Omani's Story - Mother Acquited of Abuse

This is a copy of an article that was taking from the Daily Republic. This article explains some of the incident surrounding Omani's accident and the outcome of her stepmothers trail.

Fairfield - The choice for jurors was straightforward-either Lisa R. Brown was a brutally violent mother or she was a victim of a police and social services investigations that could land her 15 years in prison.
After a two-week jury trial, Brown was acquitted Wednesday of four felony child abuse charges. She was convicted of a misdemeanor charge of attempted assault, (Which in no mean warrants them adopting my daughter out before the outcome of the trail).
The felony charges dated back to a series of incidents during the fall of 2000 involving her 3-year old stepdaughter. For Brown's attorney, Kathryn Streem, the legal victory was particularly sweet because it was her first trail since starting private practice after leaving the Solano County Public Defender's office earlier this year.
Streem told jurors Brown's child had been accident-prone, clumsy and suffered from seizures. (This sentence is misleading and was not a part of Ms. Streem's defense, the author of this article spoke with the prosecution first, before they talked to us. This article is only to explain the outcome of the Mrs. Brown's trail).
Brown, along with her husband and their three children, were living in a Vallejo motel in 2000 when her 3-year old was bouncing on a bed, fell a struck her head, according to her testimony. The child recovered from a fractured skull after being flown by helicopter to a Bay Area Hospital. Investigations by Vallejo police and Child Protective Services determined the girl's injuries were not from abuse.
Two weeks later, the child fell from a toilet and suffered another head injury. Another pair of investigations concluded no foul play was involved. Brown claimed a seizure led to the injury.
Ten days after the batheroom fall, the child suffered black eyes and cuts and scratches to her face. This thrid accident changed the approach social services to begin looking at Brown. Seizures were once again Brown's explanation for the injuries, although prosecutors claimed the injuries were caused by Brown shoving her childs head in the motel room toilet. After the injury, doctors provided the child with anti-seizure medications.
A fourth incident occured two weeks later when the child fell and was picked up by Brown. The lifting caused a bone fracture in the child's upper arm. The broken bone prompted CPS to remove the child from Brown's care a few days later.
Reach Jess Sullivan at 427-6919 or JessSullivan_CA@Yahoo.com

This trial was devastating to our family. After all the loop-holes and red tape the judical system took us through, they adopted our daughter while we were still fighting for her. Read more about the trail and its devasting effects in the next blog.

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