Nevaeh Alana Miller
August 22, 2007 - March 22, 2008
When Nevaeh Alana Miller was brought into the hospital
on March 20,
2008, it was obvious to doctors that she was in
bad shape and was
not going to survive. The head trauma that this
beautiful, little Angel
had suffered, made any chance of recovery totally
hopeless. Nevaeh
was brought in on a Thursday and on Friday, she
was baptized by a
priest. On what would have been her seventh month
of life, her
parents made a tough decision, they were going
to bring hope to a
few families by donating Nevaeh's heart, kidneys
and her liver.
Nevaeh died on Saturday, March 22, 2008. Because
of an unselfish act on the part of her parents, other babies have been
given new life:
"We just looked them
in their eyes and said 'Nevaeh's already in heaven. Let's help some other
child that doesn't have to die. She was and still is a beautiful baby because
there's three other babies that are still living because
of her"
Janet Stolz - great
aunt
Janet Stolz made a great point
when she said:
"Jereme's story's been
all over the place, but Nevaeh's
story hasn't been anywhere.
It's her time to say 'hey, I
was a person, and I
didn't deserve this.' She didn't
hurt anybody"
Jereme J. Bassett was accused
of abusing and causing the death of
Nevaeh. Jereme was the boyfriend
of Jennifer Wilcox, Nevaeh's
mother. Jereme was held in
the Spokane, Washington jail on $1.
million dollar bail. The
charge was second degree murder.
Janet was told about the condition
of Nevaeh on Friday morning. A
member of her family called
her while they were on the way to the
hospital. Jennifer was already
there as well as Brian Miller, who is the
father of Nevaeh and Janet's
nephew. Jennifer was in shock at the
situation while Brian was
angry. There were reports about Jereme's
drug use and how he had a
troubled a childhood:
"They say 'poor Jereme.'
Nobody has said 'poor Nevaeh.
She was this little
baby girl that was a joy to her mother
and her father, just
a joy. Her life was snubbed out"
Jennifer, who was 29 at the
time, had come home from work that day to find Nevaeh in an unresponsive
state. They were living in a hotel room, which they had rented at the Wynn
Motel, while Jennifer tried to save money to rent an apartment. Their previous
landlord had sold the place they were living in and they had been forced
to move. They
lived in the room with her
daughter and her son, who was eight, from a previous relationship:
“I left my baby with
him because I trusted him. It kind
of opens your eyes
– I just would never leave my kid
with nobody unless
it was a family member, now"
Jereme had called her that
day to tell her that Nevaeh had fallen and hit her head, however, she seemed
to be okay according to him. Apparently, he then turned to smoking Marijuana
with his friends.
Janet said that Jennifer and
Brian had dated for a few months before
Nevaeh had been born. They
eventually broke up, though they did
remain friends and Brian
was a very active father. Nevaeh, she said,
was a typical baby:
"It's crawling and climbing
on things. Learning how to
form words. Experiencing
new colors and new things.
Just normal baby, learning
and growing"
The weekend that was spent
at the hospital with Nevaeh and the
details of what Jereme did
to her, were horrible. The hopelessness of
the entire situation was
overwhelming:
"You're hoping beyond
hope, yet you know nothing's
going to change. You're
just sitting there waiting and thinking to yourself well, maybe a
miracle will happen.
But it doesn't happen"
The priest who baptized Nevaeh
said that her baptism was going to
ensure that they didn't need
to worry about her eternal fate:
"She has no sins. There's
nothing she could have done.
She was just starting
life"
The
Neptune Society was going to cremate Nevaeh at no charge to the
family. A memorial service was arranged by Jennifer's coworkers at the
hospital where she worked in Spokane.
The Neptune Society is cremating
the child at no charge, Stolz said. Wilcox's coworkers at the Veterans
Affairs Hospital in Spokane are arranging a memorial service.
Site creators note: I have read
about the troubles Jereme has had and would normally put a few those into
the story. Out of respect for
Janet Stolz and Nevaeh, I am not going to do
that here. I think whatever he went through as teenager, from what I have
read, is a result of his own choice in making bad decisions. I feel bad
for what
his family is going through and have read some
of their comments. I WILL talk about the court dates and things
along that line.
Jereme's bail was upheld by District Court Judge
Debra Hayes and he
was also banned from using the phone after it was
discovered that he
was trying to call Jennifer. County Deputy Prosecutor,
Kelly Fitzgerald, said that Jereme's brother, Josh, had called Jennifer
several times
while visiting his brother in jail.
Police said that the day that she had been injured,
Jereme had called
Jennifer to tell her that Nevaeh had fallen and
that she cried for
a few minutes before she fell asleep while drinking
a bottle. Some of
his friends stopped by and saw that he was scared
and anxious and
they tried to revive Nevaeh and then while she
lay there limp and un-
responsive, though they say she was breathing,
they smoked some
Marijuana. Jennifer got home about 5:00pm and called
911.
Jereme would later say that he was drying Nevaeh
off after he had
given her a bath. The doctor at Sacred Heart Medical
Center said that
the injuries which killed her, were typical of
those seen in babies who
had died due to Shaken Baby Syndrome.
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For information about preventing
child abuse in the state of Washington, click the links below. If they
can't help you, ask for someone who can. NEVER give up looking for
help for an abused child!
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Call this number to report
child abuse ANY WHERE in the United States!
1-800-4-A-Child
1-800-422-4453
  
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