The Story of the end of 3-year old PJ Bourgeois' life

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PJ'S Story of Innocence Lost

In Columbus, Ohio, on February 27, 1996, 3-year-old Patrick Bourgeois Jr., known as PJ, refused to eat his dinner. The following morning, paramedics were called to his home to answer a report that a child was having difficulty breathing. The paramedics arrived shortly thereafter, only to find no one who would let them into the Bourgeois home. The paramedics banged on the door and could hear arguing inside. The people refusing to open the door were PJ's father, Patrick Bourgeois and his father's girlfriend, Tracy Lynn Bratton. Finally, they opened the door and the paramedics saw the 3-year-old boy's lifeless body on the floor. They also saw shocking signs of abuse.

"It just seemed to me as if PJ had been tortured. In order to get bruising like that and bite marks like that, to me that's torture. I saw on PJ's wrists and ankles what appeared to be the remnants left from some sort of tape or adhesive." — Mike Bates, Paramedic

Who would do this to an innocent child?
Patrick Bourgeois and Tracy Lynn Bratton gave several versions about the night of February 27, 1996, before they admitted to biting and taping the child. The police went back to the home looking for clues. Blood splatters near the floor, on the bottom of the refrigerator, and on the bottom of the cabinets—they found PJ's last night alive was one of terror.

"The first time I saw PJ's body, I asked myself, What the heck happened here? The patient had suffered such head trauma that there was bleeding on the brain. We found that blood was coming out of his nose and mouth. He basically choked to death on his own blood." —Dr. Patrick M. Fardal, Forensic Pathologist

Dr. Fardal's conclusion: homicide by child abuse.

Child Killers Set Free
The police turned their findings over to the prosecutors with confidence that justice would be served. In PJ's story, justice was not served. PJ's killers were both released early from their prison sentences.

Two key decisions played a role in such injustice. Prosecutors charged PJ's father, Patrick Bourgeois, and his girlfriend, Tracy Lynn Bratton, with involuntary manslaughter instead of aggravated murder— which would have required proof of intent to kill. Prosecutors believed that, even with the lower charge, they could put the child killers in jail for a significant number of years. Also, in exchange for guilty pleas, defense attorneys asked for something called supershock probation.

"Supershock probation allows the sentencing judge to release the criminal from prison after they have served a minimum but not all terms of imprisonment. I think prosecutors agreed to take no position on the supershock motion because they did not believe it would be granted by a trial judge." —Ron O'Brien, Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney

PJ's killers were sentenced to 7-25 years in jail, but Tracy Bratton was released after only 3 years and 2 months. Patrick Bourgeois served only 3 years and 10 months for his son's death. Judge Nodine Miller released them early. She believed the couple's actions were, "fraught with ignorance, immaturity, and inexperience more than malevolence."

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PJ'S father Contests his biological mother to bury her own son in PA

WHO GAVE HIM THAT RIGHT!!??

While the killers maneuver, the boy goes unburied



http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio | They had killed 3-year-old P.J. Bourgeois -- they had beaten him, bitten him, bound his wrists and legs tightly with tape, and had left him to choke on his own blood.
Now they were arrested -- P.J.'s father, Patrick Bourgeois, and Bourgeois' girlfriend, Tracy Lynn Bratton, were in jail in Franklin County and awaiting trial. They were working with their defense attorneys on the plans that would eventually get them out of prison early and put them back on the streets, free and clear.
All of their rights were carefully being looked out for -- by their lawyers, and by the courts.
Meanwhile, someone's rights were being forgotten -- in a way that, even in the context of this awful case, is obscene almost beyond imagining.
P.J. Bourgeois -- after the autopsy of his battered and bruised 34-pound body -- was not allowed to be buried.
Why not?
Because his killer -- Patrick Bourgeois -- from behind bars in the Franklin County Jail became engaged in a legal dispute with P.J.'s mother, who lived in Lewistown, Pa., and from whom Bourgeois was estranged. The mother -- Michelle DuMond -- had been involved in a tumultuous relationship in Pennsylvania with Bourgeois, and Bourgeois had ended up with the boy. He had moved from Lewistown to Columbus with Tracy Bratton, and he had kept the boy with him.
Now that the boy was dead, Michelle DuMond wanted him transported back to Pennsylvania for burial. Bourgeois, from jail, objected to this; he may have killed P.J., but he wanted to be the one to decide where the boy should be buried. He wanted the burial to be in Columbus -- near him.
The Franklin County courts were asked to decide. And so for five months the body of that little boy remained in the Franklin County morgue. No one came to visit; no one came to mourn or to pray. Even in death, his interests went unprotected while the adults in his life looked out for their own interests, and argued with each other.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/bob/greene101600.asp

FIVE MONTHS THAT CHILD LAID ON A SLAB! FIVE MONTHS AFTER HE WAS MURDERED BY HIS OWN FATHER, WHO COULD NOT STILL GIVE THE RESPECT THAT PJ DESERVED EVEN IN DEATH!!!

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UNBELIEVABLE!!! How does this happen?? Why aren't these people dead already... they should have been shot.. this is yet another case of the law letting victims down....

I had not read about this story before.. and after just reading what these maggots did to this little boy.... i am lost for words.. PJ...