Kelsey Briggs lost her life before the age of three due to Child Abuse.It is a Tragic story but one that must be shared.Hopefully Kelsey\'s story will touch your heart and you will be willing to step up to the plate and help children who can\'t help themselves.Please Read her story below...\n\nKelsey Briggs was born in Oklahoma on December 28,2002 after her parents Lance Briggs and Raye Dawn Smith were divorced.\nAt the end of 2004 Raye Dawn Smith started dating a man named Michael Lee Porter.\nThe first reported incident of suspected child abuse regardingKelsey was made on Jan.17,2005.\nKelsey Briggs grandmother Kathie Briggs was granted custody Jan.24,2005.\nRaye Dawn Smith married Michael Lee Porter on April 18,2005.\nOn May 3,2005 Kelsey was taken out of her grandmothers care by OKDHS.\nKelsey was put in protective custody because of her leg injuries.\nAt that time Raye Dawn was having unsupervised visitation with Kelsey,sometimes in the presence of Mike Porter which went against the court order.\nDuring this time Raye and Mike had Kelsey alot more than Kathie did. \nMay 4,2005 Kelsey was moved to her maternal Grandmother Gayla Smith.\nKelsey suffered months of documented abuse,which included two CONFIRMED cases of abuse.The two instances that were Confirmed abuse were the abrasions and bruises on her bottom in January 2005,and the two spiral breaks to her legs in April 2005.June 15,2005 Judge Craig Key sent Kelsey back to her mom and stepfather.The judge stated,\"Kelsey\'s abuser was unknown.\"\nKelsey was visited by a social worker every week.\nHer biological father Lance Briggs was a soldier in Iraq he was undergoing care at a treatment facility and was in the process of checking out from his duty in \nFort Benning,Georgia.Lance was schedueled to be home within days.\nOn October 11,2005 Kelsey was murdered by her Stepfather Micheal Lee Porter.Raye Dawn and Michael Porter were the only ones around Kelsey in the hour leading up to her death.\nRaye went to pick Whitney up from school.Whitney is Mike Porter\'s Bio daughter from a previousrelationship.\nThe cause of death was blunt force trauma to the abdomen,it was ruled a Homicide.\nKelsey Briggs died just days before her father was to return.\nTwo weeks later Porter was arrested on first degee murder.\nHer mother was later charged with two felonies of Child Neglect and Enabling ChildAbuse.\nIn April of 2006 Kelsey\'s body was exhumed for a second autopsy where sexual abuse was documented.\nThe Stepfather\'s charges were amended to add the sexual abuse. \nPorter and Smith divorced after Kelsey\'s death.\nOn February 2,2007 a plea negotiation was entered and approved by the paternal family.\nThe stepfather plead guilty to a reduced charge of Enabling Child Abuse and received 30 years in prison.\nHe has no possibility of parole for 25.5 years. \nKelsey\'s mother Raye Dawn Smith went on trial July 9,2007.She has since been found guilty of enabling child abuse,she will serve 27 years inprison.Without the possibility of parole for 23 years.\nThe District Attorney Richard Smothermon says she knew,or should have known about Kelsey\'s abuse. \n\nAlot of people failed Kelsey.Remember her story the next time you think a child is being abused.Please report it,if you don\'t, that child may suffer the same fate as Kelsey.Please don\'t let that happen.\n\nA new law has been named for Kelsey in Oklahoma to prevent this type of failure in the Oklahoma State System.\n\nSong:\"Somewhere over theRainbow\"- Eva Cassidy Awareness, Kay, Original, Prevention, Shonya