[Vision2020] Does anyone else see a problem here?

[Tom Hansen]

You can certainly draw reliable conclusions about a society in the way they
handle their elderly, infirmed, and defenseless.  The same holds true about
those who either take a stand against such atrocities or sit back in the
comfort of their shallow consciences and joke about it.

Tom Hansen

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box. 

-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Saundra Lund
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 10:41 AM
To: 'Vision 2020'
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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