Girl, 4, weighed 15 pounds at death

Submitted by anthony on Sun, 2010-09-05 18:37

Story here. Excerpt:

'New York (CNN) -- The mother of a 4-year-old girl found dead in her Brooklyn home Thursday morning was charged Friday with second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child, according to police.

Marchella Pierce weighed just 15 pounds and had marks on her hands and ankles when police found her unconscious in her family's apartment, according to CNN affiliate WABC-TV.

Her mother, Carlotta Brett-Pierce, was also charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal uses of drug paraphernalia and unlawful possession of marijuana after a small quantity of controlled substance and marijuana were recovered from the apartment, authorities said.

WABC said the girl was hospitalized following her premature birth and nourished with a feeding tube. She came home in February, the station said. The New York Times said detectives were trying to determine whether the girl had been bound to a bed after they found marks on her ankles that appeared consistent with twine that was found tied to the head- and foot-boards of a small bed.'

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Or even any charge relating to causing death. Weird, I can't imagine a father who did this to his child not ending up facing a first degree murder charger along with many other torture, confinement, assault, and abuse charges.

Mom gets "endangering the welfare of a child". Sounds like she did a little bit more then endanger that poor child's welfare, it sounds like she tortured and murdered her.

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Submitted by Paragon on Tue, 2010-09-07 01:18

What really galls me is the ignorance displayed in the comment section, the true voice of the people. Maybe I just sampled wrong, but it seems that by a 10 to 1 margin more people are upset about how poorly the article was written than how light the charges against the mother were.

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Submitted by Hunchback on Tue, 2010-09-07 23:29