Sharon Patterson and Robert Patterson Wouldn't Give Amari Jackson Anything to Drink

[sweet_misery]

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MERIDEN, Conn. - Sharon Patterson, 39, and her brother, Robert, 31, decided to withhold fluids from 23-month-old Amari Jackson as punishment for wetting the bed. A week later, Amari died. Medical records state that Amari "appeared wasted" and had "sunken eyes."

Investigators found glasses around the house that were laced with hot sauce in order to keep Amari from drinking anything.

Sharon Patterson has been charged with manslaughter, cruelty to persons and risk of injury to a minor. Her bond was originally set at $250,000, but a judge later raised it to $500,000. Robert Patterson is charged with cruelty to persons and risk of injury to a minor. His bond is set at $150,000.

Sara Hicks, Amari's mother, said that Sharon Patterson offered to take Amari and care for him for a week or so because she was sick with a fever.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24161815/

[carol13]

and that should be the way they die.....except lace all the drinks with poison, and let them make that choice. Either dehydrate until you die, or have a painful, spastic, foaming-at-the-mouth death...really, I think it's mercy to give them the choice...

[Einley]

I would love to know why they think a 23 month old child should not have an accident?
These stories about morons killing children or abusing children when they don't potty train really drives me insane.
Kids have accidents. Is that really so hard to accept? We are talking about a 23 month old baby- I'm sorry, but imo that is way too young to expect a child to be completely potty trained. I mean, great if they are, but if they have an accident it should not be a reason for murder.:mad:

[sweet_misery]

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Amari Jackson

[Unamused Cat]

The mother has a MySpace asking for justice for her son.

http://www.mydeathspace.com/go.aspx?back=%2farticle%2f2008%2f04%2f26%2fAmari_J ackson_(1)_died_of_dehydration_after_being_deprive d_of_fluids_for_at_least_a_week&go=http%3a%2f%2fprofile.myspace.com%2findex.cfm%3f fuseaction%3duser.viewprofile%26friendid%3d3542482 10

[sweet_misery]

Update:

Both have pleaded not guilty in the death of Amari Jackson.

http://www.examiner.com/Subject-Amari_Jackson.html

[ImmortalOne]

Update:

Both have pleaded not guilty in the death of Amari Jackson.

http://www.examiner.com/Subject-Amari_Jackson.html

Oh surprise, surprise. dumb people feel if they plead not guilty they can be forgiven for their amazing fucking dumb asses murdering people.

[Unamused Cat]

Bah! NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A Connecticut judge sentenced a Hamden man to five years of probation Friday for his role in the death of a toddler who was deprived of food and liquids for at least a week as punishment for wetting a bed.

New Haven Superior Court Judge Richard Damiani told Robert Patterson that he had a moral obligation to protect 23-month-old Amari Jackson from harm. The boy died Feb. 26 while in the care of Patterson and his sister, Sharon Patterson, who police say was primarily responsible for the boy's death.

The probation sentence was the result of a plea deal Robert Patterson accepted in September.

http://www.courant.com/news/local/statewire/hc-07114523.apds.m0815.bc-ct--dehynov07,0,7285845.story

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Prosecutor Michael Pepper has called the case a tragedy. But he said when Patterson was convicted that the plea deal reflects the law that applies to such situations and prosecutors' conclusion that Robert Patterson's role was, at worst, "arguably passive."

Damiani said without the plea deal, he would have ruled on a motion to dismiss the charges. He said if he found Patterson had no legal duty in the case, "he would have walked out of court scot-free."

He basically got off scot-free as it is.

[Crymzen Vyolet]

Omg! He gets probation? Thats not right. Wheres the justice in that?!

Also, since when is it ok to withold water and food from your children to punish them. How twisted are the people who watch these kids starve to death? This breaks my heart.

[blue_zombie]

Seriously, we need tougher penalties for crimes against children. There is something inherently wrong with our judicial system when innocent children are MURDERED and NOTHING is done to those who are responsible. This poor child died for no reason, other than that the parents were ignorant. RIP baby.

[Pete Bondurant]

There is a silver lining in all of this. Just think of all the liquor stores that won't be robbed because this kid will never grow up.

[petrina]

wtf pete?

[TC-JAV]

According to the arrest warrant affidavit, Sharon Patterson said she was frustrated with Hicks for not coming by and checking on Amari or bringing him any clothes or food. "She was planning on depriving Amari Jackson of liquids for a week and didn't realize that Amari could get sick by dehydration," the document said.


How stupid do you have to be to think a baby can go without water for days.....:stupido3:

[Pete Bondurant]

wtf pete?


Hey, you've got to...you know...accentuate the positive.

[ScribbleMuse]

Ugh. I really wish that we would toughen up laws on child killers--even if it is a "passive murder" it's still murder. At any point the dumbasses could have stopped this fucked up behavior and taken the baby for help, or just smartened up. Ignorance is not a free pass to murder.

Lisha

[auddie]

Was it a judge or a jury that decided this was worthy of probation?

Either/or should go w/o liquid for a week.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

A Superior Court judge ruled Sharon Patterson is competent to stand trial for manslaughter in the death of Amari Jackson, 23 months old, who died last year from dehydration while under her care.

Judge Richard Damiani said he based his decision on a report by Dr. Mark Cotterell of Connecticut Valley Hospital, where Patterson has been since last year, that she is mentally competent and understands her legal situation.

Defense attorney Joseph E. Lopez argued that Patterson does not understand courtroom proceedings. Lopez had said that Patterson was only “regurgitating” what she was being told.

But after Damiani put Patterson on the witness stand that day and asked her a series of legal questions, he told Lopez he didn’t believe she was “regurgitating” information.

Twice last year Damiani ruled Patterson incompetent to go on trial, based on what CVH doctors were then reporting. But Cotterell testified Feb. 4 she has shown progress over the past few months.http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/02/19/news/new_haven/a1_--_patterson.txt

[Rockin Ma]

New Haven (WTNH) - A Hamden woman has been sentenced to five years in prison and five years probation in the dehydration death of a toddler. The baby's mother was so distraught during today's sentencing, she had to be removed from the courtroom.

Sharon Patterson plead guilty to criminally negligent homicide in the death of 23 month old Amari Jackson. Prosecutors say Patterson didn't give the baby anything to drink for more than a week because he wet the bed.

Cameras were not allowed inside the courtroom, but News Channel's Annie Rourke says that when Patterson tried to apologize, Amari's mother began screaming and tried to lunge across the barrier before she was forcibly removed. By the time she walked out of the New Haven court, Sara Hicks had collected herself and did not want to speak to reporters.

Amari was just one month shy of his second birthday when he died in February 2008. Sara Hicks says she was so ill that she left her son at Patterson's Putnam Avenue apartment in Hamden. But Patterson denied the boy to drink any fluids for at least a week.

"Part of the deprivation was that Sharon Patterson laced drinking glasses throughout the house with some form of hot sauce so Amari wouldn't drink," said Capt. Ronald Smith, Hamden Police Department.

In court today, Patterson's defense attorney said his client is not a monster, rather she has diminished mental capacity. At her trial, her charge was reduced from manslaughter to negligent homicide. Experts testified that she has the decision-making ability of a six-year old.

But that didn't soften the blow for Amari's family as Sara Hicks sobbed throughout the proceedings, pleading with the judge to impose a strict sentence saying, "The dead cannot cry out for justice."

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/crime/news_wtnh_newhaven_dehydration_death_verdict_20090 8251343_rev1

What an injustice.

[cubby]

Why is it that seemingly perfectly "normal" adults all of a sudden have the learning capacity of a six year old when they've done something bad? I think it's ridiculous that the American courts allow that perversion of "Justice". In some cases (like this one) I think an eye for an eye justice works better.:argh:

[biteme]

According to the arrest warrant affidavit, Sharon Patterson said she was frustrated with Hicks for not coming by and checking on Amari or bringing him any clothes or food. "She was planning on depriving Amari Jackson of liquids for a week and didn't realize that Amari could get sick by dehydration," the document said.


How stupid do you have to be to think a baby can go without water for days.....:stupido3:

WTF is she trying to pull

[Mybabiesmomma]

I say grind up some of those evil habanero chiles, and add some of those hot chiles that you find in some chinese foods, and make those sick fucks drink it. Drink up bitches cause that is all I am giving you....and then watch them fucking burn. Now I would do this every hour on the hour....Either way those sick fucks would be in their own hell. I hate these two. They didn't have to take Little Amari in, and if they wanted his mommy to bring him clothes, then you pick up a phone, and you make the call...But MURDERING a helpless baby is not the answer.

Rot in hell.

[Just my luck sucks]

Experts testified that she has the decision-making ability of a six-year old.

Why did she leave her child there? The mom couldn't tell this was a mentally challenged person?

Even a six year old knows to give a crying toddler a bottle. Five years isn't enough.