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Innocence Lost - PJ's Story
Judge Millers Appaling Comments
Judge Miller saying what Patrick Bourgeois and Tracy Bratton did in abusing, torturing, and subsequently murdering 3 year old PJ Bourgeois was "..fraught with ignorance, immaturity and inexperience, more than malevolence." 
Poor parenting? Inexperienced parenting? Is that what Nodine Miller is insinuating? What is this woman talking about? I've seen 16 year old girls who are by far much less experienced than these two and they do NOT commit acts such as this against children. This has nothing to do with inexperience, immaturity or ignorance. What it actually has to do with the beating death of a THREE YEAR OLD little boy. Let's skip past the fact that he was tied up with tape and that he was drug around his fathers house by his ears and look at this fact: the pathologist compared the bruising in three old PJ's body to that of a grown man attacking another person with a baseball bat. That is the kind of damage that was found in PJ's body. You tell me, is that ignorance, immaturity OR inexperience? And if so, HOW? I know that if I hit someone in the head with a bat, in all likelihood, it would kill them. I know that if I hit someone in the arm with a baseball bat, it will probably break their arm. In my opinion, the person who lacked experience, maturity and most certainly had plenty of ignorance was Judge Nodine Miller. 
"I have a reputation for being a fair and responsible judge"
Ok let me ask you this ... was she fair to PJ? Some might argue that PJ didn't appear before her or appear in her courtroom, I on the other hand, disagree. I submit that the judge should be more concerned with the crime these people committed against this child, and not whether she was "fair" with the criminals that committed the crime. Was it a responsible act to let two convicted killers out of prison? Was it responsible to let Tracy Bratton (who has admitted to her participation in the beating death of three year old PJ) out of prison so that she can care for her own two children? Who is going to protect HER children from her? Was that fair or responsible? I don't think so. 
"Willingness to accept responsibility for what they have done." was one of the factors cited by Judge Miller in early release of convicted killer Tracy Bratton. 
Please .... "willingness to accept responsibility" ? The fact is that neither of them accepted any type of responsibility. Practically the second they were each released from prison they began pointing fingers at the other as to who was the aggressor, who did more damage, who was RESPONSIBLE. Yeh, looks to me like they've accepted it real well.
Judge Miller refers to PJ in her order freeing Tracy Bratton from prison as "...a difficult child which Bratton could not control ..." then goes on to say that PJ "began misbehaving on Feb. 27. 1996." 
I was outraged by this statement ... a "dramatic event"? I come back to the same thing, if it were her child, would she then consider it only a "dramatic event"? I'd say it was a horrendous injustice done to PJ's memory.
" Bratton is unlikely to commit another offense. The public does not need to be protected from Bratton."
Ummm excuse me, but does she on live on your street Judge Miller? Nope, I didn't think so. Would you allow her around your children? How about letting her baby-sit your kids for a few nights? Don't think so? Nope, me either. Now, where did this information come from? Is this the judge's opinion or is there any evidence to back this statement up? Did she see a shrink (Bratton, not the judge though I'm sure she needs one as well), was there any other testimony OTHER than from the killer herself ... NO! What an unbelievable miscarriage of justice this is.  
   
     

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