Found Deceased FL - Alejandro Ripley, 9, autistic, Miami-Dade County, May 2020 *mother arrested*

[moody_chicago]

And if the child retaliates physically, the parents can call 911, have the kid hauled off and dropped into the system. They go on about their lives. Maybe the child gets the help they need, maybe not. You’re right it is so messed up. It’s heartbreaking. JMO

Exactly! It’s so hard to have faith in the system but I try to remember at least there’s a system at all. And at least it’s not like how it was back when we’d just ship our kids off never to see them again because they had a learning disability? I guess. Shrug. Lol

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Daryl Trawick ruled in an order released Thursday that Patricia Ripley, 46, is indigent for certain costs that include depositions, private investigators and experts who specialize in trying to keep defendants off Florida's Death Row, the Miami Herald reported. Similar death penalty cases have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in experts, investigators and other expenses.

Prosecutors objected, pointing out that her family owns an expensive home in South Florida and land in the Dominican Republic.

Ripley is still currently responsible for paying the $300,000 being charged by her private defense lawyers. If the judge finds her indigent for attorney fees, she'll be represented by the Miami-Dade Public Defender's Office.
Tax dollars to help defend woman accused of drowning son