Jazmyn
Weiker-Hanson
- July 5, 2009
Police say that Justin
David Lake, who was
30 years old at the time, smoked Marijuana
three times on the day
he was supposed to be babysitting his girlfriends
daughter. Justin was
facing two counts of second-degree manslaughter
that day. When the EMTS
arrived at the home, Jazmyn was unresponsive, she
was only two years
old and her life was about to end.
Justin told police that he was watching Jazmyn and
he could heard her
jumping on the bed in her room, from the
living room where he was and he heard her fall.
When Justin checked on
her she supposedly reached out to him
with her arms and then just laid down and went to
sleep. Another story
he told was that he was swinging her around
by her ankles, lost his balance and
then slipped on a blanket which
caused her to hit her head on the door.
Jazmyn was transported to St Mary's Hospital in
Rochester where doctors
said that he injuries were worse than
what would occur from falling off of a bed.
Surgery was perfumed to
relieve pressure on her brain, though sadly,
after her surgery she suffered a stroke on her
brain and life support
was removed. Jazmyn died on July 5, 2009.
An autopsy stated the cause of death could not be
determined, though it
did say that her death was caused by a
traumatic closed head injury and likely assault.
Also stated in the
report was the fact that Jazmyn had a condition
known as Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura,
which is a bleeding
disorder and though it did contribute to her
death, it as not the cause.
In court, Prosecutors brought up the David's
failure to seek medical
attention for Jazmyn. David said that he did
not want to call 911 unnecessarily and instead
called Tabitha Hanson,
Jazmyn's mother, though he got no
response from her then he called his mother, then
Cannon Falls Hospital
and finally 911. David said that Jazmyn
was semi conscious and since he knew she was hurt,
he was going to give
her some Tylenol after putting her on
the couch and feeling her head which seemed to be
soft. Jazmyn started
to make a funny noise, described by
David as an exhale somebody would make on their
last breath, so he
didn't give her any Tylenol.
Tabitha said that she left David's apartment at
about 6:30 to go
shopping at Walmart and when she came back
at 8:30, the police were already there and she
said she had left her
cell phone at the apartment. Removed from
his home that even by Jessica Lake, was a tackle
box which contained
drug paraphernalia, martial arts weapons
and a safe.
David
was free on bail and living with his
parents, awaiting his trial.
David didn't have much to fear though, he
plead
guilty to manslaughter and on April
15, 2011, received a DISGUSTINGLY
INADEQUATE sentence of
a 58 months, after facing an almost as
disgusting sentence of only ten
years. Oh, I must add that David will also
have to pay $2,063. dollars
in restitution. What is wrong in our society
when children can be
abused, tortured and even killed and the
people responsible are barely
punished for it?
  
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