Letter from Fucci's mother to judge: 'Nothing can measure the depth of despair caused by Aiden'

In the days before Aiden Fucci, 16, is to be sentenced for the 2021 stabbing death of 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey in St. Johns County, his mother Crystal Lane Smith wrote this letter to the judge.

Honorable Judge Smith,

Upon recommendation from my attorney, it is with deepest regret that I am not present to speak on behalf of my son Aiden today, The day my child is to be sentenced for the murder of another child.

As a mother, the love you have for your child is difficult to articulate to others unless they're a mother themself. To be helpless to protect your child is a mother's worst living nightmare. To cope with such a loss is unimaginable.

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I grieve for the devastating loss of Tristyn, I grieve for the subsequent arrest of my son, and I grieve for the irreparable agony inflicted on the Bailey family, as well as all other friends and families effected. Most of all, however, I grieve for Stacy Bailey as a mother.

Your Honor, nothing can measure the depth of despair caused by Aiden's crime and the inability to help your child when they need you most. From a mother pleading on behalf of the life of her adolescent son, please show my Aiden mercy; he is not beyond saving. Thank you.

Respectfully,

Crystal Smith (the actual letter showed signature by Crystal Smith)

This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Crystal Smith writes judge in case of son, Aiden Fucci in St. Johns