Last year, personal trainer Joseph Badalamenti helped Biggest Loser contestant Jim Germanakos shed 186 pounds. Such high-profile success led him to television appearances including one on The Tyra Banks Show.
Friday night Badalamenti was arrested for beating his girlfriends’ six-year old son with weightlifting belts. The boy’s mother, Jessica Muniz was also arrested. According to their landlord, he heard the beatings and a crying child for a month before he decided to take action and call 911. I’m not sure who deserves more jail time.
So often I wonder what life would’ve been like differently (and better) had someone reported my goddamn stepfather, which – the neighbors knew, and did nothing to help me – years of viciously abusive beatings! It fucked up my head & heart rather badly, and turned me into someone with a passionately protective instinct toward children, ALL children in dubious situations, being used/abused/prostituted, and also, incidentally, toward animals who are being terribly mistreated, too. The abuse of children is one of this human race’s worst, most evil and insidious crimes. It is ALL our resposibility never to close our ears and turn away and keep our mouths shut when we see others abusing a child.
I’m so glad this Badalamienti’s neighbor called the fucking police, that six-year-old could’ve been seriously injured for life, or killed.
The landlord should get jail time, too. Let’s cross our fingers that that kid doesn’t end up in an abusive foster home.
Hopefully the child has good relatives that can step in and take over his care, like – is the boy from another previous marriage/divorce, where’s his mother in all of this? Does he have an auntie or uncle, good people in his life? If not, he WOULD go to fosters, and that is a fate almost worse than the beatings from Badala-asshole.
Ah – neer mind, I just re-read that – “the boy’s mother was also arrested.” Probably because she knew what was happening and also did nothing. Damn! My heart goes out to that child so, so, so much…
trainer’s name is Anthony Badalamenti not Joseph Badalamenti, i tried to google Joseph Badalamenti and nothing came up
I can almost see why the landlord didn’t call right away. At first you hear the screaming and banging and think it’s just some brat throwing a tantrum and tune it out, but after awhile something just doesn’t seem right. So you start listening and noticing things. I’m surprised it took a month to figure it out, he may have waited so long because he was afraid of the trainer.
Weird, it had catscratch’s name in my box and I could see her comment on the page until I hit submit. I wonder why your comment is having to wait, you just did a name correction on the trainer.
After reading the article where it says the child was pleading for mercy, I became sick to my stomach. This is just horrible. I hope Badalamenti and the mother get what they deserve.
I so hope that child has good family to go to!
“Yah the landlord should go to jail to. Huh, huh yah! Cool!”
He called the police, did the right thing. Took him a month, but he did. It’s not a bad thing it took him a month. Get over yourself Evil Beet.
I was beaten up too when I was little for like freaking 12 years! If the beatings would have stopped in 1 month, I would have given the landlord a gold medal! That’s fast as hell!!! Record time, faster than Phelps!!
It sad to say, but how many children out there, that are born to single mothers, who are in relationships with their boyfriends?
This is a growing problem. Where is the boy’s biological father? This guy hasn’t checked on his son for over a month? I applaud that land lord. Thank God he stepped up to the plate when love-sick Jessica Muniz turned deaf ear to her son.
My prayers to that little six year old child, whom no one seems to want to love and nurture.
Both of those assholes should have their privates mashed down on a Foreman grill and fried to a crisp. Hey, that’s how I roll.
I was going to say what catscratch said but…she already said it :o)
What a bunch of bastards. I hope justice is done and they get what they deserve. I detest people that are cruel to other people especially children and animals.
He IS the biggest loser
Sometime I wonder what the hell people use for brains . I mean WTF ? They all need to go to jail ! Whats wrong with the landlord ? Hearing the child cry for a month ! Come on ! THey need to be beat with Fucking weight lifting belt . And I volunteer to do it !
its not just the boyfriends and stepfathers, i know my biological had no qualms about beating the shit out of the siblings and myself. thank god for that landlord as you ask why it took him a month but all the time people know whats going on for years without getting those children help
As a mother of three kids and living in Europe
in a country where it is strictly forbidden to beat children up
as well as in the US, I feel deeply disgusted.
We should care for our young and give them support
to face the hardships of life.
Today I operated on a 5 yr old, suffering from a tumor, living in a home for kids
parents are unable to care for him, mentally ill and addicts
but with ATTITUDE! Of the wrong nature, of course,
and the little boy is so sweet, that makes my heart cry.
Please pray for this sweet little boy (Mario)as I hope the lesion will turn out to be of benign nature
(his company in ICU, are the ladies working at the kids home)
as I pray for this innocent six year old to live a happy and healthy life
kids in this situation should be allowed to choose his/her own form of torture for their tormentor and beat the shit out of them for as long as they choose. now that’s a reality show i’d watch.
I was so disgusted by this I didn’t know how I would find the words to articulate my feelings. Thank you Snowblood for saying everything that I wanted to with the same passion I felt. It breaks my heart to know you were a victim of such evil cowardly bastards. The nightmare you endured make your words carry even more weight. I’m glad to see that you came out of it as a fighter in defense of the innocent children of our world who are abused by these monsters and othen end up further abused by the system that should have protected them! Consider me by your side swinging hard.
He will get his in prison
My ears and eyes are open everyday for abused women and children. Yes, there are sick people out there still breeding. And, as Hilary Clinton has said, “It takes a village to raise a child.” As one who has been viciously abused I also understand that brainwashing also takes place. The abused often doesn’t even realize there is an option. Because witnesses often don’t take a stand, the abused continues to stay in their abusive environment, and unfortunately unto death sometimes. But today I have hope that I can help when needed, mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. My God will guide my path to help anyone who He feels I can help!
Wow, to the person who commented “but how many children out there, that are born to single mothers, who are in relationships with their boyfriends” I’m a single parent, and I have had boyfriends, but they don’t beat my child. I’m a RESPONSIBLE single parent. I take care of me and my child myself without letting someone beat him. She is just as responsible. If anyone ever raises a hand to my child they will have the police called on them in 5 seconds flat. There is no excuse for her letting him do that. She should get jail time.
Mandy – I don’t think anyone was attacking single mothers with boyfriends, but I agree with other comments that most of the child abuse cases I hear in the news is a boyfriend (biological father or not) or stepfather beating a kid. I’m not sure if the news focuses on those cases for some reason or if there really is a higher % of child abuse cases from boyfriends and stepfathers, but there definitely seems to be.
I have reported abuse in the past to the police. They were so ignorant that when they showed up the father said he had not hit the child and the child was telling a lie. I saw the abuse and the child told the police that the father had hit her. The police left her in the home and father continued the abuse. I notified DSS and was told they would get out as soon as possible. DSS arrived weeks later. They did and invetigation and found nothing wrong. I reported it again months later and this time the child was removed. But it was several months before that child was rescued. I think the important thing is that people also need to believe what children are saying. If they say they are being abused….trust them and take them out of that situation.
Nueter this doggy appear Nov 2010!!!!!?!!