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SAVON EDWARDS - 3 months (2008)/ Convicted: Father; Ricky Edwards - Cincinnati OH
by TomTerrific0420 Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:38 pm
He's cut a tooth. He weighs about 30 pounds.
But Savon Edwards isn't like most 17-month-old babies. He doesn't cry. He doesn't toddle on still unsure legs.
He doesn't even fidget.
Instead, Savon languishes in a coma.
Tests done a year ago revealed neuroelectric silence - indicative that Savon is brain dead.
Savon got to this place of round-the-clock care, first at a Cincinnati hospital and now at a rural hospital in south central Kentucky, after being shaken so violently he stopped breathing on Christmas night 2008, prosecutors say.
His mother's boyfriend, Ricky Edwards, now 31, was arrested on felonious assault and child endangering charges. He faces 16 years in prison if convicted of both charges. The trial, which starts Tuesday, is expected to take a week.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center doctors wanted to do more evaluations and tests which would have meant unhooking Savon's ventilator for up to 10 minutes to determine if he could breathe on his own. Such tests are a measure of the life Savon could possibly have.Or not have.
If he did not take a breath on his own, he would have eventually been pronounced dead, family members say.
For now, it appears there never will be such tests or evaluations.
As they have for the past 14 months, tubes snake from Savon's body delivering oxygen and nutrients machines take his temperature, record his vital signs.
The visits he had from family early on are now rare.
This is Savon's life now that a series of events - or lack of them - appear to have locked an infant in what could be a permanent state of limbo.
Savon is not expected to recover, juvenile court records obtained by The Enquirer suggest.
His grandmother asks why.
His father is accused of putting him in this state.
His mother lost her rights as a parent.
Now a ward of county
The Hamilton County Jobs and Family Services department took custody of Savon last fall, after Children's Hospital petitioned the court to do so, effectively stripping away parental rights or responsibilities Savon's mother Tammy Gries, 36, had with regards to his care.
Gries who is mentally ill, was believed to be homeless because she lived at Children's Hospital for many of the 11 months her son was there.
Documents suggest Gries didn't cooperate with doctors and failed to understand the magnitude of her son's condition.
“Tammy Gries' continued refusal to cooperate in Savon's management prevents proper evaluation of Savon's medical status and precludes care providers from accurately determining and planning Savon's immediate and future medical needs,” juvenile court records state.
“ Ms. Gries has not taken any steps to learn how to care for Savon herself. Further she has not taken any steps to discharge Savon to (a) or an appropriate long-term, care facility.”Gries' mother Jerry Gries, 65, agreed with the assessment.
The family gathered at Savon's bedside on Sept. 12. It was his first birthday. Tammy Gries smeared cake on Savon's face and hands to make it appear as if he was a normal 1-year-old who had just dug into his birthday cake.
No one else found it funny, Jerry Gries said.
Tammy Gries' lack of cooperation with the hospital became more taxing, her mother said.
“Tammy would have no part of what they were saying,” Jerry Gries said of the doctors and social workers.
The handful of tests medical workers were able to do did not look hopeful.
With response to pain, he scored the lowest possible early on. He had no cough or gag reflex.His condition grew worse.
A July 30 exam revealed he had no spontaneous breathing movements, was neurologically unresponsive and showed little or no blood flow to his brain. After that examination, any relationship Tammy Gries may have had with the hospital got worse. Records state she stopped cooperating July 31.
“Savon has reached his maximum level of medical improvement and further medical care ( at Children's Hospital) will not benefit Savon,” records note.
Police and her mother believe Tammy Gries would not agree to more testing because she was trying to prevent Edwards from facing manslaughter or homicide charges, which he likely would face if the little boy is pronounced dead.“It's disgusting it's shameful,” said Sgt. Robert
Liston Cincinnati's homicide unit who investigated the case and arrested Edwards last year. “But who's to say what will happen down the road?”What's to happen down the road is what troubles Jerry Gries.
“It's just not right to let him lie there. Is it limbo?” asked Jerry Gries. “What do you call that state (of being) - between worlds - I just don't know.
To me it is like letting a dead body lay there and no one is doing nothing.”
Judge rejects tests
Children's Hospital attempted to get a juvenile judge to intervene on a number of matters.
With some matters, they had success, like asking that Savon be deemed abused and allow for an evaluation that too see if Savon could be moved to a rehabilitation center, which would only take him if the child welfare agency had custody.
With other matters, hospital attorneys didn't fare as well. They failed to get Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Thomas Lipps to order the tests that would have required Savon to be
unhooked from the ventilator.Lipps called the tests invasive, saying they could put the child at risk.
In the end, the hospital conceded that it had done all it could for Savon and in late November had him transferred to Rockcastle Regional Hospital and Respiratory Care Center in Mount Vernon, Ky. Taxpayers spend $640 per day to care for Savon.
From here on, unless an attorney petitions him to re-address the evaluation, Lipps will not consider the matter, said Mark Reed, the juvenile court administrator.
Savon case is another example of a child being hurt by those who should be protecting him, Reed said.
“Everyone, (all) agencies the court will try and act in the child's best interests,” Reed said.
“Reasonable minds may differ on occasion as to what that is, but the interests of the child is what we are all striving for.”
Brian Gregg, the spokesman for the Hamilton County Jobs and Family Services department, said his agency will not remove Savon from the ventilator or press for the extensive evaluation.
Gregg would not elaborate why.
Moira Weir, executive director of the agency, said she cannot think of a similar case where the county agency has had custody over a child that is in a coma.
Social workers are required to visit Savon and the court will review the case about every three months, Reed said.
Children languishing in a coma for 14 months after suffering from abusive head trauma are rare. Generally a child will die from pneumonia or other infection, said Dr. Frank Putnam, the
director of the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Children's Hospital.
On average nationally, about one in five children who have such head trauma - trauma that is not caused by an accident - die, said Putnam.
In the years that Savon was at the hospital, seven of the 52 children admitted for abusive head trauma died.
“About half of these kids are pretty seriously impaired and will never be normal in any way,” Putnam said. “ It's heart breaking.”
Mother well known to agency
Tammy Gries has visited Savon about two or three times in the 2½ months since he was moved to Mount Vernon, Jerry Gries said. The child welfare agency reimburses her for the bus fare. It will do so up to twice a month.
The child welfare agency is all too familiar with Savon's mother.
Their history dates back to 14 years ago when Tammy Gries left her newborn baby girl - born prematurely - in the hospital and didn't return.
Multiple pregnancies and interactions with the child welfare agency followed over the years:
Tammy Gries does not have custody of any of the five children she has given birth to.
Neither Tammy Gries nor Edwards were ever supposed to be alone with Savon.
Edwards because of his violent past - he's been arrested three times for domestic violence - and Gries because of her failure to parent her other children, among other things.
The plan set up by Jobs and Family Services called for Savon to live in the Corryville home of Edwards' aunt Vivian Lumpkin.
Lumpkin was to be the primary care giver and her daughter was to be the secondary care giver.
The agency, however, did not account for the fact that Edwards also lived in the home and that Lumpkin worked and her daughter went to school in the day, leaving Edwards and times
Tammy Gries alone with Savon. Edwards and Savon even shared a bedroom, an agency investigation uncovered.
As a result of the investigation, one child services worker was fired and two quit following disciplinary action.
Only one worker involved with Savon's management plan, Sandra Webster, who made $54,638 last year remains on the job after receiving a 20-day suspension.
“The big lesson learned in this case is that our children's services workers need to be aware of every adult in the home, know that adult's role in caring for the child and properly assess that adult and their protective capacities when it comes to that child,” said Weir.
Meanwhile, Tammy Gries is banking on a miracle, her mother said. “She says, 'Miracles can happen.' I say if miracles are going to happen, he would breathe on his own without that machine.”They really just need to let him be at peace instead of this.”
But Savon Edwards isn't like most 17-month-old babies. He doesn't cry. He doesn't toddle on still unsure legs.
He doesn't even fidget.
Instead, Savon languishes in a coma.
Tests done a year ago revealed neuroelectric silence - indicative that Savon is brain dead.
Savon got to this place of round-the-clock care, first at a Cincinnati hospital and now at a rural hospital in south central Kentucky, after being shaken so violently he stopped breathing on Christmas night 2008, prosecutors say.
His mother's boyfriend, Ricky Edwards, now 31, was arrested on felonious assault and child endangering charges. He faces 16 years in prison if convicted of both charges. The trial, which starts Tuesday, is expected to take a week.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center doctors wanted to do more evaluations and tests which would have meant unhooking Savon's ventilator for up to 10 minutes to determine if he could breathe on his own. Such tests are a measure of the life Savon could possibly have.Or not have.
If he did not take a breath on his own, he would have eventually been pronounced dead, family members say.
For now, it appears there never will be such tests or evaluations.
As they have for the past 14 months, tubes snake from Savon's body delivering oxygen and nutrients machines take his temperature, record his vital signs.
The visits he had from family early on are now rare.
This is Savon's life now that a series of events - or lack of them - appear to have locked an infant in what could be a permanent state of limbo.
Savon is not expected to recover, juvenile court records obtained by The Enquirer suggest.
His grandmother asks why.
His father is accused of putting him in this state.
His mother lost her rights as a parent.
Now a ward of county
The Hamilton County Jobs and Family Services department took custody of Savon last fall, after Children's Hospital petitioned the court to do so, effectively stripping away parental rights or responsibilities Savon's mother Tammy Gries, 36, had with regards to his care.
Gries who is mentally ill, was believed to be homeless because she lived at Children's Hospital for many of the 11 months her son was there.
Documents suggest Gries didn't cooperate with doctors and failed to understand the magnitude of her son's condition.
“Tammy Gries' continued refusal to cooperate in Savon's management prevents proper evaluation of Savon's medical status and precludes care providers from accurately determining and planning Savon's immediate and future medical needs,” juvenile court records state.
“ Ms. Gries has not taken any steps to learn how to care for Savon herself. Further she has not taken any steps to discharge Savon to (a) or an appropriate long-term, care facility.”Gries' mother Jerry Gries, 65, agreed with the assessment.
The family gathered at Savon's bedside on Sept. 12. It was his first birthday. Tammy Gries smeared cake on Savon's face and hands to make it appear as if he was a normal 1-year-old who had just dug into his birthday cake.
No one else found it funny, Jerry Gries said.
Tammy Gries' lack of cooperation with the hospital became more taxing, her mother said.
“Tammy would have no part of what they were saying,” Jerry Gries said of the doctors and social workers.
The handful of tests medical workers were able to do did not look hopeful.
With response to pain, he scored the lowest possible early on. He had no cough or gag reflex.His condition grew worse.
A July 30 exam revealed he had no spontaneous breathing movements, was neurologically unresponsive and showed little or no blood flow to his brain. After that examination, any relationship Tammy Gries may have had with the hospital got worse. Records state she stopped cooperating July 31.
“Savon has reached his maximum level of medical improvement and further medical care ( at Children's Hospital) will not benefit Savon,” records note.
Police and her mother believe Tammy Gries would not agree to more testing because she was trying to prevent Edwards from facing manslaughter or homicide charges, which he likely would face if the little boy is pronounced dead.“It's disgusting it's shameful,” said Sgt. Robert
Liston Cincinnati's homicide unit who investigated the case and arrested Edwards last year. “But who's to say what will happen down the road?”What's to happen down the road is what troubles Jerry Gries.
“It's just not right to let him lie there. Is it limbo?” asked Jerry Gries. “What do you call that state (of being) - between worlds - I just don't know.
To me it is like letting a dead body lay there and no one is doing nothing.”
Judge rejects tests
Children's Hospital attempted to get a juvenile judge to intervene on a number of matters.
With some matters, they had success, like asking that Savon be deemed abused and allow for an evaluation that too see if Savon could be moved to a rehabilitation center, which would only take him if the child welfare agency had custody.
With other matters, hospital attorneys didn't fare as well. They failed to get Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Thomas Lipps to order the tests that would have required Savon to be
unhooked from the ventilator.Lipps called the tests invasive, saying they could put the child at risk.
In the end, the hospital conceded that it had done all it could for Savon and in late November had him transferred to Rockcastle Regional Hospital and Respiratory Care Center in Mount Vernon, Ky. Taxpayers spend $640 per day to care for Savon.
From here on, unless an attorney petitions him to re-address the evaluation, Lipps will not consider the matter, said Mark Reed, the juvenile court administrator.
Savon case is another example of a child being hurt by those who should be protecting him, Reed said.
“Everyone, (all) agencies the court will try and act in the child's best interests,” Reed said.
“Reasonable minds may differ on occasion as to what that is, but the interests of the child is what we are all striving for.”
Brian Gregg, the spokesman for the Hamilton County Jobs and Family Services department, said his agency will not remove Savon from the ventilator or press for the extensive evaluation.
Gregg would not elaborate why.
Moira Weir, executive director of the agency, said she cannot think of a similar case where the county agency has had custody over a child that is in a coma.
Social workers are required to visit Savon and the court will review the case about every three months, Reed said.
Children languishing in a coma for 14 months after suffering from abusive head trauma are rare. Generally a child will die from pneumonia or other infection, said Dr. Frank Putnam, the
director of the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Children's Hospital.
On average nationally, about one in five children who have such head trauma - trauma that is not caused by an accident - die, said Putnam.
In the years that Savon was at the hospital, seven of the 52 children admitted for abusive head trauma died.
“About half of these kids are pretty seriously impaired and will never be normal in any way,” Putnam said. “ It's heart breaking.”
Mother well known to agency
Tammy Gries has visited Savon about two or three times in the 2½ months since he was moved to Mount Vernon, Jerry Gries said. The child welfare agency reimburses her for the bus fare. It will do so up to twice a month.
The child welfare agency is all too familiar with Savon's mother.
Their history dates back to 14 years ago when Tammy Gries left her newborn baby girl - born prematurely - in the hospital and didn't return.
Multiple pregnancies and interactions with the child welfare agency followed over the years:
Tammy Gries does not have custody of any of the five children she has given birth to.
Neither Tammy Gries nor Edwards were ever supposed to be alone with Savon.
Edwards because of his violent past - he's been arrested three times for domestic violence - and Gries because of her failure to parent her other children, among other things.
The plan set up by Jobs and Family Services called for Savon to live in the Corryville home of Edwards' aunt Vivian Lumpkin.
Lumpkin was to be the primary care giver and her daughter was to be the secondary care giver.
The agency, however, did not account for the fact that Edwards also lived in the home and that Lumpkin worked and her daughter went to school in the day, leaving Edwards and times
Tammy Gries alone with Savon. Edwards and Savon even shared a bedroom, an agency investigation uncovered.
As a result of the investigation, one child services worker was fired and two quit following disciplinary action.
Only one worker involved with Savon's management plan, Sandra Webster, who made $54,638 last year remains on the job after receiving a 20-day suspension.
“The big lesson learned in this case is that our children's services workers need to be aware of every adult in the home, know that adult's role in caring for the child and properly assess that adult and their protective capacities when it comes to that child,” said Weir.
Meanwhile, Tammy Gries is banking on a miracle, her mother said. “She says, 'Miracles can happen.' I say if miracles are going to happen, he would breathe on his own without that machine.”They really just need to let him be at peace instead of this.”
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Re: SAVON EDWARDS - 3 months (2008)/ Convicted: Father; Ricky Edwards - Cincinnati OH
by flutter1 Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:19 am
I have received notice that Savon has passed away almost two years to the date of his injuries. You can read the latest information in the comments here:
http://www.flutterbyewings.com/?tag=savon-edwards
Please remember Savon and his loved ones in your prayers.
http://www.flutterbyewings.com/?tag=savon-edwards
Please remember Savon and his loved ones in your prayers.
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Re: SAVON EDWARDS - 3 months (2008)/ Convicted: Father; Ricky Edwards - Cincinnati OH
by TomTerrific0420 Wed Dec 29, 2010 3:24 am
Still waiting for confirmation.
Thanks flutter 1 for joining J4C and please direct us to any corroborating stories.
Thanks flutter 1 for joining J4C and please direct us to any corroborating stories.
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Re: SAVON EDWARDS - 3 months (2008)/ Convicted: Father; Ricky Edwards - Cincinnati OH
by admin Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:30 pm
I'm so sorry. We will definitely keep the family and friends in our prayers. He was such an adorable baby.
Thank you for the update, Flutter.
Thank you for the update, Flutter.
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Re: SAVON EDWARDS - 3 months (2008)/ Convicted: Father; Ricky Edwards - Cincinnati OH
by flutter1 Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:33 pm
Here is the link
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20101228/NEWS010701/12290361/Boy-dies-2-years-after-shaking
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20101228/NEWS010701/12290361/Boy-dies-2-years-after-shaking
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Re: SAVON EDWARDS - 3 months (2008)/ Convicted: Father; Ricky Edwards - Cincinnati OH
by admin Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:33 pm
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20101228/NEWS010701/12290361/Boy-dies-2-years-after-shaking
Updated: 5:19 am | December 28, 2010
The machines have been unhooked and his body moved from a respiratory center in rural Kentucky to a funeral home.
Savon Edwards, who lived in a persistent vegetative state for two years and one day after being shaken so violently his brain filled with blood, was pronounced dead Monday.
The death could mean more charges for Savon's father, Ricky Edwards.
Edwards, 32, is serving the maximum eight-year prison sentence at the London Correctional Institution after being found guilty of child endangering nearly 11 months ago.
At the time he was injured, Savon became a poster child for a child welfare system that failed to protect him and let him live with a man with a history of hurting children and domestic violence.
After Savon was injured, one of his caseworkers was fired, two resigned and a fourth was suspended for 20 days.
Cincinnati Police Sgt. Robert Liston would like to see more charges leveled against Edwards.
Much will have to be decided in the upcoming days and weeks.
For now, Savon's biological mother is trying to come up with money for a proper burial gown, a grandmother wonders were Savon's final resting spot will be, and police are trying to protect their case in the event one goes forward now that Savon has died.
That will hinge on the outcome of an autopsy and the decision of prosecutors.
Homicide investigators Tuesday told the funeral home in Mount Vernon, Ky., not to prepare Savon's body for burial for now. An autopsy is scheduled for today.
"There is so much that is unknown," said Jerry Gries, Savon's grandmother.
But this much is known: The short, sad life of Savon has fractured a family and called into question whether Tammy Gries, Savon's biological mother, withheld permission for tests that medical professionals at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center wanted to do because she worried that her boyfriend, Edwards, would face tougher charges.
The case also showed how badly the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services handled it before Savon was injured.
Jerry Gries, who has been raising Tammy Gries' three eldest children since they were born, has been outspoken about her daughter's actions since Savon was hospitalized Dec. 26, 2008, after he stopped breathing.
"Tammy Gries' continued refusal to cooperate in Savon's management prevents proper evaluation of Savon's medical status," Juvenile Court records state.
Liston has called Tammy Gries' behavior shameful.
Saying it could do no more for Savon, the children's hospital asked that Savon be moved to Mount Vernon a year ago.
Savon could be moved only after a judge severed Tammy Gries' legal rights to Savon and made him a ward of the Department of Job and Family Services.
After he was moved, a Juvenile Court judge said he would not authorize the additional test that could have declared the infant dead, something the hospital and Savon's grandmother wanted.
"I feel Savon was done wrong," Jerry Gries said. "The fact that he laid there that long. He never should have laid there that long. Never."
Savon died Monday afternoon. He was 27 months old.
Early indications show he died as experts predicted, from complications of pneumonia.
About one of five children who have such head trauma dies, but it's rare for a child to languish in a coma for two years as Savon did. Infections and pneumonia generally hasten the death of children with severe head trauma, hospital officials have said.
"I cannot believe the timing of this," Jerry Gries said of the two-year anniversary since Savon was first brought to the hospital from the Corryville home where he lived with his father, great-aunt and other relatives.
Savon was never supposed to be left alone with his father, who has a long criminal record that includes a conviction for shaking another child and several domestic violence arrests, the child welfare agency determined shortly after Savon was born.
He was also not supposed to be left alone with his biological mother, who also has a criminal record, is considered mentally ill and has since lost custody of all five of her children.
As it turned out, Savon and his father shared a room and were often left alone when Edwards' aunt was at work and his cousin was in school. One woman, an acquaintance of Tammy Gries, called the child welfare department in 2008 telling them they she was under the impression that Edwards was being too rough with Savon.
"He didn't die on his own," Jerry Gries said. "What else can I say? Someone else killed that baby."
Updated: 5:19 am | December 28, 2010
The machines have been unhooked and his body moved from a respiratory center in rural Kentucky to a funeral home.
Savon Edwards, who lived in a persistent vegetative state for two years and one day after being shaken so violently his brain filled with blood, was pronounced dead Monday.
The death could mean more charges for Savon's father, Ricky Edwards.
Edwards, 32, is serving the maximum eight-year prison sentence at the London Correctional Institution after being found guilty of child endangering nearly 11 months ago.
At the time he was injured, Savon became a poster child for a child welfare system that failed to protect him and let him live with a man with a history of hurting children and domestic violence.
After Savon was injured, one of his caseworkers was fired, two resigned and a fourth was suspended for 20 days.
Cincinnati Police Sgt. Robert Liston would like to see more charges leveled against Edwards.
Much will have to be decided in the upcoming days and weeks.
For now, Savon's biological mother is trying to come up with money for a proper burial gown, a grandmother wonders were Savon's final resting spot will be, and police are trying to protect their case in the event one goes forward now that Savon has died.
That will hinge on the outcome of an autopsy and the decision of prosecutors.
Homicide investigators Tuesday told the funeral home in Mount Vernon, Ky., not to prepare Savon's body for burial for now. An autopsy is scheduled for today.
"There is so much that is unknown," said Jerry Gries, Savon's grandmother.
But this much is known: The short, sad life of Savon has fractured a family and called into question whether Tammy Gries, Savon's biological mother, withheld permission for tests that medical professionals at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center wanted to do because she worried that her boyfriend, Edwards, would face tougher charges.
The case also showed how badly the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services handled it before Savon was injured.
Jerry Gries, who has been raising Tammy Gries' three eldest children since they were born, has been outspoken about her daughter's actions since Savon was hospitalized Dec. 26, 2008, after he stopped breathing.
"Tammy Gries' continued refusal to cooperate in Savon's management prevents proper evaluation of Savon's medical status," Juvenile Court records state.
Liston has called Tammy Gries' behavior shameful.
Saying it could do no more for Savon, the children's hospital asked that Savon be moved to Mount Vernon a year ago.
Savon could be moved only after a judge severed Tammy Gries' legal rights to Savon and made him a ward of the Department of Job and Family Services.
After he was moved, a Juvenile Court judge said he would not authorize the additional test that could have declared the infant dead, something the hospital and Savon's grandmother wanted.
"I feel Savon was done wrong," Jerry Gries said. "The fact that he laid there that long. He never should have laid there that long. Never."
Savon died Monday afternoon. He was 27 months old.
Early indications show he died as experts predicted, from complications of pneumonia.
About one of five children who have such head trauma dies, but it's rare for a child to languish in a coma for two years as Savon did. Infections and pneumonia generally hasten the death of children with severe head trauma, hospital officials have said.
"I cannot believe the timing of this," Jerry Gries said of the two-year anniversary since Savon was first brought to the hospital from the Corryville home where he lived with his father, great-aunt and other relatives.
Savon was never supposed to be left alone with his father, who has a long criminal record that includes a conviction for shaking another child and several domestic violence arrests, the child welfare agency determined shortly after Savon was born.
He was also not supposed to be left alone with his biological mother, who also has a criminal record, is considered mentally ill and has since lost custody of all five of her children.
As it turned out, Savon and his father shared a room and were often left alone when Edwards' aunt was at work and his cousin was in school. One woman, an acquaintance of Tammy Gries, called the child welfare department in 2008 telling them they she was under the impression that Edwards was being too rough with Savon.
"He didn't die on his own," Jerry Gries said. "What else can I say? Someone else killed that baby."
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Re: SAVON EDWARDS - 3 months (2008)/ Convicted: Father; Ricky Edwards - Cincinnati OH
by admin Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:36 pm
flutter1 wrote:Here is the link
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20101228/NEWS010701/12290361/Boy-dies-2-years-after-shaking
Thanks, you are quick! Here's a pic of Savon:
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Re: SAVON EDWARDS - 3 months (2008)/ Convicted: Father; Ricky Edwards - Cincinnati OH
by admin Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:37 pm
Unfortunately, I've moved this topic to Murdered. 
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Re: SAVON EDWARDS - 3 months (2008)/ Convicted: Father; Ricky Edwards - Cincinnati OH
by TomTerrific0420 Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:28 pm
London Correctional Institution inmate Ricky Edwards could be facing more charges since his 2-year-old son died last week.Savon
Edwards had been living in a vegetative state for two years and one day
after being shaken so violently his brain filled with blood.The
Kentucky Enquirer reported that his father is serving the maximum
eight-year prison sentence after being found guilty of child endangering
nearly 11 months ago.Cincinnati Police Sgt. Robert Liston told the paper he would like to see more charges leveled against Edwards.After
Savon was injured, he became the poster child for a child welfare
system in Ohio that failed to protect him. One of his Ohio caseworkers
was fired, two resigned and a fourth was suspended for 20 days.
Edwards had been living in a vegetative state for two years and one day
after being shaken so violently his brain filled with blood.The
Kentucky Enquirer reported that his father is serving the maximum
eight-year prison sentence after being found guilty of child endangering
nearly 11 months ago.Cincinnati Police Sgt. Robert Liston told the paper he would like to see more charges leveled against Edwards.After
Savon was injured, he became the poster child for a child welfare
system in Ohio that failed to protect him. One of his Ohio caseworkers
was fired, two resigned and a fourth was suspended for 20 days.
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Re: SAVON EDWARDS - 3 months (2008)/ Convicted: Father; Ricky Edwards - Cincinnati OH
by mermaid55 Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:23 am
Father Indicted For Murder In Infant Son's Death
Edwards Already Serving 8 Years For Endangering Child
March 17, 2011
CINCINNATI -- A Hamilton County father already in prison for endangering his son has now been indicted in the child's death.
Ricky Edwards was arrested more than two years ago after 5-month-old Savon Edwards was hospitalized in a coma.
Prosecutors said Edwards shook the boy, but a jury acquitted Edwards on a felonious assault charge, finding him guilty of child endangering in March 2010.
Edwards was sentenced to eight years in prison. Savon Edwards died in December.
Prosecutors took the case to a grand jury after Savon Edwards' death, and the jury returned a murder indictment.
Read more: http://www.wlwt.com/news/27228535/detail.html#ixzz1PIdeTCmM
Edwards Already Serving 8 Years For Endangering Child
March 17, 2011
CINCINNATI -- A Hamilton County father already in prison for endangering his son has now been indicted in the child's death.
Ricky Edwards was arrested more than two years ago after 5-month-old Savon Edwards was hospitalized in a coma.
Prosecutors said Edwards shook the boy, but a jury acquitted Edwards on a felonious assault charge, finding him guilty of child endangering in March 2010.
Edwards was sentenced to eight years in prison. Savon Edwards died in December.
Prosecutors took the case to a grand jury after Savon Edwards' death, and the jury returned a murder indictment.
Read more: http://www.wlwt.com/news/27228535/detail.html#ixzz1PIdeTCmM
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Re: SAVON EDWARDS - 3 months (2008)/ Convicted: Father; Ricky Edwards - Cincinnati OH
by mermaid55 Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:44 pm
Cite as State v. Edwards, 2011-Ohio-1752.
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS
FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT OF OHIO
HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO
Criminal Appeal From: Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas
Judgment Appealed From Is: Affirmed
Date of Judgment Entry on Appeal: April 13, 2011
http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/rod/docs/pdf/1/2011/2011-ohio-1752.pdf
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS
FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT OF OHIO
HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO
Criminal Appeal From: Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas
Judgment Appealed From Is: Affirmed
Date of Judgment Entry on Appeal: April 13, 2011
http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/rod/docs/pdf/1/2011/2011-ohio-1752.pdf
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Re: SAVON EDWARDS - 3 months (2008)/ Convicted: Father; Ricky Edwards - Cincinnati OH
by TomTerrific0420 Thu Jun 30, 2011 3:24 am
After having read the appeal decision....
The appeal was for the original charged count for which the defendant was found guilty. That appeal has been denied.
From my interpretation the murder indictment has not been answered yet.
The appeal was for the original charged count for which the defendant was found guilty. That appeal has been denied.
From my interpretation the murder indictment has not been answered yet.
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Re: SAVON EDWARDS - 3 months (2008)/ Convicted: Father; Ricky Edwards - Cincinnati OH
by mermaid55 Fri Aug 05, 2011 7:29 pm
10/11/2011 10:00 AM H.C. COURT HOUSE ROOM 330 BETH A MYERS JURY TRIAL
http://www.courtclerk.org/case_summary.asp?sec=sched&casenumber=B 1101546
http://www.courtclerk.org/case_summary.asp?sec=sched&casenumber=B 1101546
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Re: SAVON EDWARDS - 3 months (2008)/ Convicted: Father; Ricky Edwards - Cincinnati OH
by mermaid55 Wed Oct 12, 2011 3:24 pm
Active 2/13/2012 10:00 AM H.C. COURT HOUSE ROOM 330 BETH A MYERS JURY TRIAL
Active 10/26/2011 09:00 AM H.C. COURT HOUSE ROOM 330 BETH A MYERS PLEA OR TRIAL SETTING
http://www.courtclerk.org/case_summary.asp?sec=sched&casenumber=B%201101546
Active 10/26/2011 09:00 AM H.C. COURT HOUSE ROOM 330 BETH A MYERS PLEA OR TRIAL SETTING
http://www.courtclerk.org/case_summary.asp?sec=sched&casenumber=B%201101546
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Re: SAVON EDWARDS - 3 months (2008)/ Convicted: Father; Ricky Edwards - Cincinnati OH
by mom_in_il Sun Mar 16, 2014 8:51 pm
'The only place she can see her child is in the cemetery'
Savon's dad/killer cuts plea deal
2:54 PM, Oct. 9, 2012
Three years after he was convicted of shaking his infant son into a living death and two years after the child died, Ricky Edwards admitted his crime Tuesday and will spend 13 years in prison for it.
But because Edwards already was convicted of one crime in the case - before his son, Savon Edwards, died - it took legal maneuvering to complete Tuesday's plea deal.
Savon "essentially became a lifeless, living dead child," Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor Anne Flanagan said. ...
Read more: http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/AB/20121009/NEWS0107/310090069/-only-place-she-can-see-her-child-cemetery-
Savon's dad/killer cuts plea deal
2:54 PM, Oct. 9, 2012
Three years after he was convicted of shaking his infant son into a living death and two years after the child died, Ricky Edwards admitted his crime Tuesday and will spend 13 years in prison for it.
But because Edwards already was convicted of one crime in the case - before his son, Savon Edwards, died - it took legal maneuvering to complete Tuesday's plea deal.
Savon "essentially became a lifeless, living dead child," Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor Anne Flanagan said. ...
Read more: http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/AB/20121009/NEWS0107/310090069/-only-place-she-can-see-her-child-cemetery-
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Re: SAVON EDWARDS - 3 months (2008)/ Convicted: Father; Ricky Edwards - Cincinnati OH
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