GUILTY TX - Emma Thompson, 4, dies with STD, skull fracture, Spring, 27 June 2009

[CuriousTwo]

I haven't seen anything new online since the announcement that the CPS is strengthening their regulations as a result of Emma's case.

 

[Paintr]

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kera/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1548045/North.Texas/New.Procedures.For.CPS.Child.Abuse.Cases

Patrick Crimmins is a CPS spokesman. He says from now on a positive STD test of one child will allow investigators to take additional measures like conducting additional interviews, contacting local law enforcement for advice, and even testing any other children in the household for an STD.

Crimmins: And if those children also come back positive then that may be a red flag. Then maybe you get all of them for a sexual abuse exam. And maybe that will give you the additional information that you might have needed to remove.

 

[CuriousTwo]

Just bumping up for Emma!

No new news yet.

 

[tiredblondy]

Curious Two I love this sweet picture of Emma.

Just bumping up for Emma!

No new news yet.

 

[IWannaKnow]

State launches review of CPS
3 children’s deaths prompt look at area unit’s policies, staffing
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6602885.html

A state review team is looking at a possible breakdown in the way Texas Child Protective Services follows up on its own abuse investigations after three Houston-area children died despite the agency's intervention.

“I wanted to take a good look at investigations,” Anne Heiligenstein, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services commissioner, said Friday of her decision to send a review team to Houston.

Three children — Katy infant Amber Maccurdy, 3-year-old David Tijerina of Conroe and 4-year-old Emma Thompson of Spring — have died of abuse since April despite the fact that all three had been reported to CPS as possible child abuse victims. Emma and Amber died even though both were seen within weeks of their deaths by CPS investigators.
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Also:
Coe attorney seeks IDs behind online comments
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6603599.html

A lawyer for Lucas Coe, charged in the death of 4-year-old Emma Thompson, has asked several local media outlets to provide the names of readers and listeners who commented about his client online.

Bert Steinmann, The Woodlands-based attorney for Coe, said he was struck by the conclusions people drew about his client and the specificity of some comments that made it appear they came from people with personal knowledge of the case.
:boohoo:

 

[Amster]

State launches review of CPS
3 children’s deaths prompt look at area unit’s policies, staffing
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6602885.html

A state review team is looking at a possible breakdown in the way Texas Child Protective Services follows up on its own abuse investigations after three Houston-area children died despite the agency's intervention.

“I wanted to take a good look at investigations,” Anne Heiligenstein, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services commissioner, said Friday of her decision to send a review team to Houston.

Three children — Katy infant Amber Maccurdy, 3-year-old David Tijerina of Conroe and 4-year-old Emma Thompson of Spring — have died of abuse since April despite the fact that all three had been reported to CPS as possible child abuse victims. Emma and Amber died even though both were seen within weeks of their deaths by CPS investigators.
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Also:
Coe attorney seeks IDs behind online comments
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6603599.html

A lawyer for Lucas Coe, charged in the death of 4-year-old Emma Thompson, has asked several local media outlets to provide the names of readers and listeners who commented about his client online.

Bert Steinmann, The Woodlands-based attorney for Coe, said he was struck by the conclusions people drew about his client and the specificity of some comments that made it appear they came from people with personal knowledge of the case.
:boohoo:

Bert, you're an idiot. We ALL know about this case and the you're defending.

 

[Boyz_Mum]

I can't even compose a post, I am so sickened by Coe and "Bert"... :furious:

And why is mom of the year out on bail? :furious:

 

[Paintr]

http://www.kbtx.com/local/headlines/57665797.html

As the holiday weekend comes to a close, a state investigation into Child Protective Services is about to ramp up.

The commissioner of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services says the recent deaths of children has raised the need to look into the operations at CPS.

That includes the death of Emma Thompson of Conroe.

 

[butwhatif?]

CPS did ask 4 yr old Emma. Their have been reports that neighbors over heard Abby coaching her other 2 daughters after Emma's murder.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/breaking/6551978.html

Olguin, the CPS spokeswoman, said that a sexually transmitted disease alone is not enough to put a 4-year-old into protective custody. She said Emma shook her head, “no” when asked whether anyone had touched her inappropriately.

This poor child was too scared to tell the people who could help her- so sad.


CPS investigator Kimberly Clayton recounted how her office began investigating a complaint of neglect and possible abuse involving Emma on June 8. The girl was examined for CPS by the child's pediatrician who found no signs of sexual intercourse.

With all the comments made by members of this community under the news reports who repeatedly discuss the 'pull' this family had, and their connections within the hospital, I can't help but wonder if an independent examination at this time may have resulted in a different opinion about physical signs of sexual abuse/ 'intercourse' ,seperate from the herpes blisters.

it would have been a better approach to get an examination done by a doctor who had zero bias, or connection to the family that could subconsiously cloud their judgement during the examination, since its key to knowing when abuse first started. And it almost certainly did begin prior to the herpes outbreak....cause thats how she got it in the first place.
JMO
ETA: am trying my best to remain emotionally detatched now since my heart just breaks for all these children who deserved so much better.

eta 2: Also the family pediatrician's findings of no signs of 'sexual intercourse' does not equal no sexual abuse. Sounds like a weird way of wording it, imo, that would leave it open to possibilities of non- penetrational abuse.

JMO

 

[IWannaKnow]

CPS investigator Kimberly Clayton recounted how her office began investigating a complaint of neglect and possible abuse involving Emma on June 8. The girl was examined for CPS by the child's pediatrician who found no signs of sexual intercourse.



butwhatif - I don't have the link, but one of the earlier articles explains that Emma was taken to the doctor in early June and was scheduled to have a thorough, forensic examination at a CPS facility (after the herpes diagnosis), with a trained examiner. Unfortunately, the examiner wasn't available that day so Emma was sent instead to the regular childrens hospital for the exam, which found no indication of abuse and.........the rest is history. As was posted by another poster on another thread, there is a new sub-speciality emerging in pediatrics that deals strictly with abuse cases, because regular doctors are not skilled at identifying it.

 

[CuriousTwo]

With all the comments made by members of this community under the news reports who repeatedly discuss the 'pull' this family had, and their connections within the hospital, I can't help but wonder if an independent examination at this time may have resulted in a different opinion about physical signs of sexual abuse/ 'intercourse' ,seperate from the herpes blisters.

it would have been a better approach to get an examination done by a doctor who had zero bias, or connection to the family that could subconsiously cloud their judgement during the examination, since its key to knowing when abuse first started.

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The earlier reports stated that the mother worked for 8 years or so at a Houston hospital. The CPS investigation and examination took place in Houston at a hospital there. After Emma's death, the mother relocated to her small hometown (where her family is well-known) and began work at that local hospital. She was working her first shift when she was arrested. Prior to that, she was undergoing routine new nurse orientation with no independent patient contact.

Just FYI to clarify that the hospital that the mother was fired from as a new employee was not the same hospital in which Emma was examined - it was another town entirely.

I'll find the article and post the link.

 

[butwhatif?]

Thanks for the clarification Iwannaknow and curioustwo. :blowkiss:

 

[CuriousTwo]

Suspect in Spring girl's deadly injuries gets bond reduction
By TERRI LANGFORD HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Sept. 10, 2009, 12:18PM


A convicted felon suspected of inflicting the injuries that led to a 4-year-old Spring girl's death had his bond reset at $100,000 today.

Lucas Coe, 27, has been in the Harris County Jail since his Aug. 10 arrest, without bond for the injuries leading to the June 27 death of Emma Thompson, the daughter of his 33-year-old girlfriend, Abigail Young.

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6611868.html

 

[fhc]

That really angers me. Why did he get that reduction. Houston Chron. had almost nothing on this. This is wrong. He is a danger to all children and has proven this over & over.

Houston, don't make us come down there!

Suspect in Spring girl's deadly injuries gets bond reduction
By TERRI LANGFORD HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Sept. 10, 2009, 12:18PM


A convicted felon suspected of inflicting the injuries that led to a 4-year-old Spring girl's death had his bond reset at $100,000 today.

Lucas Coe, 27, has been in the Harris County Jail since his Aug. 10 arrest, without bond for the injuries leading to the June 27 death of Emma Thompson, the daughter of his 33-year-old girlfriend, Abigail Young.

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6611868.html

 

[joga]

Bert, you're an idiot. We ALL know about this case and the you're defending.

yeah really, bring it . unbelievable. what possible help to the defense would that be besides harrassing people who said bad things about his poor widdle client....

 

[CuriousTwo]

I'm totally speechless!

 

[fhc]

I'm totally speechless!

Do you know if Coe made bail?

 

[DJ3569]

Coe is being held with no bail.

 

[fhc]

Suspect in Spring girl's deadly injuries gets bond reduction
By TERRI LANGFORD HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Sept. 10, 2009, 12:18PM


A convicted felon suspected of inflicting the injuries that led to a 4-year-old Spring girl's death had his bond reset at $100,000 today.

Lucas Coe, 27, has been in the Harris County Jail since his Aug. 10 arrest, without bond for the injuries leading to the June 27 death of Emma Thompson, the daughter of his 33-year-old girlfriend, Abigail Young.





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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6611868.html

DJ, Judge Mary Keel set bail. What a shame.

 

[Paintr]

http://www.themonitor.com/articles/officials-30485-case-teen.html

CPS officials: League City teen case mishandled

Earlier this month, a state review team announced plans to probe DPS's own abuse investigations.

Katy infant Amber Maccurdy, 3-year-old David Tijerina, of Conroe, and 4-year-old Emma Thompson, of Spring, died of abuse since April despite the fact that all three had been reported to CPS as possible child abuse victims, according to the Associated Press. Emma and Amber died even though both were seen within weeks of their deaths by CPS investigators.