More Charges Possible for Parents Arrested in Infant Death
Mysterious fatality Wednesday was second for Ladson couple, investigators said.
Investigators said Friday that more charges were possible for two parents arrested in connection with the death of their two-month-old, Kayden Melvin. New charges could be related to the death of another child in 2010, authorities said.
Angel Ann Richardson and Todd Stephen Melvin have been charged with unlawful conduct to a child. According to affidavits filed with the court, Kayden suffered from cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead Wednesday morning.
Investigators cited "deplorable" living conditions in the home, including canine feces and unknown fluids in the common area.
"Flying insects were also swarming the areas of fecal matter," states the affidavit. "Several cockroaches were observed in the victim's bassinet." Multiple bug bites were also found on infant's body, according to police.
In June 2010, emergency crews were called to the home regarding an unresponsive infant. The infant had allegedly been found in her crib, cold and stiff to the touch, officials said. After efforts to revive the baby girl, she was pronounced dead. Neither Melvin or Richardson were charged in the incident, according to investigators.
While the investigation continues, The Post and Courier reports that autopsies of both children haven't revealed a cause of death, limiting the charges available in each case.
ABC News 4 notes the state Department of Social Services has intervened to protect other children in the home, including a third child badly burned in a water incident who was later adopted and a fourth, currently in foster care with an adoption plan.
In the case of the burnt child, hospital staff contacted police in April 2009 due to the child's serious burns on its hands and feet that didn't match the story given by Richardson's boyfriend at the time, Alexander Ross Perry, according to reports.
Perry had said the child's skin started peeling after a bath in lukewarm water, according to the report. He was charged with inflicting great bodily harm and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Perry and Richardson were each charged with contributing to the delinquincy of a minor.
Chanel Girl
9:16 pm on Friday, June 29, 2012
I was seated next to this girl as she was waiting to be processed in jail. At first she was quiet and seemed sad as she said her baby had died that day. A bit later she became the life of the party cracking jokes, then began discussing sex with her boyfriend, and his genitalia size, and was the most vulgar person I have ever encountered. I asked her who taught her how to speak like that and she bragged "my baby daddy", he taught me everything. She also spoke of trying to potty train 3 pit bull puppies she had just gotten. She was pure white trash that spoke as if she were black. She refused to say what she was charged with, only that charges were trumped up, but it was easy to assume her and her boyfriend were arrested in connection with the baby's death. She seemed to think it was SIDS. People like this should not be breeding.
stanley seigler
1:04 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
@Chanel Girl: "...the most vulgar person I have ever encountered...She was pure white trash that spoke as if she were black...People like this should not be breeding..."
'People [sicko psychopaths] like this' should not be allowed to live in a civilized society...too bad they cant be put away before they commit their horrendous acts...
and sad that 'after the fact' punishment, if any, all too often, doesn't reflect the depravity of the crime...'cruel and unusual' punishment sometimes acceptable...
ps. probably not the time to mention it...but your apparent racism is showing...ie, 'as if she were black'...
Jamie Healy
9:40 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
I was thinking the same thing - they should both have to undergo surgery to cease anymore child birthing. 2 dead, one badly burned, and another in foster care. Wow! You have been doing well for yourselves. Sounds like more attention was paid to the puppies, which they also clearly shouldn't be allowed to own.
Jamie Healy
9:42 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Which brings up another thing actually. I know that the police were there for the children, but were animal control personnel alerted to the animals in the house that were also clearly not being properly cared for??? Better to get them now when they're young rather than later when these two have completely ruined them.
Diana
12:29 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
What the hell?? how many babies had to DIE and be "scalded" before THE COPS WOULD DO ANYTHING?? HELLO OUT THERE??? ANY "REAL POLICE" LEFT ON THIS PLANET WHO ARE INTERESTED IN ANYTHING BESIDES GETTING PAY OFFS WITH WEED AND MONEY OR COVERING UP FOR THEIR CRIMINAL RELATIVES & FRIENDS LEFT OUT THERE?? THEY HAVE TO WRITE THE DAMN REPORTS AND FOLLOW UP ON THEM AND MAKE SURE THE DA UNDERSTANDS THE SITUATION BEFORE WALKING AWAY AND SAYING "WHATEVER, NOT ENOUGH "EVIDENCE" "WHERES THE DONUTS??".....SICKENING!!!!
Michael Budge
2:28 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Hey Stan saying she was talking as if she were black is not racism, "learning somthin from her baby daddy" is black all the way. If the shoe fits wear it. I also bet the 2 scumbags are getting some kind of welfare. Who is the owner of this house I can bet these 2 low lifes are not, where is there landlord or owner?
stanley seigler
6:28 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
@Michael Budge: "...is black all the way..."
perhaps Michael Budge's racism is also showing...and i am beginning to understand why it's showing...and alive and well...eg;
besides and the true believer racist aside, good folks dont know racism when they see it...
just as, all too many didnt/dont see the anti-semitism clue in the old example: 'some of my best friends are jews'...too many dont see the subtle racism in statements like, "...is black all the way..."
scumbags are scumbags regardless of skin color...
BTW what does the owner of house or welfare have to do with the issue of sicko psychopathic scumbags abusing and murdering their children...
Greymom
2:32 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
I'm sure the police would like nothing better than to arrest these lowlives. Unfortunalely for every one of these sickos there is 100 defense attorneys and many more bleeding hearts out there waiting to defend these people and sue the police for
false arrest. The police have to be very careful who they arrest and now a days they almost have to have a video of the perverts commiting these crimes. I always said, the laws are made to protect the criminals and not the victims. And people like these 2 are not affraid because the worst thing that will happen to them is that they will go to jail and have a better life there. I too hope some one took the puppies. They were probably going to breed them for sale anyways.
Please don't buy while shelter Dogs die.
Fisher
6:46 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Not to make this thread turn into a race conversation, but I just can't let that 'talk black' comment go unanswered. If you're inferring that she spoke like character on 'Good Times,' you might reconsider, since so many black Americans DO NOT speak that way.
Look at U.S. Rep. Tim Scott or State Rep. Bakari Sellers as two examples of individuals who do not speak in the way you're describing. I think you could have said 'she spoke like a black stereotype' with the same effect.
But I otherwise do not disagree with your comments. If this woman was acting the way you describe so soon after her child's death, she is really scum. But it's not a race thing. She's just a monster.
Chanel Girl
12:06 am on Sunday, July 1, 2012
Regarding my comment that she speaks like a black person instead of white, let me rephrase that because I meant nothing racial by that comment. She sounded like a black hoodlum or black gang member instead of the white trash she is. I don't know of any instance where a black gang member speaks like white trash. It's just as odd for white trash to speak like a black gang member.
stanley seigler
8:55 am on Sunday, July 1, 2012
@Chanel Girl: "...It's just as odd for white trash to speak like a black gang member"
thanks for taking the time to clarify...and my apologies for jumping to a wrong conclusion...being brought up in my beloved South...and seeing the hurt racism can/did cause...i am paranoid re any inkling of racism...
Chanel Girl
10:16 am on Sunday, July 1, 2012
Stanley, in all honesty this racism crap is way out of control. A white person can't say black without being called a racist. If a person doesn't like the president they are called a racist. Frankly I am fed up with it and really don't care what people think. The only reason I clarified the comment was because I did not want it taken out of context. On the other side, it's fine for blacks to make racist comments about whites and not have any repercussions. What is fair about that? And the truth is that blacks are far more racist against whites than whites against blacks, but it's fine for blacks to be racists. Our president attended a racist white hating, America hating church for 20 years and that seems to be fine with society. If I as a caucasian, attended a church like that for 20 years I'd be branded an America hating racist. The Jewish race feels an affinity to blacks and minorities because once they were persecuted and they know how it feels. I was once nearly arrested for making racial slurs because I told a white girl to go back to the jungle she came from because she would not turn her music down at the pool at 10 pm at night when people were trying to sleep. Is that fair to me? The stereo types against blacks being in gangs or hoodlums are because blacks are in the minority population, yet are the majority in prisons. With that they have earned the hoodlum monikers. And it is true most whites and blacks do speak differently, if they are not educated.
stanley seigler
12:14 pm on Sunday, July 1, 2012
@Chanel Girl: "...
most of your conclusions are are unsubstantiated opines...what drew you to these conclusions...
examples:
1. re: 'A white person can't say black without being called a racist'
NOT TRUE. i and white friends (well people i know) say it all the time and are not called a racist...also among my black friend i can use the N-word and am not called a racist...it's all about intent.
2. re: 'If a person doesn't like the president they are called a racist.'
NOT TRUE. mitt and most GOPs dont like BO. they are not called racist.
3. re: '...it's fine for blacks to make racist comments about whites and not have any repercussions...'
NOT TRUE. there were repercusions against rev wright...
ditto for most of your hyperbole...it contributes lil if anything to our enlightenment...actually divides our country..
Chanel Girl
1:18 pm on Sunday, July 1, 2012
Uh Stanley, I was accused by numerous people on this site of being racist because I said the girl spoke like a black person instead of a white person. You yourself accused me of being racist because of that statement, or that my statement showed racism. Many times on TV news shows people have been called racist because they don't like Obama. You live in a different world than I do. My friends and I all see the racism projected at us by blacks, and are also very aware of the race baiting that goes on by people like Al Sharpton, Jessee Jackson, Black Panthers, etc. to keep their cause alive.
stanley seigler
2:05 pm on Sunday, July 1, 2012
@Chanel Girl
believe what you want but anecdotal tit/tat serves no purpose...we do live in different worlds with different mind sets...
you live in a world where you see whites discriminated against by blacks...
i live in a world where i have seen and continue to see blacks, minorities, women discriminated against by good old white boys...eg, the koch bros.
my world is sad...it denies basic civil/human rights to all...it perpetuates the rule of the 1%...gen bull moose.
Chanel Girl
3:57 pm on Sunday, July 1, 2012
Stanley, all I can say is Wow. I feel fortunate to have not been exposed to what you have experienced. I'm sorry for you. No one should be discriminated against unless they have done something to deserve that treatment.
stanley seigler
5:16 pm on Sunday, July 1, 2012
@Chanel Girl
wow wow you live in a dream world where you believe you are being discriminate against by blacks...
maybe the american indians discriminate against you too and how boot the illegal's have they discriminated against you as well...
not sure why you feel sorry for me i am a white good old boy...have had all the benefits of racism...and have experience none of the reverse racism that you wrongly think you and yo friends experience...
Chanel Girl
7:48 pm on Sunday, July 1, 2012
Stanley, I feel badly that you have lived in a world were discrimination is prevalent. I have not been discriminated against by any group, but I see the hate filled racism all over the country, mainly blacks against whites, not the other way around. Many black celebrities hate whites and don't bother to hide it, such as Chris Rock, Samuel Jackson, etc. If whites hadn't given them the opportunity to star in film, they would still be living in slums. The whites giving them the opportunity happen to be Jewish. Hollywood has been run by Jews since it's inception. Oh yes, but I'm not supposed to be saying any of these things because I will be labeled a racist, likely by you.
stanley seigler
9:32 pm on Sunday, July 1, 2012
@Chanel Girl
re: 'but I'm not supposed to be saying any of these things because I will be labeled a racist, likely by you.'
bless yo heart child...you label yourself...with racist statements.
hate filled racism all over the country, mainly blacks against whites...hollywood run by Jews...If whites hadn't given them the opportunity still be living in slums... My friends and I all see the racism projected at us by blacks, and are also very aware of the race baiting...A white person can't say black without being called a racist...
when in a hole stop digging...hard to believe people like you are still around...you are just putting me on, right...impossible you believe this crap...
stanley seigler
9:34 pm on Sunday, July 1, 2012
@Chanel Girl
re: 'but I'm not supposed to be saying any of these things because I will be labeled a racist, likely by you.'
bless yo heart child...you label yourself...with racist statements like:
hate filled racism all over the country, mainly blacks against whites...hollywood run by Jews...If whites hadn't given them the opportunity still be living in slums... My friends and I all see the racism projected at us by blacks, and are also very aware of the race baiting...A white person can't say black without being called a racist...
when in a hole stop digging...
hard to believe people like you are still around...oh, you are just putting me on, right...impossible you believe this crap...
Not Public
1:14 am on Monday, July 2, 2012
Jewish is not a race....it is a belief system,... a religion. You are a blatent racist,and you ought to just wear the label, but you obviously are not aware how your beliefs are seen by the rest of the world. Bliss.
stanley seigler
1:43 pm on Monday, July 2, 2012
@Not Public:
re: 'Bliss'
sad the harm 'blissful' people do...
a clarification to my previous post: 'when in a hole stop digging' was not a comment by CG...it was advice re her blatant racist remarks...
bet some of CG's best friends are jews and blacks...
Diana
12:29 am on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
What happened to the baby killers? Did they even get any prison time? And i dont care what color anybody is if you kill a child you deserve the same sentence you delt out to that child. DEATH!!!
Lindsay Street
9:18 am on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
The charges against Angel Ann Richardson are still pending. She posted bail in August. The last appearance in court was in November.
The original charges against Todd Stephen Melvin are still pending. He posted bail in June. The last appearance in court was in November. He was recently arrested for an alleged driving under suspension with an uninsured vehicle in February, and faces new those charges in a separate case.