Isaac's foster mom gets 5 ½ to 15 years in his death
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July 2, 2007
By JACK KRESNAK
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
A Detroit judge sentenced Charlsie Adams-Rogers, who was caring for
2-year-old Isaac Lethbridge when he died of a beating last August in her
home, to 5 ½ to 15 years in prison today.
Before the sentence was imposed, Adams-Rogers, 60, apologized but said
she did not intend for any foster child to be harmed.
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“I’m sorry about what did happen,” she said in a barely audible voice.
“But I never intended for any of this to ever happen in my home, and I
do apologize.”
Wayne County Circuit Judge Vera Massey Jones also sentenced Adams-Rogers
to time served for her conviction of second-degree child abuse of Isaac.
Adams-Rogers has been incarcerated in the Wayne County Jail since
moments after her conviction June 18.
Referring to Adams-Rogers’ then 12-year-old adopted daughter, who police
say they believe harmed Isaac, the judge said today: “Everybody wants to
blame everything on her.”
But, Jones said, Adams-Rogers “created the conditions” in her home that
led to Isaac’s death.
“Isaac screamed and he screamed and he screamed, and Mrs. Rogers was
there and did absolutely nothing,” Jones said.
During the two-week trial, Adams-Rogers -- also known as Charlise Rogers
and Paris Rogers -- testified for several hours on her own behalf, but
was caught in several misstatements or lies during cross-examination by
Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Lisa Lindsey.
Adams-Rogers said she never considered the 12-year-old dangerous,
despite having sought mental health services for the girl because of her
violent and aggressive behavior.
She said she checked once on Isaac and the other kids when they were in
an upstairs bedroom Aug. 16, shortly before a teenage girl found Isaac
unresponsive.
Adams-Rogers also admitted that she had a legal duty to safeguard the
foster children in her home. That included Isaac and his 4-year-old
sister, who were placed in her care by the Lula Belle Stewart Center, a
private foster care agency in Detroit.
The agency was then under contract with the state Department of Human
Services to provide foster care for nearly 100 children. The state
suspended the center's license to place children in foster care after
Isaac's death.
Conditions for other foster children under Lula Belle’s supervision also
were dangerous, a subsequent DHS investigation found. Several of the
children were not living where the agency thought they were, while
others were missing or living with unsuitable people.
The state summarily suspended Lula Belle’s license to place foster
children, an action the agency is fighting through an administrative appeal.
Karl Troy, a former foster care worker at the Lula Belle agency,
testified against Adams-Rogers under a grant of immunity from the
prosecution.
Troy admitted that he had accepted Adams-Rogers’ explanation for bruises
on Isaac without checking into it further. The actual value of his
testimony appeared to be to show how poorly the Lula Belle agency was
supervising its foster children.
Contact JACK KRESNAK at 313-223-4544 or jkresnak@freepress.com.
CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A
DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL
SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAM....
CPS Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of Child Protective Services.
every parent should read this .pdf from
connecticut dcf watch...
http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf
http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com
Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS
*Perpetrators of Maltreatment*
Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13
Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12
Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5
Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.
BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...
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