Tuesday, December 07, 2010
State To Release Details About Toddler's Death
KENTUCKY....
The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services has been ordered to release details about the life of 22-month-old Kayden Branham who died May 30, 2009 after drinking drain cleaner in a Wayne County trailer where methamphetamine had been made. The toddler and his 14-year-old mother, Alisha Branham had been in foster care before the boy's death, but had been placed with Alisha's mother, Melissa Branham. At a court hearing in January, Alisha testified she and Kayden, as well as the boy's father, Bryan Daniels, then 19, had started staying with her father, Larry Branham, at his trailer outside Monticello about a month before the toddler died. A relative says she moved from her mother's house because there was no water, electricity or food there. Mark Stanziano, a Somerset attorney who represents Bryan Daniels, says social workers were not aggressive enough in trying to protect the teen mother and toddler. Alisha pleaded guilty in juvenile court to a reduced charge of second-degree manslaughter and is in state custody. Bryan Daniels, is charged with murder and making meth.
The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services has been ordered to release details about the life of 22-month-old Kayden Branham who died May 30, 2009 after drinking drain cleaner in a Wayne County trailer where methamphetamine had been made. The toddler and his 14-year-old mother, Alisha Branham had been in foster care before the boy's death, but had been placed with Alisha's mother, Melissa Branham. At a court hearing in January, Alisha testified she and Kayden, as well as the boy's father, Bryan Daniels, then 19, had started staying with her father, Larry Branham, at his trailer outside Monticello about a month before the toddler died. A relative says she moved from her mother's house because there was no water, electricity or food there. Mark Stanziano, a Somerset attorney who represents Bryan Daniels, says social workers were not aggressive enough in trying to protect the teen mother and toddler. Alisha pleaded guilty in juvenile court to a reduced charge of second-degree manslaughter and is in state custody. Bryan Daniels, is charged with murder and making meth.
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