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I believe that Mary had part of the role in alyssa's death. I think half is Dawns and half is Mary. I believe that they both need help to better themselves like mary says in the book, "Maybe its better we both be locked away, the world doesn't deserve to have us in it, screwing it all up for poor people like mrs richardson." I don't think Mary mean't to hurt alyssa because she did love her like she was her own sister. She always wished she has Mrs richardson's daughter. At the end she made her wish come true.

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Overall in this case, They both aren't perfect people but their is major holes in each of their stories. It shows more evidence that Dawn is mostly the person who has the most fault in the murder because she is a grown adult. But they both did their part in it like when mary told us that her mom got her cross necklace to try to take out the pills from alyssa's mouth because she was choking from it. Mary is also guilty by doing it as much as her mom was. Dawn was not a very good mother to have the responsibility for taking care of two kids.

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As we know, Dawn isn't the greatest mother to Mary. After everything that happened with ray and everything. With all this information in the book I think Dawn is number 1 suspect. In the interviews it states, "I was always taking care of babies. All my life." You would expect Dawn to be a good care taker but two babies have died on her watch. Mary has been taking care of a baby since she was little. As she also said that she feels like shes her mothers parent. She shouldn't be taking care of a baby or be responsible for her mom when shes only 9 years old.

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In the book it has said that Dawn has her "days" meaning where she is acting a little crazier than usually. It also causes dawn to black out sometimes. This could have been passed on to Mary, for example, " my blackouts are like blank pages in the middle of a book." it could've been that she did more to alyssa than she remembers but because of these blackouts she doesn't remember much. I'm not saying shes guilty guilty but she's also not innocent. This makes her look suspicious and have people think she might've done it. Mary's mom says to the lawyers and everyone that mary did it and that she's the "devils child." I also think she's a very violent person. I think she gets it from dawn.

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It was shown that alyssa had a lot of bruises meaning she had to be hit or beaten. Dawn has a history of hitting mary with a cable. She let mary be with alyssa alone which is very irresponsible. She is grown and plus she's a parent. I would expect her to know that you can't leave a 9 year old and a 3 month year old alone because they are both children. The cross necklace is evidence but it was not found. This incident happened at dawn's house. Dawn was responsible for taking care of the children.

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Mary was a 9 year old kid who was convicted of murdering 3 month year old Alyssa Richardson. Alyssa was found with multiple bruises around her. Mary was alone with alyssa when this happened. Mary's mom dawn left her alone there. The two suspects here are dawn and alyssa. Mary says that dawn shoved pills down alyssa's throat to shut her up and mary tried grabbing her and ended up with throwing her which caused more injures. This took place in dawns and mary's house