An Indiana man drank whiskey with the uncle of a 1-year-old girl and then waited until the family fell asleep before abducting, raping and killing the toddler, prosecutors said Monday in court documents.
Kyle Parker faces murder, rape, kidnapping and other charges in the death of Shaylyn Ammerman, whose body was found Thursday night following two days of intensive searching. A state police detective says in Owen County court documents that Parker, 22, of Spencer, directed investigators to the remote, wooded location.
A judge ordered that Parker remain jailed without bond and entered a not guilty plea for him during a Monday afternoon hearing. Parker appeared via video link from the county jail for the hearing.
The judge appointed attorney Jacob Fish as Parker’s public defender. Fish didn’t immediately return a telephone message left at his law office seeking comment.
Owen County Prosecutor Don VanDerMoere called the allegations against Parker “monstrous” and “atrocious” and as disturbing as he’s seen since becoming prosecutor in 2009.
“This is the first time in my tenure that I’ve seen grown law enforcement officers just wince in pain,” he said after Parker’s court hearing. “It’s just horrible.”
State police spokesman Sgt. Curt Durnil said the investigation wasn’t finished despite the charges against Parker. He said detectives could take several days or weeks to complete their work, but that more arrests weren’t expected Monday.
Shaylyn’s father and grandmother, Justin Ammerman and Tamera Morgan, were the last people known to have seen her late Tuesday. She had been staying at her father’s home under a joint custody arrangement with the girl’s mother; her grandmother and uncle also lived there.
Parker was drinking whiskey Tuesday night with Shaylyn’s uncle at the father’s home and abducted her in the early hours of Wednesday after other family members had fallen asleep, court documents said.
Parker denied involvement in Shaylyn’s disappearance when first questioned on Wednesday, but directed police to where her body was found near the White River outside of Gosport, about 40 miles southwest of Indianapolis.
An autopsy found Shaylyn suffered severe sexual trauma while she was alive and died from asphyxiation. Investigators reporting finding the girl’s body next to a tree and a burn pile nearby believed to contain her clothes and other evidence.
Parker’s stepfather told detectives that Parker said Sunday night from jail that he acted alone in killing Shaylyn and used bleach to try and destroy DNA evidence, the police affidavit said.
“Kyle kept saying the night was a haze and his memory was foggy on what happened,” the affidavit quoted Parker’s stepfather as saying.
Several hundred people attended a prayer vigil for Shaylyn at a Spencer park Friday evening. Her funeral is scheduled for Wednesday in Spencer.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Does Indiana have the death penalty?
Love to meet this ASS out behind the BARN !!!
One can only imagine the pain that little girl went through! This guy should have his gonads ripped off and stuffed down his throat…
Or IF he is incarcerated maybe someone will allow him to feel the same pain in the backside.
(a ‘not-guilty’ plea) That should waste several hundred thousand dollars of taxpayer money!!
What kind of animal would do that to a child. SICK!!!!!! ONE BULLET! IN THE HEAD OR BETTER YET IN THE GONADA AND LET HIM BLEED TO DEATH.
No, he needs to live! What happens to him at the hands of some of the fathers in prison, could be much worse. Jeffery Dahlmer, got his just desserts that way!
I THINK AS A MOTHER THAT HE SHOULD BE EXCUTED, IMMEDIATLY, NOT ALLOWED TO BE INCARCERATED FOR YEARS . HE NEEDS,THE DEATH PENALTY, FOLKS THAT WAS A BABY, IMAGINE THE PAIN THAT BABY WENT THROUGH. THAT ALONE WOULD CONVINCE ME ,IF ON A JURY, TO ASK FOR THE DEATH PENALTY ,THE RAT.
Gut that vermin from groin to sternum and drag his intestines from his body, keep him pumped up until there is no more of his insides left. Don’t let him sleep or pass out,
All I can say is send the sickbastard to Texas!
This child had to suffer because of the ill care of her parents. But she has a better home now and will never suffer again.
Cases like this make me feel sad the death penalty is so painless. Somebody misplace the needle, and, let’s hope Bubba and friends keep him in close company till that day.
When it comes to justice Liberalism forces society away fomr ratinal solutions to effectively solve their own problems.
The confessed perpetrator needs to be released into the general prison population.
Convicts are fair minded and rational when it comes to child killers.
They know what to do with this scum.
Incidentally that’s why Politicians fear convicts, want them kept in Jail and do not want them to own guns.
It’s that rational thinking thing that today’s politicians especially fear.
This guy looks like a possible militant Muslim; yet, no there was no comment in this article about it; plus, this is something that a militant Muslim could do in his belief-system; his belief system needs to be exposed!
i’m not recommending mercy for this guy, but he was drunk off his ass; the defense is likely to be “diminished capacity.” It won’t work, because he voluntarily drank himself into blackout-like status. He’ll be convicted and sentenced to death. A Google told me that Indiana re-instated the death penalty in ’77.
Hopefully, once the boy sobers up, he’ll be repentant to the point of refusing all appeals and going to his Maker asap, instead of living a life of imprisoned desperation, dread, and fear – sortof like the 1-yr. old, i imagine, who was likely taken out of the home while she was still trustingly and innocently asleep, then subjected to unspeakable horrors before being allowed to die.
Don’t worry in the prison system pieces of shit like this will not last very long. They will be raped, beat and hopefully you know the rest. Thee is NO excuse in the world to ever do that to any child or person. Hopefully the system will find this piece of shit guilty and let him out to the wolves on the playground.