Babysitter pleads guilty to felony murder in Manassas toddler’s death
http://www.insidenova.com/news/crime_police/babysitter-pleads-guilty-to-felony-murder-in-manassas-toddler-s/article_c1184006-3a7a-11e3-b759-001a4bcf887a.html

When his grandmother arrived to take his two older sisters to the park on Aug. 22, 2012, 23-month-old Elijah James Nealey cried.

“He wanted to go with them,” Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Teresa Polinske told a judge in Prince William Circuit Court on Monday.

But "Nana's" car had only two car seats and Elijah was left at the family home on Birchwood Court in Manassas, in the care of the family’s babysitter, Jessica Fraraccio.

Elijah’s grandmother “picked him up, kissed him all over his face and left,” Polinske said.

It was the last time a family member would see the toddler alive.

It’s unclear exactly what happened next, but later that afternoon, Fraraccio called 911 to report that Elijah was unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at an area hospital, where doctors were unable to revive him.

On Monday, Fraraccio, 21, pleaded guilty to felony murder and child abuse. She faces between seven and 50 years in prison when she is sentenced on Jan. 13.

In Virginia, felony murder is defined as the accidental killing of someone while committing another felony.

In court, prosecutors said Fraraccio, a family friend who began babysitting for the Nealeys in February 2012, changed her story about what happened on the day of Elijah’s death several times.

Early in the investigation, Fraraccio told police that Elijah was “in a happy-with-the-world mood” that day, prosecutors said. She said she fed him lunch shortly after his grandmother and sisters left the house, but he did not eat much and instead was smearing food over his face and in his hair.

She said she took him upstairs for a bath and the toddler was “excited and happy” about that, Polinske said.

At some point during the bath, Fraraccio told police, Elijah splashed his hands in the water, lost his balance, hit his head on the tub and quickly lost consciousness.

Fraraccio first told police that she was in the bathroom the entire time he was in the tub, but later said she had left to get one of his favorite hooded towels when she heard a scream and a thump and assumed he had hit his head.

Later, in March 2013, police again interviewed Fraraccio and she admitted that Elijah had actually hit his head downstairs, at the table where he was eating.

She then told police that Elijah was upset when his grandmother and sisters left and she was frustrated with him, Polinske said.

In the March police interview, Fraraccio said, “I’ll admit that I did have some frustration, but I don’t know what it was about,” according to prosecutors.

She told police she couldn’t remember exactly what she did that day, or the order in which things occurred.

“I know he hit his head,” she told police at one point, Polinske said. “What caused it? I know I caused it, but I don’t know what I did.”

She told police that Elijah was sitting at a small table eating lunch when she pulled his chair out, causing him to fall and bump his head on the table and floor. She then carried him upside down upstairs, covering his mouth with her hand as he screamed, Polinske said.

She said he may have hit his head on the wall or railing as she carried him upstairs.

She said the toddler was limp by the time she got him to the bathtub, but she propped him up in a corner of tub and tried to bathe him before calling 911.

Immediately after Elijah’s death, the medical examiner was unable to determine the cause and manner of his death, but noted that he had bruising on his head. The medical examiner ruled out drowning, head trauma, poisoning and natural causes as possible causes of his death.

After receiving Frarccio’s March account of the events, the medical examiner said that suffocation was his likely cause of death.

Defense attorney Sandra Drewniak said in court that Frarccio was “extremely scared and wanted to cooperate” when she spoke to police, which could explain inconsistencies in her statements.

Drewniak called Elijah’s death a “tragic accident.”

“We agree that this is a tragic accident,” she said. “There are no winners here.”

In exchange for her guilty pleas, prosecutors dropped a child abuse charge related to an incident in May 2012, when Fraraccio told Elijah’s parents that she found him sleeping with a stuffed moose toy wrapped around his neck and she was able to stop him from suffocating.

Medical experts reviewing the facts of that incident later said it was unlikely that the stuffed toy caused his injuries that day.
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So why isn't she getting the electric chair? 7 to 50 years?

What an awful last few hours for that little guy.

how do pieces of shit like this every get hired to be a babysitter in the first place?

Just another filthy, illegal, brown-savage causing problems for the innocent whites...this time it cost a child its life. This will not go well for her in prison...and it shouldn't.

As for Elijah's parents...you got what you deserved by hiring one of these shitbags. If anyone out there is contemplating having someone other than a birth parents or legal guardians care for their children, please only hire legal, accredited caregivers with positive references. Preferably someone with healthy, well-adjusted children of their own.

If you can't afford legal, accredited caregivers with positive references? Either don't have children or expect those that you put in sub-standard care...will die.

so is the bath tub ok or not?????


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Hey at least the parents didnt have to pay her

It was self defense. The kid attacked with a Barney doll.

Babysitter kills baby.



Ban babysitters!!

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Babysitters care for kids. Guns are specifically designed to kill people. Learn some fucking nuance, fuckface...

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> Just another filthy, illegal, brown-savage causing
> problems for the innocent whites...this time it
> cost a child its life. This will not go well for
> her in prison...and it shouldn't.
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> As for Elijah's parents...you got what you
> deserved by hiring one of these shitbags. If
> anyone out there is contemplating having someone
> other than a birth parents or legal guardians care
> for their children, please only hire legal,
> accredited caregivers with positive references.
> Preferably someone with healthy, well-adjusted
> children of their own.
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> If you can't afford legal, accredited caregivers
> with positive references? Either don't have
> children or expect those that you put in
> sub-standard care...will die.


Where does it say anything in the article about this girl not being a USC or LPR? F*cking retard.

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> So why isn't she getting the electric chair? 7 to
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Well, unless the prosecution has evidence to the contrary, it looks like she didn't intend to kill the kid. Murder, generally, requires an intent to kill. Capital murder - which is the only executable offense - requires intent to kill and aggravating factors.

It's true that she's been charged with "felony-murder," but that describes a killing only designated as "murder" because it occurred during the commission of an inherently dangerous felony (the classic examples are burglary, arson, rape, robbery, and kidnapping, but child abuse seems like the operative felony, in this case).

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> Just another filthy, illegal, brown-savage causing
> problems for the innocent whites...this time it
> cost a child its life. This will not go well for
> her in prison...and it shouldn't.

I have no idea where you're getting this from, because it's not in the story.

Maybe you just saw the name "Fraraccio" and figured she was Hispanic (and, therefore, in your racist mind, illegal). Too bad that the double-"c" construct clearly labels her last name as Italian.

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> > Just another filthy, illegal, brown-savage
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> > problems for the innocent whites...this time it
> > cost a child its life. This will not go well
> for
> > her in prison...and it shouldn't.
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> I have no idea where you're getting this from,
> because it's not in the story.
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> Maybe you just saw the name "Fraraccio" and
> figured she was Hispanic (and, therefore, in your
> racist mind, illegal). Too bad that the
> double-"c" construct clearly labels her last name
> as Italian.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..........you're sooooooooooooooooooo fucking right! How fucking stupid of me. Here...I'll fucking fix it, you mope!

Just another filthy, illegal, olive-savage causing problems for the innocent whites...this time it cost a child its life. This will not go well for her in prison...and it shouldn't.

Very, very sad for that poor little boy. I hope they fry this bitch.

You know what? What a piece of crap that woman is.

You know what? What a piece of crap that woman is.

Hold up...

Am I to understand that the babysitter was being charged with child abuse from a prior incident involving the same little boy, yet his family continued to employ her?

This story is horrific and I hope this monster is never allowed to see the light of day again. It seems there are a lot of baby sitters murdering their charges in Prince William County. Of course their are also mothers doing it from time to tim as welle. What is up with that?

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> > > Just another filthy, illegal, brown-savage
> > causing
> > > problems for the innocent whites...this time
> it
> > > cost a child its life. This will not go well
> > for
> > > her in prison...and it shouldn't.
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> > I have no idea where you're getting this from,
> > because it's not in the story.
> >
> > Maybe you just saw the name "Fraraccio" and
> > figured she was Hispanic (and, therefore, in
> your
> > racist mind, illegal). Too bad that the
> > double-"c" construct clearly labels her last
> name
> > as Italian.
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> Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..........you're
> sooooooooooooooooooo fucking right! How fucking
> stupid of me. Here...I'll fucking fix it, you
> mope!
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> Just another filthy, illegal, olive-savage causing
> problems for the innocent whites...this time it
> cost a child its life. This will not go well for
> her in prison...and it shouldn't.

Illegal Italian immigrants? She's got to be the first one of those since the nineteenth century. Also, if you're referencing Harriet Beecher Stowe with your name, it's spelled "Legree."

Racist dummy.

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> > > > Just another filthy, illegal, brown-savage
> > > causing
> > > > problems for the innocent whites...this
> time
> > it
> > > > cost a child its life. This will not go
> well
> > > for
> > > > her in prison...and it shouldn't.
> > >
> > > I have no idea where you're getting this
> from,
> > > because it's not in the story.
> > >
> > > Maybe you just saw the name "Fraraccio" and
> > > figured she was Hispanic (and, therefore, in
> > your
> > > racist mind, illegal). Too bad that the
> > > double-"c" construct clearly labels her last
> > name
> > > as Italian.
> >
> > Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..........you're
> > sooooooooooooooooooo fucking right! How fucking
> > stupid of me. Here...I'll fucking fix it, you
> > mope!
> >
> > Just another filthy, illegal, olive-savage
> causing
> > problems for the innocent whites...this time it
> > cost a child its life. This will not go well
> for
> > her in prison...and it shouldn't.
>
> Illegal Italian immigrants? She's got to be the
> first one of those since the nineteenth century.
> Also, if you're referencing Harriet Beecher Stowe
> with your name, it's spelled "Legree."
>
> Racist dummy.

Doesn't matter, still a worthless shit-smelly foreigner.

Well, unless you're a pure blood Native American I'm pretty sure you're also a worthless shit-smelly foreigner. That's too bad for you. Take your racism and bigotry somewhere else.

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> Take your racism and bigotry somewhere else.



"Native" Americans aren't really native, idiot. Even those fucktards came here from somewhere else.

Difference is, Whites brought civilization to those savages.

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> So why isn't she getting the electric chair? 7 to
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One Answer = Liberals

Manassas babysitter to serve 5 years in toddler’s death
http://www.insidenova.com/news/crime_police/prince_william/manassas-babysitter-to-serve-years-in-toddler-s-death/article_f1508d78-7d32-11e3-898c-0019bb2963f4.html


According to prosecutors, the death of 23-month-old Elijah Nealey was the result of “pure, unexplainable evil.”

Defense attorneys said it was “truly an accident.”

Jessica Fraraccio, 21, Elijah’s babysitter, pleaded guilty in October to felony murder child abuse for the toddler’s Aug. 22, 2012 death.

Monday, substitute Prince William Circuit Court Judge Howe Brown sentenced Fraraccio to 40 years in prison with 37 years suspended for felony murder and 10 years with eight suspended for child abuse. She will serve five years in prison. He also ordered her to serve five years probation and to maintain “good behavior” for the rest of her life. She is to have no unsupervised contact with children following her release, unless she has children of her own, and no contact with the Nealey family, Brown said.

At Monday’s hearing, Brown said he thought his sentence is “not going to satisfy, probably, anybody.”

“Nothing I can do brings back Elijah,” he said. And, Brown said, nothing he could do would punish Fraraccio more than the memory of the toddler’s death is already punishing her.

In an unusual move, Brown also sentenced Fraraccio to make a donation to a charity of her choice on the anniversary of Elijah’s death each year following her release from prison. The memo line on the check or money order must say, “In memory of Elijah Nealey,” Brown said.

“That is to honor the memory of Elijah, to keep the memory of him in her mind,” Brown said.

At a plea hearing, police and prosecutors said Fraraccio, the Nealey family’s babysitter, was alone with Elijah on the day he died.

The Nealey family had hired Fraraccio, the daughter of a family friend, to help care for Elijah and his two older sisters a few months before his death.

On Aug. 22, 2012, the children’s grandmother, who they called Nana, had come to take the older children to the park, leaving Elijah in Fraraccio’s care at the family’s home on Birchwood Court in Manassas.

About 20 minutes later, Elijah was dead, Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Teresa Polinske said.

Fraraccio first told investigators that Elijah had slipped and fallen in the bathtub, hitting his head. She called 911 and Elijah was pronounced dead at an area hospital, where doctors were unable to revive him.

Months later, in March 2013, Fraraccio told police that the toddler did not fall in the bathtub. Fraraccio said she became frustrated with Elijah while he was sitting at a small table, eating his lunch. She said she pulled a chair out from underneath him, causing the toddler to fall and hit his head. She then carried him throughout the house, sometimes holding him upside down and hitting his head against a wall or railing, and holding her hand over his mouth and nose. The medical examiner said Elijah likely died of suffocation.

Polinske said investigators believe Fraraccio still has not told the whole truth about what happened that day. Defense attorneys said Fraraccio does not remember all of the details.

Outside the courthouse Monday, Elijah’s father, Mike Nealey, said he was “still in shock” after the judge’s sentence, which he called “very lenient.”

“Not five years. That’s just not right,” he said.

In court, Mike Nealey and his wife, Jenn Nealey, described their son as a happy child who loved everyone he met.

“He was an awesome little boy for the 23 months we knew him,” Mike Nealey said. “He loved life, loved every person he met. … He was just an awesome little boy.”

Jenn Nealey said she struggles with how to tell her daughters, now 6 and 7, the details about what happened to their brother.

“They’re going to have to learn there are monsters in this world,” she said.

The courtroom was filled to capacity Monday with those supporting the Nealey family on one side of the room and those supporting Fraraccio on the other.

Friends and family members submitted to the court about 30 letters in support of Fraraccio, her defense attorney Sandra Drewniak said.

Drewniak said Elijah’s death was a “tragic accident” and that Fraraccio feels remorse for what happened.

“She is extremely remorseful,” Drewniak said after the hearing. “She loved Elijah.”

Polinske, the prosecutor, asked the judge to sentence Fraraccio to 50 years in prison, the maximum allowed by law, saying that Elijah’s death was the result of “pure, unexplainable evil” and that he died as a result of “circumstances that were [Fraraccio’s] choice, done by her hand.”

“There is no reason to give this defendant mercy,” she said.

After the hearing, Prince William Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul Ebert said prosecutors were surprised by the judge’s decision, but they respected it.

“He’s the judge, he makes the decision,” Ebert said.
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"Drewniak called Elijah’s death a “tragic accident.”

“We agree that this is a tragic accident,” she said. “There are no winners here.”


Dont you just love defense attornies? Describing this as an "accident" is about as far from the truth as you could get. I dont know how these scum sucking pigs sleep at night.


NOT AN ACCIDENT!!!!!!!

"Months later, in March 2013, Fraraccio told police that the toddler did not fall in the bathtub. Fraraccio said she became frustrated with Elijah while he was sitting at a small table, eating his lunch. She said she pulled a chair out from underneath him, causing the toddler to fall and hit his head. She then carried him throughout the house, sometimes holding him upside down and hitting his head against a wall or railing, and holding her hand over his mouth and nose. The medical examiner said Elijah likely died of suffocation.



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I suspect the Gerber baby

The judge seems to realize the parents can always have another kid, but a good babysitter is hard to find. Besides, who needs a whiney kid?

You must be racist. Maybe she was Italian??? How dare you say such things! You are putting blame on the parents, who didn't ever expect their son to be murdered!! This is a nightmare for the family and I am sure the grandmother feels bad and possibly responsible for what had happened. YOu don't need to put more sorrow in their lives! There is only one person to blame! And that person didn't get what she so deserved! Elijah's death didn't see justice! But I hope it will when she gets to prison, because baby killers get killed in prison! I hope she does!

To the person who said "Judge must have realized the parents could have more kids, and who needs a whiny kid", Children cry. You must not have kids because you would realize that. Also having another child DOES NOT REPLACE A CHILD THEY ONCE HAD! You are a son of a bitch who don't have a heart! People, KEEP YOU KIDS AWAY FROM THIS PERSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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> accident.”
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> “We agree that this is a tragic accident,” she
> said. “There are no winners here.”
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> Dont you just love defense attornies? Describing
> this as an "accident" is about as far from the
> truth as you could get. I dont know how these scum
> sucking pigs sleep at night.
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> NOT AN ACCIDENT!!!!!!!
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> "Months later, in March 2013, Fraraccio told
> police that the toddler did not fall in the
> bathtub. Fraraccio said she became frustrated with
> Elijah while he was sitting at a small table,
> eating his lunch. She said she pulled a chair out
> from underneath him, causing the toddler to fall
> and hit his head. She then carried him throughout
> the house, sometimes holding him upside down and
> hitting his head against a wall or railing, and
> holding her hand over his mouth and nose. The
> medical examiner said Elijah likely died of
> suffocation.

Why did she get off with such a light sentence? She should be in the electric chair.

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> > said. “There are no winners here.”
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> > Dont you just love defense attornies?
> Describing
> > this as an "accident" is about as far from the
> > truth as you could get. I dont know how these
> scum
> > sucking pigs sleep at night.
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> > "Months later, in March 2013, Fraraccio told
> > police that the toddler did not fall in the
> > bathtub. Fraraccio said she became frustrated
> with
> > Elijah while he was sitting at a small table,
> > eating his lunch. She said she pulled a chair
> out
> > from underneath him, causing the toddler to
> fall
> > and hit his head. She then carried him
> throughout
> > the house, sometimes holding him upside down
> and
> > hitting his head against a wall or railing, and
> > holding her hand over his mouth and nose. The
> > medical examiner said Elijah likely died of
> > suffocation.
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> Why did she get off with such a light sentence?
> She should be in the electric chair.

I don't understand this either.