Remembering the Disabled Murdered by Caregivers
Parents, foster parents, stepparents, parents’ significant others.
Name: Logan Sherwin.
Died: December 29, 2011.
Age at death: 2.
Cause of death: Brain injury.
Location: Crestview, Florida, USA.
Disability: Developmental disability.
Details:
Logan was beaten to death by his father and his father’s girlfriend.
Case status:
Grant Sherwin (Father), murder and child neglect, 20 years.
Nichole Allen (Father’s girlfriend), murder and child neglect, 65 years.
Source:
Custodial dad, gal pal charged in death of his 2-year-old son (Crestview, Florida)
Name: Joseph Maoping Adams.
Died: December 3, 2011.
Age at death: 5.
Cause of death: Vinegar poisoning.
Location: Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Disability: Hirschsprung’s disease; colectomy.
Details:
Joseph had eaten some sprinkles, chocolate, and butter, which he was not allowed to have. In an attempt to force Joseph to vomit, his adoptive parents made him drink so much vinegar that he died from vinegar poisoning.
Joseph was born in Hangzhou, China and was an international adoptee.
Case status:
Deah Daniele Adams (Adoptive mother), pleaded guilty to abuse, sentenced to 6 months probation.
Rick Adams (Adoptive father), not charged.
Source:
Sudden death due to forced ingestion of distilled white vinegar
Joseph Maoping Adams
Details emerge in hearing about 2011 death linked to vinegar
Chinese adoptee Joseph Maoping Adams case-Child Death
Name: Gabrielle Crawford.
Died: December 2, 2011.
Age at death: 8 months.
Cause of death: Traumatic injury.
Location: Tampa Bay, Florida, USA.
Disability: Hydrocephalus, prematurity, multiple birth defects.
Details:
Gabrielle was beaten to death by his mother. On the last day of his life, she broke his arm and leg and left him without medical care; the next morning she found him dead.
Gabrielle left behind a twin brother, Micha, who was placed into foster care.
Case status:
Rosalee Crawford (mother), charged with aggravated child abuse, sentenced to 10 years, paroled after 6 years.
Source:
Innocents lost Database: Children who will never grow up
Before Angela Dufrene, DCF left other kids with deadly parents
A dead baby was failed by many in the case of Gabrielle Crawford
GABRIELLE CRAWFORD – 8 Months/ Disabled (2/2011)
Death toll rises to nine on Hillsborough Kids’ watch
Tampa mother of 8-month-old baby who died in December charged with aggravated child abuse
CRAWFORD ROSIELEE Inmate T64303: Florida Prisons (DOC)
Name: Nalecia Hines.
Died: November 28, 2011.
Age at death: 4.
Cause of death: Smothered, stabbed.
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Disability: Down syndrome.
Details:
Nalecia was smothered and stabbed to death by her mother.
Case status:
Carulus Hines (Mother). Shot by police.
Age at death: 7.
Age at death: 6.
Names Unknown.
Died: November 12, 2011.
Cause of death: Murder-suicide.
Location: Martiguez, France.
Disability: Autism.
Details:
These two siblings were killed by their mother in a murder-suicide.
Case status:
Their mother, deceased.
Source:
Autism Memorial: 6-year-old male, 7-year-old Female, Name Unknown
Name: Cordero Webber Jr.
Died: November 4, 2011.
Age at death: 5 months.
Cause of death: Fatal abuse.
Location: Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Disability: None diagnosed; his parents claimed he was autistic.
Details:
Cordero’s parents abused and neglected him and explained away his malnourishment as a sign that he was autistic. Eventually, he died of head injuries from the abuse.
Case status:
Cordero Anthony Webber (Father), convicted of manslaughter and child neglect, sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Kierra Monet Hayes Laird (Mother), sentenced to one year in prison.
Source:
Autism Memorial: Cordero Webber Jr.
acksonville parents charged after malnourished baby’s blunt-trauma death
“Primary caretaker” dad on trial for beating death of 5-month-old son (Jacksonville, Florida)
Parents Face Felony Neglect Charge; Baby Died of Head Trauma, Had Other Past Injuries and Was Malnourished
Jurors convict Jacksonville man in son’s death
Name: Julian Pintar.
Died: October 1, 2011.
Age at death: 11.
Cause of death: Hypothermia.
Location: Kandos, New South Wales, Australia.
Disability: Autism, neurocutaneous melanosis.
Details:
Julian died of long-term abuse and neglect. He had been tied to a chair for long periods of time, expected to sleep upright, in a garden shed. He had also been sprayed with cold water and then left in the shed, causing hypothermia which was particularly dangerous to this already thin boy, weakened by malnutrition. By the time he was found unresponsive and taken to the hospital, he was dead. An autopsy also found blood poisoning and internal injuries.
Case status:
Rudolph Pintar (Stepfather), pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
KP (Mother), charged with manslaughter.
Source:
Autism Memorial: Julian Pintar
Murdered boy was autistic: police
Pair charged with autistic boy’s murder
Man and woman charged with child’s death
Boy with autism died after being bound to chair and showered in cold water: court
Boy with autism ‘was bound to chair and showered in cold water’ before dying
Magician pleads guilty to unlawful death of autistic boy left to freeze in shed
Julian Pintar 2000-2011
Name: Evan Watkins.
Died: September 30, 2011.
Age at death: 4.
Cause of death: Head injury.
Location: Lakeland, Florida, USA.
Disability: Developmental delay, possible autism.
Details:
Evan was beaten to death by his mother’s boyfriend because he would not go to sleep.
Case status:
Marton Pal (Mother’s boyfriend); pleaded guilty to aggravated child abuse and first-degree murder, sentenced to life in prison.
Source:
Autism Memorial: Evan Watkins
Man charged with beating child to death
Polk man gets life sentence for Lakeland boy’s death
Innocents Lost: Evan Hayden Watkins, 4
Name: Matthew Degner.
Died: September 8, 2011.
Age at death: 14.
Cause of death: Pneumonia.
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Disability: Intellectual disability.
Details:
Matthew was neglected by his mother. He died of pneumonia.
Case status:
Lydia Price (Mother), charged with neglect, cruelty to animals; sentenced to probation and forbidden from owning animals.
Source:
Woman Gets Probation in Berwyn Squalor Death
What went wrong in disabled Berwyn teen Matthew Degner’s death?
WATCH: Boy Found Dead Outside Squalid Home With More Than 200 Animals
Disabled teen found dead at suburban Chicago home, mother charged
Dead teen Matthew Degner lived with over 100 animals in squalid conditions, authorities say
Boy, 14, found dead in squalid bungalow housing more than 200 animals riddled with disease
Name: Tanilla Warrick-Deaves.
Died: August 27, 2011.
Age at death: 2.
Cause of death: Head injury.
Location: Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia.
Disability: Bowed legs.
Details:
Tanila was abused by her stepfather. After a beating, it was obvious that Tanila had a head injury, but her mother, seeing how badly hurt Tanila was, did not call the ambulance because she figured it would be better if Tanila died than if she lived as “a vegetable”. Instead, she put Tanila in a pram, where the little girl took three days to die.
Case status:
Donna Deaves (Mother), convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to 9-12 years in jail.
Warren Ross (Stepfather), convicted of murder, sentenced to 30-40 years prison.
Source:
Mum who watched daughter, 2, being whipped and tortured to death set to go free
How a monster was able to kill little Tanilla Warrick-Deaves
Mum felt it ‘a bit late’ to save beaten Tanilla
Agonising abuse of tiny Tanilla: NSW court