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Atlanta police launch internal investigation into handling of 4-year-old who starved to death

Treasure McWeay died of starvation. Now, the Atlanta Police Department has launched an internal investigation into its handling of the case as her father, now accused of malice murder, appears in court.
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Her father, Rodney McWeay, faces multiple felony charges in the death of his daughter and alleged abuse of her siblings.

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I don’t like that no officer ever went to check. :mad:

Arrest affidavits described Treasure and her brothers, ages 3 and 5, living in a house of horrors inside their lower-level unit on Renfrew Court. ….The affidavits say McWeay kept the three younger children separated and locked in their rooms, with surveillance cameras aimed at their beds and no access to food, water or bathrooms. The only food inside – some expired eggs and expired milk.

"Officers were dispatched to the home, but it does not appear officers had contact with Mr. McWeay or the children during these calls," Atlanta police told the I-Team in an emailed statement. "……

………
What happens after someone calls in for a wellness check?" defense attorney Samantha Beck asked.

"An officer would go out to check on the children," the detective said.

"Did an officer go out?"

"No."
 
Here is his stuff on the court site - Fulton County - looks like he has more charges than the murder one....

Case Number Style / Defendant File Date Type Status
23CP224342 MCWEAY, RODNEY 12/21/2023 RN-PREFILE / CRIMINAL COMPLAINT Open

Charge
Charges:
MCWEAY, RODNEY
Description Statute Level Date
1 CRUELTY TO CHILDREN - 1ST DEGREE 16-5-70 Felony 12/11/2023
2 Kidnapping 16-5-40 Felony 07/06/2023
3 Kidnapping 16-5-40 Felony 07/06/2023
4 Kidnapping 16-5-40 Felony 07/06/2023
5 Murder 16-5-1 Felony 12/11/2023
6 FALSE IMPRISONMENT - VICTIM IS LESS THAN 14 YOA AND NOT OFFENDERS CHILD 16-5-41(c) Felony 12/11/2023
7 CRUELTY TO CHILDREN - 2ND DEGREE 16-5-70(c) Felony 12/11/2023
8 FALSE IMPRISONMENT - VICTIM IS LESS THAN 14 YOA AND NOT OFFENDERS CHILD 16-5-41(c) Felony 12/11/2023
9 FALSE IMPRISONMENT - VICTIM IS LESS THAN 14 YOA AND NOT OFFENDERS CHILD 16-5-41(c) Felony 12/11/2023
10 CRUELTY TO CHILDREN - 1ST DEGREE 16-5-70 Felony 12/11/2023
11 CRUELTY TO CHILDREN - 1ST DEGREE 16-5-70 Felony 12/11/2023
12 CRUELTY TO CHILDREN - 2ND DEGREE 16-5-70(c) Felony 05/19/2021
13 CRUELTY TO CHILDREN - 2ND DEGREE 16-5-70(c) Felony 05/19/2021
14 CRUELTY TO CHILDREN - 1ST DEGREE 16-5-70 Felony 05/19/2021
15 Murder 16-5-1 Serious Felony 01/11/2024

Events and Hearings
12/22/2023 COUNTY JAIL FIRST APPEARANCE
Original Type: COUNTY JAIL FIRST APPEARANCE
Judicial Officer: Oliver, Rashida
Hearing Time: 11:30 AM
Result: RESET FOR PRELIMINARY HEARING

12/22/2023 PRE-INDICTMENT JAIL COMMITMENT

12/22/2023 PRE-INDICTMENT ORDER FOR BOND

First Appearance Order for Bond - AUTOMATED - NEW

12/22/2023 PRE-INDICTMENT P.T. ASSESSMENT

12/22/2023 PRE-INDICTMENT ORDER
PRE-INDICTMENT ORDER
CommentL RULE 11 ORDER

12/22/2023 PRE-INDICTMENT FIRST APPEARANCE COURT ACTION
FIRST APPEARANCE ACTION FORM - NEW

01/02/2024 PRE-INDICTMENT ENTRY OF APPEARANCE
PRE-INDICTMENT ENTRY OF APPEARANCE *
Comment: entry

01/02/2024 PRE-INDICTMENT PETITION\MOTION FOR BOND
PRE-INDICTMENT PETITON\MOTION FOR BOND
Comment: bond

01/11/2024 PRE-INDICTMENT PRELIMINARY HEARING
Judicial Officer(s): JUDGE, COMPLAINT ROOM, Drake, Ashley
Hearing Time: 1:00 PM
Comment: BK # 2321160

01/12/2024 PRE-INDICTMENT PROBABLE CAUSE ORDER
PRE-INDICTMENT JAIL COMMITMENT

01/23/2024 BOND HEARING
Judicial Officer: FARMER, KEVIN M
Hearing Time: 9:30 AM

link: Fulton County Magistrate, State, and Superior Court Record Search
 
I think it was about having control too. He clearly did not care about these children but yet he went and took them from their mum. I think he just wanted to punish the mum. Why else would he take them, only to lock them in their eooms and starve them. He could have easily give them back to mum.
 
Tuesday, January 23rd:
*Bond Hearing (@ 9:30am ET) - GA -Treasure McWeay (4) starved to death by father, Dec. 11, 2023 & abuse of brothers (3 & 5) - Rodney A. McWeay (31) indicted (12/22/23) & charged (12/11/23) with 2 counts of murder (12/11/23 & 1/11/24), 3 counts of kidnapping (7/6/23), 4 counts of 1st degree cruelty to children (5/19/21 & 12/11/23), 3 counts of 2nd degree cruelty to children (5/19/21 & 12/11/23) & 3 counts of false imprisonment (victim is less than 14 yrs old (12/11/23). Held without bond.
Public defender Smantha Beck.
The records reveal that for months leading up to 4-year-old Treasure’s death, DFCS workers sought assistance from police in finding the children, but got little help. Rodney McWeay, 31, did not have legal custody of his three children, DFCS said. He is accused of traveling to Maryland in July & kidnapping them from their mother, returning them to the same duplex DFCS had removed them from less than two weeks earlier. Her father, Rodney McWeay, faces multiple felony charges in the death of his daughter & alleged abuse of her siblings. Arrest affidavits described Treasure & her brothers, ages 3 & 5, living in a house of horrors inside their lower-level unit on Renfrew Court. The affidavits say McWeay kept the three younger children separated & locked in their rooms, with surveillance cameras aimed their beds & no access to food, water or bathrooms. The only food inside – some expired eggs & expired milk. The children allegedly watched their father beat their mother & 8-year-old half-sister, before their mother left the home with her older children.
12/22/23 Update: County jail first appearance. Reset for preliminary hearing. Pre-indictment jail commitment. Pre-indictment Order for bond. Pre-Indictment P.T. assessment. Pre-indictment Order Rule 11 Order.
1/2/24 Update: Pre-Indictment entry of appearance. Pre-indictment petition/Motion for bond. 1/11/24 Update: Pre-indictment preliminary hearing held. After the hearing Thursday, Judge Ashley Drake added a malice murder charge against McWeay, who already faces 14 other felonies, including kidnapping & child cruelty. The judge also ordered him to be held without bond. 1/12/24 Update: Pre-indictment probable cause Order. Jail commitment. 1/22/24 Update: Order approving request to use a recording device pursuant to Rule 22 on recording of judicial proceedings. Next Bond hearing on 1/23/24 @ 9:30am presiding judge Kevin M. Farmer.
 
Docket update:

Evens & Hearings
01/23/2024 BOND HEARING
Judicial Officer: FARMER, KEVIN M
Hearing Time: 9:00 AM

01/23/2024 BOND HEARING
Judicial Officer: FARMER, KEVIN M
Hearing Time: 9:30 AM

01/24/2024 PRE-INDICTMENT ORDER FOR BOND
Comment: ORDER FOR BOND

01/24/2024 PRE-INDICTMENT PETITION\MOTION FOR BOND
Comment: motion for bond

link: Fulton County Magistrate, State, and Superior Court Record Search



I shall check back on the court site in a couple of days & see if he has a next hearing date then.
 
With the FOX 5 I-Team continuing to ask questions, the Atlanta Police Department announced an overhaul in how it handles calls for assistance from the state Division of Family and Children Services. Calls about children in peril will be dispatched within two minutes and tracked over time to ensure proper follow-up, the department told the I-Team.

"We believe in being protectors of the innocent and we share the concerns brought to light after Treasure’s death," APD said in a statement provided by spokesman Sgt. John Chafee.

An I-Team investigation found that during the five months between the kidnapping and Treasure’s death by starvation, DFCS asked police for help checking on Treasure and her brothers at least three times. Police officers and case workers were outside 31-year-old Rodney McWeay’s lower-level duplex unit on multiple occasions, but not at the same time, and not coordinating.

One legal expert told the I-Team that, under their own policies, Atlanta police had a duty to take "immediate action" in the case, but didn’t.

After one request for a welfare check, police didn’t go to the duplex at all, according to court testimony from a homicide detective. The second time, records show, an officer wasn’t dispatched until an hour and a half after a 911 call. The final time – less than a month before Treasure’s death – it took police almost five hours to arrive at the house.

When McWeay didn’t answer his door, case records show no further efforts to get inside the unit. After the girl died, police discovered she and her brothers had been locked inside, deprived of food and water.
www.fox5atlanta.com

Atlanta police changes procedures following I-Team investigation into girl’s starving death

A legal expert tells the FOX 5 I-Team, the Atlanta Police Department had a duty to take “immediate action" that might have saved 4-year-old Treasure McWeay from starving to death, but didn’t. Now, after an I-Team investigation, APD announces an overhaul in how it works with DFCS on welfare checks.
www.fox5atlanta.com www.fox5atlanta.com
 
Niner said:
Here is his stuff on the court site - Fulton County - looks like he has more charges than the murder one....

Case Number Style / Defendant File Date Type Status
23CP224342 MCWEAY, RODNEY 12/21/2023 RN-PREFILE / CRIMINAL COMPLAINT Open

Charge
Charges:
MCWEAY, RODNEY
Description Statute Level Date
1 CRUELTY TO CHILDREN - 1ST DEGREE 16-5-70 Felony 12/11/2023
2 Kidnapping 16-5-40 Felony 07/06/2023
3 Kidnapping 16-5-40 Felony 07/06/2023
4 Kidnapping 16-5-40 Felony 07/06/2023
5 Murder 16-5-1 Felony 12/11/2023
6 FALSE IMPRISONMENT - VICTIM IS LESS THAN 14 YOA AND NOT OFFENDERS CHILD 16-5-41(c) Felony 12/11/2023
7 CRUELTY TO CHILDREN - 2ND DEGREE 16-5-70(c) Felony 12/11/2023
8 FALSE IMPRISONMENT - VICTIM IS LESS THAN 14 YOA AND NOT OFFENDERS CHILD 16-5-41(c) Felony 12/11/2023
9 FALSE IMPRISONMENT - VICTIM IS LESS THAN 14 YOA AND NOT OFFENDERS CHILD 16-5-41(c) Felony 12/11/2023
10 CRUELTY TO CHILDREN - 1ST DEGREE 16-5-70 Felony 12/11/2023
11 CRUELTY TO CHILDREN - 1ST DEGREE 16-5-70 Felony 12/11/2023
12 CRUELTY TO CHILDREN - 2ND DEGREE 16-5-70(c) Felony 05/19/2021
13 CRUELTY TO CHILDREN - 2ND DEGREE 16-5-70(c) Felony 05/19/2021
14 CRUELTY TO CHILDREN - 1ST DEGREE 16-5-70 Felony 05/19/2021
15 Murder 16-5-1 Serious Felony 01/11/2024

Events and Hearings
12/22/2023 COUNTY JAIL FIRST APPEARANCE
Original Type: COUNTY JAIL FIRST APPEARANCE
Judicial Officer: Oliver, Rashida
Hearing Time: 11:30 AM
Result: RESET FOR PRELIMINARY HEARING

12/22/2023 PRE-INDICTMENT JAIL COMMITMENT

12/22/2023 PRE-INDICTMENT ORDER FOR BOND

First Appearance Order for Bond - AUTOMATED - NEW

12/22/2023 PRE-INDICTMENT P.T. ASSESSMENT

12/22/2023 PRE-INDICTMENT ORDER
PRE-INDICTMENT ORDER
CommentL RULE 11 ORDER

12/22/2023 PRE-INDICTMENT FIRST APPEARANCE COURT ACTION
FIRST APPEARANCE ACTION FORM - NEW

01/02/2024 PRE-INDICTMENT ENTRY OF APPEARANCE
PRE-INDICTMENT ENTRY OF APPEARANCE *
Comment: entry

01/02/2024 PRE-INDICTMENT PETITION\MOTION FOR BOND
PRE-INDICTMENT PETITON\MOTION FOR BOND
Comment: bond

01/11/2024 PRE-INDICTMENT PRELIMINARY HEARING
Judicial Officer(s): JUDGE, COMPLAINT ROOM, Drake, Ashley
Hearing Time: 1:00 PM
Comment: BK # 2321160

01/12/2024 PRE-INDICTMENT PROBABLE CAUSE ORDER
PRE-INDICTMENT JAIL COMMITMENT

01/23/2024 BOND HEARING
Judicial Officer: FARMER, KEVIN M
Hearing Time: 9:30 AM

link: Fulton County Magistrate, State, and Superior Court Record Search
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Thank you. Excellent info/details. GO NINERS!❤
 
Still can not access the court site - just tried.... dang hackers...
 
Well - still down for Fulton County...

Was wondering if any locals here - any articles on this case - specifically a next court date for this guy. TIA if someone can find something! :)

Last hearing was on 1/23/24
 
Since Fulton County court site is down I decided to search for her case. Found this article on his last hearing on 1/23/24. But unfortunately it does not give a next court date.

www.fox5atlanta.com

Bond denied for father who allegedly wouldn't open door for DFCS while daughter starved

ROBERT MCWEAY CASE: It took 11 minutes for a judge to deny bond for the father accused of kidnapping and murdering a 4-year-old child. What a FOX 5 I-Team investigation found.
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Feb. 23, 2024

ATLANTA - A father accused of kidnapping, cruelty to children and starving his daughter to death will remain in jail before trial.

Rodney McWeay, 31, asked to be released on bond Tuesday, but a Fulton County Superior Court judge wasted no time turning him down. The hearing was over within 11 minutes.

"I think he's a danger to reoffend and a danger to the community, based on his criminal history," Judge Kevin Farmer said. "And also a threat to intimidate witnesses."
[.....]
McWeay is accused of keeping Treasure and her brothers, ages 3 and 5, in squalor – locking them in separate rooms while he left the house for long periods, and watching them with surveillance cameras.
[.....]
McWeay faces 15 felony charges in the case, including malice murder. The prosecution brought out his long criminal history on Tuesday, including prior charges of unlawful entry, grand larceny, motor vehicle theft and breaking and entering, and how he's accused of beating the children's mother in front of the children.
[.....]
The prosecutor said that after Treasure died, McWeay kept badgering her mother, who fled to Maryland because of domestic violence.

"Since the defendant has been in custody, he has attempted to contact the biological mother 46 times," Deputy District Attorney McAuley said. "After the 4-year-old child was deceased but before he was arrested on the charges that he is before the court today, he also attempted to take out a warrant on the biological mother."


A lot more in article....
 
Related articles:

Feb. 1, 2024
www.fox5atlanta.com

Atlanta police changes procedures following I-Team investigation into girl’s starving death

A legal expert tells the FOX 5 I-Team, the Atlanta Police Department had a duty to take “immediate action" that might have saved 4-year-old Treasure McWeay from starving to death, but didn’t. Now, after an I-Team investigation, APD announces an overhaul in how it works with DFCS on welfare checks.
www.fox5atlanta.com www.fox5atlanta.com


Hoping someone reading here from the U.S. or even Georgia can find something more recent. Just getting articles up to Feb. 1, 2024. TIA if anyone can find something - like his next hearing date! :)
 
I can't get past the fact that this little doll was named Treasure. How did it come to this?
 
Niner said:
Since Fulton County court site is down I decided to search for her case. Found this article on his last hearing on 1/23/24. But unfortunately it does not give a next court date.

www.fox5atlanta.com

Bond denied for father who allegedly wouldn't open door for DFCS while daughter starved

ROBERT MCWEAY CASE: It took 11 minutes for a judge to deny bond for the father accused of kidnapping and murdering a 4-year-old child. What a FOX 5 I-Team investigation found.
www.fox5atlanta.com www.fox5atlanta.com

Feb. 23, 2024

ATLANTA - A father accused of kidnapping, cruelty to children and starving his daughter to death will remain in jail before trial.

Rodney McWeay, 31, asked to be released on bond Tuesday, but a Fulton County Superior Court judge wasted no time turning him down. The hearing was over within 11 minutes.

"I think he's a danger to reoffend and a danger to the community, based on his criminal history," Judge Kevin Farmer said. "And also a threat to intimidate witnesses."
[.....]
McWeay is accused of keeping Treasure and her brothers, ages 3 and 5, in squalor – locking them in separate rooms while he left the house for long periods, and watching them with surveillance cameras.
[.....]
McWeay faces 15 felony charges in the case, including malice murder. The prosecution brought out his long criminal history on Tuesday, including prior charges of unlawful entry, grand larceny, motor vehicle theft and breaking and entering, and how he's accused of beating the children's mother in front of the children.
[.....]
The prosecutor said that after Treasure died, McWeay kept badgering her mother, who fled to Maryland because of domestic violence.

"Since the defendant has been in custody, he has attempted to contact the biological mother 46 times," Deputy District Attorney McAuley said. "After the 4-year-old child was deceased but before he was arrested on the charges that he is before the court today, he also attempted to take out a warrant on the biological mother."


A lot more in article....
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[bbm]

what does that mean that the defendant 'attempted to take out a warrant'
the only warrant I know of is when the police are investigating a crime
 
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