[Vision2020] Does anyone else see a problem here?

[Saundra Lund]

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

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On
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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...

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	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.