Posted on 03/19/2025 3:38:32 PM PDT by CFW
The family of an 11-year-old Chicago boy murdered last year by his mother’s ex-boyfriend the day after he was released from prison is suing the state — including the embattled Prisoner Review Board and Illinois Department of Corrections— for negligence.
Jayden Perkins, an accomplished young dancer, was stabbed to death last March while his mother, Laterria Smith, sustained “multiple life-threatening stab wounds to her neck, back, and chest while desperately trying to protect her children,” according to one of the lawsuits she filed last week. Smith was pregnant at the time, while her then-5-year-old son witnessed the stabbing.
Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the attack last week, Smith filed a pair of complaints — one against the PRB in the Illinois Court of Claims and another in Cook County Circuit Court. The latter lawsuit names not only the PRB, but also its former chair and another member who resigned after the murder, plus an executive director appointed in the aftermath.
Additionally, the suit names IDOC, its acting director, the city of Chicago, the Chicago Police Department, Cook County, its Sheriff’s Department and elected sheriff. The filing claims that together, the defendants represented a system that failed to prevent Jayden’s death.
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The judge scheduled a hearing for March 13, 2024 — the morning of the attack. But in the interim, a PRB panel heard Brand’s case and voted to release him, citing lack of evidence corroborating Smith’s allegations. Brand was released from Stateville on March 12, 2024.
The next day, Brand forced his way into Smith’s apartment as she was leaving to drop her two sons off at school, according to reporting from the Chicago Tribune at the time.
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**Jayden Perkins, an accomplished young dancer**
11 years old and accomplished?
SOME KIDS ARE====PARTICULARLY TAP
hope the board has to pay out of their own pocket, I know likely won’t happen, but it should.
I remember this heartbreaking case.
These earlier articles were found with the keyword “jbpritzker’:
“Illinois Convict Released Early Murders 11-Year-Old Boy, State Sen. ‘Disgusted’ by Pritzker, Parole Board” (3/8/24)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4227573/posts
“Illinois Republicans propose overhaul for Gov. Pritzker’s ‘anti-victim’ parole board after stabbing” (4/2/24)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4228598/posts
Agree, of course. My obsession over the faulty criminal justice system began when I was in my twenties. I have decided so far not to tell the true story in my biography page on FR (which is blank).
“11 years old and accomplished?”
Be nice, take it to mean ‘accomplished for his age’.
And now the poor kid is murdered, so we’ll never get to know how much he might have accomplished. In dance or any other endeavour. Thanks to a bunch of Lefty idiots.
Every judge, politician, and panel that allows criminals to go free should be charged with the crime the criminals commit when they are let go. That would make them think twice before they let these dregs of society go free.
**“11 years old and accomplished?”
Be nice, take it to mean ‘accomplished for his age’.**
It’s the victimology the media runs with. I can remember an ‘experienced traveler’ was murdered. Female, 21 and hitch-hiking.
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