SCHENECTADY — Latrisha Greene was not directly involved in the 2020 death of a young foster child but she didn’t go to authorities, even though she knew the boy and his older brother and her biological daughter were being mistreated by her husband, prosecutor Mike Nobles told jurors Thursday in her perjury trial.
But defense attorney Mark Juda said Greene didn’t make any false statements last year during her testimony in a Family Court neglect and abuse trial where she’s trying to regain custody of her four biological children. The five first-degree felony perjury counts and two misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child stem from that still-pending hearing.
Greene’s husband Dequan was convicted of stomping 4-year-old Charlie to death on Dec. 20, 2020. Child Protective Services removed the children from the Greenes’ Rotterdam home in the aftermath of Dequan Greene’s arrest. Juda said Thursday that Latrisha Greene, 27, was the one who came to the boys’ rescue after the system and their families failed them.
“She tried her best to get them the services that they needed,” said Juda.
Nobles recounted the tragic journey of the boys being removed from their home in September 2020 because of abuse at the hands of their mother and father and then being placed in the Greene’s Rotterdam home where he contends they endured punishment involving water and sitting against the wall at a 90 degree angle for things like urinating on themselves or in the bed.
Nobles also contends the Greenes both abused the children and that the Greenes used the pandemic and other excuses to prevent foster care service providers from discovering injuries.
And even as a Rotterdam police officer and paramedics tried to save Charlie’s life after he got home and called for help, Latrisha Greene still kept quiet about the abuse that left him with bruises over most his body, said Nobles.
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