A 3-month-old baby girl from Maine is dead and a 10-year-old girl is being charged with manslaughter in connection with her death. The 10-year-old's mother was supposed to be watching the baby overnight. Instead the baby was in the 10-year-old's room. By morning, the baby was dead.
According to Nicki Greenaway (the mother of the 3-month-old), her daughter had ingested some pills and been suffocated.
This case is unimaginably awful and tragic. A 10-year-old is charged with manslaughter, but what about her mother? Wasn't she the adult, the ACTUAL babysitter? Wasn't she the responsible party? Sick as this child might be, it is ultimately the adult in charge who is at fault. Who leaves a 3-month-old alone in a room overnight with her own minor daughter?
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Greenaway left her daughter with a trusted babysitter. She also told the sitter that her baby was only to be cared for by adults and that the 10-year-old was not to be put in charge of her baby. In the past, the 10-year-old had changed diapers, but she was not supposed to be alone with the baby.
As moms, our mission is to protect our children. A good mother wouldn't make her elementary school age daughter responsible for the life of an infant. It's just negligence.
At 10, I wasn't ready to be left alone with my sister who was 2 years old. I wasn't mature enough to treat her well.
There is no way a 10-year-old is solely responsible for this tragedy. She deserves to be charged with something; after all, she is accused of an egregious crime. But her mother ought to share some blame.
Maybe someday, not that long from now, this 10-year-old will mature and she will have to face the horrific crime she committed, all because her mother didn't protect her from herself.
It's a horrible waste and a tragedy.
Do you think the mom of the accused girl is at fault, too?
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If a 10 year really did hit and suffocated this child I'm concerned about where she either learned this behavior or if she has some sort of emotional/ mental problems. We have all push, pinch, or hit are siblings but this is a very extreme case. Where was the 10 year old girl mom? This all didn't happen in 5 minute bathroom break.
I'm really glad I was not the only one who felt this article was poorly written and confusing. I thought perhaps it was my post-nap mind groging up my senses....
The only thing I got from this article was that the babysitter's daughter and the baby shared a room one night and the baby ended up dead. How is that "insane?" If I had a minor daughter and was babysitting a baby overnight, it wouldn't be a big stretch to have them share a room and trust my daughter wasn't going to kill a baby. Am I the only one who's confused by this?
Carmen - I was thinking the EXACT same thing! I have a 12 year old daughter, a 5 year old son, and I have, in the past, baby-sat for a friend's kids overnight. I have used the "boys in one room and girls in the other". Her kids are 2 (girl)and 6 (boy). I see NOTHING wrong with having a 10 year old sleeping in the same room as a 10 month old. The only difference here, is you have a sick, twisted possibly mentally ill child, that made this tragedy happen. The mother of the 10 year old must have known what her daughter was capable of, though, and taken steps to make sure it didn't happen, and she didn't.
I not only shared a room with my older sister from the time I was born but they watched me as well. The day I came home from the hospital my mother handed me to my oldest sister who was almost 10 and left to go to work, my uncle and my father didnt come home till about 2 hours after my mom left. My sister always watched me, she was almost 9 and my other sister was almost 7. Mandy the oldest was very responsible from a very early age. I also started baby sitting young. I watched my cousin at the age of 11 and was 13 when my nephew as born and I was his primary babysitter on nights and weekends for my sister.
But I do know other children that even at the age of 16 I wouldnt allow to watch a child. It all depends on the individual children.
So, did the 10 year old admit to doing this? How do we know the mother - or her boyfried - or their basement guest (read that in another article) didn't do it?