| "The Kelsey Briggs Story." (True Story Original) |
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Kelsey Briggs lost her life before the age of
three due to Child Abuse.
It is a Tragic story but one that must be
shared.Hopefully Kelsey's story will touch
your heart and you will be willing to step up
to the plate and help children who can't help
themselves.
Please read her story below...
Kelsey Briggs was born in Oklahoma on
December 28,2002 after her parents Lance
Briggs and Raye Dawn Smith were divorced.
At the end of 2004 Raye Dawn Smith started
dating a man named Michael Lee Porter.
The first reported incident of suspected
child abuse regarding Kelsey was made on
Jan.17,2005.
Kelsey Briggs grandmother Kathie Briggs was
granted custody Jan.24,2005.
Raye Dawn Smith married Michael Lee Porter on
April 18,2005.
On May 3,2005 Kelsey was taken out of her
grandmothers care by OKDHS.
Kelsey was put in protective custody because
of leg injuries.
At that time Raye Dawn was having
unsupervised visitation with Kelsey,
sometimes in the presence of Mike Porter
which went against a court order.
Raye and Mike had Kelsey more hours than did
Kathie.
May 4,2005 Kelsey was moved to her maternal
Grandmother Gayla Smith.
Kelsey suffered months of documented abuse,
which included FOUR CONFIRMED cases of
abuse.Confirmed abuse were the abrasions and
bruises on her bottom in January 2005, and
the two spiral breaks to her legs in April
2005.
June 15,2005 Judge Craig Key sent Kelsey back
to her mom and stepfather.The judge stated,
"Kelsey's abuser was unknown."
Kelsey was visited by a social worker every
week.
Her biological father Lance Briggs was a
soldier in Iraq he was undergoing care at a
treatment facility for a back injury and was
in the process of checking out from his duty
in
Fort Benning,Georgia.
Lance was schedueled to be home within a week
or so.
On October 11,2005 Kelsey was murdered.
Raye Dawn and Michael Porter were the only
ones around Kelsey in the hour leading up to
her death.
Raye went to pick Whitney up from
school.Whitney is Mike Porter's Bio daughter
from a previous relationship.
The cause of death was blunt force trauma to
the abdomen,it was ruled a Homicide.
Kelsey Briggs died just days before her
father was to return.
Two weeks later Porter was arrested on first
degee murder.
Her mother was later charged with two
felonies of Child Neglect and Enabling Child
Abuse.
In April of 2006 Kelsey's body was exhumed
for a second autopsy where sexual abuse was
documented.
The Stepfather's charges were amended to add
the sexual abuse.
Porter and Smith divorced after Kelsey's
death.
On February 2,2007 a plea negotiation was
entered and approved by the paternal family.
The stepfather plead guilty to a reduced
charge of Enabling Child Abuse and received
30 years in prison.
He has no possibility of parole for
25.5years.
Kelsey's mother Raye Dawn Smith went on trial
July 9,2007.
She was found guilty of enabling child abuse,
she will serve 27 years in prison, without
the possibility of parole for 23 years.
Alot of people failed Kelsey.
Remember her story the next time you think a
child is being abused.Please report it,if you
don't, that child may suffer the same fate as
Kelsey.Please don't let that happen.
A new law has been named for Kelsey in
Oklahoma to prevent this type of failure in
the Oklahoma State System.
Song:"Somewhere over the Rainbow"
- Eva Cassidy
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