Month: June 2016

June 29, 2016 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

25-year-old Daveeta Walker has been accused of abuse, torture and murder in the death of her 4-year-old daughter. The child’s death is said to have taken place on her 4th birthday. According to police reports, on March 26th at about 9:30 am, officers responded to a 911 call at an apartment in Kalamazoo. There they…

June 24, 2016 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

In November of 2015, Jennifer Garza who is the mother of a teenaged boy with autism, filed a federal lawsuit against the Lansing School district, along with a teacher she believed abused her son. According to the initial complaint, Garza’s son, who was 13 at the time of the incident, was the subject of repeated…

June 22, 2016 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

Gary McDonald, a 55-year-old resident of Elkhart, Indiana, was recently arrested in Michigan on charges that he molested a number of young girls, all under the age of 10.   According to police reports, the allegations of sexual abuse all stem from incidents that took place in Indiana, which is why the Elkhart Police had…

June 16, 2016 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

23-year-old Amber Johnson and her husband, 30-year-old James Johnson III of Dearborn, have both been charged with murder and child abuse for the death of their 2-year-old daughter, Monika Rose Johnson, who drowned in a neighbor’s pool.   Police records reveal that while Amber and James slept at home, their two children, Monika and her…

June 10, 2016 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

Luis Alberto Fuentes, a 25-year-old man with ties to both Florida and Nevada, has accepted a plea bargain from the Prosecutor’s Office, in which he pled no contest to counts of second degree attempted child abuse.   According to Michigan State Police officers from the Cadillac Post, the child was in Fuentes’ care at a…

June 7, 2016 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

Tom Bagwell, a Libertarian congressional candidate from Wyandotte, Michigan, caused quite a stir online when he made Facebook comments pertaining to a child sex abuse story in the news right now. What made the story even more sensational, it seems, is the fact that, when confronted about his comments, Bagwell did not deny them or…

June 4, 2016 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

You’ve probably already seen something in the news about this case. After all, it’s all over news media websites and even Facebook at this point.  Recently, a little boy fell into the Gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo, which resulted in a broken leg for the child and death by shooting for the Gorilla. But…

June 1, 2016 Abuse and Neglect Attorney

The Tsimhoni custody battle that has been raging in the Oakland County Family Court since 2015, has resulted in more than just media scrutiny of the Tsimhoni family. The Judge overseeing the case, Lisa Gorcyca has drawn her fair share of acrimony and accusation in the matter as well. At the end of last year,…