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Worker Who Didn't Help Hanging Teen Gets One Year of House Arrest
 

8:58 p.m. May 12, 2004

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A youth shelter counselor who photographed a teenager's suicide attempt was sentenced Wednesday to a year of house arrest for not helping the boy, who died later but was still breathing when the counselor snapped photos of him.

Sandra Trotter, 41, also was sentenced to four years probation and 500 hours of community service. She was convicted of child neglect in March for failing to do everything she could to try to save Anthony Dumas as he hung unconscious from a belt.

The boy, 15, lapsed into a coma after his June 2000 suicide attempt and died four months later.

During the trial, the prosecutor told jurors that Trotter should have tried to get the boy down.

Trotter testified that her supervisor at Lippman Family Center ordered her not to touch the boy, but that she did try to loosen the belt around his neck. She said she also ran out of the room in an unsuccessful effort to get a knife or scissors.

Trotter said she took the photos to show the position of the boy's body "for Lippman or whatever purpose they could be used for."

Dumas had been committed to the facility about 2½ weeks earlier after he got into a shoving match with his mother.
 

 

 

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