Casey Pence left her two sons at home with her boyfriend Javier Ruben Barker last Friday night so she could go to work. Three-year-old Dillon Bahorski (I’ve also seen it written as Dylan) is dead and her five-year-old son Jordan is scarred for life. At some point that evening the older child, Jordan, saw Barker go into his brother’s bedroom and heard the child screaming so he went to see what was going on. He allegedly saw Javier Barker stomping on his brother’s ankles and heard the man spanking his brother. Must have been a god-awful spanking for the child to have died… From KCTV in Kansas City:

Casey Pence arrived home from work the next morning and found her son dead, severely beaten. She immediately called police. Barker claims that he had sent Dillon to bed the night before, but that the three-year-old had been crying and took a long time going to sleep. He said that he fell asleep on the couch and didn’t know that Dillon was injured.

Dillon was kept on life-support until his organs could be donated but he died from severe brain trauma, a skull fracture and contusions to his body. Barker has been charged with second-degree murder and is being held on $250,000 bond. Dillon’s family is asking for help with the funeral expenses. Anyone interested in sending donations can do so at the Community Bank of Pleasant Hill, P.O. Box 30, Pleasant Hill, MO 64080

Updated - I have verified some of the information left in the comments and just wanted to make changes and update this post. I had a bit of bad information given to me when I first posted this and should have checked it 100% before I put this up. It’s fixed now.

Updated 10/9/09 – Barker’s trial date has been set for March 10th. I will update this during and after his trial.

While looking for information related to the trial I came across a Facebook group, “Javier Barker Has the Right to a Fair Trial“. In theory I agree, he does have the right to a fair trial, but the thing I kept thinking while reading some of the comments over there is I have yet to run across a group called “Dill Bahorski has the right to a long and fruitful life free from murdering bastards”.

I am obviously not in Missouri so depending on the coverage of the trial I will try and update this post.

3/2/2010 – I had completely forgotten when I published my update yesterday. There IS a Facebook group entitled Dillon WILL Get Justice. Check it out if you are interested.

3/9/2010 – It appears that the trial has been continued to May 18th. Don’t have any other details as of yet.

5/13/2010 – As Sandra mentioned in the comments below the trial has been rescheduled. I received a MOVANS alert via email earlier in the week mentioning it but not giving any details however it is rumored that the reason it was continued is that a medical examiner for the defense has backed out and that the trial has been rescheduled for October 19th-22nd. I will attempt to get it confirmed but that is likely to just remain scuttlebutt until we get closer to the trial.

12/15/2010 – The trial has been continued again. This time for April 2011.

2/24/2011 – The trial began on Tuesday of this week and is scheduled to run through Friday. Depending on my work schedule later this week I will try and have an update to the post on Friday or Saturday, although I am sure someone will be able to leave the results in the comments long before I can get this post updated.

One bit of evidence that was introduced over the last couple of days is that a whiskey bottle was found in the home with a shape consistent with wounds on Dillon’s body.

A story appeared yesterday at the Star Herald about the ongoing trial, you can read it here.

2/25/2011 – After two years of waiting for trial this was over pretty quickly. Javier Barker was found guilty yesterday and now all that remains is the sentencing. While there has been quite a bit of discussion on the case I have never really thought it would go any other way.