'The medical examiner's report shows that the boy was badly beaten,' Borton said. The Corcoran boy died in Derry Home Hospital of reported 'accidental causes' on May 31st of last year. Macklin, of 73 Charter Street, had been arrested and charged with the murder of his stepson, Dorsey Corcoran. He loved to color the Mr Do posters - that was what he liked best - and now I'm so glad I was able to help him have a little happiness that day.Īsked if the doctors who treated the Corcoran boy might have been derelict in their duty when it came to reporting either an incidence of child abuse or the actual cause of death, Borton said, 'They will have serious questions to answer when Mr Macklin comes to trial.'Ĭhief Richard Borton of the Derry Police called a news conference yesterday to announce that Richard P. ![]() He really wanted to color his poster like the other children, so I gave him some baby aspirin and let him color while the others were having Story Time. I felt like crying, looking at his poor, dear fingers. "Daddy had to take me up 'cause I'm bad" was the way he put it. ![]() Macklin) had bent his fingers back because he had walked across a floor his mother had just washed and waxed. When I asked Dorsey what happened, he said that his father (stepfather Richard P. ![]() The fingers were swelled up like sausages. 'It was hurting him enough so that the poor little guy couldn't color his Mr Do safety poster,' the teacher said. Asked for an opinion on how these developments might bear on the recent disappearance of Dorsey Corcoran's older brother, Edward, reported missing by Richard and Monica Macklin four days ago, Chief Borton answered: 'I think it looks much more serious than we first supposed, don't you?'Īsked if the attitude in the Derry school system remained the same now, Mrs Dumont said, 'Well, what does it look like, in light of this current situation? And I might add that I would not be speaking to you now if I hadn't retired at the end of this school year.'Ī local nursery-school teacher who declined to be identified told a News reporter yesterday that young Dorsey Corcoran came to his twice-weekly nursery-school class with bad sprains of his right thumb and three fingers of his right hand less than a week before his death in a purported garage accident.
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