Why would it take almost 40 years for a woman who murdered 3 babies to be charged?

Someone really botched this all those years ago.

Daughter surprised mom not arrested sooner in baby deaths

MILWAUKEE (AP) - A woman who told police her mother confessed to killing her 18-day-old brother nearly four decades ago says she’s shocked investigators didn’t make an arrest in the 1980s, after the deaths of two more infants in her care.

Ami Brunka told The Associated Press that the three murder charges Milwaukee prosecutors filed Friday against her mother, Nancy Moronez, should have come much earlier.

“I don’t understand why they couldn’t figure that out. One, two, three, I mean, come on,” Brunka said. “I mean I’m not a rocket scientist, but wow.”

Officials with the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office, which performed autopsies on all three infants decades ago, mistakenly ruled the deaths resulted from sudden infant death syndrome. But authorities haven’t explained why investigators didn’t grow suspicious of Moronez after the second child — and then a third — were found dead.

“That’s a good question,” said Sgt. Jeremy Fadness of the Franklin Police Department, which led a new investigation after Brunka’s tip.
“I think based on the information they had at the time they did the best they could with what they had in front of them.”

He noted the death of Moronez’s son took place in Franklin, a Milwaukee suburb of about 36,000, while the other two occurred in Milwaukee. He said the two police departments apparently didn’t compare notes.

A Milwaukee Police Department spokeswoman declined comment.

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