Shanda Vander Ark - Michigan mother stands trial for murder and systematic torture of teenage son.

"Shanda Vander Ark is facing a first-degree felony charge of murder and child abuse in the first degree for alleged crimes that stem back to July of 2022. The specifics of the torture Timothy allegedly had to endure from both his mother Shanda and older brother, 20-year-old Paul Ferguson, were spoken in the courtroom for the first time. Paul is also charged with one count of 1st Degree Child Abuse in the 60th District Court."

"According to Paul, Timothy was forced to live in a small closet in their basement. A detective showed pictures of the closet to the court, indicating that the only objects in it were a blue tarp and an Amazon box. Police say the room had an overwhelming odor of urine and feces. Paul testified that handcuffs and zip ties were used to restrict Timothy's movement, while cameras and motion sensors were used to monitor him, both in the closet and the bathroom. Shanda and Paul often discussed ways to keep him uncomfortable, like forcing him to stand facing a wall for hours at a time or doing wall sits. Timothy was punished by being fed Carolina reaper hot sauce, either on pieces of bread or poured directly into his mouth, which Paul admitted to doing to his younger brother. Pictures of the scene were admitted into evidence that showed Timothy deceased on the floor in the basement of the house. The photos also showed locks were kept on the refrigerator and freezer, and alarms on the closet door.

Paul frequently expressed frustration with Timothy and said in one text message, "I'm ready to kill Timothy."

The text messages between mother and son accused Timothy of faking his behavior. Those familiar with the family say Timothy is believed to have had special needs. Vander Ark often asked her son Paul via text to throw ice-cold water on Timothy and feed him bread with hot sauce.

"I ended up dragging him back into his small room because I wasn't gonna risk having him access to the tub or things overnight," read one of the texts. "He's still trying to be stupid, but I will tell you more tomorrow while I take you to work, describing how many different ways I can prove that he is faking. He's still doing it though. It's beyond ridiculous."

Timothy was allegedly still alive just before midnight on July 5. Police were called to the house the following day.

The doctor who performed an autopsy on Timothy testified that he weighed 69 pounds at the time of his death and his body showed signs of malnutrition and hypothermia. His death was ruled a homicide."

Jesus Chris st just put these dogs down.

Shanda. I mean, the name says it.

Everything began to go south in the 1970s when her mother decided to name her Shanda.

It’s really sad that there are still people out there naming their kid Shanda

"See dummy, you don't need to open your mouth to breathe." were her last words to her son.

A just as disturbing fact is that there are parents who have tortured their children this way for millennia.

This is what you get when you overturn abortion and allow any freak show to breed.

Shanda Shanda Shanda how could you?

I was shocked when I googled her age. She's 44. She looks like a teenager.

Her skin and weatherbeaten appearance gives it away, R12.

WTF

I’m so on the side of the orcas sinking ships off the coast of Spain. Humans are he fucking worst.

I hope female prisoners like to fuck up child killers

“Torture” is such a loaded word.

I prefer “discipline.”

interview with the prosecutor about the case and the upcoming trial for the older brother. i don't really know what to think about that part of it. he's clearly disabled himself and has been manipulated by this monstrous woman his whole life.

[quote]Timothy was punished by being fed Carolina reaper hot sauce, either on pieces of bread or poured directly into his mouth

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

The second I was unshackled or mobile, I would beat all of them to a bloody pulp.

But you can't speak for other people. They probably did a lot mind torture on him, destoying his self-esteem.

She was stupid enough to take the stand on Thursday and came off as arrogant, unlikable and a stone cold liar. She's an attorney, got high LSAT scores, graduated magna cum laude - was working as a court clerk while waiting to get licensed. She claimed the child was on a "hunger strike" and that he "liked spicy foods." The hot sauce they used had to be ordered from Amazon and has all kinds of dire warnings on its label.

When the prosecutor showed her a photograph of her son, she clapped her hand over her mouth, leaned over and fake vomited, resulting in court adjourning for the day. The following day she chose not to show up for court (which apparently you can do without penalty). Case went to the jury, which deliberated one hour and 9 minutes before rendering a guilty verdict on both counts.

The last person to testify was a detective who narrated a video which was captured on the day of his death by one of their many home cameras (of course not shown on TV). In this video the child is confined to a small closet, lying on a piss stained tarp. The detective noted he was breathing shallowly through his mouth, similar to a fish out of water. This whore from hell, this animal, comes into the closet and clamps his lips shut until he is forced to breathe through his nose. She berates him for "faking." She has one of her great dane dogs with her and commands it to lick his face in an effort to try and revive him.

She then leaves the basement and the camera captures the child's last breaths during the night. In the morning she comes downstairs and discovers his dead body. It takes her 18 minutes to call 911, during which time she tells the older son to push the "hunger strike" story.

Her sentencing is set for January 29th. Tell me this fetid cunt does not deserve the death penalty - but MI doesn't have it. Oklahoma, however does - but she fled from there a year prior while in the midst of a DFS investigation.

R23 the cruelty is unreal. the prosecutor was beet red through the entire closing statements, he was grimacing a lot and struggling to maintain his composure. does the state not check on homeschooled children on a regular basis? i assumed we were civilized enough that something like that must happen at least biannually.

Apparently there is no method of communication from one state to another with regard to open DFS investigations. So all she had to do was pack up her shit and move as far away as she could.

What's with the Dorothy from Wizard of Oz hair?

r22 he weighed 69 lbs. At that weight, you can barely move let alone beat anyone up.

[quote]She then leaves the basement and the camera captures the child's last breaths during the night. In the morning she comes downstairs and discovers his dead body. It takes her 18 minutes to call 911

I watched this live on CourtTV and wanted to choke that selfish bitch out. I mean, I'm still gutted by my pet breathing his last during the wee hours, just before I'd planned to have him euthanized at the vet. Waking up to find my big little boy just barely warm and stiff was so, so awful.

Too bad she wasn't still in Oklahoma, where they have (and actually use) capital punishment. I hope her fellow prisoners pull those fucking pigtails right out of her scaly scalp.

With all of the home surveillance cameras, did she have a library of videos of the abuse to watch and relive her pleasure?

I don't know, r28. She's a lawyer. She can make herself very valuable to fellow prisoners.

I feel like the only part of the competition I could win these days is Miss Congeniality.

Both the prosecutor and defense attorneys were on Vinnie Politan's show CLOSING ARGUMENTS on Friday, and each of them said this was the worst case they had ever had. The defense attorney said he had been a lawyer since 1986 and this was the worst case he had ever had. The police detective who testified last looked clearly traumatized as he narrated that death video for the jury. That child must have looked liked a Holocaust victim.

This isn’t true. Women aren’t violent and if he died it must have been the boys fault. She’s a victim.

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