KS - Adolfo & Deborah Gomez for child endangerment, Lawrence, 2012

[wfgodot]

30 months and a year of probation? Wow. Clearly the children are somewhat disposable in this case.

Picture if you will these two nutjobs pulling two strangers off of the street, duct taping them over their eyes and binding them. Picture these strangers being forced to urinate in bottles, and stay in a vehicle with rotting food and old soiled diapers.

What might the charges be and the sentences be I wonder? Why is it any less for a biological child?

I thought it was too lenient also. Way too lenient.

 

[scorekeeper]

I thought it was too lenient also. Way too lenient.

I bet the wife said she was abused (and she may have been) but based on past CPS involvement, you would hope for a stiffer sentence. Neither one of these parents deserve to have children.

But more importantly, where are the children? And how are they doing?

Will mom be getting them back?

 

[wfgodot]

more info here

Illinois man pleads no contest to five crimes in child abuse case (Lawrence Journal-World)

 

[Rayemonde]

June 2013:

Adolfo Gomez was sentenced in Douglas County District Court after pleading no contest in December to two felony counts of child abuse and three misdemeanor counts of child endangerment. Adolfo and his then-wife, Deborah Gomez, 44, were arrested June 13, 2012, after passersby saw the children tied up and called police. Adolfo and Deborah have since divorced...


At previous hearings, Gomez testified that he and his children were fearful of demonic possession and were leaving their home in Illinois because they believed it was haunted. In June, Douglas County District Judge Paula Martin declared Gomez competent to stand trial.

In January, Deborah Gomez was sentenced to one year of probation after pleading no contest to three counts of child endangerment. Her court-appointed attorney, Angela Keck, had said Deborah was an unwilling participant and was made by Adolfo to bind the hands of one of her children. Douglas County prosecutors said the children have been placed in protective custody, but Deborah's plea agreement opened the door to her regaining custody of them in the future...

He said his judgment had been impaired by a lack of sleep. He also described how he and his family had become fearful of supernatural activity at their Illinois home, which they left with the intention of going to Arizona. His court-appointed attorney, James Rumsey, offered evidence that Gomez had a history of mental health problems.

Gomez said Wednesday that other family members first reported seeing phantom shadows and spirits at their home in Illinois and that he did not initially believe them. "I mean, it just sounds kind of crazy," he said.

Soon, Gomez said, he also began to hear disembodied voices around the house. Over time, he said, "They were getting bolder. And then I started to get concerned.".


Gomez said their problems followed them as far as Kansas. After nine days without sleep, he began to believe that some of his children had been possessed by demons.

http://m.ljworld.com/news/2013/jun/...30-months-prison-case-where/?templates=mobile

 

[Veez]

Now the hard part is going to be the process of getting these children into a loving, permanent family home. These so-called parents are going to fight it and drag it on so long, and it will delay the much needed help these kids NEED.

They are still young, but are probably very damaged emotionally. If that is how they are treated IN PUBLIC, hard to imagine how they were treated in private at home.

They need some basic unconditional love and affection and attention and counseling and
I really hope the courts have the courage to cut off parental rights IMMEDIATELY, so these kids can start a new healthier life.

We all found decent homes even if some of the parents were karen assholes - the little girl

 

[Veez]

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Mom requested supervised visitation with the kids.

We did end up getting visitation with our mom the two youngest at least. The older kids didnt want anything to do with her for years even after they aged out of the system. But us two youngest and one of the older brothers have a good relationship with her now shes gotten better

 

[Veez]

We did end up getting visitation with our mom the two youngest at least. The older kids didnt want anything to do with her for years even after they aged out of the system. But us two youngest and one of the older brothers have a good relationship with her now shes gotten better- the 7 yr old girl

 

[Veez]

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They should NEVER get these kids back!

They didnt dont worry. Although they both got released and we got visitation with mom after adoptiob

 

[Veez]

T

I bet the wife said she was abused (and she may have been) but based on past CPS involvement, you would hope for a stiffer sentence. Neither one of these parents deserve to have children.

But more importantly, where are the children? And how are they doing?

Will mom be getting them back?

The children ended up doing well for the most part, we got separated into different homes except for the youngest two. We spread out across kansas a little bit. Mom did not get us back.

 

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T

The children ended up doing well for the most part, we got separated into different homes except for the youngest two. We spread out across kansas a little bit. Mom did not get us back.

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