Thread: Censored: Wish to live with mom put slain little boy in harm's way

ALIPAC NOTE: I am posting this shocking article because this story has been censored like so many minority on white crimes we monitor! The lone article appearing in the Houston Chronicle in January of 2011 about poor little Jonathan Paul Foster is the only article that appears in the Google News search engine although this should have been a story that A. Received numerous articles from the Houston Chronicle and B. Should have received protracted national coverage. From what those of us working on these issues closely have seen, if little Jonathan Foster had been black and his killer white, everyone in America would know him and his killer's name.

The Houston Chronicle editors contend that little Jonathan's "Wish to live with mom put slain boy in harm's way' I contend that it was not the little boy's understandable wish to be with his mother that put him in harm's way. What put Jonathan in harms way the most is an American media culture where there is a systematic and pervasive tendency to censor or conceal crimes against white people by minorities while accentuating the stories that illustrate an inverse race relationship instead (See Duke La Cross, Paula Dean, Don Imus, Trayvon Martin, etc...)

By suppressing and censoring stories of national interest that directly relate to our crime control policies, laws, elections, outlook and attitudes, the American media helps hide the bodies of the children like Jonathan Paul Foster!

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Wish to live with mom put slain boy in harm's way

Trusting and sweet to the end
Jonathan Foster's wish to live with his mom came true — and put him in harm's way

By Susan Carroll | January 3, 2011

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Mona Yvette Nelson, 44, appears in court Jan. 3, 2011, in Houston at the Harris County Criminal Courthouse. Photo: Eric Kayne, For The Chronicle

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When Jonathan Paul Foster is buried in South Park Cemetery in Pearland on Tuesday, he will be the first interred in a family plot that will someday hold his grandparents.


That Jonathan eventually will rest with his family offered a little solace to relatives of the 12-year-old boy killed on Christmas Eve, his remains charred and left in a drainage culvert in Houston.


By all accounts, it is an unspeakably sad end for a boy whose family members described him as deeply loving and affectionate. Even after bouncing from house to house in his 12 years — living with his mother, his grandmother and an uncle — he still had the trust of an innocent child.


"He was just so sweet and submissive, always looking for a hug," said Glenn Scrimsher, 33, Jonathan's uncle who raised him from the time he was 6 until a year ago, when his grandmother, Mary Gifford, sent for him in Channelview. "I bet he didn't even put up a fight."


Jonathan's grisly slaying touched even the most veteran homicide detectives, who said the little boy clung to his manners and trust in adults to the end. In the last phone call to his mother, Jonathan was overheard calling his suspected captor "ma'am."


A birthday wish nearly two months ago - that he return to his mother - placed Jonathan into an orbit that included shady characters in an impoverished pocket of Garden Oaks in northwest Houston. There, the forces of his tiny transient life appeared to doom him.





On Christmas Eve, just weeks after moving back with his mother for the first time since he was 6 years old, Jonathan spent the morning alone drinking milk, eating Tootsie Rolls, and playing computer games as TV cartoons droned on in the background.


By 6 p.m., a truck allegedly driven by Mona Yvette Nelson, a 44-year-old maintenance worker, was captured on a video camera dumping Jonathan's small, seared body next to a metal works plant.


But it would take four more days before police reconstructed Jonathan's last moments, before they concluded his body most likely was burned with welding torches at a northeast Houston apartment.
Family problems

Jonathan was born Nov. 9, 1998, in Corsicana. His mother, Angela Renee Davis, said that as a newborn, he pulled his little legs up to his chest, and straightened them out, like a little frog. His aunt gave him the nickname on the spot.


Davis' relationship with her then-husband, Richard Foster, quickly deteriorated to the point of divorce. The last time Jonathan saw his father he was 4 years old, Davis said. The last time he spoke with him Jonathan was 6, and his father said he didn't want anything to do with his son, she said.


After the divorce, she remarried and divorced several times, and was arrested on a minor drug charge and later a probation violation. Child Protective Services was called twice to investigate allegations into physical abuse and neglect of Jonathan and his half-sister, who is now 10. But CPS closed the cases after finding the children were not in her direct care because they were living with relatives.


"I ran into some bad problems at a younger age, and instead of being one of those mothers that let their kids watch them go downhill, I made sure my kids were safe," said Davis, 31. "I didn't want them to see it."
Jonathan spent much of his young life with his uncle and his five kids on a farm in Missouri, where the boy grew watermelon, rode dirt bikes and caught his first fish. He fell in love with his family's horse, Valentino, a Palomino. While he lived with his uncle, his mother visited once, Scrimsher said, but Jonathan saw his grandparents frequently.


In November 2009, his grandmother sent for him, and Scrimsher reluctantly let him go. By the time Jonathan asked his grandmother if he could go live with his mother in November in Houston, Davis was working a steady job and felt ready to take her son back.


"I work six days a week, over 60 hours a week," she said Wednesday, when she still had hope of seeing her son again. "I'm doing the best I can to raise my son."


Davis enrolled Jonathan at Durham Elementary School, where the principal said he was bright and sweet and quickly befriended a boy who didn't have any friends.


"He always was trying to help somebody. He felt like he was a man because he fixed a little girl's bicycle chain," Davis said. "He was full of life."


On Dec. 14, just weeks after moving in with his mother, his stepfather, David Davis, slapped him across the face, Angela Davis said. She said she immediately packed up Jonathan and moved into a cottage next to the apartment complex where her friend Sharon Ennamorato lived.


The home was a frequent stop for Nelson, who also was friends with Ennamorato.
Missed calls

Exactly why Nelson, who had served time for armed robbery, marijuana possession, immigrant smuggling and terroristic threats, came to Jonathan's door on Christmas Eve remains unclear.


On that Friday morning, both Davis and Ennamorato had to work. Jonathan's mother was to return by 2 p.m.
That morning at work, a colleague told Davis her son had called asking for "Aunt Sharon's" number.


After she missed that call, a woman called back, saying it was an emergency. By the time Davis made it to the phone, the line was dead.


Concerned, Davis called the house again and again as she drove to the cottage, she said. Someone picked up just minutes before she pulled up around 2 p.m.


Davis said a woman answered. She told the woman she was Jonathan's mom, Angela. She heard a woman say: "Is your mama's name Angela?"


And Davis heard Jonathan say: "Yes ma'am, my mama's name is Angela."


And then the phone went dead.


Davis said police initially questioned her about why her son was home alone, and suggested he'd run away on Christmas Eve.


Police said the investigation was complicated because family members changed their stories and gave conflicting statements on the day of his disappearance.
'I'm not a monster'

After a search that spanned four days across northwest Houston, investigators found Jonathan's body and followed leads from a security camera back to Nelson. Inside her two-story garage apartment on the city's northeast side, investigators said they found twine and burned carpet. Outside, in the glove compartment of her truck, detectives found a stun gun.


Houston police officer Mike Mil*ler said he has interviewed hundreds of suspects in 14 years on the homicide squad but saw something peculiar in Nelson's eyes. It was a "dead look."


"Anything but remorse …," he said. "Stone cold without a soul."


After her arrest, Nelson told Channel 13 that: "I'm not a monster. I have five grandkids and I love kids."
Jonathan's uncle said he can't understand how someone could hurt Jonathan, someone "so innocent. He has never hurt anybody."


"He didn't get to live his life," Scrimsher said. "She took his life for her own pleasure. I don't know how else to put it. I hope she finds it in her heart to ask the Lord to forgive her for what she has done."


Chronicle reporters Lindsay Wise, Ericka Mellon and Paige Hewitt contributed to this report.



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Poor baby. He's in a good place now and I hope he gets justice for what happened to him at the hand of negligence and murder.

Terrible beyond words, this animal should suffer the same fate. she will burn in hell. God never forgets.

This case should have been discussed in the national news for months more than this Trayvon Martin crap.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/mona-nelson...ry?id=12508380

Mona Nelson Arrested for Murder of 12-Year-Old Jonathan Foster



Woman Charged in 12-Year-Old's Death

By EMILY FRIEDMAN (@EmilyABC)
Dec. 30, 2010


Relatives of the fifth grade boy who was found dead and burned beyond recognition say that they have no idea who the woman is that police have charged with the child's murder.

Mona Nelson is "an acquaintance" of the family of Texas fifth grader Jonathan Foster, whose body was found Monday in a Houston ditch, police said.

Nelson, 44, has been charged with capital murder and is being held without bond. According to ABC News' Houston affiliate KTRK, Nelson did not appear at a court hearing this morning because of an "unspecified medical issue."

Late Wednesday, the severely burned body was finally identified as that of Jonathan Foster, the 12-year-old boy who vanished on Christmas Eve. The cause of death has not yet been determined.

"Nelson has given what investigators say is a self-serving statement that places her with Jonathan, but she has not admitted to killing him," said Houston Police Department spokesman Kese Smith.

Smith said that Nelson is the only suspect in the case.

Police also said their search for Jonathan was delayed by several days because the boy's mother, Angela Davis, and stepfather, David Davis, originally gave cops conflicting information.

Nelson is believed to be the woman who the mother claims answered the phone at her home on Christmas Eve, a chilling call that had authorities concerned for Foster's safety.

Mary Gifford, the boy's grandmother, said that when her daughter called her son back on Friday, a woman she did not know picked up the phone.

"My daughter asked to speak with her son, and then the woman asked [Jonathan] if Angela was his mother," said Gifford.

"He said, 'Yes ma'am, Angela is my mother,' and then the phone went dead."

Gifford, who had been holding out hope that her grandson would be found alive, told ABCNews.com today that she's devastated.

"I'm trying to hang in there, but what would be going through your mind if this happened to your child?" she said. "I keep thinking 'Why did she do it? Did she torture him? Why didn't she just let him come home?"

Gifford said she didn't know Nelson and that she wasn't sure if her daughter knew her either.

Was Amber Alert Too Late for Jonathan?

Glenn Scrimsher, Jonathan's uncle who had cared for the boy for four years until November 2009 when he went to live with his grandmother, said today that he had always worried about his nephew living with his mother.

"I was worried," said Scrimsher. "Because of my sister's state of mind and her lifestyle was not that of a caring mother who looks after her children."

Scrimsher said he didn't know Jonathan was living with his mother until after the fact. Foster moved back in with Davis just last month.

"The last time I saw him was the day he was leaving for his grandmother's," said Scrimsher. "He was happy to see his grandmother. He called her his granny."

"He loved her very much and he missed her," Scrimsher said.

Foster's grandmother has said that she believed the Houston police waited too long to issue an Amber Alert for the missing boy. The alert was issued on Monday afternoon, nearly three days since he had last been seen.

"Regardless of how this turns out, my goal is to get the Amber Alert law changed," she said. "There should not be criteria for an Amber Alert that depends on whether cops think the kid has run away."

"The cops kept thinking [Jonathan] ran away," she said. "But he had waited too many years to go back with his mama, that's what he wished for on his birthdays, to be back with his mama... That doesn't sound like a kid who wants to run."

Smith defended the timing of the Amber Alert, saying that conflicting accounts of what happened the day Jonathan went missing made the case even harder for investigators.

While he wouldn't specify what the conflicting stories were about in great detail, Smith said that the mother and the boy's stepfather David Davis had originally said that Jonathan was home with a babysitter when he disappeared, but later said he had been at home alone.

Woman Arrested in Death of Burned Boy

Only when they could pin down an accurate description of the boy, as well as identify the person who might have been with him at the time of his disappearance -- a woman with a raspy voice -- the officers issued an Amber Alert.

"If we issued an Amber Alert on every case, we'd be inundating the public with alerts for children who really did just run away," said Smith.