Americans are furious after an Indianapolis judge decided that a mother who admit to smothering her infant daughter while high on meth was not guilty. Despite killing her own child high on the meth, this woman was somehow found not guilty – even with an admission. But, before everyone goes into full outrage, it’s important to get the details.
The judge said the woman was ‘reluctantly’ setting her free because she was not technically guilty of what they charged her with, however she wasn’t innocent either. The judge suggested she should have been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter or reckless homicide. The prosecutors pushed for neglect of a dependent resulting in death – which would be something like letting a child starve. Was the judge legally allowed to convict her of something she wasn’t charged with? I have no idea how this works.
The defendant, Dacia Lacey, 32, got off easy, but many wonder why the judge didn’t find her guilty of something else and perhaps that’s just how the broken justice system works. Was the judge not allowed to find her guilty of something she wasn’t charged with? Was the true mistake on the prosecutors for trying to find her guilty of one thing, when it should have been something else?
I don’t know how the court system in Indianapolis works, but I know this woman belongs in prison and people failed to do their job. Now she walks the streets and people who’ve done much less than she has, are locked up. The state messed this one up by charging her with the wrong crime – so this problem goes much higher than the judge. The state is the main failure.
Source of information is Daily Mail who reported the following on the Indianapolis judge who set free a baby killing meth mom:
An Indianapolis mother has been found not guilty of neglectfully smothering her child to death – as a judge shockingly said he would have found her guilty of involuntary manslaughter or reckless homicide.
Dacia Lacey, 32, walked free after a judge ruled that prosecutors brought inappropriate charges of neglect of a dependent resulting in death, contending they didn’t prove she killed her two-month-old daughter Alona on purpose.
The mother admitted to police that she smothered the infant with couch cushions while she was high on methamphetamines so she could ‘get some sleep’ in August 2022. She wept in court this week as Judge Mark Stoner said he was freeing her ‘reluctantly’, insisting she was ‘not innocent’, but also ‘not guilty of what the state has charged you with.’
