Tanyia Jones: Case Study

Adolescents are very unlikely to reach their full potential without the guidance of an adult figure, such as a mother, father, sibling, or guardian. Adult figures are essential to a growing child because they exemplify decision making, wisdom, and overall life lessons on how to grow up. Although some children do have an adult figure in their life, they aren’t always the best influences for their children, adults also face their own battles which can reflect upon their exterior, ultimately having a critical effect on a child’s development. For example, in “Running with Scissors” by Augusten Burroughs, the main character Augusten lives with his mother who suffers from a mental disorder who guides him into a pathway of chaos and disorder. Augusten learns to cope with no guidance, but still faces many issues that could have been resolved with a reassuring adult figure.

Clarisse Precious Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl living in a low income neighborhood in Las Vegas, NV with her physically, emotionally, and sexually abusive parents. Precious has been physically and sexually abused/raped by her father since the age of 3 and has been pregnant as a result of the rape. Precious is currently pregnant with her second child, while she has also given birth once prior to a now 6-years-old girl that suffers from Down Syndrome, named Mongoloid Jones. On both occasions, Precious became pregnant as a result of the rape. In addition, Precious has been subject to emotional and physical abuse by her mother, Mary Jones who is unemployed and on welfare support. In an attempt to get on welfare herself, Precious

Cytokines, like histamine and leukotrienes, are secreted by damaged cells in Dave’s ankle. How do these cytokines

Although Twyla and Roberta both struggled with mother issues, they develop different reactions yet similar solutions to their troubles. During her stay at the youth shelter,

A mentally ill teenage named Jessica Roger was born to Joan and Kevin Roger. As a young girl Roger’s mother was verbally abusive to her and her sister, she even went as far as trying to kill her husband. When little Roger was about eleven years old her mother left them with their alcoholic father. Roger ended up in prison for biting her sister and other acts because of her disorder, eventually she committed suicide while serving her time in a place where she just didn't belong. Although her mother showed remorse after her death and said, “she accepts blame, maybe too much, for what happened to her Jet”. On the other hand her father was unapologetic for his drinking “I still drink. It’s legal”. Roger sent her parents countless letter of how she was feeling but they didn’t do anything until after her death. Are you wonder how a mentally ill sixteen year old girl ends up on prison?

Raseanda first became involved in the justice system at age 14. Her legal history includes seven intake contacts. Raseanda has had intake contacts for felony offenses. These intake contacts were not for felony offenses against another person. She has no history of escape. She has had six juvenile detention confinements and has run away from home several times. Raseanda has received court supervision with Chesapeake and Henrico County Court Service Units. While under the supervision of Henrico County, Raseanda was placed in the post-dispositional program at the Henrico Detention Center. Raseanda reported the program was helpful and helped build her self-esteem. Raseanda also reported being on electronic monitoring several times and being non-compliant.

Make an initial speculation about Suzie’s condition at this time. Assuming that your speculation is true, what do you think the doctor will find in the results of Suzie’s physical examination?

Most girls that are arrested and detained have committed non-violent offenses, and they are usually not able to get the help that they need. Parents are the primary reporters of female status offenders in contrast to male status offenders that are reported by school or law officials (Donley, 2007; Godsoe, 2014). This shows that the girls may not actually be criminal, but that the parents are unable to manage the child.

Tara Jones is a sixteen year old African American Baptist who lives in Alberdence County. She attends school and is considered a sophomore. She has two siblings, and older brother (Dan Jones), and a younger brother (Theo Jones). Tara does not know where her father is located, and has not been in contacted with his since she was five years old. Tara’s mother’s name is Sharon Jones and Tara has lived with her and her two brothers up until she was eleven years old. Tara considers her mother’s neighborhood as the “projects” and she worried about gang violence while living there. At the moment, Tara denies any consumption of alcohol or drugs when she ran away, she also denies any suicidal ideation. Tara left her mother’s home because she was forced to; because her mother did not believe her that she was being sexually abused by her older brother Dan. Tara resided with her Aunt Sally after leaving her mother’s home. Tara reported that the sexual abuse had occurred for three years, and her mother denies any of the sexual abuse to happen and told Tara to leave the home. Tara ran away from her aunt’s home when she was thirteen years old. She then became award of the state and was placed into a foster home. She ran away from this foster home and was placed into a second home that she also ran away from. She was placed at her last foster home where she lived for six months with Ms. Boot, before she ran away with her boyfriend.

At initial assessment it is clear that Susan is in imminent danger of serious harm and should be immediately removed from her home. There are evident signs of physical, mental, and emotional abuse; possibly signs of sexual abuse; and she is significantly malnourished by her parents. Susan appears to look and act like a seven year old, but is in fact thirteen years old. She is currently not in the same home as her father, but is in her mother’s care, who

A review of the defendant's criminal history reveals that she has no municipal convictions, and the present case represents the defendant's first indictable conviction. There is no history of domestic violence and no juvenile records were found for this defendant.

On August 25, 2017, our client Dawn Vega came to our office for seeking advice on whether she has a legal claim against Russ Jones for her injuries caused by a horse, named Nelly. April 8, 2017, Saturday morning, Vega went to Rodrigo's Stables at Round Rock, Texas with her friends for the horseback ride. There, she met Russ Jones, who is the owner of Rodrigo's Stables. Vega found Jones very friendly.

Living life within a dysfunctional family and living within a dysfunctional community that had little trust in societal protections left Precious without many normal safeguards that might have prevented some of the years of abuse that she endured. Awareness of Precious’ first pregnancy at the age of twelve, her morbid obesity, her violent outbursts and her inability to read or write were all reasonable cause to suspect that Precious may have been subjected to abuse, neglect.

Katie is raised by a single mother like Tyrec and uses the childrearing method of natural child growth. That’s it. The Brindle’s are a poor family struggling to make ends meet as Ms. Brindle is currently unemployed as she raises her eighteen month old child “Melmel” and lives off the welfare system and child support she gets. Due to the abusive lifestyle that she has experienced as well, she has taken a larger toll, physically and psychologically, than a lot of thirty-seven year old women. Katie herself has experienced difficulties with her being sexually abused in the first grade that has affected her life. Therefore, the involvement of Katie’s extended family is huge. Her grandmother plays a role in being an additional caregiver in her life. Social problems seem to be an everyday occurrence for the Brindle’s as they try to live their everyday lives. As a result, Katie acts older than her age (nine years) due to the added responsibility of trying to take care of herself at times. Ms. Brindle’s parenting style of natural growth may have affected how mature Katie is, but it the Katie’s past and current environment that has had a greater influence in her

Sarah Burke was a 16 year old who was brought into the clinic by her distressed mother. Sarah’s attitude and behavior had been getting out of control and worsening. Fights with her mother, sister, and friends and outbursts/tantrums for her own reasons or no reason at all were a commonality. Mother was worried about her academic future and preexisting social relations. From her past, we learn that she has had a traumatic first few years with parental fighting involved and maltreatment. She lived with her mother because her father abused alcohol, drugs, and them verbally. Sarah’s fearful, nervous habit to be reticent around her father caused a hindering in her speech development during important developmental years.