A Ruling of Natural Death for a Foster Child
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/30/n...ed6b92ecb0ddf3&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/30/n...ed6b92ecb0ddf3&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
She would die in the maggot-infested home of her third and last foster mother, a 50-year-old Queens nurse named Renee Johnson, who, panicking, would toss Stephanie’s body right back into the first crib the little girl ever knew – back into the trash.
Stephanie remained unavenged yesterday, as Johnson was sent, unrepentant, to jail for only two days.
But the girl’s first foster mother – a retired Bronx assistant district attorney named Cecile Grossman – was in court to watch the sentencing in Manhattan Supreme Court.
http://nypost.com/2004/12/21/how-precious-child-became-trash/Grossman then listened as Johnson made a startlingly self-serving speech from the defense table: Stephanie lived like a “princess,” Johnson boasted. The girl – who is blind – even had her own television, Johnson said. “All the things that happened to me are because I was too good or too kind,” the corpse-tosser carped.
A Ruling of Natural Death for a Foster Child
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/30/n...00&en=3ced6b92ecb0ddf3&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE