Kennedy cousin Skakel proclaims innocence
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSENBy JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN, Associated Press?
?FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2012 file photo, Michael Skakel looks up while listening to a statement from John Moxley, brother of victim Martha Moxley in court in Middletown, Conn. Skakel's first parole hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, at McDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. Officials say Skakel is eligible to be released next spring if parole officials approve it. Skakel is serving 20 years to life for fatally beating Martha Moxley with a golf club in Greenwich when they were 15-year-old neighbors. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, Pool, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2012 file photo, Michael Skakel looks up while listening to a statement from John Moxley, brother of victim Martha Moxley in court in Middletown, Conn. Skakel's first parole hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, at McDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. Officials say Skakel is eligible to be released next spring if parole officials approve it. Skakel is serving 20 years to life for fatally beating Martha Moxley with a golf club in Greenwich when they were 15-year-old neighbors. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, Pool, File)
This image released by his attorney shows a 2011 painting titled, "Hopi Clown," made by Michael Skakel while incarcerated at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, Conn. Skakel is serving 20 years to life for beating Martha Moxley to death with a golf club in 1975 in Greenwich, Conn., when they were 15. Skakel will get his first parole hearing Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 at the prison to determine whether he should be released. (AP Photo/Michael Skakel)
This image released by his attorney shows an undated painting titled, "Going Home," made by Michael Skakel while incarcerated at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, Conn. Skakel is serving 20 years to life for beating Martha Moxley to death with a golf club in 1975 in Greenwich, Conn., when they were 15. Skakel will get his first parole hearing Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 at the prison to determine whether he should be released. (AP Photo/Michael Skakel)
This image released by his attorney shows a 2009 painting of a lobster made by Michael Skakel while incarcerated at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, Conn. Skakel is serving 20 years to life for beating Martha Moxley to death with a golf club in 1975 in Greenwich, Conn., when they were 15. Skakel will get his first parole hearing Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 at the prison to determine whether he should be released. (AP Photo/Michael Skakel)
This image released by his attorney shows a 2008 painting titled, "Faith," made by Michael Skakel while incarcerated at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, Conn. Skakel is serving 20 years to life for beating Martha Moxley to death with a golf club in 1975 in Greenwich, Conn., when they were 15. Skakel will get his first parole hearing Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 at the prison to determine whether he should be released. (AP Photo/Michael Skakel)
SUFFIELD, Conn. (AP) ? The mother of a 15-year-old girl killed in 1975 is asking a Connecticut parole board to deny a request from the Kennedy cousin convicted of the crime to be released early from prison.
Dorthy Moxley says Michael Skakel should serve at least 20 years in prison after he was convicted of fatally beating Martha Moxley with a golf club in Greenwich.
She said at the hearing Wednesday at McDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield that it is the worst thing in the world to lose a child.
It is the first parole hearing since Skakel was convicted in 2002. He is serving 20 years to life in prison. On Wednesday he once again proclaimed his innocence to the parole board, saying "I did not commit this crime."
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