Now This Makes Me ANGRY!!!!!!!!!

Posted on January 21, 2009
Filed Under Anabolic Steroids

Murder charges mystify friends of day-care worker

Carpentersville woman is accused of fatally injuring 16-month-old at Lincolnshire facility

By Sara Olkon and James Janega | Tribune reporters
January 19, 2009

People who know Melissa Calusinski said Sunday that they could not understand how someone who had worked with children for years could have lost her composure so tragically that, police say, she killed a toddler in frustration.

A teacher’s assistant at a day-care center in Lincolnshire, Calusinski, 22, of Carpentersvillehad cared for older children “as long as I can remember,” said Brittany Baker, who said she has known Calusinski for 10 years.

“She loved kids,” Baker said. “As far as I knew, she liked everybody she worked with.”

But police say Calusinski got so angry last Wednesday she threw 16-month-old Benjamin Kingan to the floor, fatally injuring him. She was charged over the weekend with two counts of first-degree murder and ordered held in lieu of $5 million bail.

As Benjamin’s family on Sunday completed funeral arrangements for the boy, Matt Walsh, an attorney for the Minee Subee in the Park day-care center, said Calusinski and another employee in the room that day were suspended pending an investigation by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. The other employee was not a suspect in the criminal inquiry, authorities said.

A criminal background check turned up nothing when Minee Subee hired Calusinski a year ago at a northwest suburban location, Walsh said. The woman later transferred to the branch in Lincolnshire. The center will be open Monday, he added.

“The main focus at this point is to reassure parents that this is a safe facility to bring their children to,” Walsh said.

Police said Calusinski threw the boy to the floor when she grew frustrated that he was being noisy. His skull fractured, Benjamin grabbed his blanket and crawled to his “comfort zone,” a bouncer seat, where he collapsed and later died, police said.

Officials said Calusinski originally told them the child fell, but changed her story when autopsy evidence showed injuries more consistent with a one- or two-story fall.

“It’s not at all the person I know,” said Jason Strackany, 22, of Elgin, a childhood friend of Calusinski. “I really think there has to be more to this story.”

Part of it played out on Calusinski’s MySpace page, which was decorated with lipstick kisses, music and the nickname “Polish Princess.

So you may ask yourself why I posted this on a steroid blog, and I will tell you that I feel it is important that people read this. This made me so angry, I had to get up and go to the gym because I was ready to lose it. So I beg my readers forgiveness for the language I am about to use. I get that there are some screwed up people in our world but by no means does that give someone the right to ever handle a child in an angry way what so ever. This story just broke my heart that an innocent 16 month old is dead because some stupid cunt was having a bad day and decided to take it out on him. Why couldn’t she take on someone her own size, the reason is she is a COWARD, of such an extreme measure that I feel that our Judicial System should be bypassed. The reason being is the parents should be allowed to give judgement, and pass sentence in the same room.

I have to say as a man without any children, that this pisses me off, so I couldn’t imagine what it will do to people with children. I don’t believe that any sentence that allows her to live or even die painlessly, will be just. Scumbags like that should be stoned to death and hopefully that state will bring such punishment back.

So my prayers are with his family, and my deepest loathing is with that piece of trash. I won’t say anything more or cheapen this story with any comparison to any steroid related news. Be careful who you leave your kids with, though it shouldn’t happen, it does happen.

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