FL - Nubia Barahona, 10, slain, twin injured, West Palm Beach, 11 Feb 2011 *Arrest*

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Carmen Barahona tries to bar evidence from public


http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/carmen-barahona-tries-to-bar-evidence-from-public-1440607.html

Carmen is afraid she won't get a fair trial if discovery is released before her trial.

Maybe she should have worried about this before she abused the children (one to death) in FL - my guess is the Sunshine Laws are not a surprise to her....
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Interesting. Whether or not the judge decides to seal the discovery evidence doesn't matter. These two are as guilty as sin - that's it. Period. Done. Over with.

They will be convicted and will receive the death penalty - I have no doubt.

Read the comments left at the end of that article. I'm all for sealing the evidence as it then can't be used for appeal.

Either way - they are both going down and will die for their actions.
 
I'm with you WOO - how much worse is it going to get? What we've heard already is pretty horrific. They are going down hard!!!!

When baby Shannon was found and Sue Baker was going to trial for kidnapping - in their small county (Chipley in Washington Co) in FL; the judge refused to grant a COV - he said the jurors only needed to put aside what they had heard and work with what was presented in court. A wise man. A jury was seated and quickly found her guilty based on evidence.
 
Saying they hoped to avoid “a trial on Facebook,” attorneys for a Miami couple accused of killing their adopted foster daughter are asking a judge to forbid the release of hundreds of court documents to the media.

Prosecutors are required to disclose relevant evidence to the defense before trial, a process known as “discovery.’’ Such documents are public record under Florida law, routinely available to reporters and the public, and only can be withheld in limited fashion and under special circumstances.

But lawyers for Jorge and Carmen Barahona — both charged with murder and possibly facing the death penalty — asked Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel Wednesday to make an exception in their case because they are concerned about pre-trial publicity.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/11/2212798/barahona-lawyers-ask-judge-to.html#ixzz1M8QrXZdf
 
^^They say FaceBook but they mean WebSleuths - I hope the judge turns them down flat...
 
It's all going to come eventually anyway. But it is interesting that the attorney is more or less admitting that the evidence is going to go against his client.
 
Soon after investigators believe Jorge Barahona beat his 10-year-old adopted daughter to death, he unexpectedly showed up to his sister’s house with the girl’s twin brother, Victor.

Victor sported a nasty cut to his lip. His wrist showed strange marks, as if someone had tied them together.

“What happened?” Laura Barahona asked her brother, according to a sworn statement released Wednesday, among 930 pages of documents made public by Palm Beach County prosecutors.

“I lost a child,’’ Jorge told his sister.

Barahona, she told detectives, struggled to explain himself: Nubia, he said, bolted from his truck near a Biscayne Boulevard motel. Then he suggested the girl was at home with his estranged wife. The marks on Victor’s wrists? He claimed his children were trying to poison him and had to be restrained.

“Let’s call the police. Turn yourself in,’’ Laura told her brother, according to a sworn statement. “Let me help you.’’

But Barahona did not turn himself in. Instead, he disappeared as Laura visited three police stations, and asked another brother to call state child welfare investigators in a desperate bid for help. None came.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/25/2235558/father-of-slain-girl-10-she-tried.html#ixzz1NSIq0OYl
 
Jorge Barahona suspected his adoptive children Nubia and Victor were poisoning him and their siblings with rat poison and was worried the twins were sexually abusing their brother and sister.

He even believed Nubia poured baby oil in his soft drinks to harm him.

To punish them, Barahona would bind the 10-year-old twins with clear packing tape and sit them in a corner of the dining room of the family’s Miami-Dade home. Sometimes the three would go into the bathroom and close the door. Inside, Barahona would try to persuade the kids to turn to Jesus. He was sometimes frustrated that the children refused to believe.

The revelations by Jorge and his wife, Carmen, were among many in hundreds of pages of court documents made public Wednesday. The documents shed new light on the Barahonas’ troubled relationship with their children and the abuse suffered by the twins before Nubia’s lifeless body was found Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, in the back of her father’s truck. The pickup was parked on a northbound shoulder of Interstate 95 in West Palm Beach.

(snip)

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/d...ase-reveal-grim-circumstances-at-1498409.html

Link to 930 pages of discovery released yesterday:

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/multimedia/archive/00887/Documents_rec_d_fro_887522a.pdf
 
I bumped this

If some of you that were interested is this when it happened - you may very well like to read some of the doc dump (link in daisy's poist above). Quite eye opening.
 
Tuesday morning, commissioners approved a resolution to name a stretch of SW 47th Terrace as “Nubia Way.” The section of 47th Terrace stretches from SW 107th Avenue to 117th Avenue. The roadway will also include signage with a brief description of Nubia’s story, and a child abuse hotline number urging residents to report suspected abuse to avoid another tragedy like Nubia’s.

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/05/03/nubia-barahona-to-be-memorialized-with-street-renaming/
 
I read the whole doc dump - those poor children and those monsters who worked so hard to adopt them...

In giving a statement to police JPerez stated she dropped her daughter off and picked her up daily, talked to her mother 100 times everyday but never went in the house to visit so she hadn't seen Nubia for months...at the end of the interview she is asked if she told the truth or if she had a reason to lie, she stated she was being truthful - before LE even had a chance to reply she followed with Do I get my daughter back now???

Carmen's statements were all about her being a victim, the LEOs handled her brilliantly - they let her implicate herself.

Carmen complains about the twins and compares them to the 11 year old and 7 year old - she also claimed that the twins tried to drown the 11 year old by getting him to retrieve items thrown into the pool then sitting on him - guessing they were immune to drowning themselves. (BTW this was not witnessed, Jorge figured it out)

The twins were also molesting the seven year old at three in the morning while Carmen was asleep. She was always removing herself from whatever the situation she described. (Jorge was the one binding the children, she would come home and release them.)

So many people tried to help. :(
 
Update on the social worker (Fleary) who was fired because of this:

Fired child abuse investigator in Barahona case loses appeal

By Ana M. Valdes, The Palm Beach Post

4:51 p.m. EDT, June 18, 2011
The state's Public Employees Relations Commission dismissed an appeal filed by Andrea Fleary, the state child abuse investigator fired in March for "poor performance and negligence" in her handling of abuse allegations at the home of Nubia Barahona.

Fleary, a 22-year veteran of the state Department of Children & Families, said during an April interview that her dismissal was inappropriate because she made no mistakes in her investigation, even though the 10-year-old girl's body was found in the back of her adoptive father's truck in West Palm Beach four days after Fleary visited her home.

**more at link**
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/pb-dcf-worker-loses-appeal-20110617,0,7056130.story



This makes me sick. This, this, this,,,,,,,,,,,,ok - woman - should have been fired and should seek employment elsewhere, especially in a field that does not deal with children.

Remember this was the woman that said in open court that she was not allowed to work weekends, so therefore, did not follow up on the hotline abuse call until Monday.


I also believe she should be in jail as well.

:furious: :furious: :furious:
 
Fleary, a 22-year veteran of the state Department of Children & Families, said during an April interview that her dismissal was inappropriate because she made no mistakes in her investigation, even though the 10-year-old girl's body was found in the back of her adoptive father's truck in West Palm Beach four days after Fleary visited her home.

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
 
The public and the news media will be kept out of the dependency court hearings for the three surviving adopted children of Jorge and Carmen Barahona, the Miami-Dade couple accused of fatally abusing one of their children..

On Thursday, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Maria Sampedro-Iglesia issued her decision to close the hearings, saying she did so “in the best interest of the children.”

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/07/21/2325261/judge-closes-barahona-dependency.html#ixzz1SnZ5chRg
 
DCF Secretary Wilkins Gets Tough Questions on Barahona Case <<snipped>>

Although Wilkins was newly-appointed at the time of the murder of 10-year-old Nubia Barahona and DCF responded quickly, the case has struck a nerve with members of the Senate Committee on Children, Families and Elder Affairs many of whom remember similar child abuse cases in the past.

"How do we address the moral failure of people who fail to do their jobs?" asked Sen. Ronda Storms, R-Brandon, and the committee chairwoman. "Is it systemic?"

Nubia's body was found in the back of her adoptive fathers pick-up truck near West Palm Beach on Feb. 14. In the drivers seat, her twin, Victor, was convulsing, doused with toxic chemicals. Carmen and Jorge Barahona, the adoptive parents, face first-degree murder and child abuse charges.

Scathing reports by an investigative panel and a Miami-Dade grand jury lay much of the blame at the doorstep of the child welfare system.

Sen. Nan Rich of Weston, the Senate Democratic leader, said the Barahona case was all too reminiscent of that of five-year-old Rilya Wilson, who disappeared from DCF custody in 2000.

"Its mind-boggling that [the Barahonas] could ever have been approved to be foster parents," she said. "Something is dramatically and drastically wrong if all of these red flags are not seen."

Before the twins adoption in 2009, Carmen and Jorge Barahona had been Nubia and Victors foster parents for five years. But as far back as 2005, the state child abuse hotline had received calls alleging the children came to school hungry, unkempt, exhausted and afraid to go home.

The Barahona case "exposed a lot of operational problems at our agency," he acknowledged. "There was a big breakdown. The case manager was not owning the case."

"What the blankety blank does that mean, not owning the case?" demanded Storms. "That little girl was practically peeling the paint off the walks to eat."

http://www.wctv.tv/news/headlines/DCF_Secretary_Wilkins_Gets_Tough_Questions_on_Barahona_Case_130265698.html

Some things are so broken they will never be fixed...it seems that is the case here. Mr Wilkins may have been asked the tough questions but his answers are the same ol' blah, blah, blah we have come to expect.
 
I followed this case in the beginning but just now read all of the discovery. I am beyond furious for Nubia's little life having been taken by these two (**&^&!!! She was such a pretty little girl. I cannot imagine how her twin brother must feel. I hope he has a loving family to be with, and excellent counseling.

I have been cooking in preparation for Thanksgiving and just now saw and had time to read the discovery. I am just sick after reading this garbage. GB all of the LE, Firefighters, and EMT's who had to see the horrible scene.

I hope those two murderers will wind up on death row.

Rest in Heavenly Peace, dear Nubia. No one can ever hurt you again. Justice is coming!
 
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