Police turned their attention to 30-year-old Aipperspach, Mikey’s babysitter, who was hired to take care of him in her West Fargo apartment. The cruelty is magnified that this child was utterly incapable of defending himself,” court documents stated. Contributed / Newspapers.com‘He went through hell’Aipperspach showed “limited remorse,” and offered explanations that were inconsistent with physical evidence, court documents stated. Heather Harlow, left, and her mother, Lois Hofstrand, grandmother of Mikey Harlow, react when the jury verdict was read in 2001. He will carry on his body until the day he is finally laid to rest the scars of the defendant’s rage,” court documents stated.