A second chance: Mother of girl who died in foster care cleans up her life
On Oct. 10, 2007, Prisoner No. 136645 was taken by wheelchair to a room at Memorial Hospital, not because she was a patient, but because the steel shackles around her ankles made walking difficult.
Her 2-year-old daughter, Alizé Vick, lay lifeless in the bed with a plastic tube jutting from her tiny head, hair still crimped from where the pigtails had been. The tube was there to relieve the swelling, but the blow to the toddler’s skull had been too severe. Alizé was clinically dead and soon to be pulled off life support.
No. 136645, aka Ashley Lindenberger, rose from the wheelchair to be with her daughter — a child who ended up in foster care because Lindenberger had been addicted to drugs. The foster mother, Jules Lynn Cuneo, would be charged with Alizé’s death.
This is a sad story but I am pleased to hear that this mother has gotten her act together. I wish them the best and I hope the foster care provider burns and rots in hell for what she did.
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