Wyatt’s Law: MI Mom Pushes For Child Abuse Registry Ahead Of Son’s Abuser’s Release From Prison

[Sugar Cookie]

Not sure if this is the right forum

A Mother and the Macomb County Prosecutor are both pushing for an online child abuse registry in Michigan.

In 2013, Erica Hammel’s son, Wyatt, was abused so severely by her ex-husband’s girlfriend that he had a brain bleed and a fractured skull.

Hammel had her suspicions about Rachel Edwards, who is now in prison, but she had no idea Edwards had previous child abuse convictions.

Hammel said a registry would help save children by allowing parents to see people who have been convicted of child abuse.

“This is an easy way to protect children,” Prosecutor Eric Smith said. “We can find out very quickly with a couple clicks if they have a prior child abuse conviction.”

Edwards was granted parole and will be released from prison in April. Hammel said this is the perfect time to create the registry, which would show convictions in the past 10 years.

“Wyatt has a life sentence for what she did to him and she doesn’t,” Hammel said.

Wyatt’s Law: Michigan mother pushes for child abuse registry ahead of son’s abuser’s release from prison

A local mother and the Macomb County Prosecutor are both pushing for an online child abuse registry in Michigan.

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Edwards had been convicted twice on child-abuse charges in the years before she shook Wyatt. Edwards spanked the son of another boyfriend hard enough to leave marks, which led to a third-degree felony child-abuse conviction in 2011. She later drugged the same boy, and was convicted of fourth-degree child abuse, a misdemeanor, in 2013. In both cases, she was sentenced to probation in district court.

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[Sejanus]

Good idea

 

[Granmaw]

I'd like to see this, but as we already know, most of the twats on here could care less whether their DOTM or POTM abuses children.