6 Day Old Baby Killed by Couch:

[joo]

Yes, you probably do have an alcohol problem!

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/40965857.html

A 6-day-old baby was found dead on the couch Sunday by her mother, who also lost a second infant in a suspected co-sleeping death less than a year ago, according to a Milwaukee County medical examiner's report.

This one is all kinds of fucked up. The unnamed 30 year old mother has 6 living children and two dead children.

She's going out drinking until 2:30 am SIX days after giving birth. I can't imagine that she would have been drinking during the pregnancy.

She also stated "she should have brought a crib."

The woman told officers she thinks she has a problem with alcohol and that she had been afraid to sleep with the baby since her other baby, Brianna Buchanan-Prescott, died on April 17, 2008.


I would think with eight children, that a crib would have been purchased somewhere along the way. Or maybe after the first co-sleeping death less than a year ago.

The mother told investigators that a doctor had ordered a heart test for the baby before she was discharged from the hospital after her birth, but that an abnormal reading required a return to the hospital on Friday. The results were due back on Monday.

So it's possible that co-sleeping on a couch next to the drunk birth machine did not kill this child. But if it did, is two dead babies enough for negligent homicide charges? Or at least child neglect?

[MichaelJCheaney]

This is Milwaukee we're talking about here.

And I am guessing she is a black woman who most likely has had contact with Milwaukee Social services, after the death of number one last year, so I would have to say the answer is no.

[silvahalo68]

The 30-year-old mother told police different stories about her contact with the baby, first indicating that she fed the child about 11:30 p.m. Saturday and placed her to sleep face up on one end of a couch, with a 2-year-old child sleeping at the other end. The family lives in a duplex in the 2900 block of N. 29th St.
....
The medical examiner's report noted no signs of trauma for Ceianna.

A couch is no place to put a newborn baby. It was probably filthy and made of toxic materials. A baby, especially a newborn would be very vulnerable, to toxic fumes coming off of that thing...not to mention baby was probably exposed to alcohol en utero...sigh....
What ever the case, the baby is dead. Little Ceianna didn't have much of a chance....rest in peace sweet angel.

[Unamused Cat]

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Baby Ceianna

Pitiful! She couldn't even keep her baby alive for a week. :mad:

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg107/snarkyphotos/brianna.jpg
Baby Brianna

http://www.wisn.com/news/18891467/detail.html#

[MichaelJCheaney]

Oh wait folks it gets better:

This is the 3rd one since 1993.....

Ceianna Buchanan lived six days. She died Sunday.
Her sister, Brianna Buchanan-Prescott, lived for two months, five days. She died less than a year ago.
Their half sister, Cierra Buchanan, lived for five months, one week, four days. She died in 1993.
While police are treating the most recent death as an accident, it appears all three children died while sleeping with an adult.
Ceianna and Brianna were sleeping with the same adult, their 30-year-old mother of eight, Rose Prescott.
Prescott, who could not be reached Monday, has given investigators conflicting accounts about what happened to Ceianna Saturday evening at the family's apartment in the 2900 block of N. 29th St.


Excuse the profanity lace tirade that I am about to go off on but....


Shes 30 YEARS OLD and has 8 fucking kids! Are you kidding me?


3 of them have all died the same way. On a couch. Now in my little world we have the things called cribs. Hell if this would have been a first time mother, mperhaps I cut her a little slack, but she has KILLED 3 BABIES.


And yet their is ZERO Social Service contact. ZERO NONE ZILCH! -And perhaps that might be a good thing because as we all know Milwaukee Social services motto is: Hey if the parents don't kill them we'll place them with a family member who will"


This is just fucking plain UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!


I am now about to start gathering email addresses for the Milwaukee Police Dept.


The DA's office.


Social Services:



And anyone I can think of who might be able to be persuaded to charge this woman and get those kids into a better environment.


THIS JUST FLAT OUT IS BULLSHIT!

[seductress]

This is after all Milwaukee and not that unusual for these deaths to go on without charges.

I'm 34 with 4 kids, shit I thought that was alot.

Wonder how many babydaddies there are

[MichaelJCheaney]

I have calmed down now a little bit....not much but some.

From what I am reading so far, the Sperm Donor here is some guy named Cedrick Buchannon, he is 34 and apparently lives with the drunken couch murdering psycho bitch.

He has 2 kids with this broad. Both of whom have been killed by the couch. AND he was the sperm donor of record for the one that died in 1993, although that was with a different woman in Chicago.

Now. I am sure you may have noticed a pattern here. All these babies that Cedric has Donated sperm to have died. Perhaps he is not very smart when it comes to the women that he drops his sperm into. Perhaps he picks STUPID Women to drop his load into, but there definately is a pattern going on here that demands some explanation!

I mean after all the 3 that he has sired so far have managed to live almost 8 months between the 3 of them.

SUSPICIOUS? YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!

NOBODY has luck THAT bad!

[Peeperann]

Ok, it's not having 8 kids by the time she's 30 that gets me. (I had 6 by 23) But it's the fact that she's a retarted, drunken idiot that has killed three of her children!! Two in less than a year for Christs sake!!

Why is no one doing anything???? MJC, please give us all those email address and phone numbers when you get them. I want to call and email too.

Enough is Enough!! How many are they going to let her have and kill because of stupidity?????

[seductress]

Ok, it's not having 8 kids by the time she's 30 that gets me. (I had 6 by 23) But it's the fact that she's a retarted, drunken idiot that has killed three of her children!! Two in less than a year for Christs sake!!

Why is no one doing anything???? MJC, please give us all those email address and phone numbers when you get them. I want to call and email too.

Enough is Enough!! How many are they going to let her have and kill because of stupidity?????

please tell the stupid side of me how you had 6 kids at 23.... are there mulitiples? Are you the bio mom to all? I'm lost

Milwaukee DCFS claims they are short staffed, always too many cases and not enough workers. While I can understand they are understaffed, I cannot understand the families that fall through the cracks. someone should have been investigating after the 1st child and throughout her pregnancy. I doubt she had the baby and picked up drinking

[silvahalo68]

Oh wait folks it gets better:

This is the 3rd one since 1993.....

Ceianna Buchanan lived six days. She died Sunday.
Her sister, Brianna Buchanan-Prescott, lived for two months, five days. She died less than a year ago.
Their half sister, Cierra Buchanan, lived for five months, one week, four days. She died in 1993.
While police are treating the most recent death as an accident, it appears all three children died while sleeping with an adult.
Ceianna and Brianna were sleeping with the same adult, their 30-year-old mother of eight, Rose Prescott.
Prescott, who could not be reached Monday, has given investigators conflicting accounts about what happened to Ceianna Saturday evening at the family's apartment in the 2900 block of N. 29th St.


Excuse the profanity lace tirade that I am about to go off on but....


Shes 30 YEARS OLD and has 8 fucking kids! Are you kidding me?


3 of them have all died the same way. On a couch. Now in my little world we have the things called cribs. Hell if this would have been a first time mother, mperhaps I cut her a little slack, but she has KILLED 3 BABIES.


And yet their is ZERO Social Service contact. ZERO NONE ZILCH! -And perhaps that might be a good thing because as we all know Milwaukee Social services motto is: Hey if the parents don't kill them we'll place them with a family member who will"


This is just fucking plain UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!


I am now about to start gathering email addresses for the Milwaukee Police Dept.


The DA's office.


Social Services:



And anyone I can think of who might be able to be persuaded to charge this woman and get those kids into a better environment.


THIS JUST FLAT OUT IS BULLSHIT!

I have calmed down now a little bit....not much but some.

From what I am reading so far, the Sperm Donor here is some guy named Cedrick Buchannon, he is 34 and apparently lives with the drunken couch murdering psycho bitch.

He has 2 kids with this broad. Both of whom have been killed by the couch. AND he was the sperm donor of record for the one that died in 1993, although that was with a different woman in Chicago.

Now. I am sure you may have noticed a pattern here. All these babies that Cedric has Donated sperm to have died. Perhaps he is not very smart when it comes to the women that he drops his sperm into. Perhaps he picks STUPID Women to drop his load into, but there definately is a pattern going on here that demands some explanation!

I mean after all the 3 that he has sired so far have managed to live almost 8 months between the 3 of them.

SUSPICIOUS? YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!

NOBODY has luck THAT bad!

MJC, kuddos for you! the observations you have made especially with the sperm donor are awesome. Please pass any info email/phone #'s and post. I think we are all tiered of reading about dead babies especially those who maybe didn't have to die.

[Special2bme]

They need to demand this woman to have a hysterectomy because she and her fuck head alcoholic is it hubby, significant other doesn't need to have a baby or children. This is so sad that they cannot keep their baby alive for 5 days. This breaks my heart! May this sweet sweet baby Rest In Peast!

[Peeperann]

please tell the stupid side of me how you had 6 kids at 23.... are there mulitiples? Are you the bio mom to all? I'm lost

Yes, I have a set of twins, Ryan and Melissa. And I started VERY young!! Michael is 29 and my youngest Holly is 22. All I ever wanted to be is a mom! I now have 6 grandchildren too, with hopefully lots more to come!

But I was a very mature young mom, and was always very attentive, loving, caring and totally involved with them, I still am. They are the most amazing people God has ever put on this earth!!

Yeah, most people think i'm crazy or lying but everyone can see them all on my myspace!!

[seductress]

I was just trying to do the math and got a little lost for a minute.

Well, I tell people I have an almost 15 yr old and that I was not a teenager when I had him and they get that lier lier look on their face.

[MichaelJCheaney]

Yes, I have a set of twins, Ryan and Melissa. And I started VERY young!! Michael is 29 and my youngest Holly is 22. All I ever wanted to be is a mom! I now have 6 grandchildren too, with hopefully lots more to come!

But I was a very mature young mom, and was always very attentive, loving, caring and totally involved with them, I still am. They are the most amazing people God has ever put on this earth!!

Yeah, most people think i'm crazy or lying but everyone can see them all on my myspace!!

6 kids and you run with scissors.

Why on Earth would anyone think your crazy Peeps?

I just can't imagine.....

[Castille]

This man has fathered 3 kids with 2 different women who've all died in their sleep in the same fashion. No one else thinks it's possible there's an undiagnosed underlying medical issue with a genetic basis that could be at play? They're in a very high risk group and likely recieve substandard medical care. Other than the co-sleeping arrangements, it doesn't sound like there's any indication here it's not SIDS. Obviously we want to blame the drunken mom with too many kids who can't even remember coming home the night before. But there doesn't seem to be anything that shows this child or the last one were suffocated - in these articles anyway. The 2 in the same household make me automatically suspicious, but the 3rd in an entirely different household gives it a different perspective.

[MichaelJCheaney]

This man has fathered 3 kids with 2 different women who've all died in their sleep in the same fashion. No one else thinks it's possible there's an undiagnosed underlying medical issue with a genetic basis that could be at play?Like what Castille? The fact that this guy has had 3 girls. All 3 have died while BEING UNATTENDED on a couch, rolled over and suffocated.

What would that "underlying medical condition" be called?

The couch MUST have it out for my children?

Every Chick I stick my dick into has a murderous couch? And appears to be a drunk?

Its your theory Back it up with something.

I in the mean time will remain grounded entirely in where the evidence is pointing me.....

[MichaelJCheaney]

Here is the link on todays story about this killer couch in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/41004267.html

[silvahalo68]

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Rest in peace sweet baby girls....

Ceianna Buchanan lived six days. She died Sunday.

Her sister, Brianna Buchanan-Prescott, lived for two months, five days. She died less than a year ago.

Their half sister, Cierra Buchanan, lived for five months, one week, four days. She died in 1993.

While police are treating the most recent death as an accident, it appears all three children died while sleeping with an adult.

Ceianna and Brianna were sleeping with the same adult, their 30-year-old mother of eight, Rose Prescott.

Prescott, who could not be reached Monday, has given investigators conflicting accounts about what happened to Ceianna Saturday evening at the family's apartment in the 2900 block of N. 29th St.
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Prescott and four of her children were living with her grandmother at the time. According to a medical examiner's report, Prescott told police she placed Brianna in one of two twin beds pushed together in her room. Prescott slept with the baby in one bed, her then 1-year-old son in the other.

When she awoke, the baby girl, who lay on her side in the center of the two beds, had stopped breathing. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

"I don't know what to think," Cedric Buchanan, 34, the father of the two girls, said Monday.

He sat on a couch in his mother's living room, holding his son, the boy not quite 2 years old.

"I don't know what to believe," he said.

According to medical examiner's reports, Buchanan's daughter by another woman died while sleeping with Cedric Buchanan's mother on Oct. 22, 1993.

Cierra Buchanan was born in Chicago, according to the medical examiner's report, and was living with Buchanan in Milwaukee.

Buchanan went out Oct. 21, leaving his daughter with his mother, Brenda Buchanan.

The grandmother fed the girl, then put her to bed with her 7-year-old daughter. The baby and her daughter slept pointing one direction in the bed. When the grandmother joined them, she faced the opposite direction, with her feet at the baby's head.

When the grandmother woke up in the morning, the baby was dead.

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Brendan Buchanan-Prescott, 1, comforts his father, Cedric Buchanan, on Monday after the death of Brendan’s sister and Cedric’s daughter, Ceianna Buchanan, this weekend. Ceianna was 6 days old when her mother, Rose Prescott, awoke and found the baby not breathing.

I'm seeing a pattern of all children sleeping in a bed or couch with an adult at the time of their death. I would not doubt that the deaths occurred simply by being unsafe while sleeping with the baby. An alcoholic mother sleeping with a baby, never safe, in this last case with Ceinna, she changed her story 3 times. She can't remember or doesn't want to say what really happened...either way, the question begs...are they accidents, unfortunate circumstances, negligence or murder?



http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/41004267.html

[moonlilly1981]

the only thing genetic I see here is stupidity. When I had both of my children the big thing aside from breast feeding was anti cosleeping and the initative called back to sleep. In a crib on the back helps against sids.

I wanted another baby so badly after I had my son. That chance was robbed from me. Yet God almighty sees fit to let women like this bitch keep making more babies so she can go get smashed right after their birth and they suffocate in their sleep. Yet no one sees anything that might raise an eyebrow? Three dead babies, eight kids in a duplex, and DCF still hasnt done a home visit????? This is why im for forced sterilization with perps.

[MichaelJCheaney]

Ceianna and Brianna were sleeping with the same adult, their 30-year-old mother of eight, Rose Prescott.
Prescott, who could not be reached Monday, has given investigators conflicting accounts about what happened to Ceianna Saturday evening at the family's apartment in the 2900 block of N. 29th St.
She first told police that two cousins were baby-sitting Ceianna while she and three other children went to Chuck E. Cheese. According to a medical examiner's report, Prescott told police she came home shortly after 9 p.m., fed Ceianna about 11:30 and then placed her on her back on a living room couch with her brother, who turns 2 this month.
She then went to sleep on the hardwood floor in front of the couch, Prescott told police.
She then changed her story, according to the medical examiner's report, and told police that she had left Ceianna and the 1-year-old boy with a baby sitter, went to Chuck E. Cheese and picked them up at 9:30 p.m.
Finally, Prescott told police she had gone to a party and gotten drunk Saturday night. She did not remember when she picked up the children or even coming home. She told police it was possible she slept on the couch with the two children.
Investigators reported finding a blue plastic bag containing food on the floor, but no blankets or pillows. They found Prescott's car keys under the infant girl.
Prescott told police she woke up about 8:30 a.m. Sunday and her daughter was not breathing.
Delores Howard, who lives below Prescott, said in an interview that Prescott came downstairs screaming that her child was not breathing and asking her to call 911.
Howard said that as she called 911, she sent her 15-year-old son to Prescott's apartment to check on the child. Prescott, who Howard said was hysterical, ran from the house. She returned within a few hours, Howard said.
Howard said her son found the infant on her stomach, pressed to the back of the suede-like couch.
On April 17, 2008, Brianna Buchanan-Prescott died while sleeping with Prescott.
Prescott and four of her children were living with her grandmother at the time. According to a medical examiner's report, Prescott told police she placed Brianna in one of two twin beds pushed together in her room. Prescott slept with the baby in one bed, her then 1-year-old son in the other.
When she awoke, the baby girl, who lay on her side in the center of the two beds, had stopped breathing. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
"I don't know what to think," Cedric Buchanan, 34, the father of the two girls, said Monday.
He sat on a couch in his mother's living room, holding his son, the boy not quite 2 years old.
"I don't know what to believe," he said.


I'm thinking that if I am Cedric, You may just want to find a non alcoholic girl friend.

And as for you I suggest very strongly that you keep you dick in your fucking pants!

And another thing why is it that all the boys have lived and the girls have all died?

Just sayin'

[MichaelJCheaney]

One more thing.....this is being painted as co-sleeping.

The Kid was on the couch ALONE when she died....

That is NOT co-sleeping!

[OMalley]

All 3 of my babies co-slept to some degree and were fine. And, due to c-sections (no stair climbing for a time), we did spend time on the couch. I hate to see co-sleeping get a bad rep - it can be a wonderful thing if done right, and carefully! Rose Prescott is a stupid douchebag! Why is this bitch out tying one on 6 days after giving birth? Stay home & try to keep your baby alive, dumbass!

I'm of the opinion that many co-sleeping deaths can be attributed to parental drug or alcohol use or, frankly, obesity.

[OMalley]

Just saw your last post, MJC. So, if the baby wasn't co-sleeping, what gives? I wonder if an autopsy will be done?

[seductress]

I was going to mention that the boy is alive and I don't understand that. Seems odd to me that the girls are the babies that don't make it.

Great minds Michael

[Insomniac]

Fucking disgusting BITCH needs to be NEUTERED.

Rest in peace sweet babies. Sadly enough you are better off where you are then having to live with this piece of shit.

[MichaelJCheaney]

I personally don't have a problem with co-sleeping. I have done it with my niece and my nephew. HOWEVER Alcohol was not involved.

When it happens 3x to the same people, Its no longer a coincidence, It is pure NEGLIGENCE!

[MichaelJCheaney]

I was going to mention that the boy is alive and I don't understand that. Seems odd to me that the girls are the babies that don't make it.

Great minds Michael
I agree seductress!

[silvahalo68]

One more thing.....this is being painted as co-sleeping.

The Kid was on the couch ALONE when she died....

That is NOT co-sleeping!


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Finally, Prescott told police she had gone to a party and gotten drunk Saturday night. She did not remember when she picked up the children or even coming home. She told police it was possible she slept on the couch with the two children.

Investigators reported finding a blue plastic bag containing food on the floor, but no blankets or pillows. They found Prescott's car keys under the infant girl.

She changed her story several times. I think she doesn't even really remember what happened. I'm thinking she feel asleep with the baby on coach as she placed her there, had baby tucked to her side with car keys still in hand. She passes out like this, gets up at later falls on floor and resumes to pass out there. Baby died while she was on the couch with her as she rolled and turned her slightly smothering her. This would explain her on the couch then not on the couch as she woke up. I'm convinced she smothered her while in her alcoholic drunk state....

This is interesting too...The mother told investigators that a doctor had ordered a heart test for the baby before she was discharged from the hospital after her birth, but that an abnormal reading required a return to the hospital on Friday. The results were due back on Monday.

Wonder if the baby had a heart condition that was yet undiagnosed....still, I think she was smothered.

[Castille]

Like what Castille? The fact that this guy has had 3 girls. All 3 have died while BEING UNATTENDED on a couch, rolled over and suffocated.

What would that "underlying medical condition" be called?

The couch MUST have it out for my children?

Every Chick I stick my dick into has a murderous couch? And appears to be a drunk?

Its your theory Back it up with something.

I in the mean time will remain grounded entirely in where the evidence is pointing me.....


The theory that it was something other than SIDS is what needs backed up. There isn't any evidence of suffocation presented. There isn't even any evidence of roll-over. All we've got is at least this one kid was in a neglectful situation. You're not grounded in evidence - there is no evidence. You're rooted in assuming the worst. Which isn't to say that's not warranted. But it's not evidence.
And I'd love to tell you what the cause of SIDS is - I would love to know. So would every parent who has lost a kid this way. But we don't. We do know it happens though.

[seductress]

I personally don't have a problem with co-sleeping. I have done it with my niece and my nephew. HOWEVER Alcohol was not involved.

When it happens 3x to the same people, Its no longer a coincidence, It is pure NEGLIGENCE!


I must agree
My 5 year old still likes to sleep with me, he feels safe in my bed and he feels loved in my bed, which is something he needs since dad doesn't show him any. He has slept with me on and off, his choice, since my divorce when he was just under a year. Sometimes when I'm really tired (after chemo) it was easiest to ask him to please come lay down with me so we could rest together.

[silvahalo68]

The theory that it was something other than SIDS is what needs backed up. There isn't any evidence of suffocation presented. There isn't even any evidence of roll-over. All we've got is at least this one kid was in a neglectful situation. You're not grounded in evidence - there is no evidence. You're rooted in assuming the worst. Which isn't to say that's not warranted. But it's not evidence.
And I'd love to tell you what the cause of SIDS is - I would love to know. So would every parent who has lost a kid this way. But we don't. We do know it happens though.

We don't know for sure if it was suffocation, smothered by roll-over...or SIDS. But the other 2 children were sleeping with adults at the time. Not sure, but I don't think the grandmother who was sleeping with Cierra, the first baby who died, was an alcoholic...so, what then? I'm thinking that may have been a true SIDS case. An autopsy has not been performed on any of the case so we have to wait and see if that is going to be done with Ceianna now that a red flag has gone up...finally. With three dead babies, all girls and all fathered by the same man, he is more of a suspect for anything besides accidental/SIDS death, the first baby died in the care of another woman, not this alcoholic woman.

[MichaelJCheaney]

The theory that it was something other than SIDS is what needs backed up. There isn't any evidence of suffocation presented. There isn't even any evidence of roll-over. All we've got is at least this one kid was in a neglectful situation. You're not grounded in evidence - there is no evidence. You're rooted in assuming the worst. Which isn't to say that's not warranted. But it's not evidence.
And I'd love to tell you what the cause of SIDS is - I would love to know. So would every parent who has lost a kid this way. But we don't. We do know it happens though.

Fair enough.

But to me SIDS has always been a catch all for "The Baby is dead and we can't figure out why"-Thats just my opinion please don't go jumping on me for that-

The baby it appears had a heart condition. Possibly that would be a factor in her death. However in my experience with the Hospitals, if the tests that they do show some kind of abnormality, they would inform you the same day. They told her come back Monday, which might indicate yea somethings not right, but we are not that worried about it.

Even if it turns out that possibly the heart condition contributed to her death, that still leaves the question of this broads other baby death last year, and the common link between all 3.

Mr Cedric Buchannon.

And the totally amazing coincidence of his 3 girls not living to be a year old.

[silvahalo68]

This man has fathered 3 kids with 2 different women who've all died in their sleep in the same fashion. No one else thinks it's possible there's an undiagnosed underlying medical issue with a genetic basis that could be at play? They're in a very high risk group and likely recieve substandard medical care. Other than the co-sleeping arrangements, it doesn't sound like there's any indication here it's not SIDS. Obviously we want to blame the drunken mom with too many kids who can't even remember coming home the night before. But there doesn't seem to be anything that shows this child or the last one were suffocated - in these articles anyway. The 2 in the same household make me automatically suspicious, but the 3rd in an entirely different household gives it a different perspective.

This is a possible underlying medical issue...genetic based.
The mother told investigators that a doctor had ordered a heart test for the baby before she was discharged from the hospital after her birth, but that an abnormal reading required a return to the hospital on Friday. The results were due back on Monday.

Wonder if test results will be released. I'd thinks so given the nature of the investigation.

[MichaelJCheaney]

The state-run Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare was notified about the April 2008 death of 2-month-old Brianna Buchanan-Prescott, according to an investigative report, but state officials in charge of protecting Milwaukee children have thus far refused discuss what services, if any, the agency provided to her mother or to her family.
Brianna was found dead after sleeping with her mother, Rose Prescott. Sunday, less than a year later, Prescott found her 6-day-old daughter, Ceianna Buchanan, dead on her living room couch.
Prescott, 30, told police she was too drunk to remember placing the baby on the couch and too drunk to remember if she slept on the couch with the infant.
"At this time, the Department of Children and Families has no information that this tragic death was the result of child abuse or neglect," according to written statement e-mailed to the news media.
"Therefore, by law, we cannot address any previous history that this family may or may not have had with any child protective service agency."
The department's statement goes on to say:
"The death of Brianna Buchanan-Prescott in April 2008 was determined by the medical examiner to be a Sudden Unexplained Infant Death. As this cause of death does not signify abuse or neglect, we are bound by (state law) in this case as well and cannot address any previous history that this family may or may not have had with any child protective services agency."


I am shocked by this development!

I really am!

Business as usual for Milwaukee County.

I said it once I will say it again; If you can't kill your baby, we CAN and WILL find placement with a family member WHO CAN!!!!

[joo]

"At this time, the Department of Children and Families has no information that this tragic death was the result of child abuse or neglect," according to written statement e-mailed to the news media.

In Milwaukee County, leaving a six day old baby to sleep on a couch on top of your car keys while you were so wasted that you actually don't remember picking them up, what time, or whether or not you fed them is NOT neglect.

Rose Prescott's court records:

http://wcca.wicourts.gov/pager.do;jsessionid=519AB69C00509A197D35B6957F0E9E 1B.render2?cacheId=67EF0A0C20FEA45FB72283C47F86295 2&offset=0&sortColumn=0&sortDirection=DESC

The only criminal matter is an open warrant for failing to cause a child to attend school. That's not neglect either.

This article, http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/41004267.html, already linked above, also includes helpful tips for safe sleeping. Unfortunately they forgot to include tip #1--don't drop your six day old on top of your car keys while drunk.

[twinklestars]

Ok I think it's kinda weird that dead baby #1's name and dead baby #2's name equal dead baby #3's name:hmmmm:

IMHO this isn't about co-sleeping or heart conditions. It's about this ::shudders:: "mother's" negligence, by what is being reported about her being trashed and not remembering what happened. Holy shit I can't even wrap my head around the thought of going out and getting drunk when my daughter was 6 days old.

[Dneilz]

Why in the world would this woman sleep with her baby after already losing 2 children? Jesus, it is well known that co sleeping can be dangerous, especially if you don't stay away from the bottle. Stupid bitch.

[Kimberix]

Ok I think it's kinda weird that dead baby #1's name and dead baby #2's name equal dead baby #3's name:hmmmm:

IMHO this isn't about co-sleeping or heart conditions. It's about this ::shudders:: "mother's" negligence, by what is being reported about her being trashed and not remembering what happened. Holy shit I can't even wrap my head around the thought of going out and getting drunk when my daughter was 6 days old.



I noticed that as well bout the names.....also yeah when my baby was 6 days old I couldn't get out of bed much less go out drinking!!

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Hold on to your hats folks....
The mother of the infant girl who died Sunday appears to have provided Milwaukee County with bogus employment information to qualify six of her children for taxpayer-funded child care. Two of the kids don't even live in Wisconsin.

The cost to taxpayers: more than $1,300 per week.

[...]
Prescott's child-care arrangements are now under investigation by county officials, who launched their probe after the Journal Sentinel uncovered a string of problems. Among the details uncovered through records and interviews:


Prescott told police she works for Cuddle Me Childcare owned by Mandisa Love. But county records show Prescott told child-care regulators that she is employed by Coverall Cleaning Concepts. County workers have no record of any employment for Prescott at Cuddle Me.



The letter Prescott used to verify the employment at Coverall does not have a federal tax identification number or even an address of the company, both requirements of the subsidy program. The county has no other proof, such as check stubs, that Prescott works at the cleaning company.



The contact person listed on the letter as her employer at Coverall is Mandy Lane - who shares the same cell phone number as Love, the owner of Cuddle Me Childcare. After the Journal Sentinel called, the number was disconnected.



Love received more than $278,000 in child-care subsidies from January 2006 through November 2008, much of which was reportedly for caring for Prescott's kids.



Two of Prescott's children receiving child-care funding have been living out of the state with relatives, according to Prescott. She didn't specify exactly which state when she told police they were living "down south."



Lane told the newspaper in a brief phone interview that Prescott works at the cleaning business about 20-25 hours a week. Yet Milwaukee County has authorized her children to be in subsidized care for 50 hours per week.



Lane has not declared any of Prescott's income to the state, also a requirement of the subsidy program, if Prescott were working at Coverall.



Love has been billing the state for more children than her license allows. The capacity at her center is eight. She's been billing the state for 19 children.

[...]
Child-care officials were surprised by Prescott's child-care situation and the details involving Cuddle Me. They launched their investigation Monday after the Journal Sentinel began asking questions.

"Oh my God," said Laurice Lincoln, a Milwaukee County child-care administrator. "That's a big deal. . . .  This is a big problem."

[...]http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/41068497.html

[Special2bme]

holy shit bitch! Thief

[MichaelJCheaney]

Well shit there just went seven hours of work.

I was trying to track down other sources and see if I could get any other info about that but DV beat me too it.....

D'oh.....

Although I do have a new and better motto for the "Milwaukee Child Welfare agency....

Since YOU were unable to kill your kids, we will place them with another family member who can!.....pretty catchy isn't it?

[MichaelJCheaney]

And btw she has managed to rip-off the taxpayers to the tune of 56grand a year.

Not bad for a Baby Mill....And its all tax-free too.....Fuck I love Milwaukee

[seductress]

Well shit there just went seven hours of work.

I was trying to track down other sources and see if I could get any other info about that but DV beat me too it.....

D'oh.....

Although I do have a new and better motto for the "Milwaukee Child Welfare agency....

Since YOU were unable to kill your kids, we will place them with another family member who can!.....pretty catchy isn't it?

I want to make that kind of money for 7 hours......

They actually give that bitch that much money?????? WTF I have 4 kids, now only 3 live with me, but I had and still have to make it on my own....... Keep poppin' out those babies to live on welfare and you wonder why people sterotype......Duh and then she lies and kills babies........ oh no, now you got me on the fucking lazy ass welfare roll, you stupid, stupid bitch. I otta kick your ass just for collecting money from the government, but then you go to bar and get all drunk on MY fucking tax dollars. Maybe you need to get a fucking job, being a baby maker for yourself is not a job....... Collecting MY tax dollars is not a fucking job. I wish I didn't have to work, but I have to work to make ends meet to give my kids a good life, to eat and you go and basically steal MY tax dollars...... Where do you live, I'll be standing there with my hand out, I want MY money back ........ you dumb fucking whore

[MichaelJCheaney]

I want to make that kind of money for 7 hours......

They actually give that bitch that much money?????? WTF I have 4 kids, now only 3 live with me, but I had and still have to make it on my own....... Keep poppin' out those babies to live on welfare and you wonder why people sterotype......Duh and then she lies and kills babies........ oh no, now you got me on the fucking lazy ass welfare roll, you stupid, stupid bitch. I otta kick your ass just for collecting money from the government, but then you go to bar and get all drunk on MY fucking tax dollars. Maybe you need to get a fucking job, being a baby maker for yourself is not a job....... Collecting MY tax dollars is not a fucking job. I wish I didn't have to work, but I have to work to make ends meet to give my kids a good life, to eat and you go and basically steal MY tax dollars...... Where do you live, I'll be standing there with my hand out, I want MY money back ........ you dumb fucking whore

I am right there with you Seductress, and I was kinda thinking maybe a little visit to the Prescott residence might be in order, until I realized that she lives on 29th and Locust, and lets just say that the 2 of us would be the only "2 rays of sunshine in an otherwise shall we say dark neighborhood." in you know what I mean....

So I think I may just vent my anger about this bitch here.....

[MichaelJCheaney]

What really is pissing me off about this whole thing is that the dumb bitch is basically just a breeder. She has no job, unless of course you count scamming taxpayers......kills two kids in 10 months and will not be held accountable for any of it.

I know I should be more upset than I am, but on the other hand this is Wisconsin......so it is not very surprising.....

[Dakota Valkyrie]

In the state of Wisconsin, having more children while on welfare will NOT get you a bigger welfare check.

I suspect this "mom" figured out a way to scam the system by having more kids to get more daycare assistance... paid to and split with her friend. All for doing nothing.
_______________________________________


In the welfare reform of the mid-90's, one of the options the states were given was a "Family Cap". Some 20 states have used it. Most of them determine a level of assistance and it stays there no matter how many more kids you have.

Other forms of assistance (ie. food stamps) may go up with more kids, but they are not outright cash benefits.

Wisconsin's variation on it seems to be that you get a set amount no matter how many kids you come into the program with.
Welfare benefits are most often calculated based on family size. Many states passed family cap policies, which deny additional benefits or reduce the cash grant to families who have additional children while on assistance... 20 states currently have a family cap policy and an additional two states have a flat cash assistance grant regardless of family size.
Chart of those 20 states and type of cap: http://www.ncsl.org/statefed/welfare/familycap05.htm

[Castille]

I am right there with you Seductress, and I was kinda thinking maybe a little visit to the Prescott residence might be in order, until I realized that she lives on 29th and Locust, and lets just say that the 2 of us would be the only "2 rays of sunshine in an otherwise shall we say dark neighborhood." in you know what I mean....

So I think I may just vent my anger about this bitch here.....

I know what you mean, and look, I'm here to give you a hard time again, lol. Using the racial make-up of a neighborhood as code for "bad neighborhood," isn't fair, it's inflammatory. I live in a mainly black neighborhood, but it isn't a bad one. And certainly there are bad and dangerous neighborhoods that are composed of different races and ethnicities. Or you just mean you don't want to be the only white people in an area - which I think the implication of probably makes you come off worse. So I'll assume you meant it the first way, and lodge my objections to the false equivalency implied, and ignore entirely the white=good black=bad dichotomy suggested with sunshine vs. dark. ;)

[MichaelJCheaney]

I know what you mean, and look, I'm here to give you a hard time again, lol. Using the racial make-up of a neighborhood as code for "bad neighborhood," isn't fair, it's inflammatory. I live in a mainly black neighborhood, but it isn't a bad one. And certainly there are bad and dangerous neighborhoods that are composed of different races and ethnicities. Or you just mean you don't want to be the only white people in an area - which I think the implication of probably makes you come off worse. So I'll assume you meant it the first way, and lodge my objections to the false equivalency implied, and ignore entirely the white=good black=bad dichotomy suggested with sunshine vs. dark. ;)

Believe me Castille the neighborhood where this is happening is among THE WORST in Milwaukee. In all fairness it is improving albeit very slowly but within a 20 block radius 80 percent of Milwaukees Homicides last year occured within this area. It has an extremely high Poverty rate, drug rate, gang membership rate, and is a prostitution haven. In short it is THE WORST neighborhood in the city of Milwaukee.

I travel thru this neighborhood on an almost daily basis for my job, so I see these things with my own eyes. Drug deals on street corners, hookers in the alleys, shootings in broad daylight.....the list goes on and on.

So my feelings are grounded firmly in reality, not based on some stereotype.

The fact is that my job allows me to go to some very interesting places and some down right nasty places often in the same day. Its not like I leave from home in the morning, go to an office, sit in a cubicle for 8 hours and go home again, driving is all I do, and because of that it has allowed me to see things with my own eyes and experience things I otherwise would not get to experience.

And my comments are the reality......Come on up to Milwaukee I will be HAPPY to show you places that the tourism people never wanted a tourist to see.....

[seductress]

Believe me Castille the neighborhood where this is happening is among THE WORST in Milwaukee. In all fairness it is improving albeit very slowly but within a 20 block radius 80 percent of Milwaukees Homicides last year occured within this area. It has an extremely high Poverty rate, drug rate, gang membership rate, and is a prostitution haven. In short it is THE WORST neighborhood in the city of Milwaukee.

I travel thru this neighborhood on an almost daily basis for my job, so I see these things with my own eyes. Drug deals on street corners, hookers in the alleys, shootings in broad daylight.....the list goes on and on.

So my feelings are grounded firmly in reality, not based on some stereotype.

The fact is that my job allows me to go to some very interesting places and some down right nasty places often in the same day. Its not like I leave from home in the morning, go to an office, sit in a cubicle for 8 hours and go home again, driving is all I do, and because of that it has allowed me to see things with my own eyes and experience things I otherwise would not get to experience.

And my comments are the reality......Come on up to Milwaukee I will be HAPPY to show you places that the tourism people never wanted a tourist to see.....

I wanna go see a hooker, I've never actually seen one on the streets

[MichaelJCheaney]

I wanna go see a hooker, I've never actually seen one on the streets

Thats because you need to be looking on the sidewalks silly.

If they were actually on the streets, they would get run over.......:lollypop:

But seriously if you ever want to see things that you have never seen before, I can take you to places in Milwaukee, that will leave you shaking your head!

[MichaelJCheaney]

In the state of Wisconsin, having more children while on welfare will NOT get you a bigger welfare check.

I suspect this "mom" figured out a way to scam the system by having more kids to get more daycare assistance... paid to and split with her friend. All for doing nothing.
_______________________________________


In the welfare reform of the mid-90's, one of the options the states were given was a "Family Cap". Some 20 states have used it. Most of them determine a level of assistance and it stays there no matter how many more kids you have.

Other forms of assistance (ie. food stamps) may go up with more kids, but they are not outright cash benefits.

Wisconsin's variation on it seems to be that you get a set amount no matter how many kids you come into the program with.
Chart of those 20 states and type of cap: http://www.ncsl.org/statefed/welfare/familycap05.htm
Here is my understanding of how this scam works DV:

Mother number 1 has 3 kids and supposedly works for a ghost company. (A company that exists on paper only)

She pays mother number 2 to provide child care services (And this child care center also exists on paper only) but provides services to say 10 mothers in the neighborhood, who have 3 kids each.

And all these mothers receive stipends from the state of Wisconsin, who in turn are supposed to pay the child care provider. However the Provider is also receiving payment from the state, for those 30 ghost kids.

How the funds get distributed is anybodies guess, but as you can see it can be and is very profitable for all involved.

[Castille]

Believe me Castille the neighborhood where this is happening is among THE WORST in Milwaukee. In all fairness it is improving albeit very slowly but within a 20 block radius 80 percent of Milwaukees Homicides last year occured within this area. It has an extremely high Poverty rate, drug rate, gang membership rate, and is a prostitution haven. In short it is THE WORST neighborhood in the city of Milwaukee.



I didn't say that the neighborhood wasn't bad. My point was that "black neighborhood" and "bad neighborhood" are not synonyms, and using them as if they are is inflammatory.

[ohmarvellousme!]

Child-care officials were surprised by Prescott's child-care situation and the details involving Cuddle Me. They launched their investigation Monday after the Journal Sentinel began asking questions.

"Oh my God," said Laurice Lincoln, a Milwaukee County child-care administrator. "That's a big deal. . . .  This is a big problem."

"At this time, the Department of Children and Families has no information that this tragic death was the result of child abuse or neglect," according to written statement e-mailed to the news media.
"Therefore, by law, we cannot address any previous history that this family may or may not have had with any child protective service agency."

Let me get this straight..... Making fraudulent child care claims 'surprises' officials, is 'a big deal', and merits an investigation. But 3 dead babies under the age of 1, to the same woman, in the same circumstances, is not considered 'neglect' or 'abuse', and is just swept under the fucking carpet???

I agree that the skanky bitch needs investigating for stealing such a huge ammount of money, but SHIT! Surely a childs life is more valuable than any amount of money, and she keeps getting away with stealing those!!!!

[MichaelJCheaney]

I didn't say that the neighborhood wasn't bad. My point was that "black neighborhood" and "bad neighborhood" are not synonyms, and using them as if they are is inflammatory.

But I have laid out exactly for you WHY in this case my comments were justified. We can debate all day the choice of my wording, it will not do either one of us any good, but we could debate it nonetheless.....

In fairness there are also good neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Sherman Park comes to mind, but the simple fact remains that Milwaukees inner city on both the North Side and the South Side are crime ridden, and just plain dangerous...Even the residents will tell you that, and I happen to work with 3 gentlemen who live in this neighborhood, who will tell you the same thing.

[Kalehue]

Let me get this straight..... Making fraudulent child care claims 'surprises' officials, is 'a big deal', and merits an investigation. But 3 dead babies under the age of 1, to the same woman, in the same circumstances, is not considered 'neglect' or 'abuse', and is just swept under the fucking carpet???

I agree that the skanky bitch needs investigating for stealing such a huge ammount of money, but SHIT! Surely a childs life is more valuable than any amount of money, and she keeps getting away with stealing those!!!!

I agree completely! Though the alcoholic binge-drinker can only be credited with two of the dead babies -- her baby daddy with all three. But I was shocked at the comment that the Child Care Official made about the money -- "That's a big deal. . . .  This is a big problem."

Especially after the Department of Children and Families made this comment: "The death of Brianna Buchanan-Prescott in April 2008 was determined by the medical examiner to be a Sudden Unexplained Infant Death. As this cause of death does not signify abuse or neglect, we are bound by (state law) in this case as well and cannot address any previous history that this family may or may not have had with any child protective services agency."


Ridiculous about the money and I hope they get to the bottom of it, but THREE DEAD BABIES!! I think it's kind of a big deal....a big problem. And I still can't understand how BEING SO DRUNK YOU DON'T REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED as being anything less than negligence.

[MichaelJCheaney]

Let me get this straight..... Making fraudulent child care claims 'surprises' officials, is 'a big deal', and merits an investigation. But 3 dead babies under the age of 1, to the same woman, in the same circumstances, is not considered 'neglect' or 'abuse', and is just swept under the fucking carpet???

I agree that the skanky bitch needs investigating for stealing such a huge ammount of money, but SHIT! Surely a childs life is more valuable than any amount of money, and she keeps getting away with stealing those!!!!

Pathetic isn't it?

[moonlilly1981]

Mike have you considered writing letters to your state delegates and such? Write a letter once a week, print out these cases of child abuse and neglect that go unlooked into and mail them every week on the dot until something is done. Start making phone calls to those people as well.

I know you really care about children deep down and I see the hurt and the anger when you see this happen. Thats a GOOD thing my dear. Im pretty sure if you got us the info to call and write to the state delegats and senators we can write letters and send in threads on a weekly basis with you.

[MichaelJCheaney]

I have moon: And the frustrating thing is that I keep receiving the same response that always goes something to the effect of:

Dear Taxpayer:

Thank you for your concern in this matter, please know that we take Government fraud and waste very seriously. Please be assured that something will be done and that an investigation will be launched.

Hell I bet I have 300 of those sitting in my inbox. And that pisses me off more than doing nothing, I mean could you PLEASE take the time to tell me to fuck off, instead of sending me a pre-canned letter? I mean Seriously......

And yet my dumbass still keeps writing letters knowing exactly what the response will be.......GAWD it is very frustrating......

[MichaelJCheaney]

Just for shits and grins I went on yet another e-mail blitz to different Wisconsin State Reps, and CongressCritters, and as of 10:15PM have yet to hear back from any of them, which means that by 8AM my Inbox will be full of precanned response letters.

Me Cynical? Nah......Not little old me......

[Dakota Valkyrie]

MJC

You need to get better legislators. I know that my replies from mine are done by assistants (except maybe the state level ones), but I frequently get responses that answer my questions exactly and often refer to other letters I've sent. OMG I just realized that means "they have a file on me"!!!

Short, to the point, letters with questions that can't be answered by a typical form letter frequently get results.

[dawnmpeters]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/69024297.html
A Milwaukee child-care worker who police say was too drunk to remember putting her infant daughter to sleep on a couch was charged Tuesday with killing the 6-day-old baby.

Rose Prescott, 30, told police it was possible she fell asleep on the couch with her daughter, Ceianna Buchanan, according to a criminal complaint charging Prescott with second-degree reckless homicide.

Ceianna's alleged homicide on March 8 was the third co-sleeping death in her immediate family.

Prescott's 2-month-old daughter, Brianna Buchanan-Prescott, died while sleeping with Prescott on April 17, 2008.

Ceianna and Brianna's 5-month-old half-sister, Cierra Buchanan, died while co-sleeping with Cierra's grandmother in 1993.

Shortly after Ceianna's death, the Journal Sentinel reported that the state-run Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare was aware of Brianna's death under similar circumstances less than a year before.

When the newspaper asked what services the bureau provided to Ceianna's family, child welfare officials said state confidentiality laws prevented them from commenting because no one had been charged with a crime.

A spokeswoman from the Department of Children and Families said Tuesday that, now that abuse had been confirmed, the agency was preparing a public report.

According to the complaint filed in Ceianna's death, Prescott told police that on March 7 she drank a half-liter of Bacardi Rum Hurricane between 3:15 and 10 p.m. She told police she took Ceianna to a baby sitter, then went to a family cookout, where she continued to drink.

Prescott told police she remembers picking Ceianna up from the baby sitter.

"Ms. Prescott could not recall what transpired beyond that point in time," the complaint says.

"Specifically, Ms. Prescott could not remember arriving home, parking the car, or coming up the stairs of her residence," the complaint says.

Prescott gave investigators conflicting reports of what happened next.

She told an investigator she put Ceianna face up on one side of the couch, put a toddler on the other end of the couch and then slept on the floor.

Investigators noted there were no pillows or blankets on the floor.

Prescott told another investigator that she was drunk, and that it was possible she fell asleep on the couch with Ceianna.

The complaint says Prescott found Ceianna facing the back cushion of the couch and not breathing. Prescott's car keys were found beneath the child's body.

According to the autopsy report, Ceianna died of "asphyxia due to suffocation due to overlaying by adult during co-sleeping on couch."

Her sister, Brianna, died of "sudden unexpected death in infancy with co-sleeping listed as a significant condition," the complaint says. Prescott also had been drinking the night Brianna died, the complaint says.

"At this time, the Department of Children and Families has no information that this tragic death was the result of child abuse or neglect," the DCF had said in statement issued shortly after Ceianna's death. "Therefore, by law, we cannot address any previous history that family may or may not have had with any child protective service agency."

Their half-sibling, Cierra, died while sleeping in a bed with their grandmother and a 7-year-old relative.

The Journal Sentinel also reported in March that Prescott appears to have provided Milwaukee County with bogus employment information to qualify six of her children for taxpayer-financed child care at a cost to taxpayers of more than $1,300 a week.

After the death of Ceianna in March, Prescott was employed at various day care centers. She was laid off in September from Ne-Ne's Child Care Center on N. Palmer St., according to documents obtained Tuesday by the Journal Sentinel.

The director of the center, Arnitra Swain, said in a letter to county regulators that state regulators insisted Prescott be laid off pending a criminal background check.

Prescott was scheduled to make her initial court appearance Wednesday.

[thequeenofsorrow]

Ne-Ne's child care center? wth?? Real professional name.
3 poor babies. So sad they all died...