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| Corrections officer gets 25 years in death |
| By Newsday |
| Published: 01/17/2005 |
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A 5 year-old boy thanked the New York judge who sentenced his father to 25 years in prison Tuesday for killing his ex-girlfriend, a federal correction officer who was the boy's mother. "Thank you for putting the bad man in jail," Shimeir Brown told Justice Robert Hanophy, according to a prosecutor who introduced them moments after the sentencing in State Supreme Court in Kew Gardens. Earlier, Hanophy told a courtroom filled with family, friends and co-workers of the mother, Sheila Bradley, 32, that he wished he could give Michael Brown "1,000 years to life" in the Christmas Day 2001 slaying. Brown, 45, pleaded guilty in October to first-degree manslaughter and first-degree assault in a plea deal with prosecutors to avoid facing up to life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder. A Virginia state correction officer, Brown stabbed Bradley 19 times and attacked her brother David Bradley, 23, eight times during a knife fight inside the woman's home on 141st Street in Springfield Gardens, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said police found Brown grabbing Shimeir's neck and holding a lamp. Brown released the boy and hit a police sergeant with the lamp after the officer sprayed him with Mace. "He's 5 and he has a vivid recollection of this," the prosecutor told the judge. "He sleeps with his eyes open because [he fears] the monster -- the monster who is his own father -- is going to get him." Brown was arrested and taken to a hospital with stab wounds that prosecutors said were self-inflicted. Brown's attorney, Russell Morea, has said he suffered the wounds in self-defense. Shimeir and David Bradley sat quietly in the back of the courtroom as Pomodore talked of how "the pain of this has ruined their lives." Referring to David Bradley, the prosecutor said, "He feels guilty he couldn't save his sister. As for his nephew, she said, now speaking to Brown directly, "The child needs to hear that you will never hurt him." |
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