The Knuckleheads of the Day award

Today's winners are Charles Tyson and the Fort Lauderdale newspaper The Sun-Sentinel. First Mr. Tyson gets the award for this act.

A man in in custody this morning after allegedly throwing a child into a canal.

It happened in Delray Beach near the Fairway Condos on Lowson Boulevard.

Police said it was part of a domestic dispute between a man and his girlfriend.

At about 2 a.m., Charles Tyson drove the child to the canal and dumped him, police said.

Police found the boy and took him to Delray Medical Center, where he died.

Absolutely despicable. How can anyone do this to a child?

Now the Sun-Sentinel gets the award also for their coverage of the story.

A 9-month-old boy died this morning after his father threw him into a Delray Beach canal during a domestic dispute.

Delray Beach police spokesman Jeff Messer told news partner NewsChannel 5 that the man was involved in the domestic dispute with his girlfriend at his home east of Interstate 95 in the city.

About 3 a.m., the man grabbed the baby boy and drove west of I-95 to Congress Avenue and Southwest 10th Street, where he threw the baby in the canal, Messer said.

When he returned home, police were called. They rescued the baby from the canal about 20 minutes after he was thrown into the water. The baby had floated about 100 yards down the canal, Messer said.

The father was taken into custody by police for questioning. The identities of those in the family were being withheld while the investigation continued.

See the difference. The Post has the name of the father and the Sun-Sentinel doesn't. This isn't a one-time occurence either. Click here, here, and here for more examples of the paper taking the name of a criminal out of the story. In one case I checked with the reporter(who actually worked for another paper but whose story was on the Sentinel's website) and it was the S. Sentinel that took out the name. What is it about the Sentinel do they like to coddle criminals and murderers?

If you point out the story was from Channel 5 in West Palm Beach, I'll point out this. The Post and Sun-Sentinel posted to the websites the same news within 15 minutes of one another. If one paper knew the identity, then both should have.

Charles Tyson and The Sun-Sentinel are today's Knuckleheads of the day.

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