Mother of the year punishes child by cooking her

Girl tells police: Mom 'cooks me in oven'
Hamtramck woman calls police herself, is charged with torturing kids, 4 and 5 years old.
Christine Ferretti / The Detroit News
HAMTRAMCK -- The license plate in the window of the family Cadillac reads "Best Dad." But a 4-year-old girl told police Mom wasn't nearly so kind.

"Mom cooks me like a turkey in the oven," she told police.

Hamtramck cops stumbled onto the graphic allegations of burnings, beatings and torture after the girl's mother phoned police Jan. 23 and confessed to "harming her children," Detective Ben Bielecki said Thursday.


The allegations belied outside appearances of a happy family, shocking neighbors of the family whose front picture window is adorned with the sign "1 God."

"They were new to the neighborhood," said Deandre Martin, 28, who lives next door to the white, two-story home near Holbrook. "I didn't realize what was going on. It's horrific. I'm just happy the kids are alive."

Reyna Valentino, 40, a mother of five, faces life in prison on allegations that she burned her 4-year-old daughter in an oven, used a hot nail or screwdriver to singe her eyelids and beat her 5-year-old daughter's leg with a pry bar.

She was arraigned Wednesday on felony charges of first-degree child abuse and torture in 31st District Court.

The 4-year-old gave her account to investigators.

"She said, 'Her heart is hurt and broke because momma doesn't love me anymore,' " Bielecki read from the report.

" 'Mom cooks me like a turkey in the oven. I felt fire. It burned my back,' " he read. " 'She hurts me with a screwdriver all the time.' "

Police said Valentino's husband, Randy, wasn't home and there's no evidence that he abused their children.

After the incident, Valentino called police about 3 p.m. to come get her.

"She said she is harming her family," Bielecki said. "It's extreme. It's an awful thing that's happened. I just hope she doesn't get custody of the kids -- ever."

The couple has three other children, two boys believed to be 7 and 8 years old and an infant who is about 8 months, Bielecki said.

All five children are in foster care and doing well, he said. Martin said police removed them from the house about a week ago.

Martin said the family moved in during the fall. He never saw Valentino but said her children were always smiling, laughing and seemingly healthy.

Valentino spent more than a week undergoing a psychiatric evaluation at Detroit Receiving Hospital after the incident.

She's now being housed in the Wayne County Jail awaiting a preliminary hearing on Thursday. Social Services officials are assessing her mental condition, police said.

Valentino will have a court-appointed lawyer next week, court officials said.

Note: court appointed attorney

another welfare whore

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CERTIFIED HOSEHEAD!!!

people (especially women) do not give ONE DAMN about what they inflict on children and I defy anyone to prove me wrong

Dysfunctional relationships almost always have a child. The more dysfunctional, the more children.

The selfish wants of adults outweigh the needs of the child.

Some mistakes cannot be fixed, but some mistakes can be 'fixed'.

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. Leo J. Burke

Adoption agencies have strict criteria (usually). Breeders, whose combined IQ's would barely hit triple digits, have none.

I don't know why people are always so "shocked" simply because someone has a "Mom of the year" t-shirt (easily purchased at any dollar store) or a "We heart Jesus" bumper sticker, which are a dime a dozen, but they always are. AGAIN, like with Andrea Yates among others, WHY didn't duddy know that his wife was cooking the kyds? It's clear to me that she has too many damned kids, is miserable being a moomie, and the stress of it finally caused a psychotic break where there was probably already a crack. People have always beaten their kyds after church services, sexually abused them while reading a beddy bye story, killed them and dumped them in the East River on their way home from the Civitan club after having received a "Dad of the Year" award, religious nuts living in compounds have ALWAYS committed various crimes against children including sexual abuse, imprisonment, and involuntary servitude, and there is no reason to believe that it will end.



I would like to slap the people across the face who act so shocked and gasp in disbelief at such a commonplace occurrence. Maybe if they didn't have blinders on and their heads up their asses then they would have noticed that there was something wrong with the kyd in Sunday school who kept asking, "Jesus can save me from getting hurt if I pray real hard, right?", that the next door neighbor kyds often were gazing out of basement windows covered in burglar bars, and that little Snotley was stealing and hoarding food at school even though he sufferred tremendous peer ridicule over it. All of this kinda shit ALWAYS comes out later as the ones who sat on their asses and did nothing finally admit it. If a kyd who I was in regular contact with was sufferring like this and I failed to notice and he was eventually killed or severely injured, I would feel a sense of personal responsibility rather than just stand there with a stupid look on my face and feign ignorance. "I had NO IDEA! I just thought he fell down the stairs a lot at his one story home next door that doesn't have a basement or any steps".

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If a kyd who I was in regular contact with was sufferring like this and I failed to notice and he was eventually killed or severaly injured, I wold feel a sense of personal responsibility rather than stand there with a stupid look on my face and feign ignorance. "I had NO IDEA! I just thought he fell down the stairs a lot at his one story home next door that doesn't have a basement or any steps".

Amen to that Kim, unfortunately there are very few people in this world willing to accept the truth, instead they apply this childish theory: "There is a monster staring at me from the darkness, if I close my eyes I will not see it, so, it will no be there anymore". Wrong, the monster is there laughing at you, just as rapists, murderers, pedophiles, wife-beaters laugh at us knowing that all those "good and shocked" people have not got the faintest idea about what they do.
I find this shock and awe really annoying, you should have known what was coming but the only answer he obtain everytime is: "s/he was such a good person/Christian/neighbour, I cannot believe it".

UGLY!:scr