MI MI - Nevaeh Richardson, 9 days, Lincoln Park, 23 Nov 2007

[Amraann]

The father is an animal. He beat up his girlfriend before and put his stepfather in a coma for a week. He mutilated and murdered his own infant daughter. He has no right to life among even prisoners.

Yet they all still kept him around?? This sooo could have been prevented.

 

[concernedperson]

Yet they all still kept him around?? This sooo could have been prevented.

I agree. The mom is giving up on him now but it sounds like she practiced a lot denial prior to the murder. I guess she thought he would get better or grow up or something. Very wrong decision not to have him put away sooner.

 

[Maxine]

Mom, Adie Green,39, gave him away to an aunt when he was 3. She had very little to do with his life and is no saint.
I'm angry that the judge gave both parents probation after they were charged with cocaine, and Neveahs mom had to have a couple of baggies removed from her very pregnant body in Sept.
I wish Neveah had been removed from their care one second after her first breath.

 

[Mygirlsadie]

Oh my God...

 

[Amraann]

Mom, Adie Green,39, gave him away to an aunt when he was 3. She had very little to do with his life and is no saint.
I'm angry that the judge gave both parents probation after they were charged with cocaine, and Neveahs mom had to have a couple of baggies removed from her very pregnant body in Sept.
I wish Neveah had been removed from their care one second after her first breath.

It just seemed that so many people failed her.

 

[Reannan]

I am totally in support of the death penalty, but I have often asked myself if I would actually be able to pull the switch. I can honestly say that "Yes, I could pull the switch" with whoever murdered this baby in such a horrible, painful manner. With that said, however..... this case is also the reason that I give defense attorneys a shred of respect. From the article http://www.thenewsherald.com/stories/120207/loc_20071202003.shtml
I have to say that there is reasonable doubt. This guy is a total scum bag, but then the entire family appears to have baggage. Some of the sticking points for me are these: (bold and italic emphasis added by me) -

"Green (the Grandmother) and her husband were home at the time officers believe the infant was assaulted. Green said they were sleeping until being awakened by loud music being played by her son and his girlfriend."

Does this mean Mom was awake during the assault? This statement in the article:

"During the commute from Lincoln Park to Wyandotte, Richardson allegedly slapped his girlfriend across her face, grabbed her by her hair and threatened her should the baby die."

...this also demands explanation. What if SHE decided she didn't want the child, and decided a great way to get rid of the child was to frame him, was to "violate" the child with the curling iron? Why would HE rape the child with a curling iron? The article indicates he was drunk (and probably high IMO) that morning. Did they get into an argument and she became furious at him? This case demands a LOT of answers from forensics experts. Statistically speaking, it is obvious what has happened. Realistically speaking, I need to see more evidence before I am comfortable "pulling the switch." Am I crazy? I am normally right on-board with all of the rest of you guys, but my hinky meter is alarming right now with this case. :waitasec:

 

[imthemom]

I am totally in support of the death penalty, but I have often asked myself if I would actually be able to pull the switch. I can honestly say that "Yes, I could pull the switch" with whoever murdered this baby in such a horrible, painful manner. With that said, however..... this case is also the reason that I give defense attorneys a shred of respect. From the article http://www.thenewsherald.com/stories/120207/loc_20071202003.shtml
I have to say that there is reasonable doubt. This guy is a total scum bag, but then the entire family appears to have baggage. Some of the sticking points for me are these: (bold and italic emphasis added by me) -

"Green (the Grandmother) and her husband were home at the time officers believe the infant was assaulted. Green said they were sleeping until being awakened by loud music being played by her son and his girlfriend."

Does this mean Mom was awake during the assault? This statement in the article:

"During the commute from Lincoln Park to Wyandotte, Richardson allegedly slapped his girlfriend across her face, grabbed her by her hair and threatened her should the baby die."

...this also demands explanation. What if SHE decided she didn't want the child, and decided a great way to get rid of the child was to frame him, was to "violate" the child with the curling iron? Why would HE rape the child with a curling iron? The article indicates he was drunk (and probably high IMO) that morning. Did they get into an argument and she became furious at him? This case demands a LOT of answers from forensics experts. Statistically speaking, it is obvious what has happened. Realistically speaking, I need to see more evidence before I am comfortable "pulling the switch." Am I crazy? I am normally right on-board with all of the rest of you guys, but my hinky meter is alarming right now with this case. :waitasec:

No you are not crazy Reannan thats why there are defense attorneys. My aunt is a professor and defense attorney she has done some very high profile cases probono and gotten people off of the detah penality because she does not believe in it. She says everyone has a story and people just aren't born monsters and I have to agree. The mother of this man acts like he just became like this all by himself but I have to say someone like this must have had a horrific childhood himself. As for the loud music being played I asked myself the same question. The mother would have had to have been awake if this is when the assault took place therefore an accomplice or she did it herself. Seems though they were all afraid of this man and that is why they let him stay and never made him leave so I have to say I believe he did it or they both did and she went along with it.

 

[mysteriew]

The only question I have is where was the grandfather when this happened? Mom was reportedly asleep, grandma was reportedly asleep, that leaves both men unaccounted for.

 

[believe09]

I think Mom slept through the loud music because she also was drunk or high, IMO. I think you all raise good points, but I don't believe she did that to her child. I can't-this is my own personal threshold. The defense attorney is doing a good job of tossing mud to see what sticks-the bottom line is that the perp would absolutely singing like a lark if the mom did it or participated. He is not one to assume responsibility for anything.

 

[dee10134]

I'm not so sure HE did this to the baby. I'm beginning to think the mother had something to do with all of this. This is such an inconceivable crime to even think about, but......

I think his reaction in the car was more of a father that was pissed off at his baby's mother for her doing something like this to the baby, than of someone that assaulted and killed his baby.

I saw on a report that when she was very pregnant, they caught Neveah's mother with baggies of cocaine inside of her body that they had to retrieve? Is this right? If so, she doesn't really seem like a mother that really WANTED this child. To put the unborn baby in harm's way by stuffing baggies of coke into your body is NOT the action of a mom that wants her child....

I don't know what to think. This is just sickening!

 

[KansasCutie]

I saw on a report that when she was very pregnant, they caught Neveah's mother with baggies of cocaine inside of her body that they had to retrieve? Is this right? If so, she doesn't really seem like a mother that really WANTED this child. To put the unborn baby in harm's way by stuffing baggies of coke into your body is NOT the action of a mom that wants her child....

I don't know what to think. This is just sickening!

wait. what does it mean putting baggies of cocaine inside of her while prego??Like the actual BAG going inside of her by swallowing it or the other way?

 

[Truthful Lies]

I don't pray..but my GOD. I'm praying for this little girl.

 

[Maxine]

The other way. Witnesses say she allowed the drug dealer to hide the cocaine in her....private area.

 

[believe09]

The other way. Witnesses say she allowed the drug dealer to hide the cocaine in her....private area.

I don't deny that she is a druggie and an idiot-I do have a firmly held belief that he would be telling everyone that she did it if he knew or had an inkling that she did. I admire the police for taking the time to sort it out-but I think they got it right.

 

[Maxine]

Oh I agree. Her reputation is fairly skanky. I would not be surprised if she was involved, but at Christopher's request.
My mind just can't quite comprehend people like this.

 

[Beffie]

Another update from local paper.

http://www.thenewsherald.com/stories/120507/loc_20071205003.shtml

 

[believe09]

Another update from local paper.

http://www.thenewsherald.com/stories/120507/loc_20071205003.shtml

OMG, OMG, OMG-you are better off in heaven little angel baby then trying to overcome those injuries.

 

[southcitymom]

If, as the article states, it was a finger that tore her rectum, I wonder how they know it was the father's?

 

[KansasCutie]

If, as the article states, it was a finger that tore her rectum, I wonder how they know it was the father's?

In a way im glad he didnt use his private part. That would have been even more awful for her...not that it wasnt already awful enough, but still.

 

[MsPooh]

From the above article:

His mother, Adie Green, has been outspoken against her son. She said he has been in boot camp and drug rehabilitation since dropping out of high school.
She said Richardson has a longstanding alcohol and drug problem, and that he was drunk on the day the alleged sexual assault occurred.
When Green learned the details of how her granddaughter died, she just shook her head. "That's beyond sick," she said, sitting in front of the family's Christmas tree in view of wrapped presents that had been bought for Nevaeh before she was killed.

It's really refreshing to see that his mother isn't defending him...seems to be the case in so many of these cases...