A mother's worst nightmare-Flint mom still searching for answers one year after her baby died at daycare


By Beata Mostafavi | Flint Journal

October 11, 2009, 5:00AM

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Le'Vaughn Johnson, 23, of Flint, is reflected on a photo of her son Quale' Jelani Johnson while holding his bear-shaped urn. Authorities originally concluded Quale' died of the mysterious phenomenon Sudden Infant Death Syndrome while at a daycare in Georgia. “I’m not giving up. I’m not going to stop until there is a law that prevents this from happening to other children,” said Johnson, who still doesn’t believe she has the answers to why she lost her son.

FLINT, Michigan -- She was a new mother and it was only the second time she’d left her baby with someone else.

And it was the worst day of Le’Vaughn Johnson’s life.

She re-lives it every day: dropping the phone, honking her horn, driving through red lights, pulling in to the scene of yellow tape and an ambulance, pushing her way past the uniforms.

And the voice that left her numb: “We’ve been working on your son for 25 minutes. He’s not coming back.”  See more at http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2009/10/a_mothers_worst_nightmare-flin.html