Posted on 12/07/2025 2:03:09 PM PST by Phoenix8
What's new: Jury selection was set to begin on Monday morning for 22-year-old Darriynn Brown's capital murder trial for the death of 4-year-old Cash Gernon.
Instead, Brown pleaded guilty to a lesser murder charge and was immediately sentenced to life in prison.
He does have the possibility of parole.
4-year-old Cash Gernon Murdered
Darriynn Brown (2021) The backstory: Brown was charged with capital murder, as well as kidnapping and burglary, in connection to Gernon's death.
In May 2021, Gernon's body was found stabbed to death on Saddleridge Drive, eight blocks from his home in a southwest Dallas neighborhood.
"The sweetest little boy. He loved everybody," Cameron Mori told FOX 4 in a 2021 interview.
Mori’s mom had been taking care of Cash and his twin brother. She was friends with their father, who left them with her. Their mother was not around.
Police arrested Brown the same day the child's body was discovered. An arrest affidavit indicated that DNA evidence and video captured on a baby camera during the kidnapping linked Brown to the crime.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox4news.com ...
“Man” kidnapped the baby, literally sleeping in his crib and mistreated him to the extent it’s remains a dark, evil secret from the public. One rumor I heard is the baby’s body was so mutilated the person who found it thought it was roadkill.
Remember cash Gernon…
What does a person have to do to get the death penalty around here
If it had been a white guy murdering a black kid, he would have gotten the death penalty with no plea bargaining.
But even with the “DNA evidence and video captured on a baby camera during the kidnapping linked Brown to the crime”, the DA and judge accept the race card and offers the promise of parole.
Justice is flatlined, even in Texas.
Perhaps Prison Justice will assert itself.
As one of the founders of a crime victims rights group said in her book, when she built up the courage to go to the prison where the man who killed her beloved husband was, she passed laughing and joking men shooting baskets in the prison yard, working out with a variety of weight training equipment to build up muscles for when they got out, others in the TV room watching a movie and others who seemed to have adjusted to being fed three times a day while they sat around.
She said at that time when high speed internet was rare in homes, the prison computers were more advanced than she could afford.
Better to support the death penalty in all states.
He deserves the death penalty.
Maybe the babies Family will correct this decision.
it is an amazing culture though.
Why did they let him plea to a lesser charge. It was premeditated Capital Murder. If he wants to plead guilty in his death penalty charge, fine. But a plea for a lesser charge is evil.
I have read that the rumor is that the old fashioned “inmates take care of getting justice for child killers” is old and outdated. Still repeated as a leftover cliche but no longer applies to as many prisoners in 2025.
I have no way of verifying if that is true.
I did a search on Google for “do prisoners still attack child killers in prison” and found some cases are that higher protective custody work by the prison hierarchy means fewer prisoners get to do anything to the perps.
“...while the culture of violence against child killers remains strong in prison, institutional efforts to prevent these incidents by segregating offenders are a major factor in their survival.”
I agree. That sounds like laziness at best, and wokeism at worst.
“… What does a person have to do to get the death penalty around here…”
Have dirt on Hillary.
Yuk yuk.
Classy. Making jokes on a thread like this. Go back to DU.
Never been to du. My comment illustrates how warped our “justice system “ has become. Big crimes, no problem, little irritants lock ‘em up.
I hope he gets justice in prison since he did not get it in court.
In a saner age there would be no other possibility than the death penalty for such a heinous crime against an innocent child. But we’re not sane anymore.
I’m IN DFW and never heard about this.
I’ll try to remember that, Humor Police.
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