First a warning, this story is very disturbing.
It was first reported locally yesterday and I have been monitoring the national outlets to see if any of them had picked up the story, I haven't seen it anywhere.
KHOU is a Belo company and requires a free registration to see their online stuff but there are other accounts at KPRC (http://www.click2houston.com/news/13329125/detail.html), KTRK (http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=5309247), and KRIV (http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=3219763&version=6&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1)

By Karla Barguiarena / 11 News
It was behind door 518 at a Galveston motel room where the unimaginable happened: A father put his two-month-old daughter in the microwave and turned it on.

Manager says man calmly called for help after microwaving baby

Last Thursday, Joshua Mauldin, 19, was alone in the motel with his baby when he called for help.

“The father called down here, asked us to call 911, claimed that the child had a bad sunburn and was bleeding,” hotel manager James Marx said.

Marx said he didn’t seem distraught at all.

Mauldin later told police it wasn’t a sunburn, but that he had accidentally spilled boiling water on the child.

Then his story changed again.

“The first time, he tripped,” Galveston Police Sgt. Annie Almendarev said Wednesday. “Then he said, no, he was drinking it and spilled it. There were just too many inconsistencies. He just couldn’t keep his stories straight.”

A tip then led investigators to the hotel room’s microwave, where they discovered the baby had been placed inside.

Mauldin then confessed, saying stress had driven him to burn his child.

“There was no expression. There was no expression at all. No remorse,” Almendarev said.

The baby girl was rushed to Shriners Hospital, where she’s undergone two skin graft surgeries and is in critical but stable condition.

She suffered severe burns to the left side of her face and left hand.

“I’ve been doing this for a lot of years and actually it brought tears to my eyes,” Galveston Police Sgt. Annie Almendarev said. “The baby is burned on the left side here and it’s just really bad. Her hand is so swollen – if you’ve ever touched something hot you know you get that big boil on your hand – it looks like she’s holding a ball in her little bitty hand. It was just heartbreaking.”

Investigators believe the child was in the microwave for ten to 20 seconds.

“I’m sitting there looking at the pictures and I’m sitting there looking at him, and there’s nothing I could really do about it but just keep my composure,” Almendarez said.

Mauldin had checked into the hotel last week along with his baby, his wife and his mother.

Police said he came to Galveston from Arkansas in search of a job as a minister.

“He’s the worst scum of the earth. I can’t … It makes you want to have cameras in the rooms,” Marx said.

At the time of the incident, Mauldin’s wife and mother were reportedly picking up dinner at a nearby restaurant.

According to police reports, he told investigators God ordered him to go to Galveston.

Mauldin was being held in the Galveston County Jail facing felony charges of injury to a child. His bond was set at $250,000.

Prosecutors said, if convicted, he could face anywhere from five to 99 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Prosecutors said, if convicted, he could face anywhere from five to 99 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. he better get the maximum sentence, nuf said

He'll be lucky to make it to his trial.

The guards and inmates are going to make his life hell for sure.

I thought that we should build a man-sized microwave and give him a taste.

KHOU also reported tonight that the police had seized the in-room safe from the room as they thought she had been locked in there for a time also.

Just sickening.

That ***** needs to burn.

He will be protected more than GW Bush is. They have more rights you know(a$$es like this). He will be protected till sentencing then go to solitare to save his life. If you ask me, your suggestions suck! He should be tortured for 5 months(close to death) and then slowly decapated and made to watch his own body die for those last seconds his brain still lives. That's what folk like him deserve. NOT sympathy in any way! NO EXCUSES!!!!!

sorry if that's a bit harsh/graphic or whatnot, but that's how I feel about people like that. They deserve no rights, privelleges or decency of anykind!

But God told him to do it.
That makes it OK, right?
It makes me wonder about other folks who talk to God directly, including famous ministers and "prophets" in history. There is NO fine line between people who hear voices in their heads and people who claim to be Spokesmen of the Devine, they are one and the same.

We cannot trust that he will receive judgement after death, so it is our duty as humans to administer justice while he is still alive...
Therefore, he should be burned at the stake, but not to death because he should have to live with the burns and pain and disfigurement.

Eye for an Eye

But he will probably be sent to a psych ward for a couple of years and released.

It's a good thing that I don't rule the world... yet
:evil

I would agree with Melek on this. To attack someone so defenseless in that matter is not only immoral it is inhumane.

B*stard deserves to be thrown in a Torture facility. Let them throw water on him, then do "electric shock treatment" on his retarded ass. Then whip him with bone ended tassel whips everyday for 30 years. After the 30 years 3 people shoot him. Once in each leg, then once in the stomach.

Then allow dogs to decimate on his body.

Or just make it easy and shoot him in the face. But that would cause him less pain.

But who actually administers that kind of rough justice? No matter how cruel and inhumane the crime, I personally could not abide the treatment of another human being so crassly.

I am in no way in support of this person, but don't believe "eye for an eye" punishment is a valid form of justice.

If a person is unrepentant and impossible to rehabilitate, then the "humane" thing to be done is peaceful euthanasia. The only time I agree with capital punishment is in the above situation of a perpetrator who is unrepentant, unable to be rehabilitated AND with 100% proof. They will always be a drain on society otherwise.

Back to the topic, I just couldn't imagine personally being able to perform or know that the actions of some of the posts above are to be performed on another human being.

And even more on topic, that guy is pretty messed up in the head..... He obviously IS lacking a few brain cells and most likely has a low mental age......

Low mental age doesn't describe it. When you were 12, you didn't microwave your baby sister. No, the man suffers from psychosis, plain and simple. I don't beleive for an eye for an eye, but with psychosis like that, there is little that can be done for the man except a quick death.

Who administers it? I say it's done Caesar stylye. That way no one really knows who the final blow was done by. Oh and I for one would be in line for the job. Does it make me sick? No, it makes me a human.

I'd like to retract my option for punishment. I think the banana punishment is better. Peel the skin of a person slowly and painfully, the dogs thing? I don't know, I would let dogs eat crap like him. I have some humanity of course.:D

death penalty just uses tons of money. its a million dollars plus a year on average for the normal death penalty case and appeal. But he is in texas, so atleast he will be killed. he is gonna plea bargain to a lesser charge....not the way it should be, but the way it is.

The death penalty is stupid. And I agree with Blitz on this.......I believe there are no "good people" or "bad people". It's better to think in terms of good actions and bad actions. You can't say that because he did such a grotesque thing then he doesn't feel sadness or doesn't love anyone. The fact that he showed no remorse is really disturbing.....I can only assume he was mentally ill. If not he must have been in one hell of a state to do something like that - but either way torturing him or killing him will solve nothing. Therapy! Therapy!

Therapy? Ya, maybe we coulda gone in an given Saddams kids therapy, or better yet Hilter if he were alive. Therapy is for folk who have a small bit of "curable" or treatable disorder. People like this can't live on unless they're drugged all the time on tax payers dollars. People like him and that chick who drowned her two boys deserve nothing less than death. They are genetic flaws in the human genome. Sorry but it's true. Weed out the ones who can do such things. If the kid was yours I think some would be singing a different tune. Therapists are too easy to manipulate. Death is the best thing for the guy and society. Go home bleeding hearts. My sleeves been torn.

Who administers it? I say it's done Caesar stylye. That way no one really knows who the final blow was done by. Oh and I for one would be in line for the job. Does it make me sick? No, it makes me a human.

I'd like to retract my option for punishment. I think the banana punishment is better. Peel the skin of a person slowly and painfully, the dogs thing? I don't know, I would let dogs eat crap like him. I have some humanity of course.:D

I guess I'm a sick b*stard then. A person loses all form of humanity to me when they attack a defenseless creature (whether it is human or animal).

Oh and to the people who will / have opposed capital punishment. You know it costs more to keep someone in jail for life as opposed to being on Death Row for 10-15 years and being executed?

Why do you think jails are running out of room in America? Because the government cares more about busting potheads !

Because the government cares more about busting potheads !

Are you speaking based on personal experience? :D

(BTW, I'm not judging anyone, I definitely don't have all the answers in the universe, I was just putting forward my point of view.)



(BTW2, the guy is scum)

Death penalty or no, jail costs more money than he's worth. Get an executioner, get a branding iron, and go to town.

Well irrespective of the costs relating to the $, I believe the death penalty is too good for this individual, let him go into jail and I should think the tortue he will receive there may possibly be enough to help him take his own life. Either way had I been that mother he would never have made it to jail.

@Blitz....that goes for me too btw. Noone intended on my comments, just stating my thoughts on others remarks. To Princess, I agree with your statement, unfortunatly he is in America where his rights come before anything else(like Canada). More rights to the guilty over the victims. Therefor he would end up not socializing with the prison population, thusly no torture. If he was going to the general pop, then ya he'd be royally screwed...figuratively and literally. :focus

Are you speaking based on personal experience? :D

No, it mostly comes from a lot of research for some of my history term papers I've had to write over the years. IE: There are more people locked up for possession of marijuana than there are murderers, child predators, etc combined.

Why? Because in our current state, the WAR on DRUGS! administered through Clinton's administration became exceptionally difficult on petty misdemeanor possession crimes. Those offenders are typically locked up in County Jails, mixed in with the common thieves etc and get into much more trouble.

However we will get back ontopic. This guy is a douchebag, he deserves more than what the American system will give him.

Still haven't seen it in any of the national outlets yet, but did find the video of the story in post #1 (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c5d_1179419342) on LiveLeak.

Stressed? :'(


Boo hoo, cry me a river, what a loser!!! I have stress, in fact I've had a LOT of stress in my 30 years of life. NOTHING could want to make me do anything near that in a million years. And not to be forgetting anyone, there are many players here that have there share of stress in there lives. What he did was not stress, it was something else that stress brought on. He has a pre-dispositioned feel for murder. I would guarantee there was a part of him enjoying in a sick way what he did. Like those people who like watching animals suffer. He got his kicks from watching a baby burn. Some people have it and need a catalyst to bring it on. It's good he's off the streets, hopefully soon off the earth? Stress? Again, who here hasn't been on the edge at least once in their lives?

I punched a wall once out of frustration, missed a batton and penetrated the gyprock.... Oops. Kinda felt stupid having to repair it. I don't usually go into temper fits, I just have to clean up afterwards when I calm down, and I hate cleaning.

Well, as I reported last night, they also confiscated the in-room safe as the baby was also put in there for a time. Tonight they also reported that she had been put into the refrigerator. The state has taken custody of her and none of the family is being allowed to see her. Seems as if they have reason to believe that the mother and grandmother were complacent about her care as well although no charges have been filed against them as of yet. Unfortunately, unless she dies, the death penalty isn't an option. But jailhouse justice will be swift and ruthless. ;punch

That is hideous. I feel like **** when my kid starts hitting and I slap his hand. I can't imagine anyone doing this to a child.

Send the piece of **** to me!!! I'd have no problem making and watching him suffer. I'd keep the scum alive for years in my basement and he would beg me everyday to kill him just to make the pain stop.

Still haven't seen it in any of the national outlets yet.

saw it on the local cbs affiliate and in yahoo news this morning.

Send the piece of **** to me!!! I'd have no problem making and watching him suffer. I'd keep the scum alive for years in my basement and he would beg me everyday to kill him just to make the pain stop.

Sorry wild, I got first dibs on that one. I will let you jump in to switch it up a bit if you'd like. My rusty spoon is ready for the peeling, and my vinegar/salt bath awaits. :evil . I can make the devil sqirm with my tortureous ways

http://medieval-castles.org/index.php/the_wheel_torture_device_deadly_and_pain

Hehehe, this is some justice for him. Though the water torture would also be good at driving him to and beyond the breaking point of human mental capacity.

keep him alive for me. I'll show that sick b*stard what he deserves for abusing a baby.

ah sorry you are not talking about Tony Blair then :)

back on topic, vengence is no solution

and did you know 500 children die a day in Africa from poverty-related diseases? :(

and did you know 500 children die a day in Africa from poverty-related diseases? :( ;offtopic


and not even one was cooked in a microwave I would be willing to bet :nope

**EDIT**

UPDATE: Spokespersons from the Shriners Burn Institute have reported that CAT scans of her body have shown that there are no internal injuries!!
Her condition has been upgraded from critical to serious. :)
She has undergone two skin graft surgeries.
Little girl is a fighter!!! ;smi551

;lose Mother and grandmother have gone back to Arkansas. ;lose

Father has joined the Galveston County jailhouse choir as their newest soprano. ;yes

Ya that was a bit off . I mean, they are two different stories. If you can't see the difference then I feel for you. In fact, I wonder why you don't spend you money used to buy a donator roll to help those children you speak off? Keep this on topic! A girl was mutilated by one of the people meant to protect her.


Soprano? Kinda hard singing after they knock out all you teeth ain't it?
(some will understand the whole no teeth thing?)

Soprano? Kinda hard singing after they knock out all you teeth ain't it?
(some will understand the whole no teeth thing?)Oh I understand, and it's something deserves, lol

I bet he's made plenty of friends who just want to shoe him the full jail experience... :D

;offtopic


and not even one was cooked in a microwave I would be willing to bet :nope


yep the point being one child "cooked in a microwave" is a very rare thing whereas 500 children dying a day from poverty-related diseases , most of which are preventable, is evidently not rare.

i don't think "scum" is classified in any psychiatric diagnosis? ;) i could be wrong.

here's a commentary on a missing child story from the UK which captures the media's approaches to such event:

The British media does not do responsibility. It does stories (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2082507,00.html)

The term "scum" is not a diagnosis(not sure where you got that from). It is a derogatory term used to describe ones character based on his/her actions. In this case, the 19 year olds actions against his own child deems him the title scum, among others.

Your continued use of the 500 children thing is true. However, why not make a new thread based on it, and show us how YOU have done something about it to help them to show us your not just all talk on that subject. Poverty striken "countrie(s)" are not rare. More than just Africa has this happening(yet you only mention the one?). One thing about why it's good to talk about this story is because of its nature. Stories grusome like this do NOT make it to the general public often. Most media classify it as R rated in a sense, and believe airing it would enrage the public, or that the public is not able to handle it. Again, not soley based on the outcome, but the entire story and its related persons. The media does what it will based on what I mentioned and on ratings. Remember the wealthy white girl abducted from her house? Media frenzy over that, the whole country was waiting. Meanwhile a poor black kid who also was abducted received no amount of attention at all. It's easier to market a white kid over a black kid in America. It's the way it is unfortunatly(at least back then).

So, if you really do care about those children, start a thread like I said. Otherwise try not to be so obvious in trying to hijack the thread. Oh, and I see many children fund shows/commercials on a regular basis, so there is a lot of attention out there for that issue(in case you don't see it).

Cheers,

The term "scum" is not a diagnosis(not sure where you got that from).

If you watch the video clip, "He's the worst scum of the earth", is a quote from the hotel manager.

No, you miss the point...

I know where the term came from, I was questioning where Insouc got the idea that that was a diagnosis? It was a general insult to the a$$ in question. We're all calling or at least agreeing he is scum. We're not saying that it's a diagnosis.

"i don't think "scum" is classified in any psychiatric diagnosis? ;) i could be wrong."

That was what I meant by my statements.

UPDATE

Anna was released from the hospital Monday and placed into foster care.

Video of the mothers side of the story. (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a45_1179968239)

UPDATE

Anna was released from the hospital Monday and placed into foster care.

Video of the mothers side of the story. (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a45_1179968239)

I don't even want to watch the video of the idiots...

Man.....My wife works with foster parents all the time and some of them are as bad as the bio's...I hope Anna gets a good one.

Ah, how touching, she's gonna stay with him for god, and the vows....:growse (we need a puking smiley). Nice to know he's talking to god as well. I agree, I hope she gets into a good place, and recovers as well as she can.

Update: The jury this morning convicted Mauldin of injury to a child and found that he used a deadly weapon -- the microwave oven -- in commission of the crime ;bravo . That finding would force him to serve at least half his sentence before being eligible for parole.

Before retiring to the jury room :rtfm , the four men and eight women jurors heard arguments over whether he should receive probation :growse or a sentence that could range up to life imprisonment ;88 .

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5643782.html

personally If I was supreme judge of the world I would sentence him to be microwaved himself. Lets see how he likes being turned into a hot pocket... Sick *******. What has the world come to. Im just disgusted. His own child....

I would agree with Melek on this. To attack someone so defenseless in that matter is not only immoral it is inhumane.

B*stard deserves to be thrown in a Torture facility. Let them throw water on him, then do "electric shock treatment" on his retarded ass. Then whip him with bone ended tassel whips everyday for 30 years. After the 30 years 3 people shoot him. Once in each leg, then once in the stomach.

Then allow dogs to decimate on his body.

Or just make it easy and shoot him in the face. But that would cause him less pain.

You and I are still friends right ? ;)

;ranting Worthless POS got 25 years (eligible for parole in 12.5) and a $10,000 fine. ;ranting

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5650594.html

Are you really surprised? In today's world of religious dogma and PC crap invading every orafice of society, even Hitler would get that kind of a sentence. While I don't agree with corporal punishment or death penalty 100% due to the fact that some are actually innocent. I would reserve as said earlier a much more fun punishment on him. He should have at least not been allowed possible parole.

Again, no surprise. Too many spineless folk out there.

Oh, no that wasn't a crack against religion, just that sometimes morals are applied to the wrong people.

;ranting Worthless POS got 25 years (eligible for parole in 12.5) and a $10,000 fine. ;ranting

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5650594.html


That guy is horrible!!! What person in there right mind could do that? I think he shouldve got the death sentance, and if they dont have that there, which I believe they do, then a life sentance in prison without the possibility to parole, and a $100,000 fine, plus pay child support.