Portsmouth, VA (The Weekly Vice) -- Don't worry ladies, this "chunk" of burning love won't be burning your children any time soon.
Matthew Alan Simon, a 19 year old Virginia man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder, felony child abuse and malicious wounding after scalding a child half to death.
According to police, Simon was watching his girlfriend's 8 month old daughter on May 27th when he got the bright idea to drop the kid into what police now believe was blistering hot water.
Simon told police that he ran a bath and then got into the bath with the child. There's no telling what twisted reason he had for doing THAT. Simon told police that when the child was placed in the bath, she began to scream out in pain. When Simon later dried the child off, he found redness with parts of the child's skin peeling.
Simon took the injured child to Portsmouth Naval Hospital, where emergency workers treated the child for burns to her hands, arms, legs and feet - with skin that was peeling away.
After the child's condition stabilized, she was transferred to Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters for follow up care before being released to the child's paternal family.
Just a harmless accident?
Following Simon's arrest, Portsmouth police told reporters that Simon had been charged with Malicious Wounding for an injury the child received the very day before she was burned. Of course!
While police wouldn't release details on the previous charge, the previous charges were elevated from a garden variety abuse charge to Attempted Murder, Felony Child Abuse and Malicious Wounding. And it's about friggen time! Police had to wait until he was released from the looney ward before they could officially charge him.
The Weekly Vice Opinion:
Alright, well we know Simon's kind well enough, as we feature slithering excrements like him on a daily basis.
But for three nights in a row we've featured stories that are beginning to sound like a broken record. Boy meets girl. Boy abuses girl's child. Girls stays with boy anyway. Kid gets abused some more.
Can any of you lady readers explain to me what kind of insanity pulses through the mind of a female who watches their child endure abuse, but then lets him watch the kid unattended the very next day?
Well alright, lets add one more layer to all of this zaniness to really spice up things up. The child's mother WORKS at the hospital this poor child was taken to after this dope scalded the poor girl. This doesn't make her an all-knowing super-mom, but it does enable her to recognize what an injury is we'd think.
For God's sake, mothers, if a man hits, gropes, burns or beats your child - please kick his lazy, retarded, child abusing ass to the curb. Correction. First kick him hard in the balls and then drag his ass to the curb. The garbage man comes on Wednesdays.
Danny Vice
The Weekly Vice
http://weeklyvice.blogspot.com
Posts
30 comments:
the mother isn't a corpsman
I repeat the MOTHER HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT... she didnt know
I just got to read your article. My daughter never I mean never would of
left her daughter in his care if she had any idea he was capable of such evil.
The way I see it everyone should do a background check on anyone that is with your children. The monster was in the Navy do you feel safe now.
We were deceived by the devil
yea well nobody told you he is suffering from depression since his dad died of liver cancer a week before the insadent. and the mother and myself is also in the navy and you didn't call her a monster. i was trying to find him help because i thaught he was depressed then this happened before i could find him. but nobody told you he was d3epressed since he watched his dad die did they. and this doesn't just affect the child and her famil it also affects his family and the way people look at the navy. there is no way the navy or the mother knew he could have done this becuase he doesn't have a past criminal record. it was the depression not matt that burned the baby.
Spare me and everyone else reading your BS. Your tenuous defense for his actions by blaming them on depression is just that,BS. This POS deserves no mercy and deserves all the hardship coming his way. To hell with him.
As someone who has lost a parent himself, I respectfully ask.... What is your fucking point?
Are you suggesting it's alright to start torturing children, just so long as you're depressed over a family member dying?
If you're depressed, there are endless doctors, medications and counselors you can seek out for your problem. Burning a child is not one of them.
And while we're at it. If you saw such a big difference in him, then why didn't YOU say something?
I see. You have the peanuts to slither onto this blog and defend child abuse, but you didn't have the balls to say something BEFORE the kid was tortured with burns.
Take your whiney, excuse-making ass over to a pacifist blog. You'll blend in better there.
i am no pacifist you peace of shit civilian. do you know anything about psychology or criminaligy. i do because i had train while in the military. until you know what you are talking about shut the fuck up.
You are a pacifist and an apologist.
I'm quite familiar with depression and what it does.
I am also familiar with how treatable it is - if not for excuse making morons like you who excuse a person's actions with one reason or another.
Blame the depression? Tell that to the kid you limp wristed bastard.
This man needs a thorough ass stomping for what he put that kid through - period.
But say, now that we know what you think is acceptable behavior of a depressed person, do us a favor.
Keep a bottle of happy pills on hand at all times. I'd hate to see what a child might go through when you become depressed over something.
Get lost, pacifist.
i know the child and the mother of the child. and i guess you don't know much about depression because then you would know that most people don't know they have depression until its too late. i am closer to this situation than you are. you realy don't know what you are talking about. you use this website to make an easy dollar. hope you enjoy this because someday you will be judged by the standared you yourself have set.
The standard is pretty clear. You abuse a child, you go to jail. Period.This man abuse a child horribly. And here you are making excuses for the victim.
You are truly loathsome sick people. It's a good thing you aren't here right now, or I'd dunk you in a blistering hot bath. Sick,sick people you are!
I'm a pacifist (of the good old peaceniky type) and we want fuck all to do with the previous anonymous, who is an idiot.
Is this what we have for Navy personel now? The person who keeps posting as anonymous.
Good God it's a good thing I was in the Air Force. Whoever this is, shouldn't be representing him/her self as a member of the armed forces while spewing such nonsense. You are a Sham.
Why is it that everytime a child is hurt, one parent claims they didn't have anything to do with any of it and the other claims they have some kind of mental problem.
I would imagine this 'anonymous' is just a friend of the family or a buddy, or even Simon himself, simply trying to turn the tables on his actions - blaming everyone else. That's a pretty bad sign that he hasn't learned any kind of lesson at all - and he's prone to do it again and again anytime he gets his panties in a wad.
Oh, it's the depression's fault. No, it's the blogger's fault. Oh wait, perhaps it's Santa Claus' fault. How about a new one? It's Matthew's fault. Now there's a news flash for ya.
Most depressed people abuse themselves.They don't abuse little defenseless babes.I reject this argument as being a complete cop-out from a person who simply has a personal ax to grind. No objective person would make such a statement.
Even in his mug shot he has an arrogant asshole look about him. I'm curious too, mother, how is this boy doing? Skin peeling off sounds like 3rd degree burns which is very serious - could result in nerve damage and other permanant damage. Please let us know. As for 'pacifist'. I'd be happy to do the honors anytime you're up for 3rd degree burns all over your body dumb ass. Instead of condemning this kind of behavior, you encourage it. You are every bit as unbalanced as this asshole was and should be locked up right along with him.
actually the baby is making a good recovery. so far i have seen no nerve damage. and yes it is a small minority but some depressed people do hurt others instead of themselves.
This is truly a sad event that has happened to this child and her family. I work with an extremely close relative on the mother's side, and as far as I know, the mother really didn't know or have anything to do with it. She is following up as she should using the correct legal channels and military chains. I am absolutely horrified that a sick individual like that wears and soon will have worn (that's right past tense) the same uniform as I. I can't get over how someone in a previous post can say that a state of mind and not an individual did this horrific act...regardless he should be punished for what happened according to state and military laws. His mental state should not excuse him for the crime he committed. C. Riley, who reigns from the o so mighty chair force, learn how to spell...shame has an e at the end. :)
Please remove the child's name from post by anonymous.
This guy is a very sick fucked up individual...no innocent 8 month old deserves this type of torture......Maybe someone should torture the mother fucker til he tells the truth on how he seeked pleasure listening to ******** cry! And now the mother is suffering by having her baby taken away...what has the world come to? This guy is in the United States Navy???? Now that's fucked up...a fucked up individual protecting the country but torturing an 8 month old innocent baby????? Help the Mom get her baby back where she belongs! Mom has lots of family support but VA CPS won't put the baby with the Mom's family? That's messed up! You would think the Navy would help the Mom...maybe a congressional is in order!
Ok, the fact of the matter is this - what WAS done, was horrible. Regardless of whether this guy is military, civilian, or the fucking pope. it is not indicative of the branch or profession this man (used loosely) is in, or the organizations he belongs to. Hell, Jack the Ripper was a Freemason, but he doesn't epitomize the rest of us.
You want to talk about mental issues? Ok, fine... I was an abused child, I've been locked in closets, burned by cigarettes, had my arm stapled to a workbench even so that I would "shut up and listen". I've been diagnosed both as being manic depressive, and having an anxiety disorder brought on by PTSD... interestingly enough, I'm also a parent. I have an eight year old, and a six month old. I wouldn't DREAM of doing anything to either of my children, nevermind someone else's.
For the anonymous person with the horrible spelling and even worse grammar - shut the fuck up. If you were trying to damn hard to get this guy help, why the hell was it ONLY you? You should have gone to his family, his CO, SOMEONE with the authority and ability to pull the right strings and get him the help he needed. Take your excuses for someone who, while may be troubled, is showing signs not of an individual depressed over the loss of a parent, but those of someone bent on masochism, and shove them squarely up your ass.
The excuses for this guy's actions are nothing more than bullshit. He did it, he should pay for it, regardless of what his emotional handicap is. Honestly, I wish there were a way to bring back the "eye for an eye" method of justice and make him experience the fear and pain that this poor child experienced.
As for mom - there's a difference between a parent that sees the warning signs in an abusive relationship and keeps quiet out of fear or whatever, and another that truly has no idea that the person they are with has the potential to be a monster.
My only comfort in all this? She's young. With any grace out there, she won't remember any of this. She may have the scars to show what happened, but for her little heart? I just hope that heals...
the bastered is going to jail. he plead guilty what more do you want to prove he did this not the depression.
for everyone he can get up tp 45 years in jail! :) i know my whole family and myself is glad that he is being locked up I just wish he never could get out!!!!!!
To Mom,
I just wanted you to know that I have kept an eye on this case and I have appreciated your comments and updates.
Although I am frustrated with the never-ending stream of victims who are profiled here each day.... I also realize that there are other innocent victims in tragedies like this as well. The family members who's heart breaks every day for the child who was hurt.
I can tell by your words that this has been an overwhelming, astounding and trying time for you. I can tell you love your child and this has weighed heavy on your mind in a lot of different ways.
I want you to know that we respect and support you Mom.
Perhaps the one silver lining in all of this is that you can see how many people have come and are still coming to see if there is news on your child's recovery.
It won't replace the heartache, but hopefully it makes the load just a little lighter.
Please do continue to let us know how things are going. If there's anything you'd like to share privately - please email me. I'd love to know how your family is doing.
dude thats fucked up i used to be this dudes neighbor in chicago i woulda never guessed he was like that man that makes me sick
To Danny Vice,
Thank you for those things you said on here.. Matthew was sentenced to 15 years in jail which is total cheraty for what he did and I'm not very happy with the state of VA.. everyone thank you for support through this whole thing and helping me stay strong..The baby is having a wonderful recovery and is acting like a normal toddler
To the Grandfather,
Your daughter KNEW what he was capable of beause he had harmed the lid just the day before!!! DUH. No deception there. Don't make excuses for your daughter. She is just as at fault.
I went to high school with this guy, he is messed up in the head and prison is the best option for him. The guy is 5'2" and is lucky he hasn't been torn limb for limb in prison.
What a sick individual, if you ask me his sentence isn't long enough.
This guy was a little freak in high school that was suffering from a case of roid rage, who cares if he was depressed, I'm sure he will get whats coming to him in the showers.
Just want everyone to know that the baby made a full recovery and I got her back 8 months later! Since then I have been discharged out of the navy and we have moved back north and she is active in school, dance and soccer. She is a happy healthy 4 year old and thank god there is no scarring. For her father's family who tried to steal her away I have not heard from them or have gotten any type of support in 3 years. ( they were trying to file for custody of her)
Post a Comment
****Please Read Before Posting****
The fastest way to post is to type your comment, click "NAME", enter any screen name you wish, and then click "PUBLISH".
Anonymous posts are discouraged, because it makes a conversation difficult to follow. No one can tell who's talking to who. Be somebody. Pick a name - any name. This way your fellow bloggers know who you are when you return to comment again. Thank you!