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Police trying to verify girl's identity in taped beating case
September 27, 2002
MISHAWAKA, Ind.- Police said Friday they were trying to verify the identity of a girl who was placed in foster care after a woman turned herself in to police in the videotaped beating of a child.
Madelyne Gorman Toogood surrendered to police last weekend in the company of a girl she identified as her 4-year-old daughter, Martha.
After questions were raised about the child's identity, police requested footprint records taken after the birth of Toogood's daughter.
"The Mishawaka Police Department is very appreciative of concerns of some of the general populace that we currently do not have the correct mother and child within our control," police investigator Michael Samp said in a statement.
Toogood's attorney, Steven Rosen, said Friday it was "the craziest thing in the world" to suggest that police had the wrong woman and child.
"That's the mother, and that's the daughter," Rosen said.
Police unsuccessfully sought the footprint records from a hospital, and efforts to obtain them were continuing Friday, Samp said.
St. Joseph County Prosecutor Christopher Toth scheduled a news conference for Friday afternoon to discuss the ongoing investigation.
Police said fingerprints of the woman arrested under the name Madelyn Gorman Toogood in the Sept. 13 beating were checked against a national police database. Those prints "were those of Madelyn Gorman," police said.
Police have said Gorman is Toogood's maiden name.
A surveillance camera at a department store in Mishawaka captured videotape showing a woman repeatedly beating a girl in a sport utility vehicle in the store's parking lot.
Toogood, 25, of Mishawaka has acknowledged she was out of state during some of the period when police were looking for her.
A doctor examined the girl who accompanied Toogood at Toogood's request in New Jersey before she surrendered. Authorities said the doctor found no medical problems and no long-term signs of abuse.
Toogood was arraigned Monday on a felony charge of battery to a child.
from http://www.myinky.com/ecp/home/article/0,1626,ECP_775_1444500,00.html
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Police trying to verify girl's identity in taped beating case
September 27, 2002
MISHAWAKA, Ind.- Police said Friday they were trying to verify the identity of a girl who was placed in foster care after a woman turned herself in to police in the videotaped beating of a child.
Madelyne Gorman Toogood surrendered to police last weekend in the company of a girl she identified as her 4-year-old daughter, Martha.
After questions were raised about the child's identity, police requested footprint records taken after the birth of Toogood's daughter.
"The Mishawaka Police Department is very appreciative of concerns of some of the general populace that we currently do not have the correct mother and child within our control," police investigator Michael Samp said in a statement.
Toogood's attorney, Steven Rosen, said Friday it was "the craziest thing in the world" to suggest that police had the wrong woman and child.
"That's the mother, and that's the daughter," Rosen said.
Police unsuccessfully sought the footprint records from a hospital, and efforts to obtain them were continuing Friday, Samp said.
St. Joseph County Prosecutor Christopher Toth scheduled a news conference for Friday afternoon to discuss the ongoing investigation.
Police said fingerprints of the woman arrested under the name Madelyn Gorman Toogood in the Sept. 13 beating were checked against a national police database. Those prints "were those of Madelyn Gorman," police said.
Police have said Gorman is Toogood's maiden name.
A surveillance camera at a department store in Mishawaka captured videotape showing a woman repeatedly beating a girl in a sport utility vehicle in the store's parking lot.
Toogood, 25, of Mishawaka has acknowledged she was out of state during some of the period when police were looking for her.
A doctor examined the girl who accompanied Toogood at Toogood's request in New Jersey before she surrendered. Authorities said the doctor found no medical problems and no long-term signs of abuse.
Toogood was arraigned Monday on a felony charge of battery to a child.
from http://www.myinky.com/ecp/home/article/0,1626,ECP_775_1444500,00.html
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What a bunch of Scum!
