MA - Jeremiah Oliver, 5, found deceased, Worcester, 14 Sept 2013 *Arrest in 2023*

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He was busy in the throes of addiction and distributing drugs.

I believe he is grieving. I believe he wishes he had been the father that he wasn't.

That said, when his other children were removed from that home after Jeremiah was finally known to be missing, he stated he wanted to get his act together and be there for his other kids.

Instead he promptly went out and got himself arrested again for distribution of drugs.

So, yeah :(
 
tlcya said:
He was busy in the throes of addiction and distributing drugs.

I believe he is grieving. I believe he wishes he had been the father that he wasn't.

That said, when his other children were removed from that home after Jeremiah was finally known to be missing, he stated he wanted to get his act together and be there for his other kids.

Instead he promptly went out and got himself arrested again for distribution of drugs.

So, yeah :(
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Well there ya go! The pull of drugs is stronger than the needs of his children.
 
No surprises here, really:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/05/28/child-welfare-league-study-department-children-and-families-released-today/AviUhESS00YTwprWzSAPiK/story.html?rss_id=Top-GNP

A report commissioned by Governor Deval Patrick found no evidence that failures at the state Department of Children and Families led to the death of Jeremiah Oliver, a preschooler who went missing last year while under department watch and whose body was found by the side of a highway in Sterling in April.

DCF officials have previously acknowledged that its workers had failed to perform required monthly visits to Jeremiah’s home, and three employees were fired for their negligence. But a review by the Child Welfare League of America, which was hired by the governor to examine the case and the agency at large, suggested that DCF could not have prevented the boy’s death.

“We did not conclude… that DCF was responsible for Jeremiah’s death or that DCF could have prevented the tragic outcome for this little boy,” Linda Spears, the league’s vice president of policy and public affairs, said in a statement Wednesday. “While there is significant evidence that some DCF staff did not do their jobs in the Oliver case, there is not evidence that DCF’s actions and failures caused Jeremiah’s death. DCF and many of the adults in Jeremiah’s life failed to protect him.”
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http://www.masslive.com/news/worcester/index.ssf/2014/05/elsa_oliver_mother_of_jeremiah.html

The mother of Jeremiah Oliver has been committed to Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital for mental health reasons, according to attorneys involved in her case...

Oliver did not appear in court. She had previously been hospitalized for mental health reasons, but was transferred to prison in January after a mental health evaluation deemed her competent.

Her attorney, Gavin Reardon, has said he has been unable to have substantive conversations with his client, and that she was unable to participate in her own defense.
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OkieGranny said:
No surprises here, really:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/05/28/child-welfare-league-study-department-children-and-families-released-today/AviUhESS00YTwprWzSAPiK/story.html?rss_id=Top-GNP
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I disagree with that report. Had these two been told that he had to be physically seen at each appt., they would have known better. He wasn't seen for a long time and that was ok with them. What a crock. Neither of these adults get sympathy from me and it's sad this child was forgotten by so many.
 
Longform piece in the Boston Globe:

The short, unhappy life of Jeremiah Oliver, failed by all

The public furor over his death, however, threatens to obscure a deeper truth about Jeremiah’s life. Yes, he was a child the system literally lost, exposing the hazard at the heart of an overtaxed, undersupervised, and error-prone bureaucracy, where complaints are sometimes never fully investigated, where critical files go unread, and where one employee’s negligence can spell the difference between life and death...

This misjudgment was made largely because the family moved so much, and no social worker or supervisor knew them well. As the Oliver case file thickened with new addresses and piles of paperwork, the understanding of the family, ironically, became increasingly shallow.

Staff adhered to the prevailing view, contained in typed case summaries, that Elsa was the resilient parent open to help, and that the key to the safety of her children was that her no-good husband wasn’t around.

Only too late would social workers question that simplistic narrative, and by then the agency had completely lost contact with the household. This was an inexcusable lapse, DCF officials have acknowledged, and they have also admitted recognizing only belatedly the significance of earlier troubling behavior by Jeremiah’s mother.
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http://www.sentinelandenterprise.co...-dedicated-saturday-jeremiah-oliver-fitchburg

The granite bench was created by Leominster Monument Co. and installed at Coggshall Park near the children's playground and Mirror Lake on Tuesday. It is engraved with the words "In Loving Memory of Jeremiah Oliver May Your Light Always Shine Bright," "Prayers from the Family and Fitchburg Community," and "Prevent Child Abuse." It also features the names of all of Jeremiah's siblings and a ribbon symbol.

"If it helps one other child, if someone is sitting at Coggshall and one child, boy, girl, says, 'Mommy, what's this bench about?' and they explain, maybe that could help," Reardon said in February when the bench effort began. "If it be one other child telling a parent about a friend -- they need to speak up."

The dedication will begin at noon Saturday, followed by an awards ceremony to honor locals for their efforts in searching for Jeremiah, raising money for his funeral and for a trust fund set up for two older siblings, among other contributions.
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http://www.lowellsun.com/breakingne...-perjury-charges-related-jeremiah-oliver-case

Three people charged with lying to investigators and a grand jury about the Jeremiah Oliver case were indicted Friday in Worcester Superior Court.

Christian Sierra, 21 of Fitchburg, and Ashley Cormier, 24, of Fitchburg, were indicted on charges of perjury and intimidation of a witness, according to Worcester District Attorney spokesman Timothy Connolly.

The third suspect, Caily Thibault, 23, of Fitchburg, was indicted on one count of perjury and two counts of intimidation of a witness, Connolly said.
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http://www.masslive.com/news/worcester/index.ssf/2014/08/judge_orders_mother_of_jeremia.html

After attempting to send her two surviving children drawings, bible verses, and a graphic novel with “no happy endings” written on the cover, a superior court judge ordered that Elsa Oliver not try to contact her children again.

Worcester Superior Court Judge Richard Tucker gave the order to Oliver, the mother of the Fitchburg 5-year-old Jeremiah Oliver whose remains were found in April, at the request of the prosecutors who argued it was for the children’s safety and because they are witnesses...

Tucker issued the no contact order without prejudice and said the issue could be revisited once a ruling is made regarding visitation.
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“Obviously, DCF did not murder Jeremiah Oliver, but DCF could have protected Jeremiah Oliver and could possibly have prevented his death,” said Representative David P. Linsky, the chairman of the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight, which has been reviewing DCF. “So, in that sense, they are very much responsible for his death.”
Speaker Robert A. DeLeo also questioned the findings, saying the social worker, supervisor, and manager who failed to ensure timely checks on the boy’s family “were somewhat complicit” in failing to protect him.
“I’m not sure if that’s part of the report,” he said, “but it should have been.”

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...UhESS00YTwprWzSAPiK/story.html?rss_id=Top-GNP
 
Hello all, any updates on these twos' trial date or if they've even entered a plea yet? Praying Jeremiah finally gets the justice he deserves.
 
Attorney says Elsa Oliver, whose son's body was found in suitcase by highway, is 'a danger to herself'
May 29, 2015 at 10:54 AM

Prosecutors have requested a competency evaluation be performed on Elsa Oliver, who has been charged in connection with the 2013 disappearance of her son Jeremiah Oliver.

Oliver, the mother of the Fitchburg 5-year-old whose remains were found in April, has been transferred from jail to the hospital several times.

"In my layperson opinion, she's not competent," said James Reardon, Jr., Oliver's attorney. "She's been sent several times for treatment ... she appears to be a danger to herself."
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http://www.masslive.com/news/worcester/index.ssf/2015/07/elsa_oliver_whose_sons_body_wa.html

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"WORCESTER – Elsa Oliver, who has been charged in connection with the 2013 disappearance of her son Jeremiah Oliver, will be able to stand trial, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Oliver, the mother of the Fitchburg 5-year-old whose remains were found in April, was deemed competent to stand trial after an evaluation on Wednesday morning."

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"Oliver is due back in court on September 2 when prosecutors say they'll be ready to set a trial date. "


http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Jeremiah-Olivers-Mom-Deemed-Fit-to-Stand-Trial-315733361.html

Jeremiah Oliver's Mom Deemed Fit to Stand Trial

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"A Fitchburg, Massachusetts, woman who has been charged with the disappearance of her son has been deemed competent to stand trial.
Elsa Oliver is facing several charges including reckless endangerment of a child."


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"The family had been monitored by the Department of Children and Families since 2011. Three DCF employees were fired and a fourth disciplined after an investigation revealed missed social worker visits and other failed opportunities to engage with the family. Former DCF Commissioner Olga Roche resigned under mounting pressure following the deaths of Jeremiah and two other children who were being monitored by state child welfare officials."

Personally I think this is all a similar situation to our Baby Doe;
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...land-Boston-Harbor-Female-Toddler-June-2015-2
 
The child welfare boss who oversaw the state office that dropped the ball in the shocking case of Jeremiah Oliver — the 5-year-old Fitchburg boy who disappeared in 2013 after social workers failed to check on him for months and was later found dead — is now in charge of another agency trouble spot.

The Western Massachusetts regional office had covered a wider area of the state that also included Worcester and surrounding cities before Monday, when DCF officials re-established a Central Massachusetts regional office.

The planned move to split the area into two separate divisions is meant to provide more oversight of cases in the region, officials said last year.
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http://www.bostonherald.com/news/lo..._oliver_case_boss_to_head_dcf_in_western_mass
 
http://www.lowellsun.com/news/ci_29479778/fitchburg-boys-death-2013-ruled-homicide

The death of local 5-year-old Jeremiah Oliver has been ruled a homicide, the office of the Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. announced Thursday.

The autopsy report conducted by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner listed the boy's cause of death as "homicide violence of undetermined etiology"...

Fleitas said he thinks the release of the autopsy information means the Office of the D.A. will soon be charging Oliver and Sierra with Jeremiah's murder...

The investigation of the case is continuing, D.A. Early said.
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Oliver and Sierra both have court dates scheduled this month.
 
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