Thursday - October 20, 2005

Most Outrageous Item Of The Day (so far)

I’m afraid it doesn’t get more outrageous than this. There are just too many people in this world with defective brains. Darwin and the law of “survival of the fittest” used to keep that portion of the population under control but today’s society not only protects them and allows them to live but they are allowed to have children. That only leads to more tragedy and suffering ...

Woman Accused of Tossing Kids Into Bay
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)

A woman who was hearing voices tossed her three young children off a pier into San Francisco Bay, authorities said. Rescuers had found one body, and the two other children were feared dead. Lashaun Harris, 23, of Oakland, was booked on three counts of murder, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in Thursday’s editions. Her children were identified as Trayshaun Harris, 6, Travante Greely, 3, and Joshua Harris, 1.

A child’s body was found about four hours after a witness reported seeing a woman drop the children into the bay Wednesday near Pier 7, said Jonathan Guerra of the U.S. Coast Guard. The identity of the body was not immediately able to be confirmed. The San Francisco Examiner reported Thursday that the body was that of the 3-year-old.

While rescuers searched for the children, an empty stroller was visible on the pier. A small inflatable Coast Guard boat hugged the water front as rescuers used hand-held flashlights to search under the pier. Larger Coast Guard and San Francisco police boats searched the water with high-powered flashlights.

Mayor Gavin Newsom came to the scene to get briefed by authorities, telling reporters, “I’m sick to my stomach,” before leaving. Lashaun Harris told authorities that voices had told her to throw her children into the water, the Chronicle reported. It was not immediately known whether she had an attorney. Police contacted Thursday by The Associated Press declined to confirm the report. The department’s spokeswoman, Maria Oropeza, did not immediately returned a message.

She had been staying with her children at a Salvation Army shelter in Oakland, the Chronicle reported. “I just talked to her yesterday,” Mary Ann Ramirez, the shelter’s social services manager, told the newspaper Wednesday. “We had our usual how are you doing, how’s the kids. I would never have guessed in a million years that today she would do that.”

The pier is in the Embarcadero area, which draws tourists to the historic Ferry Building within view of Coit Tower and the landmark Transamerica pyramid. It’s about a mile from Fishermen’s Wharf.

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/20/2005 at 08:18 AM   
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