Let me get this straight

You're in gaol for obstruction of justice for writing a ransom note for another child and you want your bail reduced because you lead authorities to the dismembered remains of your young step-daughter?

Disabled girl was dismembered, stepmom says: Court documents show she's seeking bail reduction after leading police to remains

Elisa Baker told police on Oct. 24 that Zahra "was deceased, that her body had been dismembered and that it would be recovered at different sites," according to the documents. She was allowed to accompany police the following two days to sites around Hickory, in western North Carolina, showing them where Zahra's remains were.

On Friday, police said they found a bone that matches DNA from Zahra, and believed other remains were about five miles away. They have not said, and the court documents don't explain, how the girl died.

Zahra's father, Adam Baker, was arrested on a host of charges unrelated to the girl's disappearance, but is free on bail. Calls to his lawyer were not returned Monday.

It's not clear yet exactly how she was involved with Zahra's death, but knowing where the body parts seems to me a clear indication that more charges are coming and this is someone who should not even have bail considered, and I'm not sure the father should be out on bail either. There is evidence of isolating the child for weeks before she died and a suspicious fire hours before she was reported missing.

What an awful fate for a young girl already struck by cancer and the loss of hearing and a limb.

I agree with a local resident, who said: 'Most little kids, they're afraid of having monsters under the bed or in the closet. This poor little child, she was living with monsters right out there in the open.'