![]() “I’m OK with myself, with the understanding that we’ll always know the truth,” Harris said. Harris claimed only he and the boy’s mother and sister, who were seen on security footage shopping at a neighborhood store during the two-hour window when Harris was home alone with Jerome, knew what “really happened.” ![]() “I still think about ‘how.’ I’ll never stop asking myself that question.”Īddressing the court before Cawley issued his sentence Friday, Harris maintained his innocence in the boy’s death. “You had to tell yourself you weren’t going to figure out how,” Frank said during a media conference after the sentencing. Robert Stoppacher said at trial that he was able to determine Jerome died in the span of four minutes. Was justice served?Ī forensic pathologist testified that an autopsy found that Jerome died of asphyxiation, though Broome County Assistant District Attorney Anthony Frank said the cause of the asphyxiation - possibly by smothering, suffocation or drowning - could not be determined.ĭr. ![]() Subscriber exclusive: An 11-year-old boy died. ![]() The same jury returned a verdict of not guilty on charges of second-degree murder, meaning there wasn’t proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Harris intended to kill Jerome, only that he intended to cause the boy the serious injuries that resulted in his death. ![]()
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