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Robert Allen Satterfield Sentenced To Death In Texas

Robert Allen Satterfield has been sentenced to death in Texas for the murders of three people. According to court documents Robert Allen Satterfield would murder 28-year-old Ray Shawn Hudson Sr., 24-year-old Maya Rivera, and their 4-year-old son, Ray Shawn Hudson Jr. After the murders Robert Allen Satterfield would set the bodies on fire. Robert Allen Satterfield would be arrested, charged, convicted and ultimately be sentenced to death.

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Robert Allen Satterfield deserves to die for killing Ray Shawn “Baby Ray” Hudson Jr. of Angleton in 2018, a Wharton County jury unanimously decided Thursday afternoon.

The same jury convicted Satterfield of capital murder for the June 10, 2018, death of the boy, who would have turned 5 the next day. The child’s burned remains were found with those of his parents on rural property near Burr in East Wharton County six days after the family went missing.

After hearing closing statements by Wharton County Assistant District Attorney Natalie Tise, jurors were sent to the courthouse’s third-floor jury room at 3:22 p.m. to decide whether to sentence Satterfield to death or life in prison without the possibility of parole. At 4:22 p.m. someone said “they have a verdict,” and there was an audible gasp by some in the courtroom, followed by a buzz of anticipation.

Satterfield, cuffed, shackled and dressed in an orange Wharton County Jail-issued jumpsuit, was surrounded by seven Wharton County sheriff’s deputies as 329th District Judge Randy Clapp read the jury’s verdict.

Before the sentencing phase began at 9 a.m., Satterfield told the judge he did not want to stay in the courtroom to hear closing witnesses and arguments. Satterfield had dismissed his court-appointed defense team during the guilt-or-innocence part of his trial, leaving only prosecutors to argue his fate while he waited out the proceeding in a courthouse cell.

Rosenberg police arrested Satterfield on an unrelated drug charge after stopping him while he drove Rivera’s car June 13, 2018. Three days later, the Wharton County Sheriff’s Office reported, Satterfield led Texas Rangers to property owned by his child’s grandfather, where skeletal remains believed to belong to Hudson, Rivera and Baby Ray were discovered.

Satterfield has spent more than four years in the Wharton County jail. The four-week trial reportedly is the longest in Wharton County history.

The Wharton County District Attorney’s office decided to move forward with only the child’s killing after charging Satterfield with capital murder in all three deaths.

Hudson and Satterfield knew each other from spending time together in prison, Ramirez’s mother told The Facts in 2018. Hudson had been working with Satterfield to help him reconnect with his child, but her daughter wanted to distance the family from him, Frances Rivera said.

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Ex Michigan Teacher James Adam Baird Molested 4 Students

James Adam Baird is a former teacher from Michigan who has been charged with molesting four students between 2018 and 2020. According to police reports while James Adam Baird was employed at the Douglas Elementary School in Garden City Michigan he would sexually assault a ten year old girl multiple times. James Adam Baird would then work at a school in Westland Michigan where he would sexually assault a thirteen year old girl and at the same school would sexually assault a eleven year old girl. At a different school in Westland he would sexually assault a fifteen year old girl. It should be noted the last three victims were all blindfolded as part of a vision test.

James Adam Baird has been charged with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct. James Adam Baird is facing multiple lawsuits including two in which he is being accused of molesting 2 eight year old girls. Needless to say police are still looking for more victims.

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A former teacher in Wayne County has been charged with sexual assaulting at least four children all under the age of 16 – including one during a vision test and three others while they were blindfolded.

James Adam Baird, 43, was charged on Wednesday in connection with the sexual assaults of five girls: a 10-year-old girl, 13-year-old, 11-year-old, and a 15-year-old.

According to a release from the Wayne County Prosecutor, Baird first sexually assaulted a then 10-year-old girl during a vision test at a school Garden City on January 4, 2018. The victim said she was undergoing vision tests when Baird sexually assaulted her.

Two months later, on March 1, 2018, a 13-year-old at a school in Westland says she was blindfolded and then sexually assaulted by Baird.

On May 1, 2019, an 11-year-old girl at the same school in Garden City reported she was also blindfolded and sexually assaulted. And on Feb. 11, 2020, a 15-year-old girl at a Westland school reported the same thing happened to her.

Baird was arraigned in Westland on three counts each of first degree criminal sexual conduct and second degree criminal sexual conduct on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023 – almost four years since the last girl reported the assault.

He was given a $100,000 personal bond – which means he can get out without paying bond. If he fails to show up for court, he would then have to pay the $100,000 bond.

Baird was given a GPS tether and is due back in court on Feb. 16.

For the Garden City crime, he was charged with first degree criminal sexual conduct and second degree criminal sexual conduct and given a $15,000 personal bond. He’s due back in that case on Feb. 13.

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/prosecutor-teacher-blindfolded-sexually-assaulted-wayne-county-children-under-16-during-school-vision-test

Davion Irvin Charged With Stealing Dallas Monkeys

Davion Irvin is a twenty four year old man from Dallas Texas who was just charged for stealing a pair of monkeys from the Dallas zoo. According to police reports Davion Irvin allegedly broke into the Dallas zoo and stole a pair of emperor tamarin monkeys. Thankfully the monkeys would be found the next day unharmed in an abandoned house. Now Davion Irvin has been charged with multiple counts of cruelty of animals to start. Of course the question everyone wants to know is why the heck would anyone want to steal a pair of monkeys?

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A 24-year-old man has been arrested in Dallas and charged in connection with the suspected theft of a pair of emperor tamarin monkeys that were recovered unharmed this week in an abandoned home a day after they vanished from the Dallas Zoo, police said.

Davion Irvin was arrested late Thursday night and charged with six counts of animal cruelty-non-livestock, Dallas Police said in a news release.

Davion Irvin is being held at the Dallas County Jail. It was not immediately clear if he has a lawyer.

“The preliminary investigation and help from the public identified Irvin as the man Dallas Police were looking to speak with regarding the missing monkeys at the Dallas Zoo,” police said.

The monkeys’ disappearance followed a series of suspicious incidents at the zoo in recent weeks involving a leopard, langur monkeys and vulture, all of which led to a hike in security, including more cameras, security patrols, overnight staff, fencing and technology. Meantime, a Louisiana zoo reported the weekend theft of 12 squirrel monkeys.

A $25,000 reward was offered in the Dallas missing monkeys case as zoo officials released surveillance footage that “seems to have been critical in generating a tip that led to the recovery of the tamarins” in the home in Lancaster, Texas, about 15 miles away.

Police also released a photo of an unidentified man they said they were searching for and wanted to interview. The video shows a man walking slowly down a nearly empty zoo sidewalk, looking back and forth as he moves. Another person is seen in the background walking in the opposite direction; the photo shows a man wearing a navy hooded sweatshirt and a navy and red beanie cap while eating a bag of Doritos.

The monkeys went missing Monday from a habitat that had been “intentionally compromised,” the zoo said, adding Dallas Police said they had reason to believe they were “intentionally taken from the enclosure.” The zoo was closed Monday due to inclement weather, it earlier had announced, with the closure extended through Wednesday due to an ice storm

How the animals left the zoo and got into the Lancaster house is still a mystery. Upon their return, the monkeys were put into quarantine, the zoo said.

“Emperor tamarin monkeys, Bella and Finn, were so happy to snuggle into their nest sack here at the Zoo last night!” it said on Facebook. “Our veterinary and animal care teams have said, beyond losing a bit of weight, they show no signs of injury and both started eating and drinking almost immediately once the team completed health exams on Tuesday night.”

Other strange developments with animals have unfolded in recent weeks at the Dallas Zoo.

A clouded leopard named Nova disappeared January 13, and the zoo closed to search for the animal. Police launched a criminal investigation after they found the fence around Nova’s enclosure had been “intentionally cut,” they said. Later that day, Nova was found near her habitat.

Meanwhile, zoo staff observed a similar cut to the enclosure of some langur monkeys, but none of them had escaped, the zoo said. Police did not immediately determine whether the two incidents were related.

The incidents prompted the zoo to ramp up security, including installing more cameras and boosting overnight security personnel and staffing, its president and CEO Gregg Hudson said. Restrictions were also placed on animals’ ability to go outside overnight, he added.

Then, a lappet-faced vulture named Pin was found dead January 21 in his habitat. “Circumstances of the death are unusual, and the death does not appear to be from natural causes,” the zoo said in a statement.

The bird’s death was “suspicious” and it suffered “an unusual wound and injuries,” Hudson said. The zoo is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and indictment of a suspect in the vulture’s death.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/03/us/dallas-zoo-stolen-monkeys-arrest

Magen Fieramusca Murders Friend Steals Baby

Magen Fieramusca is a woman from Texas who wanted a baby so badly that she would murder her friend and steal her baby. According to court documents Magen Fieramusca would murder Heidi Broussard, 33, shortly after she gave birth and would steal the newborn. Magen Fieramusca would attempt to tell friends and family the baby was hers but her story would soon fall apart. Magen Fieramusca would be arrested and charged with murder and kidnapping and would ultimately plead guilty and was sentenced to 55 years in prison

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Tammy Broussard gazed at a photo of her daughter, Heidi Broussard, as she spoke to her convicted kidnapper and murderer in Travis County state district court Thursday.

“Heidi’s hugs were strong and full of love,” Tammy Broussard said. “They lingered in the atmosphere. I still feel them now. … This is something I never imaged in in my whole life that her children would face.”

Her brief but emotional speech took place immediately after Magen Fieramusca, 37, pleaded guilty to the murder of Heidi Broussard, Fieramusca’s friend of a decade. Fieramusca had kidnapped Broussard and Broussard’s then-2-week-old daughter in 2019, investigators said. Fieramusca then strangled Broussard and tried to pass off the baby as her own after faking a pregnancy for months.

State district Judge Selena Alvarenga sentenced Fieramusca to 55 years in prison as a result of a plea deal between the Travis County district attorney and Fieramusca’s defense attorney.

“It is difficult, if not impossible, to find justice or any sort of resolution to this horrendous crime,” Alvarenga told Fieramusca from the stand. “Ms. Fieramusca, the fact is that by your actions, you have deprived an innocent child, an innocent baby of the opportunity of growing up with her mother. You have destroyed an entire family. No matter what the sentence — no matter how long, no matter how harsh — nothing can change that. Nothing can make this family whole again.”

Heidi Broussard vanished Dec. 12, 2019, with her infant daughter, Margo Carey, touching off a frantic search that drew national attention. One week after Heidi Broussard was last seen, detectives found her body inside a duffel bag in the trunk of a car parked outside Fieramusca’s home northwest of Houston. Authorities were able to safely rescue Margo, who was inside the house with Fieramusca.

Fieramusca was originally charged with capital murder. District Attorney José Garza said he felt the plea bargain was appropriate and “saved the family potentially decades of the painful post-litigation process and helped secure justice.”

Fieramusca’s defense attorney Brian Erskine agreed.

“I imagine many have questions that will never be adequately answered,” Erskine said in a statement last week. “Nevertheless, I hope that this plea brings some closure to this family’s great loss.”

Fieramusca, who family and friends say had met Heidi Broussard through a church-affiliated program and been friends with her for years, acted suspiciously soon after Broussard gave birth at a hospital in Austin, according to investigators. The newborn’s grandfather noted that Fieramusca interrupted his first meeting with his granddaughter, asking to hold the baby first.

When a Texas Ranger asked Green where Magen Fieramusca gave birth, he said: “She’s been really distant with me about that stuff. I don’t know why.”

An investigator with the Texas Rangers had approached Fieramusca outside Green’s Houston-area home on Dec. 19, 2019, while Green was out shopping for baby formula. Fieramusca, who was holding a baby monitor, told the investigator she had given birth on Dec. 12, at a birthing center in The Woodlands and went home later that day.

Pressed for the specific birthing center, Fieramusca said she could not remember it.

Texas Rangers detained Magen Fieramusca in her backyard for roughly seven hours while they waited for warrants. Victims services personnel and an Austin police officer stayed inside with the baby. Once detectives obtained warrants, they arrested Fieramusca, and she has been at the Travis County Correctional Complex in Del Valle since they took her into custody.

On the stand Thursday, Tammy Broussard said she often thinks of her daughter while she’s cooking, wondering what her daughter would be saying or thinking.

“Thinking of her gives me peace amidst the pain,” she said. “We miss her dearly.”

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/courts/2023/02/02/heidi-broussard-baby-megan-fieramusca-plea-deal-guilty-murder-kidnapping-prison-sentence/69867398007/

Florida Teacher Davis Augustine Hodge Jr Charged With Sex Crimes

Davis Augustine Hodge Jr was a teacher in Florida until he was arrested for having a sexual relationship with a young student. According to police reports Davis Augustine Hodge Jr would groom the female student (who was either 12 or 13 years old) before engaging in sexual relations in a classroom an act that would be repeated at least three more times. Davis Augustine Hodge Jr who use to work at Homestead elementary school is facing four counts of using his authority to have sex with a child. Due to the severity of the charges the Judge refused to set a bond.

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An elementary school teacher in Homestead was charged Wednesday with having sex with one of his students. The relationship, police said the 13-year-old victim told them, was “romantic” after referring to him as her “boyfriend.”

Davis Augustine Hodge Jr, 30, is facing four counts of using his authority to have sex with a child. Investigators say Hodge used his position as a sponsor of the school’s chess club to lure the then-12-year-old into his classroom at the West Homestead K-8 Center after school on Fridays, where they engaged in sexual contact at least four times.

Davis Augustine Hodge Jr asked the child, referred to in court records as A.A., “to tell her parents she was staying after school for tutoring.” Police say Hodges and the child had sex three times in November and again in January. The teen told police that Hodge told her he was her boyfriend.

Hodge’s assigned Miami-Dade public defender Anna Nicole-Cooke hadn’t returned a phone call by mid-afternoon Thursday. Hodge remained jailed at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Thursday afternoon and was denied bond at his initial court hearing that morning.

A Miami-Dade Public Schools district spokesperson said as soon as the school learned of Davis Augustine Hodge Jr’s alleged misdeeds, he was removed from the school and that termination proceedings have started.

“After a thorough investigation by the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department, the individual was subsequently arrested,” the spokesperson said Thursday.

Miami-Dade Public Schools has had its share of teacher misconduct in recent years. The alleged abuse of authority in the Hodge case is strikingly similar to the recent prosecution of former Palmetto Senior High School creative writing teacher Jason Meyers, who was found guilty last week of three counts of statutory rape. Meyers, 47, flattered a teen and used his position of authority to lure her into his classroom on the pretense of improving her ability to write poetry and pass an advanced placement class.

And in 2020, Wendell Alfredo “Kimo” Nibbs, a then-53-year-old former physical education teacher at Brownsville Middle School, was arrested after several of his former middle school students came forward. Nine girls accused Nibbs of sexual assault and rape during his 15 years at the Miami-Dade public schools. He was eventually sentenced to eight years in prison and is listed as a sexual predator for the rest of his life.

As for Hodge, the child’s parents went to the school at 1550 SW Sixth St., on Jan. 6, the last time police say the child and Hodge had sexual contact. Police said the child told them the two began communicating in October through direct messages on Instagram. At first, police said, they spoke about school. The conversations then grew sexual with the child and Hodge eventually sending naked pictures of themselves to each other.

At first they touched each other through their clothing, said police. But that graduated to oral sex and intercourse. The child, police said, provided text messages corroborating her account of their interaction. Hodge, police said, waived his right to remain silent and confessed.

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