In making his custody and visitation rulings, the judge said the suspicions about the deaths of Collins and Mason were no concern to him, describing it as "smoke that's been blown that I can see through."

Sorry Judge, that smoke you are looking through is from your career going up in flames. Courts always need to err on the side of caution. Your showboating and lack of judgement just cost a mother her child. Step down before you are removed.

That judge needs to be brought up on charges. It's not like the mother was making up stuff about the child's father. She had proof on some and strong suspicions by the police that a murder was committed. The judge is totally wrong on this and belongs in jail for allowing this to happen.

He described his half brother as "a monster," describing how even at age 3, his younger brother attacked him on the head with a hammer he had hidden behind his back as he feigned a request for a kiss. Like Hera McLeod, Velez expressed frustration at police who failed to make a case in the slaying of Shawn Mason.

The above statement alone would be enough for me to lock him up....he is like an inbred dog...crazy!!

And if this guy is guilty and go directly to jail for murder of 3 people, good bu,t the judge that issued an unsupervised visit for him should be fired or not be given any more custody battle. This should be a law. If a judge ruled over decisions such as this and he doesn't look into all facets of the case, then he is not fit to judged that case.

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"The best interest of the child" is social work/legal speak for how fast and with how little hassle can we wrap this up and be rid of these people?

I'm a better judge then this man...And I know little to nothing about our laws.

Someone should have explained to that idiot judge that where there is smoke, there must be a fire. MORON just helped a man murder his child, but hey...he protected the father's parental rights.

Lucky enough prince William loves to give the needle they sentenced the dc sniper to death the way I see it kill a kid or baby.........you die and I'm against the death penalty except when kids are the victims

How does owning an online business make him an unfit father?

robtzu, read the article again-it is an online porn business. if that were all it would not be a big deal, but combined with the other allegations, it is more evidence of sick mind.

Nowhere is it written that judges HAVE to be sane or intellectually higher functioning than the average

person in a sheltered workshop.

lexi -- so true. As so many court rulings prove, one need not be sane or have an IQ higher than a houseplant to rule over others and ruin their lives.

Yeah I know its porn. Its a legal business. There should have been no mention of it. Its like listing his favorite color - totally irrelavent.

This judge should be removed from the bench...immediately! He should NOT be handing out decisions where the lives of children are held in the balance!!!

Sorry, find the judge's son and kill him. An eye for an eye. Then maybe the judge won't be so quick to put someone else's child in harm's way.

despite my better judgement, i will have to side with the judge as far as his judgement goes. some people havent 1 clue to what goes on in a custody dispute, so let me enlighten some of you if i may.

not all but a lot of disputes are the result of a bitter breakup, and the child is a pawn. the parent(s) are not always honest, and the judge has to separate what is/isnt relevant to the childs well being, and at the same time, follow the guidlines of the law.

my custody disuptute went on for almost 4 yrs. my ex told lie, after lie, after lie, and each time i proven her to be a liar. yet when all was said and done, she still got my my child. (she had my daughter put on anti-depressants when she was 10 even tho she didnt need them), and now my daughter (21) is coming to live with me, so i can teach her how to be a productive member of society.

my ex said everything under the sun from me "beating her" to harassing her. i even moved to the other side of the state, and had my employers name-location blacked out from her copy of the child support orders. actually 3 yrs can make a long story, but if you think a judge has to go by here'say think again. in court they rely on facts. just because one has 2 tragic events does not mean it was their fault or the person was gulity.

as far as the guys ex being killed, his mother commiting suicide, yes it is very tragic, yet was it proven this guy did it? more people have had worse events happen to them and family than this guy, and haveing a porn buisness just means the guy found a way to make some cash to pay his bills/child support.

eat the media appetiser all you want to. i am not saying this guy is innocent or guilty, but there are no relevant fact proven to go by.

If he is really a monster then I hope he goes to prison for life.

Really? Not me monsters deserve the death penalty. If he killed all 3 of these people I don't want to pay for him to live in prison for the rest of his life. I pay enough for stupidity to live in prison with my tax dollars.

I can almost understand NaughtyMossy's comments about custody disputes except that in this case I believe the police were confirming that he was a suspect in a murder and a rape. That is a very different matter than a crazy ex who will say anything in a custody dispute. Not to mention that if this argument is taken to its extreme, then no matter how bad a parent is, that parent should get some custody rights and unsupervised visitation because everything bad about the bad parent is really just propaganda from the other parent.

Agree that there are many more facts to come out of the several investigations. However, I strongly disagree with giving the benefit of the doubt when there is a question about the wel-being and safety of a cild during unsupervised visits.

The judge in this case sounds like a sanctimonious, arrogant A@&!! And a strong possibility exists that a child lost his life because of it.

How do you explain away dried blood in the child's nose, the bruising, and the suspicious injuries?

You close kin to this guy?

That's fine until you're the one the Courts are supposed to make rulings on not based on fact but on unproven suspicions. One of crimes he was supposed to have committed is over 10 yrs old. Is this guy really a criminal mastermind to have evaded being charged and convicted of a crime?

Here is more information from the Washington Post's Editorial on Nov. 26, 2012...

It had to do with the Judge's ruling, more than any law that requires protection of children. I would hope that the Judge wasn't elected again. No one wants another family to suffer like that.

Mom,

If the investigators and the judge had done their jobs this tot would still alive.

What most people in Maryland and other states don't want to come to terms with - is that Maryland has been a battle ground state for parental rights- their judges are voted in or hand picked to be very empathetic to anyone from a same sex union yelling that just because their partner carried the child and they - themselves - are not listed on the birth certificate - they should have equal vistation - Maryland has also become a battleground state for equal custodial rights between parents - 50/50 - having a vagina doesn't entitle you to 80 and your partner/husband/ex 20% - and having a few scuffs with the law enforcement shouldn't mean daddy can't see his son -

This child is a casualty of a cultural war - and it's really awful to say - but women have gotten caught with this sociopath - and have made excuses for him / slept with him / had a child with him - and he acted like an animal - a lion in the wild - will kill cubs that he himself has not sired - but in this case - daddy thought like that lion - "they goin' lord it over me and call me a monster and a murderer - will here - that baby is dead - now no one gets him."

Women are going to have to ask themselves harder and harder questions on whether to procreate with a person - to jump in the sack with no birth control - because when the paternity tests come back and the check is garnished - a judge in family court is going to say 50/50 folks - 50/50...

If you think the dude is unfit for 5% let alone 50% - they are going to tell you too bad - and why didn't you think of this before you got in here into court?

This is the new world order - and it's hard on women - because courts have traditionally sided them - made them victims - men losers - and every other weekend has been the status quo - but more and more - it's going to change - and saying something like, "what about school, soccer practice, church..." the judge is going to say, "why doesn't HE have a say..." this isn't all about you... and if you don't like his girlfriends - the step mother - all of that - it will be a grinder -

Only more thoughtfulness and awareness can spare a person - how an intelligent woman like her got involved with having a baby with a guy whose own brother said - "he tried to kill me in the nursery..." is sad - Maryland is a battle ground state - and you can't embrace a life philsophy with someone - make a baby - change your mind and run... a few women are out there on the lamb with children crying Maryland is going to give my child 50/50 with my former gay lover - and people are going to jail.

Think now or forever hold your peace - that's a judge's attitude - almost all of them are getting that way - they think this legislating - law enforcing philosophy should be perfectly acceptable.

I am sorry this little boy paid with his life - and it must have been horrible -

Mom in Illinois: There is such a thing called character witness. The aunt and the half brother had nothing good to say in his defense and I'm sure they know him well.

I agree with the greiving mother of her innocent, beautiful little boy. "Either he is the most unluckiest bastard walking or he's a serial killer."

The judge is an idiot and should have held onto supervized visits... at least until he was cleared for those murders!!

Mandie Grace Taylor: Thanks for the insight and the forewarning re: Maryland's new take on child custody. As I was reading this article, I was thinking, "This is a judge who doesn't like women." Since we weren't present when the Court's custody decision was handed down, we don't know what evidence was presented at the time, but Ms McLeod, who sounds very articulate said she "pleaded", and she "fled" the relationship immediately after baby Prince's birth, so it sounds suspiciously like the judge had his mind made up before the case was (not) heard.

As for Maryland's take on custody cases, I think maybe 50/50 is a good place to start, before relevant information is weighed. It might make both partners think before they decide to go birth-control-less or before they decide to split.

This was a beautiful little boy. It's so tragic that his loved ones won't get to watch him grow up.

Mom in Ill i'm trying to read your post...but all I see is blah, blah blah. Really, you dont' have enough info to see that THREE people he knows died under mysterious circumstances. You're one of those people who likes to stick your head in the sand and say........this has nothing to do with me....move along. pathetic!

I've been reading the mother's blog for a while. She wrote that the father had hired a child evaluator, not an independent psychologist. Someone completely inexperienced.

The mother believes the father has all the diagnostic criteria of a psychopath. They can easily confound and charm the inexperienced.

All you have right now is a one-sided view of things very light on any facts. What if this child died from his medical conditions and nothing? The media isn't going to remember to say my bad

What "medical conditions" Random? Now you're the one making up random what if's....there's NOTHING in this article that says the kid had any medical conditions. You're just one of those people who thinks that you have to defend your own sex....whether that person is right or wrong.....that's just pathetic.

I agree the article is very one-sided and leaves the reader to make a snap judgement on incomplete information. The mom's blog is cappuccino queen d o t com. Go there and read for yourself how concerned she was about the medical issues that she did not want her son to go for his custody visit that day. The child had had many medical issues and seizures in the days before his death.

Also for another detailed account by the mother heavily referencing her concern about seizures/ health issues immediately before the child's death google search "lovefraud rest in peace baby boy" Additional information is out there if you're interested in the actual details

You first.

No. It was probably a dangerous Schedule I drug, such as marijuana. Both cocaine and methamphetamine are Schedule II drugs, meaning there are approved medical uses. The latter, meth, is even prescribed, sometimes to children, under the trade name "desoxyn".

I certainly hope you are speaking tongue-in-cheek, here. First off, marijuana is a lot less dangerous than cocaine and methamphetamines, and there are not approved medical uses of them in this day and age. Meth is made in illegal labs by meth addicts, is it not? What would be an approved medical use for either. Back in the day, cocaine was used as a topical "numbing agent" like Lidocaine, but it would not be used for anything like that today.

Kimkan, very tongue in cheek. x lion is pointing out that the way the drugs are classified are misleading. According to federal law marijuana is more dangerous (b/c of its classification) than many other drugs including cocaine and meth. It's a way to control people by the government. The gov't knows many people would rather smoke maryjane than other drugs, alcohol, or cigarettes, but to protect the people that pay them to keep mj scheduled that way the gov't just lies to everyone in society and keeps up the reefer madness. It's all about the money.

@ Kimkan

You are mistaken about cocaine-----it is still used medically but you can NOT get a prescription for it.

While it remains shameful it is true we do give kiddos with the over diagnosed ADHD amphetamines they do NOT get METH.

Desoxyn--- Look it up. Methamphetamine Hydrochloride 5 mg tablets. Prescribe for narcolepsy, morbid obesity, and (yes, rarely) ADHD. And Cocaine( synthetic) is still used as an anesthetic for eye surgeries. Seriously folks, you're sitting in front of a computer. LOOK IT UP! Why do people try to refute FACTS and never even do the research?

FROM RXLIST.COM

ttention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity: DESOXYN (methamphetamine hydrochloride) tablets are indicated as an integral part of a total treatment program which typically includes other remedial measures (psychological, educational, social) for a stabilizing effect in children over 6 years of age with a behavioral syndrome characterized by the following group of developmentally inappropriate symptoms: moderate to severe distractibility, short attention span, hyperactivity, emotional lability, and impulsivity. The diagnosis of this syndrome should not be made with finality when these symptoms are only of comparatively recent origin. Nonlocalizing (soft) neurological signs, learning disability, and abnormal EEG may or may not be present, and a diagnosis of central nervous system dysfunction may or may not be warranted

HERE'S THE LINK.............

h t t p://www.rxlist.com/desoxyn-drug/indications-dosage.htm

It runs both ways. We've seen stories where the mom was the one who kills the kid. Almost always there was some clue that the other adult was not good parenting material--sexy? yeah. Some after a night at the bar look real good.

Maybe there should be posters in bars and on buses: Is the person you want to hook up with tonight someone you want to argue child support for the next 18 years? Is this someone you would trust with a baby?? If the answer is no, then don't mix your DNA, don't make a baby. (Put a photo of a Jewish grandma or Bill Cosby an ancient Native American on the poster--people who are known for wisdom.)

This is overall a one-sided account. The Courts can only act on facts. The facts of the case were the dude was in the porn biz & not making any money & he'd also been a single dad of his other kid for a dozen years. If the father was a murder he should have been charged and convicted of murder. He's not been charged or convicted of anything. Those claims are very very old. The courts can't touch unfounded claims.

The article does not mention the health issues that may have contributed or been the actual cause of death. There is no reported cause of death to date. What happens when it comes out the child tragedy died due to health issues and nothing more.

As well is the matter of the repeated rape allegation. The father was never charged or convicted of rape.

Lara Ailis McLeod Case# GC 11009381-00 was arrested and charged with filing a false police report accusing Mr Rams of "rape" It was later found out that the incident was recorded and has been confirmed that it was consensual.

Hera Andora McLeod Case# GC11013688-00 was arrested and charged with Obstruction of Justice in the report it states that Hera had possession of the camera "she initially lied about the location of the evidence" interrupting the investigation also video was deleted from the camera. Later it was recovered by PWC police this is what cleared Mr Rams.

One of the characteristics of psychopaths is the ability to be a chameleon and play someone totally charming and normal.

Random wow.....this is how you spend your time honestly? Defending a guy like this.... how sad and pathetic your life must be that this is how you choose to spend your time and energy. You have not once mentioned what this kid went through...you just spend your time defending this scumbag.... oh because he's a guy like you right? I'd bet just about anything if this article was about the woman you'd be calling for her to be found guilty and put to death.

If she was raped, she still had the abortion or adoption options. A lot of men do rape their women to make them pregnant, to keep them dependent on them. Unfortunately, some states require that the man sign off before an adoption can be made, which is another reason why so many kids are still in foster care--the father can't be found.

Also, some men want to be single parents, but are too cheap to pay for a surrogate, so he gets a woman in his bed, impregnates her, and when she leaves and wants to give the baby up for adoption, he's right there to "take care of his own." If she has an abortion, he'll contact some Right to Life type organization for a billboard to shame her for aborting his kid.

Keeping the baby ties the two parents together for the rest of the kid's life.

I've read her blog and it's clear she was targeted by a predator. She fell in love with someone who wore a mask of normalcy. After he charmed her, his mask began to slip. He deceived her and emotionally abused her. She didn't recognize "abuse" because she had no physical wounds. She got pregnant, delivered little Prince, and left with the clothes on her back two weeks after his birth when the child's father committed an act of violence against the mother's (adult) loved one. She hired a private investigator and the custody battle began.

Nothing will happen to the judge; he is a protected species.

My guess is that the mother had not made allegations of abuse before their relationship went sour,

Excellent point.

My niece's daughter infant was in a similar situation where the judge ignored his violent prison history, his police record within the last two months, his unemployment record, his current attendance in anger management classes and alcoholism. The judge ignored all of this and gave him full custody of the baby! She was attending school full time, so the attorney thought that was the reason.

It gets better... A few weeks after he gets custody, his new pregnant girlfriend calls up and asks for my niece to pick up the baby. Apparently, he was in jail again! For beating her up while pregnant! and he is on probation still for his last crime.

All I can say is WTF?

I have to argue that even with concrete proof of the abusive nature of a parent (like convictions, jail time, bruises on kids, lying, and becoming obnoxious in actual courtroom) - judges still side to give visitation (unsupervised visitation) unless there is "significant (?)" physical abuse against the child.

Granted women may lie, but even when proof is documented and convictions are made, the court system still allows abusive men (and women) substantial and unsupervised visitation.

In this case, there was zero proof. The father had been charged with nothing in all of these suspected matters. The mother's sister was charged with filing a false rape complaint against the father & the mother as well for obstruction of justice. At this point there is no reported cause of death. The child had long term health issues and seizures in the days before his death. It is premature

Didn't leering nut cop have total custody of his kids - while the cops and K-9's searched entire fields for her corpse? He dropped his kids off at school and picked them up -

Did it sneeze?

Okay, you sound like a moron.

Until a biological parent is shown to be unfit, they have the right to be a parent. Courts like to reunite mothers and children. If she has an alcohol and drug problem, she is unfit, but...Her need for welfare, housing, etc. is irrelevant. Mentioning that makes you look petty. Her alcohol and drug problem is relevant. Maybe you can call CPS in her state the next time she calls your house drunk and report that a completely intoxicated woman is caring for a small child.

How is not being able to provide for a child not relevant? If she needs that many social services don't you think that the child might be better off in a stable home, one where the child can learn from a productive member of society?

If you believe in God - believe this - that woman in WVA has more to worry about than you and your husband does - and God hears the cry of the orphan - and this child is an orphan - there is a spirit of hate in that woman and it will one day consume her - the price is so high for courting that spirit - it will victimize people through her and then when she herself is a corpse - argue vehemently before God for her very soul - she will be on her knees out there someday begging for you and your husband to forgive her - and intercede for her - but ultimately the destroyed child will be the center of the whole situation - because he could not act on his own behalf - only survive her.

But the best thingnfor you and your husband to do is beg God to enable you to forgive that woman - and you will be free - and God will always act on behalf of that child - his cries will not fall on deaf ears.

Those who had it in their power to act on behalf of orphans and have not - also have to worry.

God Bless

I think redmoth gave some good advice--have the phone number for the police department or sheriff's dept (whichever is jurisdiction where she lives) and call them up next time she calls drunk/high. Or call CPS in her area--have their phone number handy as well.

My prayers and thoughts are with you, and that precious little step-son that you love and care about.