Ill check with the center for missing and exploited children. In the meantime, any idea how we can pick up their trail . Yeah, taysachs is most common among certain ethnic groups, particularly the jewish community. Same old story when a else fails, round up the jews. Its also common among frenchcanadians and cajuns. Genetic screening has drastically reduced the amount of taysachs babies. Both parents need to carry the gene and they were probably never tested. If i had a kid with some rare disease, first thing id do is find a doctor who specializes in it. Man its a horrible disease. Worse than most parents can possibly bear. And how close are you to a cure . Years away. Taysachs patients are missing a key enzyme. Without it, a fatty substance builds up in the brain causing progressive loss of function and eventually, death. Would our victim have shown any symptoms . Nothing the parents would have noticed until about six months. Then why did they have their baby tested . The cherry red spots in the eyes your me found can appear as early as two days tebirth. During a wellbaby checkup. Do you have any patients who died suddenly or missed appointments, havent come back . My work is in research. I dont treat these children myself but even if i did, you know i couldnt tell you about them. Okay. Are there any places the parents can go for. Help . Fortunately, this disease is rare. Theres only one support group in the area. Man not everybody comes to every meeting. We get people from as far away as maine. Stabler these parents would obably be local. Child born about a month ago. There was a woman from manhattan. Came to a meeting a few weeks ago, but never came back. Any idea why . She seemed disturbed when she saw the child of one of our parents. Cant say i blame her. Stabler you remember her name . Sorry. Benson well, what about a list of members, or, uh. Signin sheet . Cant give that out. Rabbi. Were pretty sure that the parents that were looking for murdered their baby because she had taysachs. Oh, god. Stabler and with all due respect, there is no law protecting im only trying to protect what little solace the members of this group have left. Im sorry. Well have to get a subpoena. Okay. Okay. Heres the list. Ill fax you the signin sheets. But theres no guarantee the woman youre looking for is going to be on any of them. We dont require parents to sign in or even tell us who they are. Benson do you remember anything else about this woman . Where she lived . Who referred her . Now that you mention it, yes. Her pediatrician, judah platner, sent her. He belongs to our congregation. Stabler were not asking for records. Were asking for the name of the woman you referred to the taysachs support group. Well, thats the same thing, isnt it . Besides, i havent had a taysachs patient in a couple of years. Rabbi birnbaum mentioned you by name. Yes, i know. He visits patients here all the time. Its easy enough to mix me up with another pediatrician. Dr. Platner, a child has been murdered. If you know anything at all. I would tell you. The law requires me to report any abuse of a child. Yes. A fiveyearold boy. Neuroblastoma. Just last month. Doesnt happen often, but never gets any easier. Any youve sent for genetic testing . Detective, stop wasting your time and mine. Believe me, id help you if i could. National center for missing and exploited children came up with squat. Same with missing persons in all five boroughs and the rest of the tristate. Moth goes to a support group, she gets the kid tested. Youve got all of this media coverage. Someone who knows them is not suspicious that this baby has gone missing . I mean, why hasnt anyone reported them . Because Everybody Knows the baby died. They just dont know how. Yeah, and somehow they covered it up. Maybe with help from your dr. Platner. Benson what did you find . Vital stats had the death certificate on that cancer patient. But he signed one just last week on a monthold girl. Thats funny how he forgot to tell us that. Cause of death . Asphyxiation pneumonia. Little girls name was sarah brown. Parents, andrea and daniel. Woman the funeral was wednesday. Were still sitting shivah. Well take as little of your time as possible. Dr. Platner was sarahs pediatrician, wasnt he . Yes, but how would you know that . Benson we have a list of all his patients. What exactly is this about . Stabler were investigating a complaint against dr. Platner d were following up with all of his patients parents. Im sorry. May i use the bathroom . Sure. Its through the bedroom. Pardon the mess. Stabler anything . Well, not in the medicine cabinet but there was an empty vial in the garbage can something called imipramine. Ive never heard of it. When was it filled . Last week. Two days before the baby turned up. For Andrea Richman must be her maiden name. Prescribed. By dr. Platner. Well, how often does a pediatrician write a prescription for the parents . Benson the me confirmed imipramine is the tricyclic antidepressant that caused sarah browns death. Parents probably used what they needed to put the baby to sleep and flushed the rest down theoilet. If the doctor gave them the pills to do this, hes just as guilty as the browns are. Ill get a warrant to pick up that pill vial. Our baby was found in a cooler. Are we saying these parents buried an empty casket . I checked out the funeral home that the browns used. There are, you know, multiple Heath Department violations. The browns could have paid them off. Why not just bury it . Were not going to know until the parents give it up. We cant prove the browns are the parents wiout their dna. Which we cant get without more evidence. We got the pill bottle. Is that enough to dig up the kids grave . Ill run tests on the lining, but im pretty sure theres never been a body in this coffin. Woman i see a selfless act of mercy, not a murder. The law doesnt make that distinction, counselor. A jury will. Theyll never convict. Juries dont like defendants who kill their own children. If this was dr. Platners idea and you agree to testify against. It was my idea. Ii, but i couldnt bear to hurt sarah. So you had your husband do it . He had nothing to do with this. Andrea, please, dont say anything else. No, i need to tell them i didnt know what to do so i asked dr. Platner for help. Benson and you wrote andrea the prescription. Ive seen many children die. Children born without brains, riddled with cancer. This time, at least i was able to do something before that little girl suffered. What about your oath . To do no harm . I couldnt even make sarah comfortable. Her mother wanted to spare her years of torture. Now would it have been less harmful to make her go through that . A jury will see him as an angel of mercy. Or an angel of death. Our version goes down a lot smoother. 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In sitting on the defenses side . Oh, ye of little faith. I assumed that you were proeuthanasia. Yeah, for adults who are competent to ask f it. But not for children . Then the disabled where does it stop . Defense is going to argue that andrea did this out of love. It doesnt matter what intentions this road is paved with, alex. It only leads to one place. Platner i was andreas pediatrician since the day she was born. But you were more than just her doctor, werent you . Well, andreas father, joel, died while she was about 12. I was sort of her surrogate father when she was growing up. We lost touch from the time she went to college until sarah was born. How did you learn that sarah was sick . At her twoweek checkup, i saw the red spots in her eyes. I told andrea she had to get the girl tested. And when the results of those tests came back . I told andrea and danieltheir child had taysachs. They felt terrible guilt because they had not been tested themselves. Did you tell them what sarah faced . Yes, i did. Would you tell us . Well, at about six months, her vision would progressively deteriorate until she went blind. Her brain function would slowly disappear. Shed lose the ability to sit up and swallow. She would need a feeding tube to stay alive. I told andrea and daniel that their beautiful little child would die a terrible death before she was five. How did they take the news . As bad as you would expect. They couldnt stand the thought of sarah suffering and then losing her. Doctor, at any time did you advise andrea or daniel brown to euthanize their daughter . Absolutely not. Then why did you prescribe the tricyclics that andrea used to put sarah to sleep . Andrea said that she was going to euthanize sarah with me or without me. You see, i knew what sarah was going to go through. I just wanted it to be as painless as possible for the both of them. Thank you, doctor. Dr. Platner, when you agreed to help andrea brown kill her daughter. No, no, thats not what i said. Please let me finish, doctor. Do you ever talk to her husband, daniel . No, i didnt but he was sarahs father. Andrea never would have done this if it wasnt what they both wanted. You also falsified the death certificate, didnt you . Yes, i did. Did you also advise andrea to dump sarahs body in the hudson river . No, no, no, of course not. Then why did you arrange for the funeral home to bury an empty casket . Andrea was supposed to call me when sarah had gone to sleep, but she panicked. She didnt come to me until after shed already put sarah in the river. And you helped her cover it up. Yes, i did. Drplatner, do you think that children who have no chance of survival should be euthanized . Objection. Overruled. Have you ever seen a child with taysachs or any fatal disease . And how should we determine those born with half a brain . Deaf children, blind children, maybe . Is this necessary, your honor . Youve made your point, ms. Cabot. Move on. Dr. Platner, for how many other patients have you ended the suffering . None. Then why did you do it in this case . Sarah was hopeless. I was like a father to andrea. I couldnt let this destroy her, too. Nothing further. Daniel had to work late that night. I crushed the pills. I put them in some formula. I nursed her one last time, and then i gave sarah the bottle. sobbing and i, i held her, and i watched her as she peacefully drifted off to sleep. I lost it. I was supposed to call judah. Uh, uh, dr. Platner, but, uh. I put sarah in the car and i just drove. I went to the river and stopped at a place where daniel and i used to picnic. Did you call your husband . No. I didnt want him to see our baby like that. What did you do . I, i put the. Tire iron into the grocery sack. I tied it around the. Handle. I wrapped sarah. In a blanket, and i put her inside, and i placed it on the water, and i just. I watched. I watched while it disappeared. Andrea, you had other alternatives, didnt you . There was a, uh and i listened to the parents discuss their kids. They cant move. They cant see. It made me even more determined to do what i did. Why . Because i loved sarah so much. I could not stand to see her suffer. Nothing further. Sarah wasnt showing any symptoms of taysachs. Why didnt you wait until she did . I didnt want her to be in any pain. Wasnt this as much about your pain as it was sarahs . I did it to spare sarah, not me. I will be in agony for the rest of my life. You testified that you went to the support group by yourself. Where was your husband . I didnt think he could handle it. And yet, you told detectives that your husband wasnt involved. Why did you make this decision on your own . I didnt want daniel to be the one who did it. I know what i did was against the law, but i believe in a loving god and i cannot believe that a loving god would want an innocent child to suffer so horribly. indistinct arguing ms. Cabot. Your client seems upset. Whats going on . Dr. Platner asked me to talk to you. Why . He wants to make a deal. Ive already testified, ms. Cabot. Believe me, im not hiding anything. I did what i had to do for andrea and sarah. What happened to your noble intentions . Alleviating the suering of dying children . Ive been taking care of children for almost 40 years. If im convicted, ill die in prison. What are you looking for . Man two, five to 15. And this doesnt have anything to do with the fireworks i witnessed outside of court today . There isnt anything that my client knows that he hasnt told you or the jury, and he may very well be acquitted. You didnt let platner cop a plea, did you . We told him wed sleep on it. All this posturing about euthanasia, and now he just wants to give up . Whats he really afraid of . Im not sure, but platner looked pretty surprised when andrea testified she never told her husband what she was going to do. This was the most important decision of their lives. How could she not include him . She said she didnt want daniel to be the one who was doing it. Maybe she was protecting him. Not from us. Even if he was involved, and spousal privilege puts that offlimits. Well, maybe andrea was protecting him from the truth. About what . Every jewish couple i know got tested for taysachs before they walked down the aisle. Why would an educated couple like the browns roll the dice and take those chances . Because they thought there was no chance they could havea taysachs baby. If danny wasnt born jewish, hes got better odds of hitting the lottery than carrying the taysachs gene. What kind of offer requires the presence of the defendants husband, but not her . No offer. We have a court order for a dna test for mr. Bro. What the hell for . We checked your birth certificate. You were born catholic. Yes, but i converted to judaism before andrea and i got married. So what . So, theres very little chance that you carry the taysachs gene. sighs you cant do this. I know my rights. Spousal privilege husbands and wives cant incriminate each other. Well, thats not entirely true. But the privilege doesnt cover dna. We can take you to the mes office right now for the dna test. Dont waste your time. Im, uh, not sarahs biological father. Andrea told you, didnt she . About the affair. After she was arrested. But i suspected something when sarah was diagnosed. scoffs it was with some guy in herffice. How do you know she wasnt just trying to cover up the affair when she killed sarah . Please state your name for the record. Steven kellerman. Mr. Kellerman, how do you know the defendant . I worked with her. What was the extent of your relationship . Im not sure what that means. Did you have sex with andrea brown . It only happened once, after wed worked late. Her husband was away. After that, you transferred to a different office, didnt you . To boston, yes. When did you become aware that andrea brown was pregnant with your child . When i read about the case in the newspaper. So youre saying you never even knew about your own daughter . Yes. Nothing further. Who ended the affair andrea did, immediately after it began. I loved her, but she. Loved her husband, and she had a moment of weakness. Sustained. Jury will disregard. When you read about andrea in the newspaper . Why didnt you come forward . Because i had a brother that died of taysachs, and ive seen what that does. And if id have been in andas position, id have done the same thing. Im very sorry. Emmett andrea browns actions had one purpose. One to spare the child she loved years of horrible agony, leading to an inevitable death. When you go into the jury room, ladies and gentlemen, you must decide if this woman deserves to go to prison for at least 25 years. Ask one of yourselves if this were my child, what would i do . And if that question gives you pause, i pray you decide that andrea brown has already suffered enough. Andrea brown ground up a lethal dose of antidepressants and fed it to her baby. The defense doesnt dispute these facts, but they argue mrs. Brown acted out of the noblest of motives. Lets examine these motives. Andrea brown had an extramarital affair and got pregnant. When she found out the baby wasnt her husbands, did she tell him . No. Did she tell Steve Kellerman that he was the father . No. When pressuring him for a prescription an act she knew could land him in prison . No. From the start, andrea browns primary concern was preserving her marriage, her image, and her lifestyle by hiding at all costs her affair. She knew that the longer sarah was alive, the greater e chances someone would find out that daniel brown was not the father. So she killed her daughter a helpless child whhad not yet begun to suffer the effects of taysachs all of this to conceal the fact that shed slept with another man. The defense would have you believe this was an act of mcy. It wasnt. This is a clearcut cas