I crawled out of bed this morning and sat down in front of my computer to check my emails like I do every morning. It was gloomy looking outside and something told me before I opened the first one that today was not going to be a good day. And once I looked over my emails it only confirmed my thoughts.

I had an email from one of our concerned readers pointing out to me a link of a case in Texas that she thought I would like to hear about, and she was right. I stand corrected, I didn’t want to hear about it but I needed to know about it even though it made me sick on my stomach when I read it.

It was an article from The Houston Chronicle about a little 3 year old child that only weighs 17 pounds. This sweet innocent child is literally fighting for his life right now. In the introduction to the article it states:

Now doctors are introducing him to what’s been missing most in his short life: food.

I cried then and I have to admit I am crying now. I can’t imagine this poor little boy and the pure hell this child has been going through and yet he continues to fight to live.

Three year old Kayvon Lewis was admitted into the hospital last month where doctors say he was extremely malnourished, dehydrated and at risk for heart failure and liver damage. This little boy can’t walk and he can’t even talk. He is blind and suffers from seizures at times as much as five times a day.

Kayvon mother, 30 year old Marcia Holliday is now in jail and she has been charged with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury by omission which is a first degree felony. Authorities say the mother was literally starving the boy to death which is a form of abuse that doctors don’t see very often.

It is reported that the mother brought Kayvon to the Memorial Hermann Children’s Hospital on October 15th. She told the doctors there that her son was not eating or drinking and he had not wet his diaper all day. She mentioned nothing about the child being so underweight or that he wasn’t able to do any of the things a normal child his age normally can do, like walk or talk.

A medical examiner that checked the child out said Kayvon couldn’t walk, crawl, sit up without support, pass objects between hands, say mama or dada, wave bye bye and he doesn’t orient to voice. A CPS caseworker said, “Kayvon T. Lewis’s nutritional level was 9.2 when a normal level is 45 and a low level is 18.”

Doctors claim that even though they found that Kayvon had seizures, scoliosis, and asthma underlying health problems, none of the conditions could be responsible for his starved state. The report says that the only reasonable explanation for his starvation is physical neglect.

OK so the mother can be blamed for this clearly as she was the responsible one for her son. But as I read more on the report I got really upset. The CPS had received a complaint which they investigated first in January 2008. They did find Kayvon’s mother intoxicated on drugs and the child appeared to be a failure to thrive child. They ordered sessions with a state dietitian and physical therapy for him. No one noticed anything about the abnormal size he was for his age. They didn’t find anything to say he was in enough danger that he should be taken from his home according to the court documents.

The case remained open though and on March 27, 2008 they found after taking a drug test that the mother tested positive for marijuana yet she promised to enroll in a series of early childhood intervention classes so they left the boy in her custody and on April 1, 2008 they closed the case.

The next month Kayvon was taken to Dr. Niala Siddiqi just before he turned 2 years old and he weighed 18 pounds and 6 ounces. By August 28, 2009 instead of gaining weight the poor boy had lost more than a pound. According to one of the doctors that examined Kayvon, any child who maintained such a low weight for more than half of his life should have been a red flag alert that he was suffering from starvation.

Holliday of course denies starving her son. “Everything they say (CPS) is a lie. He wasn’t eating or drinking,” she said. “He has a lot of problems going on.

Since he has been in the hospital his liquid intake is monitored closely. They say at this point too much food can overwhelm the underdeveloped organs in his little body. Dr. Rebecca Giradet, an associate professor at the medical school and staff physician at Memorial Hermann, said, “Since their bodies have not been seeing normal quantities of fats and carbohydrates, their bodily functions kind of shut down. It’s very dangerous to suddenly feed a starved child normal food. They can go into liver failure, heart arrhythmia. The pancreas does not make insulin anymore. All those functions are not working.”

They had to place a white mesh glove on his left hand because he has starved for so long that he had started sucking his thumb and he did it so much that he had it raw and a sore had formed on it.

Amazingly Kayvon wasn’t the only child at home. He also had a 5 year old sister and a 6 year old brother and neither of them showed any signs of starvation or of abuse, thankfully. They are both are in foster care right now.

A doctor said that Kayvon is now out of intensive care but he still hasn’t been given solid food, not even Crackers or Cheerios. My kids were eating vanilla wafer cookies before they were even a year old. I feel so sorry for this little boy.

Please remember little Kayvon Lewis in your prayers. Somehow this child has got a will to survive. If not he would have passed away a long time ago. Maybe our prayers can give him the strength he actually needs to continue fighting and he will eventually be able to go on living and perhaps look back at what has happened to him and say he knew he could beat this. My prayers are with him.

I know this is a different kind of abuse we here at BNN have been writing about but nevertheless this is still a child in need. A poor helpless child that somehow by the Grace of God is still hanging on to live. So I think it is proper to add his name to my list of children to pray for. Would you please join me? Here is my list: Caylee Anthony (found dead), Adji Desir (remains missing), Haleigh Cummings (remains missing), Somer Thompson (found dead), Elizabeth Olten (found dead) , Masaraha Ross (remains missing), Alex Mercado (drowned) Rebecca Marie Allen (found alive), Sandra Cantu (found dead), Anthony Holland (found alive), Shaniya Davis (found dead), Hassani Campbell (remains missing), Giovanni Gonzalez (reported dead), Neveah Buchanen ( found dead) and Shannon Dedrick (found alive), Angel Miguel Perez (found safe) Luis Martinez (found dead) Luke Finch (still missing) and Kayvon Lewis (fighting for his life).

Jan Barrett

As a favor to our readers I am posting these web sites. Please consider signing these petitions. Something has got to be done to protect the future of the world which is our children:

Stop the abuse and murder of the children in the U.S.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/16/stop-the-abuse-and-murder-of-the-children-in-the-us

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Article from The Guardian (UK) by Theresa Gannon

To protect children against female sexual abusers, society must change its mindset to accept that this is not a male-only crime.

The rise in the number of children identifying a female as their sexual abuser is worrying.* (ChildLine Casenotes: What boys talk about to ChildLine) However, it is not surprising.

As a professional working with both male and female sexual abusers, I have often been faced with male sexual abusers who report having been sexually abused by a female when they were children. Yet there are very few women in prison for sexual offences against children. So where are all the female sexual abusers?

Historically it has been hard for society to accept that women abuse children: we believe women are nurturers. Because society has got stuck in the mindset that only men abuse children, victims of female abusers fear telling anyone in case they are disbelieved. Boys, in particular, appear reluctant to tell others that they are being abused by a woman.

The figures released by the NSPCC challenge the idea that sexual abuse is a male-perpetrated crime. Female sexual abuse has begun to receive more attention in society as the result of several recent high-profile cases – such as that of the nursery worker Vanessa George.

Despite the increase in the number of children identifying a female as their sexual abuser, very few children have officially reported this abuse. Where, then, do we go from here? Are we doing all we can to protect and safeguard children from sexual abuse? What should we be watching out for?

Recently I interviewed convicted female sexual abusers in England to understand more about how they abuse children. The results shed some light on how we can further protect children.

First, like male sexual abusers, all women who abused children knew their victims well. However, unlike their male counterparts, female abusers tended to offend alongside a man – in fact, well over half did.

Being female also seemed to have advantages for keeping the victim “quiet”. Sometimes women used the very fact they were female to dissuade the victim from “telling” (“who would believe you?”). What can we take from this?

The first step towards protecting children from abuse is to be aware of the various forms it can take. It would be a sad state of affairs if we felt unable to trust anyone with our children, but we should not accept that they are automatically safeguarded from abuse just because a female is present. . Parents should remain vigilant.

We may already tell children they shouldn’t “keep secrets” with adult males. Children may also be told to report any inappropriate touching from males. But are children aware that an abuser may be female? Are we taking the trouble to make it clear to children that women may also touch inappropriately and ask children to “keep secrets”? I am not suggesting we become hyper-vigilant to the point of ridiculousness. But it is our responsibility to ensure that we protect children from all types of sexual abuse.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/10/female-sexual-abusers-children

18-Year-Old Joy Gutowski Faces 12 to 15 Years

Gutowski claimed that the baby fell off of the couch when she left it alone in the room for a moment, and landed on its head.

Doctors at Manistee’s West Shore Medical Center reported to Sheriff’s deputies that the child’s injuries, including a skull fracture and bleeding on the brain, were consistent with injuries caused by shaking an infant. The child was transported to the DeVos Children’s Hospital, where a team of specialists performed a second exam and came to the same conclusion.

Allegedly Abusive Mother Loses Custody

The infant, now 5 months old, remains in foster care in the Grand Rapids area. The prosecution reports that he is alive and “recovering.” Gutowski is also the mother of a 1 1/2 year old son, who has also been removed from her custody. The father of the children, 21-year-old Steven Boss of Manistee, is not currently being charged.

Child abuse experts say that the effects of shaking a baby may not be immediate. The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome indicates that while the most sever injuries cause by shaking infants may be noticed immediately, lesser injuries may go unreported and undiagnosed for weeks or months, if noticed at all. The long-term effects of this head trauma can be permanent, taking a toll on motor skills, reflexes, language skills, and more.

While Gutowski maintains that the baby did, indeed fall off of the couch that day, reports from the prosecution indicate that she has admitted to shaking the baby on at least two occasions because he would not stop crying. This on-the-record admission by Gutowski means that the prosecution will likely have an easy time getting a conviction.

If convicted, the felony charges could send Gutowski to prison for as much as 15 years. A preliminary hearing is set for November 25th.

November 17th 2009

Article from The Daily Mail (UK)

It seems unthinkable, but ChildLine says calls from boys abused by women have doubled in a year. This deeply disturbing investigation reveals the terrible impact of a crime that society has never dared to confront.

Bill Jenkins’s memories of the childhood abuse he suffered are as sharp as the pain that accompanies them.

He remembers the diamond pattern on the linoleum bathroom floor tiles, the Moby Dick mural on the wall, the door handle which seemed so high up next to his six-year-old frame.

He vividly remembers, too, how he was expected to bath and touch his naked abuser, an ordeal which left him confused and ashamed, and changed the course of his life. ‘The vision in my head is crystal clear,’ he says.

What took place in the bathroom of that house in Sussex 50 years ago is shocking enough, but what makes it even harder to comprehend is that Bill’s abuser was his foster mother – a woman entrusted with caring for him when his own parents couldn’t.

‘My lasting feelings about my childhood are feelings of fear,’ says the 55-year-old from Thorpe in Surrey.

‘I was always frightened of her and what she forced me to endure affected the rest of my life, but as a society we have a mental block about female abusers. We are shocked when we see it happens. We can’t believe that women are capable of such things.’

But the stereotypical belief that sex abuse is a male crime was shattered last week by an astonishing report from ChildLine which revealed that the number of children reporting sexual abuse by women has doubled over the past year.

The latest figures from the children’s telephone helpline show a 132 per cent rise in complaints of female sexual assaults. Where the children specified the gender of their abuser, nearly a quarter of all calls involved women assailants and the majority of those involved the callers’ own mothers.

And while girls are still more likely to be sexually abused by a man than a woman, the opposite is true for boys. Research for the helpline found that boys were more likely to say they had been abused by a woman than by a man.

‘This report has shattered common myths about sexual abuse,’ says ChildLine founder and president Esther Rantzen.

‘We’re trying to reach out to boys because we’ve always been concerned about two things: one is that four times as many girls were ringing ChildLine as boys, and the other is that suicide is the most common reason for young death among late teenage boys and early 20s young men.

‘The obvious conclusion is that they are allowing really distressing problems to build up without actually being able to ask for help.

‘So it became very important to ChildLine that boys felt able to ring us – and more of them are. But what it’s revealing is how many of them are being sexually abused by women.’

Historically, of course, it has been hard for society to accept that women abuse children at all. This is something which, according to Bill Jenkins, makes it even harder for boys to come forward and speak about what happened to them.

‘What chap, regardless of age, wants to admit his abuser is a woman?’ he says. ‘It’s not something that men will readily admit to. It implies you are a wimp.’

This emotional conflict is echoed by the voices of more recent victims, desperate boys and young teenagers who turn to ChildLine for help. Many of them fear being seen as unmasculine and worry that what is happening to them will be dismissed as a teenage rite of passage.

‘I’ve been having sex with my aunt – she’s 28,’ says one 15-year-old caller, in a harrowing transcript of his call. ‘I want it to stop ‘cos I know it’s wrong and my mother would go crazy if she knew but we keep doing it.’

And another 15-year-old: ‘Sometimes when Mum is very drunk she touches me and tries to get me to touch her. It makes me feel really weird. It’s not right.’

Following the case of Vanessa George, who pleaded guilty last month to seven counts of sexual abuse and distributing pornographic pictures of children at the nursery where she worked, the traditionally-held image of women as carers and nurturers, incapable of behaving in such a despicable fashion with a child, is being challenged as never before.

‘Years ago, people were very shocked to hear that children were abused at all,’ says child psychotherapist Diana Cant, who works with the victims of female sex abuse.

‘The same is now true about female sex abuse. People can hardly bear to think about it or get their minds around it. We want to push it away. It flies in the face of the image of mothers as carers.

‘It’s important for people to realise that it does happen and, as we do that, it becomes easier for survivors to talk about it. Many children go through life believing they are the only people to whom this has happened. There’s an enormous therapeutic benefit in realising that they are not alone.

‘For it to be more publicly recognised is enormously important in helping people get help.’

Experts have known for years that women are just as able to abuse children as men are. Detective Chief Inspector Graham Hill, of the Child Exploitation And Online Protection Centre in London (CEOP), has interviewed several female sex abusers.

‘There’s this cultural perception of women as the home-makers, and that men are the sexually aggressive ones,’ he explains.

‘Society as a whole has bought into that and the law has been shaped around that. The reality is very different. But those attitudes are ingrained.

‘When you start to talk about this subject, people tend to not want to know. They shut off because it’s a subject they don’t think is very common. They don’t think it’s something that warrants serious debate. As such, women tend to fly under the law enforcement radar.’

Yet DCI Hill insists ‘ChildLine’s findings are very much in line with our own’.

He adds: ‘We come into contact with lots of female sex offenders and we know that there are a number of women who have a sexual interest in children and that they do sexually abuse children. The idea that’s it’s always a woman being coerced by a man is a myth.

‘Although the number of female sex abusers is still very low compared to men, their offences tend to be of a more serious nature – at the top end of the spectrum.

‘At the same time, women abusers are far more likely to operate alone as opposed to being part of large-scale paedophile networks.

‘Their offending tends to start earlier in life in childhood. It’s not usually of a violent nature. They will start as children with other children.

‘Many female offenders we have spoken to are claiming they were victims of long-term physical and sexual abuse in childhood. But that’s quite a common claim for all sex offenders to make.

‘We don’t see large-scale networks with loads of women,’ says DCI Hill. ‘We see lots of men and sometimes a smattering of women who become involved.’

Disturbingly, he adds: ‘The majority of women we speak to will have abused their own children. Women tend to sexually abuse children who are close to them.’

This makes reporting such crimes even more difficult for child victims, who know that by doing so they may be kick-starting a process which will ultimate tear apart their family and, in all likelihood, see them being put into the care system.

‘If you are being sexually abused by your mother, there’s such a profound and primitive confusion,’ says Diana Cant. ‘It completely confuses sex and care-giving for both boys and girls.

‘They stand to lose everything and they fear that, if they report it, everything they know, their family, will be taken away.

‘And it’s not just their lives, it’s the lives of their siblings. There is also the issue that while one child may feel ready to disclose abuse, their brothers or sisters may not and may deny it, so there’s guilt and confusion there.’

Peter Bradley, an adolescent psychotherapist from the children’s protection charity Kidscape, adds: ‘The last thing a child wants is to be taken away from their mother – even if they’re in an abusive relationship.

‘That’s a huge obstacle when it comes to turning to any kind of authority for help. The message we need to give is that the intervention will be appropriate to the level of abuse and in conjunction with the child.’

And when youngsters do summon the courage to talk about it, the devastation caused by such abuse becomes clear.

Bill Jenkins, who channelled his anger about his own experiences into setting up Securus, a company selling internet protection software for schools and businesses, admits the abuse he suffered as a child had enormous implications in adulthood.

‘I didn’t realise for a long time that by instinct I was a woman hater, because my experience of this woman meant that I thought women were just to be used for sex,’ he says.

‘In my early years, that was it. I got married and had two children, but I couldn’t understand that a large part of marriage is based on friendship. I was never able to give myself totally to my wife. I always held back.’

Bill’s first marriage broke up and he has been married to his second wife for 20 years. ‘I was very open with her from the start,’ he says. ‘But even so, even being aware of that, I find it hard to give myself totally.’

He lives with the memory every day, but adds: ‘Being able to confront your demons is important. That’s the only way to put them behind you. I can’t change what went on, but accepting it helps you cope.

‘The past loses its power over you. I am happy to talk about it now because it helps me and I hope it helps others to seek help.’

It has been discovered that a large percentage of female child abusers abuse their own children

The true scale of the problem is as yet unclear. It is thought that high-profile media cases – such as that of Vanessa George – encourage victims to speak out.

‘When the public hears a story being told they feel they’re not alone, and because they feel less isolated they feel more able to talk about something which is a hugely taboo topic,’ says Peter Bradley.

‘We are not saying the number of offences of female sexual abuse are necessarily increasing, but that the number of reported cases have increased.’

Pointing out that the Vanessa George story really hit the headlines last month, Mr Bradley adds: ‘We’re sure that in this next 12 months the numbers of children reporting abuse by females will increase dramatically.

‘We are just at the tip of the iceberg.’ And while organisations such as ChildLine, which receives twice as many calls from girls as it does from boys, continue to try to encourage boys to speak out, experts are also agreed that more research is essential to protect children and understand what leads women to abuse in the first place.

According to DCI Hill: ‘We are sadly lacking in research in relation to female offenders. Only now, as more women are charged and are subject to sexual offenders’ treatment programmes and to academic research, will we start to understand the subtle differences between male and female offenders.

‘But that is still five or ten years away. What we are saying is that the debate needs to be out there. We need to talk openly about female offenders.’

No doubt many will still struggle with the idea that women are capable of such despicable behaviour.

But until attitudes change it is also clear that female abusers will continue to hide behind the benign image of mother, aunt or family friend and that this tiny minority of wrongdoers will escape notice.

This is an extract from a letter written by Tony, an adult struggling to come to terms with the abuse he suffered at the hands of his aunt from the age of three.

‘I know that the experts say that female sexual abuse is rare,’ he writes. ‘Don’t believe it. There are many out there like me who were abused and who are now causing more abuse.

‘I sometimes wonder how different my life might have been had my mother or someone else listened to the pain of a small boy.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1228366/I-abused-woman-haunts-day.html

A mum who left her four young children home alone while she went off partying has been given a suspended prison sentence.

Rebecca Stevenson, 22, from Blackburn, Lancashire, reportedly abandoned her two sons and two daughters, aged from just three months to four years, in July this year.

She admitted child cruelty at Preston Crown Court and was jailed for 20 weeks, suspended for two years.

Frankly I can’t believe she got off so lightly.

It was “merciful good luck” that none of the children were seriously injured, the court heard.

Stevenson reportedly put her kids to bed at 9.30pm and then drank a bottle of wine before friends came round when she drank cider and took cocaine.

Then she decided to go off to a house party, and carried on drinking throughout the rest of the next day at pubs before going home at 10.30pm.

Fortunately the children were discovered at 10am that day when Stevenson’s stepfather went to the house.

According to the BBC, the eldest daughter was leaning out of the lounge window and had been crying.

The one-year-old boy was “hysterical” in his cot upstairs and was soaked in urine, while the three-month-old boy was covered in sick in his cot.

The eldest daughter, who was just four, had tried to feed the baby by climbing on chairs to try to reach his milk.

The BBC says Judge Norman Wright told Stevenson: “We have all seen and been amused by Hollywood’s Home Alone, of a much older child, but the consequences of children as young as these being left to fend for themselves are too dreadful to think about.

“They were left to fend for themselves because you had decided to go out for your own personal gratification, drinking and taking drugs.”

Stevenson’s lawyer said the young mother was “under a great deal of stress” and had been depressed because of the break-up of her relationship.

The children now live with their grandparents.

I know a lot of 22-year-olds go out on drink and drug binges, but if that’s what she wanted to do, why did she have four children?

Do you think this was a harsh enough sentence for this woman?

Source: BBC

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A Palatine, Illinois woman has been charged with secretly taking videos of a 14-year-old girl in a bathroom and sending them to a teenage boy the woman met on the Internet, authorities said today.

Mary Cordes, 45, of the 1900 block of North Cambridge Court, was charged with one count of manufacture of child pornography and one count of distribution of child pornography at a hearing in Rolling Meadows branch court.

Bond was set at $30,000. Judge Joseph Urso ordered Cordes not to have contact with the girl.

Cordes met the 16-year-old boy on the Internet and exchanged sexually explicit messages, authorities said. The woman told the boy about the 14-year-old and he asked her to send him naked pictures of the girl, said Cook County Assistant State’s Atty. Shilpa Patel.

Cordes placed a small video camera contained in a pen in the bathroom of her residence and secretly obtained videos of the girl partly undressed, Patel said.

According to Palatine police, Cordes took the video images on a flash drive to work, where she downloaded them to a computer to edit them. She asked a co-worker to help her and the co-worker reported the images to a supervisor. Cordes was immediately fired, said Kurt Schroeder, Palatine police commander.

Cordes is accused of e-mailing the videos to the teenager, Patel said.

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/11/palatine-child-pornography-rolling-meadows-cook-mary-cordes-michehl.html

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Mary-Cordes-Michehl-palatine-child-porn-68937237.html

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=333942

A Tahlequah woman charged in May with multiple sexual assault charges has pleaded guilty to charges in Muskogee County.

Tina Anne Marie Unger Shell, 21, pleaded no contest to assault with intent to commit a felony in Muskogee. She was put on a suspended five-year sentence, fined $500 and ordered to pay a $200 victim compensation assessment and a $250 court-appointed attorney fee. She is to be supervised by probation and parole and must complete a sex offender program.

The Muskogee County charge was filed the day Cherokee County prosecutors dismissed three first-degree rape counts, two lewd molestation counts and a count of soliciting sexual communication with a minor by use of technology. Those charges were filed May 14.

Shell’s competency was an issue when the case was in Cherokee County. She was deemed to be competent last month. The charges stemmed from her alleged relationship with a 14-year-old boy she met at Help-In-Crisis. The incidents that led to the charges occurred March 14-21.

Online court records show Cherokee County officials names on the Muskogee County docket sheet.

http://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/local/local_story_302110640.html

Previous Report On This Case:-

http://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/local/local_story_135170416.htm

November 7, 2009

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Karen Stillman, 58, who pleaded guilty in July to attempted child abuse with serious bodily injury, was given the maximum sentence by Denver District Judge William Hood.

The Denver district attorney’s office said Stillman left her son and daughter in the home of Eric and Linda Torrez in the 1990s, where they were repeatedly abused physically and sexually.

Stillman’s daughter, who is now 22, spoke at the sentencing hearing, saying her mother knew of the abuse but did nothing to intervene or report it.

Eric Torrez, 47, and Linda Torrez, 46, are expected to go to trial in February. Their 23-year-old son, Patrick, pleaded guilty in October.

A Topeka, Kansas woman placed on probation in September for three counts of sexually abusing a boy from the time he was 13 years old until he was 16 years old has been indicted in New Mexico on one charge of sexually assaulting the same boy, a court official said Friday.

Jennifer Dawn Liskey, 39, was indicted Thursday by a grand jury in Dona Ana County, N.M., with one count of fourth-degree criminal penetration of a child age 13 to 16, said Brandy Sanchez, an administrative assistant in the district attorney’s office.

In Shawnee County District Court, Liskey was placed on probation based on her no-contest pleas on Jan. 23 to two counts of aggravated indecent liberties and one count of aggravated criminal sodomy. A fourth charge of aggravated indecent liberties with a child was dismissed as part of a plea agreement.

Liskey was a paraprofessional at Robinson Middle School when she met the boy, who was 13. Intimacy between Liskey and the child escalated from kissing to oral sex and sexual intercourse taking place in Liskey’s house, the victim’s home, a car, motels and hotels.

http://cjonline.com/news/local/2009-10-30/topekan_indicted_in_nm_case

Previous Report On this Case:-

http://to-catch-a-female-predator.blogspot.com/2009/09/kansas-da-appealing-against-former.html

According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, a 4-year-old girl dressed in pajamas appeared on her neighbor’s doorstep crying about 5:45 a.m. telling the neighbor that she had awaken to find her mother gone.

Investigators say the woman took the child inside, calmed her down and then walked over to the girl’s apartment, but no one was home. That’s when she called 911, asking deputies to look into the matter.

The little girl told deputies that her mother was home when she went to sleep, but was gone when she awoke.

Deputies searched the neighborhood and then expanded their search to surrounding areas – eventually finding Reynolds later that morning at a gas station known to be a hot spot for drug activity.

After deputies apprehended Reynolds and placed her in the back of a patrol car, she reportedly became violent, banging her head against the partition in the back seat of a patrol car. She then slipped out of her handcuffs and attempted to flee, however deputies caught her. She repeatedly banged her head against the ground as deputies re-handcuffed her.

Reynolds was treated at a local hospital for lacerations to her hard head when she reportedly told a hospital worker that she had been out all night using crack-cocaine.

She was booked into the Volusia County Jail on charges of child neglect, prisoner escape and resisting an officer with violence.

The child was placed in the care of a relative.

Danny Vice
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The Escambia County Sheriff’s office received a call from Gray’s father regarding the teen that was residing in the virtually uninhabitable shed.

Upon arriving at the scene, they discovered a hungry, upset 17-year-old who had been left there when his mother moved out. Her other son, 13, had also been abandoned but was living inside the residence.

Authorities say Gray’s father contacted them on September 8th stating that he wanted the teenager off of his property. Deputies responded to the complaint and found the teenager living inside a shed with no electricity, running water, air conditioning, or heat.

The teen told officers that he had been living in the shed for approximately one month because he did not get along with her mother’s ex-boyfriend. He could not remember when his last meal was and authorities described him as “visibly upset,” claiming that he wanted to be where his mother was.

Investigators were not immediately able to locate Powell, and both children were turned over to their grandmother Patricia Monroe, who is Powell’s mother.

Powell was booked in to Escambia County Jail and charged with felony child neglect. She was released on $25,000 bond.

Rebecca Diamond
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Kileen, Texas (The Weekly Vice) – Shela Heights, a 22-year-old Texas woman has been arrested after she allegedly used a clothes iron to burn her 14-month-old daughter.

According to Killeen police, officers were dispatched to Metroplex Hospital after doctors reported a case of possible child abuse.

When officers arrived, hospital staff told them that the child had burns in the shape of an iron across her chest and abdomen – and that the story given to them by the child’s mother didn’t add up.

Investigators say they spoke with Heights, who told them the child fell on the iron by herself. After examining the iron’s shape and the burn impressions left on the child’s body, it was determined that the iron had been pressed against the child’s skin intentionally.

Heights was booked into jail on charges of reckless injury to a child causing bodily injury. She is being held in lieu of $100,000 bond.

Danny Vice
The Weekly Vice

http://www.theweeklyvice.com

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