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This is Lattie's story.
Lattie McGgee
One hot summer day in Chicago police received a call that a four-year-old boy lay unconscious. In reality, Lattie McGee was already dead. A judge would later say Lattie's death was "the most heinous, brutally sadistic torture and murder he'd ever seen."
Lattie and his older brother, Cornelius Abraham, were tortured by their mother's boyfriend, Johnny Campbell. Campbell decided Lattie was effeminate because of his high pitched voice. He would beat Lattie with fists and sticks, burn him with cigarettes and a clothes iron, dunk him in scalding water, and repeatedly stick him with sewing needles. The cruelty didn't end there. At night, Campbell would leave Lattie and Cornelius hanging upside down on a rod in a darkened closet.