GUILTY PA - Charlenni Ferreira, 10, suffers gruesome death, Philadelphia, 21 Oct 2009

[kaymo]

I know LE are looking at her 16 and 19 year old step brothers also for the sexual abuse that Charleeni suffered because a classmate of hers came forward and said Charleeni told her that one of the step brothers was assaulting her.
The step mother was involved in covering up her open head wound by shoving gauze in her head wound. That injury was months old that skin started to grow over the gauze, and then she made Charleeni wear a wig.
The broken hip she suffered was at least a year old because Charleeni had been limping for about a year.
When some of the neighbors asked the stepmonster about Charleeni's limp, swollen face, etc. the stepmonster responded by saying she has some disease that can't be diagnosed. The sad part about this is she had seen a doctor twice to specifically look for abuse because the school nurse suspected abuse. DCF scheduled an appt. with a doctor but nothing was "proven". The school nurse insisted again and demanded that she see another doctor who also couldn't find evidence to substantiate abuse. So case closed.:banghead:

Every adult that lived in that house should be charged for her death. The physicians who examined her should be questioned and their charts reviewed. I'm guessing no x-rays were taken until it was too late.:furious:

 

[kaymo]

one more thing...she was living with her father because her bio mom had abused and neglected her in Puerto Rico. She had been living with her dad for a few years, but when abuse was first suspected and DCF became involved including the first physician to examine Charleeni, the bio mom was blamed. What happened the last year and a half was due to monsters brutalizing a child and the negligence of agencies who could have stopped it.

 

[MomofBoys]

How horrific. I'm aghast. This almost reminds me of the Sylvia Likens case, only I guess there's no evidence of non-familial participation. Yet. This poor angel went to school with an eight inch gap in her skull? How did no one notice any of this? How was she disciplined/scared enough not to run into someone's arms and tell them about this?

So tragic. These are the cases I understand least. The routine, sadistic abuse. Sex crimes are horrific, but I get there are sick freaks driven by their perversions. I get that parents snap and shake a baby, and I hope they spend the rest of their lives dealing with that guilt and their punishment. But cases like this make me most disillusioned, because the parents have so many chances to end it. To try to start over. What do their sick minds crave that a whack on the butt doesn't fulfill? How do you make the leap to torture and beatings?

 

[Cicada]

How horrific. I'm aghast. This almost reminds me of the Sylvia Likens case, only I guess there's no evidence of non-familial participation. Yet. This poor angel went to school with an eight inch gap in her skull? How did no one notice any of this? How was she disciplined/scared enough not to run into someone's arms and tell them about this?

So tragic. These are the cases I understand least. The routine, sadistic abuse. Sex crimes are horrific, but I get there are sick freaks driven by their perversions. I get that parents snap and shake a baby, and I hope they spend the rest of their lives dealing with that guilt and their punishment. But cases like this make me most disillusioned, because the parents have so many chances to end it. To try to start over. What do their sick minds crave that a whack on the butt doesn't fulfill? How do you make the leap to torture and beatings?

BBM:

She was disciplined enough because, evidently, that is all she knew. If her mother abused her in PR before the father got custody a few years back, then she had to be small when all of this started.
I can not imagine being 10 yrs old and living with this nightmare all of the time. I can only think that she was more afraid of the unknown treatment she would get in a stranger's home than she was of the treatment she received in her father's. That and the fact that most kids are afraid of getting their parents in trouble. A misplaced loyalty. Stories like these make me hug my child a little more each day. I wish I could have hugged her.

 

[lizzybeth]

The "father" or has committed suicide in his jail cell .. thus there will be no justice here on earth for him... however I am sure he will be punished justly where he is headed..

He didnt even have the B*))s to stand trial ... yet he could do those horrific things to that poor child..


http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=7081623

I only hope that he didn't die immediately and suffered greatly.

 

[believe09]

Imagine what happened to her after the two doctors visits for the 2007 CPS complaint. JUST. IMAGINE. That was her incentive not to confide in an adult.

I would like the names of the Dr's as well-I would like to know why they didn't do at least a set of XRAYS on this child as well as a full physical and I would like to know who was in the room with her when she was examined-stepmonster, bio dad monster?

 

[believe09]

I wonder if he had a cell mate. Just sayin.

 

[opme]

We don't know what his role was. The OP article says that sources told CBS3 that stepmother confessed to the child's murder.

Frankly at this point whether teh violence was delivered by his hand or other means or simply allowed to happen by his failure to protect his child.. makes no difference to me.. he is just as guilty in my eyes.

I simply can not fathom how much this child endured at that hands of all of those who were referred to as her "parents".. nor how anyone can do this or allow this to happen to their child.. it makes me sick to think of the life this poor child suffered through. There is no justice that could be meeted out to those who caused such harm to a innocent child like this one. I cant understand how the so called physicians missed all the signs.. and how they didnt to any xrays.. at least they nurse was trying .. the rest of the system failed so miserably..

 

[Salem]

The "father" or has committed suicide in his jail cell .. thus there will be no justice here on earth for him... however I am sure he will be punished justly where he is headed..

He didnt even have the B*))s to stand trial ... yet he could do those horrific things to that poor child..


http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=7081623

I'm glad. Yes, it was chickens*!t, but at least he recognized he was a monster and took himself out. Now the jury will not have to decide to take him out. I always hate it when these 's put it upon someone else to decide. He was broken and couldn't be fixed and he knew it.

Salem

 

[Boyz_Mum]

I can't get past the part of the story about the gauze put in her head injury and wigs and weaves to cover the wound.

There are no words. :furious:

 

[SunnieRN]

I wonder if he had a cell mate. Just sayin.

It was reported on the newscast that he was alone in his cell.

Repeated sexual abuse....that kid, whichever one it was, needs to be locked up for at least 100 years!!! He should NEVER be allowed into society again! If they know it was repeated then sentence him to 50 years for each offense and charge him with two offenses.

That "mother" who not only beat this sweat angel, threw her down the stairs, filled her 8" gash with gauze for so long that skin was growing over the gauze, beat her so badly that she had broken ribs that punctured her lungs wasn't satisfied with that. She also allowed her child/monster to repeatedly rape his step sister. I don't know what kind of a low life scum sucking b**** could EVER live with herself after doing that. I hope there is a special place in hell for her. Hmmmmm, maybe she needs an extra sheet on her bed tonight!

I hate the fact that not only do we as taxpayers have to feed, house and lock her up, give her a trial with defense lawyers, fund her appeals, but we have to pay for extra guards to make sure she doesn't kill herself! There is something SO wrong within our judicial system. No suicide watch, no special isolation cell, general inmate population for her please!! :croc:

 

[mysterygirl]

As horrible as these crimes are there is always a little everyday part of a story that really gets to me past the obvious horrors.

She loved to watch Hannah Montana and she never missed school.....oh that just kills me. Poor baby.

 

[sindydee]

OMG. This is horrific. Dont often feel the need to post on here but like a previous post said, can not, firstly get past the fact that the head injury was suffed with gauze and covered with a wig, Secondly, bless the poor little girl she went to school, every damn day with those awful injuries. Why does the breakdown in the chain happen, the nurse at the school obviously knew and asked twice for this girl to be examined. She was taken from her natural mother for abuse and placed with her father and suffered even more abuse, and THEN was possibly sexual assulted by more family members. Jesus, I can not get my head round this one. They ought to plough the money saved from not having to put him on trial and keeping him in prision back into the social services, even if this means one more child would be saved. disgusting.

 

[2goldfish]

Sometimes I wonder why I do this to myself reading these things. I almost cant bear it. But they are happening whether I read about them or not. And these poor kids at least deserve that. This one is bad -

really bad. I cant even formulate words.

 

[Soulmagent]

I know LE are looking at her 16 and 19 year old step brothers also for the sexual abuse that Charleeni suffered because a classmate of hers came forward and said Charleeni told her that one of the step brothers was assaulting her.
The step mother was involved in covering up her open head wound by shoving gauze in her head wound. That injury was months old that skin started to grow over the gauze, and then she made Charleeni wear a wig.
The broken hip she suffered was at least a year old because Charleeni had been limping for about a year.
When some of the neighbors asked the stepmonster about Charleeni's limp, swollen face, etc. the stepmonster responded by saying she has some disease that can't be diagnosed. The sad part about this is she had seen a doctor twice to specifically look for abuse because the school nurse suspected abuse. DCF scheduled an appt. with a doctor but nothing was "proven". The school nurse insisted again and demanded that she see another doctor who also couldn't find evidence to substantiate abuse. So case closed.:banghead:

Every adult that lived in that house should be charged for her death. The physicians who examined her should be questioned and their charts reviewed. I'm guessing no x-rays were taken until it was too late.:furious:

I am proud of that little girl for stepping forward ,it must of laid heavy on her to have the courge to step forward like that in her grief. Hopefully she has the emotional suport needed at a time like this. She could be saving others from abuse from those boys.

 

[LetJusticePrevail]

Couldn't agree with you more SunnieRN. I'll preface my feeling on the subject with an advance apology to those who feel we have a just system...you have every right to your opinion. I believe if the evidence is undeniable (DNA could be safety-proved to never be wrong)...I'd like people like this to just be put to death immediately. No long wait where I have to pay for their free education, meals or for that matter, peeps to cook them for them, healthcare, gym equipment - all things I'm not receiving on someone else's dime. No endless appeals when the victim wasn't given the chance to make a decision in appealing their fate at the hands of the offender.

And in addition to these and what I've bolded from your post...having another child/person have to experience the same fate when the justice system fails by releasing her earlier than the term she's sentenced to.

It was reported on the newscast that he was alone in his cell.

Repeated sexual abuse....that kid, whichever one it was, needs to be locked up for at least 100 years!!! He should NEVER be allowed into society again! If they know it was repeated then sentence him to 50 years for each offense and charge him with two offenses.

That "mother" who not only beat this sweat angel, threw her down the stairs, filled her 8" gash with gauze for so long that skin was growing over the gauze, beat her so badly that she had broken ribs that punctured her lungs wasn't satisfied with that. She also allowed her child/monster to repeatedly rape his step sister. I don't know what kind of a low life scum sucking b**** could EVER live with herself after doing that. I hope there is a special place in hell for her. Hmmmmm, maybe she needs an extra sheet on her bed tonight!

I hate the fact that not only do we as taxpayers have to feed, house and lock her up, give her a trial with defense lawyers, fund her appeals, but we have to pay for extra guards to make sure she doesn't kill herself! There is something SO wrong within our judicial system. No suicide watch, no special isolation cell, general inmate population for her please!! :croc:

 

[Texas Mist]

<snip>

In a statement to police, Margarita Garabito said she beat her 10-year-old stepdaughter, Charleeni Ferreira, because she was depressed and the girl wouldn't listen to her, according to law enforcement sources.

In court yesterday, Garabito's attorney said she questioned the validity of any statement her client made to police, and cast blame instead on Charleeni's father, who hanged himself in his jail cell Sunday morning.

.....

"She was the mastermind," one law enforcement source said. "She ruled that house."


more here

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20091029_Charleeni_s_death_blamed_on_her_dead_father.html

 

[Texas Mist]

Panel exonerates DHS in child-abuse death

By John Sullivan
Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted on Fri, Feb. 19, 2010


A panel of experts who reviewed the abuse death of 10-year-old Charlenni Ferreira found no fault with the city Department of Human Services' handling of her case, but said city agencies responsible for children needed to work together to prevent deaths.

Charlenni, a fifth grader at Feltonville Intermediate School, died in October in what investigators called one of the worst cases of child abuse they'd ever seen.

She first came to the agency's attention in 2006 after a school nurse called the agency's child-abuse hotline, saying Charlenni had gashes on her hands, a split lip, and other injuries.

But the agency said that after investigating, monitoring the family, and twice taking Charlenni to doctors who specialize in abuse cases, it could not prove abuse and had no legal ground to keep the case open. During the investigation the Ferreiras complained that DHS was harassing the family.

The case was closed in March 2007; two years later, the girl was dead.

Police charged Charlenni's stepmother, Margarita Garabito, 43, of Feltonville, with murder. Her father, Domingo Ferreira, was also charged, but he committed suicide in jail shortly after his arrest.

much more here (and it only stirs up more questions, IMO, than providing answers)

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/84762207.html

 

[VespaElf]

Some interesting things from the last 2 articles.........
The bio mom is apparently dying of cancer which is why Charleeni went to live with her father & the abuse claims against bio-mom came from the step -monster & bio-dad ONLY.
Also Step-Monster & Bio Dad were advised by some Hispanic community group who were handling the case instead of DCF at some point(& whose records show they ,basically,would do whatever they had to prove Charleeni was NOT abused they were so convinced of their innocence)to pursue a lawsuit against DCF & magically DCF closed the case.......that makes one go "hhhmmmmmmmm" does it not?

The school Nurses(TWO from TWO separate schools!)did what legally & morally they shouldve & the child was STILL let down & left to be murdered.I cant imagine the heartbreak they must feel!!!They did all the could & I hope they understand that! Its DCF that failed this child ! Im sick they already completed their 'internal investigation' & cleared themselves of wrong doing!!!!!!!!! GGGrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!
Im so mad right now!!!!!!!!!!:furious:

Whats worse is DCF probably honestly believes they did nothing wrong & will carry on "business as usual"!!:banghead:

 

[believe09]

Panel exonerates DHS in child-abuse death

By John Sullivan
Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted on Fri, Feb. 19, 2010


A panel of experts who reviewed the abuse death of 10-year-old Charlenni Ferreira found no fault with the city Department of Human Services' handling of her case, but said city agencies responsible for children needed to work together to prevent deaths.

Charlenni, a fifth grader at Feltonville Intermediate School, died in October in what investigators called one of the worst cases of child abuse they'd ever seen.

She first came to the agency's attention in 2006 after a school nurse called the agency's child-abuse hotline, saying Charlenni had gashes on her hands, a split lip, and other injuries.

But the agency said that after investigating, monitoring the family, and twice taking Charlenni to doctors who specialize in abuse cases, it could not prove abuse and had no legal ground to keep the case open. During the investigation the Ferreiras complained that DHS was harassing the family.

The case was closed in March 2007; two years later, the girl was dead.

Police charged Charlenni's stepmother, Margarita Garabito, 43, of Feltonville, with murder. Her father, Domingo Ferreira, was also charged, but he committed suicide in jail shortly after his arrest.

much more here (and it only stirs up more questions, IMO, than providing answers)

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/84762207.html

I am going to state this as calmly as I can-they cannot be exhonerated because they were WRONG. She was beaten to death by the people they investigated. They cannot in any way shape or form be given a pass. Their abuse specialists missed old, current and healing fractures. Their abuse specialists SUCK. Pardon my language. She was sexually abused. If the medex could determine it, a doctor could determine it.

So, their system for evaluating risk is broken because this child was murdered under their watch. They can deny it on paper, but the facts stand. The required reporters (the school nurses) did what they were supposed to do.

This child was tortured. This is a hate crime against a child simply because they were vulnerable to people who were sadistic monsters. Dad took the easy way out because he was busted. Step mom now has a patsy.

But getting back to the system, if I were the folks involved I would not get too comfortable. Just because there is no person legally responsible for this baby left to scream to the heavens about how this case was BLOWN by the agency does not make her death any more justifiable.

Imagine being responsible for determining that there was no oversight here. Just imagine signing off on that piece of paper. It is SICKENING. They should have had to attend her autopsy.

Scuse me-I am bent out of shape I guess.