Re: Michael Brewer

Dear Attorney Schneider:

I write to urge you to do such as you can to see to it that the persons who attacked Michael Brewer are tried and punished as adults. The crime those five fiends committed is such as shocks even the most jaded and cynical mind.

In September, I had occasion to be in Broward County visiting my mother in law and calling upon an attorney who had done work for the Boston private bank of which I am trust counsel and senior fiduciary officer. As I drove north on A1A to my September 24 lunch meeting in Delray, neither I nor Michael Brewer had any idea that his body and his person had but 18 days to remain as God had seen fit to create it. That child didn’t know that he has soon to be set upon by The Manson Family of Deerfield Beach.

I suggest to you that the inference is irresistible that those five thugs intended not to kill Michael but to terrify, mutilate and disfigure him, leaving him alive as a constant reminder and warning to any others as to the price to be paid for crossing them. Had they wished to kill Michael, they could have obtained a gun (their kind has easy access to firearms) or a knife. Instead, they chose to commit upon Michael an unforgivable and atrocious act.

The element of premeditation to commit grievous bodily injury (indeed the abuse of a child under Florida law) is apparent from the fact that the thugs knew the injury they planned to inflict upon Michael could be made much, much worse by the use of a chemical agent. They bought or more likely stole a bottle of methyl or isopropyl alcohol and devised the plan to surround Michael, douse him with its contents, and set him alight. No one is going to believe that they found a bottle of alcohol outside the Limetree Village Apartment building.

I’ve some familiarly with the nature of burn injuries. Before I became fiduciary counsel to bank trust departments, I was with a firm that handled personal injury cases. One of those cases involved a young girl who had been severely burned in an apartment fire in Lynn, MA, just north of Boston. The girl was treated at Massachusetts General Hospital and The Shriners Burns Institute by the late John Remensnyder, MD. I recall Dr. Remensnyder’s telling us that the burn injury was the most horrific traumatic insult that the human body suffers. To this day, almost 30 years later, I recall his describing the process of “debriding”, that is, the scraping away of the outer layers of damaged skin so as to allow the process of restoration to proceed. He said that the screams from his patients were such as could wake the dead.

What those thugs did to Michael Brewer has to be punished and punished severely. As I noted above, you have a Manson Family on your hands. Look into the eyes of Denver Colorado Jarvis to see that there is no soul there…no compassion and no mercy. The Manson Family of Deerfield Beach will strike again, unless they are stopped.

If you want to get some idea of the pain these thugs intentionally visited upon Michael Brewer, try removing a slice of toast from a toaster before the heating element has cooled. If you are really daring, place a drop of rubbing alcohol in the palm of your hand and ignite it. Now image that sensation occurring over 65% of your body and imagine further a recovery process that will continue for at least 5 months, fully 1/6 of the duration of the Siege of Stalingrad during the Second World War.

Edmund Burke, the 18th century philosopher and Member of Parliament who supported the right of the United States to be independent, observed that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men (and women) do nothing. John Kennedy noted that, in this world, God’s work must truly be our own. These two notions underscore the fact that we will get the kind of society we deserve.

I realize this has been a long letter, but the matter is most grievous, most grievous. I leave with a thought I can’t get out of my head

1. these thugs planned to and did use a volatile hydrocarbon to set a child on fire

2. these thugs planned to and did use a volatile hydrocarbon to set a child on fire.

3. THESE THUGS PLANNED TO AND DID USE A VOLATILE HYDROCARBON TO SET A CHILD ON FIRE.

Charge and prosecute them as adults. We will get the kind of society we deserve.

Sincerely,

Richard E. Savoy

Cc:

Office of State Attorney
Michael J. Satz
Broward County Courthouse
201 SE 6th Street
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301-3360