12-15-2015, 01:14 PM
If the babysitters are telling the truth, I'd like to know why the Department for Children and Families didn't investigate the complaints, Six. Or, if they did investigate, what was the status of the investigation. There's no way the conditions of that house could be deemed safe for six children aged 2 through 10, in my opinion.
As for the wife's family, I don't know if Michael Jones moved his wife and kids and cut off all contact. They'd lived in the rental house for a year and a half. But, that's what happens in a lot of cases with extremely abusive assholes -- they cut the woman off from outside contact and isolate her. If she threatens or tries to leave, she's met with a serious risk of being killed.
I'm interested to hear more about this story -- what could or should have been done to save Adrian or the next Adrian? He was 7, school age. Did the school notify authorities? Did his five siblings have contact with anybody or tell anybody that Adrian was gone? Did his siblings know he was killed? How and why did he die?
Sounds like plenty of people knew about the hell those kids, and presumably the wife, were going through for years. But, it took the husband/father being arrested for shooting inside the house the day before Thanksgiving for anything to be done. Sad.
It's too late for Adrian. I'm hoping that all, or at least some, of the other 5 kids in that house have a chance at finding safety and comfort and aren't trapped psychologically by their beginnings, but that's a crap shoot.
As for the wife's family, I don't know if Michael Jones moved his wife and kids and cut off all contact. They'd lived in the rental house for a year and a half. But, that's what happens in a lot of cases with extremely abusive assholes -- they cut the woman off from outside contact and isolate her. If she threatens or tries to leave, she's met with a serious risk of being killed.
I'm interested to hear more about this story -- what could or should have been done to save Adrian or the next Adrian? He was 7, school age. Did the school notify authorities? Did his five siblings have contact with anybody or tell anybody that Adrian was gone? Did his siblings know he was killed? How and why did he die?
Sounds like plenty of people knew about the hell those kids, and presumably the wife, were going through for years. But, it took the husband/father being arrested for shooting inside the house the day before Thanksgiving for anything to be done. Sad.
It's too late for Adrian. I'm hoping that all, or at least some, of the other 5 kids in that house have a chance at finding safety and comfort and aren't trapped psychologically by their beginnings, but that's a crap shoot.