Macon woman gets life in son's death

By ASSOCIATED PRESSPublished on: 02/10/06

MACON — A woman has been sentenced to life in prison in the death of her 3-year-old son.
A jury deliberated for about an hour Thursday before finding Linda Renae Brown, 32, guilty of two counts of felony murder in the death of Garry Brown.

The boy was being treated for head trauma at a hospital when he fell from his hospital bed, suffering a fatal head injury on Aug. 12, 2004.
Despite warnings that her son could die if he fell from the crib, Brown ignored instructions to keep the rails up and repeatedly let the rails down, hospital staff testified.
The defense tried to portray the death as an accident. But prosecutors said Brown delivered the initial blow that injured his brain, sending him to the hospital where she was negligent in his fall.
"Ladies and gentlemen, there was one person responsible for the death of little Garry Brown," Bibb County assistant district attorney Nancy Scott Malcor said in closing arguments. "And as hard as that is to fathom, that person is his mother."
But defense attorney Sara Roberts said her client had mental deficiencies and rarely showed emotion, but cared for her child.
"There's no proof of her doing any willful act at home," Roberts told jurors.

Biological Mom Seeks Role In Brain-Damaged Girl's Case

This is a travesty of Justice!!!
BROCKTON, Mass. -- Lawyers for the biological mother of an 11-year-old girl still struggling for life months after allegedly being severely beaten by her adoptive parents said Wednesday they will ask a court for more input on the girl's medical care.
Attorneys for Haleigh Poutre's birth mother, Allison Avrett, said they plan to file motions in Hampden Juvenile Court to intervene in the case and get access to Haleigh's medical records.
Avrett said state Department of Social Services officials have repeatedly rebuffed her attempts to join them in deciding the girl's care. When Haleigh's condition recently improved, state officials dropped their plans to remove life support and placed her in a rehabilitation hospital.

A DSS spokesman declined to comment.

In 2001, when Avrett decided she could no longer care for Haleigh, she let the girl's biological aunt, Holli Strickland, adopt her. Prosecutors allege that Strickland and the girl's stepfather, Jason Strickland, beat Haleigh into a coma. About two weeks after their arrest, Holli Strickland was found dead alongside her grandmother in an apparent murder-suicide.
The state's request to remove Haleigh's feeding tube and ventilator sparked a legal battle between DSS and Jason Strickland, who could face a murder charge if Haleigh dies. A juvenile court judge ruled that Strickland did not have a say in his stepdaughter's medical care. The Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest, agreed.
Murphy said Wednesday that Avrett was the first to notice that Haleigh appeared to be showing improvement. That happened during a Jan. 10 visit when the girl's eyes followed Avrett and she appeared to respond to commands, according to Murphy. Avrett was told by DSS officials that the reactions were just reflexive, Murphy said.
But within days the state agency was reporting improvements.
On Jan. 26, "Haleigh was so much better she was answering yes and no questions about her name and her gender ... she was correctly responding, not with language, but she was correctly responding with yes or no signals," Murphy said. "That's a pretty high level of cognitive functioning."
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Mom Suspected In Child Beatings Not Yet Charged

Still no charges have been filed against a Milwaukee mother accused of brutally beating three of her children.
The woman was arrested after police found three of her boys in an abandoned house at the corner of 35th and Brown streets.
The boys said they went to the house to get away from the their mother because she was beating them. Investigators said marks on the children's bodies support their story and believe the abuse has been going on for quite some time.
12 News' Brendan Conway will tell you what experts said people could do to make sure something like this doesn't happen again.

The case has shocked the community and raised a number of questions about how abuse like this can happen without anyone noticing.
The three boys, 9-year-old twins and their 6-year-old brother, were found hiding miles from their home in the boarded -up house. Despite it's crummy condition, the boys said they used it as a refuge from their abusive mother who would hit them with everything from belts and broomsticks, to electrical cords and even her fists.
President of the Milwaukee Women's Center, Carey Tradewell Monreal, told News 12 she wonders how the abuse ever got that far.
Monreal said she sees cases of child abuse daily, but said this one stands out, not just because of what happened, but also how police discovered it.
"Children will cry out for adult attention when they're being abused, but if they're isolated and there are not adults around, they will often have to do what sadly these three children did and run away and make a huge noise in order to get attention," said Monreal.
Monreal told 12 News' Brendan Conway that it's up to everyone to help stop child abuse.
"If we're living in a neighborhood and I'm hearing yelling and screaming and loud noise from the house next door and children running out and children who are not in school, that is an indicator that the children are not safe next door," she said.
Monreal said getting involved is not always comfortable, but it's necessary.
"It is more important for us to help children than to worry that our neighbor or brother in-law or sister will get mad at us," she said.
According to "Prevent Child Abuse Wisconsin," signs of child abuse include children who have unexplained bruises or welts, when a child shrinks at the approach of adults and when a child has not received medical help when necessary
When the mother in this case was arrested, six of her children were living in foster care. The seven still living at home have been moved to protective custody.

BREAKING NEWS: Body of 3-year-old found; adoptive mom charged

This is why we want to SAVE JACKSON BORTZ!!!

By KRISTINA TORRES , CRAIG SCHNEIDER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 01/28/06

ALMA — The birth mother of a 3-year-old child apparently killed by an adoptive parent said Friday that she had tried and failed to convince state welfare officials to place her son with a relative.
Shamil Rawls reacted with shock Friday after police announced that searchers had found her son's body concealed by straw off a rural county road near this south Georgia community.
Mary Jane King has been charged with murder. Authorities will not go into possible motives for the killing. Ahmad King had been reported missing. His body was recovered Thursday along a country road.

A tearful Rawls, 27, said she had known that she had to give up Ahmad King, but she wanted him to live with her grandmother.
Rawls expressed no misgivings about Mary Jane King, 34, the adoptive mother who confessed Thursday to killing Ahmad.
"I always thought she was a good woman," said Rawls sobbing outside the Bacon County courthouse where authorities were announcing they found her son's body.
"He was a good boy," Rawls said. "He should never have been in her custody. My grandmother was supposed to have him."
Rawls didn't make clear why she lost custody of her son. A friend with her, Pam Sailem, said Rawls had raised him for the first two years of his life before the state Division of Family and Children Services removed him from her care.
Rawls' grandmother began working with DFCS to take custody of the boy, obtaining clothing and furnishings for him, Rawls said.
Rawls said she complained to DFCS when the agency removed Ahmad and placed him with King and her husband, Timothy.
The Kings adopted the child in August, according to DFCS.
Rawls blamed DFCS for her child's death: "It's their fault."
DFCS officials said Friday night that they were unaware of Rawls' comments, but said the Kings had a good record as foster parents.
Mary Jane King confessed to killing Ahmad King on Thursday. She had told authorities on Tuesday that he had been kidnapped from the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in nearby Jesup.
She said the child disappeared after she left him in her car while she was getting a shopping cart.
King made tearful public pleas for the boy's safe return. "Just bring him back or just leave him with somebody," she told Savannah television station WTOC. "Leave him at a store, something. We just want him back."
Authorities said King killed the boy, drove out of town and dumped his body 20 yards off the road.
Rick Currie, district attorney for Waycross District, which includes Bacon County, said King was in police custody.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said King was cooperating with police and has been charged with murder.
Timothy King is not charged and is not considered a suspect, authorities said.
Authorities will not comment on Mary Jane King's motive.
"She has made a confession," said Jeff Evans, special agent in charge of the GBI's regional office in Douglas. "I'm confident that what she's told us is true."
Evans said investigators found other evidence suggesting Ahmad had been murdered after searching King's home early Thursday morning. He declined to elaborate.

DFCS Director Mary Dean Harvey said the Kings have been foster parents for more than three years and have a clean record. They had been foster parents to three children.
"The King family was a model family," Harvey said. "Loving, supportive, kind, nurturing, dependable ... provided real stability for children."
Jason King, 30, who is no relation, said he lived near the Kings about four years ago, and found them to be good people.
"We would drop off vegetables to them, and they would do things for us," he said. "I've never seen them get angry."
He said Mary Jane King baby-sat for others in the neighborhood. She was "a quiet, good person," he said.
Even with King's help, search crews struggled to find the child's body, authorities said.
"This area's very rural, there's a lot of timber and flat land and water," Evans said. "Some people would think many of the areas look identical or look similar."
"We're glad he's not out there anymore," said Evans.
The boy's death has shocked this community.
"We used to say 'Maybe Atlanta, maybe Savannah — but never some place like Alma,' " said resident Carolyn Bembry.

The Associated Press
contributed to this article.

Support Rally for Jackson Bortz/Georgia DFACS Abused Parent Network on Saturday January 28th 2006

This message is from

Randi St. Denis, Jackson's grandma

Please be there!!!!!

Thank you everyone! - for your tremendous efforts on Jackson's behalf! Your phone calls and emails are definitely having a huge impact on both DFCS and our government. Please keep it up. Again, I cannot say how overwhelmingly impressed and grateful I have been with all your help in our situation. One reporter said to me that he had never seen anything so bad in all his years in Atlanta. Many, many people are watching our efforts. Georgia State officials and many other very influential people are checking in on this website regularly.

We still need your help, though. Anyone who is interested, friend or stranger, is invited to a planning meeting Saturday night, 6:00 PM at our house. So many people have asked us how they can help and we do have loads of needs.

On Saturday, we'll be dividing into teams who will each tackle different tasks. In this way, many hands will make the work much lighter. We are also inviting other families who have been abused by DFCS or who have been accused of pseudoabuse. I think you will be surprised to learn how many other people have been decimated by false accusations.

Our address is: 905 Ferncroft Ct, Roswell 30075. We live near Roswell High School off HWY 92.

Anyone who would like to bring a snack or drink would be much appreciated.

Besides our pressing need of rescuing Jack, we are also aligning with legislators who want to close all loop holes in our laws. Among proposed law changes are: opening the Juvenile Court System, requiring immediate relative placement whenever children are removed, allowing children to have their own private attorney hired by relatives instead of the DFCS system, and closing all loop holes on the largely unchecked system of seizing children.

Also, we understand that Neal Boortz show will again be discussing our case on Friday morning. Please phone or email him if you can. If you're pressed for time, just send him copies of emails you have previously written.

God Bless You All Extra for your efforts on behalf of Jackson and Don and Rachel. I hope to see you Saturday at 6 PM.

Prayer against "The Evils" of the Government

PSALM 94: 19-21
PSALM 94: 19-21
PSALM 94: 19-21

The red, white and blue.....Only in America, where the government steals your child!

Details of Kemi's Case with Newton Co DFACS is HUMANLY tragic!

ABOUT THE SITE BLOGGER

Kemi Olunloyo Lane is the Pharmacist and single mother of three boys who was arrested and accused of threatening a DFACS Judge in Newton County 3/23/05. Olunloyo's 3 year old son was removed 12/23/03 as a result of violent behavior of her then 16 year old Autistic son on her. Though the toddler was never harmed, the autistic boy was institutionalized till he was 18 years old. Olunloyo fought to regain custody of her then 3 year old son for 23 months and finally her now 5 year old son was released into the custody of the absentee father of 5 years. Olunloyo had sole custody of her son via a Maryland court order and deciding to relocate to Georgia September 2003, she lost her kids 2 months later, a parents nightmare. She followed the entire DFACS case plan which Judge Baig even OK'D but Baig had no idea that the boy was in a 3rd foster home and of a 3 time convicted felon Linda Ann Atwood of Covington. Her husband kicked and bruised the boy which he reported on audio and videotape on a weekend visit. DFACS promptly cancelled his visitations home citing medications Kemi gave her son for asthma the same weekend, BUT covering his abuse. Even with letters from the boy's pediatrician from Maryland that he wrote for the drug Albuterol and a machine for nebulizing in 2001, DFACS Judge Baig cancelled the visits. As fate will have it, Olunloyo filled a prescription for Baigs child for the same drug and requested a recusal immediately due to conflict of interest (The 11 Alive.Com Story) Not granted one, she made a comment in front of 3 Sheriff deputies responding to another agitating behavior of her now 18 year old autistic son in March of 2005 that DFACS was exploiting her son's prescription records and abuse and Judge Baig was helping them do a good job of it. Two officers asked her what was keeping her son from coming home as the older autistic one was agitated because his brother was not released from the system so she gave them the answers. One of the officers Deputy Wade Freeman then warned her that she could not talk about a Judge "like that" and told her to "take her mentally retarded son back to her foreign country", a statement he even wrote in the police report. Deputy Wade Freeman then threatened to report Olunloyo to the courts for "something."

On 3/23/05 at 4pm, Magarita Shaw DFACS Supervisor lured Olunloyo to their office to visit her son for a bonus visit. You go if you only see your child one hour a week. She arranged the arrest outside their parking lot after telling Olunloyo Sorry, her son was sick and could not make it. Shaw was one of the DFACS workers recently jailed by Newton Co Juvenile Judge Billy Waters for Contempt recently in Nov 2005. Olunloyo's toddler now 5 was released after 23 months from DFACS into the custody of his absent dad of 5 years in October 2005 under a temporary custody order and a civil case was filed by the now wealthy father against Olunloyo. He cited she could not keep his child out of the system for so long and was granted Joint legal custody on Dec 9th 2005 plus Physical custody by Judge Stanley Rhymer who also cited reasons of her "pending criminal case", Rhymer is an associate of Judge Baig in the same Alcovy Judicial Circuit. Olunloyo's son now lives in Maryland and she only received one weekend a month SUPERVISED VISITS max 6hrs daily and she must go to Maryland with somebody supervising it because her autistic child still exists of course. She has been forced to choose between her children. Olunloyo has not seen or talked to her son since Dec 9th 2005. The boy has also not seen his other 2 brothers. Olunloyo's middle son who is 14 lives with his father out of state continued to watch all this unfold and was very UPSET how his family was treated. He said....they want us to be away from Eni (the disabled) but even though he's handicap, "he's still our brother!" Olunloyo has spent over $26,000 in legal fees, dealt with extreme stress and DFACS told her that Linda Atwood's felony 3 times in New York was 20 years ago and they could not use it against her!

By the way, Deputy Wade Freeman of the Newton Sherriff Department is the same cop that was called to take help take Olunloyo's 3 year old son out of her custody at 2am December 23rd 2003 when she absolutely refused to hand over her toddler to DFACS late that night! The worker said Olunloyo was not cooperating with her and called Judge Billy Waters on her cell phone to get a verbal order to remove Olunloyo's children. This is the same Judge Billy Waters that JAILED 4 DFACS workers on November 5th 2005 and DFACS Directors said to the Associated Press that Judge Waters does not have the authority to remove and place a child and only DFACS could do that, so can someone tell us why Kemi's sons were removed...at least the toddler who did not need treatment.

The Doctors and Experts All Testified!

Conyers Psychologist and Kemi's Therapist Dr. Matthew Timberlake even said that DFACS had a great deal of inconsistencies that Kemi was managing her anger issues very well (DFACS workers argued she got angry at them often) and there was no reason for the agency to continue keeping the children. Olunloyo's 3 year old son was involved in a car crash with Foster parent #1 and it was hidden from her which she later found. That worker Susan Winter was later fired. Winter was also responsible for not reporting Olunloyo's autistic son's abuse at Laurel Heights Hospital in Atlanta where he was dragged and restrained improperly by Carolyn Taylor, a Supervisor and other workers. Laurel Heights later apologized! These incidents got her very visibly mad at Winter who later filed to cancel unsupervised visitations with both children. Olunloyo's visits have been cancelled 3 times for different inconsistencies by DFACS. Dr Hammond of Laurel Heights Hospital where Olunloyo's autistic son lived from 16-18years old testified in court January 18th 2005 on his tremendous improvement and recommended that the family transition home in a 2 week period which would have been February 2nd 2005. That never happened! That is why we put a site like this up!!!!! Olunloyo still awaits trial in Covington, GA on those so called Judge threat charges.
This is just a sample of what you don't hear going on in Georgia!!!Remember what Mary Dean Harvey told Kemi, even after the Nigerian Embassy in Roswell got involved since Kemi's from Nigeria... "You need to stop yelling at our workers and work with them if you want your child back." This mole-faced tick took a bite out of our family mentally. Kemi lost several milestones with 5 year old KJ! First day in Georgia Pre-K, first time on school bus, toilet training and more! DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO 3 YEAR OLD JACKSON BORTZ!!! We will never be the SAME!

Mary Dean Harvey!
Georgia DFACS Director

The Human Tick biting Georgia's innocent families. Governor Purdue says that he cannot interfere with her job.

Read....Psalm 37: 37-38

VOTE....CATHY COX FOR GOVERNOR!!

Charmaine J Smith and Timothy Blair Jenkins Story--A real Nightmare!

January 28, 2004 was the beginning of a nightmare. My first-born son was ripped away from his father and I due to false reports made by Scottish Rite Children’s Healthcare Of Atlanta. Prior to this, my son Timothy Isiah-Blair Jenkins was born to his dad and I by emergency C-section at Northside Hospital. He was delivered early because I had severe Pre-eclamisia Toxemia. After he was born the doctors had certain dates he was due in for his check-ups. They always sent Timothy home with a good report of health. I was a fulltime breastfeeding mom, and Timothy Isiah would vomit his food after each feeding. His pediatrician (Gabriella Drake Forte of Tender Care Pediatrics) said this was normal. On December 28 the doctors in the emergency room thought my son had spinal meningitis because of unexplained high fevers, lethargy and vomiting. The doctors already recognized something was wrong with the soft spot of my son’s head but a CT SCAN was not performed. (Possibly because, Timothy was only a Medicaid patient, allowing for less coverage for the needed operation or possibly to protect the pediatrician, who had not diagnosed the condition or possibly just plain common negligence.) Instead of checking further the doctors in the ER performed a spinal tap to see if he had spinal meningitis. The test came back negative. No further tests were done to see if something was wrong, they told me to follow up with his pediatrician. In any case, the child's pediatrician, Dr. Gabriella Drake-Forte, appears to have been negligent in not measuring the baby's head regularly, especially in the third month following the emergency care of Timothy. I took him to Dr. Forte and informed her of the ER visits Dr. Forte said she was not going to measure his head until his 4 month checkup (Timothy Isiah was 3 months old). Dr. Forte said since he was not holding his head up yet Timothy Isiah was needing to go to Physical Therapy for his developmental delay The pediatrician started sending my son and I to a Physical Therapist to help in holding up his head. January 16, 2004 was the first visit to the Physical Therapist. The second was January 21, 2004. Jenny Martin the physical therapist undressed him down to his diaper. Jenny, Timothy Isiah and I would work on his motor skills and practice lifting up his head. The therapist then put him on his tummy to practice him lifting his head. On January 23, 2004 he had his 4 month checkup and Dr. Forte said he was doing really well after voicing my concern in regards to his head Dr. Forte had her nurse measure his head. Dr. Forte stated there was something wrong with his head, because there was a significant increase in size from the last well baby checkup. [fn6] She then gave me a referral to a Pediatric Neurosurgeon. On January 26, 2004 upon meeting the Neurosurgeon Dr. Kevin Stevenson, Timothy (my son's father) and I were told that he (Dr. Stevenson) could see Timothy Isiah had Hydrocephalus. He explained what it was and gave us a book on it along with the names of some support groups. He said it was nothing, I could have prevented because a lot of children are born with the disease. I began to cry because my son had already gone through so much. I know, he was tired of going to the hospital, and having staff poke him with needles. I also asked Dr. Stevenson, the Pediatric Neurosurgeon, why the hospital had not done a CT-scan when Timothy Isiah was hospitalized on December 28, 2003. He informed me he did not work for the hospital, and he apologized the condition had not been detected earlier but he wanted to fix it right away. After the CT-scan was done Dr. Stevenson stated I want to show you something he then proceeded to show us the CT-scan results and informed us there was no Hydrocephalus. Timothy Isiah had "old blood mixed with fluid on his brain." Dr. Stevenson said it looked like it has been there for a while and surgery was needed right away to prevent brain damage. Timothy Isiah was admitted to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta immediately. [fn7] As soon as Timothy Isiah, his father and I were in the room a Social Worker entered the room and started asking questions. I answered all questions to the best of my ability. I was then informed by her they were going to do a skeletal survey of Timothy Isiah, and a optimology report to check for retinal hemorrhaging. These tests were done the next day. The optimology report showed there was no bleeding behind the eyes. I waited in the hallway and in the room waiting and asking to speak to doctor's no one ever came and talked to me the entire day. Finally I called a patient representative (Nora) and explained to her how I felt my rights as a parent were being violated (according to HIPPA). Nora promised a doctor would come in and talk to me. No doctor ever came. At 4:00 PM a man in a leather jacket with no identification showing came into the hospital room with a notepad. He introduced himself as Gary Davis, Special Investigations with Fulton County DFACS. He began to interrogate me as to where I live, my social security number, Timothy Isiah's father and all things in regards to our lives. He then asked "what do you know about multiple fractures to your son's body!" [fn9] I then asked him who, my son because, I was in shock because my son had been seen by various physicians during every month of his life and they all assured me up until the present time that he was fine. Mr. Davis finished his questions and left the room. I asked the nurses why a doctor had not come and talked to me about my son. She informed me they did not have the results back yet. [fn8/9] The entire day went by and no doctor came and talked to me. On January 28, 2004 he was taken to have surgery to have a shunt put in his head. Timothy Isiah's father and I were approached in an elevator on the way to the cafeteria by a social worker named Monica who said, we have to talk to you both right now. We agreed. A lady with no visible identification in a coat came in and had a CD in her hand. She did not identify herself. She walked us over to a computer and put the CD in. She pointed with the mouse and said, "these are the fractures that your son has. When we began to ask her for a further explanation, she immediately removed the CD. We then went to the administration room of the hospital. Mr. Davis, Monica (the social worker), and a security guard were present, also with the lady, who showed us the x-rays. Mr. Davis addressed the lady with the x-rays as Dr. Degrandi and asked "could these injuries have happened from a fall?" Dr. Degrandi stated "no." (Dr. Degrandi is a Medical Director of Advocates for children for Children's Healthcare of Atlanta). Dr. Degrandi stated (he was slammed to have sustained these types of injuries). My son has beautiful skin with no bruises. He has shown no signs of pain. Various doctors have seen him and not one of them has mentioned or suspected any of this type of trauma. Mr. Davis again asked, "How did your son get these fractures?" [Fn9] I told him I did not understand, because he has no bruises, I do not have an x-ray machine to show me these things. All a mother can go by is the Pediatrician's report and the ER doctors report. At the Deprivation hearing none of the accusers, that alleged my son was physically abused, even showed up. [It is understandable that they would not like to say anything under oath under the circumstances of this case.] I contacted Dr. Harold E. Buttram, M.D., F.A.A.E.M. Diplomat, American Board of Environmental Medicine http//www.woodmed.com. in Quakertown PA and familiarized him with Timothy Isiah's condition. Judge Sanford Jones ordered that Timothy Isiah be evaluated by the doctor (Dr. Harold E. Buttram) that wrote the letter to the court about his condition. We raised money for Dr. Buttram's airfare. He had planned to be in Atlanta February 21, 2004 to examine and evaluate Timothy Isiah's condition. It was blocked by DFACS. They did not let the doctor get Timothy Isiah privately x ray him.[fn11] In the beginning the hospital would not give me any of my sons medical records. [fn12] Only by subpoena did the hospital release the medical records to me. Finally the hospital decided to release them to me for a high price. They also would not give me the x-rays on the CD. I had to call the manager Carl Saylors of Radiology to get the film. I have been charged over $600.00 for all of the records. When I got the medical records I read every single page. Dr. Kevin Stevenson the same Pediatric Neurosurgeon that said my son did not have Hydrocephalus, wrote on the records at the top of each one of them it said DIAGNOSIS: HYDROCEPHALUS. We were arrested on April 19th 2004 and thrown in jail with a bond of 100,000.00 a piece. A family in Smryna Ga released me; strangers used their property to bail me out. 3 months later another stranger created an awareness site and she also bailed Timothy out of Fulton County. For 2 years we have been fighting for our child, our freedom. ON JANUARY 6, 2006 AS REQUESTED BY THE STATE MY SON WAS X RAYED BY ANOTHER CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL IN ANOTHER STATE AND THE DOCTORS THERE REPORTED THEY FOUND NOTHING. HIS BONES WERE NEVER FRACTURED. WE FINALLY HAVE IT IN WRITING.For 2 years we have not had our son Timothy Isiah. He stayed in the foster care system for 18 months, he was just sent home to my grandmother. We were robbed of our son’s infancy due to the negligence of the hospitals radiology department and my son’s pediatrician.
The whole facts to the case can be found at www.spcpi.homestead.com//files/timothy.htm

Remember Judge Nina Hixon, the Georgia family Judge who neglected her own 2-year-old leaving her home alone?

Forget Michael Jackson! My kid may be safer with him than DFACS.....

Remember Judge Nina Hixon of Fulton County Juvenile Court who left her DFACS adopted daughter home alone to go retrieve her "forgotten" luggage at Hartsfield Jackson airport when Delta Airline called her. Judge Hixon then tucked the kid in bed, and snuck out quietly to the airport. Meanwhile a limo driver was dropping off some prom kids and he sees a baby/maybe small animal walking the road? Omigosh! It was a baby! He calls 911, DFACS and police arrived and Judge Hixon is returning seeing all the flashing lights and owns up but her kid is returned STRAIGHT to her! DFACS, remember Mary Harvey's office said they will investigate? Hixon didn't lose any form of custody!!!It took protesters of the same color (black) and I'm BLACK!...to demand her step down! After a ton of pressure, she did and became a private attorney.

Judge Hixon's job included

• Protecting our children from abuse and neglect
• taking custody from parents and decides who gets joint, sole, foster placement.
• making life changing decisions about families in Fulton County
• SHE NEGLECTED HER OWN CHILD! But then, was it really hers? Adopted from foster Care.

Today, Hixon is the City Attorney for the City of Eastpoint, Georgia. No longer a Judge in Fulton County. Once again, Fulton County DFACS has clearly failed the Bortz family!

Read Kemi Lane's Story as in MY STORY! DFACS is flawed

We had just moved here in 9/03 and KJ was taken 12/03-12/05!!! FOR WHAT??? Not abused or neglected!

Remember 3/27/05 and the CBS-46 Story everyone? The same thing happened to (ME)Kemi Lane's then 3-year old son seized by DFACS...only difference was that he had an autistic brother and they did not want him around his OWN mentally disabled brother then "Magarita Shaw" the bonehead Newton County DFACS supervisor and her protoge Caseworker Denise "1 blind mouse"Lewis now with Henry Co DFACS (Beware Henry Co residents!) somehow "accidentally" placed my baby KJ in the Covington home of a 3-time convicted felon from New York aka foster mom Linda Ann Atwood where her husband kicked and bruised my son and everything was cleverly concealed from the Judge. It cost me $19,800 FOR JUST ONE LAWYER AND THERE WERE 3 just to get my child out of the system. One of the lawyers told me " DFACS does not like you, you're too educated, outspoken and watching them! They don't like your kind! You're not their kind of clientele...drug habits, abusers etc." Along with rogue DFACS Lawyers Daniel Thomas of Strickland and Strickland in Covington and William Bill Elliott. Eventually their stupidity one day got "Supercaseworker" Magarita Shaw locked up by the DFACS Judge in Newton County for trying to be smarter than the Juvenile Judge! You can read more in my upcoming book..."Set Up By The System." I am naming all names!

Georgia DFACS Investigating Baby's Death

Reported By: Valerie Hoff
Web Editor: Michael King
WXIA-TV, 11 Alive (Atlanta NBC affiliate)
Last Modified: 1/26/2006 12:01:31 AM

A Roswell family is mourning the loss of two children. They say one died from injuries sustained in a December 27 fall, the other is now in the custody of the Department of Family and Children’s Services (DFACS), pending an investigation into the death.Rachel Bortz was the mother of five-month-old Dylan, who died January 3, a week after what she and her mother say they thought was a minor fall.“I was in the kitchen. I accidentally dropped him in his vibrating chair. He landed on his head,” Bortz said.Bortz’s mother, Randi St. Denis said they kept an eye on little Dylan after the fall.“We picked him up, put ice on him. Watched him. He quieted easily,” St. Denis said.Dylan stopped breathing in his crib five days later.Doctors who examined him said his skull was fractured, and it didn't appear to be an accident. DFACS caseworkers placed Bortz’s other son, three-year-old Jackson, with her in-laws while they investigated the case.That arrangement only lasted four days.“They came to the door with two policemen,” said Emily Bortz, Dylan and Jackson’s grandmother. “It was traumatic. The sense of unfairness was so deep.”Emily says DFACS caseworkers objected to Jackson’s parents spending the night, though she says the rules were never clearly explained.DFACS officials say under the law, they can say very little about the specifics of the case.“We have a legal obligation to make a decision for the safety of the child at all times,” said DFACS director Mary Dean Harvey. “We do the assessment. We make the judgment, and we act.”The family has hired a lawyer to regain custody of Jackson.The investigation will not end until the medical examiner finishes an autopsy. The next court hearing is not until April.

Final Days of Girl's Life Reveal Horrors

By ADAM GOLDMAN, Associated Press Writer Sat Jan 21, 10:52 PM ET

NEW YORK - In the eyes of her stepfather, 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown was an out-of-control troublemaker. She stole money from her parents and broke her siblings' toys, she stole milk from a younger sibling and broke their computer printer, he said.

And when he found that she had gone into the refrigerator and taken a cup of yogurt she wasn't supposed to have, he flew into a rage.
Police say Cesar Rodriguez beat the little girl to death, then tossed her on the floor of what was known in the family's apartment as the "dirty room," a rodent-infested room where she had been tied up and left with only a litter box as a toilet.
During a jail interview with newspaper reporters, Rodriguez did not admit fatally beating his stepdaughter but said: "I have a lot of guilt."
"I'm sorry about all that happened. I have a problem with my emotions. It builds up and I hold it all in. I emotionally just burst," he said.
Nixzmary's killing reverberated throughout the city. Hundreds of strangers showed up at her funeral, and the case has been a daily fixture in the tabloids newspapers. It also has forced a major shake-up at the city's child protection agency.
"It touched everyone," said Caridad Ramos, 44, Nixzmary's great aunt.
Rodriguez, 27, and Nixzmary's mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, 27, are charged with multiple felony counts, including second-degree murder. Rodriguez also is accused of molesting Nixzmary and abusing her five siblings.
Both have pleaded not guilty.
The case has shocked the most seasoned investigators and child advocates.
"The circumstances of the abuse this girl suffered were horrifying and among the most tragic that I've ever come across," said Erik Pitchal, director of the Center for Family and Child Advocacy at the Fordham School of Law. "The manner in which she spent her last days is heart wrenching."
There had been warning signs.
Last May, a guidance counselor at Nixzmary's school reported the child had missed 47 days of school. The city's Administration for Children's Services responded immediately but closed the case weeks later.
The agency failed to find "educational neglect when it was clear the girl had not been attending school," said ACS Commissioner John Mattingly.
In early December, ACS received another complaint about Nixzmary. She, her siblings and her stepfather were interviewed but Mattingly said caseworkers were unable to gain access to Nixzmary's home. The case stalled.
Santiago's relatives said they didn't know what was taking place. They lost contact after Nixzmary moved from Puerto Rico to New York several years ago.
Ramos, Santiago's aunt, said she hadn't seen Nixzmary in four years.
"If the family had been aware this never would have happened," Ramos said. "Never. Never. Never."
An indictment alleges that, beginning on New Year's Day, Rodriguez used anything he could to subdue the little girl he described as "a handful," including a belt, a piece of wood, a bungee cord.
Authorities said he bought yogurt for his children but refused to give Nixzmary any.
On the night of Jan. 10, Nixzmary's mother discovered one of the yogurt cups was missing, and she went to Rodriguez. The frightened girl denied taking it, but one of the other children tattled, authorities say.
Later, Rodriguez discovered his computer printer was broken.
He stripped Nixzmary of her clothes and beat her in front of Santiago, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said.
He dragged her into the bathroom and repeatedly dunked her head under the cold water, and loud banging noises and screams of "Mommy" were heard throughout the apartment, authorities say. Rodriguez carried Nixzmary's limp body into the dirty room and tossed her to the floor, Hynes said.
Along with Nixzmary's slaying, the ACS's record has been highlighted by the bumbling of two recent cases in which another 7-year-old girl was murdered and a baby drowned.
Since her death, six ACS employees have been suspended or reassigned. In just the first week, the agency received 2,170 reports of child abuse and neglect, a 71 percent increase from the same period a year ago.
Before Nixzmary's little white coffin was laid to rest, the Rev. Robert O'Neil said her nightmare was finally over.
"Nixzmary is now surrounded by love, beyond the touch of evil," he said.

NYC Mourns for Young Girl Beaten to Death

By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer
You see why these bastards are no good. These agencies should be closed down! Period!

NEW YORK - Hours after family, friends and strangers said a tearful goodbye to a 7-year-old girl allegedly beaten to death by her stepfather, city officials announced a shake up Wednesday at the agency that missed warning signs.
A half-dozen employees at the Administration for Children's Services were suspended or disciplined for inadequate responses to reports of problems with Nixzmary Brown, said agency chief John Mattingly.
Nixzmary's stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, allegedly beat the Brooklyn girl on Jan. 10 over a missing container of yogurt.
According to Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes, Rodriguez banished the girl to a rodent-infested room with a litter box filled with feces, a wooden chair tied to a radiator and dirty mattresses, then later beat her and dunked her head into a bathtub. Nixzmary was dead the next morning.
Rodriguez and the girl's mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, were indicted Tuesday on charges of second-degree murder, child endangerment and assault. The mother allegedly ignored her daughter's cries for help.
The agency launched a review of thousands of other cases after Nixzmary's death.
In Nixzmary's case, there had been signs of trouble, but children's services officials said the family was uncooperative. School employees last year reported the girl had been absent for weeks, but caseworkers found no conclusive evidence of abuse, authorities said. Neighbors also said they had noticed unexplained injuries.
"The staff made poor investigative decisions, and gave inadequate attention to clear warning signs," Mattingly said.
Earlier Wednesday, the sounds of weeping filled St. Mary Church as Nixmary's body lay inside a coffin before an altar still decorated with Christmas poinsettias.
"We have a reminder by the death of this child that the violence continues," said the Rev. Robert O'Neil, the church pastor. "She is a witness for us."
Lucy Rivera, 60, had never met Nixzmary or her family but felt obliged to attend the service in her Manhattan neighborhood. Rivera blamed the little girl's mother for failing to protect the child.
"The first person who should have defended her was the mother," she said. "She was the first person who failed her."