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Former foster mom enters Alford plea in child death: foster mothercharged in the starvation death of her adopted son...



 
 
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Default Former foster mom enters Alford plea in child death: foster mothercharged in the starvation death of her adopted son...

Former foster mom enters Alford plea in child death

By The Associated Press

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...erdeath15.html

SPOKANE — A former foster mother charged in the starvation death of her
adopted son has made a plea agreement rather than face trial for
homicide by abuse and the potential of life in prison.

Just two days before jury selection was set to begin in Stevens County,
Carole Ann DeLeon, 52, entered an Alford plea Friday to one count of
criminal mistreatment in the first degree of Tyler DeLeon, who weighed
only 28 pounds when he died on his seventh birthday.

In an Alford plea, DeLeon does not admit guilt but acknowledges she
would likely be convicted at trial.

She also entered an Alford plea to a charge of criminal mistreatment in
the second degree for her care of another boy who prosecutors alleged
was severely malnourished by DeLeon. Four months after leaving her home,
the boy had gained 18 pounds and grown 2 ½ inches, according to court
records.

Stevens County Prosecutor Tim Rasmussen and defense attorney Carl
Oreskovich reached an agreement to drop the homicide-by-abuse charge
against DeLeon.

"Carole wanted to go to trial and be exonerated for the allegations made
against her," Oreskovich said. "However the risk in terms of having a
jury making a determination based on emotion instead of based on fact,
with the severe consequences, made it impossible in my mind to go to trial."

Rasmussen said he expects Superior Court Judge Al Nielson to sentence
DeLeon to a combined 72 months in prison at the hearing scheduled for 9
a.m. Friday in Colville.

"Tyler's life was worth more than 72 months," Rasmussen said. "But 72
months is about the length of time he lived with her. And sending her to
prison for about the same amount of time that Tyler lived with her,
there is some justice in that."

The prosecutor said the shift in negotiations came when he realized he
would have had to rely on the testimony of other children who were
living with DeLeon to convince a jury that the former paralegal had
tortured Tyler.

"It became clear to me in the last two weeks that it would re-traumatize
three children who don't want anything to do with Carole DeLeon, ever,"
Rasmussen said. "I felt that by making this offer was the right thing to
do for the survivors. And I traded their well-being for punishment
potential for Carole DeLeon."

Rasmussen blamed the weakness of his case on the state Department of
Social and Health Services (DSHS), which had publicly acknowledged it
didn't do enough to protect Tyler.

"In many ways this case was compromised from the very beginning by the
failure of [Child Protective Services] to recognize or do anything about
what was going on in the DeLeon home," Rasmussen told The
Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane.

"Law enforcement was not notified by CPS of Ty's death for almost a
week. The crime scene had been compromised. The house had been cleaned,
and law enforcement didn't have a fair opportunity to investigate the
circumstances of his death."

Civil claims totaling $55 million have been filed against the state by
the families of children for whom DeLeon provided care. Over the years,
she took in 14 foster children and adopted five of them, according to DSHS.






CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A
DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL
SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 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

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.

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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