Update: The final defendant — Randy Legg — was sentenced for his part in the death of the 17-month-old boy. The 20-year-old plead guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and illegal possession of chemicals to manufacture drugs, according to Newsnet 5.
He’ll spend seven years in jail.
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The mother who let her 17-month-old son suffer and die from the chemical fumes in an Akron meth house has finally been handed a sentence.
Two other defendants were also shipped off to lengthy jail stints, closing the file on what is probably the blue ribbon winner of terrible, sad stories from the meth underground, a terrible, sad merry-go-round of misery that’s happening in every corner of the state. All you have to do is go looking.
After losing a jury trial last month, 21-year-old Heather Lerch was given life without parole consideration for 22 years on Tuesday, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. Akron police say Lerch’s son Patrick spent the last two weeks of his little life living in a rat-infested, fume-choked basement on St. Leger Avenue. Mother and son were staying at the house with Lerch’s boyfriend, 20-year-old Randy Legg.
This article appears in Oct 17-23, 2012.
This story turns my stomach, gives me a royal headache along with shooting my blood pressure thru the roof!! What a sad, sad, horror story, but only it was/is real life and it did happen!!! I just cannot wrap my head around how senseless and brutal some ‘people’ can be to others. Let alone to the innocent kids and animals. There has been nobody yet that can convince me they did all of this to that baby because they are/where drug addicts. No way that drugs can turn you into evil like this. They had to have been born that way. I just wish they would have ALL gotten the death penalty. I sure hope they NEVER get out of jail. They don’t deserve to live, let alone be free.
Reading something like this is truly just depressing. It’s horrible to know that there are people like this out there, and even worse to know that the stupid, selfish decisions of “adults” led to the death of a child. These druggies do not deserve to be free ever again, and I hope Clark is there at every parole hearing to ensure they are never released.
Thanks for the update. Glad to hear all these monsters are going to prison.
I mean…If you read the laundry list of what goes into making Meth and you still ingest it, you are so unfit to be a member of society….
Oh and you get to live the rest of your life knowing you killed your kid….
Whitetrash methmonster…..
These guys got off too easy.