“When they cut that bracelet, they cut everything,” he said, referring to the monitoring bracelet from the court that she no longer had to wear after the trial concluded.
“All of her support network, whether it was mandated NA meetings or therapy, all of that stuff, she no longer had to comply with any rules,” he said. “It’s just such an abrupt change, and I don’t know if anything could ever be done about that.”
Prosecutors in Kelsey Kindschy’s and Hawkins’ cases did not say for certain where or how Zariah had come into contact with the drugs — she could neither walk nor crawl. Assistant District Attorney Tracy McMiller said the two freely used drugs several times a day in the apartment where they lived and in the car they drove to meet their drug dealer, meetings they took Zariah along to.
Kindschy’s attorney, Zaki Zehawi, argued that Hawkins alone was responsible for Zariah’s death and told the jury he believes Hawkins either intentionally or accidentally injected the contents of a syringe into Zariah’s right hand during an hour when Kindschy was not home.
Bruce Kindschy said Kelsey “took the high road” in never denying that she had been neglectful of her child and had not sought to lie about her role in her death.
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