Sentenced: Mobile Mother Charged In 2018 Death Of Special Needs Child

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Zrdria Rankin is charged with manslaughter in the death of her 8-year-old special needs child.

The indictment says Rankin, 36, caused LeBrawn Rankin’s death by failing to adequately care for him. The document also claims Rankin abused the child on more than one occasion.

The criminal charges come on top of a wrongful death lawsuit filed in 2020 by LeBrawn’s estate. It alleges inaction by DHR and neglect by the child’s mother contributed to his death.

LeBrawn Rankin died in 2018. Mobile Police said months later the child died of natural causes and no criminal charges were filed at that time.

Mobile mother charged in 2018 death of special needs child

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A Mobile mother is charged with manslaughter in the death of her 8-year-old special needs child. Zedria Rankin, 36, was booked into jail Monday night on a grand jury ind…

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Suggests that maybe mom is special needs...

Needs prison... a lifetime of prison...

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A plea deal allowed an Alabama monster to skirt any jail time from her indictment for manslaughter and aggravated child abuse after her 8-year-old son with cerebral palsy starved to death.

Zedria Rankin pleaded guilty Tuesday to the lesser charge of child abuse and will serve three years probation, according to her attorney.

On April 6, 2018, Rankin’s son LeBrawn was found unresponsive at their apartment in Mobile, where he was pronounced dead. A civil lawsuit against Rankin and the Alabama Department of Human Resources alleges that officials from LeBrawn’s school reported to DHR concerns he was being abused and neglected. LeBrawn, who was confined to a wheelchair, “suffered from severe dehydration, bed sores, poor hygiene and his diapers were not being changed for extended periods of time,” the lawsuit said.

LeBrawn weighed just 23 pounds at the time of his death, AL.com reported.

A grand jury indicted Rankin in 2021 of manslaughter and aggravated child abuse for “failure to provide food and/or care him” and “did willfully torture, willfully abuse, cruelly beat or otherwise willfully maltreat said child by failure to provide food and/or care for him, said abuse having taken place on more than one occasion,” the indictment said.

But two years later, Rankin pleaded down.

“We are prosecutors, we want to get the bad guys, we have to do it in a way that is right, and is just, we don’t manufacture evidence,” Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood told Mobile Fox affiliate WALA. “We don’t make up evidence. And in this case, the evidence pointed to the neglect being done on the part of the defendant. She pled guilty for her part in that and was sentenced. At the end of the day, no matter how you look at it, it’s just a tragic situation.”

Rankin’s attorney, Rolando Rankin, said had she been convicted at trial, she would have faced 99 years in prison. Her “best interest” plea is not an admission of guilt, he noted.

“This has been a long, arduous and painful experience for Zedria, and she is thankful to reach some form of closure,” he said. “Due to this loss, my client’s life will never be the same, but at least she can now try to focus on continuing to heal.”

Mom allegedly starved son with cerebral palsy who weighed just 23 pounds at death avoids jail

A plea deal allowed a Alabama mother indicted for manslaughter and aggravated child abuse after her 8-year-old son with cerebral palsy starved to death skirt any jail time.

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“This has been a long, arduous and painful experience for Zedria, and she is thankful to reach some form of closure,” he said. “Due to this loss, my client’s life will never be the same, but at least she can now try to focus on continuing to heal.”

Well laaaadeeeda!!! SHE gets to heal, and effectively get away with torture and murder. How nice for her.

 

[Danaf]

Mom allegedly starved son with cerebral palsy who weighed just 23 pounds at death avoids jail

A plea deal allowed a Alabama mother indicted for manslaughter and aggravated child abuse after her 8-year-old son with cerebral palsy starved to death skirt any jail time.

lawandcrime.com

kill that cunt slowly!!!!!