Carlotta Pierce might have bound & starved her 4-year-old daughter to death

[Jerri Blank]

4-year-old Brooklyn girl weighing only 15 pounds found dead, tied to crib


A 4-year-old Brooklyn girl who weighed only a shocking 15 pounds was found dead this morning, with her arms and legs tied to a crib with twine, The Post has learned.

Cops are now questioning the mother of the severely malnourished little girl, Marchella Pierce, at the 81st Precinct station house in Bedford-Stuyvesant, law enforcement sources said.

The mom, 30-year-old Carlola Pierce, has told police she checked on her daughter at the family's Bedford-Stuyvesant residence at 4 a.m. and she was OK. She checked on her again at 6 a.m. and found her unconscious. She waited until 7:30 a.m. to call authorities, sources said.

When police arrived at the home at 823 Madison St., they saw that the living area was filthy, sources said.
Marchella, in addition to having her limbs tied to the crib, had trauma to her arms, ankles and wrists, sources said. Next to the bed was an oxygen tank, which was not connected to the dead girl's mouth.

Sources also said that Pierce has two other kids -- a 5-year-old son, and a 9-month old son.

Law enforcement sources said that the city Administration for Children's Services had twice previously investigated situations involving the family. Details of those cases were not available.

ACS spokeswoman Laura Postiglione would not confirm the existence of the prior probes of the Pierce family, but said, "We are investigating" the death of Marchella.

Sources said it appeared that Marchella appeared to have been underdeveloped with undeveloped lungs.
"Her legs are like sticks. You can see her ribs," said a law-enforcement source.

"It looks like she starved to death."

Her father, Tyrone Pierce, 30, said he found out about 9 a.m.
"My sister told me that my daughter had passed and I rushed over there," he said. "I tired ot go into the building ot see what was going on. The officers grabbed me and told me I had to come with them."

Pierce said his daughter was born prematurely weighing just 1 pound, 4.6 ounces.
She was released from the hospital only in February and had been in four hospitals since her birth.
"When they released her, they said that she was good," he said.

A neighbor, Tiffany Finney, 27, said the mother loved Marchella. "She couldn't wait to get her back" after her hospital stay, Finney said. "She was excited for her to come home."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/year_crib_brooklyn_girl_weighing_qqeAccoijkR7asBLQ TDQ9M#ixzz0yPV4qdFG

[AngelFire]

Excited, but for what, to starve her? Grrrrrr

[carolinablue]

Can I bury her alive? huh? huh? may I please?

[AngelFire]

Can I bury her alive? huh? huh? may I please?

CB, only if you roll up some twine, stuff it in her mouth, and bury her head first. I think you are capable of handeling that. Now go on and have fun...

[Jerri Blank]

This article says the woman's name is actually Carlotta Pierce


Severely malnourished girl, 4, found dead, tied to crib in mother's Brooklyn apartment
[...]
The girl's mother, Carlotta Pierce (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Carlotta+Pierce), 30, was being questioned at the 81st Precinct stationhouse.

She told police she checked on her daughter about 4 a.m. and she was fine, the sources said.

The mother of three, who calls herself "a proud parent" on her MySpace (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/MySpace+Inc.) page, claims she checked on her again at 6 a.m. and found her unresponsive, with cold hands.

Pierce said the reason she waited 90 minutes before calling 911 was because she was trying to revive her daughter.
[...]

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/09/02/2010-09-02_severely_malnourished_girl_4_found_dead_tied_to _crib_in_mothers_brooklyn_apartme.html?r=news#ixzz 0yPYlKwLF

what ever her name is ( Carlola or Carlotta ) she is a piece of shit

[62julietandvoid]

How alone and miserble that poor girl must have felt. I hope karma gets her mom in the exact same way.

[Obsolete]

Who the fucks tries to revive a baby for 90 mins? An hr and a half... really? That 3 episodes of Friends!!

bitch

[Tundratot]

I'm confused. If the girl was 4 years old, why are we hearing about her preemie experience? Had she been in the hospital all those years and just came home in February? Did the father never check on her?

[badfish76]

She was clearly smoking her last rock(s) and ushering her john out.

Pic from the NYP article above:

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/9250/carlola174752300x450.jpg (http://img809.imageshack.us/i/carlola174752300x450.jpg/)

[Obsolete]

She was clearly smoking her last rock(s) and ushering her john out.

Pic from the NYP article above:

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/9250/carlola174752300x450.jpg (http://img809.imageshack.us/i/carlola174752300x450.jpg/)

She looks like the Grinch....except not green.

[Valasca]

4 yrs old and 1 lbs is literally skin and bones. She must have been miserable.
I hope this cunt dies.

[Silvahalo]

4 yrs old and 1 lbs is literally skin and bones. She must have been miserable.
I hope this cunt dies.

Actually 4 yo and 15 lbs....still skin and bones.

The preemie reference because it takes up to 5 yrs. or more for extreme preemies to catch up to avg. weight for their age. My son was a preemie, 5 weeks and he is still pretty low on the scale for an almost 7 yo.


The mom, 30-year-old Carlola Pierce, has told police she checked on her daughter at the family's Bedford-Stuyvesant residence at 4 a.m. and she was OK. She checked on her again at 6 a.m. and found her unconscious. She waited until 7:30 a.m. to call authorities, sources said.
At no point during that childs life after her mother began neglecting/abusing her was she OK. Bound to a crib ffs! Marchella died confused, alone, hurting and unwanted. There is no easy way to put it other than this child was unloved.

Marchella needed special care and lots of love she got neither apparently. At 15 lbs and 4 yo she was dead before her last breath.

Marchella Pierce My heart breaks for you sweet child simply breaks, you had no mother in the true sense.
May the angels kiss and and hold you close whisper you are love.....
http://i510.photobucket.com/albums/s341/silvahalo68/Angels/BlackAngelBaby.jpg

[TheMeaningOfItAll]

Where were the family members? Where was the father? How could that poor baby suffer and no one know anything was going on? I blame the father just as much as the mother for this shit. He should have been present enough in his child's life to know that the baby's mother was slowly starving her to death while tied to the bed. :argh:

[Taterbugs]

Oh my...She does resemble the grinch. These articles really get to me. I don't understand how anyone...Especially someone that is supposed to be a mother, could do anything like this to such innocent children.... :sad:

[Pene784]

The mother of three, who calls herself "a proud parent" on her MySpace page

I have never used "myspace" before, but can you just put "parent"? Doesn't it automatically say "proud " parent?

[Silvahalo]

Where were the family members? Where was the father? How could that poor baby suffer and no one know anything was going on? I blame the father just as much as the mother for this shit. He should have been present enough in his child's life to know that the baby's mother was slowly starving her to death while tied to the bed. :argh:

Yes, I agree completely. SO many dead beat dads breed them but don't stick around to raise them OR even be part of the childs life in any way.

Times we read so many cases mother is the primary caretaker or she is the ONLY caretaker, I forget to give the POS father the same lashing. There is no excuse for a child to die in this manner and say I didn't know.

[Tundratot]

How absolutely dead to appearances this POS is. Having the police or ambulance come out and the child still tied to the crib? Did she even try to resuscitate her? And why would she tie the girl to the crib? All four limbs? It sounds more like she was raising a veal than a child. This virus can have no possible excuse for that. . .

[FknKraze]

Damn! My reply WAS going to say.. "can we say "CRACK WHORE"?? but you beat me to it )::stupido3:
http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/9250/carlola174752300x450.jpg
I have to wonder what the Baby Daddies role was in this whole thing, did he not notice his child living in filth, tied to a crib or ummmm.... STARVING?? He was surprised that she had passed Really??

[nopatience]

She looks like the Grinch....except not green.

That was my first impression, too!!

I want to know how it is possible for someone to starve their kids like this. Where are the other family members and why is noone asking any questions??? Did noone wonder where this little girl was while she was tied to a bed?

Once again, you have people coming out to ride the reaper's cloak tails for their 15 minutes of fame with all their "woulda, coulda, shouldas". Damn.

[luvmy82vette]

A 4-year-old Brooklyn girl who weighed only a shocking 15 pounds was found dead this morning in her mother's bed, The Post has learned
Cops tonight charged Carlotta Pierce -- the mom of the the little dead girl Marchella Pierce -- with drug possession after searching the family's Bed-Stuy home and finding an undisclosed type of narcotics, law enforcement sources said. Police are holding off deciding on any possible charges related to Marchella's death pending an autopsy Friday.
Sources also said that Child Development Support Corporation, which was brought in to work with the family, visited far less than the required 2-3 times per week. CDSC executive director Marcia Rowe-Riddick strongly denied that her agency had failed to comply with requirements for monitoring the Pierce family, and noted that after the agency's contract lapsed in June, ACS had sole responsibility for the family.
The mom, 30-year-old Carlotta, has told police she checked on her daughter at the family's Bedford-Stuyvesant residence at 4 a.m. and she was OK.
She found her unconscious about 6:30 a.m. and began trying to revive her. After about 45 minutes, she called 911.
When police arrived at the home at 823 Madison St., they saw that the living area was filthy, sources said.
While she was found in her mother's bed, there was a smaller bed nearby with rails on it that had twine tied to them at the top and bottom. Marchella had marks on ankels consistent with her being tied up, cops said.
Pierce has two other kids -- a 5-year-old son, and a 9-month old son -- who are now in ACS custody, sources said.
Law enforcement sources said that the city Administration for Children's Services had twice previously investigated situations involving the family. One case stemmed from a positive drug test result on Pierce's youngest son right after his birth last November, and the other stemmed from an incident in which Marchella's tracheal breathing tube came out and she was rushed to the hospital, sources said.
ACS spokeswoman Laura Postiglione would not confirm the existence of the prior probes of the Pierce family, but said, "We are investigating" the death of Marchella.
Sources said it appeared that Marchella appeared to have been underdeveloped with undeveloped lungs.
"Her legs are like sticks. You can see her ribs," said a law-enforcement source.
"It looks like she starved to death."
Her father, Tyrone Pierce, 30, said he found out about 9 a.m.
"My sister told me that my daughter had passed and I rushed over there," he said. "I tired to go into the building ot see what was going on. The officers grabbed me and told me I had to come with them."
Pierce said his daughter was born prematurely weighing just 1 pound, 4.6 ounces.
She was released from the hospital only in February and had been in four hospitals since her birth.
"When they released her, they said that she was good," he said.
A neighbor, Tiffany Finney, 27, said the mother loved Marchella. "She couldn't wait to get her back" after her hospital stay, Finney said. "She was excited for her to come home."


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[LadyCygnet]

The only good thing about this is that Pierce was so stupid that it will probably make the prosecutor's job easier. She claimed that she tried to resuscitate Marchella for 90 minutes, yet when police came, the poor child was STILL bound hand and foot to her crib. Even if one were to ignore the fact that Marchella was FIFTEEN POUNDS at age FOUR when she died, the fact that the poor baby was bound to her crib pretty much screams that Pierce made NO EFFORT WHATSOEVER to help Marchella.

I hope that the "proud parent" enjoys "partying" in prison.

[Bridget217]

She looks like the baby daddy in drag--in a crack ho costume. That look went out with Jody Watley,beeeoootch. None of it makes sense to me, I can't imagine having a disabled child and then starving them to death. I hope she rots in jail.

[badfish76]

The child was not tied to the bed when the cops got there. She was in her mom's bed with ligature marks on her wrists and ankles and twin on the corners of her toddler bed.

I think the child had been tied there when she died and crack head untied her at some point before calling for help because she knew tying the kid to the bed was WRONG.

[LadyCygnet]

The child was not tied to the bed when the cops got there. She was in her mom's bed with ligature marks on her wrists and ankles and twin on the corners of her toddler bed.

I think the child had been tied there when she died and crack head untied her at some point before calling for help because she knew tying the kid to the bed was WRONG.

I stand corrected, then.

I still find it hard to believe that she did anything whatsoever to help Marchella.

[badfish76]

She only untied the kid and moved her because she thought no one would know what she had been doing if she wasn't tied to the bed when first responders go there. Ha fucking ha, the joke is on her!

I was also NOT surprised to read in the new article that they found drugs in her house.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

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A Brooklyn woman whose malnourished 4-year-old daughter was found dead in their apartment was slapped with assault charges yesterday after bruises covering the girl's body were found to contradict her claim that the child had suffered them in a fall, police said.

Depending on autopsy results, Carlotta Brett-Pierce, 30, could face stiffer charges in the death of Marchella Pierce -- who weighed just 15 pounds and had rope marks on her ankles when her body was found Thursday.
[...]

She denied any guilt as she was walked in handcuffs out of the 81st Precinct station house yesterday.

"I didn't kill my baby!" she declared, as a crowd of about 15 onlookers jeered her. One shouted: "They should fry you for what you did!"

News of the arrest came as little shock to Brett-Pierce's former neighbors, who had the woman and her mother, Loretta, evicted from the rough-and-tumble Marcy Houses for violent behavior and drug abuse.

"They are both crazy and deranged," said Elizabeth Soto, a resident of the complex. "They were troublemakers . . . They would always open the door and throw things at you. You had to duck."

"All they would do was go out and buy drugs. Crack. You could smell it. They fought with a lot of people," she said. "The way they were living in that apartment, they would open that door and you'd get sick."

Soto and another Marcy resident, Evelyn Rizzo, said neighbors eventually started a petition to have the city Housing Authority boot the mom and daughter.

Carlotta once threatened to "slash" a neighbor's 2-year-old child because of a "clicking radiator," Rizzo said.

Records show Brett-Pierce pleaded guilty to assault after a July 2003 arrest for attacking a fellow bus passenger who intervened when she ignored the driver's request to step behind the white line in the coach.

The Administration for Children's Services launched a probe into the family after Brett-Pierce's son was born last November and tested positive for narcotics.
[...]

Born just 1 pound, 4 ounces, Marchella had spent most of her short life in hospitals. The girl, who had required a tracheal tube to breathe, was released from the hospital in February.

ACS has placed Brett-Pierce's two sons in foster care.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/tragic_girl_mom_busted_clBq3CRUQLB6PnQ93WydwM

[nopatience]

Born just 1 pound, 4 ounces, Marchella had spent most of her short life in hospitals. The girl, who had required a tracheal tube to breathe, was released from the hospital in February.


Just another disabled/special needs child not wanted, not loved and left to die. I have a feeling the 'ladies' in the pokey may have a nice 'welcoming' party for her. Part of me is wishing I could join in on the fun.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

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[...]
Yet the cause of her death was a mystery, and police were unsure if they were investigating a horrific case of child neglect or the tragic death of a sickly child who spent most of her life in the hospital.

Cops were questioning the girl's mother, Carlotta Pierce, 30, her father, Tyrone Pierce, 30, and her grandmother, Loretta Brett.
[...]

"My wife is a wonderful mother. I've never seen her hurt her kids," said Tyrone Pierce, who is separated.

He said Marchella was born prematurely at barely more than a pound. Her lungs were underdeveloped and she was in hospitals from birth until this February.

Doctors gave her a tracheotomy, making a hole in her neck so she could breathe with a tube.

Her father said a plastic insert for the hole was too small, causing problems, and that Marchella only recently began eating solid food through her mouth.
[...]

Tyrone Pierce said he knew nothing about his daughter being restrained.

"Maybe it was to hold the bed together," he said. (about the twine on the bed???)
[...]
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/09/02/2010-09-02_severely_malnourished_girl_4_found_dead_tied_to _crib_in_mothers_brooklyn_apartme.html

[badfish76]

"All they would do was go out and buy drugs. Crack. You could smell it. They fought with a lot of people," she said. "The way they were living in that apartment, they would open that door and you'd get sick."

Surprise!!!

[MadeaBecBec]

She was clearly smoking her last rock(s) and ushering her john out.

Pic from the NYP article above:

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/9250/carlola174752300x450.jpg (http://img809.imageshack.us/i/carlola174752300x450.jpg/)


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Okay!! Even the dog looks like he is on crack! Cracklotta and Tyrone (Biggums) Pierce, should not have been allowed to breed! Remove their baby making abilities, NOW!


So very sorry, Marchella, this world was nothing but pain and suffering for you, however, I have faith that you are overwhelmed with joy and being fulfilled at the feast of our Heavenly Fathers table, while being held in His loving arms! Slide gleefully on those rainbows! Justice will be served to those that treated you so horribly!

[sinfulplezurz702]

CB, only if you roll up some twine, stuff it in her mouth, and bury her head first. I think you are capable of handeling that. Now go on and have fun...

Whoaaa! Hold up now...I'm feeling a lil left out here! I wannnnna help stuff twine in her mouth and bury alive head 1st tooo! : }

[sinfulplezurz702]

She looks like the Grinch....except not green.

Lmao! The grinch....on crack!
Seriously tho.... that poor child!

[Valasca]

CB, only if you roll up some twine, stuff it in her mouth, and bury her head first. I think you are capable of handeling that. Now go on and have fun...

No, no, no. This won't work.
HAVE to bury her feet first. Cause if you bury her head first, she suffocates quickly.
Let her feel the terror or being buried alive.

[MadeaBecBec]

A malevolent mom lashed her 18-pound daughter to a bed after the morbidly malnourished girl made a mess while grabbing a midnight snack, authorities said Saturday.

Carlotta Pierce, after tying down the frail 4-year-old, force-fed her sleeping pills to halt her "wild" behavior - raiding the family fridge, said Brooklyn prosecutor Tracey Downing.

"The mother tied up the child because she would get up in the night and eat food ... and make a mess," Downing said at a hearing.

A witness told police that Pierce had battered tiny Marchella Pierce with a belt and a plastic video case, drawing blood from the helpless girl, according to a criminal complaint.


On Sept. 1, the day before the little girl's death, Pierce grew angry with Marchella and tied her down on the bed over the late-night snacks.

The witness told police that Pierce "repeatedly beat the child" - and a bloody video box was found in the garbage at the apartment.


http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/04/2010-09-04_carlotta_pierce_mom_of_deadmalnourished_child_f orcefed_child_sleeping_pills_pros.html#ixzz0ybgjdb q1

The witness must've been Cracklottas egg donor, Cracketta Brett, surely!

[badfish76]

Fuck that!

It's even worse than we thought!

I would have broke her skinny, cracked out ass over my knee like dry kindlin' for not feeding the kid let alone hitting her! Maybe if she fed her once in awhile she wouldn't have been getting in the fidge. You KNOW she was getting her food stamps and trading them for crack!!

Grrrrrrr!!!!

[Dakota Valkyrie]

MadeaBecBec's post has made me cry. Beyond the obvious, WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT GRANDMOTHER DOING??? I would kill my own child for if anything they did even came near a tenth of that type of behavior. I hope Loretta Brett sees her daughter rot in hell because she's right there beside her. I hope that hell is here on earth and a daily thing - even when she dreams.

[sinfulplezurz702]

Holy fuking crap....that poor baby!

[ineedanap]

Pierce said his daughter was born prematurely weighing just 1 pound, 4.6 ounces.
She was released from the hospital only in February and had been in four hospitals since her birth.
"When they released her, they said that she was good," he said.


Actually, my 4 yo outweighs this kid by 20 freaking lbs, and she's a light weight.

[TheDepressor]

Again, another horrible case in which there was a witness to the abuse. So, again, another death that could have been prevented if the witness had spoken up for the child and called the police. I will never understand how anyone can abuse a child and I will never understand how someone can witness the abuse and not step in to help the child.

[nurseronda]

I will never understand how someone can witness the abuse and not step in to help the child.

It happens all the time, most who abuse hide it too well. Most who witness don't want involved untill they get some attention by being on the news.

[Tundratot]

She was raiding the fridge? She was hungry! And at that weight, I find it unlikely she was able to get up to raid the fridge. I think she was getting the blame for something she didn't do.

[Valasca]

New York City authorities have filed charges against the mother of a 4-year-old girl who weighed 15 pounds when she was found dead in her family's Brooklyn apartment.

Detectives found lengths of twine attached to the headboard of a bed inside the home, and the rope was consistent with bruises on Marchella Pierce's ankles, suggesting the little girl might have been tied to the bed, The New York Times and local media reported.

Police were called to Marchella's mother's apartment on Madison Street in the Bushwick neighborhood at about 7:15 a.m. Thursday to investigate a report of an unresponsive child. Officers arrived to find tiny, malnourished Marchella unconscious on a bed. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Authorities have charged Carlotta Brett-Pierce, 30, with assault, endangering the welfare of a child and drug possession. Brett-Pierce allegedly told police she had discovered her daughter at 6:30 a.m. and attempted to resuscitate her. Why she waited nearly an hour to call 911 remains unclear.

Before Brett-Pierce's arrest, Marchella's father, Tyrone Pierce, told the New York Daily News that his estranged wife is a "wonderful mother."

"I've never seen her hurt her kids," he said.

Brett-Pierce has two other children, ages 6 years and 9 months. A MySpace page in her name describes her as a "proud parent."

Pierce told the newspaper that his daughter had been born with underdeveloped lungs. Doctors inserted a tube in her trachea to help her breathe. She had been in hospitals for much of her life, the father said.

When asked about the twine that was allegedly found on the headboard, Pierce said he had never witnessed his daughter being restrained. "Maybe it was to hold the bed together," he said.

According to the New York Post, Brett-Pierce has been the subject of two probes by the Administration for Children's Services, and a private child development company had been hired by ACS to work with the family.

http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/malnourished-girl-found-dead-in-mothers-nyc-home/19620679

[Ninja0980]

Alas, it appears the Dad and several others are still stuck in denial mode that this bitch did what she did to her own daughter. It's not unusual for parents to abuse one child while the rest are healthy and cared for.
Wake up dad and defenders, this little girl's own stupid grandmother saw some of the abuse, and there is NO way to explain away all the injuries this little girl receivied in her short tortured life than to admit, that yes, Carlotta is a evil monster.

[badfish76]

Very sad that the kid's life was happier and better in the hospital all those years.

[Ninja0980]

This would be a more fitting punishment for her.....
YouTube- Sleepaway Camp 2 Outhouse Death Scene

[FknKraze]

I bet it was easier for them to bring that baby home from the hospital, than it would have been for them to adopt that dog from the S.P.C.A.

[Bridget217]

A common cause of premature birth,placential abruption--placenta detaching from the uterus, is using cocaine while pregnant. Gee, I wonder why Marchella was born early? The same reason she died early. Cauterize your junk shut, ho.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Two Brooklyn ACS workers assigned to visit a severely malnourished 4-year-old were suspended without pay for not properly monitoring the child before she died, according to an agency statement.

Officials at the city's Administration for Children's Services found that a supervisor and another worker failed to make the minimum number of visits to Marchella Pierce - who weighed just 18 pounds when she died on Sept. 2, the statement said.

The workers were let go after a probe that began when the case files for the Bedford-Stuyvesant family were found empty.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/24/2010-09-24_acs_says_workers_didnt_check_in_on_tragic_starv ing_child.html

[Dakota Valkyrie]

e death of an emaciated 4-year-old Brooklyn girl found dead in her home last month has been ruled a homicide.

The city medical examiner’s office said Friday that Marchella Pierce died of acute drug poisoning, blunt impact injuries, malnutrition and dehydration. They said she had antihistamines, including Benadryl, in her system.

Her mother, Carlotta Brett-Pierce, has been charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a child and drug possession. Prosecutors say additional charges could be added.
[...]

The Administration for Children’s Services, subcontractors and others responsible for monitoring the girl are under criminal investigation. ACS has said it’s cooperating.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/10/29/m-e-rules-brooklyn-girls-death-a-homicide/

The drugs found in her body were diphenhydramine and desloratadine, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office. Each drug is marketed under many names, including Benadryl for diphenhydramine and Clarinex for desloratadine. The term child abuse syndrome means that the abuse occurred over a period of time and was not a one-time occurrence, Ms. Borakove said.

Investigators have been awaiting the findings since the police found the girl dead in her mother’s apartment on Sept. 2. The mother, Carlotta Brett-Pierce, is facing charges that include second-degree assault, endangering the welfare of a child, unlawful imprisonment and reckless endangerment. Those charges are likely to be elevated sharply based on the medical examiner’s findings.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/nyregion/30girl.html

[VXIII]

OMG, this puppy looks so scared, he looks worse than scared he looks like wtf, please doggie god let this motherfucker let me go, I bet that dog is dead, probobly kicked to death by now or eaten by a Pit Bull, please please please, I cant handle pics of dogs with these guys, dogs made me grow up and get a life so I could take care of them, I know there are many left behind, I cant save them all even if I want to, dogs licked my face when I cried, and layed next to me when I felt alone, they helped me grow up... if it werent for them and the unconditional love they gave me, I wouldnt be here...

[Dakota Valkyrie]

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The mother of a frail 4-year-old Brooklyn girl who died of starvation and repeated beatings was charged with murder yesterday.

Carlotta Brett-Pierce, 30, already behind bars on assault charges in the case, now faces 25 years to life in prison in the death of her daughter Marchella, whose lifeless body was discovered on Sept. 2.

The new charge was expected after the city Medical Examiner ruled Pierce's death a homicide last month, but the indictment announced by Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes spells out the extent of her drug addicted mother's alleged cruelty.

"Between July 12 and Sept. 2, 2010, Brett-Pierce tied Marchella to her bed, battered her with household items, deprived her of food and water and force-fed her over-the-counter medications, including Claritin (a cold medicine) and Diphenaydramine (an anti-histamine)," the indictment reads.

Marchella, who weighed just 18 pounds when she died and suffered from a variety of ailments from birth, died of "child abuse syndrome with acute drug poisoning, blunt impact injuries, malnutrition and dehydration," according to the indictment.
[...]
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/11/09/2010-11-09_carlotta_brettpierce_charged_with_murder_in_sta rvation_beating_death_of_daughter.html?r=news

[AngelFire]

Good, and I hope she never sees the outside of a prison ever in her dirty life. What she has done is the most horrific way to kill a child. The hunger pains alone are unbearable. This bitch will never be remorseful. She is the Devil's turd. She needs to be banished from this earth by starvation, and nothing else.

[Whisper]

Heres a video

Brooklyn Mom Indicted On Murder Charges In Death Of Daughter
http://origin.ny1.com/content/top_stories/128605/brooklyn-mom-indicted-on-murder-charges-in-death-of-daughter

[Dakota Valkyrie]

http://i0.simplest-image-hosting.net/168bf183b2abe8bc9188aacc163dd507/-dd-1.png REALLY BAD CHOICE OF WORDS AWARD
She says she's STARVING for her trial to start.

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Carlotta Brett-Pierce, 30, got a dressing down from the judge after the prosecution revealed Brett-Pierce violated a court order by sending letters to her surviving children, one of whom is a witness in the case.

Brett-Pierce told Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Patricia DiMango she sent the letters to her kids – ages 1 and 5 – to “tell them I love them.”

DiMango was unimpressed.

If you violate that order of protection from today forward I will deal with it more harshly than you can think,” DiMango said.

An indictment charges Brett-Pierce killed Marchella last September and lists the cause of death as "child abuse syndrome with acute drug poisoning, blunt impact injuries, malnutrition and dehydration."

Brett-Pierce, whined that she hadn’t seen her other children in the five months she’s been held without bail.

“I’m starving for this trial to start,” she said, asking DiMango to impanel a jury immediately. “I did not hurt my baby. I did not kill my baby.”
[...]

Meanwhile, prosecutors said that a video cassette box and spatters on the wall tested positive for Marchella’s blood, but samples from a belt and buckle used to beat the child have not been analyzed yet.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/klyn_mom_accused_judge_starving_uwcjOzCAA65E8Wo2Vj nSBN

[Tundratot]

Boy, did her lawyer work to clean up her image before putting her in front of a judge. She looks nothing like she did when she was arrested!

[badfish76]

Amazing what cleaning up from crack will do for a person. I think she might even have gained weight.

[MadeaBecBec]

Authorities said an Administration for Children's Services case worker failed to visit the Bedford-Stuyvesant home where 4-year-old Marchella Brett-Pierce was found dead in September.

The worker, Damon Adams, was also accused of falsifying records after the girl died weighing just 18 pounds. Adams' direct supervisor, Chereece Bell, was charged for not monitoring his work on the case.

The ACS workers both resigned a month after the girl's death. They each face criminally negligent homicide charges and were expected to be arraigned late Wednesday.

The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office also announced Wednesday that the girl's grandmother, Loretta Brett, has been indicted for second-degree manslaughter for sleeping in the same room as the child "night after night as she lay tied in her bed with no food."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/03/23/2011-03-23_new_york_child_welfare_workers_charged_in_death _of_4yearold_marchella_brettpierc.html?r=news

ALL, of these people (actually wastes of air) should experience starvation, while being tied to a bed, Yep, if I were God, that would be my punishment!

[carolinablue]

Now there's an idea! We starve her before burying her alive! Right up to her head; that way she'll very slowly suffocate from the pressure on her chest making breathing a struggle. Then we can take turns pissing on her and . Oh, and fire ants! Lots and lots of them.

[walkingeagle]

I like that idea CB! Especially the fire ant part. Those little bastards are mean!

[badfish76]

I'm glad to see every possible party being held responsible for this.

This is one of those cases for me.

[Tundratot]

I can't find a single picture of Marchella. Did no one ever want a picture of her? Wasn't she as attractive as her emaciated ho of a mom?

[carolinablue]

Took Charlie, our Screamin'Demon, for his 15 month checkup. He weighs 25 pounds.

This story breaks my heart; I want to do Really Bad Things to this pos. Worse even than the stuff I usually come up with; things like road flares up her ass, a cactus in her rancid cunt, and I'd kick it in. Maybe a Devil's Thorn, they have fish hook barbs. Lock her in a cell with no food, just enough water to keep her alive, and have the guards bring steaming trays of delicious food three times a day...and sit and eat it in front of her. I hate her.

[Whisper]

Ex-social worker charged with letting abused child Marchella Brett-Pierce die argues homicide charge


A former social worker charged with letting an abused child die under his supervision says the "repulsive" homicide case against him should be tossed.
The lawyer for Administration of Children's Services caseworker Damon Adams, 36, told a Brooklyn judge Wednesday that prosecutors failed to show evidence for a criminally negligent homicide charge.
After Marchella Brett-Pierce, 4, died last September of severe child abuse, her mother was charged with murder. Prosecutors later indicted Adams and his ACS supervisor for allegedly failing to watch over the family.
Adams' new lawyer, Anthony Grandinette, called the prosecution "repulsive" and "preposterous," and said there's no evidence the caseworker could have seen any injuries to the child.
He claimed the mother was never suspected of any mistreatment and came under ACS scrutiny only because she tested positive for marijuana.
Assistant District Attorney Jacqueline Kagan agreed to deliver five boxes with the "abnormally voluminous" medical history of Marchella, who had birth defects and spent most of her short life in hospitals.
Prosecutors contend Adams should have noticed the child's injuries and malnourishment and that he changed records after her death to make it seem like he visited her family.
[...]
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/04/20/2011-04-20_exsocial_worker_charged_with_letting_abused_chi ld_marchella_brettpierce_die_argu.html

[badfish76]

Fuck THAT! This was the motherfucker's JOB! To be vigilant and to SEE the condition of the child. I realize there was a margin for the kid since there were problems at birth but the reasons for those problems should have been explored and followed up on!

Dear God, Please do NOT let the guilty walk free in this case!!

[Robynne]

I am surprised no one said this.
She waited 90 minutes to call 911 because she needed to untie Marchella, and hide her fucking drugs.
And the grandmother knew and did nothing. Fucking cow. I'm gald they are charging her too.
And the fucking social worker. I swear. They don't take the kids away from the people they should and they cause a lot of problems for the ones that do their best to be parents. I have seen it time and time again. They can't do their jobs correctly because they are ignorant, lazy ass frucking pieces of shit who are only in it for a paycheck.
Man, I don't have a college degree, but If I had a job like that, I would be damn sure I would check every one of these cases thoroughly. No stone unturned. I would have to have an officer with me though so I don't start pounding on Bitches when I find out they are abusing, starving, neglecting their children.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

The ne’er-do-well father of Marchella Brett-Pierce – the Brooklyn child whose death sparked the indictment of her mother, grandmother and two ACS workers – is looking to cash in on his daughter’s demise, filing a claim against the city for $150 million.

Tyrone Pierce wants Marchella’s estate – of which he is the proposed administrator – to receive $100 million from the city for her bodily injury and demands another $50 million for himself “by reason of the loss of services of his daughter,” according to the notice of claim.

Pierce, who has a lengthy arrest record to complement his six-year prison stretch for robbery, filed a notice of claim in June, but needed permission from the Brooklyn Supreme Court to file a late notice of claim, according to recently published court documents.
[...]

Pierce is a potential prosecution witness despite the assertion from sources that he saw Marchella three times a week before her death.

He is also trying to gain custody of the two other children who were placed in foster care after Brett-Pierce was arrested.http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/father_for_klyn_girl_whose_death_LGw7ZP8R6bo1FPzMF o65YI

[Nell]

demands another $50 million for himself “by reason of the loss of services of his daughter,” according to the notice of claim.


As a maid? WTF is he talking about? I have heard of people suing for loss of companionship when someone is killed, but loss of services? That is weird.

[misfirefly]

As a maid? WTF is he talking about? I have heard of people suing for loss of companionship when someone is killed, but loss of services? That is weird.
Let's just hope he is semi-illiterate, and that isn't what it sounds like. I cant imagine that poor child dealing with that too.

[Valasca]

stabstabstab.
Baby-daddy, go kill yourself.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

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A source said Pierce - who is estranged from the child's mom - was allowed to visit his daughter three days a week until her death, raising questions about why he never came to her aid.

"He's one more person who has seen this child and never noticed anything or reported any neglect or abuse," said Joshua Horowitz, the lawyer for ACS supervisor Chereece Bell.
[...]

A law enforcement source said that there was not enough evidence to indict Pierce and that he may be called as a witness in the upcoming trial.

Pierce served seven years in prison for robbery and a parole violation, and has been arrested numerous times since his 2005 release, records show.
[...]

Pierce and Carlotta Brett-Pierce have two other boys, ages 1 and 6. They were taken to a foster home after their sister's death and a family court trial is underway to make their removal permanent.

Their father, who sees them once a week, has asked to be appointed their guardian and a relative of their mother filed a similar request this week.

The accused killer mom and grandmother are barred by a Supreme Court order from having any contact with the surviving kids.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/09/21/2011-09-21_father_of_5yearold_found_dead_and_weighing_18lb s_plans_to_sue_city_for_150_milli.html

[VXIII]

I bet he wants to be guardian of the other children, IF they award a settlement All of it should be held in trust for the surviving children, what a low life, he never did shit for the kids and look at that poor dog he has, anyway he would just squander it on grills, gold chains and pit bulls and drive around in cars showing off and impregnating more women, fuck this loser cancer of society and the tranny grinch whore a million times over, this story makes me ill and I have been working so hard on pulling myself out of my depression, and the really sad thing is that this is not just a "story" this really happened to a little girl, because she was hungry and just wanted to eat. fucking bitch motherfuckers...

[Dakota Valkyrie]

The Brooklyn woman charged with beating and starving her emaciated daughter admitted to cops that she tied the girl to the bedpost because the child was “wilding out,” according to testimony yesterday.

At a hearing before the murder trial of Loretta Brett-Pierce in the death of her 4-year-old daughter, Marchella, Detective Matthew Lamendola testified that the mother told him she had tethered the 18-pound girl several times.

“Her words were, ‘She was acting crazy and her little ass was wilding out,’ ” Lamendola told Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Patricia DiMango.

Lamendola also said he listened in on an interview of Brett-Pierce’s 5-year-old son, Tymel, who told another detective that his mother beat Marchella with a belt and stuffed her full of pills.http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/slain_toddler_was_wilding_EtE8s9FEtoueMeNvy8ozwL#i xzz1imh5nX39

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[LadyCygnet]

That little girl was just a check to her mother, and now she's just a source of cash to her father. His case should be thrown out of court, and he should NOT get custody of his two surviving children. It's obvious that he didn't give enough of a crap about Marchella to notice that she was way too light and thin for her age. And if he claims it was because of Marchella's health problems, well, that's just a big stinking pile of cow cookies, because if she had been seeing a doctor on the regular, her weight would be managed, probably by a nutritionist, and she would be getting nutrient-rich shakes or possibly even tube feedings.

Neither of these parents cared about Marchella--all they cared about is what they could get out of her. If her father actually cared enough about her to justify the kind of award he's asking the court for, Marchella wouldn't be dead right now.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

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A 6-year-old boy called to testify Thursday against his mother and grandmother in the trial over his sister’s starvation death told jurors he didn’t see anyone mistreat the 4-year-old girl.

During an emotional day of testimony in the Marchella Pierce trial, prosecutors called her brother Tymel Pierce as a key witness expected to describe abuse he saw in the months before her death. Marchella’s emaciated and battered body was found on Sept. 2, 2010, inside an apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Prosecutors have charged Carlotta Brett-Pierce, 31 years old, with murder and the girl’s grandmother Loretta Brett, 57, with manslaughter in Marchella’s death. The two are being tried at the same time before two separate juries in Brooklyn State Supreme Court.

Dressed in a black vest and a tie, Tymel testified for a little over 30 minutes over a closed-circuit, two-way video feed from a nearby room in the courthouse, a measure taken so he wouldn’t have to face his mother. Prosecutors and defense attorneys were in the room with Tymel, while the judge, jury and defendants remained in the courtroom.

The boy had previously told investigators that he saw his mother beat Marchella with a belt, force-feed her pills, according to prosecutors. He had also told investigators that his grandmother had tied Marchella to a bed.

On the witness stand, however, Tymel didn’t recall any of those details.

Both Brett-Pierce and Brett shed tears during the testimony as prosecutors showed Tymel crime-scene photos of Marchella’s bed and his mother’s skull-faced belt.
[...]

The grandmother’s attorney, Julie Clark, briefly cross-examined Tymel in hopes of proving her argument that prosecutors are placing blame on the grandmother instead of the father, when care for the children was responsibility of the parents.

“The government has been trying to portray that the father did not live in the house. And clearly this father was an involved parent,” Clark said. “He clearly, from the words of his own son, was living in that house.”

The mother’s attorney, Alan Stutman, said he came prepared to cross-examine Tymel but declined to do so. “I think the testimony speaks for itself,” he said. Stutman has argued that Marchella’s death was caused by incompetence instead of cruelty.http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2012/04/19/marchella-pierce-trial-6-year-old-testifies-in-sisters-murder-trial/


Tymel Pierce didn't give Brooklyn prosecutors much to work with as he testified in Carlotta Brett-Pierce's horrific murder trial, saying he never saw his little sister bound with a jump-rope to her SpongeBob bed.

"No," he answered as prosecutor Perry Cerrato gently asked him if his mom tied her to the bed.

The 6-year-old boy, who is set to turn seven on Monday and wore a tie and vest for his turn as a witness, referred to his mother as "my old mommy" but said he saw none of the sickening acts she's accused of committing against little Marchella Brett-Pierce.
[...]

On the day of her death, Tymel said he awoke to "detectives, cops and somebody else" in the family's Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment and an explanation from his mom on what happened to his sister, who he called "Chella."

"When I woke, my mom said she fell down the stairs," he said.

He said his mom would get "angry" when his sister would wet her bed, but said he never saw her lay a hand on the girl.

"What about if Chella got in trouble, would anything happen with that belt?" Cerrato asked the boy, as he held up a photo of his mom's skull belt.

"No," Tymel said, adding that he only saw the belt being worn around his mom's waist.

Prosecutors had said Tymel would provide key information "that no one else can offer," but the little boy fell back on "I don't know" or "no" as an answer to many of the questions he faced.

The boy testified in another room of Brooklyn Supreme court. Questions and his dramatic answers were shown to jurors on three screens.

When Tymel was seated, he pointed at the camera and said: "What's that, people are looking at me?"

Jurors this week were shown pictures of Marchella's stick-thin body, with all of her ribs visible and bruises all over her back and face.
[...]

Tymel said he was allowed to go into the fridge whenever he wanted, but said he never saw his sister go in there. The little boy said his mom would feed him chicken and rice, and that his dad would take him to McDonald's for Chicken McNuggets with sweet and sour sauce.

But it was a different story for his little sister.

"Did anyone ever feed Chella?" Cerrato asked.

"Nope," he said.

"Did she ever eat?" Cerrato asked again.

"Nope," Tymel responded.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/son_testifies_he_never_saw_mom_abuse_7CTBqMI6dZlwy ymn8kXJ4H

[Tundratot]

Tymel said he was allowed to go into the fridge whenever he wanted, but said he never saw his sister go in there. The little boy said his mom would feed him chicken and rice, and that his dad would take him to McDonald's for Chicken McNuggets with sweet and sour sauce.

But it was a different story for his little sister.

"Did anyone ever feed Chella?" Cerrato asked.

"Nope," he said.

"Did she ever eat?" Cerrato asked again.

"Nope," Tymel responded.
Heartbreaking.

[Whisper]

Every rib visible and tied to her SpongeBob SquarePants bed with a jump rope: Jury hears how 18lb girl, 4, 'was starved, beaten and drugged to death by her mother'


A four-year-old girl who weighed just 18lbs when authorities found her starved, beaten and drugged body tied to a bed was so emaciated that every rib was visible, a jury has heard.
Marchella Brett Pierce was tied to her SpongeBob SquarePants bed with a skipping rope when she died in September 2010, prosecutors in the case against her mother and grandmother said.
Her dehydrated, starved body contained just a single kernel of corn when she died, they added.
The girl's mother, Carlotta Brett Pierce, is on trial in Brooklyn, New York for her murder, while her grandmother, Loretta Brett, has been charged with manslaughter for failing to prevent the death.
Prosecutors recounted the grim details of the heartbreaking case that could also have been prevented by childcare workers, police have said.
The jury was shown photos of the girl, who weighed just 18.8lbs on her death - nearly half the weight of an average four-year-old - in which every rib could be seen, the New York Daily News reported.
Images projected on a screen in the court room also showed open wounds on her limbs from where she had been restrained, as well as bruises seemingly caused by a blunt force.
Restraining items, including brown twine, string and jumping ropes, were found tied to the bed. The filthy apartment was strewn with plastic bags, empty alcohol bottles and trash.
Empty containers of Claritin and Benadryl were in bins; prosecutors said the girl had up to 60 adult doses of Claritin and 30 doses of Benadryl in her system when she was found.
[...]

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On trial: The girl's grandmother, Loretta Pierce, faces charges for failing to prevent her death, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2131525/Marchella-Brett-Pierce-Brooklyn-jury-hears-details-girl-4-starved-beaten-drugged-death.html




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'Ignored the signs': Child care workers Chereece Bell, left, and Damon Adams, right, go on trial later this yearhttp://i44.tinypic.com/zogyep.jpg

[Silvahalo]

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)
– The 6-year-old brother of a New York City girl found drugged, beaten and starved testified Thursday in the murder case against their mother, saying that his little sister was rarely fed and was tied to the bed before her death.
Tymel Pierce spoke from a closed-circuit TV in another part of the Brooklyn court as his mother and jurors watched. He could not see them. Wearing a crisp white shirt with a vest and tie, Tymel sat with wide eyes, often sucking his fingers while answering prosecutors with short, soft-spoken sentences.

[...]

With his testimony, prosecutors were trying to show that the girl was singled out for abuse while her siblings were cared for. Tymel also testified that he saw his mother give adult sleeping pills to Marchella.One of the toughest moments in the courtroom was when the prosecutor asked the boy about life now, with his “new mommy,” as he called her, referring to the boy’s foster mother, versus life before with the woman he called his “old mommy,” Guzman reported.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/04/19/boy-6-testifies-in-death-of-sister-marchella-pierce-found-drugged-starved-beaten/

[VAS1326]

As a maid? WTF is he talking about? I have heard of people suing for loss of companionship when someone is killed, but loss of services? That is weird.


I know I'm way behind on reading this since you posted this a long time ago but wanted to reply.

I know if your spouse is killed you can sue for loss of service which means things like mowing the lawn, fixing the car, doing repairs ect. Basically it means that since that person is no longer there to provide those services you can sue for the money you now have to pay for those things because had they not been killed you would not have incurred those expenses. I have no idea what services a child could provide to a father though that would warrent such a suit.

I wonder why he didn't sue for emotional distress.

[unimpeachablegoodguy]

Ugh, oomph, aargh!!!!!!

[Dakota Valkyrie]

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scenes from earlier in the trial
A Brooklyn jury needed all of one hour today to convict a mouthy monster mom of beating, starving and drugging her 4-year-old daughter, Marchella, to death.

Carlotta Brett-Pierce showed no reaction as she was pronounced guilty, then popped off as a judge ordered her to have no contact with her two surviving kids.

"I've been charged falsely," Brett-Pierce whined, as she was led out in handcuffs.

Asked by Justice Patricia DiMango if she understood the order, Brett-Pierce remained petulant.

"I heard what you said," she said.

The 32-year-old mom was quickly convicted after prosecutor Jacqueline Kagan made an impassioned plea to jurors to make her pay for Marchella's September 2010 death.

"We are satisfied with the verdict," Kagan said after the verdict was announced. "We are gratified that Marchella got some justice."
[...]

The four-week trial featured graphic photos of the little girl's naked, skin-and-bones corpse - which Kagan contrasted with photos of her looking robust and happy when she left an upstate clinic at nearly 30 pounds months before she died.

Jurors also heard tapes of jailhouse phonecalls in which the monster mom spewed filth about her dead daughter, calling her "that bitch."

"The words she chose to describe her show her disregard for her child's life," Kagan said during her closing.
[...]
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/make_monster_mom_pay_for_daughter_BssjFrOlIF84vkWz FGRuTJ


Brett-Pierce faces life in prison when she is sentenced June 6 by Brooklyn state Supreme Court judge Patricia DiMango, who has presided over other high profile child abuse cases and is known for giving stiff sentences.

Brett-Pierce's mother, Loretta Brett, was charged with manslaughter in the girl's death. A jury was expected to begin deliberations in that case Thursday.http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Marchella-Pierce-Girl-Starved-Verdict-Trial-Mother-150854015.html

The case workers charged in this case pleaded not guilty but not gone to trial yet.

[Bohring]

She was acting crazy and her little ass was wilding out

I'd hoped by now the bitch would be crying and feeling remorse (I know, I'm hopeless), that she would be punishing herself more than death itself would punish a mother who murdered her own baby. Alas, she is making excuses and speaking this way about her?

I can't articulate what I'm trying to say. I can't believe this woman.

[Jerri Blank]

This is the other villain Loretta Brett. Looks like Gram's is going down...


Brooklyn Grandmother Guilty In Granddaughter's Starving Death

Jurors this afternoon have found a Brooklyn grandmother guilty in the death of four-year-old granddaughter.

Loretta Brett was found guilty of manslaughter, unlawful imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the 2010 death of her granddaughter, Marchella Pierce.

Marchella's mother, Carlotta Brett-Pierce, was found guilty Wednesday of murdering her child.

She was also found guilty of assault, unlawful imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a child. [...]

http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/top_stories/161015/brooklyn-grandmother-guilty-in-granddaughter-s-starving-death

[Dakota Valkyrie]

She’s truly a monster.

The Brooklyn mom who beat, drugged and starved to death her defenseless little daughter blamed everyone but herself yesterday as she was sentenced to 32 years to life in prison — and it emerged that the tragic girl’s 5-year-old brother, heartbreakingly brought food to her funeral so she could be “fed” in heaven.

Carlotta Brett-Pierce brazenly shirked responsibility for the death of her 4-year-old girl, Marchella, who weighed just 18.9 pounds and had a single kernel of corn in her stomach when she died, portraying herself as a “loving and caring mother” overcome by poverty and a lack of smarts.

“I do not accept responsibility for the actual death of my daughter, because in fact, I did not kill her,” Brett-Pierce said defiantly, blaming jurors, the press and her own lawyers for her predicament. “This is a tragedy.”

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Patricia DiMango disgustedly trashed the monster mom as a “self-centered, volatile and belligerent woman” whose guilt was so overwhelming that a jury needed only 90 minutes last month to convict her of murder.

“What kind of person could do this to a child, let alone her own child?” thundered DiMango, who also sentenced grandma Loretta Brett to five to 15 years in prison for manslaughter in the death.
[...]

“Food, water and basic human parenting would have kept her alive,” DiMango said.

But “neglect and apathy” at the hands of her loved ones doomed Marchella — who was a 26-pound “flourishing little girl” when she left an upstate clinic months before her death to go live with her mom in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Once there, the sickly child was force-fed cold and allergy pills and battered, often in front of her brother, Tymel.

Prosecutor Jacqueline Kagan also revealed that a now 7-year-old Tymel was deeply traumatized at having to testify against his mom and continues grieving for his little sister.

“He witnessed her conduct atrocious, despicable behavior toward his sister, who he loved,” Kagan said.

The prosecutor said the boy sweetly tried to help the little girl even as she was being laid to rest.

“He brought with him food because he knew she didn’t get enough,” Kagan said. “And he told his foster mother, ‘I hope that she gets enough food and water in heaven.’ ”

DiMango spared no venom in reminding Brett-Pierce, 32, of the horror she unleashed on her own flesh and blood.

“This child, at her tender age, was subjected to a hell that no one should have to endure,” DiMango said. Yet, her murderous mom refused to drop the bravado, showing up in court in a suede miniskirt to beg for mercy.

“By no means am I a malicious or a vicious person,” she insisted.

“I’m not perfect,” Brett-Pierce whined, saying she lacked the education and money to “care for such a sickly baby.”
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/killer_mom_so_not_perfect_Yd1FIUQKvKG7yTtBhvDVJK

[LadyCygnet]

“I’m not perfect,” Brett-Pierce whined, saying she lacked the education and money to “care for such a sickly baby.”

Cry me a river. There are plenty of parents below the poverty level who are functionally illiterate and STILL manage to do right by their kids with special needs. While they may lack money and education, they do not lack common sense, and they actually LOVE their children enough to fight for them and put their pride in the pockets and ask for help if their children are "sickly."

NO EXCUSE. NO SYMPATHY.


“He brought with him food because he knew she didn’t get enough,” Kagan said. “And he told his foster mother, ‘I hope that she gets enough food and water in heaven.’ ”

It sounds like there may be some hope that Marchella's brother will grow up to be a good, compassionate man. Here's hoping that his foster parents are able to nurture that goodness and compassion in him for the rest of his life.

[sugarfree irony]

http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2012/24/all_gaveltogavel_2012_06_15_bk.html


The woman convicted of beating and starving her bedridden 4-year-old daughter to death was sentenced to 32 years in prison last week, but Carlotta Brett-Pierce still claims that she is a doting mom.

“I want people to see I’m a loving and caring mother of three,” Brett-Pierce told a judge right before she was sentenced. “By no means am I a malicious or vindictive person.”

It took a jury about an hour to convict Brett-Pierce for the death of her child Marchella.