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When Goulee released Griffin earlier this year, citing her fast-deteriorating health in jail, he did so with a warning. The child, he said, "will be found. And he will be found with someone, and that someone will be charged with a crime." The patience of the law won out in the end. Last Friday night, Milwaukee police, acting on a tip about the location of 2-year-old Jesse, entered an apartment on North Richards Street. They found the boy in his mother's arms...
...clear whether she had been living with her son or was only visiting when police arrived. But when they showed up, officers asked Griffin if the boy she was holding was her missing son. She refused to answer, according to a formal complaint filed by the Milwaukee County District Attorney. "The defendant refused to respond or identify the baby boy," according to an affidavit from Milwaukee police detective Christopher Moews. "As he and other officers engaged Griffin in conversation, she began putting clothes on the boy and stated she was going to leave with the child," the complaint reads...
Police say Griffin then wrapped her arms about Jesse so tightly that they feared for the toddler's safety. "She pulled the baby into her chest like a bear hug. She then turned away from officers while bending over at the waist, turning her body in an attempt to prevent the officers from taking the child." When another officer stepped in, Griffin began swinging back and forth urgently, causing Jesse to begin to cry and his head to lurch violently back and forth, the complaint reads. "The detective was concerned that the baby would not be able to breathe. Using...
Almost immediately after her arrest Friday, rumors began to circulate in Milwaukee that Griffin had been shot and paralyzed by the police. An e-mail message calling for justice, sent from freeaprilgriffin@yahoo.com, made the rounds. But some of Griffin's previous supporters expressed only sadness. "I had been organizing to get April to have folks help her straighten things out as well as helping to keep her son with her family," supporter Laura Manriquez told TIME. "Things did not work out when she and her family became distant and decided to not follow through with me." Griffin's former attorney...
From the Archive: The April Griffin Case Part...