Justice For Girl Eaten Alive By Alligators

(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.

[chucklovesto]

I have a good idea??? Why don''t they bring back the hangman or electric chair. Did Harrel think he wasn''t going to get cought. I pray for the child. I hope she''s in with the angels. Just ask Harrel How doe''s it feel to breath air at your age. and see smell sleep hmmm Harrel put your feet in the defenceless little girl shoe''s. She didn''t do a thing to harm you. You did it yourself. I''m across the US and I have bad visions of the little angel. I wish I was there to help her out. I hope every breath you breath is rotten flesh.

[nurse70-2009]

THIS MAN SHOULD BE SLOWLY CUT AND LEFT TO BLEED TO DEATH! WITH THAT SAID (HAVING BEEN A NURSE AT A REGIONAL JAIL WITH 650 INMATES)I CAN''T HELP BUT WONDER WHY MOTHER''S ARE NOT VERY CAREFUL ABOUT WHO THEY ALLOW TO ENTER THE LIFE OF THEIR CHILD? SHE AND EVERY OTHER PARENT IN THIS WORLD HAS THE UPMOST RESPONSIBILITY TO SCREEN ANY PERSON THAT IS AROUND THEIR BABIES,BEFORE FINDING OUT THAT THEY HAVE PRIOR ARRESTS!MANY INMATES TURN TO RELIGION, BOTH WHILE INCARCERATED AND UPON RELEASE. BEING CHRISTIANS WE WANT TO OPEN OUR HEARTS TO TROUBLED PEOPLE.THAT CANNOT BE AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR CHILDREN! WHILE I DO FEEL SORRY FOR THE MOTHER,OVER AND OVER THESE EXCONS ARE ENABLED BY STARRY EYED WOMAN. BE SENSIBLE AND DON''T LET YOUR NEEDS/WANTS OUTWEIGH THE SECURITY OF YOUR HOME. PARENTS BEWARE!! MOST OFFENDERS ARE FREQUENT FLIERS WHO PROGRESSIVELY WORSEN WITH TIME. JESUS HIMSELF WOULD HAVE TO COME DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS AND PERSONALLY NOTORIZE (IN FRONT OF ME) AN EXCONS TONGUE BEFORE I WOULD BELIEVE A WORD THEY TRIED TO FEED ME.WE TOO MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE CHOICES WE MAKE AND WHO WE CHOOSE TO INTERACT WITH.SADLY ANOTHER CHILD DIED DUE TO A PARENTS IGNORANCE AND A FILTHY PREDATOR. (AND I DON''T MEAN THE ALLIGATORS).

[cyberdjs4]

I''m no longer shocked by how pu-dekcuf people are on this planet.

Religion doesn''t matter.
Therapy doesn''t matter.
Justice doesn''t matter.
Awareness doesn''t matter.

Humans are flawed, period.
Non-human lifeforms don''t have these problems.

[grazinggoat]

Makes me sick what he did to this little girl and her Mom. He needs to give a taste of his testes to the alligators. And the rest to be done in prison, where, seemingly, such low life are rewarded on a daily basis, so they regret they were born.

[ladyd1800]

So why are we going to keep this guy in jail for file appeal after appeal? Why not just dump is butt in Aligator Alley? I''ll give him a ride, cheaper in gas then the taxes I''ll have to pay to let him fight the verdit! Aligator Alley here we come!

[toolmangler-2009]

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.

Posted by Klingon69 at 02:26 PM : Oct 16, 2007


I try to be a True Christian but I fail miserably. I agree with Klingon69 about having it within me to dismember this "sigh" human with extreme pain. Knowing that I have it inside me just makes it harder to be the person I want to be, but I keep trying. At this time I would not do what I wish, but thats just ''today'', I hope that tomorrow I will be the same as today. I won''t know that till I have lived through tomorrow. Would you?

[toolmangler-2009]

Posted by mokemorgan at 04:43 PM : Oct 16, 2007



oooppss. I misread, that was already covered by mokemorgan

[toolmangler-2009]

Posted by grpdiver at 04:34 PM : Oct 16, 2007



Boy, did you ever misread. They were talking about the human animal "Harrel Franklin Braddy"

[ralan40]

...it only takes a few prison guards to look away....Like in the case of Jeffery Dahmer...who says there''s no death penalty in Wisconsin?

[tank88]

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