An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Faces of Evil
Disabled pregnant woman used as target practice
Banished to the basement, the 29-year-old mother with a childlike mind and another baby on the way had little more than a thin rug and a mattress to call her own on the chilly concrete floor.
Dorothy Dixon ate what she could forage from the refrigerator upstairs, where housemates used her for target practice with BBs, burned her with a glue gun and doused her with scalding liquid that peeled away her skin.
They torched what few clothes she had, so she walked around naked. They often pummeled her with an aluminum bat or metal handle.
Dixon — six months pregnant — died after weeks of abuse. Police have charged two adults, three teenagers and a 12-year-old boy with murder in the case that has repulsed many in this Mississippi River town.
“This is heartbreaking,” police Lt. David Hayes said. “It was almost as though they were making fun of the abuse they were administering. This woman was almost like living in a prison.”
Investigators put much of the blame on Michelle Riley, 35, who they said befriended Dixon but pocketed monthly Social Security checks she got because of her developmental delays.
Dixon saw little, if any, of the money, Hayes said. For months she weathered the torment to keep a roof over her head and that of her year-old son, who weighed just 15 pounds when taken into state custody after his mom’s death.
There are no words strong enough to express my disgust that excrement like this even shares the same universe with me. Under normal circumstances, I would never consider myself above anyone else. This is one exception!
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I would like to make these folks the star of a terrorist beheading video!!!! How sick can people be!!!!
Ummm…..excellent idea!
This is.. This is horrible. Not even rapid dogs deserve to be treated like that, much less a disabled pregnant woman! They’d better be going for the death penalty..
I think Illinois has a moratorium on the death penalty. Maybe they’ll rethink that position. I hope!