New York Murder - High Probability of FASD

Here is another case where we need to Ask the Question. This murderer fits the profile of heavy prenatal exposure to alcohol. Red flags of exhibition of FASD behaviors and secondary disabilities of FASD are in italics.

NEW YORK (FOX NEWS) — A young drifter who went with a college student to his Manhattan apartment smothered him with a pillowcase, then settled in to watch the grisly horror film "Saw" to celebrate the killing, NYPD sources told FOXNews.com.

Jeromie Cancel, whom police and family describe as homeless and mentally unstable, allegedly confessed to the heinous crime, shouting at reporters that he killed 19-year-old Kevin Pravia "'cause I wanted to."

"Ya'll got problems with that?" Cancel yelled, smirking and chuckling as he was led away in handcuffs after his Tuesday night arrest.

But the NYPD said the suspect's motive was still unclear.

He allegedly stuffed a bag into Pravia's mouth and wound a TV cord around his neck before suffocating him.

He then rummaged through Pravia's DVD collection, choosing and watching the violent film "Saw" while Pravia lay dead on a bed nearby, sources said.
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Cancel's father, Jesus Soto, told FOX affiliate WNYW-TV that his son had stolen possessions from him in June, and he called police when Cancel showed up at his apartment Monday night, bragging and laughing about the crime.

"I'm so sorry," Soto said, choking back tears and shaking his head in disbelief. "I'm feeling myself the pain. This is not right. You don't take someone's life just like that."

The distraught dad told The New York Post that his son was "mentally imbalanced."

According to police, Cancel said Pravia approached him in New York's Union Square park around 6 a.m. Saturday looking for drugs, and the two went to Pravia's apartment a few blocks away.

No narcotics were found at the scene, police said. They told the Post they doubted drugs were involved.

From the New York Post
The suspect's father told The Post that he had been estranged from his son for about a dozen years before the young man made contact with him this summer.

Cancel stayed with Soto for about two weeks in June, until the young man ransacked the place, robbed his father and vanished.

The dad said he didn't see his son again until early yesterday.

"He said, 'I just killed someone,' " Soto said. "He had no remorse. He had a big smile.

"I called the cops, and when they pulled up . . . he just turned to the cops and told them he just killed someone."

Our society does not have a clue as to how deeply we are affected by mothers drinking alcohol when pregnant. If we were to completely stop any drinking while pregnant now, we still would have hundreds of thousands of brain damaged violent adolescents and adults in our society. It would take years for our society to see the difference.

High Probability of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Report: Body Was Decomposing in Trunk of Car Driven by Missing Tot's Mom
From Fox News

Someone needs to ask the Question. The woman in the following article, Caylee Anthony, is exhibiting behaviors that are evidence of brain damage from prenatal exposure to alcohol. Additionally, her missing daughter is most likely prenatally exposed. This woman did not want her baby, according to her mother. Unwanted babies are highly likely to be heavily exposed to alcohol because the mother is not concerned with the health of the baby.



Anthony is free on $500,000 bond and remains on house arrest at her parents' Orlando home.

She has pleaded not guilty to charges of child neglect and lying to investigators about the disappearance of Caylee, who was turned 3 earlier this month.

On Tuesday, 400 pages of case documents released by police revealed that Anthony wanted to give Caylee up for adoption before she was born, but her mother Cindy Anthony convinced her not to.

Among other new details disclosed in the documents:

• Cindy Anthony described her daughter Casey as a sociopath.

• An unclothed doll belonging to the tot and a washed dinnerware knife were among the items found in Anthony's Pontiac Sunfire, which had scratches on its trunk. The car has been a focus of the investigation and was combed for evidence after an odor of human decomposition was detected in the trunk.

• A man identified as an ex-fiancé of Anthony's told detectives that she deleted hundreds of photographs of herself with Caylee from her Web pages on various social networking sites.


Celebrity bail bondsman Tony Padilla and another local bail bondsman posted her half-million-dollar bond. Caylee has been missing for more than two months.

Anthony remains a "person of interest" in the child's disappearance.

The young mom described by friends and family as a habitual liar didn't report Caylee missing until about 30 days after she said she left her with a baby sitter who snatched her. Police have said they don't believe her story.

Ask the Question:

Did his mother prenatally expose him to alcohol? I am betting you would find he was heavily exposed to alcohol in utero.

The clues are highlighted in bold and italics.


Accused Minn. teen won't escape murder trial
The Associated Press
Star Tribune 7/31/08

ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Supreme Court has ordered a Bemidji teen accused in the shooting death of his grandmother to stand trial as an adult.

The high court refused Thursday to overturn previous rulings that certified Nicholas Shutter for prosecution as an adult. He was 15 when he was arrested for the 2005 Thanksgiving Day murder of 55-year-old Marilyn Shutter. She and her husband had been raising the boy since he was a toddler.

He had a history of behavioral problems and mental health issues. According to court records, Nicholas says he only meant to scare his grandmother and accidentally shot at the couch she was on. She was hit in the back of the head. The records say he was upset she wouldn't give him a computer password because he planned to access Internet pornography.

The high court says the case met five of six tests needed to certify a juvenile 14 or older for adult prosecution.

New Information

I have obtained new information for one of the segments in the book, so I will be revising and resubmitting the manuscript. I have gotten a lot of inquiries and, I believe, genuine interest in the subject.

More later.

Progress report on The Fatal Link

I am relieved to say I have submitted the manuscript of The Fatal Link for a final edit, pending some new information. I will keep posting information on the progress of the book. I have had many requests and look forward to getting the book into people's hands.

News article on Healthy Brains for Children

Here is a very well done article by Linsey Maughan, Waseca County News, about the start-up of Healthy Brains for Children.

http://www.wasecacountynews.com/main.asp?SectionID=21&SubSectionID=44&ArticleID=27074

Breakout presentation at Maddens

For those who attended the breakout session at Maddens on Monday, May 5, I have placed the Powerpoint presentation in my professional file. Click on Professional File on the left and find Work Samples. Find Maddens presentation in Work Samples.


Here are a couple of websites that give a wealth of information on FASD.

www.faslink.org

http://www.come-over.to/FASCRC/