10 Year Old Charged With Manslaughter in Death of 3 Month Old Baby Girl

Pyramid_Head · #11 ● 09-01-2012, 01:50 PM

How is a 10 year old considered responsible?

Karma · #12 ● 09-01-2012, 04:11 PM

How is a 10 year old considered responsible?

So because the 10 year old is only that age they should NOT be held responsible? They should be 'forgiven' and all is well?
If we don't teach kids to be responsible what chance do they have to be responsible adults? Of course a 10 year old is responsible if they murdered someone!

**kellyhound** · #13 ● 09-02-2012, 08:56 AM

Nicole Greenaway of Clinton, Brooklyn's mother, said she left Brooklyn for an overnight stay on July 7 with Amanda Huard at 330 Center Road in Fairfield. The two women work at Elmwood Primary Care in Waterville.

Greenaway said Huard called her at 1:46 a.m. on July 8 to tell her to go to the hospital because Brooklyn had been found not breathing.

By the time Greenaway arrived at the hospital, Brooklyn was dead, she said.

"I was there for three hours," she said. "They wouldn't let me see her. They didn't tell me at the time, but it was because of the condition that she was in. Her face was very beat up and bruised."

Greenaway said she has photos that she took at the funeral home, showing bruises on the baby's face.

Greenaway said she was told by Maine State Police that an autopsy showed Brooklyn died from suffocation and the bruises on her face were related to the suffocation.

She said she also was told that traces of a type of medication prescribed to the 10-year-old were found in the baby's system.

She said investigators interviewed her at the hospital for about two hours that night, during which she explained the baby-sitting arrangements she had made with Huard.

Greenaway said Huard and the 10-year-old left the hospital before she did, and did not tell her what had happened to Brooklyn.

Greenaway told The Associated Press that the 10-year-old had changed her baby's diaper in the past, but Greenaway had told the baby-sitter that an adult needed to be present at all times.

Instead, the infant was sleeping in a portable crib in the same room as the 10-year-old, Greenaway told the AP. Police did not release details of the baby's death, which was ruled a homicide Wednesday.

Deputy Attorney General William Stokes said a court summons had been issued to the 10-year-old and a juvenile petition -- the legal document that officially brings a juvenile case into court -- will be filed shortly. He said once the petition is filed, more information will be released.

Some details of the night's events were provided to the Morning Sentinel by Ashley Tenney, 20, who said she was living in the basement of the home on the night Brooklyn died.

Tenney said she and Huard were downstairs while the 10-year-old was upstairs in her bedroom with the baby.

The 10-year-old brought the baby downstairs crying at one point, Tenney said, but nothing appeared out of the ordinary.

"Brooklyn was crying a little, but nothing that concerned anybody," Tenney said. "(The 10-year-old) went upstairs and came down without her and said, 'She's sleeping.' "

Tenney said she went to sleep in the basement about 11 p.m. and was awakened about 1:30 a.m. "I heard crying and running up and down the stairs," she said. Tenney said she heard someone say "dead."

She said she saw Huard and Huard's boyfriend and that he was holding Brooklyn and Huard was crying.

Huard called police at 1:34 a.m. on July 8, saying the baby wasn't breathing, state police Sgt. Jason Richards said in July.

Emergency responders arrived six minutes later and the baby was pronounced dead later that morning at MaineGeneral Medical Center's Thayer Campus in Waterville, Richards said.

Brooklyn was born April 4, weighing 9 pounds, 2.8 ounces.

"The stage where she was at, there was a lot of smiling and cooing and giggling," her mother said. "She wasn't fussy."

Ashley Tenney says her 8-month-old daughter suffered seizures and was hospitalized after being alone with the girl who was charged with manslaughter in the July death of an infant.
By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling MHongoltzHetling@mainetoday.com
MaineToday Media

FAIRFIELD — A 10-year-old girl charged with manslaughter in the July 8 death of an infant from Clinton nearly caused the death of another baby in mid-June, according to that child's parents.

Ashley Tenney and Chad Hopkins say their daughter, Jaylynn, who was then 8 months old, suffered a seizure and was hospitalized for two days after doctors found medication in her system that is taken by the 10-year-old girl, who had been left alone with the baby.

Given the amount of medication in her system, Tenney said Friday, Jaylynn "should have been dead."

The couple said the incident occurred June 19, when they were living in the basement of a home on Center Road in Fairfield with Amanda Huard and her two children, including the 10-year-old girl.

Damn evil kid

ices · #14 ● 09-02-2012, 09:04 AM

I think locking up children for life is a dangerous thing to do because society cannot deal with the aftermath.

A child knows right from wrong at certain ages but like James Bulgers killers, they're just future serial killers and rapists waiting to happen so its a double edged sword.

I think they should create some sort of farm way out in the sticks away from society with people that know how to deal with them and can mold them into useful human beings.

I am all for slamming them up but at a childs age they can be instilled with something more.

DiamondSmiles · #15 ● 09-02-2012, 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

Thanks, kellyhound! So, this was baby #2 that we know of?! Nice!

10 Year Old Charged With Manslaughter in Death of 3 Month Old Baby Girl

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