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Rifat Mohammed

No PhotoName: Rifat Mohammed.
Died: July 6, 2016.
Age at death: 3 months.
Cause of death: Head injury.
Location: Poplar, East London, England, UK.
Disability: Symbrachydactyly.

Details:
Rifat died from abuse inflicted by his parents because he had a “deformed hand”. He had shattered ribs and legs and a broken spine, and died from a head injury consistent with shaken baby syndrome.

Case status:
Mohammed Miah (Father), convicted of murder and causing suffering, sentenced to 18 years.
Rebeka Nazmin (Mother), convicted of allowing Rifat’s death and causing suffering, sentenced to 6 years.

Source:
Mohammed Miah jailed for 18 years for baby son Rifat’s murder
Mohammed Miah jailed for 18 years for baby son Rifat’s murder
Mother accused of murder ‘told child to shake her baby’
Parents ‘told young child to shake baby on morning he was found dead’
Baby who suffered 46 fractures and a broken spine ‘mistreated over deformity’
Murder detectives launch probe after death of three-month-old baby
Baby ‘violently shaken to death by his parents’ had 47 broken bones
Abused three-month-old baby violently shaken to death
Father found guilty of murdering baby who suffered 38 rib fractures, eight fractures to his legs and a broken spine
Father who killed 13-week old baby blamed autistic child
Father who murdered 13-week-old baby jailed

Elizabeth Wilms

No PhotoName: Elizabeth Wilms.
Died: July 5, 2016.
Age at death: 29.
Cause of death: Murder.
Location: Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Disability: Intellectual disability.

Details:
Elizabeth’s boyfriend was abusive and took advantage of her mild intellectual disability. He beat her fatally and left her to die alone on the floor. At autopsy, she had GHB, often used as a date-rape drug, in her body.

Case status:
Alexander Freeburn (Boyfriend), convicted of murder, sentenced to 25 years; murder conviction overturned, found guilty of manslaughter, resentenced to 9-12 years.

Source:
Remorseful killer who left girlfriend to die has sentence cut in half
Vic killer apologises over victim’s death
Melbourne woman ‘petrified’ of killer boyfriend

12-year-old boy

No PhotoName Unknown.
Died: Unknown; suspects arrested June 28, 2016.
Age at death: 12.
Cause of death: Homicide.
Location: Gujranwala, Pakistan.
Disability: Intellectual disability.

Details:
This twelve-year-old boy lived in Pakistan and was a sixth-form student at People’s Colony, a special education school.

His body was found dumped in the fields; he had been raped and murdered. His cousins went on the run, but were caught by police and confessed to the crime.

Case status:
His cousins; arrested.

Source:
Police arrest ‘cousins’ for alleged rape of child with special needs in Gujranwala

Yuki Kawashima

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Name: Yuki Kawashima.
Died: June 25, 2016.
Age at death: 85.
Cause of death: Asphyxiation.
Location: Saitama, Japan.
Disability: “Leg problems”; “Bedridden”.

Details:
Yuki was found dead, suffocated, in her home. Police who interviewed her husband said he told them that he had grown tired from caring for her, and had smothered her.

Case status:
Taro Kawashima (Husband), arrested.

Source:
87-year-old man arrested for killing bedridden wife
Saitama cops: Elderly man suffocated bedridden wife

Tammara Killam

No PhotoName: Tammara Killam.
Died: June 21, 2016.
Age at death: 25.
Cause of death: Dehydration.
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Disability: Autism.

Details:
Tammara and her twin sister Brooke, who was also autistic and intellectually disabled, were left alone in an RV by their father. The women had no power or water and had been given nothing but bread and water to eat for a week. They were left without air conditioning or access to water in the 122-degree desert heat. Their father had given them cell phones, but the phones no longer worked.

Tammara died of dehydration; Brooke survived.

Case status:
Roger Carter Killam (Father), convicted of neglect of a vulnerable person, sentenced to 6 years.

Source:
Roger Carter Killam | High Desert State Prison | Nevada Inmates & Offenders
Woman dies after father leaves her in Laughlin RV with no power
Father held in death of daughter left overnight in sweltering RV in Laughlin

Billie Jo Quintier

No PhotoName: Billie Jo Quintier.
Died: June 12, 2016.
Age at death: 52.
Cause of death: Neglect.
Location: Rosington, Alabama, USA.
Disability: Stroke; wheelchair user.

Details:
When Billie Jo was found unconscious, she weighed 65 pounds and had severe bedsores. Her home was in bad shape, and police immediately suspected neglect. After two days in the hospital, doctors found no brain activity and terminated life support.

Billie Jo had spent time working as a paralegal, but due to an alcohol addiction she lost her job and eventually her home. After she suffered a stroke, her boyfriend helped her get sober and helped take care of her. But over the years, her boyfriend died, and then her immediate family died. She had to move in with the friend whose poor care caused her death.

Case status:
Angela Butler (Housemate), charged with neglect and abuse of a disabled person; pleaded guilty, given a suspended sentence.

Source:
All in the Family • The Appalachian Crime Trail – via Podcast Addict
Baldwin woman charged in death, alleged elder abuse 
Caretaker caused patient weight loss, severe bed sores
DISTURBING: Woman Arrested for Reckless Abuse of Elder
Robertsdale caregiver charged in death of patient

Amir Ross

No PhotoName: Amir Ross.
Died: May 31, 2016.
Age at death: 1.
Cause of death: Traumatic injury.
Location: Decatur, Georgia, USA.
Disability: Developmental disabilities; tube-fed.

Details:
Amir was beaten to death by his parents.

Case status:
Eric Ross (Father), convicted of child cruelty and murder, sentenced to 20 years.
Angel Branch (Mother), convicted of child cruelty and murder, sentenced to 20 years.

Source:
Couple Beat Disabled Toddler To Death: Charges
DeKalb pair accused of killing disabled toddler with ‘unknown object’

37-year-old man

No PhotoName Unknown.
Died: May 31, 2016.
Age at death: 37.
Cause of death: Head injury.
Location: Sikamat, Seremban, Malaysia.
Disability: “Mentally unstable”.

Details:
While their parents were away, this 37-year-old man was left in the care of his older brother. When he wet his pants, his brother allegedly beat him, hitting him in the head. In the morning he was dead. Police arrested his brother for murder.

Case status:
His brother, age 40, charged with murder.

Source:
Man fatally beats up brother for peeing in pants
Pukul adik OKU sampai mati

Leonard Isequias

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Name: Leonard Isequias.
Died: May 26, 2016.
Age at death: 52.
Cause of death: Traumatic injury.
Location: Vryburg, South Africa.
Disability: Unspecified; wheelchair user.

Details:
Leonard’s brother-in-law, who police say habitually abused and starved him, reportedly locked him inside the house without any food and left him there for a week. When he came back, he saw that Leonard had become so desperate to survive that he had been eating his own waste. To punish him, his brother-in-law allegedly beat him to death with a whip.

Case status:
Junior Santos (brother-in-law), charged with murder.

Source:
Disabled man ‘starved and beaten to death’
Brother-in-law peed off by disabled relative beats him to death in fit of rage
Cops probe murder of disabled man in North West
Man accused of beating disabled brother-in-law to death wants charge changed
Wheelchair-bound man killed for eating own faeces was also abused

Venkatesh

No PhotoName: Venkatesh.
Died: May 22, 2016.
Age at death: 45.
Cause of death: Head injury.
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Disability: Leg amputee, alcoholism.

Details:
Venkatesh worked as a stone-cutter until he suffered a leg injury, which got infected so badly that he had to have the leg amputated.

During a domestic dispute, his wife allegedly became so angry that she hit him over the head with a metal rod, killing him.

Case status:
Suguna (Wife), also called Sugunamma, charged with murder.

Source:
Wife smashes husband’s head for selling mobile phone to buy toddy
Drunk housewife kills handicapped husband in frustration
Hyderabad: Drunk wife murders handicapped husband
Pregnant woman killed in accident