Man Gets Death For Leaving Girl For Alligators

Harrel Braddy Receives Consecutive Life Terms

 

POSTED: 4:10 pm EDT October 15, 2007

UPDATED: 8:29 am EDT October 16, 2007

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MIAMI -- A judge sentenced a man to death Monday, nearly nine years after he left a 5-year-old girl to be eaten alive by alligators in the Everglades and tried to kill her mother.

 

Harrel Franklin Braddy, 58, attacked Shandelle Maycock and daughter Quatisha after he was released early from prison in another case for good behavior. He was convicted in July of first-degree murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, attempted escape and other charges.

 

Judge Leonard E. Glick also sentenced Braddy to three consecutive life terms on the kidnapping and burglary with an assault charges. He also got 30 years in prison on the attempted murder of Shandelle, 15 years on child neglect causing great bodily harm and five years on attempted escape.

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Prosecutors said Braddy tossed Maycock in the trunk of his car in 1998 and drove her to a remote sugarcane field, choked her to unconsciousness and left her to die. She never saw her child again.

 

Braddy drove the girl to a section of Interstate 75 in the Everglades known as Alligator Alley and dropped her in the water beside the road, prosecutors said. She was alive when alligators bit her on the head and stomach, a medical examiner said.

 

Authorities found the girl's body two days later, her left arm missing and her skull crushed, prosecutors said. Maycock woke up bleeding and disoriented, but managed to flag down help.

 

Braddy's attorney, G.P. Della Fera, said Braddy knew Maycock from his involvement in church outreach programs.

 

"I'm saddened for both families," Della Fera said.

 

The case took so long because Braddy repeatedly fired his lawyers and represented himself in court sometimes.

 

Maycock sobbed during the initial sentencing as she told jurors how her life without her only child would never be the same. The little girl she nicknamed Candy had just started kindergarten and loved writing her name and singing along with the church choir.

 

Prosecutor Abbe Rifkin said Braddy got the appropriate sentence.

 

"Due to his own horrific actions, Harrel Braddy has caused a lot of pain to a lot of people, including the people who loved him and cared for him," Rifkin said in an e-mail. "The state is grateful that Quatisha's small voice was finally heard, and that the defendant received the sentence he so rightfully earned."

 

Braddy had been out of prison for a little over a year before the 1998 kidnapping. He was released early after serving 13 years of a 30-year sentence for several charges including attempted murder.

 

He wore an electric shock device and knee brace, making it difficult for him to bend his knee during the sentencing. The courtroom was filled with extra police officers, all measures taken after Braddy escaped from the courthouse in 1984 when he choked a Miami-Dade County corrections officer.

 

During two other escapes that year, Braddy kidnapped and robbed an assistant pastor and an elderly couple. At one point Braddy was on the run for more than a month before authorities found him in Georgia.

 

After he was arrested for kidnapping the Maycocks, he tried to escape from the interrogation room by bending an air conditioning grate.

 

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I hope this man rots in hell. Sick twisted son of a bitch.

That is a prick thing to do! Throw the book at him I say.

There are reasons we have the death penalty: Mark Dean Schwab, John Couey, Harrel Braddy...

i f***ing stopped reading at the part where it said she was alive when the gator bit her. that might be sickest sh*t i ever read, dude deserves to die after getting raped daily in prison for a few more years.

That's just terrible. It never ceases to amaze me how sick some people in this world are.

WTF? Aligators need to eat too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

... too soon? :|

The monster never should have been out of prison to begin with. He served only 13 years of a 30-year sentence for attempted murder? :thumbdown

Yea because 13 years is not alot of time.

Yea because 13 years is not alot of time.

 

For attempting to kill someone???

Yea because 13 years is not alot of time.

 

For attempting to kill someone???

 

That wasn't my point.

 

Obviously the system failed in that they thought he was fit to rejoin society when he obviously wasn't, but 13 years is a long ass time and I know I would learn from my mistakes if I had to spend 13 years of my life in prison.

The intent of prison sentences isn't to make you learn from your mistakes, it encompasses that but goes beyond that to punish you as well.

I agree, but I believe that in a lot of cases it should be used for rehabilitation so that we don't keep getting the same people going in and out of the prison system.

This may be cause for a different thread/discussion but what are prisons for? Rehabilitation? Punishment? Safety?

This may be cause for a different thread/discussion but what are prisons for? Rehabilitation? Punishment? Safety?

All of the above to me, depending on the sentence/type of crime.

Unless its a life sentence, the criminal will be coming out at some point in time so you would have to include some sort of rehabilitation in there.

This may be cause for a different thread/discussion but what are prisons for? Rehabilitation? Punishment? Safety?

All of the above to me, depending on the sentence/type of crime.

Well, if it's about safety [ie. protecting the innocent from a murder], the obvious solution is death. I could argue the same for anyone convicted of a sex crime [due to incurably high rates of recidivism], though I would be a proponent of offering the victim the option of castration over death.

 

If prisons are about punishment; there are so many directions to take this it isn't even funny.

 

If prisons are about rehab; why lump prisoners convicted of different crimes [though typically of a comparable level of severity] together in the same cage when they have completely different needs?

 

I don't know. I don't think prisons "work" as they exist right now but I can't offer an alternative solution at this point.

If someone is convicted of murder, I support solitary confinement for life. To me that is protection and punishment. Rehabilitation does not apply nor does it need to.

 

I agree with you, putting criminals together and treating them the same ways does not work and I don't like how its handled currently.

 

I also agree that our current prison system does not work. There is no way the United States should have the highest prison population in the world when crime is what it is.