Foster Mother Charged with Murder of 2 Year Old

[CowboyMcCoy]

A Texas foster mother has been accused of murdering a 2-year-old girl placed in her care.

Sherill Small called 911 the evening of July 29 and reported that the child, Alexandria Hill, had stopped breathing. The girl was taken to a Rockdale area hospital, where she remained in a coma until she was taken off life support Wednesday.

Rockdale Police Chief Thomas Harris told KWTX that Small tried to hide what caused the girl's injuries, but the truth soon came out.

"Initially the story was [that] the child was running backwards and fell," Harris told the station. "You don't get these types of injuries from a 2-year-old child running backwards and falling."

Doctors said she had brain hemorrhaging and retinal hemorrhaging in both eyes. Small later told police that she has shaken the girl and accidentally let her go. She was arrested on Aug. 1.


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[CowboyMcCoy]

With today being the 3rd anniversary of my daughter's death, I thought I'd bump this.

 

[jobberone]

I can't imagine what it is like to bury your own child. My sympathies.

 

[WV Cowboy]

A Texas foster mother has been accused of murdering a 2-year-old girl placed in her care.

Doctors said she had brain hemorrhaging and retinal hemorrhaging in both eyes. Small later told police that she has shaken the girl and accidentally let her go. She was arrested on Aug. 1.

We don't need this foster mother in our society, .. ever again.

Do with her what you want, put her where ever you want, .. but she should be done in society.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

I'm terribly saddened by this. I know exactly what this guy is going through. I'm fearful, though, because now I have met a SMALL circle of attorneys who are suing these guys for stuff like this when nobody else will. This case was somewhat "high profile" because the guy went to the media. So now he has one of the most crooked, incompetent lawyers in Austin working on this case. The worst part about that is it could set precedent for future cases like this where they claim immunity. And that worries me.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

We don't need this foster mother in our society, .. ever again.

Do with her what you want, put her where ever you want, .. but she should be done in society.

I'd argue we don't need the system for which she worked. But that's for another site of Reality's (Sayyer?) I may post about it over there when I'm not busy.

 

[WV Cowboy]

I'm terribly saddened by this. I know exactly what this guy is going through. I'm fearful, though, because now I have met a SMALL circle of attorneys who are suing these guys for stuff like this when nobody else will. This case was somewhat "high profile" because the guy went to the media. So now he has one of the most crooked, incompetent lawyers in Austin working on this case. The worst part about that is it could set precedent for future cases like this where they claim immunity. And that worries me.

What guy?

It was the mother.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

What guy?

It was the mother.

Alex's father is who I am somewhat in contact with. And it was the foster mother, not the biological parents.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Just wow.

TDFPS spokeswoman told KXAN that Small's foster care record included "one allegation of a previous foster child in her care that had bruising and lead poisoning, but no deficiencies were found.