Posted on 05/16/2005 11:47:58 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
A Chicago woman was charged today with first-degree murder in the weekend hanging death of her 4-year-old son in their Northwest Side home, CLTV reported.
The Cook County medical examiner's office initially declared accidental the Saturday afternoon death of Jaqueir Dancy, but police this morning reclassified the incident as a homicide and charged the youth's mother, authorities said.
Nicole Harris, 23, of the 2000 block of North LaPorte Avenue, is in custody pending a bond hearing in Cook County Criminal Court, police said.
The boy's parents found Jaqueir on the floor next to a bunk bed shortly after 4:30 p.m. Saturday, police said.
He was still alive when he was transported to Resurrection Medical Center but was pronounced dead shortly after 6 p.m. at the hospital, according to the medical examiner's office.
An autopsy Sunday returned a finding of accidental death, but police subsequently reclassified the case as a homicide. Their reasons for doing so were not immediately available.
The state Department of Children and Family Services received a call to its hotline about the boy's death Saturday night, WGN-AM 720 reported. What the caller told DCFS was not disclosed.
The agency reportedly had no prior contact with the family.
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It says Mom charged but person charged has different name.
Story says parents found the child.
Very poorly written?
What has this country come to? Parents killing their children, children killing their parents.
Yeah, it's kind of a sloppy first report. It could be that she's not married to the dad and goes by a different last name, and that they told police they "found" the boy "on the floor", which they're not buying, obviously.
Yes, I noticed the same thing. My guess is that the child was being raised by someone other than his biological mother and that the biological mother is the murderer.
Jaqueir?
The story doesn't say the boy was hanged - just that his parents found him next to his bed. Where did that information come from?
Many Women need to be Spayed and Nuetered! as they should NEVER have children....
I think when the full story comes out, the part about the parents finding him next to his bed was their original excuse regarding what happened, which is why it was originally classified as an accident. An autopsy probably indicated hanging, instead.
Yeah, me too. WTH is wrong with some parents today?! This is happening more and more often.
At least this innocent little boy has had his tears wiped away by his Creator, and will never suffer again.
But his mother is going to have hell to pay, literally.
Ask Justice Kennedy and assoiciated ilk.
Im not sure about IL, but if we could get a change of venue to Texas her life expectancy will be greatly reduced.
Good goin Chicago, every week it's more than just average murder, it's young girls butchered, young men hanged, taxi drivers roled over repeatedly by their own taxis, 2 men stoned to death on 22nd and Columbus...
Then there's the Chicago Murderers' Major League All-Stars: Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, Al Capone, el Rukns....
Wow, Chicago, this conservative is really impressed by King Richard II and his Socialist Utopia!
From Romans 1:
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Good grief!
I wonder if the -eisha rule applies to this name.
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