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"Murder trial begins for mother in R.I.; She is accused of strangling daughter, 8" by Laura Crimaldi, Associated Press / September 17, 2011
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. - A mother strangled her 8-year-old daughter in 2009 after the girl refused to take a bath, prosecutors said yesterday on the opening day of the woman’s second-degree murder trial.
Kimberly Fry’s lawyer said her client never intended to kill her daughter.
Fry, 38, broke down in Washington County Superior Court as assistant Attorney General Stephen A. Regine displayed for jurors a photo of her daughter, Camden, during his opening statements.
“Her mother, on Aug. 10, 2009, strangled her and murdered her,’’ Regine told the jury of seven men and seven women. “She killed her with her own hands.’’
Regine quoted a suicide note written by Fry in which she told her husband Timothy, 41, that she was “beaten down by an 8-year-old’’ and could not take her daughter’s crying fits and refusal to take a bath.
He accused Fry of blaming Camden for her depression and other problems.
Public defender Sarah Wright said the girl’s death came as Fry attempted to restrain her.
“This death was unintentional and tragic,’’ Wright said.
Fry has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder. The girl was found dead on her bed Aug. 11, 2009.
If convicted, she faces up to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 20 years.
Judge William Carnes Jr. has banned video and audio recording equipment from the courtroom out of concern that Fry’s case may draw comparisons to the trial of Casey Anthony. The Florida woman was acquitted in July of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
Related: Anthony Attends Probation Meeting
Farewell to Florida
And to the Glob.
Fry’s trial is expected to take two to three weeks.
Court filings depict Fry as a troubled woman who saw herself as an inadequate and frustrated mother who thought life would be better without her daughter. They also paint a picture of a mother who became despondent after her daughter’s death, overdosed on prescription medications, and disclosed her rambling thoughts in handwritten missives left for her husband....
Barbara Kettle, South County Hospital patient care technician, told investigators Fry disclosed she “couldn’t stand the crying and screaming anymore’’ from Camden, who refused to take a bath the night before while her father was out.
“I just couldn’t take it anymore. This is no way to live,’’ reads the note police say Fry left for her husband. “Fighting and fighting, just because I ask her to take a bath.’’
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