A couple of months ago, in March, a 37-year-old man named Crosetti Brand was released on parole in the state of Illinois. He had been locked up on a charge of home invasion and sentenced to more than a decade in prison, but the state’s prisoner review board decided to let him out early with electronic monitoring.
What happened next was predictable. Just a day after he got out of prison, Chicago police say Crosetti attacked a pregnant woman and her 11-year-old boy, killing the child and critically injuring his mother. According to court documents, the last time he was on parole, Crosetti had threatened the same woman by text message and showed up at her home. But none of Crosetti’s criminal history, including his alleged threats, were enough to keep him in prison. And his ankle monitor apparently wasn’t much of a deterrent when he got out. Now, authorities say, a child is dead as…
