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PROVIDENCE –– The night 3-year-old Thomas J. “T.J.” Wright was beaten to death, a relative tried desperately to save him, only to have T.J.’s foster mother snatch the child from his arms and curse him for dialing 911.
Cousin tried to save toddler
http://www.projo.com/news/content/BU...7.3577925.html 01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 By John Castellucci Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE –– The night 3-year-old Thomas J. “T.J.” Wright was beaten to death, a relative tried desperately to save him, only to have T.J.’s foster mother snatch the child from his arms and curse him for dialing 911. Jose A. Santiago said that, when he handed Katherine Bunnell the cordless telephone, she hung up rather than stay on the line with the 911 operator and walk him through the procedure for CPR. Instead of being grateful about the call, “it was more like she was angry,” Santiago said. “Why, why did I do that?” he said, describing her reaction. “To me, it felt like disbelief.” Santiago offered the testimony yesterday, at Bunnell’s trial on murder charges in Superior Court. An inmate at the Adult Correctional Institutions, where he is finishing a one-year sentence for felony assault, he testified in handcuffs, flanked by deputy sheriffs, and challenged on every major point by Gerard H. Donley, Bunnell’s defense lawyer, who accused him of trying to make Bunnell look bad to help her co-defendant, Gilbert Delestre, beat the rap. Santiago, 31, and Delestre, 27, are cousins. Like Bunnell, Delestre has been charged with murder and conspiracy to murder. He is at the ACI awaiting trial. After Bunnell hung up, Santiago said he grabbed T.J. from her and took the child downstairs into the living room of her Woonsocket apartment, where he tried to perform CPR. “I sat there, blew into his mouth. I exhaled him. Nothing,” Santiago testified. “I resumed to breathe into his mouth again,” he continued. “That’s when Katie came and snatched him from my arms.” “I grabbed him back. It was just a reaction,” he testified. “I punched her in the face.” The ambulance arrived, and Santiago carried T.J. out to the paramedics. The toddler was taken to Landmark Medical Center, then to Hasbro Children’s Hospital, where he was determined to be brain dead and taken off life support. Prosecutors contend Bunnell, 24, and Delestre beat T.J. to death because they were angry about a mess he had made in their living room. The chain of events that led to the child’s death began the evening of Oct. 29, 2004, when Bunnell and Delestre went out drinking with Santiago, who had just completed an earlier sentence at the ACI. T.J. and his brothers, David, 10, and Mickey, 6, were left with a baby sitter, along with Bunnell’s daughters by Delestre — Destiny, 7, and Daziya, 5. When Santiago and the couple returned home for the night, Santiago testified, Bunnell discovered the mess and demanded that Delestre come inside to clean it. Santiago remained outside in the parking lot, where he became sick, throwing up and stumbling around the apartment complex. He said he was unaware that, inside the apartment, Bunnell and Delestre were beating T.J. While he was outside in the parking lot, Bunnell drove past him in her car, taking the baby sitter home, he testified. He was still outside in the parking lot when she returned to the apartment and started to yell. Santiago said he thought she was yelling because she and Delestre were having a fight. He went inside, he said, went upstairs to the second-floor bedroom, and pulled Delestre away from Bunnell, Santiago testified. “She turned around and was like, ‘Jose, the baby’s not breathing,’ ” he said. It was then, Santiago said, that he called 911. Prosecutors played a tape of the 911 call for the jury yesterday. They also read a letter written to T.J.’s mother –– Bunnell’s sister, Karen Wright. “If it wasn’t for me trying to do what I did, no one would have tried to help the baby and dial 911,” Santiago said in the letter, written 16 days after the fatal beating. “I gave Katie the phone and she winds up hanging up the phone and screaming at me for dialing 911.” “Mr. Santiago, is it fair to say you were drunk out of your mind?” Bunnell’s lawyer demanded on cross-examination. “I was drunk, sir,” Santiago acknowledged. “You sobered up pretty quickly when you saw that baby,” Assistant Attorney General Stacey P. Veroni said after Donley asked the question. Donley objected. Judge Gilbert V. Indeglia overruled the objection. Santiago answered yes. An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and the Child Protection "INDUSTRY" Child Protective Services Does not protect children... It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even killed at the hands of CPS. every parent should read the free handbook from connecticut dcf watch... 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/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59 Sexual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13 Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241 Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12 Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological Parents 1.5 Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per 100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a bunch of social workers. THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST Currently Child Protective Services violates more constitutionally guaranteed liberties & civil rights on a daily basis then all other agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central intelligence agency wiretaping programs… THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/...s.php?filter=6 This is Child Protection? By Gregory A. Hession, J.D. http://www.jbs.org/node/4632 Mercenary Motherhood: "Memoirs of a Babystealer." http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...nion-rightrail FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILU. A Brief Analysis of the Casey Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler http://www.nccpr.org/reports/cfpanalysis.doc HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families By Nev Moore Massachusetts News http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/...May/mayds4.htm A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster ca 30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children. 27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated 33% were receiving public assistance 37% had not finished high school 2% receive a college degree 50% were unemployed Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems, including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and impaired social relationships. Some experts estimate that about 30% of the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment than the general population. *Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support 80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system. The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should just be blown up. http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991 Four rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of America’s foster children could be home right now if their parents had decent housing. This study found thousands of children already in foster care who would have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away in the first place. Front-page story in USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...m?csp=34#Close Read the studies online. Casey "alumni" study: "Improving Family Foster Ca Findings from the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study," http://www.casey.org/Resources/Publi...lumniStudy.htm MIT study: "Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care," http://www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fo...arch07_aer.pdf Texas comptroller's "Forgotten Children" reports: www.window.state.tx.us/forgottenchildren The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than walking wreckage... CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS.... CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS 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... |
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