The Unquiet Death of Eli Creekmore

“I just knew the phone would ring some day and Joshua would be dead,” stated social worker Ann Kemmeter regarding Joshua DeShaney and the ongoing abuse he endured from his father. Joshua’s father brutally and repeatedly abused his four-year-old son Joshua (Wichenbach). The State of Wisconsin was aware of this abuse, but still did nothing to intervene and stop the mistreatment of this child (Wichenbach). The State’s inaction led to the Supreme Court case DeShaney v. Winnebago Department of Social Services, in which Joshua’s mother, Melody, sued the Winnebago Department of Social Services claiming, “the social worker deprived Joshua of his liberty without due process of law” (Alexander). In order to fully understand the DeShaney case, one must conduct thorough background research, delve into the court case itself, and analyze the impact the case has yet today.

The scenes of his death involved the two boys, LMW and Corey Davis, playing unsupervised near a dangerous river due to the unaffordable expenses of childcare and proper supervision.

“My son was murdered at Doherty Park. He was shot in the back five times but nobody saw it out of 200 people. On August 26 this man came up behind him and shot him in the back and that way the person was the winner [of the feud]. Nobody saw it, not his friends or adults,” said King.

The police were called and the eldest son went to prison, where he died a year later.

The controversial issue of whether or not Child Protective Services are doing their jobs properly, has grabbed nationwide attention. Child Protective Services is the name of a government agency in many states of the United States whose mission is to respond to reports of child abuse and neglect. Some of these cases may include physical abuse, sexual abuse, and mental abuse (Wikipedia). The child welfare system is corrupted. The parents and guardians who are accused of abuse are automatically labeled as guilty and will have to prove their innocence; instead of being innocent until proven guilty.

Attentively, I watched a television from a large wooden table, crammed into a small interview room. As the young child on the screen painfully disclosed years of horrific abuse and neglect to a forensic interviewer, I observed in silence. Surrounded by a multi-disciplinary team of police officers, Department of Child Services case managers, advocates and prosecutors, I knew my purpose. I wanted to be a voice for those who were unable to speak and advocate for themselves. My internship with the St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s Office, Special Victims and Family Violence Unit, allowed me the opportunity to explore my interest in the legal system and helped kindle my passion for child welfare.

A nine year old in Oregon was removed from her home by child protective services in 2010 and placed into the care of Kamlo and Dwight Reed. Even though the state Department of Human Services allegedly knew that Dwight had been accused of sexually abusing a another foster child, the adoption still went through. After the Dwight couple abused the young girl sexually, physically, and emotionally, a a guardian who was court-appointed for the child filed a lawsuit against the department in 2016. If the agency had looked into the allegations, the child would have likely been saved from suffering through years of abuse by being placed into a different home. The social service workers receive a large amount of cases each year. According to the U.S. Children 's Bureau, children protection agencies received nearly 3.6 million reports of abuse or neglect concerning 6.6 million children; however, the agency only reported roughly 702,000 children who suffered from abuse, including 1,580 children who died. The number of cases reported is less than ¼ of the cases received. If the agency discovered some of the 1,580 cases quicker, adolescent deaths

2.) Farquhar neck was broken, so he must have died instantly. “Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with his broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge” (Bierce 57).

Later in 1940 his father died from a heart failure caused by his alcoholism on April 1, at age 66. Ed and his brother Henry began doing odd around town to help pay living expenses. The brothers were reliable and honest by the community. Henry later began dating a divorced, single mother of two and he planned on moving in with them. Henry spoke very little about her around Edward who responded with shock and hurt.

This article was written by Faith Karimi and Greg Botelho. This article is about how a twelve year old girl named Ciara Meye was accidentally killed by a police officer. Instead of charging the police officer, they charged the father with homicide and involuntary manslaughter . The police officer came to evict the father of Ciara Meye. The article says that her father pulled a gun on the police officer and the police officer shot. As the shot fired, it went threw the father's arm and shot Ciara Meye. Ciara Meye was killed on January 11 in Pennsylvania.

Edward Earl Johnson was put in death row when he was eighteen. A documentary was made when he was twenty-six, called “fourteen days in May.” Edward claimed all along that he was innocent yet he was still executed. The documentary showed he had lived for eight years at the Parchment state penitentiary, Mississippi (death row.) Edward was put to death row for the attempted rape of an elderly white woman and the murder of a white Marshall. The documentary tried to show his innocence, the process of this is what this essay will be about.

At the age of two, district employee Michael Smith was told he was going to die within a decade.

After watching these different cases, the way they affected me is that it’s very difficult for social workers to decide to remove the child or let them go back to their house and live with their parents. For them it’s a very difficult and important decision because basically child’s life and future depends on the social worker’s decision. If they say it’s safe for the child to go back to live with his/her parents and if the abuse and neglect still continues, they put the child’s life on risk. I think the 10-year-old Matthew case stand out more than others because even though the dad was physically abusing the child, Matthew still wanted to go back to his house and live with his dad. It’s interesting that the way they were acting it felt like

His heart stopped beating for 20 minutes. His heart began pumping again and he regained consciousness and woke up right before the doctors pronounced him dead.

Elisha was a prophet of arrangement he truly was a shadow of the Lord that would tail him. Elijah was truly a prophet of judgment and when you see arrangement happening it is Elijah that is accommodated. At long last Elijah finished in a burst of brilliance climbing to paradise in a chariot of flame. Elisha passed on unobtrusively and submissively however through his demise another could live.