Have you seen this man?
His name is Michael Stoner. He’s the 26-year-old guy with the neck brace, felony record and bad hair.
The woman sitting next to him is his fiance, 21-year-old Crystal Manning.
That is a picture taken from one of their interviews after the I-35W bridge collapsed. Their encounter with gravity made national news, after it was reported that they were driving to visit their comatose child over the bridge to a Children’s Hospital as the bridge collapsed.
Their vehicle splashed down into the river, overturned and sank, but they were able to swim away.
Ok, how about this man? Have you seen this man?
No neck brace, but he’s still got the hair.
He also has a brand-spanking-new charge of felony child abuse.
Apparently Michael Stoner lied a little tiny bit about the reason 2-year-old Emmaline Manning was having seizures. He said that she had fallen down the stairs.
The real reason, according to doctors treating the child, is that someone, (Michael Stoner) possibly someone she was living with, (Michael Stoner) picked her up and shook her like a rag doll, (Michael Stoner) inflicting possibly fatal injuries to the little girl’s brain. (Michael Stoner)
Stoner, realizing that he had really messed this kid up, drove her to the cafe where her mother was working. Picking up mommy, they all drove to a local hospital, who airlifted the child to Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.
As the couple was speeding heroically over the bridge towards the Children’s hospital, the bridge collapsed, dumping their Jeep into the drink.
Hey, at least that part was true.
Stoner, being the only person who had been with Emmaline Manning throughout the day, was arrested after doctors notified authorities about the true nature of the little girl’s injuries, which are quite extensive.
Apparently her brain has been injured severely in such a way that it could not have been caused by falling down stairs. Doctors had to remove half of the girl’s skull to manage the swelling.
In addition, one of her legs had a long, large burn. She also has bite marks on her body that are definitely human.
It is entirely possible that Emmaline Manning could die. Her condition has been downgraded from critical to grave.
It is also entirely possible that Michael Stoner will be charged with murder if she doesn’t make it.
Considering there were both old and new bruises on the girl, her mother could be charged with something as well.
Time will tell.
Update:
On the 29th of July, 2008, Michael Stoner entered a no contest plea to his charge of second-degree reckless endangerment and obstructing an officer.
According to District Attorney Michael Bitney, who made a statement after the plea was announced:
Extensive negotiations were able to result in a plea agreement where there’s at least some acknowledgment on his part that these injuries were caused by other than accidental means.
According to Michael Stoner, his no contest plea to felony charges that he recklessly endangered his fiancée’s daughter does not mean he hurt the girl:
I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place on this situation. I don’t feel that any of these proceedings have been fair at all. I don’t think the truth has been told.
Prosecutors are frustrated with the no contest plea, claiming that Michael Stoner has been lying the entire time about how Emma Manning was hurt. Michael Stoner was alone with the toddler on the day that she was hurt and claimed that she fell down a flight of stairs. Emma Manning was comatose when she arrived at the hospital - unresponsive with a blown pupil, bruises, and massive head trauma. According to medical experts, her injuries were too severe for that explanation:
There’s no way these injuries could have been caused by a fall down the stairs.
Unfortunately, since Stoner’s story never wavered, investigators say their case was tough to prove:
Our witness is a 2 year old child who’s severely mentally handicapped. She’s our only witness, and she can’t tell us what happened to her.
Police believe Stoner not only hurt the girl, but also failed to help her. According to police timelines, Michael Stoner waited to call a doctor, passed two hospitals before taking Emma to the emergency room, then later lied to detectives - all things that delayed her treatment and made her condition worse:
These are lifelong injuries that she’ll have to suffer. She’ll have significant injuries for her life. It’s a life sentence for this little girl. A lot less than what Mr. Stoner is facing.
Michael Stoner’s sentence could be for a prison term of no more than 13 years. PYSIH.com has been unable to uncover his sentencing date.
Several friends and relatives of Michael Stoner have crawled out from the woodwork, making statements online about how Michael is innocent:
As i sit here and read these comments about the terrible things people wish on Mike it disgusts me. I have known him all my life and he did not do anything wrong! If you have the stoner name around this area you will never get a fair trial and the authorities are gunning for you.. Ive seen it happen just not to Mike but other members of the family. So you sit there in your homes and offices and make you judgements, your assumptions, and your evil wishes on am innocent man. I know the truth and for people to pass judgement without knowing a person is just plain ignorant and just shows to me that the world is filled with ignorance and selfishnes. So to all that pass these judgements think before you say things it just makes you look stupid!
YOU SMALL MINDED PEOPLE SIT IN JUDGEMENT DONT YOU KNOW THERE IS ONLY ONE JUDGE AND HE WAS THE ONE THAT PULLED MIKE AND EMMAS MOTHER OUT OF THAT RIVER. HE IS THE ONLY JUDGE SO BE CAREFUL ON WHAT YOU SAY BECAUSE YOU TO WILL BE JUDGED IN THE END!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok what is it you people need to know about This situation.. No one wants to hear about an innocent man and his love for emma and crystal. I was there at the last court appearance and i watched a family being torn apart because of yes the stoner name and through out the family history of the family i have watched the legal system railroad members of it right into no other choice but to plead guilty because they would nopt stand a fair trial in washburn county!
why can’t you leave this young man Mike Stoner alone he is our blood and we love him he did nothing wrong were you there I think not what do you know nothing we do he has servred his time and then some back off while your ahead and leave this family alone and for Boknowslife you know so much you must be related to us and in denial maybe you should check your family tree geta life or dig for who you really are
why can’t you All get a life you were not there we know our family we are very close were you there do you have proff of anything
No, I suppose we don’t have any proff of anything.
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Well, Holy Cow. It could very well be that the universe imploded a little bit that fateful day and was just trying to give Stoner his due while he was crossing that bridge. It could be that innocent people died while being cuaght up in the dragnet of fate, the karma that was chasing Stoner. Will we ever really know?
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There was a story I read once (or imagined once) where there was this guy who started to have an incredible run of luck. He won at casinos, he won lotteries, he saved some woman’s life who turned out to be a movie star and they fell in love.
He retired and wandered the world, spending freely. Eventually he found himself in some monastery in Tibet, where he told the head monk about his run of luck and the good that had come of it.
The head monk told him that for every mildly lucky man, there are 10 who suffer from mildly bad luck. The more lucky a man is, the more other people have to suffer for it.
Because this guy had so much luck, the cosmic balance had to put the smackdown on a small nation he’d never heard of. Floods, tidal waves, earthquakes.
That’s what I think of whenever I think of karma.
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I’m from Mr. Stoner’s hometown and I’m ashamed. Ashamed that this family (both) and people around the area could visible see the bruises on this babies body and yet, no one did a frickin thing. TALK people! This little girl could be alive and well if just someone would have said something. Shame on the mom for not noticing. I have two children and just by looking at Mike SToner, he wouldn’t be allowed two feet near my kids. Regardless if this child survives, he needs to be locked up for good. Her life is ruined because of an ass like him. The world does not need him, get rid of him. Let him go to jail and get the crap beat out of him. I hope his retinas become detached and that he is put on life support.
If I was part of his family, i certainly would not be on tv defending this freak. It’s very obvious that he did this, there’s no denying it. Why should ANYONE stick up for him. This little baby, this poor baby, should have NEVER been left alone with him. HE’s not even the dad! I hope he suffers for the rest of his life. And again, his family and her family should be ashamed of themselves.
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i totally agree with you lynn!!!
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really though, why do people defend these monsters constantly???
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Updated with plea deal, with comments from prosecutor, with comments from Michael Stoner’s family and friends.
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Hey that comment about how im going to be judged, ALL WRITTEN IN CAPIATLS has me shaking in my boots. Im sure i will be judged. I used to smoke, i drink to much wine, ive smoked the odd joint…i swear too much and i dont always get to church on Sunday…man i am in real deep shit here.
I guess i can feel good though that none of my five children are brain damaged from my mistakes.
The scum bag deserves a hell of a lot more than the “possible 13 years” he’s looking at.
Oh and Lynn, as i was reading your comment i wondered if YOU had spoken to or called the revelant authorities about the bruises you saw on this child?
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Wow, I didn’t know the Minnesota courts unfairly prosecute people because of the ‘Stoner’ last name.
The rest of the country uses skin color as a basis for unfair prosecution. The Minnesota method seems much more efficient.
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Amy reply on September 22nd, 2008:
Ive heard the same excuse from other families…they claim that the police try to set them up and will do anything to get them off the streets.
I know of a family…ill call them the B family. Anyway the B family sing the same song as the Stoner family. That anyone with the B last name is a target for the police. Im not surprised though, as two of the sons in this family have been tried and convicted of rape and the other son has been tried and convicted of molesting his daughter. The girls in the family rate a mention too, with the oldest having been to jail for social security fraud and the youngest being a known drug dealer. And then they wonder why the police are “out to get them.”
I should bloody well hope the police are out to get them. God knows i dont want people like that living next door to me.
Im guessing the same can be said for the Stoner family.
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if he is so damn innocent why is he taking the plea bargain and pleading no contest to te charges??? Take it to trial and then so or is he afraid he is going to get life in prison or better yet the death penalty?? Byt he way i trully believe in Karma, so he should be shaken until his retna detachs and massive swelling of the brain, but yet he MIGHT get 13 years thats a crock of shit!!!
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