Woman Killed After Being Denied Assistance

Chuckahoe, Florida - Wendy Anne Silvernail, 27, was found beaten to death at about 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving evening, when police conducted a well-being check at the request of her family. Police were greeted at the scene by a young boy who opened the door and stated, "Mommy is hurt and she won't wake up." The four year-old led police upstairs to a bedroom where his mother lay sprawled on blood-caked carpeting, partially nude. Next to the corpse police found her two year-old daughter sleeping but physically unharmed. At that time the woman had been dead for approximately twelve hours and had been badly beaten with a blunt object, according to police.

Silvernail's family became alarmed when she along with her two children did not arrive for a traditional dinner with them as planned, at her parents home in Georgia. They had had already been concerned about her safety because of what was described as an increase in the level and frequency of violence in the house where she lived. Silvernail's boyfriend, Tom Baiter, 31, is a person of interest in the homicide, but has not yet been located by police.

According to Silvernail's sister, Jamie Angelhook of Georgia, Silvernail and Baiter had been together for about three years, and that he is the father of the younger child found at the scene of the grisly homicide. Also according to Angelhook, Silvernail had just returned to the home days earlier, after trying to leave the alleged batterer. Tragically, she had been denied assistance after failing a new mandatory drug screening.

"She's not a druggie," Angelhook said as tears welled up in her eyes. "If anyone is a druggie it's him (Baiter.) She might have smoked pot once in a while to keep the peace with him, but he was into all sorts of drugs and it was getting worse. Another reason she was trying to get away from him. She didn't want her babies exposed to that kind of lifestyle."

Tonight, those two children are in the custody of the state, as their extended family struggles to make arrangements for them. Recent financial hardship and several illnesses have left Silvernail's family in a position to be of little help, according to her sister who also states, "That's why she went to Florida with him in the first place. There was just no room for her and a baby here. She didn't want to be a burden," Angelhook continued.

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So this is the end result of drug testing welfare recipients. Nice, really fuckin nice. Way to go Florida.

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