The state’s highest court ruled Tuesday that state attorneys may continue to prosecute the case of a woman accused of beating her 10-year-old daughter to death. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court dismissed the appeal filed on behalf of Sharon Carrillo. Carrillo and her husband, Julio Carrillo, 51, are accused of beating 10-year-old Marissa Kennedy to […]
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Woman charged with murdering her daughter gives birth to a boy
The 33-year-old woman charged this year in the murder of her child gave birth Wednesday to a boy, her father said. Joseph Kennedy said he received a call notifying him that Sharon Carrillo gave birth to a healthy boy weighing 7 pounds. Sharon and her husband, Julio Carrillo Jr., 51, are charged with the depraved […]
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Legislature’s investigative arm to probe 2 child deaths and role of Maine DHHS
AUGUSTA – The investigative arm of the Legislature will launch a probe into the recent deaths of two Maine children who were slain in their homes after months of abuse, and how the Department of Health and Human Services and other public agencies failed to protect them. “The system has clearly failed her, we all […]
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Man accused of beating 10-year-old stepdaughter to death is assaulted in jail
Julio Carrillo, the 51-year-old Stockton Springs man accused of beating his 10-year-old step daughter for several months until she died Feb. 25, was himself assaulted in jail, police said. Carrillo was assaulted March 3 inside Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset, where is being held in the facility’s maximum security unit, said Lincoln County Sheriff […]
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Woman accused of murdering 10-year-old daughter is 7 months pregnant, lawyer says
Sharon Carrillo, the 33-year-old woman charged with depraved indifference murder in the beating death of her 10-year-old daughter, is seven months pregnant, an attorney for her husband said Wednesday. Rockport attorney Steven Peterson represents Julio Carrillo, 51, who is also charged with the murder of Marissa Kennedy, his stepdaughter. Peterson said he learned of the […]
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Stockton Springs couple makes court appearance
Former neighbors of the couple accused in the brutal slaying of the woman’s 10-year-old daughter in Stockton Springs say they routinely heard loud fighting and yelling in the family’s apartment in Bangor. An employee in the building contacted the state Department of Health and Human Services to report potential abuse, one neighbor said. Others remembered […]
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Neighbors recount loud arguments, calls to police before child’s slaying
Sharon and Julio Carrillo of Stockton Springs are ordered held on $500,000 bail each in the death of 10-year-old Marissa Kennedy, whose treatment is described by a prosecutor as ‘torture.’ A judge set bail at $500,000 each for a mother and stepfather accused of brutally murdering a 10-year-old girl in Stockton Springs. The couple appeared […]
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Ten-year-old Stockton Springs girl was beaten daily before her death, police say
The 10-year-old girl who died in Stockton Springs on Sunday was beaten and abused for months by the two adults now charged with her murder, according to court records filed by police. Since October, Marissa Kennedy was beaten multiple times each day by her mother, Sharon Carrillo, 33, and Julio Carrillo, 51, the girl’s stepfather, […]