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Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Marsha told the judge that he had threatened her and often took his anger out on their three girls. In a letter to the judge Marsha said:. It's just constant yelling to shut p, get out of my way and get out of my sight".
In her four page letter, Marsha said that her home life was dreary and that the atmosphere was one of anger and rage. She claimed that Anthony was a husband who bounced from job to job and spent the little bit of money the family had on his collections of model airplanes and Civil War memorabilia.
Anthony suffered from Bipolar Disorder, Attention Deficit Disorder and severe depression and Marsha said that he rarely took his Prozac and Ritalin which were prescribed to him:. Marsha asked the judge to prevent Anthony from threatening to kill or physically injure herself and the three children:. The fact that I am blind, having very limited sight in one eye I feel without a protection order in place Tony will do great bodily harm to me or my children". Marsha said that there were violent instances in the home where he had put his hand through a window in and then in he had ripped the phone out of the wall after an argument they were having about where to put a Christmas tree.
In the letter she outlined times when Anthony would force her to have sex when she didn't want to and said that he had told her if she ever tried to leave, one of them would have to die. Marsha noted in the letter that Anthony collected road kill and would boil the meat off of the bones and then reconstruct the skeletons:.
You can't have a conversation with him unless it has to do with this subject". The Judge, Thomas Shumaker, granted the protection order on June Two months later, at Marsha's request, the order was terminated.
Marsha wrote another letter and said:. We are seeking counseling. The counselor feels that with the children we both need to be involved". The protection order was terminated on August 20, Records show that in , Norma Swegles, the biological mother of Calista, had tried to get custody of her. Norma had not been involved in the life of Calista since she was an infant. In custody papers she claimed that Calista was malnourished and that she had been abused. Anthony denied the claims and a month later filed papers to have Norma's parental rights terminated totally.
A judge ruled in favor of Anthony and in May of , Calista was placed in his home as an adoptee. Ten years later, Calista died in a fire while chained to her bed. Trever Slater, the Trooper who had been there and assisted the investigators from the fire department said that he had seen Calista's body, in the bed, with a dog collar around her wasted and she was tied to the bed railing with plastic ties:.
Anthony and Marsha's other two children were taken away from them and placed with family members. It was noted that though Calista had been sleeping in a bed with no sheets, blanket or even a pillow, the other two girls had sheets, pillows comforters on their beds.
A hearing was held to determine if Calista's sisters, who were 12 and 14 at the time, were going to remain in the temporary custody of family members. The result of the hearing could either be returning the children to their parents or terminating their parental rights out-right. The goal of the Michigan Department Of Human Services was to reunited the children with their parents. I guess they didn't so much care that these parents had abused and caused the death of one child already.
They didn't care that Anthony had a bad temper and didn't pay much attention to his children other than to yell at them and tell them to shut up. Annegret Remmert, a social services specialist with the Department Of Human Services said that the agency had been providing services to this family since due to a high lead content in the blood of Calista and one of her sisters.
Counseling, transportation to doctors appointments and money was offered. Anthony has admitted that the family has had at least five visits or contacts with child welfare workers, he says though, that his children have never been removed from their home, in the past. Anthony and Marsha both had nothing to say at the hearing. The outcome and further hearings were postponed in April of , until May of Judge Thomas E. Shumaker said there needed to be done before a decision could be made:.
They were sentenced in the St. Joseph County Circuit Court. Marsha was given 18 years, 9 months to 50 years for torture, and 95 months to 15 years for child abuse, while Anthony Springer received 25 years to 50 years for torture, and 10 years to 15 years for child abuse. The Springers immediately began the process of petitioning the court for a reversal of judgment.
It was McDonough who asked Stutesman to exceed the sentencing guidelines for both of the Springers. Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.
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Tuesday marks the ninth day of jury deliberations in the trial of Anthony and Marsha Springer, who are charged with felony murder, child abuse and torture.
Photo Courtesy of Suzanne Langdon.
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