Rogue's Den of Iniquity - Atrocious News Story #1

The original story still appears below her comments, so you can read it the way it was originally posted on nando.com.

Thank you for your side of the story, Rebecca. If there's anything else that I can do for you, please let me know.

A few things that were wrong with the media's version of the story, was that when the Garth Brooks concert first started, Jasper, Jasmine, myself, his brother Guy, and his sister-in-law Linda were downstairs. Jasmine was "singing and dancing" during his first couple of songs. She started to get
a little fussy because she was tired. (Jasper) said that he couldn't hear the concert because of it and said he was going to take her to bed. I started working on a cross-word puzzle and Linda was falling asleep on the couch so he took her upstairs. I really didn't notice him come back down stairs let
alone go back upstairs to "check" on her. For some reason I looked up from my puzzle book and there was Jasper at the bottom of the stairs. He said something which I didn't hear. I said what? He said it again and I heard what he said. He said that Jasmine wasn't breathing. I thought he was joking because he had no emotion on his face at all. I told him to quit playing around and he then got really emotional and started screaming that Jasmine wasn't breathing and to call 911. I was trying to find the cordless so I could go up stairs to see her. I couldn't find it so I grabbed the other phone and dialed 911. By this time, Linda had heard the screaming and yelling and headed for the stairs. I finally found the cordless and followed Linda upstairs. When I got upstairs all I remember is seeing
Jasper hand Jasmine's lifeless body to Linda. I started to scream and all I could say to the 911 operator was to hurry my daughter wasn't breathing. When we finally got down stairs, Jasper rushed out the door. (He had gone down the street to my dad's house to wake him and my step mom up and tell them what was wrong.) I remember the 911 lady ask me if I knew CPR. And I said no. She asked if anyone else knew it and I asked Linda and she said yes, so I handed the phone to her. I started to scream at Guy who was still sitting in the chair. I kept saying do something, do something but he just sat there. I remember going to the hospital and from the ambulance entrance seeing them work on her. It was only a matter of seconds though before the nurses came and rushed me to the "quiet room". I had a room full of brothers, my mom, my dad, my step mom, and my step dad. They automatically started accusing Jasper of hurting her. I went nuts. How could they think he hurt her? Just a month prior, Jasmine had been admitted to St. Rita's for supposedly having a "seizure". She was there almost 2 weeks. They did every test imagineable and found nothing. That is when my mom started digging. She asked me if i knew what Munchausen Syndrome by proxy was. I said no. She then started telling me that it was when a parent hurt their child to get attention. I looked at her like are you trying to accuse me of something? I had lost twins when I was just 16. I went into premature labor at 21 weeks. I had wanted another baby so bad. She told me no that she thought Jasper was the one. I looked at her and said take me, my husband, and my daughter home and never speak with me again. Jasper had a really tight hold on me. He was not just physically abusive, but mentally and verbally abusive as well. The only way I could describe his actions is that he would punish me by taking away my cigerettes, my pop, even locking me out of our bedroom during the day while he was at work. I had to borrow diapers from my baby sister and repay them to her when he got home from work. We lived with my dad and step-mom at this time. We had only been at Guy and Linda's for about 2 weeks. We had to move there because he was going to have to get on an ankle braclet for driving under suspension. She was the only one with a phone.

I honestly believed that Guy was guilty of hurting Jasmine. Though I never knew for sure at first that she had actually been murdered. Not only was it funny for him to just sit there the whole time when I was talking to 911, but also Jasper's other sister's kids were there and had mentioned seeing
Guy upstairs after they had gone to bed, which was about 15 minutes before the concert started. When we first went in for "questioning" at the police department they asked who took her up to bed that night. Never knowing how much damage I was doing, I said that I did. Jasper was so scared. My
family hated him. They assumed he hurt our baby girl. They just wanted him and I to get a divorce I thought. I never imagined that he had actually hurt her.

We had gone in several times for questioning. My mom said it was routine because when my Aunt Connie's baby died from a heart condition at 1 month old, they did that to her and my uncle too. The one thing I am so glad I did was to promise my mom before we left the hospital to go to another hospital (Jasmine was being life flighted at this point), that I would make sure that they did an autopsy on Jasmine. I figured that this would prove one of two things. A.) that she really did have azshma and/ or siezers or B.) that Guy had done something to her.

Well the last day we went in for questioning, they took me and Jasper seperately. They started off having me talking about how Jasmine was. Like what her favorite foods, toys, etc, were. Then they got on my twins and asked how long they lived, how much they weighed, etc. They had me laughing and crying then laughing then crying some more. Then they asked me point blank again who took Jasmine up to bed. I told them once more that I did. He just looked at me point blank and said, "I know you're lying". I was like wow. They wanted me to take a lie detector test and I was so afraid that if Jasper knew that I had told them the truth about taking her up to bed, that he would think that I was trying to say, like my family was, that I think he hurt her. I really thought I was going to jail for lying. I told them I would tell them the truth but that they couldn't let him know that I told them. That they had to say that Guy or Linda told them. So I told them all I knew. That he had taken her up to bed. Boy was I so scared. He was really gonna kick my ass now. Anyways, They took me to a "holding cell" and then after what seemed forever, they sent Detective Stevenson down to give me a cigarette break. I was so stressed at this point that I didn't know what to do. He took me to this room where he said I could smoke and started telling me that they thought that Jasper had killed her. I couldn't believe it. He was right. They must have talked to my mom. I told him about what the boys had seen upstairs and that my family hated him and that was why they were lying. He just looked at me dead faced and said, "No, this is for real. He really did kill her. We told him we knew about him taking her up to bed. He knows that he is guilty and we are questioning him now." I called my mom at work and told them that they thought that he had killed her too. I couldn't believe this. Why would he kill her? This is still a question I haven't ever had answered.

You know I went two weeks living with him after Jasmine's death. How could I not have known???? God I was so stupid.

My brother Shannon came to get me that night. They said that I needed to come in at 9 am the next morning to find out what was said. They said that we could call that night to see if he had been offically arrested. I think we called at like 3 that morning. They said yes that he was officially in
jail, which meant that he had killed her. Reality still hadn't sunk in. The next morning we went in and all they told us was that he had suffacated her. Never told us how. I didn't know if he had suffacated her with our pillow, his hand, or what! We didn't find out that he had suffacated her by putting his hand over her mouth and holding her up against his chest until the first court hearing and the detective that he gave his confession to had told the court what he had admitted to.

To this day I still do not accept the fact that she is dead. I think I put her in the back of my heart so that I can go on, I have to raise my children that I have now, which I might add that I have a son, Jordan who will be 3 years old in 4 months and a daughter, Savanna who is 1 1/2 years old. Both
healthy as can be and have had no "seizures or asthma attacks". You know they even said that he had done this 3 or 4 times before. "covering her mouth till she lost consciousness". How could this be involuntary manslaughter? He should have gotten longer. In 10 years, Jasmine will still be dead and he will be out of prison free to hurt another innocent child.

I pray that he gets murdered in jail. I want him to suffocate just like Jasmine did. He deserves to get exactly what he gave her.

I just want to add one more thing. To all the women out there who are being abused, If he hurts you, he can hurt your children. Don't be blind like I was. Look for warning signs. Now that I look back, I see so many. I know it is hard to see what you don't want to see, but I've been there and you don't want to be where I have been.

:: Rebecca Cox ::

(Jasper) is currently in Allen County Correctional Facilty in Lima, Ohio. He gets out of prison in March of 2008.

LIMA, Ohio (July 31, 1998 08:46 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) -- A man pleaded guilty to smothering his infant daughter to stop her from crying while he watched Garth Brooks on television. Jasper Phipps, 22, entered the plea Thursday to a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the death of his 8-month-old daughter, Jasmine. Prosecutors dropped a charge of child endangering as part of a plea arrangement. The infant died March 4 as Phipps was baby-sitting for his daughter at the home of the girl's mother.

Police said Phipps wanted to quiet the child, so he held his hand over her mouth while holding her tightly against his body. Phipps faces a maximum of 10 years in prison. Sentencing was set for Sept. 21. "We're pleased with the outcome, but there is never a happy ending in any case involving the death of an innocent child," said Assistant Prosecutor Jana Emerick.

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