Nathaniel Michael Craver

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nathaniel Craver died in 2009 from bleeding caused by a severe head injury. His adoptive parents said he had serious emotional and mental problems that had caused him to repeatedly hurt himself. Police were told that Nathaniel had fallen and hit his head on the wood stove on August 19 and that on the morning of August 20 Michael had found him in bed, soaked in urine and unresponsive. Nathaniel had died from complications brought on by traumatic brain injury. Nathaniel was taken to the E.R. at Holy Spirit Hospital and it was found that his injuries were life threatening so he was taken to Hershey Medical Center where he was placed on life support. Nathaniel died after life support was removed several days later.

 

Nathaniel had more than 80 bruises all in different stages of healing with 20 of those bruises being on his head. There was evidence that Nathaniel's muscles had been torn near his shoulder and hip joins as well as marks on his feet and wrists to show that he had been tied up. Bruising was apparent on his torso and back which showed he had been hit with something over the past few weeks and an untreated rib as well as what he referred to as "lakes of blood" under his skull. Nathaniel would have to been hit many times in order to be in the condition he was in and to be as malnourished as he was, he had to have been starved.

 

In November of 2011 a jury acquitted Michael and Nanette of first and third degree murder. The couple was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Michael and Nanette Carver received sentences of 16 months to four years. The couple would not serve one more day though, they had already been in jail for 19 months. The Russian government was enraged. “The Cravers, who tortured the seven year old child to death, were released after staying a mere year and a half under arrest,” Said Alexander Lukashevich, a Foreign Ministry spokesman. Russian officials said they were conducting their own investigation and might seek an arrest warrant for the couple. I hope they do 19 months in jail for Nathaniel murder is ridiculous. Where is the justice for Nathaniel's life?