GUILTY CA - Kayleigh Slusher, 3, beaten to death, Napa, 30 Jan 2014

[Meryl12]

This poor child's mother (and her bf) are detoxed now, so they are about as 'unstoned' as they will ever be. Now they have to listen to all the details about what they both did to poor little Kayleigh, and they have to keep in mind that there is a very judgemental jury watching their every movement and every expression on their faces. (Welcome to the rest of their lives).

 

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Kayleigh murder trial: Forensic specialist describes the death scene

The Kayleigh Slusher murder trial entered its second week in Napa County Superior Court Monday with jurors being shown more graphic photos of the 3-year-old girl who was found dead in her mother’s apartment in January 2014.

“It seemed that the body had been staged in a way,” testified Tara Fahey, the former Napa Police forensic specialist who responded to the crime scene at Kayleigh’s home at the Royal Garden Apartments on Feb. 1, 2014.

“It looked like she was beaten,” Fahey said, followed by an objection from Krueger’s attorney Jim McEntee.

Fahey testified that Krueger’s apartment had been dark with closed blinds, curtains covering various windows and even a taped-over light switch preventing it from being turned on. The small two-bedroom apartment was dirty and disorganized with a lot of clutter, she said.

“It smelled very strongly of marijuana and had that ashtray kind of smell to it,” Fahey said.

Empty Banquet frozen food containers were found in the kitchen and in Krueger’s bedroom. The apartment’s freezer was empty, she said.

“I had thought it was a little odd to see that the shelving unit (in the freezer) had been removed,” Fahey said. At the time, she said, she had no information about Kayleigh’s body having been stored in the freezer.

In his testimony Monday afternoon, Napa Police Officer Peter Piersig echoed Fahey’s statements about the home being messy. Piersig testified that the homes of drug users may be messy because the “drug becomes the sole focus of the person’s life.”

Piersig, though, didn’t find any drugs in Krueger’s apartment when he assisted in a search on Feb. 3, 2014 – the day after Krueger and Warner were found and arrested in El Cerrito. What he did find was drug paraphernalia, he said – a piece of plastic that may have been used for methamphetamine, a pipe that appeared to have been used for marijuana and a marijuana grinder.

To his knowledge, he said, none of the items were ever tested.

Lawsuit says Napa police and county social workers contributed to Kayleigh Slusher’s death

While Kayleigh Slusher’s mother faces a murder charge in criminal court, Kayleigh’s father is moving forward with a civil lawsuit filed against the City of Napa, County of Napa and several police officers and social workers alleging that their negligence contributed to Kayleigh’s death.

The suit alleges that four officers with the Napa Police Department and two social workers with Napa County Child Welfare Services were notified of possible drug use, unsafe living conditions and child abuse in Kayleigh’s home before she died yet did not address or investigate the reports adequately, ultimately allowing for Kayleigh’s death.

“The most important thing we want to accomplish in this case is to bring to light the failures of the police and the county child welfare services department so this never has to happen to any other child because it took more than just the criminal defendants to kill Kayleigh,” Michael J. Haddad, attorney for Kayleigh and her father, Jason Slusher, said in a Register interview.

 

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Warner admits 'spanking' Kayleigh Slusher in interview with Napa Police

Defendant Ryan Scott Warner admitted to spanking Kayleigh Slusher, but denied abusing her during his interview with Napa Police on Feb. 2, 2014, the day after the 3-year-old’s body was found.

Video of his interview was shown to the jurors assigned to his case in Napa County Superior Court on Tuesday afternoon.

After being read his rights, Warner lets out a deep breath and begins to tell Detective Hess the nature of his and Krueger’s relationship. Although the two never put a “label” on their relationship, Warner said that he had been staying at Krueger’s apartment and sleeping in her bed for six months. During that time, he said, he and Kayleigh became “close.”

At one point during the interview, he characterized his role in Kayleigh’s life as fatherly, but the two would say that they were “best friends.”

When Hess asked Warner about what happened to Kayleigh, Warner said that Kayleigh became sick after possibly drinking cleaning solution on Jan. 29, 2014.

“I remember going into the bathroom and Kayleigh was kind of hunched over,” Warner told Hess. He said that he found the measuring cup the cleaning solution was in near Kayleigh as she got sick in the bathroom. Kayleigh told him that she had put fresh water in the cup before drinking it, he said. That was in the early evening, he said, before Napa Police came to the apartment at 2060 Wilkins Avenue for a welfare check.

Interrupting Warner, Hess asks why neither of them called the paramedics or police to help Kayleigh.

“I was scared of the reality of what would happen,” Warner said. “I was scared we could get in trouble or something like that.” The two of them, he said, had been using methamphetamine earlier and were both high.

Warner said that he listened to Krueger “deal with Kayleigh for a while” before stepping in and helping Kayleigh go to the bathroom. At about 4 a.m., he said, he helped Kayleigh on the toilet and, when she said she was going to be able to poop, he gave her a hug and a kiss, told her he was “proud” of her and, before he left the room, Kayleigh gave him a thumbs-up. Warner then went into the bedroom with Warner and fell asleep, he said.

When Krueger and Warner woke up 12 hours later at 4 p.m., he said he told her to go check on Kayleigh. The next thing he said he heard was Krueger saying “Why is my daughter sleeping on the bathroom floor?” Then she said “Oh my God, Ryan, she’s dead,” he said.

After finding Kayleigh, the two of them discussed calling the police, but didn’t, he said.

“Now I’m kinda like scared, in shock,” Warner said. “It feels like we’re gonna get in trouble for this s***.” They knew Kayleigh drank something that might have made her sick, but they didn’t take action, he said.

The following day, Jan. 31, Warner said that he put Kayleigh’s body in a plastic bag, then put that bag into a red duffel bag.

“Trust me I felt f***ing demented,” he tells Hess.

Then, he said, he and Krueger left the apartment to take a walk. They ended up going to Target and buying some ice cream, he said.

“We come back and it’s like OK, reality has set back in,” Warner said, noting that Kayleigh’s body was still in the apartment. When the two decide that they are going to leave Napa, he said that he decided to put the red duffel bag carrying Kayleigh’s body into the freezer so that her body would be preserved for an autopsy. An autopsy, he said, would reveal the truth about Kayleigh’s death, which he believed was caused by the solution she drank.

Kayleigh’s body was in the freezer for about six hours, he said, before Krueger decided on Feb. 1 that she had to get her “out of there.” She tucked Kayleigh’s little naked body into bed, covered her with blankets, read her a story and gave her some toys, he said.

The jury was shown two other videos before being dismissed for the day, both seemingly bolstering prosecution’s argument that the defendants were acting normal even while Kayleigh was dead in the apartment. One video showed Krueger and Warner at the South Napa Marketplace Target buying ice cream and another showed the two of them riding the AirTrain at San Francisco International Airport.

“They looked to be having a good time,” Hess said of the airport security footage. Warner and Krueger could be seen talking, giggling and snuggling, he said.

Both juries were present during several witness testimonies Tuesday morning, including during testimony from forensic toxicologist and expert witness Nadina Giorgi who said that neither Warner nor Krueger had methamphetamine in their systems on the day of their arrests. They did, however, test positive for marijuana, she said.

That doesn’t mean that they hadn’t done any methamphetamine, but, if they had, it wasn’t within a time frame that was detectable, Giorgi said. Depending on the individual and the amount of the drug used, she said, meth can be detected in the blood for several days.

When Deputy District Attorney Kecia Lind asked “hypothetically” if methamphetamine could be detected almost four days after use, giving a time-frame from 8:40 p.m. Jan. 29 until 4 p.m. Feb. 2, Giorgi said “probably” not.

 

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Kayleigh murder trial: Child's mom admits daily drug use before her daughter's death

The day after her 3-year-old daughter was found dead in her east Napa apartment, her mother, Sara Lynn Krueger, admitted to a Napa Police detective that she and her boyfriend, Ryan Scott Warner, were using drugs daily in the days leading up to Kayleigh Slusher’s death.

She didn’t get medical help for Kayleigh, who was displaying symptoms of illness, because she had been using methamphetamine and feared authorities finding out, Krueger said in a video filmed on Feb. 2, 2014.

Footage of her interview was shown to the jurors assigned to her case in Napa County Superior Court on Wednesday morning.

When Hess asked why she hadn’t called the paramedics on Jan. 29 when she learned Kayleigh may have gotten sick from the mixture, Krueger said that she didn’t want to get in trouble since they had been smoking meth.

“I wanted to call Poison Control,” she said, but was dissuaded when Warner told her that Kayleigh was doing what she needed to do by throwing up.

When she found Kayleigh dead on the afternoon of Jan. 30, Krueger said that she began screaming.

By mid-morning, both juries were back in the courtroom to hear testimony by Leslie Severe, an investigator with the Napa County District Attorney’s Office and the DA’s lead investigator on the case.

Severe testified that Krueger had taken Kayleigh to Queen of the Valley Medical Center’s Emergency Room seven times between July 2010 and January 2013. Each time, it seemed that Kayleigh was only suffering from a minor ailment, she said, such as a fever, coughing, diarrhea or rash. Krueger had contacted Kaiser Permanente approximately 11 different times for similar ailments, Severe said.

Text messages from Krueger’s phone records showed that she had told Robin Slusher, Kayeigh’s paternal grandmother, that Kayleigh had been sick in mid-December as well as in mid-January, Severe testified. Krueger’s phone records, however, indicated that she had not contacted any medical professionals during either incident, Severe said.

The week before Kayleigh’s death, Severe, who looked into Krueger’s Internet searches and web browsing history, said that Krueger had looked up things like “Is Vitamin E good for bruises?” and “How to get rid of bruises now?”

 

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Kayleigh murder trial: 'Fatal child abuse and neglect' caused girl's death, says forensic pathologist

Cohen performed an autopsy on Kayleigh’s body on Feb. 3, 2014, two days after she was found by police dead in her mother’s apartment at 2060 Wilkins Ave. in Napa.

Kayleigh died from complications of mesenteric contusion and small intestinal hematoma caused by fatal child abuse and neglect, Cohen testified. She suffered multiple blunt impact injuries to the head, torso and extremities and her death was classified as a homicide.

During his external examination of Kayleigh’s body, Cohen said that he found approximately 41 visible injuries – a combination of both bruises and abrasions covering her forehead, face, torso, abdominal area, back, buttocks, legs and arms. The external exam, which typically takes between five and 10 minutes, took several hours, he said.

“When I first saw Kayleigh, what struck me within seconds was that, at her abdomen, the skin was green and that was a red flag that I could be dealing with an abdominal catastrophe,” Cohen said. After a person dies, the first part of their body to turn green is usually the lower right abdomen, he said. “This was not the case with Kayleigh,” he said, “Her entire abdomen was green.”

It’s most likely that the lethal injury was inflicted upon Kayleigh between two welfare checks performed by Napa Police – the one the morning of Jan. 27 and the one on the evening of Jan. 29, Cohen said. In comparing officer descriptions of Kayleigh for both days, Cohen said that it’s clear that Kayleigh was not herself on Jan. 29.

“Kayleigh was not interactive, she was sitting on her mother’s lap, she vomited – she was not the same Kayleigh as two days before,” Cohen said. Vomiting as well as pain, nausea, discomfort, loss of appetite and ultimately unconsciousness and death would have been symptoms of Kayleigh’s lethal injury, he testified.

"In my opinion, it would have been very clear that Kayleigh was in harm’s way after receiving the lethal injury,” he said. If it had been treated, he added, Kayleigh would have lived.

The prosecution showed nearly 40 photographs of Kayleigh’s autopsy to the jurors using a projector. Photos depicting bruising underneath Kayleigh’s scalp were discussed, but were not shown.

Jurors appeared pensive and composed as they were shown photos of multiple bruises and abrasions on Kayleigh’s nude body as well as photos of organs and incisions.

Their tears didn’t start until Hafenstein ended his examination of Cohen by having the refrigerator that had been in Krueger's apartment rolled up to the front of the gallery, adjacent to jurors.

Hafenstein put a mannequin the size of Kayleigh’s body into the freezer where both Krueger and Warner said she had been placed after her death.

Once the 41-inch mannequin was placed in the freezer, Hafenstein shut the door and asked Cohen if Kayleigh's injuries could have occurred when she was put in the freezer. Cohen said they could not have.

 

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Prosecution rests in Kayleigh Slusher trial, Krueger’s father testifies for the defense

Kayleigh Slusher with pajamas on and her hair pulled back was talkative and high-spirited as her mother filmed her opening presents on what would turn out to be the 3-year-old’s final Christmas.

“What is it?” asks her mother, Sara Lynn Krueger, pointing out a toy her daughter had just unwrapped.

“A doggy!” squeals Kayleigh.

Napa County Deputy District Attorney Lance Hafenstein showed the three-minute video to the court on Monday morning not long before resting his case against Krueger, 27, and Ryan Scott Warner, 29, the couple accused of murdering Kayleigh in early 2014.

Hafenstein displayed the video while questioning his final witness, Dr. James Crawford-Jakubiak, medical director of The Center for Child Protection at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and an expert on child abuse and neglect.

“Kayleigh clearly spoke in a manner that anyone listening to her would know what she was saying,” testified Crawford-Jakubiak, who has reviewed the child’s medical and autopsy records, after watching the video. As the jury could see in the Christmas footage, Kayleigh was “fully understandable,” he said.

Krueger’s attorney Jim McEntee opened his defense by calling Linda Reed, former owner of Napa day care center Sunshine & Rainbows, to the stand.

Reed testified that she knew Krueger because Kayleigh used to attend the day care and, at times, Krueger would work as a substitute teacher.

“Yes, I’d seen her with her child and I would never have asked her if I didn’t think she was OK,” Reed said. But really, she said, she didn’t know Krueger very well and didn’t know much about their home life. Krueger worked for her for only 37½ hours between April 2013 and July 2013, she said.

McEntee’s next witness was Sara Krueger’s father, John Krueger. Upon seeing him, Sara Krueger’s lips frowned as she appeared to hold back tears.

John Krueger said that he, his daughter and granddaughter Kayleigh had spent Christmas together in 2013.

“We were gonna have a full day of dinner, presents and a fun time,” he said. Kayleigh, he said, received “lots of presents,” including a large dollhouse that his brother remodeled for her.

Krueger said that he had noticed his daughter losing weight, but didn’t suspect that she had been using drugs.

“I encouraged her to keep it up,” he said of the weight loss.

“I wasn’t too impressed,” Krueger said of Warner. “I had offered him some work helping me split wood and his reaction was that he didn’t need my charity.”

Although he seemed defensive of his daughter, Krueger admitted that when mid-January came, he had suspicions that she was using drugs. He confronted her via a text message on Jan. 9, 2014.

“I was upset that Sara did not enroll in school,” he said. “She’s a very bright young lady.”

 

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Kayleigh Slusher’s mother plans to testify during murder trial

Moments before court was unexpectedly adjourned for the day on Tuesday, counsel advised the court that Sara Lynn Krueger, the mother accused of murdering her 3-year-old daughter Kayleigh Slusher in 2014, plans to testify on her own behalf.

Krueger’s defense attorney, Jim McEntee, informed the court of her decision before jurors entered the courtroom at 9 a.m., according to court documents.

When jurors were seated, Judge Francisca P. Tisher announced that due to an “unforeseen emergency” court would not be in session. The trial is scheduled to continue at 9 a.m. on Wednesday.

 

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Kayleigh Slusher's mom takes the stand to tell of her own abuse

Krueger reconnected with Warner on Facebook and, when he was talking about killing himself, moved him into her apartment. Krueger knew Warner from when she was a teenager – the two of them had a brief relationship in the summer of 2005 when Warner was staying with family in Napa. Krueger admitted that she thought she had been in love with Warner and that the two of them were “inseparable” that summer.

She didn’t know that Warner was still using meth, she said, but when he pulled out a pipe the same night that he moved in, she couldn’t help herself.

“That’s a trigger for me,” she said. “If I see it, I can’t say no.”

Lind then asked if Krueger thought that she was as good of a mother when she was high.

“I wasn’t my 100 percent, no,” she said. “I’d say I dropped down to a 75.”

“I told him to pack up his stuff and get out of my house … because I was done arguing; I wanted to get clean; he didn’t want to get clean,” she said.

During cross examination, Lind questioned Krueger about text messages she exchanged with Warner after she told him to leave.

“If you wanted Mr. Warner out of your home so bad, can you explain to me why you sent him a text message … that said ‘I’m so sorry. I really hope you’re home when I get home.’”

“I don’t remember that,” Krueger replied.

Lind also questioned Krueger about her sleep schedule the week Kayleigh died. In phone calls Krueger made to family and friends while she was in jail, Lind said, Krueger said that she hadn’t slept much in the days leading up to Kayleigh’s death. In her testimony, though, Krueger said that she had slept not only the morning before Kayleigh was found but in the days leading up to it as well.

Krueger testified Wednesday that she slept nearly every night or at least every other night while using meth, but that Warner would stay up three or four days at a time.

Lind asked Krueger if this was a defense tactic – letting the jurors think that Warner had more time with Kayleigh when she wasn’t around.

Krueger denied the Lind’s interpretation.

After sleeping for 12 hours, Krueger said that she woke up around 4 p.m. Jan. 30 to find Kayleigh dead. She said that she noticed a bruise on Kayleigh’s butt before Warner quickly took Kayleigh’s body from her and placed Kayleigh in her room. Warner said that she shouldn’t call the police because he was afraid they would think he did something to Kayleigh, Krueger said.

“I asked him what happened, why she had a bruise on her butt and he told me that she was in time out the day before … (and) he spanked her,” Krueger told the court. “He said he didn’t think it was that hard but apparently it was and I told him that a spanking on the butt isn’t gonna kill her…”

Krueger said she was convinced that Kayleigh had been poisoned by the cleaning solution she thought she drank and that it killed her.

 

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Therapist says that Krueger is a 'battered woman'

Jurors were shown additional video of Sara Lynn Krueger’s emotional interview with Napa Police during court on Thursday. Krueger, 27, is accused along with former boyfriend Ryan Scott Warner, 29, of murdering her daughter, 3-year-old Kayleigh Slusher, in 2014.

Both defendants are being tried at the same time in the same courtroom; however, their cases are being heard by separate juries in Napa County Superior Court. Jurors were shown two videos Thursday morning of Krueger’s interview with Napa Police following her arrest on Feb. 2, 2014 – the day after Kayleigh’s body was found in her east Napa apartment.

Dr. Linda Barnard who interviewed Krueger while she was in jail, said she thinks Krueger is a “battered woman.” Barnard’s testimony corroborated testimony given by Krueger herself on various traumatic events that have happened in her life including suffering abuse from both Jason Slusher, Kayleigh’s father, and Warner.

“People who have experienced a lot of trauma … learn to accommodate abuse or trauma,” Barnard said. Krueger’s numerous instances of trauma stacked up, and, according to Barnard, after Krueger saw Kayleigh dead on the bathroom floor, she went into a dissociative state – meaning that she was able to separate her actions from her feelings. Krueger’s actions after finding Kayleigh – for example, leaving with Warner – could be explained by her response to the trauma, she said.

 

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Kayleigh died because her mother failed her, Napa DA says in closing argument

Hafenstein called the abuse Kayleigh suffered an “unspeakable evil” before pulling a child-sized mannequin out of a black garbage bag.

“Sara Krueger is a defendant who gave as good as she got,” Hafenstein said. Yes, she was a victim of domestic violence committed by Jason Slusher, Kayleigh’s father, and no, she was no stranger to violence and threats, he said. But Krueger had a short fuse herself and, according to Slusher’s mother, Robin Slusher, had hit Kayleigh’s father with a 2x4, Hafenstein said.

Hafenstein went through each of his witnesses’ testimonies and showed how many opportunities Krueger had to get help for her child. In addition to concerned grandparents, she also had concerned friends and neighbors, he said. She had taken Kayleigh to get medical care before, so she knew how to get it for her when her daughter was feeling sick thanks to a blow to her abdomen that would eventually lead to infection and death, he said.

Hafenstein offered three theories: Krueger inflicted all the injuries, both she and Warner shared in inflicting the injuries, or Warner inflicted all of the injuries and she aided and abetted him.

In all three cases, he said, Krueger should be found guilty.

Kayleigh murder trial: Defense attorneys rest their cases

 

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Kayleigh murder trial: Krueger jury reaches verdict, Warner jury begins deliberations

Before closing arguments were finished in the Ryan Scott Warner case on Thursday afternoon, jurors reached a verdict in the case against Sara Lynn Krueger.

Jurors assigned to Krueger’s case went into deliberations Wednesday afternoon and returned their verdict by Thursday afternoon. The verdict will remained sealed until the Warner jury also reaches a verdict.

During closing arguments on Thursday, Deputy District Attorney Lance Hafenstein said that no matter which defendant was the perpetrator, the other at least aided and abetted, making them both equally guilty.

 

[Knox]

Thank you JusticeWillBeServed for diligently posting for Kayleigh :loveyou:

 

[Knox]

“It just doesn’t go along with your drug using program to have this 3-year-old running around,” Hafenstein said, so the defendants shut her up.
http://napavalleyregister.com/news/...cle_9782816c-9316-51f8-b7bb-3060ef961ae2.html

Kayleigh had a Grandmother who would have been willing to take her. LE came out and did welfare checks. Still this beautiful child died. How do we stop this before it happens?

 

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Murder trial jurors break for weekend with no verdict announced in Warner case

Jurors deliberating the case against Ryan Scott Warner had not announced a verdict as of Friday afternoon and were excused for the weekend. Deliberations are expected to continue on Tuesday.

 

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Juries render guilty verdicts in Slusher murder trial

http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/juries-render-guilty-verdicts-in-slusher-murder-trial/article_ee514a11-a564-5f57-98ab-3327e0c685d1.html

After nearly a month of hearing testimony, the dual juries in the Kayleigh Slusher murder trial found both the mother and her boyfriend guilty of first degree murder with special allegations of torture and assault causing the death of a child.

The verdicts were read just before noon Tuesday in Napa County Superior Court. The jury deciding the fate of the mother, Sara Lynn Krueger, 27, gave its verdict first, then Ryan Scott Warner's jury rendered an identical finding.

Judge Francisca P. Tisher set sentencing for July 27.

 

[gitana1]

This poor child never knew what it felt like to be loved or comforted, she never knew the safety, security and contentment of a mothers love, let alone any nurture or encouragement of a loving and protecting mother.
So many others would have loved to adopt her.

The thing is, she actually did know what it was to be loved and comforted
and to know the safety of a mothers love. By all accounts, this was a cherished, beloved child. She had extended family- grandparents and aunts- who adored her and helped raise her. Her mother was said to be devoted. Even overprotected. Then she got with that creepy boyfriend and got back on meth.

Ultimately, the drugs and the man were more important than the sweet, perfect child.

Kayleigh had a Grandmother who would have been willing to take her. LE came out and did welfare checks. Still this beautiful child died. How do we stop this before it happens?

I don't get it. She knew her child was being abused. Some people heard the mother yelling at her in the days before she died, "If you don't shut up I will hit you again." as Kayleigh cried.

She also knew rhat even though Kayleigh was already potty trained, the weird boyfriend insisted on potty training her and seemed obsessed by her. And he also spanked her to the point of bruising her.

If they wanted to do drugs and not be bothered by a child, why not simply let one of the grandparents have the kid. Let CPS take her. Simply say, "it's too much right now. Please take her until I'm sober."

Instead, her witch of a mother was evasive with CPS, hid the child's injuries and did all she could to keep the baby with her to die. I don't get it? Why are these druggie types so insistent on keeping a child they don't care about or want? It's like a strange possession thing. Or point of pride. No one is going to tell them what to do with their kid.

Makes me sick. I want to write the mother. Ask her if it was all worth it. If that man she had and her drug binge was worth watching her child slowly die, losing the best thing she ever had in life and spending the rest of her life in prison. Monster.

 

[Knox]

The thing is, she actually did know what it was to be loved and comforted
and to know the safety of a mothers love. By all accounts, this was a cherished, beloved child. She had extended family- grandparents and aunts- who adored her and helped raise her. Her mother was said to be devoted. Even overprotected. Then she got with that creepy boyfriend and got back on meth.

Ultimately, the drugs and the man were more important than the sweet, perfect child.



I don't get it. She knew her child was being abused. Some people heard the mother yelling at her in the days before she died, "If you don't shut up I will hit you again." as Kayleigh cried.

She also knew rhat even though Kayleigh was already potty trained, the weird boyfriend insisted on potty training her and seemed obsessed by her. And he also spanked her to the point of bruising her.

If they wanted to do drugs and not be bothered by a child, why not simply let one of the grandparents have the kid. Let CPS take her. Simply say, "it's too much right now. Please take her until I'm sober."

Instead, her witch of a mother was evasive with CPS, hid the child's injuries and did all she could to keep the baby with her to die. I don't get it? Why are these druggie types so insistent on keeping a child they don't care about or want? It's like a strange possession thing. Or point of pride. No one is going to tell them what to do with their kid.

Makes me sick. I want to write the mother. Ask her if it was all worth it. If that man she had and her drug binge was worth watching her child slowly die, losing the best thing she ever had in life and spending the rest of her life in prison. Monster.

I think many times it's about welfare benefits. Remember Jerice Hunter?

 

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Krueger and Warner get life prison sentences for murder of 3-year-old Kayleigh Slusher

http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/krueger-and-warner-get-life-prison-sentences-for-murder-of/article_12d30ae8-f9bd-5b3e-b913-c79f84beb282.html

The sentencing was held before Judge Francisca P. Tisher despite a request to continue the sentencing by Krueger’s attorney, Jim McEntee. The request was denied and both Krueger and Warner were denied probation and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility for parole for the murder conviction and special allegation and 25-years to life in prison for the assault conviction.

Kayleigh’s paternal grandmother, Robin Slusher, was first to make her victim impact statement to the court.

“How did we get here? I’ll never understand,” Slusher said, directing her words to Sara Krueger, who was crying while seated beside her attorney. Krueger never had any problem asking for money or clothes, but if she had asked for help when she “needed it most” Kayleigh would still be alive right now, Slusher said, tearfully.

For the first time since the trial began, Kayleigh’s father, Jason Slusher, who was incarcerated when his daughter was killed, made his feelings known through a prepared statement.

“It is very difficult for me to discuss Kayleigh’s death,” he said. “I feel like Kayleigh was the only right thing that happened in my life.”

 

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Family of Tortured and Murdered 3-Year-Old Girl to Receive $5 Million in Wrongful Death Lawsuit

January 03, 2019

"Nearly five years after 3-year-old Kayleigh Slusher was tortured and murdered by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend, Kayleigh’s relatives will receive $5 million in a wrongful death lawsuit.

The settlement, announced on Wednesday, calls for the city and county of Napa, California, to each pay $2.5 million to Kayleigh’s father, Jason Slusher, and her grandparents, Robin and Benny Slusher....

In May 2015, Kayleigh’s father and grandparents filed a lawsuit against the city and county in federal court, alleging that the Napa Police Department and Child Welfare Services staff did not properly investigate allegations that the 3-year-old was abused and neglected by her mother, according to multiple local outlets....."

Family of Tortured and Murdered 3-Year-Old Girl to Receive $5 Million in Wrongful Death Lawsuit

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