[Vision2020] Does anyone else see a problem here?

[wocsom at earthlink.net]

You are quite right.  My intent was to emphasize how ridiculous the
ultimate charge was given the circumstances of the crime and not to joke
about the murder of a child.  Unfortunately, there's no way to put any
voice inflection into email.  Our "system" often makes mistakes and the
innocent need complete protection.

Coop


> [Original Message]
> From: Saundra Lund <sslund at adelphia.net>
> To: Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
 > Date: 1/15/2005 1:41:01 PM
> Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Does anyone else see a problem here?
>
> Sorry -- feel free to call me a stick in the mud -- but I don't find there
> anything at all to joke about in the tragic and violent murder of an
innocent
> 4-month-old baby.
> 
> 
> Saundra Lund
> Moscow, ID
> 
> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
> nothing.
> -Edmund Burke
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On
> Behalf Of wocsom at earthlink.net
> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 10:23 AM
> To: Vision 2020
> Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Does anyone else see a problem here?
> 
> Rog, it's quite possible the child was covertly participating in
professional
> wrestling...
> 
> 	----- Original Message ----- 
> 	From: Art Deco <mailto:deco at moscow.com>  
> 	To: Vision 2020 <mailto:deco at moscow.com> 
> 	Sent: 1/15/2005 12:46:19 PM 
> 	Subject: [Vision2020] Does anyone else see a problem here?
> 
> 	
> 	
> 
> 	Plea bargain: Probation in baby's killing
> 
> 
> 	Parents charged with murdering 4-month-old daughter are freed
> 
> 
> 	Saturday, January 15, 2005 Posted: 10:46 AM EST (1546 GMT)
> 
> 	 
> 
> 	CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- A couple charged with murdering their
> 4-month-old daughter, who died with nine fractured ribs and a fractured
> clavicle, were sentenced to probation in a plea deal.
> 
> 	Prosecutor Mary Sullivan Moore said Friday she reduced murder and child
> abuse charges because she couldn't determine who caused the baby's
injuries.
> 
> 	The plea agreement sentenced the child's parents, Houston Ray Baggett,
> 21, and Seanett McClinithan, 20, to probation. Both served 15 months in
jail
> before the sentencing.
> 
> 	A medical examiner's report shows the infant, Leilani Katrina Baggett,
> died Aug. 17, 2003 from "failure to thrive due to multiple recent and old
rib
> and clavicle fractures." The report also shows "inappropriate
administration of
> sedating antihistamines" as a contributing factor.
> 
> 	Moore said the parents were not the only adults in the house when the
> child died, and she could not prove the couple were responsible.
> 
> 	"You rest assured I have had many sleepless nights," Moore said.
> 
> 	Baggett received 10 years of intensive supervised probation for
> attempted aggravated child abuse and remained in custody pending
extradition to
> Florida on charges of beating a pizza delivery man.
> 
> 	McClinithan pleaded guilty to child abuse and neglect and received a
> two-year suspended sentence.
> 
> 	Baggett's attorney, Mike Little, described the agreement as a "best
> interest plea."
> 
> 	"There is just no telling if there was a homicide and if there was, who
> did it," he said.
> 
> 
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