Justice For Girl Eaten Alive By Alligators

Ex-Con Who Abandoned 5-Year-Old In Everglades Gets Death Sentence

(AP)  A man convicted of murder for leaving a 5-year-old girl to be eaten alive by alligators in the Everglades was sentenced to death Monday.

A defense attorney said Harrel Franklin Braddy, who already served time in prison for attempted murder but was released early for good behavior, had befriended Shandelle Maycock and her daughter, Quatisha, through his involvement in church outreach programs.

Maycock testified that Braddy showed up at her house in 1998 and grew enraged when she asked him to leave.

Prosecutors said Braddy drove the girl's mother to a remote sugarcane field, choked her to unconsciousness and left her to die. Maycock woke up bleeding and disoriented, but managed to flag down help.

Braddy drove the girl to a section of Interstate 75 in the Everglades known as Alligator Alley and dropped her in the water beside the road, prosecutors said. She was alive when alligators bit her on the head and stomach, a medical examiner said.

Authorities found the girl's body two days later, her left arm missing and her skull crushed, prosecutors said.

Braddy, 58, was convicted in July of first-degree murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, and other charges.

Judge Leonard E. Glick also sentenced Braddy to three consecutive life terms for kidnapping and burglary with an assault charges. He also got 30 years in prison for the attempted murder of Maycock, 15 years for child neglect causing great bodily harm and five years for attempted escape.

"I'm saddened for both families," said Braddy's attorney, G.P. Della Fera.

Maycock sobbed during the initial sentencing as she told jurors how her life without her only child would never be the same. The girl she nicknamed "Candy" had just started kindergarten and loved writing her name and singing along with the church choir.

"The State is grateful that Quatisha's small voice was finally heard, and that the defendant received the sentence he so rightfully earned," prosecutor Abbe Rifkin said in a statement.

[cryonbrian]

Animal!

[jetlizhan]

this is the first time i''ve ever heard this story. there are no words for this horrific act. i''m speechless.

[rational_1]

Nobody here going to voice concern about the possibility of this cretin feeling pain during his lethal injection? Sure gives you perspective doesn''t it? This piece of *** leaves a little girl in an alligator-infested swamp and a bunch of ACLU lawyers are going to be most concerned about him being comfortable during his euthanasia.
Just fry him!

[retiredusaf3]

Hey gkc99 This happened during your convicted *** offender''s presidency. 1998 Remember Good Ol Bill was in the White House. I agree feed him to the gaters and any of the ACLU lawyers that try to defend him. May this Mother now find some peace.

[nexgen99]

Why isn''t he being fed to the Alligators. Forget the injection. He needs to experience the horror of what he did.

[pollroller1]

I don''t understand why they let this scumbag out of prison in the first place.

[talkingham]

Sharpton and Jackson better get their tails down there and start up protests to get this dude back on the street.

[teeus]

"...Just drop this monster into the same pool of Crocs. No big deal..."
Posted by SendReidPelo

Geez, only if you go too, dude. Kiss your mother with that mouth?

[pollroller1]

Killing this SOB would be too easy on him. He needs to be put in a place for life where he can experence he]] on earth.

[internetdiva]

Prison is too GOOD for this monster. Do the same thing to him as he did to that little girl. Drive him out to "Alligator Alley", during darkness, and slooooooooooooowly drop him into the water to see how much fun it is..................just thinking about the pain and fear the poor child must have had makes me sick to my stomach................

[pollroller1]

Killing this SOB would be too easy on him. He needs to be put in a place for life where he can experence he]] on earth.

[mennowoman]

I hope I never understand evil.

[daeelle]

"Sharpton and Jackson better get their tails down there and start up protests to get this dude back on the street."-Posted by talkingham at 09:51 AM : Oct 16, 2007

Wow. I''m not sure if talkingham was serious or being sarcastic, but it''s sad that the only reason Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson was mentioned is because this sorry excuse for a human being happens to be Black. I wish people would wake up and realize that bad is bad and justice is justice regardless of what color you are. This guy deserves what his punishment...but the boys in Jena? That debate will go on forever.

[lucy-in-tx]

An eye for an eye... Put tiny cuts on this useless piece of ****''s body just so he will bleed and toss his worthless a$$ off into the same place he dropped off that precious small helpless child.

Justice would be served.

[alliekat13]

The measure of evil in a human being still shocks me even after years of listening to news program after program. This act is beyond evil. I can''t even offer a thought as to what should be done to this monster.

[allunknowing]

Great, another mouth to feed in jail. Why not bind this man up and put him in the swamp too? That''s be something to watch on youtube.

[hawksprings]

allUNknowing, I second that.

[greeneyes222]

This isn''t justice. Justice would be doing to him what he did to this poor child.

[vancouverboo]

The ACLU will jump on this one. This is just the kind of guy they love to make into a martyr.

[feddupp]

May God help us ALL that someone like this could live among us!!

[Krazcarl]

What kind of a beast would do such a terrible thing kill him know I just can''t believe a person could be so cruel why did they arrest him they should have shot him on sight. In this incident I support police abuse. I just can''t or don''t want to believe folks are that cruel again kill him know.

[Krazcarl]

OOPS should proof read I ment KILL HIM NOW This is the first time I heard this story. Piece of garbage.

[red1530]

I say hang that good for nothing ***.

[krenz4]

Iampundit:
for the same reason that white folks arent "reacting" to pedophile after pedophile stories in the news. I dont white people marching against any of that. I dont see ''white alliance'' protesting against the white boy that shot up the cleveland school. In other words, You''re an idiot!

[hschwarz2]

Who among us understands evil? And who among you writng these responses could physically kill the murderer?..feed him to the alligators etc. If this is something you personally could do without conscience,then maybe you are capable of the same evil. Maybe you''re watching too many movies where the evil person is given "justice" at the hands of the hero. If any of you out their believe in G-d, then you must believe he is a G-d of vengeance. I believe he is not. Yes. The very first reaction for all of us is to kill the perpatrator,but it is will never bring back the victims, and it is antithetical to what true Christians believe.

[claremok]

I think he should be put in irons in the center of the town little Candy lived and he should be stoned
till dead.

[hwy71so]

I''m sure there is no such thing as cruel and unusual punishment for this person. The punishment should match the crime.

[samrensho]

That porker looks like he''d give the alligators a nice meal. Drop him in the water.

[Krazcarl]

hschwars2 you sactamios idiot I for one and over have these posters would have no trouble removing this caser from our society. It''s poeple like you why this cancer is growing they know they have a place to hide and pity to count on like priest in the church, like when Jimmy Baker got out of prison and said christens HAD to forgive him your the accomplice to the crime when you offer shelter period

[undermyboot]

Sometimes we see evil clearly. Here it is. Even the cons do not deserve having this monster in their midst. Dispatch him to his master.

[whatsup49]

A minister once was asked by a prosecutor how he (the minister) could consider the death penalty in the case in which the minister was called a potential juror. The minister answered that on earth, we follow man''s rules and laws, therefore people judge the man (or woman), while God judges the soul. I have no problem with the death penalty. My problem lies in the fact that it can take years, even decades for the condemned to be put to death, costing taxpayers thousands upon thousands of dollars.

[pared1]

Put him in a gator pond and let him suffer!

[global_chick]

hschwarz,

As Christ said in Romans 12:19, NIV, %u201CDo not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God%u2019s wrath, for it is written: %u201CIt is mine to avenge; I will repay." Whether it is here or before God, this man will pay -- and suffer.

[amazedd]

They should give this guy the death penalty that does''t work, please.

[whatithink-2009]

Funny that when a man does something like this he is clearly evil, but when a woman does something like this she is mentally ill. Funny.

[klingon69]

Who among us understands evil? And who among you writng these responses could physically kill the murderer?..feed him to the alligators etc. If this is something you personally could do without conscience,then maybe you are capable of the same evil. Maybe you''''re watching too many movies where the evil person is given "justice" at the hands of the hero. If any of you out their believe in G-d, then you must believe he is a G-d of vengeance. I believe he is not. Yes. The very first reaction for all of us is to kill the perpatrator,but it is will never bring back the victims, and it is antithetical to what true Christians believe.
Posted by hschwarz2 at 11:55 AM : Oct 16, 2007
I understand evil. Yes, I could slowly terminate this bonebag with extreme pleasure. It may not bring bac the innocent lost, but it would make sure he couldn''t do the same to another. I believe in GOD, and know I will answer for my wrongs in the end, but don''t try to tell me what a Christian believes. You know what you believe, you know what the preacher tells you to believe, but are you or that preacher true Christians.

[vampire1288]

hang him alive in the middle of the pond lower him a little each day let the gators nibble on him a bit each day....now thats justice for a scum bag like him

[simonsez40]

Good riddance!

[ov442]

YEAH.. eye for an eye as they say, put him in the middle of a swampy area and make sure there are lots of hungry alligators to take him on.

poor little girl. she deserves to sit with God.

hschwarz2 - You''re wrong.
Doing bad things to criminals of this nature is not about what Christians believe.
You are inferring that those of us that want him dead and to torture him in inhuman ways, Beleive that that act is of a christian nature. You are Completely mistaken.
Those of us that speak out to destroy this incarnation of evil as defined to us by the imagery, and interpretation of good and evil in the bible, dont seek Christianity in annhilating him, we seek Human failings in annhilating him. Afterwards we seek our own personal communion with God to ask forgiveness for being the human, sinful failures that we all are -including yourself.
think.

[cryonbrian]

Why some woman but their children at risk by dealing with ex cons we will never know?

[pack92fan]

hschwarz2 -
Don''t let religion blur you from what is fact. The fact that this animal took the life of an innocent girl in such a malicious way. Nothing wrong with bringing this man to his eternal fate early...let the gators savor his rotten flesh.

[stephengosson]

Gather together all the comments from all discussion forums, letters to the editor, etc., and make that his only reading material until his execution.
If he refuses to read them, or can''t, record them and play them back repeatedly into his cell during all his waking hours.

[Krazcarl]

GLOBAL_CHICK...I''m sure I toss your child to alligators you''d be the fist to forgive get real you don''t look good on that soapbox.

[incog-nito]

This guy should never have been released in the first place. Attempted murder is the same as murder, except that for some reason the victim got lucky. The intent to kill is there. This is what I''ve been saying all along: Justice should be first about protecting society, not just about punishment. That means if someone is proven to be a threat to society, that person should be removed from society, period. Putting them in prison for a few years as "punishment" will only delay the day another person gets hurt or killed. This has happened time and again.

[GRPDiver]

Do not mistake revenge for justice. Most comments here call for revenge. Justice is something completely different.

[tank88]

"Revenge is Mine, says the Lord" is true. And I say "Let''s arrange the meeting between God and Mr Braddy as soon as possible.

[zootallures2]

Barbaric!

[GRPDiver]

"The fact that this animal took the life of an innocent girl in such a malicious way." Posted by pack92fan at 03:52 PM : Oct 16, 2007

That implies that an animal can have "intent." There was nothing "malicious" in what the animal did. The animal operates on instinct. Alligators, sharks, etc. are not evil animals, but just at the top of the food chain and they don''t "eat" people. Yes, there have animal been attacks and people have died. As in this case, the sensational headline "Girl Eaten Alive By Alligators" is more appropriate for supermarket tabloids. The headline should have been "Heartless Murderer Gets Death," but that will not attract as many readers to the advertisement for CBS Sports and Sprint.

[mokemorgan]

The "animal" they were referring to was the Creep Braddy. Duhhhhh

[tank88]

Hey "shutUPfreak", I think you just won your own award.