JonBenet Ramsey's parents, John and Patsy. Source: AP
A GRAND jury voted to indict John and Patsy Ramsey, the parents of murdered beauty queen JonBenet, but prosecutors didn't press charges.
Then-District Attorney Alex Hunter refused to sign the indictment and prosecute the case because he felt that he didn't have enough evidence to prosecute the Ramseys of child abuse resulting in death beyond reasonable doubt.
In contrast to Australia, most US states will put a case before a grand jury, considered 'the voice of the community', to decide whether to indite someone for an alleged crime.
JonBenet was found bludgeoned and strangled to death in the Ramseys' basement in Boulder, Colorado on Christmas Day 1996.
John and Patsy Ramsey were exonerated of the crime in 2008, however no one has ever been convicted.
"We didn't know who did what," one of the juror's in the JonBenet case told the Daily Camera, "but we felt the adults in the house may have done something that they certainly could have prevented, or they could have helped her, and they didn't."
Bryan Morgan, the attorney who represented John Ramsey through the conclusion of the grand jury process, said the lack of evidence was clearly the reason for not pressing charges.
"If what you report actually happened, then there were some very professional and brave people in Alex's office and perhaps elsewhere whose discipline and training prevented a gross miscarriage of justice," he said.
Child abuse resulting in death is a Class II crime in the US and carries a potential sentence of between four to 48 years in jail.
Patsy Ramsey lost a battle with ovarian cancer in 2006, while John remarried fashion designer Jan Rousseaux in a private ceremony in Charlevoix, Michigan, in July 2011. The have one living child, a son Burke, who is now 26.
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