It doesn't feel like this was 13 years ago!


Karleen Gribble


Australia


 


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/nyregion/2-million-for-mother-wrongfully-c
harged-in-babys-death.html?_r=1


13 Years Later, a $2 Million Award


By CARA BUCKLEY
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/cara_buckley/i
ndex.html?inline=nyt-per> 


Published: April 22, 2011 


 

In March 1998, a 6-week-old girl named Shannell Coppage died of malnutrition
even though she had been regularly breast-fed by her mother in their Park
Slope, Brooklyn, home. Her mother, a 21-year-old named Tatiana Cheeks, was
arrested and charged in the infant's death, prompting an outcry from women's
health advocates. 

A few months afterward, the charges were dropped. This week, 13 years later,
a jury in State Supreme Court in the Bronx closed what may be the last
chapter in Ms. Cheeks's case, awarding her $2 million for wrongfully
charging her in her baby's death. The city is considering an appeal. 


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