Ashley Lorene Parnell was a happy go lucky, if immature, 25 year old if one were to judge by the pictures she posted of herself on her MySpace page. A smiling, rubinesque girl who seemed to be well liked, especially by her boyfriend Robert Roininen with whom she shared a dwelling. Her one main vice seemed to have been smoking pot, what many people would see as a harmless habit that she would hopefully outgrow.
But for Robert Roininen’s 23 month old son Skylar Ashley’s sobriety didn’t come fast enough:
Tulsa prosecutors on Monday charged a Jenks woman with first-degree murder for allegedly fracturing the skull of her boyfriend’s 23-month-old son, records show.
Ashley Lorene Parnell, 25, is accused of physically abusing Skyler Roininen by slamming his head into an object March 27, causing a 20-centimeter, or 7.87-inch, fracture to the toddler’s skull at a residence at 404 N. 7th St. in Jenks, records show.
The baby sustained brain swelling and died the following day at St. Francis Hospital. An autopsy report listed the cause of death as blunt head trauma.
Parnell was arrested Monday and her bail was set at $750,000. Interviews with Parnell, the boy’s father, Robert Roininen, and Parnell’s grandmother, Nina Fries, failed to reveal how the child’s fatal injuries happened, according to a probable cause affidavit. The residence where the death took place is Fries’, records show.
Parnell, however, told police that she smoked marijuana before going to sleep the day the toddler was found unresponsive. Police also discovered marijuana in Parnell’s bedroom, documents indicate.
Investigators discovered that the baby had been living in squalor with the two pot smokers. Rat droppings covered the floor and were found in little Skylar’s crib. Police believe a high Parnell beat the baby for some unknown reason.
Parnell’s drug use was, as always, part of a lifestyle of “partying” that was slowly spiraling out of control. She was busted in 2005 for petty theft and had lucked out on an assault beef that prosecutors had dropped against her.
In the comments section of the Tulsa World story there are people who claim this is out of character with the Parnell they knew in high school. I wouldn’t doubt it, as a near decade of drug use since she was 18, even of the “harmless” pot, would leave her virtually unrecognizable to those that knew them before.
Dreamin’ Demon had posted on this story, but more importantly they posted about this case which is a wonderful accompanying piece to the above story. It seems a 16 year old girl named Angel Dailey and her 18 year old boyfriend recorded themselves forcing an infant to smoke pot.
Yes you heard that right they held down an infant and forced the child to inhale Marijauna smoke. But wait, the story gets better.
Don Dailey, the father of Angel Dailey, was arrested after a joint DEA/IRS raid uncovered over a ton of pot hidden in the walls of their home. Hmmm. I wonder who taught Angel that baby smoking trick? But wait, there’s more!
Also arrested in that case was Angel’s boyfriend and fellow child abuser Melvin Blevins, who worked for Don Dailey. Angel Dailey’s scumbag dealer father was allowing her to date a low level scumbag dealer that he employed. One big happy pot smoking family, huh?
It’s almost as if chronic (no pun intended) marijuana use alters the personality of people and changes their sense of right and wrong.
So … can we admit now that pot does in fact hurt people? Or should I just keep posting these stories?
it’s all the pot, right? because that’s what pot smokers do. sit around and think about killing innocent children… them damn pot smokers!
Yes, that’s exactly what I said. Pot smoking hasn’t distorted your thinking process at all.
Why don’t you post some of the thousands of stories where sober people abuse children. I guarantee if you look around, there are plenty of them out there. A couple of months ago a woman stopped her car on a bridge, got out and calmly threw one of her children over the edge and into the water. Stone sober. Should I keep going, or are you ready to admit that not every child abuser is a drug user, and not every drug user is a child abuser.
I post plenty of stories where people not on drugs do horrible things, but don’t bullshit. Anyone with children who still gets high IS abusing their children, at the least by depriving them of the funds that should be going into trusts for the kid’s education. My mother was no saint but she spent all her extra income on getting me out of the ghetto, sending me to private school so I wouldn’t have to go to the public one overrun with drug dealing gang members, making sure there was food and shelter etc.
Your theory is that a PARENT should be getting high and we should all give them the benefit of the doubt, even though they’re literally throwing away the resources they should be spending on their children.
And people get high specifically to lose touch with reality. We can all agree a drunk is a terrible parent, but not a stoner? Asinine at best.
You’re claiming drug users are not dangerous because some non-drug users are dangerous. That’s called a red herring. If drug users are so responsible go drop your kids off at a crack house. If drug use is so great explain why there are toothless starving women sucking off dudes in my old neighborhood for crack money? Explain why drug users are such great parents as opposed to people who put their children before their immature impulses and desire to continually live the life they did when they were 15.