GUILTY OK - Miracle Lashay Crook, 3, & Tony Demone Crook, 2, Tulsa, 21 May 2020 *mom arrested*

[JerseyGirl]

Mother of 2 Tulsa children who drowned ordered to trial

Court documents show 24-year-old Donisha Willis was ordered to trial Monday on two second-degree murder charges for the deaths in May of 3-year-old Miracle Crook and her 21-month-old brother, Tony Crook. She also is charged with assaulting a police officer and has pleaded not guilty. The children were found drowned after being last seen on video holding hands and walking through an opening in a chain-link fence toward a rain-swollen creek that flows into the Arkansas River.

 

[Barnabas]

Thanks for the update. I was just thinking about these two little ones yesterday.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Donisha Willis next court date is set for Aug. 24.

Oklahoma mother to stand trial in deaths of two children | KFOR.com Oklahoma City

 

[diggndeeperstill]

From oscn

OSCN Case Details

Also worth noting there are a few different subpoenas in the case that are linked with pdf’s. I didn’t attach because I didn’t know if that’s allowed.

08-24-2020 CTPASS
JUDGE DAWN MOODY: DEFENDANT NOT PRESENT, IN CUSTODY, APPEARANCE WAIVED AND REPRESENTED BY CHRISTINE MESCHER FOR CLARK BREWSTER. STATE REPRESENTED BY KATIE KOLJACK. COURT SIGNS ORDER FOR TRANSCRIPT. DISTRICT COURT ARRAIGNMENT PASSED TO 9/21/20 AT 9AM IN ROOM 401 FOR STATUS OF TRANSCRIPT. BOND TO REMAIN; DEFENDANT REMANDED TO CUSTODY.

WILLIS, DONISHA RENEE

 

[imstilla.grandma]

UPDATE: Donisha Willis, the mother charged with murder after her two young children wandered away unsupervised and drowned in a creek, was in court Tuesday morning.

Her lawyers filed a motion to quash and dismiss the charges against her, but the judge overruled that motion on all accounts.

Her trial is set for the week of March 29.
Trial set for mother of 2 young children who wandered away unsupervised, drowned in creek

-Donisha Willis' attorney had asked the judge to dismiss the charges, but the judge declined and set a trial date for March 29th.
-Willis' attorney argued she did not have custody of the kids and she thought the kids were with the guardians since the guardians had said they were going to take kids with them, since they were getting ready to move out of the apartment since the lease was up.
-Her attorney says video shows Willis was looking for the kids within minutes of them leaving the apartment and she happened to be looking for them in another part of the complex when the children were seen on video, walking to the creek.
-Police say Willis refused to help search for the kids and acted uninterested in where they were.
-These are charges, not a conviction.
Lori Fullbright / News On 6

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Beautiful Babies RIP

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Mother charged with second-degree murder in drowned toddlers case

 

[imstilla.grandma]

In August, a Tulsa County special judge determined that Miracle and Tony were “rightly or wrongly” in Willis’ care when they disappeared. Although her defense argued Willis can be seen on apartment surveillance footage going outside to look for the children after she awoke to their absence, Koljack said it was mere moments of looking up and down the street.

“There were a lot of people that did things wrong” that day, Koljack said, but as the adult left with the children, Willis was responsible for the children’s safety regardless if she was their legal guardian.

“The neglect charge isn’t so much the kids wandering off,” Koljack said. “We know kids can wander off. The really egregious part of this case is that (Willis) spent maybe a total of 30 seconds looking for her two children under the age of 5.”

Koljack said any parent knows the feeling of turning around and finding their child has wandered off. But most parents would continue to look for their child until they found them, and if unsuccessful then, to call for help.

“If (Willis) would have done that, those kids could very well be alive today,” Koljack said.

Defense argued that as someone who did not have legal custody of the children, Willis likely reasonably believed they were with another adult. Family members testified to Willis’ mental state during the investigation, saying she was not in her right mind when she was uncooperative in helping detectives locate her children, even combative. She tried to escape an interview during the investigation, kicking a detective in the groin in the process
Tulsa mother of drowned toddlers convicted of child neglect after plea 'to take responsibility,' prosecutor says

 

[cds0902]

Sadly, professional daycare services are financially out of reach for many people.

But, they were in the system, there had to be a daycare program they qualified for, so many services out there for single parents, I just can’t image daycare not being a topic through the placement process, and if it wasn’t that aunt should have reached out to the social worker in the children’s case and told her she needed daycare! To leave them with anyone, family or otherwise is asking for trouble. I feel no one wanted these babies, they were shifted from pillar to post.

 

[JerseyGirl]

https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/mother-sentenced-after-guilty-plea-in-death-of-two-toddlers

The mother of the two toddlers who disappeared and drowned in late May will spend 10 years behind bars.

A judge sentenced Donisha Willis on Jan. 26, 2021 after she pled guilty to two counts of child neglect. Originally, Willis was charged with two counts of second-degree murder after police found her two toddlers' bodies several days after they went missing.