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A 4-year-old was so malnourished, there was nothing but a single kernel of corn in her belly at the time of her death.
Prosecutor Perry Cerrato described to a rapt Brooklyn jury on Monday how little Marchella Brett Pierce’s lifeless body was
found “beaten, bound, drugged, dehydrated, starved” in September 2010.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...ce-starvation-article-1.1062498#ixzz1sMgRv1qG
Marchella Pierce, 4, was found dead tied to a bed last year, and weighed 18 pounds, nearly half the weight of an average 4-year-old.
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The Administration for Children's Services became involved with the family after Brett-Pierce gave birth to a boy who tested positive for drugs.
Marchella had been born premature with underdeveloped lungs and had serious trouble breathing.
She had a breathing tube in her throat and was allowed home for the first time from the hospital in February 2011,
when she weighed 26 pounds.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...r-Murder-Carlotta-Brett-Pierce-147632705.html
An examination of Marchella’s bleak, fleeting life, drawn from interviews with relatives, neighbors and law enforcement authorities, as well as from legal documents, shows that almost nothing went right for her.
She entered the world prematurely with underdeveloped lungs.
When she was not in a hospital, she was being raised in the uproar of a helter-skelter, combative family struggling with drugs.
And when she came under the watch of the city’s Administration for Children’s Services, an agency remade a number of times after child deaths, her well-being fell to caseworkers who, prosecutors say, essentially ignored the family.
Marchella’s household was brought to the agency’s attention in late 2009, yet for several months after that it appears no one there knew that the girl, hospitalized for most of her life, even existed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/n...rchella-pierce-emaciated-4-year-old.html?_r=1
Marchella's grandma Loretta Brett, 57, is also being tried for manslaughter alongside her daughter.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...ce-starvation-article-1.1062498#ixzz1sMgRv1qG
Two separate juries are hearing the case, one for Marchella's mother and one for her grandmother.
http://www.ny1.com/content/the_call...mother-led-to-brooklyn-girl-starving-to-death
Prosecutor Perry Cerrato described to a rapt Brooklyn jury on Monday how little Marchella Brett Pierce’s lifeless body was
found “beaten, bound, drugged, dehydrated, starved” in September 2010.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...ce-starvation-article-1.1062498#ixzz1sMgRv1qG
Marchella Pierce, 4, was found dead tied to a bed last year, and weighed 18 pounds, nearly half the weight of an average 4-year-old.
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The Administration for Children's Services became involved with the family after Brett-Pierce gave birth to a boy who tested positive for drugs.
Marchella had been born premature with underdeveloped lungs and had serious trouble breathing.
She had a breathing tube in her throat and was allowed home for the first time from the hospital in February 2011,
when she weighed 26 pounds.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...r-Murder-Carlotta-Brett-Pierce-147632705.html
An examination of Marchella’s bleak, fleeting life, drawn from interviews with relatives, neighbors and law enforcement authorities, as well as from legal documents, shows that almost nothing went right for her.
She entered the world prematurely with underdeveloped lungs.
When she was not in a hospital, she was being raised in the uproar of a helter-skelter, combative family struggling with drugs.
And when she came under the watch of the city’s Administration for Children’s Services, an agency remade a number of times after child deaths, her well-being fell to caseworkers who, prosecutors say, essentially ignored the family.
Marchella’s household was brought to the agency’s attention in late 2009, yet for several months after that it appears no one there knew that the girl, hospitalized for most of her life, even existed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/n...rchella-pierce-emaciated-4-year-old.html?_r=1
Marchella's grandma Loretta Brett, 57, is also being tried for manslaughter alongside her daughter.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...ce-starvation-article-1.1062498#ixzz1sMgRv1qG
Two separate juries are hearing the case, one for Marchella's mother and one for her grandmother.
http://www.ny1.com/content/the_call...mother-led-to-brooklyn-girl-starving-to-death
