GUILTY CA - Justice Rees, 2 wks, Woodland, 24 Feb 2015

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Frank Rees, father of Baby Justice, accepts plea deal in his infant son’s death

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article181952261.html

Frank Tallieson Rees, father of Justice Rees, the weeks-old infant who died after he was carried by his drug-addled mother into a Knights Landing-area slough in February 2015, pleaded guilty Tuesday to child endangerment, manslaughter and drug charges for his role in his son’s death.

Rees will serve six years in state prison with the plea, announced by Yolo County district attorney’s officials. He was days away from trial in Yolo Superior Court when he accepted the deal.

At a press conference Tuesday afternoon at the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office in Woodland, a portrait of a newborn Justice stood next to a podium, a solemn reminder to a grieving community and the prosecutors who worked the case.

“This is not a happy day,” Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig told reporters. “Baby Justice Rees is dead and nothing will ever bring him back.”

 

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http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article188154939.html

His grandson is dead. His daughter is in prison. And Tuesday in a Woodland courtroom Randy Green had a message for the man he says is responsible for both:

“They know what you’ve done,” Green told Frank Rees of the prisoners the Woodland man will soon join as Rees stared straight ahead toward the judge’s bench. “They can’t wait for you to get off the bus.”

Frank Tallieson Rees was sentenced Tuesday in Yolo Superior Court to six years in prison on charges of involuntary manslaughter in the February 2015 death of his infant son, 19-day-old Justice Rees, felony child endangerment and administering methamphetamine to the mother of his child, Samantha Green, now serving a 15-years-to-life sentence for murder in Justice’s death.

Tuesday’s tense sentencing hearing marked an emotional end to the bizarre, wrenching case that began nearly three years ago with the senseless death of a days-old infant in a chilly, wooded slough; and threw a cold light on the ravages of methamphetamine on families and a small, rural community.