13 Years Later, a $2 Million Award

13 Years Later, a $2 Million Award

In March 1998, a 6-week-old girl named Shannell Coppage died of malnutrition even though she had been regularly breast-fed by her mother in their Park Slope, Brooklyn, home. Her mother, a 21-year-old named Tatiana Cheeks, was arrested and charged in the infant’s death, prompting an outcry from women’s health advocates.