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The HOPPER Girls - 5 and 2 yo - Mansfield (SE of Fort Worth) TX
by TomTerrific0420 Sat Oct 09, 2010 2:54 pm
On Sept. 29, a Tarrant County grand jury returned indictments against Adam Carroll Palmer and Ryka Telan Hopper, who are accused of abusing Hopper's 2-year-old and 5-year-old daughters.Palmer, 27, was indicted on a child-injury charge, a first-degree felony. Investigators reported that he struck the 2-year-old's head against a hard surface, hit her head with a belt and shook her. The charge carries a maximum of life in prison.Palmer was also indicted on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He is accused of using a knife to cut two BBs from the girl's foot June 15. The second-degree felony carries a maximum of 20 years in prison.The grand jury also indicted him on a charge of injury to a child causing bodily injury. Investigators said he struck the 5-year-old with his hand and a belt. That third-degree felony carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.The injuries were first reported when Hopper took the children to an Arlington hospital July 12. Palmer was arrested the same day after doctors said the unconscious 2-year-old had severe brain injuries, which they believed had been inflicted over days or weeks, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.Palmer, who served prison time for a 2003 child injury case, remained in the Tarrant County Jail on Thursday. Bail was set at a total of $500,000, but he will not be released because of a parole violation.The 2-year-old remains in critical condition in a long-term-care facility, authorities said.Hopper, 27, was arrested July 27 and indicted last week on a charge of injury to a child by omission. She is accused of failing to get medical attention for her daughters. The first-degree felony charge carries a maximum of life in prison.She told Mansfield police that on June 15, Palmer forced her to hold her daughter down while he used a knife to remove two BBs that he had fired into her foot. Two weeks later, Hopper told police, she found her daughter unconscious.She said Palmer told her that the girl had had a seizure. When the child regained consciousness 16 hours later, Palmer picked her up and threw her to the floor because her crying woke him, Hopper told police.Hopper remained in the Tarrant County Jail on Thursday with bail set at a total of $100,000.
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Re: The HOPPER Girls - 5 and 2 yo - Mansfield (SE of Fort Worth) TX
by TomTerrific0420 Fri Oct 28, 2011 6:56 pm
FORT WORTH —
A 28-year-old Mansfield mother was convicted Thursday of not
protecting her 2-year-old daughter from an abusive boyfriend, resulting
in the child’s debilitating brain injury.
The six-man, six-woman
jury — some of whom were tearful at points during the trial —
deliberated just over an hour before finding Ryka Telan Hopper guilty of
the charge of injury to a child by omission.
In July 2010, her
daughter, Ahnnakha, then 2, was injured. The child, now 4, is in a
permanent vegetative state and lives in a nursing home for children in
East Texas.
Hopper showed no emotion as the verdict was read in
213th State District Court. The maximum sentence on the charge is life
in prison.
The boyfriend, Adam Palmer, is awaiting trial on two
charges of injury to a child and aggravated assault. He has already
served time in state prison for an unrelated beating of another child in
2003.
Prosecutors Eric Nickols and Kelly Meador urged jurors to
convict Hopper for failing to seek medical treatment or outside help as
the child, called Annie, was repeatedly beaten to the point that she
went into cardiac arrest.
“Every day was a nightmare for Annie,”
an emotional Meador, who is visibly pregnant, told jurors, pointing at
Hopper. “What did she do? She sat by and let Adam Palmer beat her baby.”
Defense
attorneys Brett Boone and Brad Shaw told jurors that Hopper was an
uneducated woman who was abused physically and emotionally by Palmer.
“There
is a despicable, diabolical man out there, and my client fell prey to
this man,” Shaw said. “She fell into this man’s trap.”
Hopper took
the stand in her own defense Thursday morning to tell a rambling,
inconsistent tale that included repeated admissions that she was a liar.
Hopper
first told jurors that she was afraid of Palmer, and had tried to leave
him repeatedly after he became abusive.
By the end of her testimony under cross-examination by Nickols, however,
she testified that she and Palmer had frequently concocted stories
together.
“Were you lying when you said [to investigators], ‘I knew she had a head injury?’ ” asked Nickols.
“A friend of mine was writing a book,” she responded. “I do have a very vivid imagination.”
Late
Thursday, jurors began hearing evidence in the punishment phase of the
trial. They saw a 2-minute video of Ahnnakha in her nursing home room.
The child appeared rigid and unresponsive, and moved only briefly, as
she lay in a bed in a brightly colored pink-and-yellow room.
Some of the jurors closed their eyes and shook their heads as the video was played, and one woman appeared to be in tears.
The trial continues Friday morning. Visiting Judge Phillip Vick is presiding.
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/10/27/3477895/mom-accused-in-abuse-case-admits.html#ixzz1c6WdE8dH
A 28-year-old Mansfield mother was convicted Thursday of not
protecting her 2-year-old daughter from an abusive boyfriend, resulting
in the child’s debilitating brain injury.
The six-man, six-woman
jury — some of whom were tearful at points during the trial —
deliberated just over an hour before finding Ryka Telan Hopper guilty of
the charge of injury to a child by omission.
In July 2010, her
daughter, Ahnnakha, then 2, was injured. The child, now 4, is in a
permanent vegetative state and lives in a nursing home for children in
East Texas.
Hopper showed no emotion as the verdict was read in
213th State District Court. The maximum sentence on the charge is life
in prison.
The boyfriend, Adam Palmer, is awaiting trial on two
charges of injury to a child and aggravated assault. He has already
served time in state prison for an unrelated beating of another child in
2003.
Prosecutors Eric Nickols and Kelly Meador urged jurors to
convict Hopper for failing to seek medical treatment or outside help as
the child, called Annie, was repeatedly beaten to the point that she
went into cardiac arrest.
“Every day was a nightmare for Annie,”
an emotional Meador, who is visibly pregnant, told jurors, pointing at
Hopper. “What did she do? She sat by and let Adam Palmer beat her baby.”
Defense
attorneys Brett Boone and Brad Shaw told jurors that Hopper was an
uneducated woman who was abused physically and emotionally by Palmer.
“There
is a despicable, diabolical man out there, and my client fell prey to
this man,” Shaw said. “She fell into this man’s trap.”
Hopper took
the stand in her own defense Thursday morning to tell a rambling,
inconsistent tale that included repeated admissions that she was a liar.
Hopper
first told jurors that she was afraid of Palmer, and had tried to leave
him repeatedly after he became abusive.
By the end of her testimony under cross-examination by Nickols, however,
she testified that she and Palmer had frequently concocted stories
together.
“Were you lying when you said [to investigators], ‘I knew she had a head injury?’ ” asked Nickols.
“A friend of mine was writing a book,” she responded. “I do have a very vivid imagination.”
Late
Thursday, jurors began hearing evidence in the punishment phase of the
trial. They saw a 2-minute video of Ahnnakha in her nursing home room.
The child appeared rigid and unresponsive, and moved only briefly, as
she lay in a bed in a brightly colored pink-and-yellow room.
Some of the jurors closed their eyes and shook their heads as the video was played, and one woman appeared to be in tears.
The trial continues Friday morning. Visiting Judge Phillip Vick is presiding.
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/10/27/3477895/mom-accused-in-abuse-case-admits.html#ixzz1c6WdE8dH
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