youe mom's basement.

  • TheTruthYouSeek

    A man with big balls (AKA a real man not a fuckin' spaghetti-limbed snot-nosed top-hatted trendster Williamsburg bitch from Ohio with sticker tattoos), could not be comfortable in "skinny jeans" because the junk would not fit there.

  • Cannibal

    ... so that means they fit you just fine?

  • Guest

    are you man enough to try these on for a few days? be a real man and endure the eternal pain of the balls? or are your balls shrinking in size as you're reading this, and apparently not up for such a challenge, for a real man?



    i'll re-post my personal quote: "a real man knows how to lighten the fuck up in all situations."



    OBEY THE C*CK! TAME THE PU**Y!

  • Boogie Down

    Man up? How about starting yourself by moving out of your mom's apartment. You know it's true.

  • Rocknrope

    Let me guess, you used this phrase just this morning.

  • wobbleSmith

    dear prison,



    please kill Pedro Jones.



    love,



    humanity

  • Guest

    he's been assigned to shine prison c*ocks, instead.



    hope that's ok with you.

  • seven

    It takes a horrible man to beat a baby to death, and it takes a sociopath to not even have a shred of regret, even insinuate he himself is the victim here.



    I agree with grandma, I hope this guy rots in hell

  • Boogie Down

    "A one-time mistake and I am going to do 20 years."



    Spoken like a true sociopath. Unbelievable.



    Sadly, I was at a family event a couple of weeks ago and the father of one of my husband's distantly related cousins was heard saying something like "you need to act like a man" (in Spanish) to his six-month-old son. Scary.

  • TheTruthYouSeek

    I love how you wrote what language it was in. You fuckin idiot piece of garbage.

  • Ritchie

    Why don't you save your ridiculous bile for the murderer?

  • Cannibal

    because TheTruthYouSeek approves of beating toddlers to death to prevent them from wearing skinny jeans... (which he hates because he hates his own homosexuality)



    Did that clear things up?

  • Boogie Down

    Because it's so much easier to be a wannabe internet tough guy (posting from his mom's apartment), while never stating anything of relevance. If this loser went anywhere near a prison he'd wet himself out of fear. Trolls are generally those people who got picked on throughout their adolescence and are lashing out at what they perceive to be the boogie man. Sad and pathetic, really.

  • Boogie Down

    I wrote what language it was in to clarify why I used the term "was heard saying something like". I'm pretty sure that if I had a problem with Hispanic people I wouldn't be married to one. But sure, I'm the "piece of garbage". My god, you're brilliant.

  • Boogie Down

    Further clarification (though I'm starting to wonder why I bother with the likes of illiterate trolls such as yourself): ...because I'm not fully fluent in Spanish (but both my husband and I got the gist of what he was saying).

  • kc2slg

    I hope the guards are very explicit in describing his crime to the other inmates.

  • Potty Boy

    "Jones, not a member of the Shinnecock Nation,..."



    LOL

  • thefacts

    He's not a Shinnecock?

    Odd, he looks just like all the ones I've seen selling tax-free cigarettes on the "reservation".

  • but stayed there bc of his girlfriend!
  • grandzu

    He essentially confessed so how can he plead not guilty?

  • Big Al72

    I'm a lawyer, though not a criminal lawyer, so don't take this as a full answer, but from my understanding, criminal charges are more than just whether the guy did it. The charge is that a person violated a certain law. To prove the violation, the state must prove more than that the person committed a certain act, they also must prove that the person had a certain criminal intent. There are a whole range of possible criminal intents that could be attached to fatally beating someone, and it would greatly change the possible sentence, depending on which law the person was convicted of. First degree murder is a lot different from manslaughter. That's why people who are obviously "guilty" of something, still usually plead "not guilty" at least initially.

  • TheTruthYouSeek

    This was a very nice, thoughtful response. Thank you.

  • Cannibal

    you should take notes on this behavior instead of acting like a wannabe internet gangsta

  • Splicer

    Piece of garbage.

  • angry_pickle

    And who let the garbage in?

  • scrappymcgee

    Come on give the guy a break, did you read the article, it was a mistake. He never hit a kid that hard. No he learned his lesson. We should give him 2 months in jail and probation.



    What a scumbag

  • are u stupid? THAT HARD BEFORE meaning he used to hit the kid. Let someone kill your kid and only get 2 months? ugh the disgust in your stupid comment!
  • Gotham Extremist

    yeah, he was being mad cool and offered to train the kid to be a future thug for free, accidents happens yo.

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