Time to Think

Monday, August 25, 2008

Jace Owen Thomas lives on

Jace Owen Thomas breathed his last in the early morning of May 23rd, 2006. It surely did not have to happen. News from a friend has brought to light a heavy load to carry. The Mother of this beautiful baby has admitted that it was she (and not SIDS) that caused Jace's death by telling her own Father that she had rolled over on top of baby Jace and smothered him. When Jace's Father tried to make the Montgomery County, Texas, Sheriff's Department and the Texas CPS aware of this admission and request a new review of the case, he was essentially ignored and told that the case was closed.

Can there be justice for a precious 5 month old baby boy?

I have been watching short videos of Jace taken literally within days of his death and I look at the mysterious photographs taken in the early morning (3:44AM) of the day that Jace never saw and the official explanation of SIDS still doesn't fit because Jace was too healthy. The SIDS determination especially doesn't fit with Jace's own mother's revelation of her actions that morning. The horrific truth of her actions will continue to haunt her soul and bring endless sorrow to all our lives. Jace was only a small and fragile baby who needed and deserved the protection of his Mother and even that was denied him at the end.