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It's MY birthday!!! I'm IT!!!!
Mckenzie Ann Webster-Brown. Died November 25, 2009 at age six, of albuterol toxicity. This occured because she "received albuterol treatment by care giver using ADULT dose" (State of Colorada, certificate of death #004379104). She left behind her mother Faith Webster, her father Jeremiah Brown, her big sister Shaelyn Webster, her grandparents and uncountable buddies. This site is for her and in memory of her. Justice has not YET prevailed, but we are confident that ultimately it will.
Mckenzie with "My Sister" and Mom
It's MY birthday!!! I'm IT!!!!
10 comments:
Has it occured to you that maybe you are borderlining harrassment here? Do you honestly beleive she woke up that morning with the intent to kill a child? Maybe you should remember who you trusted to care for your daughter and trusted to make the right judgement calls. People make mistakes and have you thought about how she feels? Have you considered that she has to live with this every day the same as you? Bad things happen to good people all the time and I am truley sorry for your loss but maybe you are blinded by your heartach!
To Mrs. or Mr. Anonymous:
You have absolutely no room to speak of harassment in regards to protecting the identity of this babysitter. The public needs to know who she is. The 9th Judicial District Attorney's Office and the Garfield County Department of Human Services don't know how to investigate and or prosecute people responsible for the deaths of children in this county. Their have been three now in the last three years and not one single charge has been filed. The victims are announced right away as they suffer the loss of a loved one in public and the public is always left to wonder how these tragedies occur while the DA's and Social Services take their sweet time and never communicate to the victims as to their progress. They never announce to the public their outcome either and they drag things out and lead people to believe that charges are eminent only to decide at the end that they can not prove negligence beyond a reasonable doubt. They are so quick to be attentive to the perpetrators rights and not very well versed in the rights of the victim and the affected family of the victim. They wouldn't understand GRIEF or BEREAVEMENT if they looked it up in the dictionary. Snails move faster than their investigations. So why should the public and the family be held from knowing the identity of the potential accused especially when that person is a babysitter and LIABLE for the death of a child. How would you like this person to baby sit your child? You speak almost like you were a babysitter who also may have been involved with negligent supervision of a child who died while in your care, either that or you are quick to defend with no knowledge of what you speak of. Bad things happen to good people is a book so don't steal your wording from titles. No child dies for any reason or bad thing as you so easily try to write it off as. No supervisor of children has any room to make mistakes and or administer illegal drugs to a child for that matter, they are to make sure the child is safe since that is their line of work and that is what they are being compensated to do. True and honest mistakes are usually not ones that lead to the death of another human. True and honest mistakes don't involve the need of an attorney. The death of a child never ends it is the loss of a future. It is never fixed, it never mends itself, it never goes away, a parent and family can only hope to find a new normal, God knows from this point forward nothing will ever be old normal again. Your level of intelligence is obviously very low if you think you can get on this blog and speak negatively and not supportive of a family and especially a parent who has lost a child. Who the HELL do you think you are, you're not GOD?!! You will never know what they go through and for that matter you will never know what the babysitter goes through either, that is unless maybe you were one as I stated, you speak as though maybe a child died while in your care, if not you need to re-think before you go giving your opinion on something that you would have been better off on just keeping your mouth shut!! These damn people think they can hide behind the 5th amendment, their right to remain silent, and their attorneys. If they have nothing to hide then why do they always need an attorney and are always afraid to talk. If they are not responsible or at fault why the hell do they hide behind the legal system. You are very similar to this person though as you are willing to want to give your two cents but are too chicken-shit to leave your name and instead call yourself anonymous. Until you have been the parent or the babysitter or the family keep your stupid opinions to yourself we don't need to hear them. You need to look up the definition of mistake, as you so simply state it VS. the definition of NEGLIGENT SUPERVISION, NEGLIGENT EMERGENCY RESPONSE, NEGLIGENT LIABILITY, and NEGLIGENT CARE. Mr. or Mrs. anonymous you are truly the BLIND one!!!!!!
ERMA PUCKAWICZ
I wonder why it is still not mentioned that there were 3 causes of death. Albuterol toxicity, asthma, and bronchial pneumonia. the news reports show these in alphebetical order. why are no others mentioned in this blog? why were there posts months ago that are no longer here? mentioning how she had none of these? this sounds like a witch hunt. when is a parent not responsible for their child's health? was she taken to the doctor for pneumonia before she was at the sitter's? why did her parent take her to a sitter's when she was sick with pneumonia? there are question's being avoided here. i think opening more of a discussion is good. asking questions gets answers. where was mom that she gave the kids to a sitter? how often were the kids there? was this a new sitter? telling the truth and telling the whole truth are two different things. i think you are blinded by guilt, not heartache.
looks like this page was given up on cause you are guilty liars that change the story to fit the need. you are full of bs, and trying to blame the person you could cut out he most easily
I agree anonymous.. it was an accident. :( It's not like she had the intent of killing her.. come on people!
Anonymous2
I hope you legally got this picture of her, otherwise i would expect a lawsuit.
anonymous3
erma- what happens if the mother was negligent in her medical care and let the child go to the sitter's house with pneumonia? no matter what that doesn't form to kill someone in less than 3 days. how long was she at the sitters? where was she before that? from what i understand, this mother never had her kids, they were ALWAYS with someone else. when does the blam stop and the truth come out?
I am truly sorry for your loss. The fact of this story is a child's life was lost due to negligence. The babysitter had no authority to give the child medicine not intended for the child, therefore it IS the babysitters fault whether the child had been at the sitters for ten minutes or ten days.
I appreciate that last comment. I listen to the news about all these children whose lives are lost and who don't seem to have anyone to speak up about that. It's so sad. I'm old enough to know that no situation like McKenzie's death is "simple". BUT, I believe the person who was caring for her at the time of her death was responsible for illegally giving her medication. I also believe she was responsible for NOT calling 911 or taking Kenzie to the hospital located just down the road and having doctors look at her. When EMTs finally arrived, it really was too late, but it would have been great for her to tell them the truth about giving Kenzie so much of her adult medication. Perhaps the course of treatment may have been different. Beyond all that, I have seen the cost to my daughter and to Kenzie's sister and to her other grandmother over these past many months and it breaks my heart. I wish I could do more to help prevent any other family from living every day with a loss such as our family has. That's not revenge. That's justice, and hopefully the consequences of justice being helpful.
I was a caregiver at a daycare to a little boy, A., from 3 mos.-3 years old. We were joined at the hip. I loved him like he WAS my son. But in 2001, A. lost his life in an extremely horrible car accident, along with his sister V. The man who hit them was an off-duty cop, going approx. 50-60 (possibly more) trying to beat a yellow light, while A.'s mother was turning left. He hit them so hard, A's car was crushed in 2 feet, the man hit them TWICE (initial crash, then another shove forward), the man's car flipped over on the roof and circled itself about 80 yards down the road, while A's car was a crumpled mass of metal. A. unfortunately wasn't in a seat, just belted, but it wouldn't have mattered going by the horrendous nature of the accident. His sister hadn't wanted her seatbelt on. She paid for that by being thrown out the back windshield. She was taken off life support the next day, while A. died on the scene. This was in a residential, right next to a hospital (a small one that couldn't handle the severity), less than a mile away from a street with two schools, ballpark and city pool and two parks within a mile and a half. The first thing the man who hit them said was "I'm on the job." = "I'm a cop." Not "oh my god, what happened??" It wasn't reported, but I found out through the family that the man had had alcohol on his breath. He'd also only been on the force for less than 2 years, had many speeding violations and other infractions. I couldn't get to the courthouse for every date, but I did go to the last one and sat during the verdict. Since neither child had been belted properly, they couldn't conclude that he was 100% at fault. His own department, luckily, didn't coddle him; he WAS relegated to desk work for a long time, and over the years has this tragedy work against him when he wants to go for a promotion. Should he have gotten more? In my opinion, yes. Should he have gotten time? In my opinion, yes. I will always carry anger and grief over this, along with the children's family. I don't know if I'll ever fully forgive him. But the one thing I have to come back to is that no matter his wrongdoing, his actual *crime*, he did NOT intend to go out and kill those beautiful children that day. It was gross negligence, not intent, that took them away. The reason I'm writing all of this here is to say that of course you're angry, of course you want justice. This "caregiver" SHOULD have gotten something, ANY-thing. But however things worked, she's out there, trying to get by. However, posting her picture online, broadcasting where she works and how that business should be blacklisted, calling her a 'baby killer' are highly questionable. She's not a baby killer. She killed YOUR baby, a lovely little girl who didn't deserve to die. But I think a question you might need to ask yourself is 'Does she have a compulsion to kill?' I don't think she does. I think she got off easy, and that's not fair. It sucks. But it is what it is. For me, when it came to my own tragedy, I had to reserve a place where I could be angry and have a blacklist for this man in a personal, solemn way. I could make make a site online dedicated to ruining his life, family and career, but what's done is done, and however unfair it may be, making highly public proclamations about it in a forum such as the internet does nothing but perpetuate the grief, hatred and hurt... not just for them but for yourself. Please take this comment as what it is; just someone who thinks that, perhaps, a public shaming for this woman isn't needed. You're honestly doing nothing to further your cause in posting her picture like this. I hate to say it, but it makes you look questionable. If the law didn't work, it didn't work. Let it go, let her live her life and move on. I'm sorry for your loss, of course. Take care. --V
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