Police: Body Is Infant Thrown From Bridge

(CBS/AP)  The body of one of four children allegedly thrown from a coastal bridge by their father was recovered Saturday, Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran announced.

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.

[mommy45-2009]

I sincerely hope that no one in this country or any other has any sympathy for this humanoid! Any of you that do need to think about the fact that these innocents were not murdered without pain and suffering. First those that were old enough, wondered what they did wrong. Probably, begged him not to hurt them. Then had the fear associated with the falling sensation. Then cold and more fear when they hit the water. If there was any mercy, they passed out and never woke up, if not, then they suffered the fear of not being able to breathe and then the sensation of fire burning in their lungs and then finally still wondering what they did wrong and their lungs burning they died. Tell me where anyone should have sympathy for the humanoid ( I will not insult anyone by calling him a man). I do not care what excuses he has. I am all for the most cruel and unusual punishment that can be devised. For everyone that will think to come back with a biblical retort, the bible even has the death penalty!

[Krazcarl]

It was told to me as a young boy a man that kills women or revenge rapes or beats children or tortures animals is not a man just sick self centered and has no morals or pride and should be removed from amongst us not to a cage but permently they can never be trusted, MAY GOD BLESS HIS MANY VICTUMS MAY THE STATE HAVE NO PITY. He is not fit to be among us and should be intruduced to the next life,

[lauren0211]

I agree with all the comments about executing this piece of trash.....What he did is worst than horrible. Save the tax payers money and inject venom up his p_____

[iamshewolf2]

Perhaps he will have a fatal accident before he goes to court! Can''t say for sure, but heard he''s got bruises in the jail cell. Guess he fell out of bed! I agree with the bungy cord and the bridge thing! Hmmm! Cord needs to be the exact height of the bridge, so he is totally emerged, and is dunked several times before it quits bouncing, then he will be left dangling til he drowns! His wife could be the one to push him off! Sorry, low down b******d!
How 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!

[alexma50085]

crzmeat:

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.

[Krazcarl]

When a dog is MAD you put it down for the protection of everyone life is simple I can''t imagine in my worst nightmare throwing my children from a bridge, As Gramps said sometimes it''s time to cull the weeds and this is a weed how a man could come up with this plan as a solution to his problem is out of my mental grasp he should show some honer and destroy himself but he has NONE this is WHY they made the death penality he should be destroyed not locked up in a cement room and taken care off cull the weeds!!

[maedean]

Lets see they think leathal injection is to crule for people like this ??? What in the helll are you people thinking who do not belive in the death penalty ??? Lock him up give him rights and feed this peace of shiit for the rest of his life. Or lets see what kind of trauma did this poor man suffer that made him do this. Get real America !!!!

[ipranked]

Throw him off the freaking bridge!

Ron T
Founder
www.ipranked.com

[gothicrose-2009]

Your judgment will past to you with the same measure. YOU know what his life has been - abusive parents, bigot employers, a *w*h*o*r*e for a wife, and comfort given by drugs and alcohol. You have no right to judge. Perhaps your judgment will be to reincarnated into a black man in Miss. back in the on the chain ball gang

mcv57

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.

[berniepeders]

By all means, lets put this piece of c.r.a.p in prison for the rest of his life (I''ve heard it costs taxpayers about $40,000 a year to keep them in prison), and all the rest of the scum like him. Hell, it''s only tax money, right? Seriously, I can''t understand how ANYONE can post that this guy doesn''t deserve the death penalty. Are you listening, excoachken?