Myers v. State

OPINION OF THE COURT

Louis C. Benza, J.

Claimant, Christopher Myers, a 28-year-old male, lived with Cindy Manon, an 18-year-old female, and her three children in a rented one-room cabin in Phoenicia, New York. On August 13,1992, Kenneth Manon, Cindy’s youngest child, a two-month-old boy, was found dead in his bassinet. An autopsy performed on Kenneth on August 14, 1992 made a finding of severe malnutrition, severe dehydration, healing injuries of the left humerus and of the 4th and 5th left ribs, and pulmonary edema (exhibit B). Kenneth weighed 6 pounds 141/2 ounces at birth, June 9, 1992 (see,…