Twisted, Gruesome Child Abuse Case

This was a child abuse case where a Dodge County father and the live-in girlfriend he

Rita Price, writer for The Columbus Dispatch, recounts a horrific story about siblings who suffered numerous accounts of abuse. After being beaten with baseball bats, burned with irons, starved, and forced to drink their own urine, the Ferguson children were finally able to come forward and testify against their adoptive parents in order to send them to prison. The children did not believe they had a voice, and the abuse went unnoticed for years. The Ferguson children, along with many others in similar situations, do not feel they have anyone to turn to. After going through foster care systems and the adoption process, the children had already experienced large amounts of change and stress, only to be left with negligent parents. In

Child abuse is when a parent or caregiver, through action or failure to act, causes injury, death, emotional harm or risk of serious harm to a child. According to The Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, as amended by the CAPTA Reauthorization Act of 2010, at a minimum, child abuse and neglect is defined as, "Any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation"; or "An act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm (Children 's Bureau, 2010)." The law recognizes a child as being any person who is under the age of 18. The law is broken into 2 sections, and each section treats the idea of child maltreatment in different ways. Criminally, those who abuse children are able to be arrested and prosecuted in court. Civil statutes say that people who suspect a child of being abused are mandated to identify and report it.

According to the scholarly article, “The Third National Incidence Survey of Child Abuse and Neglect defines physical child neglect to include refusal of health care, delay in health care, abandonment, expulsion, inadequate supervision, or other physical neglect.” (Bolger, 396) In Jeannette 's life it is clear her family neglected her, although it may have been unintentional, or the fact that her family could not make ends meet. It is quite obvious that her upbringing was not filled with the needs or necessities which her fast paced family who moved from place to place provided. Aside from “sneaking” Jeannette out of the hospital when she had severe burns on her body and was still recovering, the siblings also faced similar neglect, due to the fact that Rose and Rex did not believe in hospitals and conforming to it, their kids were the ones who got hurt from this. “Mom said he had fallen off the back of the couch and cracked his head open on the floor but she and Dad had decided not to take him to the hospital.” (Walls,13) Brian, was a victim of his non-conforming parents. They neglected him by not caring about what he did and not supervising properly, and when he got hurt they refused to

Ms. Myiesha Leonard reported that her understanding of why the children were removed from their home was because the mother called in to CPS and reported that she could not care for the children anymore. Ms. Leonard did not clearly describe the allegations of abuse and/or neglect and she understands her brother mental needs but does not believe he was violence toward anyone. She reported knowing about the abuse or neglect of the children. Ms. Leonard appears to need additional information about the abuse and/or neglect of the children because of not knowing what took place. Ms. Leonard also does not understand the impact of the perpetrator’s behavior on the children. Ms. Leonard believes there is a need to protect the children from the perpetrator

The Rise Of Child Abuse and Neglect By: Marie Gomez Instructor: Neesha Meminger Picture of Mary Ellis Every year, month, week and day a child is abuse and neglected by people they know, love and thought they can trust and by strangers they have no knowledge of. Child abuse is a very serious problem in the United States. It occurs in every community, in all races, and in social-economic groups as well as inside of many of our homes. In this paper, I will be giving knowledge about the abuse towards children, how they are affected, their relationship with the abusers and the lifestyle they live once they become an adult. There have been so many different cases of child abuse and neglect that I would like to get to tell you more about.

According to Child Rescue Network, over 2,100 child abduction cases are reported each day in the United States. This amounts to a total of 766, 500 cases in a single year and in over 50% of the cases, the child kidnaped, shows signs of sexual abuse from their perpetrators when they are rescued. In 1991, an 11 year-old girl, Jaycee Dugard, happened to be one of these 2,100 cases. Phillip and Nancy Garrido stole Jaycee from her California home and kept her as a prisoner. While many thought it would be a short case, Jaycee’s case lasted for 18 years. Jaycee’s also showed multiple signs of sexual abuse when she was finally able to travel back home. At age 14, she gave birth to Phillip’s daughter, and in 3 more years, birthed his second daughter.

In Twin Falls, Idaho, three boys have pleaded guilty to felonies in a case that drew national attention. A 5-year old girl was sexually assaulted on June 2, 2016. This took place inside a laundry room in Fawnbook Apartments. One of the boys recorded the whole scene, and even showed it to his parents. Rumors say that the parent celebrated with the boys. The youngest boy was alleged to have touched the girl. The older boys were accused of using a cellphone to record a video of the incident. All three boys were detained; the youngest boy was 7 years old from Iraq. The other two are brothers from Africa, ages 10 and 14. The girl was held at knife point while being raped by the boys.

The jurisdiction of the Hannover Institute of Legal medicine unveiled three cases of lethal child neglect under a short five-month period. During the recent years, only a few of the autopsies performed were cases involving fatal child neglect. The three cases occurring within months was purely coincidental. However, the jurisdiction used this opportunity for evaluating the similarities and differences from each case. One of the cases, specifically number three, was about a mother of a three-and-a-half-year-old girl that told her lawyer that she found her daughter lying dead in her apartment for several weeks. Supposedly she found her daughter lying lifeless on her bed at night. This poor child did not have a medical history, which leads to

Fox 2 now reported on November 11, 2016 of a horrific case of child abuse in Wentzville, MO. The case is about a six-week-old baby named J.B., who is clinging to his life by a thread, after reports of his father, allegedly

Bruises may fade but the pain lasts forever, it is not something that is easily overcome the people that overcome this are both mentally, and emotionally strong. Child abuse is cruel practice but it is seemingly increasing in size every day. More and more children are being neglected, beaten, or sexually abused by their parents or adults in their lives. Most of these children have done nothing to grant this cruel kind of “punishment”; no child deserves to fear for their life when they go home. A home should be a child’s safety spot not a place where they dread going to because they know they may not see tomorrow.

PER REPORTER: Disheeka receives her food stamps on the 18th of the months. Her boyfriend Dwight takes her food stamps and sells them to pay for his drugs. It’s unknown if Dwight is using drugs in the home. The reporter said the children are not being fed. The last time they were fed was the weekend by their aunt. Per reporter she helps to take care of Porsha. She buys her clothes and pampers. There hasn’t been any gas in the home for about 3 to 4 months. The children are not being bathed. According to the reporter the children’s grandmother was helping to take care of them, but Dwight threatens her to stay away. The reporter said that Disheeka is slow and she receives a check. She hasn’t had her medicine since 3/27/2015. Her uncle is over her

In the article, a mother of three left her children home alone for several hours. The police found her children and the three children were drinking vodka. “According to the arrest warrants, officers found all three children outside the Gastonia apartment” (goupstate,2018). The oldest child had defecated outside and simulated a sex act on her brother. It is also stated that the 7-year-old wandered into traffic and tried to stop cars. This is a very sad and irritating situation. According to my notes viewed in class, this is called neglect, which is failure to care for properly, and this so-called parent did just that. She neglected her children and left them home alone under aged. This is act of omission, rather than act of commission, which

The crime on which the paper will focus involved a couple that was arrested for causing injury to their child aged thirteen. Christi Howell and Casey Shackleford were both accused of tying their son’s genitals with a rope and waterboarding the boy (Boroff, 2016). According to the case, the couple was charged with injury to a child. Shackleford had additional charges for violating parole regulations that required him not to harm a family member or engage in violence (Boroff, 2016). The boy said that the reason for the punishment was that the boy inappropriately touched a dog. The boy said that Shackleford told his mother to pour water over the boy’s head while he held a towel to the kid’s face. He then told the boy’s mother to tie the