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Family speaks to mourners at Texas boy’s funeral

By K. Brown

Associated Press â /â  May 29, 2011

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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas — More than 100 people gathered yesterday to remember

Camden Pierce , the 6-year-old boy whose body was found wrapped in a

blanket along a dirt road in Maine two weeks ago.

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His mother, who has been charged in the killing, did not do it out of malice but

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The family’s world fell apart when Camden was found dead, said LuRae McCrery,

but she cautioned against judging her jailed daughter, nne McCrery.

“How do we forgive . . . [her] for committing this unspeakable act? I don’t

know,’’ LuRae McCrery of Curtis, Neb., said during the hourlong service at

Calvary Baptist Church in Grand Prairie. “I know in my heart that Juli

didn’t do this out of malice or anger. She was a good mother. . . . She did

the best she could with what she had. On that fateful day something snapped, and

I pray that she gets all the help she needs.’’

nne McCrery, 42, of the Dallas suburb of Irving, is being held without bail

on second-degree murder charges in New Hampshire. She is accused of killing her

son in Hampton, N.H., on May 14 and dumping his body near the state line about

20 miles away in South Berwick, Maine. Preliminary autopsy findings show he died

of asphyxiation.

Gove, a missionary worker who found Camden’s body, also spoke at the

service but did not mention that day. She talked about Camden’s life and said

that while relatives and friends have unanswered questions, God “desires to

take that hurt and that pain away.’’

Although Camden last attended kindergarten May 6, he had not been reported

missing because his mother continued calling to say he was sick, school

officials said.

Camden wasn’t identified until four days after his body was discovered, when a

family friend in Irving called authorities in Maine after seeing a

computer-generated photo distributed nationwide.

Camden was in his school’s gifted program and he loved music, drawing, and

sports, the Rev. Bill Skaar said. He was a happy boy and was especially close to

his 23-year-old brother, who told crying mourners that Camden would not want

them to be sad.

“He’s in a better spot right now,’’ Ian McCrery said.

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Family speaks to mourners at Texas boy’s funeral

By K. Brown

Associated Press â /â  May 29, 2011

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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas — More than 100 people gathered yesterday to remember

Camden Pierce , the 6-year-old boy whose body was found wrapped in a

blanket along a dirt road in Maine two weeks ago.

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His mother, who has been charged in the killing, did not do it out of malice but

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The family’s world fell apart when Camden was found dead, said LuRae McCrery,

but she cautioned against judging her jailed daughter, nne McCrery.

“How do we forgive . . . [her] for committing this unspeakable act? I don’t

know,’’ LuRae McCrery of Curtis, Neb., said during the hourlong service at

Calvary Baptist Church in Grand Prairie. “I know in my heart that Juli

didn’t do this out of malice or anger. She was a good mother. . . . She did

the best she could with what she had. On that fateful day something snapped, and

I pray that she gets all the help she needs.’’

nne McCrery, 42, of the Dallas suburb of Irving, is being held without bail

on second-degree murder charges in New Hampshire. She is accused of killing her

son in Hampton, N.H., on May 14 and dumping his body near the state line about

20 miles away in South Berwick, Maine. Preliminary autopsy findings show he died

of asphyxiation.

Gove, a missionary worker who found Camden’s body, also spoke at the

service but did not mention that day. She talked about Camden’s life and said

that while relatives and friends have unanswered questions, God “desires to

take that hurt and that pain away.’’

Although Camden last attended kindergarten May 6, he had not been reported

missing because his mother continued calling to say he was sick, school

officials said.

Camden wasn’t identified until four days after his body was discovered, when a

family friend in Irving called authorities in Maine after seeing a

computer-generated photo distributed nationwide.

Camden was in his school’s gifted program and he loved music, drawing, and

sports, the Rev. Bill Skaar said. He was a happy boy and was especially close to

his 23-year-old brother, who told crying mourners that Camden would not want

them to be sad.

“He’s in a better spot right now,’’ Ian McCrery said.

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By K. Brown

Associated Press â /â  May 29, 2011

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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas — More than 100 people gathered yesterday to remember

Camden Pierce , the 6-year-old boy whose body was found wrapped in a

blanket along a dirt road in Maine two weeks ago.

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His mother, who has been charged in the killing, did not do it out of malice but

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The family’s world fell apart when Camden was found dead, said LuRae McCrery,

but she cautioned against judging her jailed daughter, nne McCrery.

“How do we forgive . . . [her] for committing this unspeakable act? I don’t

know,’’ LuRae McCrery of Curtis, Neb., said during the hourlong service at

Calvary Baptist Church in Grand Prairie. “I know in my heart that Juli

didn’t do this out of malice or anger. She was a good mother. . . . She did

the best she could with what she had. On that fateful day something snapped, and

I pray that she gets all the help she needs.’’

nne McCrery, 42, of the Dallas suburb of Irving, is being held without bail

on second-degree murder charges in New Hampshire. She is accused of killing her

son in Hampton, N.H., on May 14 and dumping his body near the state line about

20 miles away in South Berwick, Maine. Preliminary autopsy findings show he died

of asphyxiation.

Gove, a missionary worker who found Camden’s body, also spoke at the

service but did not mention that day. She talked about Camden’s life and said

that while relatives and friends have unanswered questions, God “desires to

take that hurt and that pain away.’’

Although Camden last attended kindergarten May 6, he had not been reported

missing because his mother continued calling to say he was sick, school

officials said.

Camden wasn’t identified until four days after his body was discovered, when a

family friend in Irving called authorities in Maine after seeing a

computer-generated photo distributed nationwide.

Camden was in his school’s gifted program and he loved music, drawing, and

sports, the Rev. Bill Skaar said. He was a happy boy and was especially close to

his 23-year-old brother, who told crying mourners that Camden would not want

them to be sad.

“He’s in a better spot right now,’’ Ian McCrery said.

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Family speaks to mourners at Texas boy’s funeral

By K. Brown

Associated Press â /â  May 29, 2011

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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas — More than 100 people gathered yesterday to remember

Camden Pierce , the 6-year-old boy whose body was found wrapped in a

blanket along a dirt road in Maine two weeks ago.

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His mother, who has been charged in the killing, did not do it out of malice but

“something snapped’’ and she needs help, her mother told the mourners.

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The family’s world fell apart when Camden was found dead, said LuRae McCrery,

but she cautioned against judging her jailed daughter, nne McCrery.

“How do we forgive . . . [her] for committing this unspeakable act? I don’t

know,’’ LuRae McCrery of Curtis, Neb., said during the hourlong service at

Calvary Baptist Church in Grand Prairie. “I know in my heart that Juli

didn’t do this out of malice or anger. She was a good mother. . . . She did

the best she could with what she had. On that fateful day something snapped, and

I pray that she gets all the help she needs.’’

nne McCrery, 42, of the Dallas suburb of Irving, is being held without bail

on second-degree murder charges in New Hampshire. She is accused of killing her

son in Hampton, N.H., on May 14 and dumping his body near the state line about

20 miles away in South Berwick, Maine. Preliminary autopsy findings show he died

of asphyxiation.

Gove, a missionary worker who found Camden’s body, also spoke at the

service but did not mention that day. She talked about Camden’s life and said

that while relatives and friends have unanswered questions, God “desires to

take that hurt and that pain away.’’

Although Camden last attended kindergarten May 6, he had not been reported

missing because his mother continued calling to say he was sick, school

officials said.

Camden wasn’t identified until four days after his body was discovered, when a

family friend in Irving called authorities in Maine after seeing a

computer-generated photo distributed nationwide.

Camden was in his school’s gifted program and he loved music, drawing, and

sports, the Rev. Bill Skaar said. He was a happy boy and was especially close to

his 23-year-old brother, who told crying mourners that Camden would not want

them to be sad.

“He’s in a better spot right now,’’ Ian McCrery said.

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