REST IN PEACE BABY BEN
On February 12, 2008, Peoria Police responded to a call at 3012 W. Proctor Street in Peoria. Found dead and strapped in a car seat set that had been placed in a crib was 5 month old Benjamin Sargent.
The defendants are his parents
Benjamin was wearing a blue snow suit. It was zipped up. The temperature in the room was near 80 degrees
Benjamin’s eyes were open, his hands were clenched in a fistlike position and, although dead, his eyes were staring straight ahead
Police investigation and medical and pathological examination would reveal that Benjamin had been strapped into this car seat and had not left it in eight days. All waste and urine had collected beneath him and his buttocks, legs and back were eaten into by the resulting poison.
Some waste left in Benjamin’s colon revealed resulted in constipation because it could not be pushed out of his body due to starvation
James Sargent was present at the house and, when interviewed on that day, and again on February 18, his answers to questions confirmed for police that Benjamin had been returned to the residence on February 4, 2008, by a grandmother and he was in the same car seat, wearing the same snow suit, and confined in the same manner as when he was found dead 8 days later.
A person who ‘stayed’ with others in the garage of the defendants told police that he was the one who observed Benjamin in the car seat, and on the living room floor, and that it was he who found this odd and so, he placed the child (while in the car seat) in a baby crib in a bedroom
The house was kept in an outrageous condition with nothing in its place, food left out and spoiled, and belongings scattered everywhere.
Clothing, articles, spoilage, and debris were stacked everywhere around the house
James Sargent told police he “thought” he had maybe moved Benjamin once or twice during the eight day period but upon further questioning, he conceded that he may not have been moved at all.
The person from the garage tells police that Benjamin was found just as he had left him eight days earlier
The 'mother' was in Iowa, where she had gone to see-a male boyfriend she found over the internet
She told police that caring for her baby Benjamin was not her duty and that it was James' responsibility. Before heading to Iowa on the day before Benjamin was found dead, Tracy Hermann said she looked at the baby in the crib and presumed he was sleeping so she said she stuck a bottle between the baby and the side of the carseat so that when he woke up he could grab it and feed himself if he was hungry.
In case the court missed it earlier, Benjamin Sargent was five months old.
Tracy Hermann also has a daughter, almost 3, who Tracy Hermann seems to have 'given'away' to a family member
A shelter care hearing on that matter now pends in the circuit court because I am also seeking to remove her permanently and forever from any contact with Tracy Herman
Preliminary examination of Benjamin Sargent’s body showed that he weighed 10 pounds, suffered from sepsis in the blood and tissue, was without proper liquid and food and that he died from starvation due to neglect by the two defendants who stand before you, Tracey D. Herman and James Sargent ↓
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| Name: zoey9810 | Date: Aug 2nd, 2008 9:04 AM |
| what the fusck is wrong with people!! thats soo fircken horrible, i wish i could help every one!! that poor baby!! :( ↑ |
| Name: Joeys_Mam | Date: Aug 2nd, 2008 2:33 PM |
| Name: Joeys_Mam | Date: Aug 2nd, 2008 2:45 PM |
| He must have been crying for prolonged periods of time. They must have heard him cry and ignored him till he gave up. This is sick ↑ |
| Name: lacirrom | Date: Aug 4th, 2008 3:11 PM |
oh my gosh, i'm sitting here crying now! why? why would anyone ever do this to anything or anyone, much less their own baby?! i hate people. i'm sorry, but people like this should have to die the same way the killed that baby! strap the mom and dad in a chair, making unbarebly hot, and then go back and "check" on them in a week or so!
i don't get it! if they "gave away" their daughter why, WHY couldn't they have given that baby away? ↑ |
| Name: 04nidak | Date: Aug 4th, 2008 3:35 PM |
| I read about this and it makes me so sick to my stomach and so sad for that little baby, I just don't understand how a person can be so careless and so irresponsible with their children. I just don't get it.... ↑ |
| Name: jillw | Date: Aug 4th, 2008 3:36 PM |
| i will NEVER be able to understand how someone can do shit like this. Honestly it just kills me. My stomach is turning at the thought of what this little helpless child suffered. I can't even think of the details, because it makes me so enraged. I honestly think that part of the punishment for both parents and any other adult in contact with this child should be removal of their reproductive ability. They should not even have the option of ever doing this again. ↑ |
| Name: red87 | Date: Aug 6th, 2008 1:50 PM |
| This is absolutely disgusting!! Even more so now that I have a daughter of my own - I do not know how a person could do this, especially to their own child. The person who did this is a monster in my eyes. ↑ |
| Name: red87 | Date: Aug 6th, 2008 1:51 PM |
| I agree jillw...these people should NEVER be able to have children again! ↑ |
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| Name: Marti | Date: Aug 7th, 2008 7:14 PM |
| Those fucking people should get the fucking death penalty. Pardon my fucking language. ↑ |
| Name: christiansmommy | Date: Aug 18th, 2008 1:06 PM |
i hate to hear this kind of shit! i wish i could rescue every one of them. babies and children are so helpless. they can't stand up for themselves or ask for help if they are being mistreated.
i feel like i have to throw up now. arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! ↑ |
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