The two ACS workers charged with criminally-negligent homicide for the death of a tortured 4-year-old Brooklyn girl will receive no-jail plea deals Tuesday, one of their lawyers said.
Caseworker Damon Adams, 39, was charged with failing to make all of the mandated biweekly visits to the Bedford-Stuyvesant home of Marchella Brett-Pierce before the tot’s horrific 2010 death and then doctoring his reports afterward to make it appear as if he had, while supervisor Chereece Bell, 37, was charged with failing to monitor his work.
Adams will get a deal in which he’ll plead guilty to misdemeanors and perform 500 hours of community service, said defense attorney Anthony Grandinette.
“We’re accepting the deal,” said Grandinette.
Bell was offered a similar deal but will only have to perform 300 hours of community service.
The case against Adams and Bell was historic because it is the first time ACS workers were charged with the death of a child.
Pierce was starved, force-fed cold-medication pills, bound and beaten to death by her mother, Carlotta Brett-Pierce, in the family’s apartment.
Carlotta was convicted of murder and sentenced to 32 years to life behind bars.
A Brooklyn grand jury slammed ACS for ignoring repeated recommendations to improve its practices – and letting children die – in a report released at an October pretrial hearing for Adams and Bell.