Milwaukee Woman Charged With Killing Second Family Member
Woman convicted of killing husband charged in grandson’s death
On behalf of Milwaukee personal injury attorney Ric Domnitz of Domnitz & Domnitz, S.C. posted in Wrongful Death on Thursday, July 28, 2011.
According to police, a Milwaukee woman who had been convicted of killing her husband in the 1980s has been charged in connection with the wrongful death of her 10-month-old grandson.
Court records reveal the woman was found guilty of shooting her husband in the back and throat after an argument of a purchase she had made. The incident reportedly occurred in the couple’s apartment building in the spring of 1988. She was sentenced to six years in prison in the Milwaukee County Circuit Court.
Now, she is being charged with killing her grandson by serving him a bottle laced with morphine. The body of the boy was found in late April, and toxicology reports showed positive results for opiates and oxycodone. The bottle was also found to have contained morphine.
According to police, the grandmother said she had been babysitting the boy and another sibling, and had fed the boy from a yellow bottle before she put him to sleep.
The 24-year-old mother of the infant, who had been placed with her siblings in foster care after her father died many years ago, said she was the only family member to be contact with her mother. She was, in fact, taking care of the woman, who was suffering from back pain, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
A warrant has been issued for the grandmother’s arrest and she is charged with reckless homicide in the first degree. She faces up to 60 years in prison if found guilty.
After the death of her son, the baby’s mother said she does not understand the reason behind her own mother’s actions. Having now lost her son and her father at the hands of her mother, she tells the Journal-Sentinel, “I am near to having a nervous breakdown.”
Source: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, “Milwaukee grandmother charged in baby’s death had killed her husband,” Crocker Stephenson, 15 July 2011
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