Orgal Opata Charged With Murder Of Her 2 Toddlers, $1Million Bond

Charlotte Judge Sets $1 Million Bond For Woman Accused In Toddler Deaths


A Charlotte Judge set bond at just over $1 million during a brief Tuesday court appearance for Orgal Opata, the Charlotte mother charged with murder after two of her children died in a Sunday house fire.

Opata, 26, stood silently at the front of the courtroom, hands shackled to her waist, as Mecklenburg District Court Judge Regan Miller ordered that she be appointed an attorney. When he asked if she had any questions, she shook her head and mouthed “No.”

Gabriel Hawthorne, 1, and Josiah Hawthorne, 2, died in the blaze that destroyed the house at 920 Rowan Street in west Charlotte. Police said Opata left her children home alone but haven’t yet said where she was during the 6 a.m. fire.

Opata’s two older children, ages 4 and 7, escaped. Fire department officials say a kerosene heater in a bedroom sparked the fire.

Opata turned herself in at police headquarters uptown hours after the fire on Sunday. Investigators say Opata has refused to be interviewed by detectives.

She faces two counts of murder, three counts of reckless/gross felony child abuse, four counts of exposing a child to fire and one count of burning resulting in serious injury to a firefighter.

Opata had a previous conviction in Greensboro in 2007 for possessing cocaine and was sentenced to at least six months in jail. Six years earlier, she was convicted of larceny by employee in Greensboro and sentenced to six to eight months.

Last fall, Opata was charged with child neglect for allegedly leaving three of her children home alone. A passer-by reported finding one of the children in the street and took the child to a fire station. A hearing is set for Friday in that case.

After Opata’s court appearance Tuesday, Jerry Hawthorne, the father of the children who died, declined to be interviewed.

“I’ve been taking care of those kids -- blood, tooth and nail,” Hawthorne told reporters, as he stood in the courthouse with several relatives.

Court records show Hawthorne has lived in Greensboro and has been convicted of multiple drug-related offenses in Guilford County since 2000. Those cases included convictions for maintaining a place to sell drugs and possession with intent to sell marijuana and cocaine.

Hawthorne was released from prison in North Carolina in 2008, after serving about nine months on drug charges. He is awaiting trial on a charge of violating his probation by leaving the county.

Hawthorne also was charged in Mecklenburg in 2008 with contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile, but that case was dismissed last year and details of the case are no longer available.






Charlotte DSS Liable For Deaths Of 2 More Black Children


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.


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