It’s taken 20 years but finally a memorial stone to honour the short and tragic life of Jacqueline Brewer will be placed at Rainbow Park next month.
She was only two years of age when she died from neglect and dehydration in 1996 just a stone’s throw from the park itself.
Mr. Justice Hugh McLellen said Jacqueline’s parents, who were convicted of manslaughter, had ignored her to death. The court heard before she died, Jacqueline hadn’t had anything to drink for six days.
It was Mr. Justice McLellen who, during the time of sentencing, ordered a public memorial be erected and suggested the inscription read in part, Jacqueline lived in loneliness, squalor and misery with her parents, under the supervision of social workers, health care experts and child protection officials. Her death diminishes all of us.
