Sherry West
This is the lady whose 13 month old was allegedly shot and killed by two pre-teen boys while in a stroller and out of a walk. The whole story is so horrific that is seems unbelievable, but even more so her interview is just...not right to me. Plus, you better believe if I was on a walk with my baby, I would not have allowed myself to be "shoved" out of the way by assailants threatening to shoot my baby. http://tinyurl.com/d677sxa
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Heath commented
They've found gunshot residue on both the mother and the father! http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57594017-504083/antonio-santiago-update-gunshot-residue-found-on-slain-ga-babys-parents-report-says/
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Lilibet commented
Thanks for commenting, Eyes. I appreciate your caution. It could be that mental illness is what we're seeing, rather than guilt. I will be keeping an eye on this case.
I haven't had a chance to post the fact that two teens have been arrested for murder, as well as some relatives for lying and hiding a gun in a pond. Even a city commissioner has been arrested for interfering (he has previous legal issues). I don't think the gun tests have come back yet. In any case, the whole thing is tragic no matter who is guilty. If it comes to trial, Sherry West will be a terrible witness.
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This case is without a doubt full of hotspots. I see what you all are saying, however, this woman is seriously ill mentally, and her mental state gives me pause to proceed with caution. I need to mull this around a bit...
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Lilibet commented
Sadly, our instincts may be spot on. Now Sherry West's own daughter has publicly questioned her mother's story! Apparently, there is a history of mental illness. The truth will eventually come out.
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Lilibet commented
Here she is on Piers Morgan tonight. I still think something isn't right with this woman. When Piers asked her how she wanted to remember her baby, she talked mostly about what she would miss out on...nothing about Antonio's personality. When she says she wants "a life for a life" I wonder if she is really wanting some kind of vicarious payback for the first son who was killed. I'm probably getting waaaay out there, but this whole thing is just weird.
http://www.cnn.com/video/standard.html#/video/us/2013/03/26/pmt-west-baby-shot-in-stroller.cnn
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LiveitloveIt Doit commented
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Rodney Patterson commented
Sam, I agree with you, you summed it up very well...at the end of the day, when the truth comes out there will be a man (or woman) at the end of this mess, some kind of affair where the other person doesn't want her child around.
I've seen a few interviews like the one she gave, particularly Susan Smith, both set off the same alarm bells for me. Something is very, very wrong with this case. I don't know how the police could have made an arrest so quickly with NO WITNESSES, that's insane.
The thing that got me was when she couldn't say which one shot the baby. She says something about the younger boy was too small to be the shooter. ??? That is a really odd statement to make. I assume the police are going by her description of the kids and she can't remember who shot her or her child? That does not add up in my book.
And her composure was another thing, she should have been inconsolable. Her eyes should have looked like she's been crying for days, she should have looked terrible and overcome with grief, but she was too composed.
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Anonymous commented
Something is seriously wrong with the mother...there has to be more to this story
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Sam commented
My heart broke for this woman when I first read about this, and I rolled my eyes the first time someone suggested that she might be in on it. I was never one of those "everything's a conspiracy" kind of people. Then, I watched the interview.
Something DOES seem really off. She never breaks down once. She's so composed and able to describe every detail with such clarity. When discussing the assailants, she has no rage. Even when she's talking about how they should die, it sounds so rehearsed and unemotional. When asked to describe her son, she's so vague. Nothing about the child's personality or the joy he brought to her, just random things like "he was starting to learn to eat" and "he loved Disney movies, and his favorite was Mickey Mouse."
At one point, she even laughs, when asked about the possibility of owning her own guns.
When asked how one even gets over something like this, her immediate response is, "Well, it took me four years to get over my first son." Isn't that a weird reaction? Like she already knows, "Okay, that's the amount of time I'm going to be in mourning."
She seems so self-concerned, and doesn't really talk about her poor child or how his life was cut short. She dwells on her own safety a lot, her own healing, her own misfortune. This was a 9-minute, uncut interview I watched. How could she seem so detached from her dead child, as if it didn't JUST happen?
I've also read that she's already donating her child's clothing. How can you already be at that stage where you're getting rid of the recently deceased's stuff? Wouldn't a grieving mother want to keep keepsakes or have trouble letting go?
When she speaks, it's like she's trying to induce tears rather than fight them back. She holds this ever-present "I'm about to cry" high note when she's discussing things that require sympathy, yet speaks normally when talking about other matters. How can she even think clearly enough to discuss anything?
Some people have suggested that she's in a state of shock and that's why she's not breaking down or expressing rage. But listen to her voice, she is clearly trying to appear emotional. Someone in a state of shock won't bother to fake it, they would be numb and withdrawn. And someone grieving wouldn't even have to TRY to be emotional -- it would be a struggle for them NOT to.
I've seen grief so many times in my life, and I've never seen anyone so ready to discuss every single detail without being overwhelmed with emotion. I can't say for certain one way or the other, and I'll certainly feel bad if I'm wrong, but there are so many red flags telling me that this woman is lying.
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C.R. commented
QUOTE: "When you have a baby, you spend all your money on babies. They're expensive." (Sherry West)
At best, curious way to put it. It's almost as if there is a part of her mind that is in explanatory mode while relating this, either way, horrendous tale ..... the same way she says:
"I was going from from the Post Office, and I'm, you know I don't go out enough so I should take a walk. And I was five minutes from my house next to the blue house out this road here, I always walk Ella Street." (Sherry West)
It just sounds “curiouser and curiouser!”
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Lilibet commented
This poor baby! This mother's story seemed odd to me too from the beginning, and I hate to feel that way. But she just gives too many unnecessary and strange details. She was interviewed by the media within hours. Any mother would be too destroyed to talk. She never calls her baby by his name. She didn't give up her purse immediately. She's already packed up his baby clothes to give to charity. Who does that!? She's moving away immediately. There are too many questions! I hope the police are still questioning her story.
The attached nine minute interview is from the day after her baby died. What do you think?
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Rodney Patterson commented
She's lying, just like Susan Smith lied and Charles Stuart lied. I see black men still make good scapegoats for white infanticide.
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Bleam42 commented
This story pinned on my radar immediately. In fact I expected to read the next day that the mother had been arrested and was surprised to still see boys being sought. Would love to read Eyes for Lies take on this story.
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C.R. commented
Something about this story caught my attention. Put another way, something about it just didn't add up, even from the dry copy of the story that went out without the video. That sent me digging for more and in the course of that I found these 2 video clips to add to the one above. Such a sad, sad story whichever way this turns out! Your analysis and commentary would be much appreciated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJmwazohQsM
CNN Video is at the bottom of this article. Click on video icon:
My hunch, and I hope I am dead wrong here, there will be a very quick unraveling of the story which was initially presented.
R.I.P. Antonio Santiago (the 6-month old baby who died.) R.I.P. little one.