Lawmaker wants new state department to protect Maine kids
Windham Sen. Bill Diamond s legislation comes after several child deaths in Maine that exposed weaknesses in the state s system for protecting children from abuse and neglect.
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The abuse that has led to the deaths of several Maine children is driving legislation at the State House to create a new cabinet-level department in state government with the sole task of protecting kids from suffering and neglect.
The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Bill Diamond, D-Windham, would remove the Office of Children and Family Services from the Department of Health and Human Services, and establish a new state department, with a commissioner to be nominated by the governor and confirmed by the state Senate.
Court upholds 48-year prison sentence for Marissa Kennedy’s mother
Sharon Kennedy, who was known as Sharon Carrillo at the time of her arrest and conviction, was sentenced in Waldo County to 48 years in prison for murdering her 10-year-old daughter.
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Maine’s highest court upheld the 48-year prison sentence of a Stockton Springs woman convicted of murdering her 10-year-old daughter, Marissa Kennedy, more than three years ago.
In a ruling released Thursday, Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court rejected appeals by Sharon Kennedy’s attorneys contending a Waldo County court was wrong to deny their requests to suppress her confessions and grant a mistrial.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Maine's highest court has rejected an appeal from a woman convicted of murder in the death of her 10-year-old daughter. Sharon Kennedy and her former husband, Julio.