Beaumont man charged in boy's oven death
Posted: 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.
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.
