Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Judge Sherrie Krauser rejected prosecutors' request to have the juvenile placed in a detention facility.
A Fort Washington boy convicted of fatally beating his two-year-old foster sister was ordered to serve an indefinite amount of time in a therapeutic group home on Tuesday. Circuit Court Judge Sherrie Krauser rejected prosecutors' request to have the juvenile sent to a detention facility, opting instead to remove him from his home and assign him to a closely monitored form of foster care. According to prosecutors, the 13-year-old boy—who was 12 at the time of the incident—repeatedly struck young Aniyah Batchelor on July 3 at his house in the 1800 block of Taylor Street. The girl had been placed in foster care at the address following allegations of abuse by members of her own family. When the boy's father came home to find Batchelor …
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
The Fort Washington preteen, who entered an Alford plea in September, will be sentenced in a disposition hearing today.
The 12-year-old boy convicted of involuntary manslaughter in juvenile court for fatally beating his two-year-old foster sister in July will face a judge today to learn his fate. In the disposition hearing, the Fort Washington preteen will learn whether or not he'll be jailed until he is 21. The boy had entered an Alford plea in September, in which he was not admitting guilt, but was aware that prosecutors could find him guilty on the most serious charge. In this case, it was second-degree murder. According to Prince George's County Police, the boy's father found Aniyah unresponsive, after he was called home by his 15-year-old daughter on July 3. The toddler, the boy and another four-year-old girl were in the care of the 15-year-old girl at…
Thursday, September 6, 2012
The Fort Washington preteen was convicted in juvenile court for involuntary manslaughter Wednesday, according to reports.
A 12-year-old Fort Washington boy could be jailed until he is 21, after he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in juvenile court Wednesday, The Washington Post reported. After a two-day hearing, a circuit court judge convicted the preteen for the fatal beating of his foster sister, two-year-old Aniyah Batchelor in July, according to reports. The boy pleaded guilty to the lesser charge in court, after Prince George's County Police initially charged him with second-degree murder in July, in addition to other charges. According to The Gazette, the boy took the Alford plea which means the "juvenile is not admitting to the criminal act, but acknowledges that prosecutors could find him guilty on his most serious offense of second-degree …
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
A 12-year-old boy will face a judge starting at 10 a.m. today in Upper Marlboro.
Update, 5:38 p.m.: The hearing for a 12-year-old boy charged in the murder of his two-year-old foster sister will resume Wednesday morning at 10 a.m., according to the Prince George's County State's Attorney's office. Update, 2:30 p.m.: The hearing for a preteen charged in the killing of his foster sister resumed this afternoon after a judge viewed a video of the police interview with the suspect, according to the Prince George's County State's Attorney's office. Although a trial was supposed to begin Tuesday morning, only a motions hearing was held. Original post, 11 a.m.: A trial against a 12-year-old boy charged in beating his foster sister to death began Tuesday in an Upper Marlboro courthouse. According to the Prince George's County …
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Stephany Cunningham said her 2-year-old daughter had been in foster care since November 2011.
The mother of a child beaten to death in a foster home says she had gotten to know the family and previously thought well of them. Stephany Cunningham's daughter, Aniyah Batchelor, 2, who died on July 3, had been in foster care with a Fort Washington family in the 1800 block of Taylor Street since November, according to The Washington Post. The 12-year-old son of the foster parents is charged in the death. Cunningham, 25, who lives in Adelphi, has two other children, a 5-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy. The 5-year-old and Aniyah were both placed in foster care, she said, after one of her children was burned by scalding water in a bath, the Post reported. Cunningham said she was not the person bathing the child. There is one open case …
Pachacutec
12:54 pm on Friday, October 26, 2012
Yeah, yeah, "he's a kid, he's got problems," blah, blah, blah. He'll get a token "time-out" in a group home then be back on the streets. Meanwhile, his little victim will be dead FOREVER. more ›