Yet another tragic ending
Posted
August 30, 2007 at
6:58 am by
Prescott
Just weeks after Nimisha Tiwari took the lives of her children and herself, another mother in the Chicago area decided to take the most desperate of ways out of an apparently messy divorce. Magdalene Kamysz, 28, of Crystal Lake, Illinois, committed suicide on Tuesday by stepping in front of a commuter train near her home. But if that wasn’t sad enough, when police went to her home four hours later to notify relatives, they found her 7-year-old daughter, Sydney, suffocated in her locked bedroom. While nothing was left behind to indicate why Kamysz took such drastic measures, the back story is eerily familiar:
One focus of the inquiry is an ongoing legal battle that Magdalene was waging with Sydney’s father over custody and visitation issues.
“It has been a somewhat heated and contested situation,” Nygren said.
Sydney’s father, 29-year-old Alan Burton of Walworth, Wis., filed a civil suit in February seeking to formalize his visitation rights with the girl, which his attorney said had been disrupted earlier.
But despite how contentious their relationship might have been, it’s hard to contemplate how it could lead to murdering your only child. These feelings don’t just come out of nowhere, why didn’t she seek some help? I guess we’ll never find out.
Tags: crystal-lake, magdalene-kamysz, News-&-Politics, sydney-kamysz |
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31. Sarabei said:
September 15, 2007 @ 4:59 am
[quote comment="109097"]Yes, Magdalene made the choice to go through a pregnancy and give birth to HER child. She did not make the choice or decision to give up that child or to share JOINT custody of that child. Bringing Magdalene into court seeking JOINT custody (not merely visitation privileges) was a choice and conscious decision on the part of the EX boyfriend (not the school officials or anyone else). The EX was never even her husband. This obviously caused Magdalene great distress and panic with the dreaded thought of having her child taken away from her–just look at the consequences. Magdalene (Maggie) was a young, vibrant, intuitive and very special person in her own right (still only in her 20’s) who was successfully working toward making a better life for herself and her daughter. She deserved “The Gift of the Magi” (O. Henry), not “dreck.”[/quote]
First let me state to anyone else posting here, after this post, we should just ignore pixie, she is abviously a trollish attention whore and by responding we are just feeding her narcissitic needs. She obviously is not all there herself and must be a bitter sad person who has no clue as to the laws, etc. A FATHER of a child has AS MUCH RIGHTS AS THE WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH TO SAID CHILD. Without Alan there would NOT have been a Sydney. He had as many rights as that cold blooded murderess.
32. Marina said:
June 14, 2008 @ 7:06 am
only comment to make here was maggie met alan at the stripclub so what does that say about a man that would impregnate a stripper. sorry shannon berry your not the only one who knew them and alan did not do crap for MOST of sydney’s life.
33. Rita said:
June 14, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
I also need to add, having stumbled on here that pixie is NOT me (I’m “petulant pixie” in the community).
34. Maggie's BF said:
August 20, 2008 @ 3:24 am
I think that all of you really need to stop talking about things that you do not know about. First of all, those that say that they knew Maggie, Sydney or Alan, besides family, DID NOT KNOW THEM.
I am/was Maggies boyfriend for the three and a half years before this tragedy. The fact that I am not mentioned in anyones post of the “facts” cause they “knew” Maggie and Sydney is absolute bull. I spent the last three and a half years of my life (now four and a half since this happened) with those two and those were the best days of my life. If you worked at Panera and really have anything to say, why not mention me as being a cruel person,too? I was there almost everyday that they were. I was there when Sydney went to her fathers house and had to ask someone in the neighborhood how to get back to his place because her “father” had sent her to the local park with his, at the time, girlfirends daughter, who was only 3 years older, by themselves. Sydney’s “father” was an absenty father for most of her life. I know cause I was there for Sydney. Any of you that continue to lie about them really need to stop what you are saying. I know what was going on, I know that Sydney’s “father” was not what he wants people to believe he would be. I was there. I supported Maggie and Sydney. They stayed with me when they weren’t at Maggie’s parents’ house. Anyone saying that they know them, saying that they know what went on with them on a day to day basis and don’t mention me in thier life, obviously didn’t know them. STOP LYING!!!! STFU!!!! I have enough grief in my life without you morons trying to get your two seconds of fame from saying you know them. As for Alan, I am truely sorry that you lost a child, but honestly you don’t know my pain because I raised Sydney from 3 to 7, not you. Stop trying to be the martyr. You were and absenty father and you always will be. Anyone who posts after this, if you don’t know MY name, you don’t know Maggie or Sydney, so STOP POSTING!!!!
PS - Thank you pixie for being at least a little bit sensible in this whole tragic matter.