Maine’s child protective workers are still struggling to determine during their initial investigations whether children are safe at home and, later on, whether children would be safe if they were reunified with their parents, according to a new report. Read More
We must not let Marissa’s death just become another statistic. Let us remember her as a precious life that was tragically cut short, which consequently awakened more of us to this stark reality and made prevention of child abuse the critical priority it deserves. Read More
Before her name became a byword for child abuse and neglect, she was a little girl who loved playing with LEGOs, visiting the aquarium and going to car shows. Read More
Julio Carrillo was a monster, according to testimony heard over the eight days of his estranged wife’s murder trial. But Julio Carrillo isn’t the one who is on trial. Read More
The ongoing trial of Sharon Carrillo, who is charged with the murder of her daughter Marissa Kennedy, is a multilayer tragedy that highlights the horrid consequences of a cycle of violence and abuse. Read More
Sharon Carrillo may have been susceptible to making a false confession, the director of the Maine State Forensic Service testified Tuesday morning at the Waldo Judicial Center. Read More
Among the witnesses called Monday morning were a Bangor police officer and the janitor of the Bangor apartment building where the Carrillos once lived. Read More
Sharon Carrillo admitted to helping to beat her daughter, 10-year-old Marissa Kennedy, to death in February 2018. Despite that, her attorney Chris MacLean argued in court on Thursday, there is no evidence — other than her own words and those of her estranged husband, Julio Carrillo — that she did what she said she did. Read More
In a three-hour interview conducted the day after 10-year-old Marissa Kennedy died, Maine State Police Det. Jason Andrews tried to figure out why Sharon Carrillo and her husband Julio Carrillo had abused her so severely. Read More
That the Carrillo family ended up working with an alternative response agency is a sign the Maine Department of Health and Human Services didn’t think the family’s children faced a major risk of continued abuse. Read More
This confession contradicted Sharon Carrillo’s initial statements that Marissa Kennedy went down to the basement to watch the movie “Despicable Me” and somehow, perhaps intentionally, fatally injured herself. Read More
We will relay important information from the murder trial of Sharon Carrillo for the death of her daughter Marissa Kennedy here as details emerge. Read More
The audio recording of the session, which was played for the jury, indicated that Sharon Carrillo staunchly denied having anything to do with Kennedy’s death. Read More
Sharon Carrillo is charged with depraved indifference murder in the death of her 10-year-old daughter Marissa Kennedy and, if convicted, faces the possibility of being sentenced to life in prison for the crime. Read More
