GUILTY VA - Aveion Lewis, 2, Roanoke, 14 January 2010 #3

[Cubby]

...it actually makes me sick to know that we still don't know everything that was wrong with Aveion. Things couldn't be much worse than this could they?

I've said from the beginning I think they could..... it just seems to keep getting worse and worse as the facts come out.

Your mentioned the possible deformity from an almost healed broken arm and how difficult it would have been to bath Aveion with the burns. I hadn't even thought of that....
I guess my mind just couldn't go there. But since it has.....

Jesus, can you imagine what Aveions siblings must have gone through seeing their brother experience what he did? The thought of it just made me break down.

I have a real hard time believing the other 3 children where well cared for and not neglected in any way. It just doesn't/couldn't exclusively happen to one....

Yes, I think it is still going to get worse unfortunately.

 

[JLMcKenna83]

I've said from the beginning I think they could..... it just seems to keep getting worse and worse as the facts come out.

Your mentioned the possible deformity from an almost healed broken arm and how difficult it would have been to bath Aveion with the burns. I hadn't even thought of that....
I guess my mind just couldn't go there. But since it has.....

Jesus, can you imagine what Aveions siblings must have gone through seeing their brother experience what he did? The thought of it just made me break down.

I have a real hard time believing the other 3 children where well cared for and not neglected in any way. It just doesn't/couldn't exclusively happen to one....

Yes, I think it is still going to get worse unfortunately.

IMO, they were not well cared for at all. They were witnesses to this. They were exposed to the physical torture that these things put Aveion through. They were psychologically abused if not also physically abused. They should be facing abuse and neglect charges for the other children as well. Children watching as their brother is slowly murdered.. That's just as bad as the physical abuse.

Aveion's story screams first degree murder to me. There are a plethera of special circumstances, so any prosecutor could make it stick.

 

[Calliope]

I agree! Ok, so let's say Morgan was really roughing it as an assistant at an elementary school 9 hours a day adding lunch and her commute time. What they heck was she doing the other 15 hours a day that she supposedly had no clue her child had a broken arm for FOUR TO SIX WEEKS? :furious: :furious: :furious: <--- these aren't even enough to express how infuriating this mother is. Oh, you mean as a mother I am supposed to KNOW my child needs to eat and has a broken bone? And the fact her family excuses her behavior is even more beyond reason. :furious: :furious: :furious:

I guess she was working 24/7, weekends and holidays even.

What a trooper.

 

[Calliope]

I can't believe they let that baby have that broken arm for so long. And for ML to say she didn't even know?!? B*LL***T Aveion's arm would have been almost healed. It would have been extremely painful, and possibly deformed because of this. And the burns.. oh lord don't even get me started on the burns. She wouldn't even be able to bathe him properly with the burns.. (Which I doubt mattered to her..) And the weight loss too.

So what, they let Aveion starve to death, and because that wasn't working fast enough they broke his arm and burned him?? It breaks my heart to know that this baby was hurting so very much in the last 6 weeks of his life. How could anyone do that to another human being?? Especially your own child?? Especially any child?? This goes far beyond child abuse and neglect. This is TORTURE! These people are disgusting. I can't even call them people anymore. Things. Things should do nicely. There's really no other word for them.

Let someone break their arm, burn them with an electric heater, and then starve them.. I bet they'll be sorry then.

...it actually makes me sick to know that we still don't know everything that was wrong with Aveion. Things couldn't be much worse than this could they?

JMO.. IMO.. MOO

You know what else makes me sick???

In spite of all the torture he endured at the hands of those two, you know damned well he still reached out for his "mommy".

Son. of. a. *****.

 

[Calliope]

IMO, they were not well cared for at all. They were witnesses to this. They were exposed to the physical torture that these things put Aveion through. They were psychologically abused if not also physically abused. They should be facing abuse and neglect charges for the other children as well. Children watching as their brother is slowly murdered.. That's just as bad as the physical abuse.

Aveion's story screams first degree murder to me. There are a plethera of special circumstances, so any prosecutor could make it stick.

Damned straight. And unless her family can prove that they had no contact with those children whatsoever during the last 4 months of his life, they ought to be charged as accessories, IMO.

You know that little 4 year old is going to have memories; they will all be affected, but she will remember.

I wonder why bio dad isn't fighting to get her out of that house and away from those monsters who allowed that thing to murder Aveion?

 

[Calliope]

An untreated broken arm is going to be deformed with limited range of motion and use. It's going to hurt like holy hell too. It would have been swollen, throbbing and bruised.

"He has a high tolerance for pain" MY *** :furious:

I would dearly love to see what their tolerance for pain is...

 

[Calliope]

It will be interesting to see in trial, just exactly what Aveions medical issues where.

If it was simply being premature and his appendix being removed versus the " a portion of his intestines removed" ......... No words, just no words.

Calliope, thank you for emailing that journalist. It is nice to see someone getting the facts verified before reporting what others have heard or read without checking the accuracy of what is being reported.

:blowkiss: thank you!

Thank you Mr. Gangloff !!!

Here is the email I received back from him after I told him of how Aveion had thrived in foster care (and suggested he interview the foster family and those who knew him during that time):


"Yes, I've left a message for the foster parents and am hoping they'll reply. I'd very much like to talk to them about what was apparently the only healthy period of Aveion's short life, and also about their wish, per a TV report, to raise Aveion's siblings.

Your email this morning prompted me to add some questions to my list for the day and now I have a fuller understanding, I think, of some of what went on. The next article we run should have more specifics about Aveion's condition at various points. So thanks again for your input --"

 

[Calliope]

Something else that makes me ill is that I get so damned angry every time I think about this, with every new article, every new piece of information. So furious that I have to walk away from it for a while and cool down.

Then I think that Aveion couldn't simply walk away.

 

[JLMcKenna83]

Calliope,

I totally understand what you mean when you get so angry that you have to walk away, but then you realize that Aveion couldn't. I feel the exact same way. Every article I read pushes me closer and closer to breaking point, whether it's tears or anger, sometimes there's a pencil thin line between the two and sometimes that line is erased completely. I too haven't been able to just walk away from it sometimes because I also realize that Aveion couldn't just get up and leave when things got too hard.

On another note, it breaks my heart to think of Aveion reaching out to that thing when he was in pain or hungry. Your mommy is supposed to fix all of those things, not cause them. A high tolerance for pain? Of course they'd know.. they let him run around with a broken arm for almost 6 weeks, they starved him until he was almost nothing. They let him be burned by a heater. They murdered him. But before they murdered him, they tortured him. And that's what breaks my heart the most.

 

[Calliope]

And yet they knew there were people who truly loved him and would have taken him in a heartbeat. If he was so much of a burden, if he was so obviously unwanted, why not just free themselves of that burden and go on with their sick, twisted selfish lives? But they didn't. That tells me they wanted him as a punching bag. That they got pleasure out of his pain. And this is where I cross that thin line from tears of sorrow to sheer fury.

Son of a *****....

 

[Cubby]

Calliope,

I totally understand what you mean when you get so angry that you have to walk away, but then you realize that Aveion couldn't. I feel the exact same way. Every article I read pushes me closer and closer to breaking point, whether it's tears or anger, sometimes there's a pencil thin line between the two and sometimes that line is erased completely. I too haven't been able to just walk away from it sometimes because I also realize that Aveion couldn't just get up and leave when things got too hard.

On another note, it breaks my heart to think of Aveion reaching out to that thing when he was in pain or hungry. Your mommy is supposed to fix all of those things, not cause them. A high tolerance for pain? Of course they'd know.. they let him run around with a broken arm for almost 6 weeks, they starved him until he was almost nothing. They let him be burned by a heater. They murdered him. But before they murdered him, they tortured him. And that's what breaks my heart the most.

BBM. I feel the same. I could have bolded the whole thing.... I fully agree. What Aveion endured the last few months of his life after being returned to his mother is one of the most heart breaking things I have ever read.

and the Wards, well, I also agree with the previous post from Calliope... they could be charged as accessories...... I have no clue why they turned their back to little Aveion when they KNEW his mother and step father were struggling caring for him. They failed Aveion as well.

JMO

 

[JLMcKenna83]

:angel:

 

[Calliope]

Reading memories posted on his memorial site just break my heart:

the mornin mom and matthew brought him in my room after we got him. i was half asleep and looked up and said "where did you get that?" at that moment i loved him.

Broken Hearted Foster Mom: You were mommies little fighter. I couldn't love you any more than if I have given birth to you. You will always be my baby.<3

I love that photo of him with the shades !!!

How cute!!!

http://aveion-lewis.last-memories.com/index.php?co=memories&poz=0

 

[JLMcKenna83]

Matthew 19:14
Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

:angel:

 

[JLMcKenna83]

Bump.. thinking of you today!!

 

[Cubby]

ROANOKE - It’s an image police and an entire community won’t forget. “If Aveion was brought to landfill we will find it,“ said Roanoke Police Captain Greg Staples.
Four train car loads of trash, 25 people going through it with garden rakes looking for the body of a little boy on the day he would have turned three. “It’s very emotional to think today of all days Aveion would have turned three that we are searching a landfill for someone who should be enjoying birthday cake with their friends,“ Staples said.

<snip>

The Roanoke Police Department will be honored at our Celebration of Heroes breakfast March 31st.

full story and video at link:

http://www2.wsls.com/sls/news/local...onored_after_seach_for_missing_toddler/89282/

 

[Texas Mist]

When I see pics Aveion's sweet innocent wide-eyed gaze & think about what a precious little boy he was, I start crying again....how could anybody look into those big brown eyes & mistreat him til he died then toss him into the trash for LE to rake up in a landfill on his birthday????!!!

Just heartbreaking what that little sweetie suffered in his short time here on earth.

 

[JLMcKenna83]

Happy Easter Aveion! Sorry it's a day late.. but I bet you had such fun yesterday up in Heaven with Marc, Aja, Somer and Morgan! Keep playin buddy! We're down here working on justice for you and all of the other little children who got to egg hunt and feast among the clouds yesterday!!

 

[Cubby]

When I see pics Aveion's sweet innocent wide-eyed gaze & think about what a precious little boy he was, I start crying again....how could anybody look into those big brown eyes & mistreat him til he died then toss him into the trash for LE to rake up in a landfill on his birthday????!!!

Just heartbreaking what that little sweetie suffered in his short time here on earth.

I know. His face, his smile, his pretty bright eyes..... Just looking at his pictures it is soooo easy to love him. I wish he was here still too... but he is in heaven with the Lord now, and playing with other kids there... He won't be hurt or neglected again, and I know he has not forgotten those who did love and care for him while he was here. Sadly, the people who did love him were not blood- and I do not just mean his mother and step father. More than those two let their blood down.

At least during those months he was in foster care he did know love and caring.

Eyes are welling up again. Aveion you will NEVER be forgotten. Your spirit lives on here and still brings smiles to us when we remember the good times you knew, even if they were few. Your smile and pretty bright eyes will never be forgotten.

 

[JLMcKenna83]

nudge... giving Aveion a little nudge so he knows he isn't forgotten..