Monday, January 21, 2013

Tammy Marquardt: Charles Smith came into her life - and she spent almost 14-years in prison for murder because of his flawed testimony. Mini-profile of a wrongfully convicted mother; CBC Community Team.


POST: "Human library book Tammy Marquardt,  wrongfully convicted mom," by the CBC Community Team, published on January 18, 2013.

GIST: "Tammy Marquardt is an Ontario woman who was wrongfully imprisoned for killing her two-year-old son Kenneth based on the testimony of now-disgraced pathologist Charles Smith. Smith testified that the boy was strangled or suffocated, and Marquardt spent nearly 14 years in jail after being convicted in 1995. Her two younger sons were adopted out through Children's Aid. Years later it was determined that Kenneth most likely suffered an epileptic seizure. Now Marquardt is trying to rebuild her life. She currently lives in Toronto.  This post permits readers to submit questions about Charles Smith and the Marquardt case to the CBC's   Community Team - to be answered on January 26, 2013 - and links to other relevant sites.

The entire post can be found at:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/01/human-library-wrongfully-convicted-mother-tammy-marquardt.html

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

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The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at:

http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith

Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at:

http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html

Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com

Harold Levy: Publisher; The Charles Smith Blog.