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Do we have a thread on this poor beautiful baby...I did several searches but could not find one...Michael Ryan Harris
Not one member of this baby's family was in the courtroom!
His abuser beat him so badly it severed little Michael's pancreas, ruptured nerve endings in his spine and caused his heart and lungs to stop functioning. He's with the angels now.
I'm so glad to hear what this judge had to say, especially the underlined parts which I underlined!God bless this judge.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingn...ett-sentenced-42-years-toddlers-beating-death
Michael, who died Feb. 2, 2011, was one of 72 children who died between 2007 and 2012 after child welfare officials had been alerted that they were being abused or neglected, The Denver Post and 9News reported in a 2012 series. Michael was one of the children profiled in that series, Failed to Death, last October.
"Frankly, I think somebody should take (social workers) in front of a grand jury and find out whether their conduct was criminal."
Key told authorities she heard her son crying screaming from behind a door while Scarlett beat him the night before he died. She said she never opened the door and didn't check on her son all night and left him alone with Scarlett the next morning when she went to work.
Key is serving 16 years in prison for her role in her son's death.
On Thursday, Melonakis, who also imposed that sentence, said he would have given Key a longer prison term if the law had allowed it.
"Michael Harris never had a chance in life," Melonakis said.
His mother failed him, and the agency charged with protecting him "demonstrated an appalling level of neglect," and now will "hide behind privacy laws" that might shed light on that negligence, the judge said.
"Children die and bureaucrats still have their jobs," he said.
When Melonakis announced Scarlett's 42-year sentence, his mother broke down, sobbing.
No members of Michael Harris' family were in the courtroom.
Read more: Outraged judge lays into child welfare workers at sentencing in toddler beating death - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/breakingn...42-years-toddlers-beating-death#ixzz2QQUjDi00
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Not one member of this baby's family was in the courtroom!
His abuser beat him so badly it severed little Michael's pancreas, ruptured nerve endings in his spine and caused his heart and lungs to stop functioning. He's with the angels now.
I'm so glad to hear what this judge had to say, especially the underlined parts which I underlined!God bless this judge.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingn...ett-sentenced-42-years-toddlers-beating-death
Michael, who died Feb. 2, 2011, was one of 72 children who died between 2007 and 2012 after child welfare officials had been alerted that they were being abused or neglected, The Denver Post and 9News reported in a 2012 series. Michael was one of the children profiled in that series, Failed to Death, last October.
"Frankly, I think somebody should take (social workers) in front of a grand jury and find out whether their conduct was criminal."
Key told authorities she heard her son crying screaming from behind a door while Scarlett beat him the night before he died. She said she never opened the door and didn't check on her son all night and left him alone with Scarlett the next morning when she went to work.
Key is serving 16 years in prison for her role in her son's death.
On Thursday, Melonakis, who also imposed that sentence, said he would have given Key a longer prison term if the law had allowed it.
"Michael Harris never had a chance in life," Melonakis said.
His mother failed him, and the agency charged with protecting him "demonstrated an appalling level of neglect," and now will "hide behind privacy laws" that might shed light on that negligence, the judge said.
"Children die and bureaucrats still have their jobs," he said.
When Melonakis announced Scarlett's 42-year sentence, his mother broke down, sobbing.
No members of Michael Harris' family were in the courtroom.
Read more: Outraged judge lays into child welfare workers at sentencing in toddler beating death - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/breakingn...42-years-toddlers-beating-death#ixzz2QQUjDi00
Read The Denver Post's Terms of Use of its content: http://www.denverpost.com/termsofuse
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