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My name was Katelynn Elizabeth Stinnett. I was 2 years old. I passed away on December 3rd, 2008 after having been savagely beaten, raped, and sodimized . I had more than 400 stiches and staples placed in my groin area to attempt to reconstruct my bottom. My skull was shattered, and nearly every bone in my body was broken, and I was covered with bruises. I want to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else!

Flowers And Gifts From The Heart

Group setting the headstone

Katelynn Stinnett died December 3rd 2008 from the injuries she received from a brutal beating and rape that occurred in Lexington KY.

This precious child was only 2 years old. She along with her brother, lived with her father in an apartment that he shared with his roommate Brian Crabtree. Crabtree is allegedly the person that did these horrible things to Katelynn. I have to say alleged because he has not yet been tried in a court of law.

Myself along with several friends attended her funeral and also did Honor Guard for her. Her services were held at a little church in Lexington KY. We never left Katy. We arrived that Saturday before the viewing was to begin, and did not leave until we went to the cemetery the following day. We carried her tiny casket at the cemetery, and I must say that is probably the hardest thing I personally have ever had to do.

There are many unanswered questions in this whole saga. Some will be answered at the trial, some we may never know. I can only say what I know to be fact because I do not want to do anything that the defense for the alleged abuser may use to his advantage. 

If you google her name there are over 2000 hits that come up for her. To save yourself time though you can go to www.herald-leader.com for the newspaper archives on her story.

                                                                     Crickett Lanham -  National Coordinator

Toddler’s death leaves neighbors, and family reeling

By Steve Lannen
slannen@herald-leader.com

At a small mobile home park tucked off  Bryan Station Road in southern Bourbon County, many people knew 2-year-old Katelynn Stinnett. They also know the teen accused of killing her. According to police, Brian Crabtree, 18, raped and threw the girl on the floor of a Lexington apartment on Nov. 25. The toddler died from her injuries on Wednesday.

Crabtree was watching Katelynn and a 3-year-old brother while their father was at work, said Chris Baker, the uncle of Katelynn’s father, Daniel Stinnett. Crabtree was “a quiet, well-mannered kid, but he showed what he was,” Baker said.

Crabtree is scheduled to appear Friday morning in Fayette District Court. He is already charged with assault, rape and sexual abuse, and has pleaded not guilty to those charges. The Fayette County Attorney’s Office plans to upgrade the assault charge to intentional murder. A preliminary hearing is scheduled, but Crabtree could choose to waive the hearing and have the case sent to a grand jury. He is being held at the Fayette County jail and declined a request for an interview.

Miles away in Bourbon County at the Turfland mobile home park where he lived until recently, a brother declined to give his name, but said Brian Crabtree is innocent. An arrest citation for Crabtree indicates he gave a recorded confession to police. Crabtree grew up in a mobile home near a dead end and attended Bourbon County High School.

In recent weeks, Crabtree moved to a trailer on an adjacent street where he was staying with Daniel Stinnett, who was caring for Katelynn and a young son. Stinnett’s wife has not been near the family for several months, neighbors said.

Baker said Stinnett is reeling from his daughter’s death. “He’s a basket case right now,” Baker said. Stinnett had lived for a time in the mobile home park years before with relatives, and the two men knew each other, neighbor Tim White said. “Everybody kind of knows everybody,” he said. For the few weeks he lived with Stinnett, Crabtree cared for the children while Stinnett was at work, Baker said.

White said that a relative of Daniel Stinnett’s had recently asked Crabtree about some bruises on Katelynn. He said Crabtree responded, “No, I’d never do nothing like that. I love that baby.” The week before Thanksgiving, Stinnett told neighbors that he was moving to a Lexington apartment that he described as bigger and a better environment than the beige and brown trailer. Baker said he’s not sure why his nephew and Stinnett moved out of the trailer after living there such a short time.

The two men and two children lived at the Bradford Apartments, off Versailles Road, just four days before Katelynn was injured, a woman in the management office said. The 3-year-old boy is now in foster care, Baker said.

Vikki Franklin, a spokeswoman for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, declined to say whether the cabinet had investigated any complaints involving Katelynn Stinnett or anyone in her family. White said that, if Crabtree is guilty of the charges against him, “I hope he never sees the light of day.”

Herald-Leader Staff Writer Beth Musgrave contributed to this story. Reach Steve Lannen at (859) 231-1328 or 1-800-950-6397, Ext. 1328.

SHC Officers, left to right: Double D (VP), Crickett (Sgt at Arms), Redd (Prez), Shooter (Sgt at Arms), Halfwitt (Treasurer), Rebel Soul (Secretary)

The supporters at
the funeral

Saying Goodbye

Posted on Fri, Dec. 05, 2008

The 18-year-old man accused of raping and murdering a 2-year-old girl told police that he dropped the child from a height about level with his shoulders before sexually assaulting her, according to testimony Friday in a court hearing. A Fayette County grand jury will consider the case of Brian Crabtree. Katelynn Stinnett’s mother and some other relatives listened as a police detective recounted his interview with Crabtree.

Lexington Police Sgt. Jesse Harris testified that Crabtree gave him a taped confession several hours after the alleged crimes occurred. According to Harris, Crabtree said he gave Katelynn a bath on the afternoon of Nov. 25, at a Lexington apartment off Versailles Road. He then dropped her from a height of about his shoulders to the floor before raping her. Katelynn’s mother, Angela Johns, cried quietly in the courtroom, and an aunt was heard gasping, “Oh my God.”
The child died of her injuries Dec. 3.

Crabtree’s public defender Sam Cox asked Harris if he knew that Crabtree has an IQ of just 68 or that Crabtree couldn’t read or write. Harris said Crabtree said he had graduated from high school, and Harris didn’t question Crabtree further about his education. Harris also said that Katelynn’s older brother, 3, was in the apartment at the time that Crabtree said he attacked Katelynn. The boy told investigators, according to Harris, “Brian hit sissy. Brian hit sissy.”

Crabtree was watching the children as their father and his roommate, Daniel Stinnett, worked. Stinnett returned home from work at a fire and disaster recovery company and found his daughter in a deep sleep, according to the children’s mother, who wasn’t living with them. Because it was around the child’s nap time, Stinnett didn’t think much about it and took her to a friend’s house.

When Katelynn wouldn’t wake up, he called his mother, and they went together to the hospital. An 18-year-old accused in the death of a 2-year-old girl was officially charged with murder Friday morning.  Assault charges against Brian Crabtree, 18, were upgraded to murder after a motion by Fayette County prosecutors. Fayette District Judge Julie M. Goodman set a new bond of $250,000. Crabtree is accused of the assault, rape and sexual abuse of 2-year-old Katelynn Stinnett on Nov. 25 in a Lexington apartment off Versailles Road. She died from her injuries earlier this week. Crabtree previously pleaded not guilty to the charges.  A preliminary hearing was scheduled Friday morning, but it was postponed until Dec. 12 because a public defender had just been appointed to represent Crabtree and he had not yet discussed the case with him.
By Steve Lannen
slannen@herald-leader.com

Posted on Fri, Dec. 05, 2008

If you google her name there are over 2000 hits that come up for her. To save yourself time though you can go to www.herald-leader.com for the newspaper archives on her story.

                             Crickett Lanham -  National  Coordinator   

He is trying to pleas insanity...a lawyer friend of mine says that is Crabtree's lawyers way of trying to buy time in hopes that all the publicity dies down...boy is he ever wrong!!!...the trial judge set aside the entire month of Sept 2010 for his trial....so I'm thinking next years ride will be later in the year...

I REFUSE  TO LET HER BE  FORGOTTEN                                                                                                    

Crickett Lanham -  National  Coordinator  5/29/08