Mom Sharrieckia Page Says "He's never coming back"; Cops Assume 7mo Is Dead

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Police said Friday they have arrested a Commerce City mother and are presuming that the 7-month-old son she reported missing is dead.

Neighbors told 7NEWS they saw officers remove at least two bags from a trash bin at the Pinecrest Apartment complex about 4 p.m. Thursday. They said an officer cradled a black bag in his arms, which made them think he was carrying a body.

Commerce City Police Lt. Dennis Moon confirmed that investigators did search trash bins at the complex at 5659 Olive Street. But he said he could not say whether the baby's body had been found, citing the need to protect the ongoing investigation.

The 22-year-old mother, Sharrieckia Trinette Page, was arrested Thursday night and held at the Adams County Detention Facility on suspicion of child abuse resulting in death, according to jail records.
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A neighbor at the Pinecrest apartments in Commerce City told 7NEWS he thought it was strange that Page's apartment appeared to have no furniture inside.

He also believed the two children - a girl who appeared to be "7 or 8" and a boy "around 3 or 4" - always looked happy.

“Late Monday, early Tuesday morning I heard some arguing (between a man and a woman). Just a couple of doors slamming, but nothing too major,” said Justin Jones. “Nothing so serious for this. You know. So, it’s scary. Close to home.”

In her arrest photo, Page looks haggard and much older than her 22 years.
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Moon said the mother called 911 at about 4 p.m. Thursday to report a missing child.

However, there were "suspicious circumstances" in the case, Moon said. Police have withheld details on the case's suspicious nature, citing the ongoing investigation.

Neighbors say Page has two other children, a girl who's about 5 and a boy who's about 3.
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Page's Facebook profile says she's from Peoria, Ill. She lists working at Goodwill Retail, an Indiana nonprofit whose website says it "helps people find jobs and prepare for life and work."

Facebook photos show the baby boy sleeping in an infant carrier and Page when she was pregnant with him.

In a Facebook post last August, Page wrote: "yeaaaaa finally had the baby torrey elijiah lamonte brown my lil man."

In photos, her older daughter and son appear happy, playing with toys at an outdoor festival and smiling while hugging each other next to a huge stuffed dog.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...85/detail.html

LaShannon Younger of Peoria, Ill., Page's cousin, told The Denver Post she called police Thursday and asked them to check on the child after having disturbing telephone conversations with Page.

Younger said Page told her she was having difficulties raising the infant.

Page "kept telling me, 'I gave him away, I gave him away,' " Younger said. "Then she busted up and said: 'He's gone, he's gone. He's never coming back.' "

Younger said the little boy's name is Torrey Brown.

Younger said she offered to take the boy in, to help Page out.

"She couldn't do it, I guess," Younger said.
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Investigators with the Colorado Department of Human Services Division of Child Welfare are aiding in the investigation. The agency has opened a child fatality review in the case, indicating that child welfare workers had previous contact with the family.

About a dozen Aurora officers also assisted Friday in a search at Montview Park for several hours, but the search for the baby was fruitless, said Sgt. Cassidee Carlson, an Aurora Police Department spokeswoman.

Multiple sources said Friday that officials were searching for the baby at a landfill in Arapahoe County.

http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_20291261

[Marv]

Multiple sources said Friday that officials were searching for the baby at a landfill in Arapahoe County.

ah christ. The words ''searching for the baby at a landfill'' should never be uttered. Ever.

If I had one wish, it would be that I were omnipotent. Then I could be there for each and every baby and child, able to step in before it got to the 'searching a landfill' stage. I would strike down the babybeaters with great vengeance and furious anger before they achieved their baby-killing goal.

[CbabyRKO]

I swear I will never EVER complain about the fact that I look younger than my 22yrs ever again. I wonder if she had an argument w/ the babies father and hurt the baby 2 get back at him?

[Dakota Valkyrie]

The father of a 7-month-old Commerce City boy missing and presumed dead said he offered to take the child when the baby's mother expressed dissatisfaction with her baby.
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Torrey Brown Sr., the father of the child, said he visited Page's home on Wednesday, the day before the baby was last seen.

"Pretty much, it was just a regular get together," Torrey Brown said. "We sat around with the kids. I brought my daughters over there. I got to spend some time with Torrey, he was perfectly fine, smiling and everything."
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Torrey Brown said he spent about two hours Wednesday at Page's home, while his daughters, ages 6 and 2, played with Page's two older children, ages 5 and 3.

Page and Brown met a couple of years ago, he said, when she was a neighbor of his uncle. They had an affair, and Page had his child.

Brown said Page made it difficult for him to be involved in the boy's life.

"She was like, very disturbed at me," Brown said. "She blamed everything on me, pretty much. Always calling me and saying I ruined her life, saying she wished she never had a baby by me. She said a bunch of things."

Brown said he offered to take the child but was denied.

Corinthiah Brown, Torrey Brown's mother and Torrey Brown Jr.'s grandmother, said she called police in November when Page was living in Aurora, after she had troubling conversations with Page.

Page "said: 'I can't do this, it's hard for me. You're going to find him in a casket,' " Corinthiah Brown recalled.

Her story is similar to that of Page's cousin, LaShannon Younger of Peoria, Ill. Younger told The Denver Post last week that she called police Thursday and asked them to check on the child after having disturbing telephone conversations with Page.
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After Brown called police in November, Aurora officers went to Page's apartment in the 1700 block of Paris Street and found her three children, including Torrey, unharmed.

Page was taken into custody and Corinthiah Brown took the children to her home. Page was released in a couple of hours and went to Brown's home and took the children back, Corinthiah Brown said.

Aurora police spokeswoman Sgt. Cassidee Carlson confirmed that police responded to Page's apartment on Nov. 30.

"We did a welfare check on the kids, and they were OK," Carlson said.

Page was taken into custody, Carlson said, but she was not arrested.

Corinthiah Brown said she also offered to take custody of her grandson, and even lobbied Adams County Human Services, but was told that Page was the legal guardian.

" 'She has more rights, she is the mother,' " Brown recalled of her conversation with a child welfare agent. "That is what I was told."

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingne...y-offered-take

[AngelFire]

Damn even I look like a school girl next to Miss Bags there

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Torrey Brown Sr. said he also received a disturbing phone call from Page on Monday night from jail.

“She said, ‘This is what you wanted, right?’ And, ‘Are you happy?’ And then just hung up on me,” he said. “It showed that she’s not even feeling remorseful about it.”

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/04/0...y-from-mother/

[Whisper]

Volunteers Mobilized In Search For Commerce City Boy's Body

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- Law enforcement officials are asking trained volunteers to join a third search for the body of a 7-month-old Commerce City boy at an Arapahoe County landfill.
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The Denver Post reported that an announcement was sent out Wednesday asking volunteers from the Aurora Community Emergency Response Team to help sift through the Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site at 3500 S. Gun Club Road.
The announcement said the search is for evidence in a criminal case, and it links to an online news story about previous hunts for the boy's body, the newspaper said.
The request said volunteers were needed for the next seven days, and possibly longer, the Post said. It told volunteers to contact Stephanie Hackett, a city of Aurora emergency management specialist, for information.
When 7NEWS asked Hackett about the volunteer effort Wednesday, she referred a reporter to Commerce City police, who are investigating the case. Commerce City police spokesman Lt. Dennis Moon said he could not confirm whether another search was being organized. He referred a 7NEWS reporter to the Adams County District Attorney's Office, whose spokeswoman said she knew nothing about the search.
The release warned that the volunteers will be raking through potentially hazardous materials and said the Incident Command Post will supply protective Tyvek suits, eye protection and work gloves, the Post reported.
The volunteers were asked to wear sturdy boots and heavy pants.
Police have said the boy is presumed dead. Investigators previously searched trash bins at the Commerce City apartment where Page lived with the missing infant and two older children.
Last week, police and the FBI searched the same landfill, but officials wouldn't confirm they're looking for the missing boy. The dump was also searched last month.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...98/detail.html

[sugarfree irony]

They found a baby they think is him .
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingne...-commerce-city

The Commerce City Police Department found the remains Wednesday afternoon at the Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site, 3500 South Gun Club Road, Aurora, according to an Adams County District Attorney's media release.

Investigators are in the process of "identifying the remains through forensic testing."

Police have been searching the dump for about eight weeks, since a 7-month-old Torry Brown Jr. was reported missing.

Sharrieckia Page, 23, the missing baby's mother, is being held at the Adams County Jail
Law enforcement agencies searched the Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site, at 3500 S. Gun Club Road in Aurora, for the body of a 7-month-old Commerce City boy, Thursday, April 19, 2012. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)
on charges of child abuse resulting in death.

Torrey Brown, the child's father, said police called him this morning and told him about the discovery at the landfill.

"They called me and told me they found some remains, and that it's probably him," Torrey Brown said.

[Valasca]

I don't believe in heaven or hell, but in this case I hope there is a special hell for this waste of air.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Investigators have confirmed through DNA that the infant’s body found at the Denver Arapahoe Landfill last week is that of a baby that went missing in March.

Sharrieckia Page is accused of killing her 7-month-old son, Torrey Brown. She has been charged with child abuse resulting in death and first degree murder. Detectives had been searching for the infant’s body for several weeks.

“I want to thank the men and women of the Commerce City Police Department and the 26 agencies who supported our efforts to find this child,” said Commerce City Acting Chief Saunier. “It was important to the officers and volunteers involved to provide some sense of closure to family members in this difficult case.”
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Over a 53-day period, 500 people from 26 agencies and community organizations across the state and nation participated in the search. Approximately 19,300 hours were spent searching the 2 and-a-half-acres, about 13,000 tons, of the regional solid waste landfill.

Working in 12-hour shifts at a cost of approximately $10,000 per day, crews sorted through 9,900 tons of waste, over one million square fee, before finding the remains.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/06/0...issing-infant/

Commerce City police say the 53 day search for an infant’s remains at the Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site was one of the most grueling tasks they’ve ever dealt with.
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Sgt. Joe Dougherty led the search. He said police and volunteers combed through 2 ½ acres of the landfill digging down 20 feet deep.

“It’s like the size of Dick’s Sporting Goods Stadium,” Dougherty said. “Two stories. That’s how much rubbish they went through.”

Dougherty said the conditions were grueling.

“It got hot out there,” he said. “It was windy. When it rained, we were working in mud.”

Dougherty said front end loaders scooped up the rubbish and loaded it onto a truck. The truck hauled it to the sorting lines, where volunteers raked through it looking for the remains.

“If you can imagine going out to your front yard and raking through heavy leaves and rocks for 10 – 12 hours,” Dougherty said. “That’s what it was like.”

The commander commended one volunteer in particular. He said Vickie Smiley spent 40 days on the line looking for the infants remains.

“It was hard work,” Smiley said. “We goofed around a bit to make the load a bit lighter, but we were all dedicated to finding him. We had a mission and we were set to it.”

Smiley said the working conditions were miserable.

“It was very hot, and when it rained it was slick,” she said. “We wore Tyvek suits. They kept the moisture out… but they kept (perspiration) in too.”
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Smiley said it was an emotional experience.

“You’re sifting through all sorts of trash,” she said. “But he’s a little baby. He needed to be found. He deserved justice and we were determined to find him.”

Dougherty praised the volunteers.

“All those dedicated citizens were basically working through hell so one small soul could go to heaven,” he said.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...46/detail.html

[Tundratot]

What the hell is wrong with that insane bitch? She didn't want another baby, she could have used birth control. She could have adopted him out when he was born. She could have given him to his father or her friend, or a relative to keep if he was too much for her to handle. What a vindictive, stupid, inexcusable POS she is!

[Whisper]

An article about how massive the search for the baby was and how they werent giving up

Earlier today, we told you about the discovery of remains identified as Torrey Brown Jr., a seven month old whose body was allegedly thrown away by his mother, Sharrieckia Page; see original coverage below. The death of this child is undeniably terrible, but the story of the search for his body is astonishing: a 53-day marathon involving hundreds of people in the most miserable conditions imaginable. Sergeant Joe Dougherty, the recovery incident commander, puts it like so: "We were searching in hell so one small soul could go to heaven."

In late March, as we've reported, the Commerce City Police Department received a missing persons report about Torrey, with early information suggesting that Page, who'd made comments about the baby that alarmed relatives, had discarded his corpse in a dumpster. If this proved true, and investigators believed it was, that meant his remains had been transported to the Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site, a mammoth facility. So the first order of business for the CCPD was to narrow the area that needed to be searched -- and fortunately, officers were able to do so.
Waste Management has the logistics of their operation down so scientifically that we were able to shut things down the day we discovered we needed to do a search," Dougherty says. "And we were able to go through their records and see exactly where loads went that were coming from Commerce City, since they operate in one section of the landfill at a time."

Of course, the zone Waste Management pinpointed remained enormous: a two-and-a-half acre site covered with rubbish that was between eight and twenty feet thick -- the equivalent at its deepest of a two-story building. The total amount of garbage there was estimated at 13,000 tons, an amount that collected over a span of just a day and a half. "If you can picture Dick's Sporting Goods Stadium, it was about the size of that," Dougherty says. "It was the equivalent of seventeen football fields, but eight to twenty feet deep."
Moreover, the garbage was compressed, meaning that it couldn't simply be plucked from the pile a piece at a time. Instead, Dougherty recalls, "an excavator would scoop it from the area where we started at and put it into the back of a dump truck. Then the dump truck would take it to the location where we had four sift lines. A front-end loader would spread it, and then we'd have anywhere from 25 to thirty people on those lines who would sift through it. They'd go through all four lines, and then the process would start over again."

The Commerce City department made the search a priority, setting up twelve hour shifts to allow staffers to take part -- and each one of them eventually did so. But given the local force's modest size (a total of 55 responders), the CCPD simply couldn't handle such a huge undertaking without assistance. Fortunately, Dougherty says, plenty of folks offered to help.

"We'd never handled anything of this magnitude," he says, "but the FBI heard about the operation and stepped forward to give us assistance in getting it up and going, including providing personnel from throughout the state. And the CBI did the same thing. They were out there for almost a month."

They weren't alone. Originally, the CCPD said that 26 agencies or groups took part, but the actual number was 34, ranging from the American Red Cross and Arapahoe Community College to the University of Tennessee Anthropology Department and the National Guard, which had chaplains on site to set the proper tone and assist anyone who felt overwhelmed. Total number of people: around 500.

As for the conditions, they would have had to improve a great deal to be considered merely dreadful.
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much more at link

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword...d_landfill.php

area they had to search through

lots more pics at link

[Whisper]

mother has been sentenced to 42 years in prison for killing her 7-month-old son and dumping his body in a trash bin last year, authorities said.

An Adams County judge also ordered Sharrieckia Page, 23, to serve five years on parole after her release from prison.

Page pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder in the death of her baby boy, Torrey Brown Jr. She originally faced charges of first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death
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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...y-in-trash-bin

[Tundratot]

May she rot in there and not live long enough to see her five years of parole.