Shia Travis? Have you heard of her? I’ll bet most people outside metro Las Vegas haven’t heard of her. For those who haven’t heard:
The man accused of killing his girlfriend’s baby and dumping the body in a trash bin also is being charged with sexually assaulting the 21-month-old girl, Las Vegas police said Monday.
William Marshall, 37, was arrested late Saturday in Phoenix and charged in the death of Shia Travis, whose body was discovered last week by two homeless men rummaging through an apartment trash bin near the Strip.
Police said the toddler died from blunt force trauma to her head that occurred during a beating.
Marshall also has been charged with one count of sexual assault with a minor under 14 years old. Shia had suffered injuries “consistent with forced penetration,” according to the police report.
Authorities on Saturday also detained Darrean Williams, Shia’s 20-year-old mother, in Phoenix for questioning.
Williams is not facing charges, but that could change as the investigation continues, Metropolitan Police Department officer Jay Rivera said Monday.
“Right now, she has not been arrested,” he said.
Marshall will be extradited to Southern Nevada, police said.
Williams is a prostitute who traveled to Phoenix to work, her sister, Nicole Farmer, told police. Williams had left Shia in Marshall’s care when she went to Arizona, Farmer said in the police report…
…Her death is reminiscent of that of 3-year-old Crystal Figueroa, who in 2006 was found dead in a trash bin in a southeast valley apartment complex.
Crystal’s mother and her mother’s boyfriend received life sentences for the slaying.(emphasis added)
Horrific. But its actually worse:
The grandparents of Shia Travis describe this ordeal as a “horrific reality”.
Their son is the biological father of the toddler, who they say is devastated …
Despite the overwhelming heartache they’re coping with, both grandparents choose to remember Shia in a positive light.
“Beautiful little girl, smart, alert. No reason she should’ve had her life taken like that,” said Lawrence Gibbs.
They say they’ll always cherish their memories of their granddaughter…
They’ll cherish their memories of the little girl and their son, the biological father, is “devastated”…of course, he’s not so devastated that he actually considered the wisdom of having sex with a prostitute, nor the wisdom of having a child with said prostitute, nor once a child was born of the prostitute taking her away from that life and providing for his child and the mother of his child. And the grandparents? Ah, the grandparents: they’ll cherish their memories…but I doubt they’ll want to dwell on the fact that they left their grand child in the care of a prostitute.
What is wrong with us? How can we allow such things to happen? Because we’re cowards – because we cower in fear of those who make money off depravity. We dare not raise our voice against our masters – and so smut runs rampant in children’s entertainment, so no one will dare call the failing to account…and so a “man” can produce a child with a whore and then leave his child in that whore’s care who then becomes known for leaving her child in the care of the “man” she currently shacks up with while she heads out of town to pursue her trade…and not a single person lifts a finger to save the child! From grandparents on down, the whole family should be flogged! Ah, but then I’d have to have myself flogged, too. No truer words were ever spoken by a mere man than “treat each man as he deserves and who shall ‘scape whipping?” Once we’re done laying the cat to the backs of that family, we’d all have to take our turn – because each and every one of us is responsible for the death of Shia Travis, and thousands (millions?) like her over the years.
We’re no longer civilized – heck, to call us barbarians is an insult to savages. Its hard to describe what we are – well dressed, very well scrubbed degenerates. Perfumed shit. And its time we stopped being such – its time we started to stand up and act like men and women and simply not allow the people who profit off death to continue unchecked. Pornography has to stop. Gratuitous violence has to stop. “Don’t be judgmental” has to stop. Allowing pre-teens to dress like gangsters and whores has to stop. Allowing men to just impregnate one woman after another without consequences has to stop. Allowing women to have 5 children from 3 men without ever being married has to stop. We must become civilized – for the sake of the next Shia Travis, who will be raped and murdered tomorrow, because we allow this to go on too long, today.
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