Sailor Serenity Raine Kuhn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2011 was Sailor’s first, and last, Halloween. She spent it with her grandma while her teenage parents and their friends set out to “create havoc on the town.” Sailor’s mother April Coleman, told police those plans failed, so the group dropped a skeleton made of PVC pipe into a lake “to scare people,” rented a horror film, picked up Sailor at around 1:30 a.m. and headed home.

 

April's brother and another friend spent the night at the apartment said that April and Sailor's father, Dylan Kuhn, went to bed about 4 a.m. and put six month old Sailor in her bassinette in their bedroom. Just before 8 a.m., April left for work and laid Sailor, who had been running a fever and had cried all night, on the bed next to Kuhn. Soon afterward, Kuhn woke his friends, asking them to help perform CPR on his daughter who wasn't breathing. Sailor was taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

 

Kuhn, said he woke up and found Sailor hanging from the side of the bed with a blanket around her neck. An autopsy found "dirt in her ears and on her hands," and a diaper "full of feces from front to back. There was also a clear plastic wrapper from a cigarette package in the diaper." She had an old bruise on her forehead, and bruises on her brain. The autopsy also found bleeding behind her eyes. Kuhn, eventually told police that he slammed Sailor onto the bed in frustration. He pled guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 90 days in jail by District Court Judge Douglas Walker.

 

Montezuma County child welfare workers knew April Coleman because three years earlier they had put her first child in foster care after the baby boy "received substantial injuries" from her boyfriend. After her daughter died, April told police, "she thought Sailor was going to be OK because she made it past the spot (age)" of her first child when he was hurt.

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