Thank God she didn't have a gun

[saintsfanbrian]

Baby Sitter Charged in 3 Kids' Deaths

By Associated Press

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BELLEVILLE, Ill. - A baby sitter already accused of killing a pregnant friend was charged Friday with drowning the woman's three children in a bath tub and then hiding the bodies in the family's washing machine and dryer.

Grand jurors indicted Tiffany Hall, 24, on three counts of first-degree murder in the East St. Louis deaths last September of DeMond Tunstall, 7, Ivan Tunstall-Collins, 2, and Jinela Tunstall, 1.

A county coroner's jury ruled the deaths of the children, their mother, Jimella Tunstall, and her fetus to be homicides.

Hall, already charged in the deaths of Tunstall and her fetus, could face the death penalty if convicted. She has pleaded not guilty in those deaths and remained jailed Friday on $5 million bond.

During the coroner's inquest last week, Illinois State Police investigator David Bivens testified that Hall admitted beating the pregnant Tunstall over the head with a table leg, then cutting her fetus from the womb in a bathtub, where she later drowned Tunstall's three children.

"The senseless taking of the lives of defenseless children must be answered with appropriate punishment," St. Clair County's State's Attorney Robert Haida said Friday.

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Can you imagine what this baby sitter would have done if she had a gun. I mean, she could have killed that woman, her fetus and her children.....

[Guest Fuel]

Crimes against children bother me on a very deep level. Trial is too good for garbage like this.

[TGO David]

It's time for us to ban private ownership of bathtubs! And water!

[Guest Fuel]

It's time for us to ban private ownership of bathtubs! And water!

That water probably ran thru copper tubing as well. Best to ban that also. You could poke an eye out with that stuff.

[Guest jackdog]

Brady bunch to ban all sales on tables and chairs with legs... Get used to sitting on the floor for your meals, it's the only safe thing we can do.

[towerclimber37]

thats horrible...and on the same par with the mad man at the VT campus.

if it were me, I would take the babysitter out and put 1 round into the back of her head..then charge her family with the cost of the bullet and paying the executioner.

scum!

[saintsfanbrian]

Tower - a Bullet is too good for her. I think rather a short rope from a tall tree, you can atleast re-use the rope.