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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Man Gets Death For Leaving Girl For Alligators
2007-10-16
MIAMI -- The man accused of leaving a 5-year-old girl to be eaten alive by alligators in the Everglades has been sentenced to death. Harrel Braddy attacked Quatisha Maycock and her mother after he was released early from prison in another case for good behavior. He was convicted in July of first-degree murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, attempted escape and other charges.

He was also sentenced Monday to three consecutive life terms on the kidnapping and burglary with an assault charges. He also received 30 years in prison on the attempted murder of the girl's mother, Shandelle Maycock, 15 years on child neglect causing great bodily harm and five years on attempted escape.

Prosecutors said Braddy tossed Maycock in the trunk of his car in 1998 and drove her to a remote sugarcane field, choked her to unconsciousness and left her to die. She never saw her child again.

The case took so long because Braddy repeatedly fired his lawyers and occasionally represented himself in court.
Posted by:anonymous5089

#11  It's just way too bad that they didn't take this a55hole back to the swamp to review evidence, and then let him 'try to escape' even if it meant pushing him out of the airboat......
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2007-10-16 14:37  

#10  Thanks, Ed.

They saved the best bit until the final paragraph, Abbe sounds like a RB sort of gal. ;.

Miami-Dade prosecutor Abbe Rifkin, who has handled Braddy's case for the eight years since Quatisha's body was pulled from the swampy canal, has suffered through too many continuances to pin her hopes on that date.

"If I have to come out of retirement to prosecute Harrel Braddy," she says, "you better believe I will."
Posted by: rhodesiafever   2007-10-16 13:15  

#9  just one more to add to the death toll so pro-criminal rights groups members can appear compassionate.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2007-10-16 11:28  

#8  Harrel Braddy is extraordinarily evil. Worse, Florida's broken justice had many opportunities to put him away.
The Miami Strangler, Part 1
The Miami Strangler, Part 2
Posted by: ed   2007-10-16 10:58  

#7  "15 years on child neglect"? That's kind of an unusual charge to levy against a kidnapper, unless he was her biological father or had a previous relationship with her mother.

It could be that even kidnappers are expected to act in loco parentis.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-10-16 09:54  

#6  Don't forget the part about "after being released for good behavior". The girl would still be alive if he hadn't being released.

Now how about jailing the bleeding heart people who let him out.
Posted by: JFM   2007-10-16 09:48  

#5  "15 years on child neglect"? That's kind of an unusual charge to levy against a kidnapper, unless he was her biological father or had a previous relationship with her mother.

Also odd, but explainable, was that he probably said that she was still alive when he left her, lying in that he had probably strangled her to death.

The story needs more details. Granted, no objection here to slowly lowering him into a vat full of burning pitch, whatever the details.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-10-16 09:06  

#4  Where's those Lake Placid crocodiles when ya need em?
Posted by: Charles   2007-10-16 08:18  

#3  It never ceases to amaze me how some people can live with themselves. People like Braddy have to be so uncontaminated by even a scintilla of conscience that you'd think their other brain functions would have shut down a long time ago as well. Criminals like this make me regret we ever banned the electric chair or gas chamber. The needle is far too kind for this scum.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-10-16 08:15  

#2  Actually I think is douchebag rates *sshole of the year.

C'mon you anti-death penalty pansies.......don't let me down now, you have to go out and protest this gross abuse of justice by the state of Florida....because it's so cruel & unusual. Kind of like leaving a poor 5 yr old girl for the gators.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2007-10-16 07:54  

#1  Unfortunately, the state of Florida doesn't use alligators as a means of execution.
Posted by: Mike   2007-10-16 07:40  

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