Susan Smith Protegee: 2 Toddlers Pulled From Car in South Carolina-Mom ShaQuan Duley Arrested
Orangeburg, SC– Toddler brothers 18-month-old Ja’van T. Duley and 2-year-old Devean C. Duley, both of Orangeburg, were pulled from their Mothers car in from a boat landing in the North Edisto River .
The boy’s Mother, 29 year old Shaquan Duley, was arrested on charges of leaving the scene of an accident. Autopsies for the boys are pending.
Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams says authorities are investigating to determine whether the deaths were an accident.
The sheriff said investigators are considering how a traffic accident could have happened at the boat ramp, about 20 yards upstream from a main road that crosses the slow-moving river. A mobile home, a house and mechanic’s shop are a short distance away.
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My prayers go out to the family. RIP Little ones.
What did she just go home, merrily bypassing those homes and businesses?? Was she injured at all?
Was there a history of mental issues- Is this another, if only we would have interpreted the signs better, this could have been prevented stories?
No evidence of an accident, car in neutral when recovered.
B
Grrrrrrr I thought this might be her when I researched the kids names earlier today:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000817224154
Ja’ van & Devean Duley
Poor babies. What is wrong with some people?
Alot. Apparently.
Bless these babies. sigh.
B
Those poor babies- If you can’t trust the mommies and daddies to keep them safe then who?
Reminds me of a line from the movie “Parenthood”
(PP) -You need a license to have a dog, but any abusive a-hole can be a parent.-
The little one was fussing, so she drove them around to get them to nap. (sound familiar?) Then she got really sleepy herself, so she parked and took a snooze. She’s not sure what happened next–sleepwalking, bad medication reaction, seizure of some kind? But she wandered from the car in a semi-conscious state, bumping the shift into N on the way out. Or did the older child crawl into the front seat after she left? She can’t remember any of that time period. See, it really was an accident.
Now, seriously, I do know someone who parked his brand new Lexus on a boat dock, and left it in neutral. It rolled into Lake Erie and was totalled. He didn’t want anyone to know about it, but he had ordered a custom color and his replacement vehicle was ever so slightly a different shade. Some of us are good with color.
She can tell it to her jailor. These women make me sick.
Innocent Babies gulping for breathe in a sinking vehicle.
B
Some of us are also good with bullshit. Is this so-called mom even daring to suggest this was an accident? B.S.
Thank you for the article Blink. We saw this on tv, along side of a reminder of Susan Smith. Funny, it crossed my mind if you were going to follow this story. Curious how she has an 18mo and 2yr old, were they both hers? Or was the 2yo almost 3? Thats a tight range. Do you know if she is married, drugs, etoh hx? Hmm, will be interesting. These poor children, prayers to you both.
I just came on thinking I would find some good news and I do not know what to say…other than I hope they’ve got a spare syringe just lying around somewhere.
Innocent until proven Guilty, my ass.
My patience for this total lack of mothering just goes somewhere that I find myslef not wanting to be…
Violence begetting violence.
I know of a Mom that gave her life for her kid. Really and truly, there are women all over this USA that would just die for a baby or two! She had a choice. She made it and those two little ones paid the price. All the while, trying to gasp for air and before I’m told she deserves her day in court. Tell me you have seen what a body looks like that gasped for that last breathe???
I bet very few cannot. It is gruesome and if ever any of us needed to be supportive of the local law enforcement it is now. What they have just witnessed will haunt them for the rest of their natural lives. It should haunt all of us as well.
I am sickened and find myself ready to vomit. In fact, I already did. She is a waste of air.
Other than wanting to hear the word…GUILTY!
I only have one thing more to say about her.
May SHE meet HER maker sooner rather than later.
It’s about time we have a little less tolerance and a little more strigent punishment for these parents(using that word loosely) who commit the act of murder. Against their own none the less!
And all this coming from someone who was raised to see the light in each and everyone of us. God within us all. Puke. My own mother would be ashamed of me for saying this and to her, truly a MOM, I apologize.
I guess my sympathy and any empathy I may have had, done run out.
Good thing we have the criminal justice system and they will always get their day in court AND I guess it’s a really good thing I won’t be on that jury.
Not quite willing to put aside a preconceived notion of,
“She did it”.
I want to write the story that talks about someone intervening in a case like this. It is my daydream.
B
I have an old friend in Orangeburg. Will see if she can give any insight. This is so much like Susan Smith. It’s just not an accident if you’re at a boat ramp and you don’t have a boat.
According to CNN she had another child, 5 years old with grandma. They way their story ran all of them were living with the maternal grandmother. Interesting to note in this story is that she was completely dry and said she stopped a motorist and used a cell phone to call for help. Police are looking for that person to question.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/16/south.carolina.children.drowned/index.html?hpt=T1
Gasping and choking for air along with the panic they had to feel would have been a horrible death. They were probably strapped in their car seats as well. God the thought of that gives me chills and makes me sick at the same time.
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Not even an attempt to play it off like she tried to save these children? Two babies found at the bottom of a river still strapped in their car seats and “she didn’t appear wet” after “walking to get help”. A real (read:innocent) mother would have been found either: 1) in the water trying to free the children, and if unsuccessful would have to be drug kicking and screaming from the water or 2) at the bottom of the river with her children if no one got there in time save them.
Why oh why can’t we do away with these pathetic excuses for mothers in the same manner as they did away with their children?
I’m so sick…deeply sick…sick in my soul sick…of babies and little people being killed and thrown in the dirt, the mud, the water, the garbage.
Strap this bitch into her car and let ‘er rip right on down that same ramp. Let her feel the panic as the cold water starts to fill the car.
Cover the Anthony bitch’s mouth and nose and let her fight for air. Let her look into eyes that watch her panic and suffocate and do nothing.
I hate these stories.
Someone wise once told me to write it.
“Don’t think about it, just write it”.
So what are you waiting for?
I cannot fathom this.
My husband and I have been trying to conceive, *praying* for a baby for so long now.
There are SO many couples out there, who—just like us— have stable homes and would be happy to adopt.
There is help out there for individuals who find they cannot handle parenthood.
*WHY* would a mother rob these beautiful children of the chance to grow up…???
And to murder them in such a horrifying manner.
Those poor little boys must have been absolutely terrified!
Drowning is a slow and horribly painful way to die…
How could someone do that to their own, defenseless, children????
I’m sorry, but, IMHO this was not an ‘accident’ of any kind.
The car was found in ‘neutral’.
The mother left the scene of the accident and bypassed numerous homes and businesses from which help could have be summoned.
She *chose* to leave her two sons tied down in their car seats, in a sinking vehicle, to drown.
MOO
Yes, I heard of this case from one of your posters on the Kyron site tonight.
The callous disconnect rears its ugly head. Again.
Fish,
I just love your fish heart (never understood the lobes–ick–but get your deal, anyway).
When a body has gasped for air it is generally apparent at autopsy.
This woman’s hot air doesn’t belong in our ozone!
Blink Friends–
It is time for us to turn this around.
How can we make a difference in the lives of these marginal children and mothers?
Count me in. I am re-energized.
No accident.
Just an evil Beotch.
Rest in peace, sweet little babies.
I love my wife and my two little one (the exact same ages nonetheless) more than life itself. I get frustrated with them, but I’d give my very life for them and die trying to save them from drowning if an “accident” like this happened!
If you don’t want your kids, then fine! Adoption is an option, or at least foster care. If you can’t handle the stress then give them up for a while at the worst! Wouldn’t you think it would take an actual psychopath to drown their own kids?
I trust the truth of the matter will be fully known eventually. They say only the “guilty” sleep the night of their arrest, while the innocent are beside themselves all night long. I’d give anything to be peeking through the jail bars right now to see if she’s sleeping “preacefully” or grieving unconsolably for her babies. I don’t think I could even go on should this happen to mine! “Father God, may the truth of this matter be fully known. Innocent or guilty, let no miscarrage of justice take place in this matter, but may all truth be fully discovered for the world to see. Amen.”
Somehow, someway, we as a society have got to find a way to stop this sh*t and save our children. What is wrong with people!! There are so many people who would love to have children, who would make wonderful parents, but can’t have kids. Yet, there are people who have kids and don’t want them and end up doing something as horrid as this when, you know what, if you don’t love that child, then give the child to someone who will!
Oh how sad is this. Those poor babies had no chance! I remember someone commenting this year that 30 years ago if a child was murdered or had an accidental death the last place they would look was at the mother. I wonder what really happened here? I hope for her sake and their sake it was accidental and they were loved whole heartedly up to the last second of their precious lives. God bless them.
The “mother” of these two babies had been arrested according to CNN. She’s charged with leaving the scene of an accident at this point.
Too horrible. As much as I try to make rules, understand rules, and follow rules, this world has its own rules and I don’t get them. I don’t get it. All the love in my heart flows to these innocent unwanted babies who never had a chance to live. I just don’t understand why this world is so cold, so full of pain. The human race has arrived at organized chaos.
Rest the souls of these innocents and bring them peace. I have no doubts whatsoever that they are in a better place. What could be worse than the hell they just left?
Presser on FOX about this case now. Her mug shot sure looks different!
2 warrants of murder! She suffocated thm, OMG. What a pig!
news conference on now that mother has confessed she suffocated both children before the car went into the water..
sad, sad, sad
Reminds me of Casey- argument with her mother, oh come on people.
it seems Ms Duley’s mother didn’t like the way she was raising her children & this was a retaliation against her mother the children’s grandmother..
Fish, I totally agree. While I practice Buddhism, I cannot ascribe to any organized religion to explain away or find peace with the horror of what humans do to each other, especially what humans do their vulnerable populations. I would love to see the death penalty for anyone who even attempts to take the life of a vulnerable person. Depravity is what it is. Pure depravity. To me, these killers no longer qualify to be classified as human. Euthenize them for the good of all. And this is why I will probably never win an election! *sad chuckle* This, and my opt out birth control mandate to prevent those who should not reproduce from reproducing in the first place.
as I listen to the Sheriff in this news conference he appears to want people to feel sorry for this mother but sorry Sheriff I cannot..
Susan Smith only got 30 years to life? When are we going to start valuing the lives of our babies?
Their mom has admitted to suffocating them:
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12991810
Dead toddlers’ mother admits to killing them
God Klaas-
Thanks for posting that, so horrific.
B
17.Word Girl says:
August 17, 2010 at 2:14 am
Blink Friends–
It is time for us to turn this around.
How can we make a difference in the lives of these marginal children and mothers?
Count me in. I am re-energized.
————————-
@Wordgirl–
We must raise the bar on the right to exercise control over children and we must ensure that ALL LEVELS OF SOCIETY feel the impact of that raised bar by showing zero tolerance for the following:
1. unprotected sex–we mandate opt out birthcontrol, just like our current regime of opt out vaccinations.
2. Loss of opt out capacity if a person has demonstrated themselves unable to care for their own physical and emotional needs
3. Strict sentencing for anyone who harms a member of a vulnerable population.
Oh, I could go on about prison reform, greater use of the death penalty (with organ donation of course) but I won’t here and now because I write this only to honor the lives of these little babes lost.
Until we manifest a society where these children are not our chattels, but instead where they are viewed as the future of humankind and are valued and instructed accordingly, change will be ellusive.
We must make every moment of our lives valuable, instructive, and selflessly loving–and children should be our reminders of this. Like prayer beads, or statues of deities or crosses or the other countless sacred reminders we use to remind us to be our best for a cause greater than our own wants, our world’s children must be our instant reminders to stay on course for the ultimate good of humanity.
Oh god! I’m so effin sick of hearing about people who can’t take responsibility for their lives! You have a fight with your mom about your kids? Go for a freakin walk, call your friend! I just want to scream.
@VTLady79: We’re trying to conceive to..I understand how you feel.
I think that country-wide, it should be a mandatory death sentence for anyone who harms a child. Harming a defenseless, trusting, innocent child is the lowest of low and should carry the strictest of punishments. No loop holes. Cut and dry. You harm a child, you get the death penalty.
every time I hear the Sheriff explaining this horrific act it’s as if he is giving Ms Duley her defense strategy but sorry Sheriff all the steps she took leading up to the death of her small children were planned & calculated..
@twinkle: totally agree, and feel we must also raise the bar regarding the “village concept” so that mentally healthy individuals in all communities are enabled to provide resources (be they financial, mental, etc) to those individuals who are not.
Prayers of peace for the family – and also for the emergency rescue personnel. Having been married to an EMT/firefighter/dive team member, I know what these poor guys must be going through.
I wish someone would suffocate her and strap her fat a** to a carseat and roll it into a river.
Here’s a thought…. think before you lay down and spread your legs and reproduce! Sorry if that is crass but she was 29, not 15 and had 2 children under 2 so she was about 26 or 27 when she got pregnant, old enough in my opinion to know better as to whether you can handle children… This sickens me, I’m sick of this… innocent children being murdered by the people they love the most in this world and should fear the least…. Go to the free clinic and get some condoms or pills… OR give them up for adoption to someone who can provide a better life for them…. geez, enough! I have had enough!
LPB and VTLady79 — my heart breaks again for folks like you and others who would give years of their own lives to have the blessings of children. Bile rises within me when I think of people who abuse, discard, murder, and use for self-barter any child or any human being.
Years ago I had two stillborns (8 and 7 months — Josiah and Abigail), then uterine cancer, thus no children of my own. Stories such as these send me in a rage beyond words. But I have made it my mission in life to befriend any child I meet and it has blessed me immensely.
I will pray for you to receive the desires of your heart. I will also be praying for justice for these two darling children, here and beyond.
I just returned from an early morning dental appointment with my son–”installing” the rest of the orthodontia. While waiting for him, a very pregnant young woman, carrying a gigantic carseat walked in with a 3 or 4 year old little girl. I presumed they had ridden the bus or someone had dropped them off. (Yes, it is finally raining here today!) The two sat for awhile, and then the woman used the courtesy phone in the office (obviously she had no cell or car). This woman began sobbing and crying inconsolably to whomever she was speaking with on the phone–I mean HYSTERICALLY. Not one single mom or dad in that office even looked up at her during the course of her conversation. When she hung up the phone, I squatted down in front of her and the little girl, who is by this time trying desperately to console her own mother! I asked if everything was OK. Stupid question, I know, because obviously everything wasn’t OK. She tried to tell me she was fine, and she made no attempt to explain anything to me. I asked if I could please get her some kleenexes–she was wiping her nose and eyes with her hands. I fetched a box of kleenex from the receptionist’s desk and “patted” her while she tried to clean herself up a bit. I visited with the little girl, who told me she ran into a car door, injuring a baby tooth. I just hung out there for a bit with them, and before leaving to go back to my seat, I brought her a cup of water and told her that I hoped that rest of her day went better.
My point in relaying this story is this: I did not hesitate to get up off my duff, to try and assist or console or whatever I needed to do. The reason I did not hesitate is because of you all here and because of Blink and the way she conducts and moderates this forum. At the risk of sounding mushy, “you put enough good stuff in, you are going to get good stuff out.” This forum is “good stuff,” full of good, if not great people speaking their minds and hearts about how to create change in this world. Talk is cheap. I got to act a little bit today. I don’t know if I made a difference in this young girls life. The results are not up to me. I hope they both, and baby-to-be, felt valued, if only for a moment.
I can’t help but wonder if the outcome of these two precious little boys written about here could have been different if only someone would have….
A fight with her Mom and then holds her hand over her babies mouths to suffocate them, straps them in the seats, drives to a landing, puts car in neutral to roll down hill and she just walks away!!! I hear you Carol…I volunteer to be the one to “fix” ALL child abusers/killers. No help needed I’ll do it all myself! All I can ever think of is what are these two babies thinking as they look up at their egg donor keeping them from breathing. I liked the way the prosecutor said it during the Caylee case as he stated some of the same things to the defense and Casey almost unglued for the first time. We got to witness that she may have finally realized that America knows she is a monster just by that reaction.
I looked at her, the mother’s, face on TV this morning. Her eyes were blank, nothing behind them. Very sad for a mother to kill her children. All I can do is to pray for her. It is too late to pray for her children.
Good for you Saramom! This is exactly what Jesus asked the appostles to do when he sent them out two by two to minister to others where they found them.
As sad as this story is, we will continue to see this happen until we as a society decide to get off our collective duffs and do something about removing the state/federal governments from the process of caring for others. It has to be given back to the communities where caring individuals lead the way.
The government cannot provide a value system and cannot teach good behavior. George Bush tried to get the churches and communities to begin providing care for challenged people, but he was defeated by the politically correct politicians who claimed seperation of church and state.
@IMOIMO–you are right, people need to think before they breed. But they don’t. And the rest of us suffer, especially those of us who are born to those unthinking dumbasses. Therefore we should require male and female birth control just like we require vacinations. If a person wants to opt out, they do. But they must do it consciously. Currently, we have people unconsciously opting into parenthood. We need to reverse the default.
@Saramom–I think you did exactly what we all need to do–take action when you see a person in need. That is humanity. Yes! Everytime we do this, we move closer to a world where little babies do not die at the hands of their caretakers.
Thank you, Texas Grandfather. I was not sure if I was getting my point across or not, and then I hit “send” and it was too late. Of course, I don’t in any way, shape, or form–condone or excuse what Duley did to her beautiful little boys–it is beyond heinous.
My whole point was that after reading here for so long and waiting for justice for Ms. Morgan, my own perspective on life and the world has begun to shift. I love hearing about being proactive rather than reactive. This site is inspiring in so many ways. Change begins in our own backyards, day by day. So many here “live” what they believe to be right and true. I have a beautiful son to raise. I cannot afford to stay angry at the injustices I see for too long. I can, hopefully, be part of the solution, though.
This woman didn’t just suddenly turn against her children after one incident. Something in her life was building up over time. Just look at her picture in the news articles:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100817/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_toddlers_drown
Her appearance in the news photo is a far cry from her picture here, which suggests a happy, attractive, well-adjusted young woman. I’m not making excuses for her because I don’t know if the precipitating circumstance was mental illness, or maybe alholohism or drug addiction. Certainly, there were signs of problems in this woman’s life beforehand which were not dealt with proactively. Few people want to intervene until it is too late.
Oooops! alholohism = alcoholism
Carol –
I would have to agree, but I’m thinking that maybe HER mother should be strapped into the seat next to her.
Most of us experience the excruciating pain of “hell” in our lives with our parents, jobs, kids, society. Most of us don’t kill anyone as a result. There are some who are just plain evil and some who are just plain sick.
I think this young woman was sick.
That was very sweet of you Saramom.
News just reported she had checked into a motel after the argument w/ her mom. The 2yo had defensive wounds on him. Ugh.
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12992863#
Like a few of the previous posters I do not have children of my own. I will never understand why people who don’t want children don’t use birth control, get their tubes tied, or let someone adopt them who would love to have them. I can’t bear to think of children suffering like this. Something has to be done to protect the most vulnerable in or society. I feel a combination of rage, nausea, and overwhelming sadness…
I am glad to see you O, unfortunate circumstances not withstanding.
B