Beaumont man charged in boy's oven death

lovechild · Post by **lovechild** » Sun May 09, 2004 9:36 am

BEAUMONT - A Beaumont man was formally charged with murder Tuesday in the death of a 6-year-old boy found in an oven.

Kenneth Lee Pierott, 27, is accused of killing Tre-Devin Odoms, who was left overnight in an oven at the boy's Beaumont home Thursday. The boy, the oldest son of Pierott's girlfriend, was found dead the next morning.

"Kenneth Lee Pierott, Jr. told (his brother) he placed Tre in the oven on 600 degrees and left him there all night," Sheila K. Barton, a detective with the Beaumont Police Department, said in an affidavit Tuesday.

According to the court document, Pierott believed the child was "draining the life" from his 2-year-old son, Jacory, and "he needed to kill Tre so that Jacory could breathe."

Preliminary autopsy results indicated the boy died of asphyxiation. He had no burn marks or visible injuries, Justice of the Peace Paul Brown said.

Pierott's mother, Urestine Pierott, described her son, Kenneth, as "a sweet, young man that any mother would have trusted," but who suffers from a mental illness and isn't in his "right mind."

She told The Associated Press she first realized her son was mentally ill in 1996 when he killed her oldest child.

Stephanie Pierott, 25, who suffered from cerebral palsy, was fatally beaten with a dumbbell. Kenneth Pierott was found innocent by reason of insanity for her slaying and was released from a state hospital in 1998.

Ligeia · Post by **Ligeia** » Sun May 09, 2004 11:49 am

I just dont understand why he would be released for reason of insanity. If anything, do they not think people like that will do it again BECAUSE they are insane? :roll:

The Stormstress · Post by **The Stormstress** » Sun May 09, 2004 3:19 pm

Thingz like this make me ashamed 2 b part ov this speciez ... not simply that it could b allowed 2 happen once, but further, 4 it 2 b repeated az such ... damn, but this "evolution" iz a slow fu*#ing process!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Mon May 17, 2004 6:53 pm

its so sad thats where i grew up.....

wilted_roze · Post by **wilted_roze** » Sun May 23, 2004 4:42 pm

Someone needs to stick that man in an oven. And then actually turn it on.

~Willow

Hardcoregirl · Post by **Hardcoregirl** » Sun May 23, 2004 5:33 pm

Yep...it's pretty sad that sick people like that are freed from institutions and people serve time for crap like drug possession...

My mom worked for Ridgeview in Oak Ridge about the time the TN Department of Behavioral (or was it mental) Health shut down and it was her job to help put some people like that back into society. You should have seen how nuts some of these people were....but the gov no longer wanted to pay for their room and board I suppose...