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LISTRO SUZANNE M  1967  Jury Trial
03/08/2010 10:00 AM
TTD -CR08-0092447-T Times on the Docket: 18



http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-listro0304.artmar04,0,4845349.story

State Police Detective Testifies At DCF Employee's Manslaughter Trial

By JENNA CARLESSO The Hartford Courant March 4, 2010

VERNON — - Suzanne Listro didn't seem surprised when police turned up
at her door with a warrant for her arrest in July 2008, a state police
detective testified Wednesday during Listro's trial in Superior Court
in Rockville.

Listro, who had been crying when foster child Michael Brown Jr. was
taken from her home unresponsive two months earlier, appeared
"indifferent — not angry, not sad," said Det. David Lamoureux.

"She was cooperative, but she didn't seem surprised," he said.

Listro, who is charged with first-degree manslaughter and risk of
injury to a child, had been working for the state Department of
Children and Families at the time of 7-month-old Michael's death. She
told police the infant was lying on his back on her bed when she got
up to turn off the television and heard "a thud." The baby had fallen
off the edge of the bed onto the floor, she told officers, and when
she picked him up, he cried for a few seconds, then closed his eyes
and went limp.

But her account sharply contradicts what was written in the state
medical examiner's report after an autopsy, Lamoureux said. According
to authorities, Michael's head injuries were not consistent with a 2-
foot fall from the bed to the floor.

"I asked her, 'Tell me what really happened,'" Lamoureux said. Listro
has repeatedly denied harming the baby.

Ronald Gross, an associate director at Hartford Hospital who examined
Michael just before he was pronounced dead on May 19, 2008, testified
that the baby had suffered trauma that caused bleeding inside his
head. When asked by a prosecutor if he has ever seen a child with such
massive head trauma resulting from a 2-foot fall, he said, "I have
not."

Gross said no bruises, grip marks or contusions were found on the
infant.

One of Listro's attorneys, Hope Seeley of Hartford, pointed out that
Lamoureux and other officers didn't apply for a search warrant to
check for vomit in the kitchen of Listro's Mansfield home. Listro told
police she had carried Michael into the kitchen so she could call 911
after he became unresponsive. While dialing authorities, Listro said,
she performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the infant and he began
to spit up. No vomit was ever found.

Asked if the presence of vomit would indicate that the death had been
accidental, Lamoureux replied "No."
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