Antlfinger, Carrie, and Todd Richmond. “Woman Questions Mother's Investigation in 1980s
Baby Deaths.” Forensic Magazine, 28 Feb. 2018, www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/woman-questions-mothers-investigation-1980s-baby-deaths.
In the article “Woman Questions Mother’s Investigation in 1980s Baby Deaths” Carrie Antlfinger and Todd Richmond discuss how Ami Brunka is shocked that investigators didn’t arrest her mom in the 1980s after she confessed to killing her 18-day-old son, even after the deaths of two more infants in her care. Brunka said that the three murder charges Milwaukee prosecutors filed against her mother, Nancy Moronez, should have come much earlier. Last week, Moronez confessed to killing her son Justin in March 1980, killing 6 month old Brad Steege in March 1984, and killing 3 month old Katie Kozeniecki in February 1985. Officials with the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office mistakenly ruled that the deaths resulted from sudden infant death syndrome.
I think one of the reasons this article is important is that it surrounds the issue of determining whether an infant was killed by SIDS or not. According to a 2006 joint report from the National Association of Medical Examiners and the American Academy of Pediatrics child abuse committee, SIDS is the most common cause of death for children between a month and 6 months old. Telling the difference between SIDS and suffocation is apparently “difficult if not impossible” according to the report. This is extremely worrying because it means that a large number of deaths attributed to SIDS might actually be murder cases and the only real way to know when to start an investigation is if more than one infant dies under the same person’s care.
Antlfinger and Richmond wrote a succinct and informative article concerning this case and its investigation. They were able to provide all of the relevant information concerning the case while also addressing why investigators hadn’t grown suspicious of Moronez after three dead babies and by describing the uncertainty that surrounds sudden infant death syndrome. I think that one area that could be clarified in the article was the true confession because the authors include two or three different scenarios for how some of the infants could have died but it is hard to tell what Moronez actually confessed to.
8 comments:
Zixi Chen
Mr. Ippolito
Forensics
8 March 2018
Current Event #18
Antlfinger, Carrie, and Todd Richmond. “Woman Questions Mother's Investigation in 1980s Baby Deaths.” Forensic Magazine, 28 Feb. 2018, www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/woman-questions-mothers-investigation-1980s-baby-deaths.
Eva Cagliostro’s review on the article “Woman Questions Mother’s Investigation in 1980s Baby Deaths” written by Carrie Antlfinger and Todd Richmond is very interesting to read. First of all, in the first paragraph, she gave the readers a very detailed introduction of the people involved in this case, including both the perpetrator and the young victims. Following that, she also informed the readers about SIDS and the reasons that the murderer was not convicted for a very long time. This is a very good structure to use because this clears up the audiences’ concerns and answers their questions very quickly. Lastly, Eva expressed her own opinion and worries on the last two paragraph in which she said, “This is extremely worrying because it means that a large number of deaths attributed to SIDS might actually be murder cases and the only real way to know when to start an investigation is if more than one infant dies under the same person’s care.” This shows that she is really thinking about this article and the meanings behind this case.
Even though this review is very organized and easy to read, there are two areas of possible improvements. First of all, Eva did not use any direct quotes from the original article. Even though all of her paraphrases and descriptions are detailed, it would give the audiences more direct feelings and establish credibility for her own review by using quotes. Also, it would be nice if Eva could use a careful transition sentence between the two paragraphs to make the review more smooth to read.
The topic of this article is a very serious and powerful one. These murder cases may also be related to severe psychological problems such as postpartum depression, or PPD. Other than that, this case may also start conversations about the sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, because of the difficulty to distinguish suffocation on purpose and SIDS. A lot more investigation needs to be done in cases like this in order to keep more children safe.
This article goes into how Ami Brunka was shocked at how the law enforcement and the investigators acted around her mother's case. Her mother had confessed to killing her 18 day old son as well as two other small children and even with her confession, it took the law enforcement a long time to take the claims seriously. I like how she did not go overly scientific when describing the actions that took place in the 1980s and when she started to explain Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (or SIDS) she went more scientific. It added more variety to the analysis as a whole and made it much more digestible. It also provided a dynamic look into this case. I thought that the way that she explained SIDS was also very informative to how it could be mistaken as suffocation. She did not just go into how the law from cement messed up, but how it is difficult to make these distinctions and how symptoms can come from many different sources. She also underlines the very important fact of that such crimes probably have been happening for a while and that it can be on the modern law enforcement to use modern forensics in order to crack cases that can be many decades old.
There are though a few things that she could have done to make her analysis a little better. The summary that she had of what actually occurred in the 1980s with these children was a little bit too vague and it did not go into it as specifically as it ought to have gone. I became a little bit confused at what was the ultimate consequence of this inquiry and what happened to the mother during and after these investigations. It would have been nice to get some more information on the story itself and to get some context into the mother as a person and what drove her into doing this. She could have also added in quotations which would have really enhanced analysis.
This was a significant article because it went into this idea that justice has to be served to people who have committed such horrendous acts and were let go. Even after many years back in time, it is important to look at these cases either to get the killer or perpetrator behind bars or to give closure to the family of the victims.
Isabella Dibbini
Mr. Ippolito
Forensics
March 8, 2018
Antlfinger, Carrie, and Todd Richmond. “Woman Questions Mother's Investigation in 1980s Baby Deaths.” Forensic Magazine, 28 Feb. 2018, www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/woman-questions-mothers-investigation-1980s-baby-deaths.
Eva wrote an excellent review of the article “Woman Questions Mother’s Investigation in 1980s Baby Deaths” by Carrie Antlfinger and Todd Richmond. Eva developed an accurate summary of this article. In addition, she incorporated lots of details and statistical evidence to support her claims. For instance, she states “According to a 2006 joint report from the National Association of Medical Examiners and the American Academy of Pediatrics child abuse committee, SIDS is the most common cause of death for children between a month and 6 months old.” Lastly, she included evidence from the article to support her arguments.
Eva wrote a very good review on this article, however, they are a few things in which should could improve. To start with, I wish Eva incorporated quotes from the article into her review. Also, if Eva wanted to take her review to the next level, she could include outside research, which would also make her review more interesting.
By reading her review on the article “Woman Questions Mother’s Investigation in 1980s Baby Deaths” written by Carrie Antlfinger and Todd Richmond, I expanded my knowledge on forensic science. Prior to reading this review, I was unaware of this topic. Overall, Eva’s review is very good and shows a great understanding of this article.
Timmy McGrath
Bronxville School
Current Event 18
March 8th, 2017
Antlfinger, Carrie, and Todd Richmond. “Woman Questions Mother's Investigation in 1980s Baby Deaths.” Forensic Magazine, 28 Feb. 2018, www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/woman-questions-mothers-investigation-1980s-baby-deaths.
Eva wrote a great review on “Woman Questions Mother’s Investigation in 1980’s Baby Deaths” by Carrie Antlfinger and Todd Richmond. Eva was able to describe the article perfectly in her summary. She was able to make sure that the reader knew exactly what the author intended for them to know. Eva also did a great job expressing her own opinion which really helped the reader understand where she was coming from while reading the article. She also did a great job incorporating lots of details and statistical evidence to support the claims she was making.
While Eva’s review was great I would suggest doing two things a little differently. Eva didn’t include any quotes. If she had that may have helped the reader a little bit more to hear what the author was saying. Eva also could have used some outside research to help support her claims that she was making.
Overall Eva’s review was great. Before reading this I had never heard of this topic but now I am very interested to learn more about it.
Griffin Gelinas
www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/woman-questions-mothers-investigation-1980s-baby-deaths.
The article I read this weekend had to do with a woman questions mother's investigation in 1980s Baby Deaths. These types of cases are always exciting to read about because usually they involve a big twist or overturn of a past ruling. This case had to do with how Ami Brunka is shocked that investigators didn’t arrest her mom in the 1980s after she confessed to killing her 18-day-old son, even after the deaths of two more infants in her care. A shocking story that shows how bad these family issues got for the daughter. These cases are crazy but sadly still occur today because of mental illness usually.
These cases are so important to our forensic studies because of their relavance to today. Officials with the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office mistakenly ruled that the deaths resulted from sudden infant death syndrome. I think one of the reasons this article is important is that it surrounds the issue of determining whether an infant was killed by SIDS or not. Further investigation was done as well. According to a 2006 joint report from the National Association of Medical Examiners and the American Academy of Pediatrics child abuse committee, SIDS is the most common cause of death for children between a month and 6 months old. Telling the difference between SIDS and suffocation is apparently “difficult if not impossible” according to the report.
This article was very unique and a great read to have in the back of my mind coming back from a snowed day. I learned that a case from the past can end up to come back up if evidence has been found. It is shocking that the own daughter of the killer turned her in. I really enjoyed this article and I look forward to many more like this.
Sophia Kocur
March 8
Antlfinger, Carrie, and Todd Richmond. “Woman Questions Mother's Investigation in 1980s Baby Deaths.” Forensic Magazine, 28 Feb. 2018, www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/woman-questions-mothers-investigation-1980s-baby-deaths.
Eva Cagliostro’s wrote a very good report on an article called “Woman Questions Mother’s Investigation in 1980s Baby Deaths” written by Carrie Antlfinger and Todd Richmond. First of all, in the first paragraph, she gave the readers a very detailed introduction of the people involved in this case, including both the perpetrator and the young victims. Following that, she also informed the readers about SIDS and the reasons that the murderer was not convicted for a very long time. This is a very good structure to use because this clears up the audiences’ concerns and answers their questions very quickly. Lastly, Eva expressed her own opinion and worries on the last two paragraph in which she said, “This is extremely worrying because it means that a large number of deaths attributed to SIDS might actually be murder cases and the only real way to know when to start an investigation is if more than one infant dies under the same person’s care.” This shows that she is really thinking about this article and the meanings behind this case.
Although Eva’s review was very well written, there were a couple a weak points.To start with, I wish Eva incorporated quotes from the article into her review. Also, if Eva wanted to take her review to the next level, she could include outside research, which would also make her review more interesting.
By reading this review, I expanded my knowledge on forensic science. Before reading this I had never heard of this topic but now I am very interested to learn more about it.
Nelddie Robles
Antlfinger, Carrie, and Todd Richmond. “Woman Questions Mother's Investigation in 1980s Baby Deaths.” Forensic Magazine, 28 Feb. 2018, www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/woman-questions-mothers-investigation-1980s-baby-deaths.
Eva's review was very well written. I thought that the choice of article was extremely well chosen, it was an interesting read and different from other current events. Eva provided sufficient information on what sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is making it easy for people who previously didn't know what it is to understand it. I liked how Eva added that SIDS is reportedly the most common reason for death between children of 1-6 months.
Eva did a great job, however, adding more statistics could've helped improve the article because when she would add information right from the article it helped make her review much stronger. I was confused on where the forensics came into play in this article, forensics wasn't talked about at all in this article and talking about it would've enhanced her review.
The most interesting thing to me that I took away from reading this was that infants who are deemed to have died from SIDS might not have at all because trying to distinguish suffocation from SIDS is nearly impossible.
Lucy Rizzo
March 8, 2018
Forensics
Current Event #19
Hurry hurry :-P
Baby Deaths.” Forensic Magazine, 28 Feb. 2018, www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/02/woman-questions-mothers-investigation-1980s-baby-deaths.
I read Eva’s summary of the article “Woman Questions Mother's Investigation in 1980s” from Forensics Magazine. I found Eva’s article to be very well written and informative. I enjoyed how she was able to detail the case and inform the reader further upon what she had learned in the article. I also enjoyed the evidence from the article she included because it really enlightened the information and allowed her voice to shine through. Finally I think she did a great job including her voice in the article because this is something that can sometimes be lost in an article summary, but she continued to make her’s present.
I thought that Eva’s review of the article was very well done, however if I were to suggest improvements I would include direct quotes from the article, which she had not included. She also could have included analysis of these chosen quotes and her thoughts in the matter.
Overall I learned a lot about Murder investigation in this 1980s case. It amazes me how far law enforcements and investigations have come and how forensic involvement aids and evolves these procedures so drastically.
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