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Monday, September 19, 2011  Report in Pediatrics blames the recession; people here disagree

Tuesday, November 24, 2009  A Syracuse teenager will spend the next 13 years in prison for killing a 20-month-old child.

Saturday, November 21, 2009  A vigil is held more than a year after 16 month old Imani Jennings was killed.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009  A Syracuse daycare provider convicted of not reporting abuse will have to complete 50 hours of community service.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009  An 18-year-old Syracuse woman sobbed Tuesday as she was sentenced to a maximum penalty of 1 1/3 to four years in prison for allowing her 20-month-old daughter to be fatally beaten last November.

Thursday, April 23, 2009  16-year-old Anthony Weakfall pleaded not guilty Thursday to a charge of murdering 20-month-old Imani Jennings last November.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009  Cherron Patterson, the mother of 20-month-old Imani Jennings, has pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide in the death of her daughter.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009  An Onondaga County Grand Jury Tuesday handed up an indictment in the murder of 20-month-old Imani Jennings.

Wednesday, December 03, 2008  47-year-old Diane Shakir is charged with failure to report the suspected child abuse/maltreatment of 20-month-old Imani Jennings.

Saturday, November 29, 2008  The death of a little girl, allegedly at the hands of her mother’s 15-year-old boyfriend has sparked neighbors into action.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008  Almost as shocking as the murder itself is the fact that some neighbors and relatives knew or suspected that Imani Jennings was being neglected and abused.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008  Relatives of a 20-month-old girl who police say was beaten to death by her mother's 15-year-old boyfriend were growing concerned about how hard the toddler was being spanked but did not realize the punishment had become abusive.

Monday, November 24, 2008  The Syracuse City School District held a news conference Monday morning in response to the death of 20-month-old Imani Jennings last Friday.

Sunday, November 23, 2008  Outside a Fage Avenue home where 20-month-old Imani Jennings was beaten to death, friends, family and strangers stood shoulder-to-shoulder and hand-in-hand on Sunday evening as they mourned the toddler and called for change.

Saturday, November 22, 2008  Police say 15-year-old Anthony Weakfall Jr. beat 20-month-old Imani Jennings after the child urinated on the floor Friday at an apartment on Fage Avenue.