Virginia cops were called out to a run-down RV, lurking in a lot filled with abandoned cars at a mechanic shop. Considering that anything could be inside this ramshackle ride, they weren’t quite sure what they would find, but they certainly didn’t expect to come across what was wedged under the driver’s seat.
Sabrina Malick, 29, and Walter Newton had called this rotting mass of metal home for some time. It was their simple slice of ghetto paradise that they passed out in when they weren’t trolling the town and doing other things. It was during one of Sabrina’s outings that police officers in Richmond were called to check the motor home out, as a matter of emergency.
Sabrina, who is a mother to at least one child, had left her seven-month-old son, Brendon Newton, with his father Walter, who was also watching after a couple other kids they kept holed up in the RV. She had been gone for the entire day with her friend Linda Gonzalez, never thinking twice about the kids.
Evidently, Walter wasn’t too concerned about the little ones either, since he opted to spend the day helping his mechanic friend out in the shop, leaving the children and baby Brendon to fend for themselves for seven hours alone. It wasn’t until the end of the afternoon, when he allegedly noticed something was wrong with the baby. Seemingly surprised that something bad could happen to a baby left in the heinous conditions of the RV in all that time, he called 911 for help, but not before shoving the infant’s lethargic body under the driver’s seat, according to WTVR.
When officers arrived, they found Brendon unresponsive, but he was still alive, which means that Walter had to wedge the boy’s body beneath the seat for reasons only a disgusting person would think made sense. The baby was rushed to the hospital, where he was soon pronounced dead. It would then take six months to arrest the baby’s parents and charge them with his murder, which the couple’s friends and family say is undeserved.
Gonzalez was with Sabrina, who has tested positive twice before for marijuana and cocaine. Perhaps that was what she was doing at the time of her baby’s death, when she got the tragic phone call. The friend explained that the mother became hysterical in that moment of receiving the news. After her arrest for murder and child neglect, Gonzalez has the audacity to say that authorities were too hard on the mom, and Sabrina’s family agrees.
“I don’t think it was to be harmful or anything, I just think it was neglect, she got busy doing something else,” Sabrina’s brother, Galen Malick, said of his sister’s deplorable actions. He somehow thought this could be excused away as a simple oversight, when it was an intentional decision to leave kids unattended for hours without checking on them.
The other children that were in the RV the day Brendon died, have been placed in the state’s custody, and both parents have been charged with second-degree murder and felony child neglect.
It shouldn’t matter that the mother was not there at the time the baby fell unconscious, since it was her neglect that contributed to it, along with the baby’s father who was supposed to be watching him. Walter deserves everything that comes his way in prison, since it takes an especially sick monster to shove a baby boy under a seat.