In memory of foster kids killed while in the sytem

This page is in memory of children who died after social service agencies removed them from the care of their parents, placing them with fosters, adopters, group homes, or psychiatric facilities.

Genesis Acosta-Garcia, Las Vegas Nevada, three months old, November 19, 2005, septic shock

Travis C Adams, Salem Oregon, August 8 2000, December 16 2002, wandered into creek

Kayla Y Allen, Richlands North Carolina, November 10 1995 - August 24 2003, poison

Martin Lee Anderson, Panama City Florida, fourteen years old, January 6 2006, beating/suffocation

Richard L (Ricky) Aragon, Albuquerque New Mexico, January 24 1991 - April 12 1993, battered

Shirley Arciszewski, Charlotte North Carolina, April 19 1992 - September 11 2004, restraint

Miguel Humberto Arias-Baca, Westminster Colorado, two years old, February 2 1999, battered

Angellika Nicole Arndt, Minneapolis Minnesota, seven years old, May 26 2006, restraint

Ian August, Sevier Desert Utah, June 21 1988 - July 13, 2002, exhaustion

Denzel Bailey, Los Angeles California, eleven months old, April 2001, malnutrition

Jeffrey Baldwin, Toronto Ontario, December 20 1996 - November 30 2002, malnutrition/pneumonia

Casey Paul Barrow, West Valley Utah, eighteen months old, October 22 2003, battered

Anthony Bars, Indiana, four years old, January 20 2004, starvation, battered

Shelly Bash, Midland Michigan, eight years old, March 2005, transplant rejection

Nadine Catherine Beaulieu, Dauphin Manitoba, twenty three months old, February 1996, battered

Teddy Bellingham, Smiths Falls Ontario, sixteen years old, August 1992, beaten

Jerome Bennett, Oshawa Ontario, fifteen years old, February 3 2006, homicide

Maria Bennett, Lancaster Ohio, two years old, October 23, 2002, battered

Modesto Blanco, Lubbock Texas, twenty two months old, March 2 2002, battered

Christian Blewitt né Osik, Halesowen England, three years old, December 2002, poison/battered

Deondre Bondieumaitre, Florida, sixteen months old, April 16 2003, battered

Timothy Boss, Remsen Iowa, ten years old, February 23 2000, battered

Alex Boucher, New Port Richey Florida, January 25 1997 - September 25 2000, asphyxiation

Ashley Boyd, LaFayette Georgia, twelve years old, December 13 2005, hit by car / suicide

Jason Bright, Las Vegas Nevada, fourteen years old, August 5 2006, gunshot / homicide

Kerry Brooks, Los Angeles California, nine years old, February 10 2001, suicide

Talitha Brooks, Colorado, one year old, July 1998, heatstroke

Amira Brown, Reading Pennsylvania, twelve years old, September 4 2005, battered / restraint

Diminiqua Bryant, Dothan Alabama, two years old, May 1999, battered

Scott Buckle, Swansea Wales, twelve years old, February 6 2005, hanging

Latasha Bush, Manvel Texas, January 2 1987 - February 28 2002, restraint

Michael Buxton, Miami Oklahoma, five years old, July 5 1998, battered

Everlyse Cabrera, Las Vegas Nevada, two years old, June 10 2006, lost

Eduardo Calzada, Bakersfield California, three months old, March 2004, battered

Chris Campbell, Toledo Iowa, thirteen years old, November 2, 1997, restraint

Gladys Campbell, Philadelphia/New Jersey, two years old, ca 1988

Edith Campos, Tucson Arizona, fifteen years old, February 4 1998, restraint

Brianna Canales, Harrisburg Pennsylvania, four years old, April 24 2006, dozen Zoloft pills

Latasha Cannon, Boston Massachusetts, seventeen years old, April 2001, slashed throat

Mario Cano, Chula Vista California, sixteen years old, April 27 1984, untreated blood clot

Joshua K Causey, Detroit Michigan, March 21 1998 - March 18 2003, battered

Jaime Ceballos, Salinas California, two years old, November 27 2005, infection and bleeding

baby boy Charles, Las Vegas Nevada, seven months old, August 4 2006, head injury

Sherry Charlie, British Columbia, nineteen months old, September 4 2002, battered

Sarah Angelina Chavez, Alhambra California, two years old, October 11 2005, battered

Felix Chen, Bloomington Indiana, August 27 1997 - April 1 2004, treatment withheld

Sky Colon Cherevez, Paterson New Jersey, three months old, August 6 1998, battered

Tiffany H Clair, Fort Worth Texas, September 6 1985 - May 4 2001, heroin

Brian Clark, New Jersey, three years old, January 2002, untreated pneumonia

Angelic Clary, Bakersfield California, three months old, September 14 2003

Roshelle Clayborn, San Antonio Texas, sixteen years old, August 18 1997, restraint

Casey Collier, Westminster Colorado, seventeen years old, December 21 1993, restraint

Desiree Collins, Los Angeles California, fourteen years old, February 10 2002, gunshot

Nicholas Contreras, Queen Creek Arizona, January 15 1982 - March 2 1998, untreated infection

Ashleigh Marie Copeland née Lethbridge, Michigan, twelve years old, February 23 2006, grand-mal

Adrianna Cram, Veracruz Mexico (US supervision), August 25 2000 - June 13 2005

Christopher Henry Cryderman, Springfield Missouri, July 27 2004 - November 22 2004, untreated infection

Dirk D Dalton, Clarkston Washington, June 7 1989 - May 1 1994, battered

Arieale Daniels, Naples Florida, fifteen years old, 1999, car crash

Tajuana Davidson, Phoenix Arizona, three years old, November 3 1993, battered

China Marie Davis, Phoenix Arizona, March 23 1991 - October 31 1993, battered

Sabrina Elizabeth Day, Charlotte North Carolina, July 4 1984 - February 10 2000, restraint

Tyler Joseph DeLeon, Stevens County Washington, January 13 1998 - January 13 2005, dehydration

Kameron Justin Demery, Long Beach California, two years old, October 14 1996, battered

Connre Dixon, Ridgefield Township Ohio eleven years old, October 18 2004, stabbing

Mark Draheim, Orefield Pennsylvania, October 10 1984 - December 11 1998, restraint

Charmaria Drake, Cleveland Ohio, twenty months old, March 13 2003, battered

Stephanie Duffield, Manvel Texas, July 14 1984 - February 11 2001, restraint

Willie Lawrence Durden III, Citrus County Florida, seventeen years old, October 2005, unknown/died in cell

Brian Edgar, Overland Park Kansas, nine years old, December 30 2002, asphyxiation

William Edgar, Peterborough Ontario, thirteen years old, March 1999, restraint

Tiffany Eilders, Rancho Cucamonga California, fourteen weeks old, December 7 2005, battered

Ryan Ellison, Las Vegas Nevada, three months old, January 17 2006, prematurity concealed

Kayla Erlandson, King County Washington, two years old, April 1991, battered

Luke Evans, Lowell Indiana, sixteen months old, November 30 2001, malnutrition/battered

Roberta (Berta) Evers, Bayfield Colorado, six years old, June 13 1998, restraint

Sara Eyerman, California, twenty months old, ca 1986, untreated pneumonia

Sean Isaac Faith, Eagle Idaho, three years old, May 13 2006, drowning

Marcus Fiesel, Cincinnati Ohio, three years old, August 6 2006, locked in closet

Miranda Finn, Lake Butler Florida, nine years old, January 25 2006, traffic accident

Laura Fleming, Palmdale California, October 11 2004 - November 21 2004, cause unknown

Sarah Jane Forrester, Woodlawn Maryland, October 30 1985 - found May 13 1999, battered and stabbed

Rita Foster, Pasadena California, four years old, June 29 2006, run over by bus

Kameryn Fountain, Bibb County Georgia, two months old, November 20 2005, unknown cause

Henry Gallop, Boston Massachusetts, two years old, 1987, poison

Alexander Ganadonegro, Albuquerque New Mexico, March 10 1998 - February 4 1999, battered

Christening (Mikie) Garcia, Ingram Texas, twelve years old, December 4 2005, restraint

Camron P Gardner, Waupun Wisconsin, three years old, May 5 2006, battered

Dylan James George, Fremont California, April 16 2002 - October 4 2004, battered

Anthony Marino Gladue, Edmonton Alberta, seventeen years old, April 26 2006, hit by train

Corese Goldman, Chicago Illinois, two years old, 1995, drowning

Mollie Gonzales, Jefferson County Colorado, ten years old, November 18 2002, drug overdose

Julio Gonzalez, Glendale California, May 10 1995 - December 29 1996, battered

Elizabeth (Lizzy) Goodwin, Coeur d'Alene Idaho, March 22 1996 - October 22 2002, drowning

Anthony Green, Brownwood Texas, fifteen years old, May 12 1991, restraint

Sabrina Green, New York City, nine years old, November 8 1997, burned and battered

Lamar D Greene, Jacksonville Florida, sixteen years old, 2001, car crash

Corey Greer, Treasure Island Florida, four months old, ca 1985, dehydration

Gage Guillen, Boston Massachusetts, three years old, 1995, strangulation

Darvell Gulley, Lincoln Nebraska, thirteen years old, April 27 2002, restraint

Savannah Brianna Marie Hall, Prince George British Columbia, September 9 1997 - January 21 2001, malnutrition/restraint

Latiana Hamilton, Jacksonville Florida, seventeen months old, July 18 2001, drowning

Mykeeda Hampton, District of Columbia, two years old, August 1997, battered

Kelly M Hancock, Malden Massachusetts, November 6 1985 - July 18 2000, stabbed

Laura Hanson, West Palm Beach Florida, May 17 1981 - November 19 1998, restraint

Jerrell Hardiman, La Porte Indiana, four years old, October ca 1993, exposure

Alex Harris, Minden Louisiana, twelve years old, September 2005, forced running

Diane Harris, Seguin Texas, seventeen years old, April 11 1990, restraint

Jessica Albina Hagmann, Prince William County Virginia, two years old, August 11 2003, smothered

Letia Harrison, Akron Ohio, October 23 1999 - September 19 2002, baked in attic

Jordan Heikamp, Toronto Ontario, May 19 1997 - June 23 1997, starvation

Eric Hernandez, Cedar Hill Texas, January 6 1999 - March 7 1999, suffocation

Zachary Higier, né Nikita Khoryakov Braintree Massachusetts, May 24 2000 - August 15 2002, battered

Dwight Hill, Tucson Arizona, four months old, November 16 2005, battered

Nina Victoria Hilt née Vika Bazhenova, Manassas Virginia, thirty three months old, July 2 2005, battered

Steven A Hoffa, Des Moines Iowa, February 4 1993 - May 18 1996, battered

Richard (Ricky) Holland, Williamston Michigan, September 8 1997 - July 2005, battered

Michael Anthony Hughes, Choctaw Oklahoma, March 21 1988 - September 12 1994, kidnap/missing

Jarod (Jerry) Hulsey, Mesa Arizona, ten years old, April 3 2006, battered

Joseph (Joey) Huot, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, two years old, January 27 1988, battered

Dion Jack, Sproat Lake British Columbia, six years old, March 1 2006, untreated seizure

Walter Jackson, Chicago Illinois, ten months old, August 9 2005, battered

Dominic James, Springfield Missouri, June 4 2000 - August 21 2002, battered

Billie-Jo Jenkins, Hastings East Sussex England, thirteen years old, February 1997, battered

Demetrius Jeffries, Crockett Texas, seventeen years old, August 26 1997, strangulation

Dontel Jeffers, Boston Massachusetts, four years old, March 6 2005, battered

Ciara S Jobes, Baltimore Maryland, August 17 1987 - December 11 2002, starvation/beating

Stephanie Jobin, Brampton Ontario, thirteen years old, June 21 1998, restraint

Aaron Johnson, Boston Massachusetts, fifteen months old, 1987, poison

Anthony Johnson, Marshall Texas, four years old, July 11 2005, drowning

Elijah James Johnson, Los Angeles California, three years old, May 10 1999, scalded

Lorenzo Johnson, Queen Creek Arizona, 17 years old - June 27, 1994, drowned during escape

Quartrina K (Snappy) Johnson, Pikesville Maryland, December 25 1988 - July 20 2004, beaten and choked

Xolani Nkosi Johnson, Capetown South Africa, twelve years old, June 2 2001, AIDS

Christal Jones, New York City (Vermont ward), May 24 1984 - January 3 2001, suffocation

David L Jones, Chicago Illinois, April 15 1992 - March 7 1998, battered

Xavier Jones, East Orange New Jersey, twenty one months old, June 7 2006, methadone poisoning

Dennis Jurgens né Jerry Sherwood, White Bear Lake Minnesota, three years old, April 11 1965, battered

Marissa (Shorty) Karp, Pompano Beach Florida, December 6 1985 - August 19 2002, gunshot

David Ryan Keeley, New Haven Connecticut, six years old, August 12 1998, battered

Ashley Keen, Lake Butler Florida, thirteen years old, January 25 2006, traffic accident

Cassandra Killpack, Springville Utah, November 29 1997 - June 9 2002, water therapy

Ahmad King né Rawls, Alma Georgia, three years old, January 24 2006, homicide

Heather Michell Kish, Berlin Township Michigan, September 15 1987 -found October 6 2002, murdered

Noah Knapp, Marysville Washington, six years old, May 30 2005, automobile collision

Alissa Kneen, Newport Minnesota, five years old, September 7 2001, house fire

Cordell Kneen, Newport Minnesota, twenty months old, September 7 2001, house fire

Zaire Knott, Newark New Jersey, September 16 2005 - October 20 2005, cause unknown

Anatoli Kolenda, Westfield Massachusetts, May 20 1991 - October 20 2002, stabbing

Yana Kolenda, Westfield Massachusetts, December 31 1990 - October 20 2002, stabbing

Anthony Lamb, Lake Butler Florida, twenty months old, January 25 2006, traffic accident

Keisha Shardae Lane, Hagerstown Maryland, fifteen years old, August 17 2005, gunshot

Shawn Lawrence né Andy Mohler, Shelton Washington, ten years old, October 9 1999, drowning

Brittany Legler, Millcreek Pennsylvania, fifteen years old, May 9 2004, battered

Isaac Lethbridge, Detroit Michigan, two years old, August 16 2006, battered

Trenton Jared Lewis, Canyon County Idaho, three years old, July 8 2006, drowning

Jacob Lindorff, Franklin Township New Jersey, five years old, December 14 2001, battered

Christian Liz, New York City, three weeks old, November 29 2004, suffocation

James Lonnee, Guelph/Hamilton Ontario, sixteen years old, September 7 1996, beaten by cellmate

Gregory Love, Florida, twenty three months old, April 2005, head injury

Nikki Lutke, Cheyenne Wyoming, five years old, August 28 2003, drowning

Zachary James Lyons, Winston-Salem North Carolina, January 24 1992 - October 8 1996, battered

Shaquella Mance, Belton South Carolina, seven months old, March 27 2005, battered

Elizabeth Mann, Lake Butler Florida, fifteen years old, January 25 2006, traffic accident

Heaven Mann, Lake Butler Florida, three years old, January 25 2006, traffic accident

Johnny Mann, Lake Butler Florida, thirteen years old, January 25 2006, traffic accident

Cynthia Nicole (Nicki) Mann, Lake Butler Florida, fifteen years old, January 25 2006, traffic accident

Logan Marr, Chelsea Maine, October 14 1995 - January 31 2001, asphyxiation

Fernando Ibarra Martinez, Bakersfield California, nine months old, March 26 2006, battered

Stephanie Martinez, Pueblo Colorado, five years old, December 31 2001, untreated burns

Tiffany Laverne Mason, Folsom California, June 11 1986 - August 9 2001, battered

Viktor Alexander Matthey né V Sergeyevich Tulimov, Hunterdon County New Jersey, six years old, October 31 2000, hypothermia

Dominic Matz, Osawatomie Kansas, July 6 2002 - February 15 2004, treatment withheld

Jamie Mayne, Atascadero California, March 24 1995 - February 10 2000, battered

Kristal Mayon-Ceniceros, Chula Vista California, sixteen years old, February 5 1999, restraint

Emily Ann Mays, Tucson Arizona, sixteen months old, August 24 2005, battered

Andrew McClain, Bridgeport Connecticut, December 6 1986 - March 22 1998, restraint

Cory Bradley McLaughlin, North Carolina, four years old, July 4 1997, battered

Jerry McLaurin, Brownwood Texas, fourteen years old, November 2 1999, restraint

Maria Mendoza, Katy Texas, fourteen years old, October 12 2002, restraint

Caleb Jerome Merchant, Edmonton Alberta, thirteen months old, November 26, 2005, battered

Denis Merryman né Uritsky, Harford County Maryland, eight years old, January 2005, starvation

Devin Miller, Spokane Washington, twenty months old, August 6 2006, battered

Euryale Miller, Kansas City Missouri, one year old, April 1 2001, battered

Jacob Miller, Georgia, twenty two months old, November 20 1997, battered

Clayton Miracle, Georgia, three years old, August 11 1993, battered

Hanna Denise Montessori, Santa Ana California, March 16 1988 - January 19 2004, homicide/head-injury

Alfredo Montez, Auburndale Florida, two years old, July 1 2002, battered

Zachary Moran, Charlotte North Carolina, fourteen months old, August 8 2003, battered

Christina Morlan, Scott County Iowa, September 3 2003 - November 30 2003, unknown

Carlyle Mullins, Nashville Tennessee, five years old, May 27 2005, battered

Cedrick Napoleon, Killeen Texas, June 26 1987 - March 7 2002, restraint

Candace Newmaker née C Tiara Elmore, Colorado, Movember 19 1989 - April 19 2000, re-birth asphyxiation

Jonathan Nichol, Cook County Illinois, two years old, June 16 1995, drowning

Trevor Nolan, Mono County California, five years old, April 12 1997, treatment withheld

Sierra Odom, Arlington Texas, three years old, August 11 2005, battered

Lenny Ortega, Ingram Texas, twelve years old, May 30 2006, drowning

Keron Owens, Walterboro South Carolina, three years old, January 19 1992, battered

Sean Paddock né Ford, Johnston County North Carolina, four years old, February 26 2006, battered

Omar Paisley, Miami Florida, seventeen years old, June 2003, untreated appendicitis

Terrell Parker, Buffalo New York, two years old, 2003, battered

Travis Parker, Cleveland Georgia, thirteen years old, April 21 2005, restraint

Melva Dee Parrott, Hersey Michigan, May 4 1998 - June 29 2000, bronchitis

Alex Pavlis, né Geiko Schaumburg Illinois, six years old, December 19 2003, battered

Dillon Peak, Saint Petersburg Florida, fourteen years old, June 17 2006, undiagnosed illness

Dawn Renay Perry, Manvel Texas, sixteen years old, April 10 1993, restraint

Angellica Pesante, Seneca County New York, four years old, April 18 1997, battered

Terrell Peterson, Atlanta Georgia, five years old, January 16 1998, battered

Cynteria Phillips, Miami Florida, December 10 1986 - August 14 2000, rape/murder

Marguerite Pierre, West Orange New Jersey, five years old, December 2005, poison

Emporia Pirtle, Indiana, six years old, November 11 1996, battered

Jason Plischkowsky, Southampton England, May 25 1985 - December 19 1986, head injury

Huntly Tamati Pokaia, New Zealand, three years old

David Polreis, Greeley Colorado, two years old, February 6 1996, battered

Maryah Ponce, Rialto California, December 5 1997 - June 29 2001, baked in car

Constance S Porter, Kearney Missouri, July 20 1998 - February 12 2001, battered

Dakota Denzel Prince-Smith, Lancaster California, five years old, July 8 2003, baked in car

Nehamiah Nate Prince-Smith, Lancaster California, three years old, July 8 2003, baked in car

Karen Quill, St Louis Saskatchewan, twenty months old, September 13 1997, internal injuries

Rodrigo Armando Rameriez Jr, Victorville California, eighteen months old, July 6 2001, drowning

Stephanie Ramos, New York City, eight years old, July 9 2005, dumped in garbage can

Bobby Jo Randolph, Houston Texas, seventeen years old, September 26 1996, axphyxiation

Jacquelyn Reah, Grand Rapids Michigan, ten years old, November 27 2004, runaway / hit by car

Latayna Reese, Bradenton Florida, fifteen years old, April 1996

Caprice Reid, New York City, four years old, June 1997, starved and battered

Jonathan Reid, Gardena California, nine years old, June 9 1997, treatment withheld

Matthew Reid, Welland Ontario, three years old, December 15 2005, suffocation

Dustin Rhodes, Litchfield Park Arizona, nine years old, August 13 2003, battered

Alana Rickard-Cowell, Honolulu Hawaii, two months old, April 23 2006, unknown (broken bones)

Eric Roberts, Keene Texas, June 16 1979 - February 22 1996, restraint

Ana Rogers, Sparks Nevada, four months old, July 2005, pre-existing injury

Genevieve "Genny" Rojas, Chula Vista California, four years old, July 21 1995, starvation, scalded

Guadalupe Rosales III, San Antonio Texas, April 2005 - June 13 2006, battered

Paola Rosales, Milton Ontario, fourteen years old, July 3 2001, suicide

Kyle Anthony Ross, Massachusetts, September 7 1995 - June 9 2001, rottweiler

Marlon Santos, Worcester Massachusetts, five months old, November 5 1998, missing

Andres E Saragos, Warm Springs Oregon, August 5 1995 - July 13 2000, baked in car

Gina M Score, Plankinton South Dakota, May 7 1985 - July 21 1999, baked by boot camp

Caprice Scott, Florida, infant, 1999, mother in foster care

Ryan Scott, Sheffield Lake Ohio, two years old, March 27 1998, battered

Krystal Scurry, Aiken County South Carolina, February 1989 - November 2 1991, rape/murder

Andrew (Andy) Setzer, California, April 27 1995 - August 2 1999, battered

Joshua Sharp, Las Vegas Nevada, fifteen months old, August 15 2006, infection

Ariel Shaw, Bibb County Georgia, nineteen months old, January 26 2000, battered

Vivan Uk Sheppard, Jacksonville Florida, eight months old, May 15 1999, suffocation

Colby Shirley, Gallup New Mexico, eighteen months old, March 20 2006, battered

Joseph H Shriver, Pennsylvania, March 2 1997 - October 5 1997, battered

Quincey L Simmons, Omaha Nebraska, August 21 1997 - March 24 2001, battered

Christopher Simpson, Howell Michigan, seven years old, November 14 1998, fire

Jordan Simpson né Richard Morrison II, Howell Michigan, five years old, November 14 1998, fire

Nicole Simpson née Desira Morrison, Howell Michigan, seven years old, November 14 1998, fire

Devin A Slade, Milwaukee Wisconsin, October 23 2000 - June 19 2001, asphyxiation

John Smith, Fishersgate England, four years old, December 24 1999, battered and bitten

Mikinah Smith, Cincinnati Ohio, one year old, March 18 2003, battered

Tristan Sovern, Greensboro North Carolina, sixteen years old, March 4 1998, restraint

Jushai Spurgeon, North Las Vegas Nevada, fourteen months old, April 3 2005, scalding

LeRon St John, Detroit Michigan, fifteen years old, March 1 2003, untreated tuberculosis

Lloyd Stamp, Edmonton Alberta, seventeen years old, September 29, 2005, suicide

Tommy Stacey, Carmichael California, three months old, January 3 2005, SIDS

Elizabeth (Lisa) Steinberg née Launders, New York City, May 14 1981 - November 4 1987, battered

Chris Surbey, Winnipeg Manitoba, October 13 1987 - June 6 2005, stabbing

Yasmin Taylor, Paterson New Jersey, seven months old, May 8 1994, virus

Lakeysha Tharp, Irmo South Carolina, six months old, April 7 2004, asphyxiation

Adam Michael Thimyan, Riverview Florida, October 2 1986 - April 3 2004, gunshot

Timithy Thomas, Banner Elk North Carolina, nine years old, March 11 1999, restraint

Liam Thompson né Dmitry S Ishlankulov, Columbus Ohio, October 3 1999 - October 3 2002, scalding

Michael Tinning, Schenectady New York, two years old, March 2 1981, asphyxiation

Kelly Ann Tozer, Egg Harbor City New Jersey, eighteen months old, July 30 2005, drowning

Patrick Trauffler, Phoenix Arizona, six weeks old, February 18 2003, battered

Heaven Traverse, Winnipeg Manitoba, two years old, January 14 2005, battered

Demetrius Tyler, Johnson City Tennessee, six months old, November 10 2004, drowning

Tyler Vanpopering, Southgate Michigan, September 23 2003 - April 14 2004, battered

Jacqueline Venay, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, six years old, September 21 1998, battered

Reena Virk, Saanich British Columbia, fourteen years old, November 14 1997, teen swarming

George Walker III, DeKalb County Georgia, ten months old, November 7 2002, choking

Michelle Walton, Boston Massachusetts, October 6 1994, asphyxiation

Erickyzha Warner, Utica New York, July 19 2002 - May 31, 2004, untreated burns

Shane Devell Washington, Fresno California, fifteen months old, circa 1996, drowning

Evan Watkins, Las Vegas Nevada, twenty one months old, July 11 1996, battered

Omar Wellington, Toronto Ontario, seventeen years old, July 15 2006, stabbing

Devin Wilder, Cleveland Ohio, July 29 1998 - April 21 2001, battered

Dominic J Williams, Saint Louis Missouri, June 8 1987 - June 3 2004, strangulation

Andrew Wilson, Owensboro Kentucky, three years old, August 7 2005, drowning

Lorenzo J Wilson, Seattle Washington, January 29 2004 - October 22 2004, battered

Rilya Wilson, Florida, born September 29 1996, 2001, lost

Michael Spencer Wiltsie, Silver Springs Florida, September 18 1987 - February 5, 2000, restraint

Jimmy Allan Wood, Adams County Colorado, fourteen years old, November 13 2002, drug overdose

Jonnie Wood, Springdale Arkansas, eight years old, August 13 2005, drowning

Braxton D Wooden, Missouri, May 15 1997 - June 2 2005, gunshot

Donte L Woods, West Palm Beach Florida, February 25 1986 - May 27 2002, gunshot

Thomas (T J) Wright, Providence Rhode Island, three years old, October 31 2004, battered

Willie Wright, San Antonio Texas, fourteen years old, March 4 2000, restraint

Rufus Manzie Young Jr, Michigan, four years old, April 6 2003, battered

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SANURA

Holy chit

That's a ton of abuse to young ones!

yeah it is!!!!

one dead kid is one dead kid too many... one abused kid is one abused kid too many.. one hungry kid is one hungry kid too many.. one scared kid is one scared kid too many.. i got lots of anger towards this shit.. set up a ring and ill go a few rounds with some of these fuckers.. all i need is bout half a bottle of jack daniels and im all good and ready to bust some skulls..that shit all makes me ready to kill.

i believe some warmed hunny buns never hurt noone but theres a fuckin limit!!!! find it fuckers!!!!

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Sanura

Damn

That's depressing as hell.

Both of them

Both of our children that passed away this year are on there. I don't tend to follow that list so I didn't even know.

It's just so depressing.

Clarify

Pehaps you should clarify that these children died while in custody not necessarily at the hands of the fosterparents. For every child abused or killed by a fosterparent there are thousands that are in loving, kind, and gentle homes. If you believe otherwise then put your money where your foul mouthes are and prove it. BECOME A FOSTERPARENT and show us how to do it.

Jordan Heikamp, Toronto Ontario, May 19 1997 - June 23 1997, starvation

Ontario mother gave starving baby water
Last Updated Tue Mar 13 09:19:52 2001
TORONTO - A homeless woman whose baby starved to death in Ontario almost four years ago admits she had no idea how to care for her child.

Renee Heikamp told a coroner's inquest on Monday that she didn't know how or when to feed the infant, and didn't realize he was wasting away before her eyes.

Renee Heikamp

The boy, Jordan, was born a month early in May, 1997. He was small – not quite 4 1/2 pounds – but he gained weight quickly.

After 11 days, the mother was allowed to take him home from the hospital.

Medical staff said the boy was healthy and would thrive if he got decent care.

He died in a Toronto shelter a little more than three weeks later, weighing less than he did at birth.

Heikamp, who was 19 at the time, was charged with criminal negligence causing death. A provincial court judge threw out the charges after a preliminary inquiry.

A coroner's inquest is trying to determine what went wrong, and whether there is a way to prevent similar tragedies.

Didn't read formula directions

Close to tears, Heikamp admitted Monday that she made mistakes. But she also testified that she thought the shelter staff would help her.

She said she alternated between breast milk and powdered formula that she didn't know how to prepare properly.

The young mother then switched to a pre-mixed liquid formula. But she thought it was too thick so she began diluting it with water, without ever reading the instructions. In essence, Jordan's diet was water.

Jordan Heikamp

Heikamp also testified that she lied to people who asked about her young son, claiming that he was gaining rather than losing weight.

The woman also said she didn't know what an obstetrician is, and wasn't aware that the baby needed special attention because of his size.

Critics of government cuts to social programs say the province is partly to blame.

They say that every year about 300 babies are born to women who are homeless, many of them unable to look after their children. In the end, about one out of 10 end up like Jordan Heikamp.

Written by CBC News Online staff

another 'wrong' one is

Omar Wellington, Toronto Ontario, seventeen years old, July 15 2006, stabbing

he was beated/tortured/stabbed by a group of thugs ... he was living in a group home after getting into trouble but the two had NOTHING to do with one another.... he was actually staying with his mother on his regular Sat night visit when the murder occurred.
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Well...

I see no need to spout off as venomous over them linking this that came originally from another site.

I've never said that all foster parents are crap (and one would think I know), and I've never said that all biological parents are good or should have their children.

I almost became a foster parent years ago. At this point I'm barred from it, but I wouldn't do it anyway because I can't buy into a system that takes children that don't need to be taken and leaves children who need protection in dangerous situations and expects us all just to be quiet about it or give them more funding.

I'll never understand why, when almost everyone I talk to (me included) knows a decent set of foster parents, when a horrible one (or 40) is exposed, foster parents feel the need to jump down everyone's throats.

BTW, according to my son's death certificate, he was found beaten and burned at the foster 'parent's home. Cause of death, multiple blunt force injury and burn injury. Perhaps some of that venom should be directed toward a woman who was hiding behind the reputation of good foster parents so that she could murder my son, and not the people who are speaking out against her and people like her.

Hopefully, you could have done a better job if my son were placed in your care...you think you could have...so why attack people who bring it to light? Attack HER. She's the one who murdered an innocent toddler and is making foster parents everywhere afraid.

First off I am very deeply

First off I am very deeply sorry for your loss and I hope the courts treat the person who did this to your children with every ounce of justice they can throw at them and the prisoners will do the rest.

Secondly, my venomous attack was at the way the article was titled (
In memory of "foster kids" killed while in the sytem), and of the way the preface was worded( "This page is in memory of children who died after social service agencies removed them from the care of their parents, placing them with "fosters, adopters, group homes, or psychiatric facilities")so that the average reader would jump to the conclusion that all of those children were killed by "fosters, adopters, group homes, or psychiatric facilities" when that is not the case in many if not most of those case. (3 out of 3 that I randomly chose and researched).

Thirdly, I was writing my comments at the same time you were posting yours and did not read your original post until after mine was submitted. In no way was I attacking you personally. my beef is with the wording of the article not the content nor the meaning behind it. Thus the title of "clarification"

And I would have done a better job with yours or anyone else's child placed in my home. It is a privilege for me to host these darlings in my home (49 as of today) and I always treat them as such!!

Ah well,

The fact is, these children were placed somewhere where they were supposed to be 'safer' than their homes. In some cases, maybe it would have been. In some cases, it wasn't necessary at all. The children died. Whether it was by foster caregiver, another child in the home, a drill instructor at boot camp, putting the restraints too tight in the psychiatric facility, these children died...

Parents who have lost a child while it was in the system's care face a double whammy. I've seen chlidren who died in foster care where the media questions the foster parents about how they feel about losing their child. Their child? To the birth family, that is still THEIR child, and regardless of anything, even if the foster family isn't at fault (one instance in particular, the foster child drowned in a creek), if the child hadn't been there, the child wouldn't have been dead...and the parents missed out on the chance to say goodbye to their child...first their child taken, then its life taken. No closure. Who can they mourn to? What support can they get when all of society thinks they deserved it? It's a multiple tragedy.

It is a fallacy to believe that parents in the system don't love their children, or love them somehow 'less'...to automatically assume that we are 'less human', know what I mean? We're not. I would give my life if it would bring my son back, and I wish that it would, because I wouldn't be here.

Some people have struggles that they have to (or believe they can't) face that get in the way of their parenting, so the children are removed. Some people become targets for other purposes. There are as many reasons for foster placements as there are foster children. It is not so cut and dry, but I can tell you...even the families I've watched with the biggest challenges ahead of them, even the families that fell...fell back into drugs or prostitution or went back to their abusive husband, etc...they loved their children dearly, and in many cases the hopelessness they felt by losing their children and how they were treated afterwards is the reason that they can't even bother to pave a new path for themselves. Excuse or not, it doesn't matter. It hurts. They love their children.

People who don't love their own children are pathological in some way, far beyond (I love crack more than my kids).

The whole system is defunct. Children are taken who shouldn't be, and caseworkers are so overloaded with cases that could have been resolved so much more cheaply and simply, with far less trauma, that they don't have the time to investigate real abuse or neglect. Children fall through the cracks left and right. The system that professes to 'save' them has a horrible track record for keeping them safe as well, and we can't remain blind to that if the best interests of children really is our goal. Children are, indeed, our future...and what a mess of it we're making.

*steps off soap box*

Oh, and...

The people on this site didn't write that part. The people who wrote the original wrote that part, so I suppose you'd have to take it up with fixcas.

whoa.. WTF excuse spelling and puncuation...

here we go... i in no way meant to say that all foster parents are animals.. but i will say this the ones that are animals in my experience in the foster care system sure as hell outnumber the good ones. my mother died from an unintentional drug overdose. however she was a drug abuser for years . administered by doctors and herself. in a sense she was a drug seeker. her drug of choice was barbituates. well anyway she died leaving behind three minor children. we were 5 yrs old. my sister yvonne. i was six and my older sister was 13. we originally went to live with my father. (my parents were divorced at the time). the doctor that gave my mother the fatal overdose was arrested only after killing two more women in the same fashion. he was never charged as a murderer in the death of my mother.

next scene. my daddy was a roofer. he worked hard for his money and he loved his girls very much. some bitches in the neighborhood decided it was not a good idea to have a man raising three lil girls and started some vicious rumors about my dad. we ended up seeing a social worker and she came to know us quite well. it eventually came that we were to be placed in foster care. the social worker that was nice to us and wanted to take us to live with her until my dad could find suitable housing and a nanny of some sort was fired for becoming too involved in our lives. needless to say we were placed infoster care. we were separated from our older sisters and my dad lost parental rights because they managed to do a court date when they knew he would be out of town. so off to foster care we went my younger sis and i were placed in a home on a farm. they beat my sister every day for wetting the bed. she was 5 and had been sleeping with our mother when she died. i was a pretty wise girl for 6 almost seven and i made up my mind first chance i got i was telling someone. in the mean time i woke my lil sis up and made her go potty so she wouldnt get beat.when summer ended and i went to school i seen my older sis getting on a highschool bus and told her what was going on. she was moved with us by the weekend. but not until after i was whipped for an hour and a half with a ping pong paddle for telling on them. i refused to cry. i made up my mind that day beat me .. beat me if ya want but ya aint gonna win my spirit.
by the end of the summer we were moved to new foster home. we lived there from the time i was eight til i was 12. they were good to us and we loved them my older sis only stayed a year there. she ran away and went back to my dads. he was able to keep her only because the welfare system didnt want to deal with her. anyway these people were wonderful to us and we grew to love them. we called them mom and pop. they were old and became ill so again we were moved.
we had been going to illinois to visit my mothers family in the summers when we came back we had to be moved. when i asked why i was told it was because i was getting older and they couldnt handle us anymore. bullshit . it was because those people were old. i cried for months . i felt we had lost another poarent again. by now we had been in the system for 6 years . the next home was horrible. they made two of the kids have sex and made us all watch. the boy was made to kiss the girl on the mouth and when she puked the foster mom made her eat it. we were beat with sticks straps, ropes boards. brroms. ashtrays.. we were fed undercooked food . rotten food. burned food ... sometimes no food. they blindfolded one kid 6 yrs old and made him hold his hands over a warmed electric stove and beat his hands with a brush, he truly believed he was being burned. we heard stories that she killed a few kids.. and we believed it. some kids are still missing from there. she claims thay ran away. i took several beatings for my sis cause i knew she was not able to make it if they kept beating her. my salvation came in ninth grade when i found some of my nephews at school and was able to connect with family again.
we were able to go to their houses after school and we began telling some of the stuff that was going on. when i was sixteen i ran away after a beating with a broom. she was angry that i had hit the dog for biting me. i found bones up behind the barn and i told her i saw them. of course they were gone when i took the welfare worker up to see them anyway i left and went to the welfare office down the hill from school. i told the socila worker that i was tired of being beat on . she wouldnt believe i was beat so i pulled my shirt and pants off rt there in the hall of the welfare office and showed her the marks. she moved me that day to a girls group home to await my next palcement.. by then i was on hell of an angry pissed off teen ager and i got involved with doing some bad things . drugs drinking. anyway off to my
next foster home. i knew the people already as they were neighbors of my foster parents that i loved dearly. i had no clthes for church and thay asked what i would like to do since i couldnt go to church dressed as i was. i said i would like to go see my mom. "oh honey your mom dead" nope she lives right across town .. i meaning my old fostermom . pop was dead by this time. but they drove me over and we had a hell of a time togehter laughing talking and crying. she died the next year. my lil sis was still in the rotten foster home. i went there anfd told the woman and i meant it an dshe knew it... "you touch my sis ever again and i will kill you." she never touched her again . i think she saw in my eyes i really did mean i would do it.
the last foster home was ok but it didnt last long as i said i was an angry pissed off teen. i was still seein g my sisters and i ended up back in group home again. they wanted to be able to send me away for weekend home trips. they read the papers onm me and found my dad. he came to get me. in the beginning we were told it would be for the summer in foster care only . the first thing i said to my daddy was wow old man that was one hell of a fuckin summer. now lets get the fuck outta this place before they change their mind about letting me come home for the weekend. i ran a way several times from the group home quit school became a very sexually active teen . looking for love i guess i dont know. but i never found it .. i was able to get over some of that with the help of an ex boyfriends mother. i was in mental institution for trying and almost succeding in suicide. she picked me up and had me apply for a program for teens called job corps. i didnt last long there but it helped me think through some shit. i ended up meeting the father of my first child. we were young and dumb so it didnt last long but i had something i had my first child growing in me and i was bound and determined she would never know fear or hurt the way i did. never knew what love was til i had my first child. i have three now. my girl;s were taken due to be molested by a roomate i had. they took em and made me feel like the crimminal. my girls were in the system longer than the perp was in jail.. something aint right there. i was in sandiego at the time. lots of shit happened in the courts lies and shit. anyway took me a year to get them back but i did it.
my kids are all grown now and all that shit is behind us. we have had a good life since and i will have four wonderful grands this november with the new one coming in november.

i dont feel you were nessessarily attacking me but.............. you were. i reported this story because i lived it and how dare someone anyone try to tell me or anyone thats been fucked in the system by the sytem that we should see all sides. when ya have only seen one side.

i dont wanna be a foster mom .. if i did it would be too hard on my soul.. so i trust that these lil angels are being taken in by people that love kids and wanna help em.. not the case for most kids.. so ya angry? suck it up and keep being a good one you know the truth about you ,.. dsont gotta prove it to noone. but the monsters will always get front row seat with me to get the word out about exactly what the rotten system is up to... i found this story written by someone else i didnt write it. oh and i was a stripper when they took my kids and thats the whole thing they held against me in court... what a crock of shit that was.. i danced got paid and went home.. end of story..

i am including a picture of my wonderful foster parents.. i carry it in my wallett everyday


MOM AND POP

there are three years of terror about the other home too many and too disguting to retell anywhere. yep... even here..

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Sanura

Thank you for sharing,

Thank you for sharing, Sanura. What a horrible beginning to your life...with some good points mixed in.

I can't stand this whole concept of a 'forever family' that comes from foster care. I know it's just a story to make people feel better, but they believe it. It's nothing more than a pipe dream

For the most part, no matter how bad life at home was, these children want to go home. 75% of them do, so the 'forever family' is nothing more than a myth.

Abuse, neglect, sexual assault, and even murder is more prevalent (by percentage) in foster care htan in natural homes, and as long as we keep taking children who don't need to be taken, overcrowding the limited placements, and having little oversight, it will just continue to get worse.

If only the funding structure weren't so anti-family. Children need their families, unless something is horribly wrong and broken. Trying to replace that with something else rarely succeeds, and causes tons of problems that no one wants to be responsible for.

The wider we define abuse and neglect, the farther we cast our nets to catch more children, the more the system (already with serious problems) is overburdened with unnecessary placements, the worse this is going to get.

My son's story is only one of hundreds, and it makes me ill.

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

click on the link at the bottom and it shows where i got the damn story.

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Sanura

foul mouthes ???????

i have a foul mouth. but i am also a smart ass.. and it is mouths!

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Sanura

she was a homeless woman

with a baby and where was the wonderful sysyem then.. in a shelter? whoopee! ever stay in a homeless shelter.. other adults around in them there shelters.. why didnt they help that baby? i woulda fed him and given that down trodden mom a damn break.. ever been homeless? i have and it aint fun..

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Sanura

so sad

I'm a friend of Jens and knew Isaac. He was wonderful and his loss tragic.

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excuse me.. kinda all over the place here

i managed to sleep all day and just got up few hours ago.. it's my day off and no kids to care for today.. all went back to school. this shit got me hot under the collar. and i've already started drinkin my dinner because i have no minor children today.. whoa cant even tell ya how much i HATE feeling like i'm being attacked on here or anywhere. i was uninvited to birthday parties as a kid because i was "the foster kid" i was tormented at school... teased by lots of kids unmercifully. all because i was a foster kid. beat up at home and totured by kids at school too. being a foster kid is a rough life... and i still walked away with some humor in me... don't like foster kids ... FUCK YOU!!!!
i didn't like being a foster kid either

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Sanura

Add little Allison Newman to the list of many

story here

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Sanura

Andrew Wilson

Andrew Wilson, which is on the list, died by what the state says was an "accidental drowning" he was my favorite little angel and the joy of my life, his death has hurt me, and caused more pain to me than anything this world has ever thrown to me... What hurts the most is, the "foster dad" was on drugs when my angel drowned, and I firmly believe that the drowning was not accidental, rather on purpose... I told the police and the social worker, and they are "checking" into it, but they will not be able to prove that the asshole cared more about his drugs than this beautiful foster child and he will get to run free, and kill another child one day... he already has a hit out on a few people in my family, offering money, but that cannot be proved either.... After Andy Drowned, the foster dad got so high, he tried to kill himself in a Waffel House bathroom... but he screwed it up, because the family that he had that loved him, saved him, only for him to screw them over again, and he left, and now wants to kill us...

I feel for each child on this page, but they are in heaven now, I feel worse for the families that had to deal with these deaths...

I love you and miss you Andy-pandy... River misses you too..

My Baby Brother

Zachary James Lyons, Winston-Salem North Carolina, January 24 1992 - October 8 1996, battered...

THIS HERE IS MY BABY BROTHER AND TOMORROW WILL BE 10 YEARS SINCE HE PASSED AWAY...I MISS HIM SO MUCH...

little late for these three kids

“What we have done is launch an unprecedented intervention effort to address the deaths in homes formerly overseen by Mesa," said Patrick Crimmins, a department spokesman. "The plan is designed to ensure the safety of more than 300 children in foster homes in more than 20 Texas counties”
Mesa Family Services – a private foster agency already under scrutiny after two children died in its homes.

what a shame, one dead is not enough, they got to for three.

Third Child In Eight Months Dies In Foster Care

3 YEARS OLD~James Earl Bradley Junior of Detroit

STORY HERE