This Day In History

Jun 2 1996
Ray Combs, host of television's Family Feud, hangs himself with his bedsheets at Glendale Adventist Hospital. Combs was on a 72 hour suicide watch.

Danbury Woman Arrested for Stalking Darien Therapist Multiple Times

I'm not going to say much about the subject other than this girl who was arrested works at the other house I fill in at, and went through training with me!

DARIEN -- A woman who allegedly kept following her former therapist home from the woman's Danbury office was arrested Tuesday for the second time in a week by Darien police.

Sophia Gomes, 21, of 5 Clearbrook Road, Danbury, was arraigned at state Superior Court in Stamford on Wednesday on charges of second-degree stalking.

Because allegations in the police reports were so "scary," Judge Robert Genuario ordered her held in lieu of $50,000 bond, which could be lowered next week if her attorney, David Bothwell, can show she will be receiving supervised treatment.

At Bothwell's request, Genuario ordered Gomes be given medical treatment and be put on suicide watch.

Gomes, a job coach for the developmentally disabled at Abilis in Greenwich, was arrested in Darien on Tuesday night after her former therapist drove to Darien police headquarters to report that Gomes had just followed her home, a police report states.

Police reached Gomes on her cell phone and persuaded her to meet them at Holmes School, near the Stamford-Darien border, where she was arrested and held overnight for her arraignment.

The therapist, whose name is being withheld because she is a victim in the case, told police that Gomes has followed her during the 40 minute trip from her Danbury office on at least six occasions since July, the report said.

On Nov. 4, Gomes allegedly followed the woman home from Danbury and, after police found her just outside the therapist's apartment building, she was charged with third-degree stalking and first-degree criminal trespassing and released after her parents posted $500 bond.

After another stalking incident on Oct. 31, Darien police told Gomes that if she followed the woman home again she would be arrested, the police report states.

The therapist told police that when she took Gomes on as a patient it was determined she also followed other therapists.

The woman told Gomes she would not treat her if she followed her.

In July, she saw Gomes following her and dropped her as a patient.

Five days later, she noticed Gomes following her again and drove straight to the Wilton police department, where Gomes was held for questioning and released after it was determined she was not a danger to herself.

But before she was released in Wilton, Gomes asked if she could say goodbye to her former therapist "for closure" and the therapist allowed the request, the police report said.

In early August, the therapist said Gomes followed her to Norwalk but turned off before the woman turned toward her home in Darien.

On Oct. 31, Gomes followed the therapist home again, police said, but this time she followed the therapist directly to Darien police headquarters, where she was warned not to follow the woman anymore.

When they arrested her at the woman's Hoyt Street apartment on Nov. 4, Gomes told police that she drove by the woman's house and saw the police cruisers parked in the driveway and figured that the police would want to talk to her, the police report said.

Gomes is to return to court on Nov. 17.

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It's really weird because there's a Hoyt Street in Darien (where the woman lived and they mention in the end of article, but the house she worked for at Abilis was on Hoyt Street in Stamford...

Police: Mom Killed Boy, Buried Him in Playground Sand

(CNN) -- A 23-year-old woman suffocated her son and then buried his body beneath the sand of a playground, police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, said Thursday.

Police arrested Tiffany Toribio about 4 a.m., just hours after they said they wanted to speak to her about her missing 3-year-old son, Ty.

Family members had contacted authorities, saying her son matched the description of a boy found Friday at an Albuquerque playground.

Police Chief Ray Schultz said she confessed to killing the boy soon after being apprehended.

"She placed her hand over her son's mouth and nose and suffocated him. She had second thoughts about what she did. She performed CPR on her son, brought him back to life and then decided to go forward with that original act she had started to commit," Schultz said.
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"What makes this story especially sad is, when asked the reason why she took Ty's life, Tiffany said that she did not want him to grow up with no one caring about him, the same way that she had grown up where nobody had cared about her."

An emotional Schultz added that Toribio has tried to kill herself since her arrest. She was being held in isolation at a detention facility and kept under observation, he said.

He added, "As you can see, this case has been very emotional for everybody in the department."

Toribio was charged with first-degree murder and an array of other charges, including abuse of a child under 12 that caused death.

The discovery of the body at Alvarado Park on Friday shocked the community, which dubbed the boy "Baby Justice" and "Baby Angel" as they rallied around his case.

Police released a composite image of the boy Tuesday, hoping to garner more leads in the case. They weren't able to release a photo of the boy because his body was so disfigured by the sand's heat.

Schultz said that after killing her son, Toribio dug a hole under gym equipment at the playground, moved the body and buried him in the shallow grave.

"Since that time, she's been walking the streets of the city of Albuquerque," he said.

The boy was wearing Arizona brand clothing, size 3T: nylon black running pants with red stripes, a red shirt with a monster truck on it and black, gray and lime green Skechers sneakers.

Toribio did not comment Thursday morning after her arrest as she was put in a police car.

Schultz said there had been no reports of child abuse filed against Toribio. But he said family members indicated that she did not express the typical love of a mother for her child.

"She did not show the normal relationship that you would see with a mother, son," he said.

This week, police had gone to residences where she had lived previously, but she wasn't there, Schultz said. Police had gone there after family members expressed concern because "they did not like the way Ty was being treated," the police chief said.

Man's 4th Suicide Attempt in One Day Succeeds

"A very determined resident of a Moscow suburb survived three suicide attempts in one day, but the fourth one proved fatal.

Thirty-year-old Vladimir twice tried to hang himself, pierced his heart with a knife and then cut his wrists and finally died, Life.ru website reports."

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People Swallow The Strangest Things..

Casey Anthony, apparently after hearing the reports of her getting fatter behind bars, decided to swallow her fingers and continue to throw up most of her meals...

And from the commisary reports, it seems like a lot of junk food's being spewed out of that girl's mouth. People need to STOP donating money to this little bitch.

And why is she binging and purging?

In order to maintain a thinner figure, thinking it'd get her further in her trial if she's more "attractive".

Just speculation from Nancy Grace crew- but insane. I don't think they'd come out and make such accusations unless there's a good amount of credible sources.

And the other one to swallow things?


Melissa Huckleby. Before being arrested for the murder of 8 year old Sandra Cantu, she attempted to swallow THREE EXACTO-KNIVES. Ugh. I can't imagine the kind of mental state to be in to want to kill yourself that way.

Get some pills, bitch!

I'm waiting for actual legitimately written articles so I can post those instead of my second-hand heard information.


But crazy, nonetheless.

Suspect In Sandra Cantu Murder On Suicide Watch

Melissa Huckaby, 28, is on suicide watch at the San Joaquin County Jail said Deputy Les Garcia on Saturday.

Huckaby, a Sunday school teacher was arrested late Friday for the murder of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu.

Neighbors and former co-workers of Huckaby were shocked by the arrest and describe her as a quiet woman who kept to herself.

Carlos Martinez, a handyman at the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park where Huckaby lived with her two daughters and grandparents said, “They were a weird family. They didn’t speak with anyone.”

Suspect In Sandra Cantu Murder On Suicide Watch

Melissa Huckaby, 28, is on suicide watch at the San Joaquin County Jail said Deputy Les Garcia on Saturday.

Huckaby, a Sunday school teacher was arrested late Friday for the murder of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu.

Neighbors and former co-workers of Huckaby were shocked by the arrest and describe her as a quiet woman who kept to herself.

Carlos Martinez, a handyman at the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park where Huckaby lived with her two daughters and grandparents said, “They were a weird family. They didn’t speak with anyone.”