Police: Body Is Infant Thrown From Bridge
Child's Remains Found In Marshy Area Near Where Father Allegedly Tossed 4 Kids
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The father, Lam Luong, has been charged with capital murder in the deaths of his four children. What is believed to be the body of one of the infants was found this morning about five miles from the Dauphin Island bridge. (WKRG)
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A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter hovers just south of the Dauphin Island Bridge in South Mobile County, Ala., Jan. 10, 2008. As search crews looked for the bodies of four young children, an infant's remains were discovered nearby. (AP/Press-Register, Bill Starling)
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At a press conference this morning, Cochran said, "The inevitable nightmare that we had feared has now been confirmed."
A search of waterways around Dauphin Island for the children - ranging in age from a few months to 3 years - began Tuesday.
The father, Lam Luong, has been charged with capital murder in the deaths.
According to CBS affiliate WKRG, the body of an infant was found this morning by a duck hunter about five miles west of the bridge, in a marshy area called Pointe aux Pines, near Bayou La Batre, home of the Luong family.
A forensics team is on the scene.
Search crews entered the water about 7 o'clock this morning, concentrating on the area around the center of the Dauphin Island bridge where sonar picked up something of interest late Friday afternoon on the bottom of Mobile Bay.
Law enforcement says sonar showed images of what they believed to be three children. Strong currents prevented police divers from reaching that location until returning today.
Earlier this week, a district attorney said the father had confessed to investigators that he had thrown the children off the bridge after an argument with his wife. But the father later recanted and claimed two Asian women took the children Monday and never returned them.
Yesterday, a witness reported seeing four children in their father's vehicle on the bridge from which investigators say he tossed them, and another witness later saw the father leave the area without the children, a sheriff said Friday.
Sheriff Cochran said the witness accounts contradict Luong's claim that he was coerced by authorities into saying he threw them from the bridge Monday morning.
If convicted, he could be sentenced to death or life in prison without parole.
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See all 34 CommentsHow can anyone hurt a child is beyond me!
Either way he should get the death penalty! Lethal injection would be too humane for a scum bag like that!
All you liberals out there that don''t agree with the death penalty, but agree with abortion, sure have your wires crossed!
So right. We need to cull the herd. Everyone in this country is afraid of death, but without it we cannot grow stronger as a people. Animals do it all the time to make sure their species lives on healthier.
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I may have missunderstood you, but as far as I am concerned, there is NO excuse for the murder of these poor children. and they put a vest on him.. I must admit this did make me smile.. after all.. he has a completely uncovered head does he not? I personally think someone may need to shoot it!!
The fear those poor innocent children must have lived through and the death they had to suffer makes my blood run cold..
Justice needs to be served cold and swiftly..
I repeat from my earlier post.. years on death row is to good for him.. he needs to reap what he has sewn and SOON!
by A horrified UK poster.
Other countries, even Mexico, demand an Immigrant have an education and skills. Why won''t we demand the same?
Because we''re too fixated on the Spears family. Well, let''s put Britney and Jamie in the cell with this scumbag or the ILLEGALS who killed the four kids in N.J. so they can produce more babies for this guy to throw over a bridge.
And then we go back to square one.
Oh, yeah, Libs, don''t forget to call me a Racist while at the same time deplore the execution of a roach like this.
Posted by knyght"
I can''t add anything better to this suggestion, maybe make the cord a little shorter so that he can off and on maybe catch his breath just before he can no longer catch his breath say maybe just 80'' remember he adds a little to the bungy cord.
When I had a fight with my ex wife, I never took it out on my boys. Now they are adults, vets and have their own lives.
So I really cannot understand why this guy did what he did. I admit I had times when I lost it but that walk did wonders.
Not only did this man (if you can call him that) hurt his children, he killed all of them. For what? He was mad he and his wife had a fight over his cheating on her? Good grief, don''t want your wife, don''t want your children, then leave the marriage. Don''t hurt the people you are supposed to love.
Posted by likeitis5050
No.
He is suffering from being a hateful, rotten, person with no sense of honor, responsibility, or manhood.
No man that harms a child or a woman in any way, is a man. They are just air theives.
Unfortunately, about half of all men abuse women and children on this earth by either mental and emotional abuse or physical abuse and create dysfunctional children that grow up to do the same thing or worse to their kids.
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