To: The Missouri State House, The Missouri State Senate, and Governor Mike Parson
Free Cody Baker
Cody was a young man looking for the white picket fence, a new adopted baby girl and beautiful wife, the American dream, when he was wrongly convicted of a crime he didn't commit!
Why is this important?
Hello,
My name is Paula. I used to think that the worst thing imaginable I could have happen is a knock on the door by the highway patrol in the middle of the night telling me about the death of one of my children.
But, I never imagined that the next to the worst thing would be seeing my child broadcast on local television as a murderer.
My son had dated a young lady for 8 weeks. After 3 weeks, she invited him to move into her parents home with her and her baby. After 6 weeks he was asking me if we would help with him adopting this beautiful, sweet, delightful little girl. To which I reflexively replied, "Of course, we will."
It was all happening so fast. He told everyone in our family he was marrying the young lady and adopting this amazing child.
At 8 weeks after he started dating the baby's mother, he awoke to the sound of the baby gurgling. His CPR attempts were unsuccessful. He yelled immediately for his girlfriend to call 911. She took her phone to an adjacent room and calmly and quietly spoke to the 911 operator. After 1 min and 19 seconds the operator asked if she was in the same room with the baby and my son administering CPR. She told her no. The dispatcher asked if he knew infant CPR, she said she didn't know. The dispatcher told her to go to the room where he was doing CPR and talk him through it. You could hear my son sobbing in between breaths and the mother remained calm and emotionless.
The ambulance driver asked the mother if she wanted to ride to the hospital with them, she said no. The ER DR asked if she wanted to come into the bay where they were making efforts to revive her, she said no. After the Dr pronounced the sweet baby girl dead, the Dr asked the mom if she'd like some time with her to say goodbye, she said no. Upon returning home, she asked her brother and my son to pick up all her belongings and take them out of her sight and close the door of the baby's nusery. They did as she asked. At this point the Dr had told her and my son it was likely SIDS.
My son was wrongly accused, convicted and though the mom spent 7 of her 11 hour interrogation saying my son "NEVER HURT HER BABY!"
She is free on probation and he received 30 years. There was no DNA, NO Witnesses, NO sounds!! NO signs he'd ever been anything other than loving and doting to this precious baby, the prosecutor suborned perjury from the mother. She admitted to that during the trial.
It's in the transcript! For her proffer "she had to say whatever the prosecutor told her to."
36 people wrote or testified to my sons love and commitment to children and especially this baby.
All saying it was impossible that he did this. Yet, the day of sentencing- an uncle who left my daughter a voice message and told her that the prosecutor was forcing him to testify and it was "all lies". The sentencing hearing was made up of the underbelly of the most detestable likes. One mother who had already had her child removed from her for abuse and was charged again, was now claiming my son had something to do with her son's injuries. And the best part- her attorney was my son's attorney! She told her dad and stepmom and the doctor that the injuries were from another child on the playground!
The lady forewoman was a former friend and student attending William Woods Business Administration at the same time as the baby's grandfather. Another juror was good friends for over a decade with the aunt and sister in law of the grandparents (she sat in the courtroom making eye contact with the the friend) the grandma- a licensed clinical social worker never came to the trial or sentencing hearing. Her daughter, the baby's mother suffered from rage disorder and depression and was drinking the day of the death. She told her mom that she dropped her little girl.
A mandatory reporter did not take the baby to a hospital. The mandatory reporter did not seek medical attention. The mandatory reporter knows my son is innocent!
Please help us to get my son out of prison. Please show that you want the courts to be right and not throw people's lives away because it isn't your son. Please Jeremiah, do what you know is right.
Sincerely,
Paula Wilson
My name is Paula. I used to think that the worst thing imaginable I could have happen is a knock on the door by the highway patrol in the middle of the night telling me about the death of one of my children.
But, I never imagined that the next to the worst thing would be seeing my child broadcast on local television as a murderer.
My son had dated a young lady for 8 weeks. After 3 weeks, she invited him to move into her parents home with her and her baby. After 6 weeks he was asking me if we would help with him adopting this beautiful, sweet, delightful little girl. To which I reflexively replied, "Of course, we will."
It was all happening so fast. He told everyone in our family he was marrying the young lady and adopting this amazing child.
At 8 weeks after he started dating the baby's mother, he awoke to the sound of the baby gurgling. His CPR attempts were unsuccessful. He yelled immediately for his girlfriend to call 911. She took her phone to an adjacent room and calmly and quietly spoke to the 911 operator. After 1 min and 19 seconds the operator asked if she was in the same room with the baby and my son administering CPR. She told her no. The dispatcher asked if he knew infant CPR, she said she didn't know. The dispatcher told her to go to the room where he was doing CPR and talk him through it. You could hear my son sobbing in between breaths and the mother remained calm and emotionless.
The ambulance driver asked the mother if she wanted to ride to the hospital with them, she said no. The ER DR asked if she wanted to come into the bay where they were making efforts to revive her, she said no. After the Dr pronounced the sweet baby girl dead, the Dr asked the mom if she'd like some time with her to say goodbye, she said no. Upon returning home, she asked her brother and my son to pick up all her belongings and take them out of her sight and close the door of the baby's nusery. They did as she asked. At this point the Dr had told her and my son it was likely SIDS.
My son was wrongly accused, convicted and though the mom spent 7 of her 11 hour interrogation saying my son "NEVER HURT HER BABY!"
She is free on probation and he received 30 years. There was no DNA, NO Witnesses, NO sounds!! NO signs he'd ever been anything other than loving and doting to this precious baby, the prosecutor suborned perjury from the mother. She admitted to that during the trial.
It's in the transcript! For her proffer "she had to say whatever the prosecutor told her to."
36 people wrote or testified to my sons love and commitment to children and especially this baby.
All saying it was impossible that he did this. Yet, the day of sentencing- an uncle who left my daughter a voice message and told her that the prosecutor was forcing him to testify and it was "all lies". The sentencing hearing was made up of the underbelly of the most detestable likes. One mother who had already had her child removed from her for abuse and was charged again, was now claiming my son had something to do with her son's injuries. And the best part- her attorney was my son's attorney! She told her dad and stepmom and the doctor that the injuries were from another child on the playground!
The lady forewoman was a former friend and student attending William Woods Business Administration at the same time as the baby's grandfather. Another juror was good friends for over a decade with the aunt and sister in law of the grandparents (she sat in the courtroom making eye contact with the the friend) the grandma- a licensed clinical social worker never came to the trial or sentencing hearing. Her daughter, the baby's mother suffered from rage disorder and depression and was drinking the day of the death. She told her mom that she dropped her little girl.
A mandatory reporter did not take the baby to a hospital. The mandatory reporter did not seek medical attention. The mandatory reporter knows my son is innocent!
Please help us to get my son out of prison. Please show that you want the courts to be right and not throw people's lives away because it isn't your son. Please Jeremiah, do what you know is right.
Sincerely,
Paula Wilson