Two more Black Children (both Toddlers) have recently died due to Charlotte-Mecklenburg's Lazy, Non-Caring DSS Officials and Lack of Proper Intervention.
As I've mentioned in previous posts Charlotte's Leaders especially the Black Leaders, don't give a darn about Black Children unless their parents are Fraternity/Sorority members.
North Carolina DSS Officials often keep Low Income, Single Mothers in Poverty by NOT allowing them to earn a decent salary while still receiving some type of Benefits until they become Self-Sufficient.
This modern Slavery tactic encourages these women to have more babies out of Wedlock, which of course means more Federal funds.
Its basically a Federally Funded Money Laundering scheme.
Who suffers most?
North Carolina's Minority Children because the Federal Funds are only used on North Carolina's White Children.
Its obvious the Civil Rights of NC's Minority Children are being violated.
Does anyone care? No!
Especially NOT Charlotte's Scared, Selfish Black Leaders.
Whenever NC or Charlotte DSS launches an Investigation all they usually do is ask the accused Mothers to attend Parenting Classes.
They don't order them to attend, nor do they order these Women to receive Mental Health Counseling, thus the cycle of Child Abuse/ Child Neglect continues.
On the other hand whenever NC DSS Officials place Children in Foster Care homes, quite frequently the Foster Care parents end up abusing those same Children Physically and Sexually.
When the Children die, NC officials just put them in a pauper's grave, hold a tired Child Fatality Task Force meeting and move on.
That's It!
No North Carolina DSS Officials or Staff heads roll not ever.
The ONLY reason Shaniya Davis received national attention is because her father was White.
If her father had been Black the News Affiliates and Mainstream Media would NOT have cared.
Especially not North Carolina's Biased Media organizations.
But get this!!!!!
Shaniya Davis' mother is out on bond!
Can you believe it?
She sold Shaniya Davis to settle a drug debt, the child was raped and killed, now her mother Antionette Davis is out on bond.
And....she's Pregnant again!!!!!
An independent, outside Investigation is most definitely needed.
When is the Obama Administration or U.S. Dept of Justice going to step in and make states like North Carolina with a long history of Poor DSS Oversight and Racism, obey the Law?
Aren't the Democrats supposed to be the political party of Social Conscience? (Liberal Socialism)
Does Pres. Obama care about ALL Children or just Malia and Sasha?
Who will speak up for these dead Children?
By the way Eugenics and Aborting all Black babies is NOT the answer!
Providing an Equal Education, Mental Health Counseling, Birth Control and Equal Opportunities to Minorities would help much more.
Those two children are now with Jesus but they died prematurely.
I'll keep praying.
Charlotte Court Documents Show Mother Had Left Her Kids Alone Before
A mother whose unsupervised toddlers died in a weekend house fire had left her children alone before, according to documents obtained by NewsChannel 36.
"I heard the child screaming, 'Mommy, Mommy, Mommy!'" said Habib al-Zaid, who lives on Rowan Street, where the fire broke out Sunday.
He said he assumed the little girl thought her mother might still be home, but soon learned two toddlers were still inside the burning house.
Police say their mother was nowhere to be found
"It's sickening," al-Zaid said.
Police charged Orgal Opata with murder after her two youngest children -- a 1-year-old and 2-year-old -- died. Two other children -- 4 and 7 years old -- made it out alive.
"She deserves to be convicted for doing something like that," al-Zaid said.
Police haven't said where Opata was at the time, but neighbors say she has left the children home alone before.
Court documents detail a previous arrest for leaving the children alone.
Firefighters say in October 2009, someone driving by happened to see Opata's 2-year-old wandering alone in the street, wearing nothing but a T-shirt and a diaper.
Court documents give a detailed account of how Opata told police she went to pick up her oldest child at a nearby elementary school and admitted she "put all three children in the bedroom and shut the door."
The court documents also show police found the 9-month-old lying on the bed, face down with a wet diaper and found no adult supervision at the house.
Al-Zaid wasn't surprised, but said, "There's no reason for anybody to leave their children in the house alone."
The Department of Social Services has refused to comment on whether the agency was already investigating the mother because of the October arrest.
Opata is scheduled to appear in court later this week. She is charged with murder, reckless/gross felony abuse, exposing children to fire and one count of burning resulting in serious injury to a firefighter.
NewsChannel 36 has confirmed a child fatality task force will be investigating the deaths.
Charlotte Mother Of Dead Children Had Been Charged Before
The mother of two unsupervised toddlers who died in a Charlotte house fire on Sunday was charged last fall with neglect in connection with leaving three young children home alone, according to Mecklenburg court records.
Orgal Paulette Opata, 26, was charged with child neglect in the Oct. 27 incident, after a passerby brought Opata’s two-year-old son, Josiah Hawthorne, to a fire station and said the child was in the street wearing a T-shirt and a diaper. The person also said a four-year-old was at the same house, on the front porch.
Firefighters went to the house on Rowan Street in the Thomasboro community, found Opata’s four-year-old son, and also discovered 9-month-old Gabriel Hawthorne lying on a bed facedown with a wet diaper.
Opata, who returned to the house shortly, was charged then with three counts of neglect of juveniles “left alone locked in (a) room without adult supervision.” Opata told police, according to records, that she had left the house for a short time to pick up her older daughter at nearby Thomasboro Elementary. The case was scheduled for court this month.
On Sunday, the two youngest children -- Josiah and Gabriel Hawthorne -- died in a 6 a.m. fire at the house. Neighbors helped rescue the two older children. Opata wasn’t home and police spent hours searching for her. Charges against Opata include two counts of murder and three counts of reckless/gross felony child abuse.
Antoinette Davis, Mom Accused Of Selling Shaniya Davis As Sex Slave, Is Pregnant Again
Antoinette Nicole Davis, the woman accused of selling her 5-year-old daughter, Shaniya Davis, into sexual slavery before the girl was murdered, has got an unnerving surprise. She's pregnant again and carrying the baby while sitting in a North Carolina prison and awaiting a potential trial.
Thus far, Antoinette Davis has been charged with human trafficking. Arrest documents said she "knowingly provide[d] Shaniya Davis with the intent that she be held in sexual servitude" and she "permit[ted] an act of prostitution." Fayetteville, N.C. police have not yet said if those charges will be amended to include murder.
Shaniya Davis was found dead Monday as searchers discovered the girl's body off a rural road in Sanford, N.C., around 30 miles from her Fayetteville home. The discovery brought a gruesome end to a week-long search carried about by hundreds of officers and volunteers. Antoinette Davis reported her daughter missing Nov. 10.
News of Antoinette Davis' pregnancy comes from her aunt, Leona Cromertie, who also said Sunday that her niece has a second child who is now seven.
Cromertie, who believes in her niece's innocence, says that Antoinette Davis, 25, was dating Clarence D. Coe at the time, the man whom Antoinette Davis initially accused of kidnapping Shaniya Davis, according to The Fayetteville Observer.
Police investigated Coe, but he was quickly let go as hotel surveillance video surfaced last Tuesday showing another man, Mario Andrette McNeill, carrying Shaniya Davis through a hallway of the Comfort Suites hotel in Sanford, N.C., about 40 minutes from Raleigh.
McNeill, 29, has so far been charged with kidnapping. Police claim he admitted taking the girl, but his lawyer, Allen Rogers, said he will plead not guilty. Either way, Fayetteville police said he was of no help in finding Shaniya Davis.
On Monday, Antoinette Davis was calm and quiet during a court appearance. She provided one-word answers to the judge's questions. She requested a court-appointed attorney and did not enter a plea.
Her sister, Brenda Davis, 20, said she does not believe the charges.
"I don't believe she could hurt her children," said Brenda Davis, who spoke with her sister at the jail Sunday. Antoinette Davis' aunt, Yvonne Mitchell, said the mother had two jobs and would never harm the child.
Fayetteville police spokeswoman Theresa Chance declined to talk about additional charges. She also wouldn't comment on a cause of death or the condition of Shaniya's body.
Antoinette Davis only recently took custody of Shaniya Davis, according to the child's father Bradley Lockhart, who said he raised her for the first four years of her life.
Lockhart described his relationship with Davis as a "one-night stand" and said he did not know McNeill.
Davis struggled financially over the years, but she recently got a job and her own place, so Lockhart said he decided to give her a chance with their daughter.
"I should've never let her go over there," he told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Mourners Remember Tiffany Wright 15, Shot At Bus Stop
Tiffany Wright stood alone in the dark, waiting for her school bus.
It was just before 6 a.m., and her foster grandmother had walked back home to get Tiffany's water bottle.
Tiffany, 15, was eight months pregnant but determined to stay on track in school. She wanted to be a lawyer. And after just a few weeks at Hawthorne High, she had impressed teachers as smart and ambitious, despite a difficult childhood.
At 5:51, Tiffany sent a text.
"Wheres the bus?"
One stop away, replied her friend, already on the bus.
At 5:55, as the bus lumbered toward Tiffany's stop, people began calling police to report gunshots.
A school bus dispatcher radioed Tiffany's bus driver: Change course - something's happening ahead.
Tiffany lay dead in the road, shot in the head, that morning, Monday, Sept. 14. Her baby girl was delivered at the hospital and lived a week, but died Sunday.
Nobody's charged in the killings, but police call Tiffany's adoptive brother, Royce Mitchell, a "person of interest."
In the months before she died, local agencies took steps aimed at stabilizing her home life and keeping her safe. But her story exposes failures in the system that was supposed to protect her.
Among the missteps:
•In February, a Mecklenburg court clerk appointed Mitchell as Tiffany's temporary guardian - even though he was a felon who served time in federal prison. He was also tried in 2006 for murder, but found not guilty. And last year, he was accused of domestic violence, though the case was dismissed.
•In July, social workers told police that Mitchell, 36, might have committed statutory rape with Tiffany, but police didn't question him about it for seven weeks, and didn't charge him with the rape until after Tiffany was killed.
•This month, Mecklenburg social services failed to cut off communication between Tiffany, who was in foster care, and Mitchell, said a source close to the investigation.
On the day of Tiffany's killing, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police jailed Mitchell for statutory rape and indecent liberties with a child, naming Tiffany as the victim.
Police defend their work, saying they followed the industry's best practices - which takes time. Police didn't feel a need to rush, they say, because they believed Tiffany was secure, hidden in a foster home with no threat to her safety.
Police say it's hard to prove statutory rape: Of the 262 reports of statutory rape police received over three years, only 16 percent - 42 cases - were accepted by prosecutors.
Experts say statutory rape cases are complicated because they involve victims ages 13, 14 or 15 who often consider themselves voluntary participants in sex with someone at least six years older. So victims can be reluctant to help police.
But child advocates say in cases like Tiffany's, police should act more aggressively. An immediate arrest sends a signal to a suspect and can persuade them to stay away from victims.
"The cases may be difficult to win, but they're not difficult to charge," says Brett Loftis of Charlotte's Council for Children's Rights.
UNCC criminologist Paul Friday says: "Often, nothing is done in these kinds of cases because they're based on improper assumptions about the rationality of someone that age. But the minors are often unaware of disease, birth control and they can be exploited by someone."
Adopted by foster mother
Tiffany first entered the child welfare system as a toddler in Buffalo, N.Y., when her mother lost custody.
She was adopted at 4 by her foster mother, Alma Wright, an older woman with eight grown children, who was excited about raising another child.
One of Wright's grown sons was Royce Mitchell, a star quarterback in high school who'd gone on to play for a semi-pro team in Buffalo. But Mitchell also was indicted in 1999 as part of a drug trafficking ring and went to federal prison.
While he was in prison, authorities also charged Mitchell with an earlier murder, but a jury found him not guilty.
In 2004, Alma and Tiffany left Buffalo for North Carolina, settling near Kings Mountain. Tiffany made friends easily at school and church. She ran track at Bessemer City High School.
In 2007, Mitchell was released from prison and followed his mother to North Carolina.
But last fall, Alma Wright got sick. Friends at church helped out with Tiffany, inviting her for dinners and weekends. Tiffany spent time with Mitchell and his wife, too.
Alma Wright died Jan. 25, and Tiffany moved in with the Mitchells in Charlotte.
On Jan. 30, Royce Mitchell asked a Mecklenburg court to appoint him and his wife as Tiffany's guardians.
On his application, he wrote: "We are seeking guardianship because we were requested to do so by Mrs. Alma Wright before she died."
He wanted to transfer Tiffany to West Mecklenburg High School.
The court set a hearing for Feb. 5 and appointed a child advocate to study the situation and look after Tiffany's best interests in court.
There's no transcript of what happened in court, and the clerk who handled Tiffany's case declined to discuss his decision.
Frederick Benson, a Mecklenburg assistant clerk of superior court, appointed Mitchell the temporary guardian of Tiffany's welfare.
It's unclear if Benson, a lawyer, knew about Mitchell's criminal background. Court clerks are not required to perform background checks in guardianship cases, says Clerk of Superior Court Martha Curran. It's up to each clerk to decide what checks are necessary, and they often rely on court-appointed child advocates to advise them in such cases.
Tiffany's advocate, lawyer Martha Efird, declined to discuss her actions in the case.
It was in the weeks surrounding the Feb. 5 court hearing that Tiffany got pregnant, if hospital estimates are accurate.
But friends say Tiffany, who started at West Mecklenburg High in February, wouldn't realize for four or five months that she was pregnant.
On Feb. 27, clerk of court Benson ordered DSS to conduct a "home study" of the Mitchell household. Officials won't release their findings.
But Mitchell didn't keep custody long, according to several of Tiffany's friends in King's Mountain.
In late March, Mitchell left Tiffany at a group home called With Friends in Gastonia, according to Marlene Jefferies and Cruceta Jeffeirs, two adult family friends who watched Tiffany grow up.
The group home wouldn't confirm that. But the friends say the home reported to social services that Tiffany was abandoned. And she was soon back in foster care.
On March 31, Jeffeirs, a Shelby pastor, wrote a letter to Benson seeking custody of Tiffany: "My desire is to see Tiffany accomplish all the goals that she has set for herself and I believe she can do that in a stable environment with lots of guidance and love."
DSS officials in Gaston and Mecklenburg won't discuss Tiffany's case or answer questions about what steps they took to protect her.
But friends and family say Tiffany was eventually placed in the care of foster parent Susan Barber, in a townhome off Mallard Creek Road in Derita.
By July, it was clear Tiffany was pregnant, friends say.
Barber tried to shield Tiffany from talking to those she believed might be bad influences, according to Tiffany's cousin Brittany Page. But a source close to the investigation said Tiffany and Mitchell continued communicating.
Despite repeated attempts, Barber could not be reached.
As the school year approached, Tiffany prepared to change schools again, this time to Hawthorne High in Charlotte, which offers a special program for pregnant students.
Delayed investigation
On July 27, social workers reported to police that Royce Mitchell might have committed statutory rape with Tiffany.
It took eight days for a detective to look at the case, and three days more for it to be officially assigned to Teresa Johnson, a detective with CMPD's youth crime and domestic violence unit.
Another 12 days passed before Johnson interviewed Tiffany.
It's unclear when detective Johnson discovered Mitchell's background, but it wasn't enough to ramp up the investigation. Investigators say they believed Tiffany was safe in a foster home and faced no threats from Mitchell.
Police say their performance in the case followed procedure and met standards.
Police interview alleged victims immediately if the crime has occurred within the previous 72 hours, so they can gather evidence that may remain. But in cases like Tiffany's - where months had elapsed since the alleged offense - police try to arrange just one interview when children and teen victims of abuse are involved.
Police acknowledge that strategy takes time but minimizes trauma and reduces the chances that young victims might be led into inaccurate testimony by repeated questioning.
Police also let such victims decide when they want to be interviewed at the county's child-victim center called Pat's Place. There, specially trained interviewers talk to victims, while social workers, psychologists, police and others watch from another room.
Tiffany chose an Aug. 19 interview. She didn't say much during the formal interview. But later that day, Johnson won her trust and obtained enough information to move forward with the investigation.
No response from Mitchell
The next day, Aug. 20, the detective made her first call to Mitchell to ask him about the charge, she says. Johnson left a message and gave him a few days to call back.
When Mitchell didn't respond, she made calls over the next two weeks to social workers and a federal probation officer to ask Mitchell to come talk to police.
Police say they didn't immediately arrest him because they believed they could get better information if he talked voluntarily.
On Sept. 9, a federal probation official told Johnson that Mitchell was not coming in.
On Sept. 10, a team of social workers, police and other agencies held a standard follow-up meeting to discuss how to proceed in Tiffany's case.
On Friday, Sept. 11, detective Johnson phoned Mitchell's wife and left a message. She asked her to call back to discuss Tiffany, Johnson says, but didn't give details of the rape allegation.
That Monday, Tiffany was shot and killed.
As emergency vehicles rolled to the scene, Tiffany's school bus was diverted from its normal route. But the students could see flashing lights. Tiffany's friends on the bus, Cimone Black and Tamia Corpening, began to worry.
"I kept texting her phone...," Cimone said. Then she started calling, but all she got was voice mail.
The bus continued on to Hawthorne. For Tamia, the hourlong ride was excruciating.
Nobody said a word.
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Sources: WCNC, McClatchy Newspapers, AP, The State, ABC News, CBS News, Google Maps
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