Documents: Fla. Mom Cashed in Insurance

Documents: Fla. Mom Cashed in Insurance

By TRAVIS REED
The Associated Press
Friday, August 10, 2007; 10:12 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...081002408.html

FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- A woman accused of living lavishly while her 11
adopted children were neglected and abused cashed in a life insurance
policy and was starting to put her home up for sale as investigators
closed in, court documents released Friday show.

Judith Leekin cashed in a $62,000 policy and called a real estate agent
to sell her home, according to more than 200 pages of records from
prosecutors. She also left four of her children at another son's house
shortly before she was apprehended.



Leekin is accused of using four aliases during two decades in New York
City to adopt the 11 children in a scam that paid her $1.26 million. She
lived in a five-bedroom house with posh furnishings and a pool but
forced all the children to sleep together on the floor in a utility
room, according to a Port St. Lucie Police investigator's report.

The children were kept in a room with the knobs reversed, allowing
someone to be locked inside, the report says. All have scars on their
wrists and ankles, apparently from being tied and handcuffed. None
appears to have more than a fourth-grade education, authorities say.

The adopted children range in age from 15 to 27. Ten are now in Florida
state care.

Leekin's attorney, Mario Garcia, has entered not guilty pleas. He did
not immediately return a telephone message left late Friday.

Police searching Leekin's house found a letter at the front door with a
life insurance check for $62,987. The company was later asked to cancel
the check and wire the money to Leekin's attorney, the documents say.

A native of Trinidad, Leekin moved to Florida several years ago,
immigration records say. She remains jailed in lieu of more than $4
million bail on 10 charges, including child abuse.

Florida officials had previously investigated abuse allegations against
her but were stymied in 1999 because New York authorities couldn't find
her records. Local investigators caught on last month after Leekin
allegedly abandoned an 18-year-old woman at a store in St. Petersburg,
200 miles from home.



CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A
DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NSA / CIA
WIRETAPPING PROGRAM....

CPS Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of Child Protective Services.

every parent should read this .pdf from
connecticut dcf watch...

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com

Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS

*Perpetrators of Maltreatment*

Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13
Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12
Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5

CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING HUNDREDS OF INNOCENT
FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...


BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...