If she could do it again, she would have saved her baby.
That was the theme of Jessica Krsul’s interview Saturday at the Bay County courthouse. Krsul’s 2-year-old daughter,tiffany cuff Links, Haleigh Marie Cain,tiffany rings, was murdered by Krsul’s boyfriend, Dennis Creamer, in December of 2008. Creamer was convicted of felony first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse by a 12 member jury Friday night.
Circuit Judge Dedee Costello will decide if he gets the death penalty at an as-yet scheduled sentencing hearing. Krsul and her mother, Carla Krsul, said they both want him to die.
"My daughter’s dead and he’s still alive and that’s not fair,tiffany bracelets," Jessica Krsul said. She added that if she thought, "in a million years," that Creamer was capable of such an act he would not have been invited into her home or around her daughter. Jessica Krsul’s mother, Carla Krsul, said she hates Creamer with "every thread" of her being.
"I would tell him that I hate him and he disgusts me," Jessica Krsul replied when asked what she would say to Creamer now. "I’m very sorry I ever met him."
Jessica Krsul got drunk and blacked out the night of Dec. 6, 2008 and did not realize that the man she loved and trusted was down the hall from her hitting and kicking her child, she said. She added that it was understood that Creamer would be the one to care for Haleigh on the night the baby died.
"If I ever had a child again I would not do drugs or get drunk and think that I can trust somebody with my child." Jessica Krsul said "I wasn’t there for Haleigh when she needed me the most."
Carla Krsul called Creamer’s killing of her granddaughter the "ultimate betrayal," and added that if she had only known what he would do she would have stepped in before it happened.
"I never suspected that he was just an evil, evil monster," she said.
Creamer’s attorney,tiffany earrings, Assistant Public Defender Kim Dowgul, tried to convince the jury that it was Jessica Krsul who really killed Haleigh. Jessica Krsul said she was shocked when Dowgul started pointing to her as the real killer. No one had suggested she could have done the crime until the trial, she added.
"He had to have a defense," she said. "I’m sorry I ever put (Haleigh) in that situation. I’m sorry."
Creamer performed two video reenactments at the request of the Bay County Sheriff ‘s investigators. On the first video he said the slaying was an accident. On the second video he said he beat the baby to death. The second video was thrown out and not shown to the jury. On the first video Jessica Krsul is there with Creamer. She is pale and rocks back and forth almost uncontrollably.
At trial Dowgul said Krsul’s actions on the tape and some of the physical evidence in the case proved that Krsul killed her own baby. Also during the trial Krsul said she was not sure how her DNA got on two items that also contained Haleigh’s blood.
On Saturday Krsul said she was nervous during the reenactment but not because she had done something wrong. She was nervous because she knew Creamer had done something and she did not know what, she said. She was nervous because she was standing near him as he confessed his sins, she added
"It was really hard to stand in front of him," she said.
Jessica and Carla Krsul also thanked Costello, the jury, the State Attorney’s Office and the investigators with Lynn Haven Police Department and the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.
Krsul said she thinks about Haleigh every day and every night before she goes to sleep.
"It’s hard to put your life back together," Carla Krsul said. "We want no one to go through what we went through."
Jessica Krsul has responded to this tragedy by staying off drugs and going to college, Carla Krsul said. She added that her daughter made the dean’s list. Krsul is studying criminal justice and said that she hopes that someday she can help other crime victims.
"Her going to school is how we’re honoring Haleigh," Carla Krsul said.
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