In researching information on ‘The most grievous cases of child abuse on record’, I want to share with you some of these highlights. These are not just cases in America, they stretch around the world. These are five of the worst cases that pop up in my Google search result. In reading these, definitely horrific cases, I’m not certain if these are the worst, as I can think of persons spoken with at 40 survivors (some 10/12 men, some 20/25 women, about 4 teens) who made it through years of heinous sexual and ‘terroristic physical trauma’. I invite anyone who wishes to share their story to comment here. If you don’t wish others to know, create a fake identity and share your story so others know that your voice is one of the millions silenced every year.
Sadly the details of grievous violent & sexual harms to children are rarely reported until it results in death of the child. More common than not, is a circle of community, educators, family friends, neighbors, schoolmates – but no one reports because they’re just not certain it actually concerns them at all.
Before these cases make our media headlines, someone has to be taken to court and forced to take accountability either in Criminal or Civil Liabilities. This means that someone has to be affected enough to consider these cases the most dismissed, the most brutal, the absolute worst cases in our history. What is worst of all, the type of punishment given to the offender, Family Offender; earlier history lesser punishments but gets slightly more equal to their crime as we try to address these heinous cruelties which are dismissed by many then tragically end in death for the child…..As of this date the years of physical & sexual attacks against our children are RARELY punished at all, and most are given mild sentencing compared to the lifetime altering trauma of their victims.
Here’s a few for you to review…..Links attached to resource information
Mekhi Boone – March 13, 2013 – ‘Not a 2 inch area of his body that wasn’t bruised’
Reports first began against child’s mother July 2009
Father – Had long history of Domestic Battery Offenses against mother and Mekhi
Paternal Grandmother – Nov 2012
Father – Given custody, after being recorded as ‘Not a candidate for custody’ in 2011
As this shares – No one in the State DCF/TFI visited to check on him after Jan 2013
‘Beat to death’ March 13, 2013 – lasting wounds, each in different stages of healing, some new’
No one, either from TFI or DCF, visited Mekhi after Jan. 13, 2013, the lawsuit says.
The worst ever seen
After a little less than two months without any contact from the state or TFI, Mekhi’s situation changed suddenly.
Davis brought Mekhi to the Hiawatha hospital on March 3, 2013. Mekhi was unresponsive. Davis said the child had fallen down 30 stairs.
According to the lawsuit, Davis spoke of behavior problems with the boy. Hospital staff who removed Mekhi’s clothing saw bruising and abrasions all over his body in various stages of healing.
Mekhi had multiple injuries, including internal bleeding and bleeding on the brain. He was taken by helicopter to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
At Children’s Mercy, doctors diagnosed Mekhi with severe traumatic brain injury secondary to child abuse, a skull fracture, mid-line shift of the brain and multiple bruises. The diagnosis didn’t match the explanation Davis had provided.
“Children’s Mercy personnel including a medical doctor who had observed approximately 15,000 victims of child abuse, described (Mekhi’s) injuries as the worst ever seen for a child that age, and that there was not two inches of (Mekhi’s) body that did not have bruising on it,” the lawsuit reads.
On March 4, Petry — the DCF worker who had told TFI in July 2012 that Davis wasn’t a placement option — visited Mekhi in the hospital. She wrote in her case activity log that Mekhi had been “beat to death.” She noted Mekhi showed signs of sexual abuse as well.
Sexual abuse of children and teens by Priests of the Roman Catholic Church 2008
As many as 800 victims have filed charges, one Priest “O’Grady”; more than 200 victims throughout his years in the church.
O’Grady, having served half of a 14-year prison sentence, is now living in his native Ireland after being deported from the US in 2000.
Carnation couple charged in “worst case” child abuse of teen daughter –
Prosecutors said the couple were investigated by Child Protective Services in 2005 when the girl reported being locked in her room for extended periods of time. The CPS investigation concluded that the allegations were founded after Long admitted to locking the girl in her room, but the case was not referred for criminal prosecution, prosecutors said.
According to police, the girl said her stepmother disciplined her by “restricting her water intake” to about half of a small Dixie cup per day.
The girl and her brother “were forced to sleep on the floor in the same room as their parents, and a heavy dresser was pushed in front of the door to keep her from sneaking out and getting water.”
That happened after the girl was caught one night sneaking out of her own room to drink water from the toilet, according to police. She told police she feared her stepmother would hear the faucets if she used them. For food, police said, she was mostly given toast.
The stepmother, who did not work outside the home and claimed to be home-schooling the children, also directly monitored her stepdaughter’s showers and bathroom habits “to keep her from surreptitiously drinking water,” police said. Showers were restricted to every two or three weeks.
The girl told police that her stepmother once duct-taped her hands behind her back and dunked her head in the toilet to discipline her.
If convicted of first- and second-degree criminal mistreatment as charged, Pomeroy and Long could face three and four years in prison, according to King County prosecutor spokesman Dan Donohoe.
Women to be released after committing the worst case of child abuse in history.
Over the last fifteen years I have followed story after story of abused children. However, the case of Baby Briana has resonated in my mind from the first day I saw it ten years ago. Autopsy results showed Brianna Mariah Lopez, 5-months, 5-days old, died from cranial cerebral injuries. She had bruising and scraping injuries throughout her head, as well as on her upper forehead.
Baby-Briana’s died on July 19, 2002 in Las Crucens, New Mexico. She was only five months old when she was pronounced dead in the Memorial Medical Center emergency room at 11:10 am. The reasons of her death, child abuse.
Brianna had 13 human bite marks all over her body and head. There were extensive injuries to her head and fatal injuries to her brain. She had bleeding in the brain as well as around the nerves of her eyes. Her skull was fractured in two places, there were two rib fractures, two more on the thigh bones of each of her legs, and a fracture to her left arm. She had also been raped by the ones who were supposed to take care of her, her father and uncle.
Brianna was a victim of child abuse, considered by many people as perhaps the worst case in New Mexico history. Her parents, Stephanie Lopez and Andy Walters, and an uncle, Steven Lopez were convicted and are in prison.
The abuse started almost immediately. Instead of hugs and kisses Brianna received slaps and pinches. She was tormented on a daily basis, both verbally and physically. Slapped, kicked, punched, pinched, thrown, raped, etc. You name it this infant endured it.
‘Illinois Miracle’ Disputed After Child-Abuse Cases
By JODI WILGOREN
Published: January 28, 2003
CHICAGO, Jan. 27— Six adults were arrested and 12 children taken to emergency shelters this weekend in two incidents that horrified the authorities and renewed criticism of Illinois’ child-welfare system, denounced a decade ago as a national nightmare but now heralded as a national model.
Children’s Bureau 2011 – Child Maltreatment in the U.S.
Selected Maltreatment Types of Victims by Age, 2012
Age Med Nglct Nglct Physical Psych Sexual = (x6)
<1–2 5,212 157,713 30,689 12,371 1,660 x6 = 9,960
3–5 2,456 111,770 21,327 11,518 8,802 x6 = 52,812
6–8 2,157 88,314 20,883 10,331 10,827 x6 = 64,962
9–11 1,925 68,383 17,619 9,280 11,600 x6 = 69,600
12–14 2,097 58,491 18,308 8,229 16,560 x6 = 99,360
15–17 1,806 44,800 14,887 5,936 13,133 x6 = 78,798
(x6) 1A – In 2012 during the increase measure of concern about sexual assault, Congress released a statement – ‘For every 1 report of sexual assault that is made, at least 6 others are not’ – This statement was confirmed by Congressman John Shimkus, Sept 03, 2015
According to DHS breakdown of this report into National Children’s Bureau FFY 2011
- More than 75 percent (78.5%) suffered neglect
- More than 15 percent ( 17.6%) suffered physical abuse
- Confirmed reports provide (9.1%) suffered sexual abuse – remember X6 Rule
The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) report for FFY 2011 reflects the following breakdown in perpetrators:
A) Parents of child = 80.8%
B) Other Relative = 5.9%
C) Parent Partner = 4.4%
D) Other Known = 4.5%
**E) Stranger Danger = 2.1%**
Parents, Parental Partner & Other Close Relative = 91.1% of all maltreatment offenses
Female Offenders = 53.6% Male Offenders = 45.1%
Age vs Offense
Children ages 1-6 are most often victims of physical abuse & neglect. Mothers are most likely to be the offenders
Children ages 6-15 are most often targets of sexual abuse, and sex trafficking. Reports in these files show MALES make up 94% of recorded sexual offenders. However history shows that Mothers are not commonly suspected; in truth many are compliant in sexual harm of their children, which occurs for various reasons.
**MOLESTATION LEAVES NO PHYSICAL SIGNS!! Molestation can occur at any age, even though we never want to consider our partner or a parent (or an older child) of committing such a heinous act. The signs of molestation are simply severe irritation of the genital area, rash around mouth, or other uncommon types of signs. Spotting molestation requires understanding age appropriate behaviors & interactions with others
Illinois Statutes –
Confirmed Illinois Statutes: 720 ILCS –
* Child Physical Abuse – statute of limitations is only 1 year after 18th bday.
No SOL beyond age 18 for aggravated battery of a minor
* Physical Battery Against a child 13 & under- the crime can only be prosecuted if it is reported within 1-3 years of when the actual crime was committed.
* Sexual Abuse – Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault (weapon display or threat) & Criminal Sexual Assault with a family member under the age of 18 or a non-family member under 18 in which case it was forced – 20 years after age of 18 is SOL.
* Involuntary Servitude/Sexual Servitude/Trafficking of a family member (720 5/10-9) – SOL 1 year after age of 18 only *** We have a proposal to extend this one. The trafficker can be charged for a sex crime – if they directly had sexual contact with the minor. But, if those who take part in sex acts cannot be found and prosecuted under sexual crimes…the trafficker goes free if we do not catch them within a year of the victim’s 18th birthday.
* Forfeiture Provision – There is some allowance for the abusers assets being taken away in order to care for the child, but no solid provisions.
Discussed with our local U.S. Attorney Office, Fairview Heights, Il – Sept 2015
The Centers for Disease and Control estimate 1 in 4 homes dealing with some form of violent or sexual harm. A home inside every neighborhood and a family known by every small community. There are victims adult, teen, and young children in every walk of mankind. It is those who do not comprehend there is help available or that anyone will ever believe their dark statements, these are the WORST CASES OF CHILD ABUSE that will NEVER be known to mankind!!
My Justice ~~ Patricia A McKnight 