A not-guilty plea has been entered for a Detroit mother charged
with fatally stabbing her daughter three days before the girl’s ninth birthday.
Semeria
Greene remained silent during her brief first court appearance Thursday. She
will stay in jail without bail on the murder charge.
Tameria Greene was found bleeding Sunday on the floor of
the family’s apartment.
State
officials say they tried to have Tameria and four siblings removed from their
home but the request was denied in November. Wayne County Judge Frank Szymanski
says the case was assigned to him but he had no direct role.
Szymanski
says a Family Division referee held a hearing on Nov. 28 and recommended the
children remain at home with services from the state. A trial was set.
Szymanski signed the order.
AP’s earlier story is below.
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26-year-old Detroit mother of five was scheduled for her first court appearance
Thursday afternoon on a murder charge in the stabbing death of her 8-year-old
daughter.
Tameria
Greene, who would have turned 9 on Wednesday, was found bleeding early Sunday
on the floor of the family’s apartment. Her mother, Semeria Greene, was
arrested and her four sons were taken into protective custody.
Greene
was due to be arraigned on felony murder and child abuse charges. She did not
have an attorney listed in court records.
Michigan’s
human service director Maura Corrigan said family, friends and neighbors had
complained to her agency about Greene’s treatment of her five children.
Corrigan said child welfare workers had tried repeatedly to remove them from
Greene’s care in the past two years.
Corrigan
says a court denied the last request one month before Tameria’s death.
Judge
Frank Szymanski told The Associated Press on Thursday morning that he signed an
order in November that ordered services but kept the children in the home. He
said his order reflected the result of a hearing held by a referee and he had
no active role in the case at that time. That’s standard procedure in such
cases, the judge said.
“I want to get to the bottom of this. I’m
concerned, absolutely,” Szymanski said
Tameria’s
7-, 4-, 2- and 1-year-old brothers now are in foster care.
The
girl’s slaying came at the end of a particularly brutal year in Detroit. By
Thanksgiving, the city had surpassed the 344 criminal homicides reported in all
of 2011. On Thursday, the city reported 386 slayings for 2012.
A
conviction on the murder charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison
without parole. The child abuse charge carries a maximum 15-year prison
sentence. A motive for the stabbing was not clear.
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The
tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the
sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye
shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward
her daughter,
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toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her
children which she shall bear:
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