A Claim of Material Variance Fails in a Child Fatality Case

Abstract

In a recent article, American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Naomi Schaefer Riley writes, “There is something about the relationship between men and the children of other men in their home that can be quite volatile. Whether it is the constant reminder of another man’s previous relationship with the girlfriend or jealousy over the time those children take from a relationship or already present violent tendencies that are not stopped by the tender feelings one usually has toward one’s own children, something goes wrong.” On June 24, 2017, something went fatally wrong for R.W., a boy just shy of his second birthday.