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Tuesday 9 May 2017
Kansas bail bondsman gets life for killing son fed to pigs Suspect in crash

By JIM SUHR less to protect Adrian and was one the worst cases in- at videos and digital pho- appears in court
Associated Press herself from her abusive vestigators had seen. tos from the Jones’ home about visitation
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) husband, but investiga- During Monday’s hearing, that showed the abuse BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A
— A former Kansas bail tors said she also abused a police investigator — De- Adrian suffered in his life’s man accused of driving
bondsman was sentenced the boy, drawing an addi- tective Stuart Littlefield — waning months, much of the wrong way and caus-
to life in prison Monday it chronicled by more than ing a crash that left five
for killing his 7-year-old 30 security cameras set up teenagers dead appeared
son, who authorities say throughout the home. in court on Monday for a
endured abuse and star- Conway said the Joneses hearing about whether his
vation before his remains kept Adrian naked in a daughter and her mother
were fed to pigs on the shower stall and modified may visit him in prison.
family’s rental property. it so that he couldn’t get Steven Bourgoin has
Under the sentence, Mi- out. She said they some- pleaded not guilty to five
chael Jones, 46, won’t be times strapped her grand- counts of murder in the
eligible for parole for at son to an inversion table crash on Interstate 89 in
least 25 years. He pleaded and that they made him October. He also has de-
guilty in March to first-de- stand in a swimming pool nied charges of driving a
gree murder in the 2015 overnight, up to his neck in Williston police cruiser with-
death of Adrian Jones. stagnant water. Conway out permission and reckless
Michael Jones turned his said the videos and photos or grossly negligent driving.
chair away from Adrian’s show that Heather Jones The last time Bourgoin,
grandmother, mother and sometimes beat Adrian who’s from Williston, was
older sister, never making with the end of a broom in court was in October,
eye contact as they ad- handle and kept alarms on when he lay in a hospital
dressed the judge. They the family’s food so that he bed during his arraign-
excoriated him during the This undated file photo provided by the Wyandotte County De- couldn’t take any when he ment. On Monday, he
sentencing hearing for tention Center shows Michael Jones. The Kansas man will be was hungry. walked into court, sat in a
a slaying authorities de- sentenced to life in prison Monday, May 8, 2017, for the killing of “There’s no getting over chair and stood to answer
scribed as horrific, even his 7-year-old son, who authorities say was subjected to horrific it. There’s no fix, there’s no a judge’s questions.
haunting.”You do not de- abuse and was “essentially starved to death” before his remains solution to our heartache. Bourgoin, 36, has been
serve a second chance,” were found in the family’s pig sty. There is no glue for our bro- ordered to have no con-
(Wyandotte County Detention Center via AP)
Keiona Doctor, the late ken hearts, no remedy for tact with the mother of his
boy’s 21-year-old sister, our pain,” Conway told Mi- daughter related to do-
told Michael Jones, who tional five years and eight confirmed publicly for the chael Jones in court Mon- mestic assault and unlaw-
declined the judge’s offer months in prison for that. first time that “what was left day. ful restraint charges filed
to make a statement. “You Adrian died in Septem- of (Adrian’s body) was fed “I pray you have a long, tor- months before the crash,
do not deserve sunlight as ber or October 2015, but to his pigs.” Often choking tured life in prison,” added according to the Burlington
a free man.” his death wasn’t reported back tears, Littlefield asked Pearce, Adrian’s mother. “I Free Press (http://bfpne.
The judge ordered Jones to authorities. His remains for a 20-second moment of don’t know if I can forgive ws/2psnGP8). Bourgoin’s
to spend the rest of his were found that Novem- silence, you, but I know you should lawyers said the woman
life on parole if he is ever ber on the family’s Kansas reflecting the length of suffer for what you did.” agreed to vacate a re-
released from prison. His City, Kansas, rental prop- time Adrian at one point The Kansas Department lief from abuse order and
attorney did not object erty after officers learned was shocked by a stun gun for Children and Families’ wants to be present when
in court Monday to the the boy was missing while during his “tortured young chief, Phyllis Gilmore, said their daughter visits him. His
life sentence prosecutors they were responding to a life.” in a statement Friday that attorneys asked the court
sought. report that Michael Jones Adrian’s biological mother, the agency “thoroughly in- to change his conditions of
The boy’s stepmother, had attacked his wife at Dainna Pearce, lost cus- vestigated” each reported release from the domestic
31-year-old Heather Jones, their home. tody of him and two of incident of alleged abuse assault case. “We think it’s
pleaded guilty to the same When the charges were his siblings years ago. Her or neglect involving Adri- a reasonable and modest
charge in November and is filed, Wyandotte County’s mother, Judy Conway, an, though she did not di- request,” Bourgoin’s at-
serving a life sentence. She district attorney at the said last week that she fi- vulge the number of cases torney Robert Katims said.
insisted that she felt help- time, Jerry Gorman, said it nally brought herself to look or their context.q
Prosecutors oppose the
request because the wom-
Woman: husband demanded divorce before killing 4 an is a potential witness in
the fatal crash case. “Any
opening for any tainting of
ROTHSCHILD, Wis. (AP) — 22. He snarled “Do you to her longtime friends and Tlusty, Kennedy and Dirks evidence or any discussion
The wife of a Wisconsin want to die now?” co-workers, Dianne Look law office in Schofield, of the case is completely
man who killed two of her “No,” she said. Then her hus- and Karen Barclay, and where Naly Vang’s attor- inappropriate in the state’s
co-workers, a police de- band turned and walked said she needed to run and ney, 43-year-old Sara Quirt eyes,” Deputy State’s At-
tective and an attorney out of the bank. Naly knew hide. Sann, worked. torney Aimee Griffin said.
says she knew the minute he was going out to his car, They told her to go out the Nengmy Vang held two Killed in the crash were Eli
she saw her husband walk where he typically kept a back door, and she ran, people at gunpoint be- Brookens, 16, of Waterbury;
into the bank where she handgun, and that he in- panicked, into a Subway fore he shot and killed Janie Cozzi, 15, of Fayston;
worked that something tended to come back to restaurant in the same strip Quirt Sann, then went to Liam Hale, 16, of Fayston;
bad was about to happen. kill her. mall. his apartment in nearby Mary Harris, 16, of More-
Naly Vang said her hus- “I was shaking,” she said. Vang returned and fatally Weston. town; and Cyrus Zschau,
band, Nengmy Vang, was “My body knew it was seri- shot Look and Barclay, who As police converged on 16, of Moretown. Four of
dressed in a suit, which ous.” Naly believes likely con- the apartment, Everest the students attended Har-
would have been unusual In her first public comments fronted her husband. Metro Police Detective wood Union High School,
for his cheese factory job, since the shootings, Vang Ten minutes later, Mara- Jason Weiland was fatally and the fifth attended
and demanded that she told USA Today Network- thon County 911 dispatch- shot as he set up a perim- Kimball Union Academy in
sign divorce papers March Wisconsin that she turned ers took a call from the eter around the building.q New Hampshire.q