GUILTY NC - Corey McRee & Shamika Reaves for beating, raping 3yo boy, Charlotte, 2014

[Tssiemer]

In my experience the social worker is just one of a group of people working together. I used to be a social worker at a Lawyers office to get a different perspective on child custody cases.

If I have a suspicion then I take my concerns to my supervisor who then carries it up the ladder. Unfortunately there is not enough time to investigate 100s if calls a day. But I never do anything alone since I am just a LSW and not an LISW (licensed independent social worker) but even then I'll have a supervisor (probably clinical director) that I can talk to about this stuff and get an unbiased opinion. As much as I want to be objective sometimes my emotions get in the way and it's good to have a third person perspective. Unfortunately there is a hierarchy of abuse and neglect it seems where sone cases do not get the attention they need due to "someone else getting beaten worse than them" if that makes sense.


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[Sunshine95]

I would like to see more intensive outpatient like programs... By that I mean that it can be difficult to get enough evidence to take a child from family, and it seems those involved have few options of what they can logistically and perhaps fiscally require a family to do to ensure they are ok or changing to do better. i wish there were more options for families to go through an intensive education and therapeutic program, with close checks and bounds, to support the family (and meeting goal of keeping family intact) while also keeping tabs on kids.

 

[tlcya]

UPDATE

A three-year-old is still in intensive care at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte one week after police say his mother, and her boyfriend, sexually abused and brutally beat the little boy.

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Brown says she can't forgive Shamika Reaves, 23, and her boyfriend, Corey McCree, 32, for what happened, but has turned to another woman to give her strength.

"I hate that another family is having to go through this," Leslie Davenport said.

For two years, Leslie Davenport has felt a similar pain. Her granddaughter, Kilah Davenport, died in March, almost two years after police say her stepfather, Joshua Houser, threw her against a wall.

http://www.wbtv.com/story/25625201/two-charlotte-grandmothers-become-friends-through-tragedy Video at link has more extensive coverage than the brief article below it.

 

[Tssiemer]

Outpatient programs are good in theory but unless the family is really willing to get help and engage in sessions it won't work.

I work in an inpatient drug rehab now and about 85% of the people there have lost their kids due to neglect/ abuse while under the influence and this is their last chance to regain custody. I've had two people leave treatment and decide to go to prison/lose their parental rights and don't think another thought about it if it means they can get high "just one more time". It's quite sad.


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[carbuff]

I'd like to see a support network that would work BEFORE problems become apparent. I don't know how it could be implemented, though.

 

[Tssiemer]

It can't. We as a society are REactive. Not PROactive.


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[tlcya]

both will likely be charged under Kilah's law which was signed by Pres Obama on May 20, 2014.

The law would require the Department of Justice to investigate state child abuse laws to ensure abusers are punished. Overall, officials say it will play an important role in addressing crimes against children.

http://www.wcnc.com/news/politics/Pres-Obama-signs-Kilahs-Law-259993501.html

The goal, officials say, is to highlight deficient laws and provide states with the opportunity to fix those laws before another tragedy occurs.

"I thought it would be bittersweet but it's not. It's a joyous occasion" Leslie Davenport, Kilah's grandmother told WBTV when the law passed with unanimous consent in the United States Senate in early May. "I know Kilah is looking down and smiling, cheering and happy that we got this accomplished."

http://www.wbtv.com/story/25567793/president-signs-kilah-davenport-child-protection-act-into-law

 

[passionflower]

some counselors in the court system believe the abuser ( verbal/mental parent) and not the child. We are dealing with that right now in my own family. It is unbearable! The courts make them meet like this once a week and the child suffers........called unification of the family...........not working at all. SCARY!

 

[kimi_SFC]

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I am praying for you, Little One. May :justice: be swift.

Your story has been told far too many times before. Our hearts are broken. We are haunted at the thought of your suffering. We are enraged at the seeming failures that have occurred. We struggle to understand why this ever had to happen to a precious, innocent child.

I hope you are healing. I hope your pain has been taken away. I pray with every fiber of my being that you have no memory of the agony you endured. lease: It may be asking too much, but when I envision what you went through, it haunts me in my nightmares.

My faith allows me to ask my God to hold you in His arms. May he protect you and keep you safe.

raying:
:candle:




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[tlcya]

wish I could find some update on how little guy is doing.

 

[tlcya]

still cannot find any update for this poor baby. I pray he is recovering and in the loving care of a human being.

 

[EllaMae]

Another case that just rips your heart out...

 

[OkieGranny]

Found an update from September, nothing more recent:

http://www.wbtv.com/story/26599195/grandmother-sexually-abused-3-year-old-is-slowly-improving

The grandmother of a three-year-old boy who was attacked and raped inside a Charlotte hotel room in May says her grandson is slowly improving.

 

[carbuff]

It's good that he's improving.

 

[Rayemonde]

April 2015:

A man and his girlfriend accused of assaulting the woman's then three-year-old son in May 2014, pleaded not guilty in court on Monday morning...

Today, the boy is four-years old and can't walk, talk or see, according to the family.

"It's sad for us to go and see him in the condition that he's in. At the same time that's my great grandson and I wouldn't have it any other way," Brown-Stover said.

http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/2873...ad-not-guilty-in-2014-abuse-of-3-year-old-boy

Brown says she's in shock after watching her daughter Shamika Reaves learning she wanted to go to trial instead of accepting a plea deal...

Doctors don't expect him to ever be the same again, but his great-grandmother is still hoping for the best.
"They don't give us any hope that he would ever walk, talk or see again, but I always leave, I tell him I trust God, I believe him and I know he's going to do it. Taj is going to walk, he's going to see and he's going to do everything that they say he don't do," said Cynthia Brown-Stover.

http://www.twcnews.com/nc/charlotte...busing-3-year-old-boy-in-charlotte-motel.html

Sounds like he's badly brain damaged, and the family are in denial about it

 

[Rayemonde]

June 2015:

Emotions spilled out into the street Thursday after a Charlotte mother pleaded guilty to abusing her 3-year-old son at a west Charlotte motel in May 2014.

Deputies had to escort Felisha Brown away from the courthouse after she heard that Shamika Reaves would spend only 10 years in prison for abusing her son, Brown's grandson.

http://m.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/mother-sentenced-after-pleading-guilty-abusing-3-y/nmWMM/