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A Colorado jury finds Molly Midyette guilty of neglect in the death of her 10-week-old son

 
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  • Posted By: ahrs @ 04/12/2008 5:31:17 PM

    Comment: I think these people are completely innocent. The injury was most likely caused by the vaccine. It has been documented that vacines can couse severe injuries, including muscle spasms severe enough to break bones. I think the doctor who adminstared the vaccine and the vaccine manufacturers should all go to jail instead. So as ususal, the innocent instread of the guilty get punished.

  • Posted By: ahrs @ 04/12/2008 5:31:03 PM

    Comment: I think these people are completely innocent. The injury was most likely caused by the vaccine. It has been documented that vacines can couse severe injuries, including muscle spasms severe enough to break bones. I think the doctor who adminstared the vaccine and the vaccine manufacturers should all go to jail instead. So as ususal, the innocent instread of the guilty get punished.

  • Posted By: mickie61 @ 01/05/2008 5:27:39 PM

    Comment: As a juror at Molly Midyette's trial, I can say that yes, the jurors on this case were open minded from the start and made sure we were 100% certain that all of the conditions of the verdict were met and that we were comfortable with the decision. It was a decision that we did not take lightly. And yes, a very complete autopsy was completed on Jason and every possible "natural" cause was ruled out, including, but not limited to "brittle bone disease". I have confidence that Alex will get what's coming to him when he gets his day in court. Judge Montgomery, who is handling the case, will do what it takes to make sure Alex gets a fair trial.

    • Posted By: ahrs @ 04/12/2008 5:48:10 PM

      Comment: YOU just condemned a completely innocent person. I hope God will deliver you the same kind of justice on the judgement day. This is what really happened. The injury was most likely caused by the vaccine. It has been documented that vacines can cause severe injuries, including muscle spasms severe enough to break bones. I think the doctor who adminstered the vaccine and the vaccine manufacturers should all go to jail instead. So as ususal, the innocent instead of the guilty get punished. If you have a problem with my post and wish to tell me how wrong I am my email is ahrs@centrum.cz

  • Posted By: mickie61 @ 01/05/2008 5:19:19 PM

    Comment: As a juror at the trial, I can tell you that yes, each and every one of us came in with an open mind and make 100% sure we could support our decision and live with it. Our decision was not made lightly. And yes, very complete autopsy was done and every possible reason for all of Jason's injuries was ruled out, including but not limited to "brittle bone disease". Alex will have his day in court and I have no doubt that he will get what he deserves.

  • Posted By: 2rich4myblood @ 01/03/2008 7:54:35 AM

    Comment: Another one of these stories in which rich people are trying to get their guilty family members off. Did anyone give a damn about the baby in that family? Everyone should already know that Alex is the guilty person here as it appears that the baby continue to get hurt every time Alex was around him. Someone should bang his head against the wall multiple times and break his arms and legs and not get him any help. Molly on the other hand should be given the same treatment as she knows her husband did these things to her baby and she didn't do anything to stop him. I hope they give Alex the maximum and if there is justice in the world, he will get his behind bars, and I really, really hope it is painful.

  • Posted By: sweety pie @ 01/03/2008 7:14:34 AM

    Comment: alex should be in jail, and how could you do this to a baby, he was hit on his head, u never told anyone, tatz horrible, they should be purnised, make them feel what happen to jason, it horrible.!!!?????????????

  • Posted By: wantin2bherd @ 01/02/2008 4:49:25 PM

    Comment: If Molly wanted to be a mother more than anything,then why as a first time parent would you not consult the doctor the first time the baby bumped his head?,It seems to me that first time parents are always causious with their first born baby because they don't know any better.
    And not only that,they would notice anything suspicious or odd about the baby.When her husband said that he bumped the baby's head on the chair,that should have been immediate grounds for taking him to the emergency room and reporting that right away.As far as leaving Alex with the baby alone after that happend,I would have been calling home all the time,that was a BIG MISTAKE.
    As far as I know,ALEX SHOULD BE IN JAIL TO!!..that way someone can show him how what abuse really feels like.

  • Posted By: wantin2bherd @ 01/02/2008 4:49:10 PM

    Comment: If Molly wanted to be a mother more than anything,then why as a first time parent would you not consult the doctor the first time the baby bumped his head?,It seems to me that first time parents are always causious with their first born baby because they don't know any better.
    And not only that,they would notice anything suspicious or odd about the baby.When her husband said that he bumped the baby's head on the chair,that should have been immediate grounds for taking him to the emergency room and reporting that right away.As far as leaving Alex with the baby alone after that happend,I would have been calling home all the time,that was a BIG MISTAKE.
    As far as I know,ALEX SHOULD BE IN JAIL TO!!..that way someone can show him how what abuse really feels like.

  • Posted By: wantin2bherd @ 01/02/2008 4:46:33 PM

    Comment: If Molly wanted to be a mother more than anything,then why as a first time parent would you not consult the doctor the first time the baby bumped his head?,It seems to me that first time parents are always causious with their first born baby because they don't know any better.
    And not only that,they would notice anything suspicious or odd about the baby.When her husband said that he bumped the baby's head on the chair,that should have been immediate grounds for taking him to the emergency room and reporting that right away.As far as leaving Alex with the baby alone after that happend,I would have been calling home all the time,that was a BIG MISTAKE.
    As far as I know,ALEX SHOULD BE IN JAIL TO!!..that way someone can show him how what abuse really feels like.

  • Posted By: Thick Madame @ 12/28/2007 12:24:20 PM

    Comment: How can you not know that yuour child has sustain that many injuries and not know it .,she is gulity has sin and so is her husband I am angry over this countries abuse towards children he was just a child for crying out loudI feel that the states should implement a licensed program to have children..

  • Posted By: Thick Madame @ 12/28/2007 12:17:20 PM

    Comment: How do you not know your child has sustain that many injuries and not know it. thats rediculious that women is gulity has sin so is her husband. He was just a baby my heart cry out for the child im sicken by the this countries abuse towards children i think we should start having parents be licensed to have kids.

  • Posted By: fairbn @ 12/27/2007 10:32:13 PM

    Comment: Any parent with a brain knows when their child has a broken arm! She is guilty and so is the father. He will get his at the next trial.

  • Posted By: saudiy @ 12/27/2007 5:17:16 AM

    Comment: by the way why should it be his mom only
    it should be his daddy too
    other wise it is a litreture conviction

  • Posted By: saudiy @ 12/27/2007 5:13:04 AM

    Comment: actual and real mom never guilty
    maybe unsure maybe blackmaled but never guilty

  • Posted By: gddiii1 @ 12/24/2007 6:03:14 AM

    Comment: re: "HUH? She was found guilty." Hopefully that result was correct. You are naive if you think that a finding in a courtroom establishes truth. We do have a good system of justice, but it is only as good as the integrity and intelligence of the people, particularly the lay jurors, who make the decisions. They fail more often than we would like to admit, as established by the Innocence Project. If the jurors in this case started out with a similar predisposition to yours ("HUH? They arrested her and went to all of this trouble to put her on trial") and were more engaged in a quest to convict than in a skeptical analysis of the evidence premised on a presumption of innocence, the risk is high of wrongful conviction. I could not tell from this article that ultimately there was much more for a jury to go on than speculation about this woman's psyche. Hopefully there was, but our "system" doesn't tell jurors what constitutes guilt "beyond s reasonable doubt." It depends on them to exercise their own minds and consciences. How bizarre here that the prosecutors tried the mother for neglect BEFORE establishing the guilt of the alleged active perpetrator, her husband. Could that be a tactic to take a longer shot at conviction of the secondary defendant to use to bootstrap a prosecution of the primary suspect, a strategy by the state???s attorneys to shore up gaps in evidence there with leverage (desire for parole someday) over the mother to testify (speculatively) against her husband and to seize, where the stakes will be even higher, upon the next jury???s anticipated outlook of ???HUH? They convicted the mother????

  • Posted By: kathylh @ 12/24/2007 12:58:39 AM

    Comment: Was the childe checked for some type of brittle bone disease? Was a fll and comprehensive autopsy done? How could the child's doctor not notice a broken and battered child? It seems that all the questions may not have been asked or answered.

  • Posted By: kathylh @ 12/24/2007 12:55:27 AM

    Comment: Was the child checked to see if it had some type of brittle bone disease. Was a full and comprehensive autopsy done?

  • Posted By: caroline @ 12/23/2007 8:37:54 PM

    Comment: RE: gdiii1's comments:
    "What if she is innocent and wrongly convicted?" Possible but HIGHLY UNLIKELY. She was convicted in a court of law by a jury of her peers. That is the American justice system - one of the best in the world.

    "Blindly accept the accusation" ...Excuse me? it's not an "accusation", anymore she was convicted of neglect in a court of law....and she had access to highly skilled attorney's defending her. Who was there to defend the voiceless innocent child???

    "Guilty or innocent" HUH? She was found guilty.

    "Seeking scapegoats" Puhleeze. The child had extensive injuries suffered over an extended period on time. One of the injuries involved jamming/forcing a bottle down his throat. Anyone else on the horizon who might have had access in such an intimate and consistent way???? HMMMM.....maybe the tooth fairy???

    Obsessed with retribution? How about concerned for seeing justice prevail?

    "Weighing the evidence?" That is what a trial is about.

    The putative "attention span' of the jurors? What about the narcissistic rage of that neanderthal hulk of a father ???

    You appear to have more than a dispassionate interest in this case with your one-sided defense of the mother. If you know something, say something.

  • Posted By: gddiii1 @ 12/23/2007 6:46:55 PM

    Comment: Re: caroline's comment on the defendant's "My life is over" statement. What if she's innocent and has been wrongfully convicted? For those who blindly accept the accusation that she did it, anything she might say is taken out of context and regarded as more ???proof??? of her guilt. This woman lost her child almost a year ago and now is facing the loss of her best years as an occupant of a prison cell. Guilty or innocent, she is entitled to anguish at that prospect. Doesn't anyone care about looking at a story like this with concern about the evidence, rather than mere satisfaction that we are making someone pay for a horrible deed? Our culture's current tendency to seek scapegoats is as unhealthy as at any place at any time. When we are obsessed with retribution and outrage, we cannot focus on the difficult and dispassionate weighing of evidence that matters if we seek justice. This woman is now convicted. Let's pray that she did it. With the decreasing attention spans of the general populace and, commensurately, of jurors, the potential that we have compounded devastation of the loss of a child on an innocent mother is significant.

  • Posted By: caroline @ 12/23/2007 1:16:36 PM

    Comment: HER life is over??? What about the suffering of her innocent child before his life -barely begun-was over? I only know what I have read but the behavior of the father and his family members (as described) smacks of entitlement with more than a frisson of bullying and controlling behavior. They need to dominate others and get what they want - even to the point of shameless trying to intimidate by glaring at authorities. When a tiny child couldn't obey this child-man couldn't control his rage. The father is a psychopath - the mother a spineless narcxissistic wimp. Didn't ANYONE in the immediate family notice what was going on??? Or was this standard operating procedure for this toxic family. There's alot more to this than what is reported her and I'd investigate the entire family for complicity in the abuse and death.

  • Posted By: gddiii1 @ 12/23/2007 11:06:49 AM

    Comment: All the "a good mother would have doen this" and "a good mother would have done that" speculations in the world do not constitute evidence. A horrible crime took place. Let's hope that the jurors guessed right and that this mother deserves her conviction and her many years ahead in a cage. Let all of us as potential citizen juors also resolve not to assuage our anger about horrors inflicted by criminals by leaping to inflict horrors of criminal punishment on accused persons when real evidence of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt does not exist. Our system depends on the integrity of juros who undersatnd that the buck stops with them in making the gulit or innocence call and that when they presume guilt, they become the intruments of injustice. The innocence Project has revealed this all too often in recent years, as new DNA technology in a handful of cases can indisoutably prove wrongful convictions. How many more have been sent to the dungeons with erroneous convictions for which no DNA or other absolute proof of innocence is possible?

  • Posted By: Boulderite @ 12/23/2007 9:53:46 AM

    Comment: Finally the parents are getting what they deserve. Anyone with an average income would have been charged immediately, but these two, with their wealthy connections avoided that for an unheard of amount of time. So happy to see them go down. We've had three babies, and I just can't imagine ever hurting an infant. Something is so seriously wrong with these people. And for the mother not to notice, most mothers notice and worry about every little rash, reaction, etc. I don't believe for a minute that she didn't notice. And the pediatrician? Glad she wasn't in charge of my kids.

  • Posted By: joaneb @ 12/23/2007 9:32:58 AM

    Comment: Both of these parents should spend the rest of their lives in jail in solitary confinement. I really wish that they could somehow be given the death penalty. What right do they have to continue living their lives when they took the life of their little baby, and so cruelly? I hope the father, who I firmly believe inflicted all the deadly blows that eventually caused the death of this baby, suffers for the rest of his life. I just lost my two-year old grandson to brain cancer. My daughter and her husband and all the doctors and nurses in Sloan-Kettering did all they could do to save his life, but this deadly cancer took him. What my daughter would not have given to have been able to save his life.

 
 
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