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

[Wise Old Owl]

Thankx fran - that video is from noon. The press conference - which I haven't found a link so I guess its not going to be streamed was at 3. The Blue Ribbon Panel was to meet at 2. I'm watching the first news here at 4 and nothing so far.

YES! Daisy - Fleary (sw) stated in court that she was at the Barahona home at 9 PM Friday night and she left - that was when she made that infamous statement "I don't work on weekends".

IF Nubia was beat to death THAT night - then why all the interest in the old septic tank in the backyard? And the neighbor who said there was a horrible smell out there - well before that Friday? The neighbor also said the smell mysteriously disappeared that Sunday (when Jorge put her in the truck).

I'm not buying a single thing they are pitching. Not a one. They dropped the ball BIG TIME. It blatantly obvious. Its also blatantly obvious that they are now in serious CYA mode.

Horrible, despicable, disgusting, - oh I have a lot of words.......................... :furious:

 

[peeples]

Poor baby had to hear his sister being beat to death and at that point he probably thought he knew his fate

 

[Wise Old Owl]

Jorge Barahona's arrest warrant:

http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2011/03/07/17/warrantjorge.source.prod_affiliate.56.pdf

 

[LCoastMom]

Police say father beat Fla. girl to death

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A 10-year-old Florida girl and her twin brother sometimes spent days on end locked in a bathroom, their hands and feet bound, enduring their parents' abuse before the girl's father punched and beat her to death as she cried and screamed, police said Monday.

Authorities charged the girl's parents with her death, the culmination of what they called months of abuse and torture. Police said Jorge Barahona ended that on Feb. 11 when he grabbed Nubia from the bathroom and beat her to death. His wife, Carmen, is accused of encouraging her husband's abuse and abusing the children herself, according to the arrest warrant.

"Two people engaged in this subhuman abuse that culminated in the death of their own child," Miami-Dade Police director James Loftus said. "It's one of the saddest commentaries on the human condition I've ever seen."

A child protective investigator visited the home on Feb. 10, one day before Nubia's death, after the state received a call to its abuse hotline. But Carmen Barahona said that the couple had separated and that the twins were with her husband. She has since admitted lying, police said.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/07/fla-police-update-toxic-truck-case-twins/

I could have sworn Friday was the 11th...

 

[peeples]

http://www.justnews.com/news/27106175/detail.html

Just another article

 

[Wise Old Owl]

Me too LCoastMom. This was on HLN and they re-read the timeline. The call from the therapist came in Thursday afternoon. They went to the house Thursday early evening and no one was home. Then, Fleary went back on Friday and by her testimony in court she left there at 9 PM. Carmen has admittedly said she lied to Fleary about her and Jorge being separated and he had the kids. NOPE NOPE NOPE - Fleary never stepped foot in that house on Friday and SHE SHOULD HAVE.

They are going to try to deflect and confuse and talk in circles - but its all in writing and I pay attention!!!!!


ETA: I don't believe Nubia was killed Friday night. They are basing that on what V has told them. BUT the TV news report I saw earlier said that V. and Nubia had been kept locked in that bathroom for so long IN THE DARK that its very possible that V has his days mixed up. He wasn't doing all that well either and could have mistakenly thought it was just a day or so when actually it could have been much longer - KWIM?

 

[LCoastMom]

Me too LCoastMom. This was on HLN and they re-read the timeline. The call from the therapist came in Thursday afternoon. They went to the house Thursday early evening and no one was home. Then, Fleary went back on Friday and by her testimony in court she left there at 9 PM. Carmen has admittedly said she lied to Fleary about her and Jorge being separated and he had the kids. NOPE NOPE NOPE - Fleary never stepped foot in that house on Friday and SHE SHOULD HAVE.

They are going to try to deflect and confuse and talk in circles - but its all in writing and I pay attention!!!!!


ETA: I don't believe Nubia was killed Friday night. They are basing that on what V has told them. BUT the TV news report I saw earlier said that V. and Nubia had been kept locked in that bathroom for so long IN THE DARK that its very possible that V has his days mixed up. He wasn't doing all that well either and could have mistakenly thought it was just a day or so when actually it could have been much longer - KWIM?

BBM - Me too and I figured the same. If they weren't home how does V even know the cw visited? I don't really see the B's sharing with him...

They are using him. Disgusting. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

 

[CHICANA]

Thankx fran - that video is from noon. The press conference - which I haven't found a link so I guess its not going to be streamed was at 3. The Blue Ribbon Panel was to meet at 2. I'm watching the first news here at 4 and nothing so far.

YES! Daisy - Fleary (sw) stated in court that she was at the Barahona home at 9 PM Friday night and she left - that was when she made that infamous statement "I don't work on weekends".

IF Nubia was beat to death THAT night - then why all the interest in the old septic tank in the backyard? And the neighbor who said there was a horrible smell out there - well before that Friday? The neighbor also said the smell mysteriously disappeared that Sunday (when Jorge put her in the truck).

I'm not buying a single thing they are pitching. Not a one. They dropped the ball BIG TIME. It blatantly obvious. Its also blatantly obvious that they are now in serious CYA mode.

Horrible, despicable, disgusting, - oh I have a lot of words.......................... :furious:

IMO, they'll want to keep Victor in foster care in order to keep him quiet.
Hopefully LE got alot of detail before he left the hospital.

 

[daisy7]

Trapped in a bathtub, his hands and feet bound, police say 10-year-old Victor Barahona could only listen through a wall as his adoptive parents beat his sister to death.

Nubia, his twin, was struck repeatedly by their adoptive parents, Jorge and Carmen Barahona, &#8220;while she screamed and cried until she was dead,&#8217;&#8217; Miami-Dade police detectives reported in an arrest warrant unsealed Monday.

The chilling document was released as Miami-Dade&#8217;s top cop and prosecutor announced at a press conference that Jorge and Carmen Barahona will face charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and child neglect. The warrant also raises further questions about when Nubia died and whether a state child welfare agency investigation could have prevented the little girl&#8217;s death.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/07/2101860/press-conference-planned-in-nubias.html#ixzz1G0iIw5x6

 

[LiveLaughLuv]

10-Year-Old Boy Doused in Toxic Chemicals Released from Hospital

Published: Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 11:33 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 11:33 p.m.
The 10-year-old boy found doused with toxic chemicals in his adoptive father's pest control truck on Valentine's Day has been released from the hospital.

Details Emerge in "Toxic Truck" Child Abuse Death Girl Found In Father's Truck May Have Died in Miami Authorities said Victor Barahona left Jackson Memorial Hospital on Tuesday and is staying in an undisclosed therapeutic foster home. An aunt and uncle from Texas, who previously attempted to adopt the twins, say they want to adopt the boy.

http://www.theledger.com/article/20110302/NEWS/110309927/-1/?tc=obinsite


These children could have been with blood relatives but the state nixed it saying they already bonded with the Barahonas...how wrong they were...

These folks are subhuman animals to have done this to these children. I so hope they face a DP charge for that IS what they deserve but slow and methodical....JMHO

Justice for Victor and Nubia

 

[Salem]

Yes - I would really like to see the Death penalty here, also!

Salem

 

[mysteriew]

Trapped in a bathtub, his hands and feet bound, police say 10-year-old Victor Barahona could only listen through a wall as his adoptive parents beat his sister to death.

Nubia, his twin, was struck repeatedly by their adoptive parents, Jorge and Carmen Barahona, &#8220;while she screamed and cried until she was dead,&#8217;&#8217; Miami-Dade police detectives reported in an arrest warrant unsealed Monday.

The chilling document was released as Miami-Dade&#8217;s top cop and prosecutor announced at a press conference that Jorge and Carmen Barahona will face charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and child neglect. The warrant also raises further questions about when Nubia died and whether a state child welfare agency investigation could have prevented the little girl&#8217;s death.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/07/2101860/press-conference-planned-in-nubias.html#ixzz1G0iIw5x6

DANG IT! Somehow it only makes it worse to learn that Victor had had a repair of a cleft palate, and that the abuse ripped open the scar. He will be permanently disfigured.

DCF officers leaving.

Excellent recreation of the DCF worker's actions and inaction.

 

[LCoastMom]

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Shortly after the twins were found, newly appointed DCF Secretary David Wilkins appointed a three-member investigative panel to determine how the girl died, and what lessons can be learned from her death.

On Monday, The Herald learned that two of Wilkins’ top-ranked administrators — Walter Cook, who headed the agency’s abuse hotline, and Assistant Secretary David Fairbanks — had abruptly left DCF. Cook had appeared last week before the review panel to discuss the performance of the hotline, which has emerged as a key focus of agency lapses that may have contributed to Nubia’s death.

Wilkins said in a prepared statement that he had asked several administrators to submit resignations upon his arrival at DCF in January. “On Friday,’’ Wilkins added, “I accepted several leaders’ resignations and asked several others to join me in the new administration.’’

DCF’s first misstep, administrators acknowledged Monday, occurred almost immediately: The call was coded at the Tallahassee-based hotline as non-urgent, meaning an investigator could take 24 hours to respond to it, instead of acting immediately. Andrea Fleary, a Miami investigator assigned to the case, did not go to the Barahona’s West Miami-Dade home until about 7 p.m., and reported in case notes that no one was home, according to records and Lauren Fuentes, a child welfare administrator who spoke to the panel.

The records do not indicate what Fleary had done in the case when, at 9:05 p.m. on Feb. 12, a second hotline caller reported that Nubia had vanished and Victor had a bad cut on his lip that needed medical attention. A transcript of that hotline call released by DCF last week showed the caller was extremely concerned that neither Carmen nor Jorge Barahona would say where Nubia was.

Yet when a report of the hotline call was sent down to Miami for investigation, the report only said that Victor “has a wound on his face and lip. The wound needs stitches and he has not been taken to a hospital.’’ The report said nothing of Nubia’s disappearance.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/07/v-fullstory/2101860/press-conference-planned-in-nubias.html

Bleeding lip vs missing child - ho hum it's a weekend - let's just go with the lip... :maddening: :maddening: :maddening:

 

[daisy7]

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Wilkins said in a prepared statement that he had asked several administrators to submit resignations upon his arrival at DCF in January. &#8220;On Friday,&#8217;&#8217; Wilkins added, &#8220;I accepted several leaders&#8217; resignations and asked several others to join me in the new administration.&#8217;&#8217;

RSBM. So they were asked for their resignations in January and Wilkins just decided on Friday to accept them. Hmmm....

O/T for this thread: Hundreds if not thousands of state employees were asked (forced) to submit resignations with our new administration. When they are accepted, that means the person quit and won't be eligible for unemployment. That's a crappy way to handle a transition, IMO.

 

[mysteriew]

RSBM. So they were asked for their resignations in January and Wilkins just decided on Friday to accept them. Hmmm....

O/T for this thread: Hundreds if not thousands of state employees were asked (forced) to submit resignations with our new administration. When they are accepted, that means the person quit and won't be eligible for unemployment. That's a crappy way to handle a transition, IMO.

It also means that by submitting their resignations they won't have to put on subsequent applications that they were fired for mishandling their positions. On the other hand it also means that the state won't have to go through the civil procedures for firing and it can't be appealed.

 

[CHICANA]

RSBM. So they were asked for their resignations in January and Wilkins just decided on Friday to accept them. Hmmm....

O/T for this thread: Hundreds if not thousands of state employees were asked (forced) to submit resignations with our new administration. When they are accepted, that means the person quit and won't be eligible for unemployment. That's a crappy way to handle a transition, IMO.

Look, they don't know the difference between hundreds & thousands.
Our tax $$ at work.

They can't just fire them ? What if they don't want to resign ?

They were putting out alerts to LE all weekend too.

 

[daisy7]

Four days after Nubia Barahona&#8217;s decomposed body was found in the flatbed of her adoptive father&#8217;s pickup truck, state child-welfare authorities completed a quick review of the 10-year-old girl&#8217;s involvement with Florida&#8217;s child protection system, and concluded that a series of abuse investigations lacked &#8220;a sense of urgency&#8217;&#8217; and contained several instances of shoddy case work.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/...hoddy-work-in.html#storylink=fb#ixzz1G4L12twD

ya think?

 

[Reannan]

I think the leadership at DCF needs a complete overhaul!! This is horrible! For the sake of Nubia, change needs to happen ASAP! These children were completely failed by the state protection system. I can see where ambiguous situations might fall thru the cracks, but this case is anything BUT ambiguous! They went to investigate and Nubia was "missing" and Victor had a cut on his lip that required medical attention?? Good grief!!! :banghead:

 

[LCoastMom]

At a hearing of an investigative panel Monday, the head of the privately run Center for Family & Child Enrichment, Delores Dunn, said case managers from her group made 48 visits to the family between June 2005 and May 2009, when the twins were adopted.

During tense questioning by the three-member panel in which Dunn was repeatedly asked to specify ways the process could be improved, she said that, in hindsight, “I would not [do anything] different. I cannot say to you that anything that we did caused this death.’’

When the hearing was concluded, panelist Roberto Martinez, a former Miami U.S. Attorney, praised DCF’s top Miami administrator, Jacqui Colyer, for her candor to the board, but called Dunn’s comments “pretty defensive.’’

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/08/2104726_p2/dcf-report-shows-shoddy-work-in.html

These folks have become masters at understating the obvious. Can you imagine a child dying on your watch then claiming, no responsibility! :waitasec:

 

[Wise Old Owl]

The custody hearing was this morning. On the noon news at www.wsvn.com I saw a report that included interviews with the biological aunt and uncle who are now here trying desperately to get custody of V. I just checked their homepage and its not up yet. Look for a report that is posted after 11:00 AM - they should have it up soon.

Really nice people. The wife/aunt looks very tired and wants to love this child and help him get through it.

Report said that the court ruled to terminate all parental rights of both Barahona's and that each of them will be served with the papers in jail. If they choose to fight it - they can reply through their attorneys. FIGHT IT? FGS - they are both charged with the murder of one of those children - how in the hello could they fight it?

Also, the grand Blue Ribbon Panel will meet for its final time tomorrow and then begin to work on the final report to the public.