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    From theMemphis Commercial Appeal:
    January 10, 2003

    NEWARK, N.J. - A go-go dancer who was supposed to be taking care of three young brothers found dead or starving in a locked basement was captured after a four-day manhunt Thursday when a stranger turned her in.

    Authorities had been looking as far as North Carolina for Sherry Murphy since Saturday, when two of the brothers were found emaciated and starving in her home. The next day, authorities discovered the body of the third brother stuffed into a purple plastic storage bin.

    The case has touched off a furor over New Jersey's child welfare system, which had investigated complaints about the family but closed the case last year. "This is the most horrible story I have ever heard," Mayor Sharpe James said. "There's enough blame here to go around for a lot of people."

    The case is just the latest around the country to highlight the difficulties caseworkers have in protecting some of the nation's most vulnerable children from abuse or death.

    In Florida, the state's child-welfare agency went through a shake-up last year after caseworkers lost track of 5-year-old Rilya Wilson for 15 months before realizing she was missing. In Missouri, a caseworker resigned last week after a 2-year-old boy who had been sent back to a foster home was shaken to death.

    In New Jersey, Gov. James McGreevey ordered an investigation of the child-welfare agency and new procedures for investigating abuse allegations. The caseworker was suspended Thursday, a day after the supervisor in charge of the case also was ordered to take a paid leave.

    Murphy, 41, was arrested Thursday on child-endangerment charges.

    The man who turned her in had seen her crying at a phone booth near a go-go bar and offered her a place to stay after she told him she had just arrived from the South with nowhere to go, James said. Jean Claude Dessources later recognized Murphy from news reports. On Wednesday, he sent her to his cousin's apartment next door and called police, James said.

    Officials had offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to her arrest, but had not decided Thursday whether Dessources would get the money.

    Raheem Williams, 7, and Tyrone Hill, 4, remained hospitalized Thursday in fair condition. When the two surviving children were found Saturday, they were cowering under a bed soaked with urine, feces and vomit in the basement of a Newark rowhouse. They were using a jar for a toilet and their hair was infested with lice. They had not eaten in days.

    Investigators said the two boys had been beaten, burned with cigarettes and subjected to other abuse.

    Authorities did not know Faheem Williams existed until Raheem said at the hospital that he hadn't seen his twin for a long time. They went back the next day and discovered Faheem's mummified remains in the purple storage box. An autopsy determined that he had died more than a month ago of starvation and blunt force to the stomach.

    No one has been charged in the death, but police said more charges are being drawn up against Murphy.

    Murphy had been taking care of the boys since their mother, Melinda Williams, Murphy's cousin, was jailed on assault charges in March.

    Williams, 31, told authorities she could not find Murphy or the children after she got out of jail last year. She was hit by a car Saturday while rushing to see the children and was hospitalized in critical condition.

    The state welfare agency had received 10 complaints about the family over the past 10 years, including one in October 2001 that Williams was beating and burning her children.

    Three complaints were substantiated: Williams left the children alone in 1996 and 1999, and she failed to get medical attention for another child, 7-year-old Fuquan, after he cut his hand in 1998. The boy, now 11, is in a treatment center in New York.

    Authorities say at least one of the boys also was molested. A friend of Williams was arrested Wednesday and charged with sexual abuse.

    Yet the state agency closed the case in February 2002, saying it could not find the boys. That same month, Williams was jailed for child endangerment stemming from a 1996 incident and she entrusted the boys to Murphy, who was dancing in bars under the stage name "Ebony."

    Police said Murphy has a crack habit, but no criminal record.

    New Jersey's Division of Youth and Family Services has 1,400 people to supervise some 47,000 children; the average caseload is 35. National advocates recommend that a caseworker handle no more than 25.

    The surviving brothers are clinging to each other more than ever, said the mayor, who has visited them several times in the hospital.

    "They tried to place them in separate rooms in the hospital, and every time they did, Tyrone would start to cry," James said. "So they brought an extra bed into Tyrone's room and let them stay together. Through all of this terrible tragedy, they learned to trust just one person in the whole world: each other."
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    Wow!
    I had seen that on CNN, but they didn't add the go-go dancer part.

    Just another story that makes us look like schmucks!

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    Yea it was in the news for a while. That shit pissed me off. The thing I hate is people that only take care off children for the checks. The sad thing is the kids were her nephews. Stupid bitch should get a life sentence. And they had to add on that she was a dancer.

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    i heard about it here in canada and it's the sadest thing ive ever heard
    being a mother myself i cant believe there are such monsters out there
    i hope she rots in hell
    blessed be

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    No child deserves that.. Having a son of my own.. im am sadend to think that a person would do that to an innocent child.


    Some people dont deserve the life they are given

    like holly said.. I hope she rots in hell..

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    ive seen her dance acouple of times, she always seemed like she was in outer space. never really talked to anyone. she was a pretty good dancer though. she didnt look 41 like the papers said shewas

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    I'd love to have just five minutes alone in that jail cell with that bitch. She deserves to die the most horrible death imaginable and I would be more than happy to give it to her.

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    Two things to be learned from this tragic incident - dancers on crack are BAD TROUBLE to themselves and to everybody around them, and the media never fails to use an opportunity to link exotic dancing with anything else negative that they can. I know this is absolutely horrible to contemplate, but the reality of the situation is that there are probably at least 1,000 other young kids in the NY/NJ area in exactly the same boat but without the publicity and without the "stepmother" being a dancer, and therefore without any law enforcement attention.

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    I agree with Melonie.
    It makes me sick to turn on the news, and out of thousands of horrible things that happen every day, are he majority of them done by dancers and are the incidents related to their job?
    The same shit happens to secretaries and business(wo)men and factory workers...the list goes on. But saying someone not only abuses their children, but is a chef....just doesn't attract the same attention.
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    You know what else is irritating? Watching the Jenny Jones show with all the bad teen girls who are little sluts walking around stage in broke down outfits, exclaiming how they want to be strippers when they grow up....IT just doesn't look good, you all have to know what I am talkin' about!!!
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    Reading that article broke my heart - to imagine the mind set of those two surviving little boys, and the horrific death of the twin.
    I am so saddened by the way people get lost in the system, no one ever notices until its blasted on the news and milked for all its worth....only then to be quickly forgotten again, and the tradgedies continue daily.
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    They were not her brothers, they were her sisters kids.

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    Does anyone here remember the story about "sunshine Ursula Andes" I am sure spelling is way off here, but there was a book written about her mother and drugs, and abusive BF, what he done to the little girl and her mother let it happen, because she had a drug habit he supplied for her. school knew, neighbores ect. i believe. I would like to know if there is any information out here in web world. My friend does not believe it happened in florida. And i am not sure what happened to the guy who done this to the poor girl, but i think her mother is out now. (system sucks either way, this was a beautiful little girl, was living on 'soap sandwiches, for gods sake.) Any info. would be a god send. Besides i like to keep her fresh in my mind. For reasons i am not sure, maybe because i have a girl. And would NEVER allow this to happen, sorry if off topic a bit. I just want to know if anyone remembers and can send some info. my way via internet. Pamela

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    Unfortunately abuse like this is too widespread. I never want to have my own children but let me tell you being the favorite aunt(and favorite honorary aunt)has all the perks one could wish for! People wonder why if I do not want children than why am I such a child addvocate? Because I tell them a child cannot deffend themselves and adults are suppose to defend them and do WHATEVER it takes. In dancing(and of course in other jobs too) I used to watch this woman who did not even leave our dressing room without 2 shots and a cocktail leave in the middle of the day drunk go pick up her kids(from school) take them to one of her family members house and then come back to work I watched this happen for a total of 2 days before I called child protective services. You know you hear that all these calls were made to all these official places and still it takes so long to have some action taken. Well I guess I believe that if some people(for instance the ones who tell me it is none of my bussiness)would worry less about what people are going to think of them and more about what a child suffers in situations such as these maybe we would see some distinct changes in the process. I always find it sickens me when someone can tell me all about someone elses problems and oh my god he or she does this with her kids etc.. etc.. but when you ask that person what they did to protect that child well,all of a sudden its none of their bussiness!

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    Pamela,
    try this link http://members.tripod.com/~leelah/index19.html

    Also you can get many simuliar sad stories by using this link

    http://www.sillyone.com/CAPhelp/alltheangels.htm

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    I took a look at the website - it is just horrendous what some people can do to helpless children.

    They will pay the nest time around.

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    Ahhhh Witt.....thank you soooo much. That child touched my heart, and i wanted to read about her...again. This thread brought up old memories. I could not thank you enough. Pamela
    I read. And wanted to know what happened to him. Well i can sleep well tonite! As for the so called mother...nothing.

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