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Brooke Alley 8 months old  Stabbed to death

Brooke was stabbed to death with a butcher knife on Mother's Day by her mother, Sharon Denise Alley. Alley had previously been charged with child abuse seven months before the stabbing, for throwing Brooke to the floor and breaking her skull, and was awaiting trial on that charge when she stabbed Brooke in the heart. Alley and her husband had the children returned to them five months later when they told a judge they were reconciling and going to attend parenting classes. Brooke was killed two months after she was returned.

Alley plead guilty to charges of child abuse and second-degree murder. Prosecutors were asking for a 50-year sentence, saying that Alley was capable of unspeakable evil, however a judge sentenced her to 36 years. Alley's 9-year-old son told the court he wanted his mother sentenced "as high as it goes."

Alley's defense attorney said medical and mental problems that arose during Alley's pregnancy lingered after the birth. He told the court that the only thing she wants is some understanding of her condition. Her defense psychologist said that Alley suffered from postpartum depression at the time of the killing. But the prosecution expert said Alley appeared mentally stable when he evaluated her 10 days after the killing.

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Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II

When you walk through a storm,
Hold your head up high, 
And don't be afraid of the dark. 
At the end of a storm, 
There's a golden sky, 
And the sweet silver song of a lark. 
Walk on through the wind, 
Walk on through the rain, 
Though your dreams be tossed and blown.
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart,
And you'll never walk alone...
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart, 
And you'll never walk alone...
You'll never walk alone.