A 12-year-old girl who died after being found unconscious in a city home was identified Wednesday by investigators as Amira Brown.
Brown was found by her foster mother, whose name was withheld by police, about 7 p.m. Sunday in their home in the 600 block of Summit Avenue. Brown was taken to Reading Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival, officials said.
An autopsy was performed Tuesday, but no death ruling was issued, officials said. Further tests have been scheduled.
Brown was placed in the home in January by Pennsylvania Mentor, Wescoesville, Lehigh County. The private foster-care placement agency is a division of National Mentor Healthcare Inc.
"It's extremely tragic and it's a very sad day," said David Buckley, the agency's state director, whose office is in Norristown. "We're dedicated to helping children so this is something that has struck us as a tragic loss."
Sgt. John M. Solecki of the city police criminal investigations division, said detectives are doing more than just a death investigation, but he would not elaborate.
The foster parents had children of their own, but there were no other foster children in the home, officials said.
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A 12-year-old Reading girl who died in September had been beaten before her death, authorities said.
Dr. Nicholas Bybel, Berks County coroner, on Thursday ruled the death of Amira Brown a homicide, saying she died of cardio-respiratory collapse due to a beating and physical restraint. The ruling came after months of medical tests, officials said.
Amira, a Southwest Middle School seventh-grader, had been found unconscious Sept. 4 in her home, where she was in foster care. She was pronounced dead on arrival in Reading Hospital.
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Rose M. Boyd-Tolver of Reading, who was described at her trial as being mildly retarded, beat the child with a mop handle more than 80 times
A 41-year-old Reading woman who beat, sat on and killed a 12-year-old child she outweighed by about 160 pounds was sentenced Thursday in Berks County Court to life in prison.
Rose M. Boyd-Tolver, who was described during her trial as being mildly mentally retarded, was convicted in a November jury trial of first degree murder in the death of Amira Brown.
According to testimony, Boyd-Tolver struck the child at least 80 times with a mop handle in a downstairs kitchen in the home of the child's foster parent Sept 4, 2005. She then hit Brown again upstairs before sitting on the child and killing her, witnesses testified.
Boyd-Tolver weighed about 280 pounds, and Brown weighed about 120 pounds, according to testimony.
Boyd-Tolver was baby-sitting the child, who was under the care of Barbara Martin in Martin's home.
Brown was found by her foster mother, whose name was withheld by police, about 7 p.m. Sunday in their home in the 600 block of Summit Avenue. Brown was taken to Reading Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival, officials said.
An autopsy was performed Tuesday, but no death ruling was issued, officials said. Further tests have been scheduled.
Brown was placed in the home in January by Pennsylvania Mentor, Wescoesville, Lehigh County. The private foster-care placement agency is a division of National Mentor Healthcare Inc.
"It's extremely tragic and it's a very sad day," said David Buckley, the agency's state director, whose office is in Norristown. "We're dedicated to helping children so this is something that has struck us as a tragic loss."
Sgt. John M. Solecki of the city police criminal investigations division, said detectives are doing more than just a death investigation, but he would not elaborate.
The foster parents had children of their own, but there were no other foster children in the home, officials said.
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A 12-year-old Reading girl who died in September had been beaten before her death, authorities said.
Dr. Nicholas Bybel, Berks County coroner, on Thursday ruled the death of Amira Brown a homicide, saying she died of cardio-respiratory collapse due to a beating and physical restraint. The ruling came after months of medical tests, officials said.
Amira, a Southwest Middle School seventh-grader, had been found unconscious Sept. 4 in her home, where she was in foster care. She was pronounced dead on arrival in Reading Hospital.
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Rose M. Boyd-Tolver of Reading, who was described at her trial as being mildly retarded, beat the child with a mop handle more than 80 times
A 41-year-old Reading woman who beat, sat on and killed a 12-year-old child she outweighed by about 160 pounds was sentenced Thursday in Berks County Court to life in prison.
Rose M. Boyd-Tolver, who was described during her trial as being mildly mentally retarded, was convicted in a November jury trial of first degree murder in the death of Amira Brown.
According to testimony, Boyd-Tolver struck the child at least 80 times with a mop handle in a downstairs kitchen in the home of the child's foster parent Sept 4, 2005. She then hit Brown again upstairs before sitting on the child and killing her, witnesses testified.
Boyd-Tolver weighed about 280 pounds, and Brown weighed about 120 pounds, according to testimony.
Boyd-Tolver was baby-sitting the child, who was under the care of Barbara Martin in Martin's home.
A 12-year-old girl who died after being found unconscious in a city home was identified Wednesday by investigators as Amira Brown.
Brown was found by her foster mother, whose name was withheld by police, about 7 p.m. Sunday in their home in the 600 block of Summit Avenue. Brown was taken to Reading Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival, officials said.
An autopsy was performed Tuesday, but no death ruling was issued, officials said. Further tests have been scheduled.
Brown was placed in the home in January by Pennsylvania Mentor, Wescoesville, Lehigh County. The private foster-care placement agency is a division of National Mentor Healthcare Inc.
"It's extremely tragic and it's a very sad day," said David Buckley, the agency's state director, whose office is in Norristown. "We're dedicated to helping children so this is something that has struck us as a tragic loss."
Sgt. John M. Solecki of the city police criminal investigations division, said detectives are doing more than just a death investigation, but he would not elaborate.
The foster parents had children of their own, but there were no other foster children in the home, officials said.
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A 12-year-old Reading girl who died in September had been beaten before her death, authorities said.
Dr. Nicholas Bybel, Berks County coroner, on Thursday ruled the death of Amira Brown a homicide, saying she died of cardio-respiratory collapse due to a beating and physical restraint. The ruling came after months of medical tests, officials said.
Amira, a Southwest Middle School seventh-grader, had been found unconscious Sept. 4 in her home, where she was in foster care. She was pronounced dead on arrival in Reading Hospital.
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Rose M. Boyd-Tolver of Reading, who was described at her trial as being mildly retarded, beat the child with a mop handle more than 80 times
A 41-year-old Reading woman who beat, sat on and killed a 12-year-old child she outweighed by about 160 pounds was sentenced Thursday in Berks County Court to life in prison.
Rose M. Boyd-Tolver, who was described during her trial as being mildly mentally retarded, was convicted in a November jury trial of first degree murder in the death of Amira Brown.
According to testimony, Boyd-Tolver struck the child at least 80 times with a mop handle in a downstairs kitchen in the home of the child's foster parent Sept 4, 2005. She then hit Brown again upstairs before sitting on the child and killing her, witnesses testified.
Boyd-Tolver weighed about 280 pounds, and Brown weighed about 120 pounds, according to testimony.
Boyd-Tolver was baby-sitting the child, who was under the care of Barbara Martin in Martin's home.
Brown was found by her foster mother, whose name was withheld by police, about 7 p.m. Sunday in their home in the 600 block of Summit Avenue. Brown was taken to Reading Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival, officials said.
An autopsy was performed Tuesday, but no death ruling was issued, officials said. Further tests have been scheduled.
Brown was placed in the home in January by Pennsylvania Mentor, Wescoesville, Lehigh County. The private foster-care placement agency is a division of National Mentor Healthcare Inc.
"It's extremely tragic and it's a very sad day," said David Buckley, the agency's state director, whose office is in Norristown. "We're dedicated to helping children so this is something that has struck us as a tragic loss."
Sgt. John M. Solecki of the city police criminal investigations division, said detectives are doing more than just a death investigation, but he would not elaborate.
The foster parents had children of their own, but there were no other foster children in the home, officials said.
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A 12-year-old Reading girl who died in September had been beaten before her death, authorities said.
Dr. Nicholas Bybel, Berks County coroner, on Thursday ruled the death of Amira Brown a homicide, saying she died of cardio-respiratory collapse due to a beating and physical restraint. The ruling came after months of medical tests, officials said.
Amira, a Southwest Middle School seventh-grader, had been found unconscious Sept. 4 in her home, where she was in foster care. She was pronounced dead on arrival in Reading Hospital.
***************************************************************
Rose M. Boyd-Tolver of Reading, who was described at her trial as being mildly retarded, beat the child with a mop handle more than 80 times
A 41-year-old Reading woman who beat, sat on and killed a 12-year-old child she outweighed by about 160 pounds was sentenced Thursday in Berks County Court to life in prison.
Rose M. Boyd-Tolver, who was described during her trial as being mildly mentally retarded, was convicted in a November jury trial of first degree murder in the death of Amira Brown.
According to testimony, Boyd-Tolver struck the child at least 80 times with a mop handle in a downstairs kitchen in the home of the child's foster parent Sept 4, 2005. She then hit Brown again upstairs before sitting on the child and killing her, witnesses testified.
Boyd-Tolver weighed about 280 pounds, and Brown weighed about 120 pounds, according to testimony.
Boyd-Tolver was baby-sitting the child, who was under the care of Barbara Martin in Martin's home.
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