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Cousin admits causing death of 7-year-old in New Jersey abuse case
By Wayne Parry
ASSOCIATED PRESS
1:10 p.m. September 27, 2005
NEWARK, N.J. – The teenage cousin of a 7-year-old boy whose decomposed body was found stuffed in a basement storage bin pleaded guilty to manslaughter Tuesday, saying he killed the child while performing a wrestling move.
The admission from Wesley Murphy, the 19-year-old cousin of Faheem Williams, came in a case that generated nationwide outrage and led to a shakeup of New Jersey’s child welfare agency.
I spent many year of during investgations of child abuse and this is a mild case when are we going to learn -god Bless the social workerbut when you let us Law enfocemnt get more involved (now retired with many a bitch) we can do soooo much more) I have done out of home investigations and many a runaway and the social workers seem to fight us at every turn (did a Cornell extention class at the WTC some years ago) Just tired of the social workers
It doesnt work
PS Pulled out 2 dead children the cps insisted on returning
and yea I am angry
-keeping the family together my ass
I was putting together a scathing reply about how the Health/Fitness of our troops in Iraq was leading us to read more Military Obituaries in Special Reports and even some Wireless Editions because the Solutions are not to be found in Science or Technology but in Business and Education which should bring and end to the War on Terror as long as Politics are discussed in the correct Forums before you corrected yourself.
Cousin admits causing death of 7-year-old in New Jersey abuse case
By Wayne Parry
ASSOCIATED PRESS
1:10 p.m. September 27, 2005
NEWARK, N.J. – The teenage cousin of a 7-year-old boy whose decomposed body was found stuffed in a basement storage bin pleaded guilty to manslaughter Tuesday, saying he killed the child while performing a wrestling move.
The admission from Wesley Murphy, the 19-year-old cousin of Faheem Williams, came in a case that generated nationwide outrage and led to a shakeup of New Jersey’s child welfare agency.
**I spent many year life doing investgations of child abuse and this is a mild case .when are we going to learn -god Bless the social worker but when you let us Law enfocemnt get more involved (now retired with many a bitch) we can do soooo much more) I have done out of home investigations and many a runaway and the social workers seem to fight us at every turn (did a Cornell extention class at the WTC some years ago)we and the social worker had just so many different laws we worked under maybe just maybe they sould have just giving us juristion
Just tired of the social workers
It doesnt work** PS Pulled out 2 dead children the cps insisted on returning
and yea I am angry
-keeping the family together my ass
I just showed how we had different rules too follow. they had to follow the Social Service code while we only had the Penal Law.Different rules for differnt investorgators We followed the Penal law not the Social services Law. We had jurisdiction on criminalal cases
To be honest not much. They gave us the cases they where afraid of (not that I blame them we are armed and they were not ) but they are social workers with a mandate to keep all families together- we had a mandate to enforce the law, if a father raped as cousin or a doughter we would arrest not send to counsouling- sounds drastic but that is the way it is
So they’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t. The somewhat hysterical meme is “Social Services breaks up families! One spanking and they drag kids out of the house, screaming and crying for their mommies!” When in fact, social workers don’t make the decision to remove kids. Only a judge can do that.
But you’re upset that they keep families together. And I understand that, but lemme ask you this: How much and what kind of evidence do you need in order to make an arrest? And if someone gets arrested, is that the end of it? And what happens if the parent stays in jail—if the primary wage-earner is removed from the household?
Abuse cases are not cut-and-dried. I know they must seem so when you see a dead body, but not every case is fated to end up that way. Social workers just can’t always know, going in, that a child is in a life-threatening situation.
Yeah, and speaking of the OP, I’m not sure what social services has to do with anything. It sounds like one isolated incident, one that involved two VERY bad decisions by a teenager, but not an ongoing abuse situation. So how did it “[lead] to a shakeup of New Jersey’s welfare agency”?
IIRC, there was more to this case than one bad ‘wrestling’ move. The other two children under their care were treated poorly, malnourished, that sort of thing. NJ’s welfare agency had been failing to do their jobs in inspecting homes like this one, falsifying records, claiming they saw children safe and sound when they never did, etc.