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    Loinell/Lionell Dangerfield Sentenced to 15 Years in 2010 OH Murder of 3-Month-Old

    Prosecutor seeking death penalty in infant's murder

    CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - The Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office has announced the indictment of a Westwood man for the death of a 3-month-old baby.

    Loinell Dangerfield, 25, was indicted for aggravated murder, murder and two counts of felonious assault. He faces the death penalty if convicted.

    Zhi Merah Binford died May 30. The child's mother was Dangerfield's girlfriend.

    The Hamilton County Coroner's Office ruled that the child died of blunt force trauma. Police say Dangerfield was babysitting while the child's mother, Chania Binford, was out. When she returned home, the baby appeared to be asleep, but when she checked on the child the next morning, the baby was dead.

    "I worked hard to change Ohio law in 1997 to allow for the death penalty for the purposeful of a child under 13," said Prosecutor Joe Deters. "We take these cases very seriously."

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    Prosecutors Pursue Death Penalty Against Lionell Dangerfield, In 2010 Slaying of 3 Month-Old



    A man is being charged with murder in the death of a 3-month-old child.

    Officers said rescue crews were called to a home in the 2500 block of Sarvis Court after a call about a non-responsive child.

    Paramedics declared the child dead at the scene and notified police. The Hamilton County Coroner was called to the scene to investigate as well.

    On Tuesday, the coroner determined the death was a homicide.

    Police issued a murder warrant for Loinell Dangerfield the same day and arrested him.

    Dangerfield was arraigned Wednesday morning and ordered held on $1 million bond.

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    Father, son face death penalty for separate murder cases

    CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - A Walnut Hills man and his son are both facing the death penalty for separate murder cases involving children.

    A Hamilton County grand jury indicted Christopher Dangerfield, 48, on Thursday for aggravated murder, murder and child endangering in the death of his 3-year-old son, Tyrese.

    Dangerfield's other son, Lionell Dangerfield, was indicted in June 2010 for the death of his girlfriend's 3-month-old baby and is also facing the death penalty.

    "It is horrifying to think about how this young child lived and died," said Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters. "I am disgusted that a father and son both face the death penalty for the separate murders of two young children."

    Christopher Dangerfield called paramedics in December, reporting that Tyrese had collapsed. Tyrese was taken to Children's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

    The coroner's office ruled the death as a homicide as a result of blunt force trauma to the head. the autopsy revealed past injuries to the child, including a spiral fracture of the tibia, burns to the face and arm, and rib fractures.

    Dangerfield's attorney said the injuries were caused by a fall in the bathtub.

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    Child killings take toll

    Little Kayli Bates' life ended when she was smothered to death - at 15 months of age.

    Tyrese Short, 3½, and Damarcus Jackson, 2, were beaten to death after suffering through short lives of abuse.

    The men accused in their killings are fighting for their lives because they have been charged with murder, and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in those cases.

    But those men also have something else in common - they fathered the children they are accused of killing.

    Of the seven capital murder cases currently being prosecuted in Hamilton County, four have children victims. And three of those four were killed, prosecutors allege, by their fathers.

    "It's amazing how many actual fathers are doing this to their own flesh and blood. Most people would do anything to protect their children," Assistant Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier said. "You don't even treat a dog this way. You cannot conceive what these people do to kids."

    Robert Shapiro can. He's seen it firsthand for almost 30 years.

    Shapiro is director of the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. There, he and other doctors see two to three children each week with severe injuries from being abused.

    "It's frightening, isn't it?" Shapiro asked.

    Kayli Bates is alleged to have been killed by 6-foot-2, 250-pound Thomas Huge (pronounced Hu-Gee). Antrone Smith is accused of killing his son Damarcus Jackson. Christopher Dangerfield is accused of the fatal beating of Tyrese Short, one of his sons.

    Another of Dangerfield's sons is Lionell Dangerfield, whom prosecutors also are seeking the death penalty against because they allege he killed the fourth child victim - 3-month-old Zhi Merah Binford. She died after being violently shaken, prosecutors allege, by her mother's boyfriend - Lionell Dangerfield.

    When an abuse case is reported, authorities start by looking in the child's home.

    "It's rare to find a situation where it's not the father or the (mother's) boyfriend," Piepmeier said.

    While difficult to comprehend, it happens, and there's no simplistic answer why, said Scott Bresler, director of the University of Cincinnati division of Forensic Psychiatry.

    "Most of us come from a home where we are sung to, are tucked in at night and loved," Bresler said.

    Many of those accused of killing children have poor coping skills, he said, and often are young and/or immature parents. They can have drug- or alcohol-abuse problems, and mental issues. Some, Bresler said, are just mean.

    "There are people who are sadistic and derive satisfaction and, worse, pleasure, from feeling a sense of power that can come from inflicting pain," he said. "The bottom of that barrel is a group of adults who inflict pain."

    Parents' personal demons, combined with the pressure to provide for a family in tough economic times, can be a lethal concoction.

    That can cause resentment, resulting in pent-up anger and finally an eruption of emotion and violence aimed at the most vulnerable.

    "The stress builds and builds and builds and boom, they explode," Bresler said. "These are very disturbing cases to work on. Most people can't fathom what kind of monster this is."

    While the Oct. 21 death of Damarcus Jackson has focused the spotlight on the issue, physically abusing children, even to the point of death, isn't a new phenomenon, Bresler and Shapiro agree.

    "This is in our presence. All you have to do is go to Children's Hospital and see that this happens. It happens a lot," Bresler said.

    In the past year, Shapiro's center evaluated 1,530 children who were thought to be victims of abuse. The center also did 1,424 forensic interviews and 716 medical exams during that time.

    Last year, there were six homicides of children in Hamilton County, but Shapiro notes that there weren't six murder cases with child victims prosecuted in Hamilton County last year.

    "There's only a criminal case when there's enough evidence" to prosecute, Shapiro said.

    "In this field, I don't expect 100 percent success. I don't think it's possible to achieve."

    That's because many injuries can't definitively be called intentional when the medical evidence isn't conclusive and the victims have limited verbal skills.

    That's frustrating, and takes its toll on Shapiro, the other doctors and workers at the Mayerson Center, and the police, social workers and prosecutor's staff who collaborate on the cases to try to achieve justice for abused - and slain - children.

    "It's emotionally a difficult field to work in," Shapiro said.

    "Everyone who works in this field has some degree of post-traumatic stress.

    "Sadly, there are always going to be children murdered."
    Number of child deaths

    Hamilton County averaged 8.5 homicides of children a year from 2000 to 2010. A homicide is the killing of another. That doesn't mean there was a criminal case opened as a result of the homicide. The number of child homicides by year:

    • 2000 - 9
    • 2001 - 12
    • 2002 - 3
    • 2003 - 7
    • 2004 - 5
    • 2005 - 10
    • 2006 - 17
    • 2007 - 11
    • 2008 - 4
    • 2009 - 9
    • 2010 - 6
    Source: Hamilton County Family and Children First Council, 2010 Child Fatality Review Report

    Total number of those under age 18 in Hamilton County who died from any cause:

    • 2006 - 68
    • 2007 - 64
    • 2008 - 73
    • 2009 - 41
    • 2010 - 26
    Source: Hamilton County Coroner's Office
    Where to get help

    • If you see warning signs of child abuse, call 513-241-5437.

    • Stressed parents can call 211, the United Way of Greater Cincinnati's community and emergency services hot line.

    • Go to www.chooseyourpartnercarefully.com or www.doaskdotellus.com for warning signs of child abuse, what to watch for and more information.


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    Lionell Dangerfield got into an argument with a judge Tuesday and may have cost his attorneys a chance to save his life in the capital murder case against him.
    Dangerfield is accused, like his father, Christopher Dangerfield, of killing a child.
    Lionell Dangerfield, 27, was before Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Ralph "Ted" Winkler asking -- for the second time -- to fire the court-appointed lawyer representing him.
    One of the accused child-killer's complaints was his trial was supposed to be held Jan. 20, the same day Christopher Dangerfield's capital murder trial was to start.
    Betsy Agar, Lionell Dangerfield's attorney, told the judge her client was convinced that the father-son relationship and timing of the cases would hurt his chances of being found not guilty.
    He is accused of the May 30, 2010, shaking death
    of 3-month-old Zhi Merah Binford. Dangerfield was the boyfriend of Chania Binford, the girl's mother.
    Lionell Dangerfield, who court documents also list as Loinell Dangerfield, then argued with the judge.
    "The other Dangerfield ain't my daddy," Lionell Dangerfield told the judge. "He just signed my birth certificate. Quit trying to put my name with his."
    "I'm not trying to do anything," the judge responded. "Now you're trying to create animosity."
    "I ain't creating animosity," Dangerfield shot back. "I'm just telling you how it is."
    "Well," the judge said, "just because you say it doesn't make it true."
    "It is true. Don't (expletive) try to tell me who my daddy is," Dangerfield said.
    Winkler again tried to talk to Dangerfield who answered with more cursing.

    I don't care what you say," Dangerfield told the judge. "That don't mean (expletive)."
    "To you it doesn't," the judge said.
    "I know who my (expletive) daddy is. Anybody can sign a birth certificate."
    "Keep talking, go ahead," the judge said. "You may just be hurting yourself."
    And it could cost Dangerfield a death sentence.
    Dangerfield's first two lawyers, Dan Burke and Will Oswall, were fired by Dangerfield because he believed they were working too hard on the second phase of his trial -- trying to spare him from a death sentence -- and not enough on what he insists is his innocence.
    In court hearings, they indicated they planned to show that being raised in the home of another accused murderer, Christopher Dangerfield, proved what a horrible childhood he had, evidence they hoped would convince a jury to not suggest a death sentence for Lionell Dangerfield.
    Now, with him saying Christopher Dangerfield sn't his father, prosecutors could use his Tuesday statements in court against him at trial.
    Christopher Dangerfield, 49, is accused of the fatal beating of 3½-year-old Tyrese Short, one of his sons, in a Dec. 28, 2010, incident. The boy had been badly burned, had recently broken a leg and told a baby sitter his dad punched him in the stomach.
    Lionell Dangerfield has his trial rescheduled Tuesday for May 11.
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    CINCINNATI -- Testimony continues in the trial of a man accused of murdering a 3-month-old baby.
    Loinell Dangerfield could be sentenced to death if he's convicted of killing his girlfriend's baby in South Fairmount.
    Jurors heard testimony Thursday about text messages that indicate Dangerfield was angry about being left alone to care for Zhi Merah Binford while the child's mother left with the baby's twin sister.
    The next morning, Zhi Merah was found dead.
    Homicide detective John Horn testified Friday about the police investigation.
    He said the child's death was not immediately believed to be a homicide, but Horn said an autopsy revealed the child had suffered numerous serious injuries.
    "The child had injuries to her ribs, skull fractures and, I believe, optic nerve damage," Horn testified.
    The detective said Dangerfield offered only excuses when asked what had happened to the child.
    "He guessed, if you will, that Zhi Mera may have hit her head on a car seat," Horn testified. "He guessed there was a storage bin close to a bed where he had laid her down and the covers matched, and she may have fallen approximately 18 inches or a foot and a half when he laid her down there."
    Testimony will continue next week.

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    A Hamilton County jury today declared a man guilty of killing his former girlfriend's baby. But Lionell Dangerfield will not face the death penalty, because the jury acquitted him on a charge of aggravated murder.

    The Hamilton County Coroner found three-month-old Zahmiruh Binford died of blunt force trauma to the head last May. The prosecutor says Dangerfield was babysitting Binford while the baby's mom was out.

    The trial proceeded without a single defense witness.

    Today, after about six hours of deliberation, the jury found Dangerfield guilty of murder and felonious assault, but not guilty of aggravated murder. Dangerfield was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.


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    On April 19, 2013, Christopher Dangerfield was sentenced to 25 years to life.

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