NEWARK - The tears rolled down Trashae Brown’s face as the “not guilty” verdict was read by a jury of her peers in a near-empty Newark courtroom late Tuesday afternoon.
Brown’s tears, however, were not a product of the dramatically delivered innocent verdict, but a devastated response to the lack of national media attention surrounding the trial.
Brown, who was charged with the brutal murder of her one-year old baby, Yennifer, was devastated to find out that no major news stations were airing her trial and that she had not become a national talking-point over night.
“It’s just so emotionally draining to go ahead and plan your baby’s murder, carry it out, get arrested, stand trial, and walk away innocent just to find out that no one was even paying attention in the first place,” said a somber Brown.
Brown said she conceived the idea to murder her only child in an attempt to become famous long before “that white bitch” Casey Anthony went to trial. She partially blames her race and place of residence as the reasons for her “shortcomings.”
“I had two girlfriends who killed their babies in broad daylight and got away with it, but I bet you don’t know their names either,” said Brown. “I thought I could learn from their mistakes and do things the right way. Get on TV and all that. But I guess no one cares that you killed your baby if you’re a black woman living in the inner city,” she added.
The trial, which was nearly identical to Casey Anthony’s, was seen as a “failure” in the eyes of Brown for not garnering the same attention.
“I mean, when I murdered my baby I made sure I did it so flagrantly and amateurishly that when I was pronounced innocent there would be such an uproar from the millions of people watching that I would become an instant celebrity,“ said Brown. “It’s just sad to see that it didn’t work out that way. It’s almost like my baby died in vein.”
Brown, who says she plans to “give it another shot” sometime in the next few years, is already in talks with publishers Regan Books about a hypothetically confessional novel titled, “If I Do It Again: It Won’t Be In Newark.”
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