News: Michael Jackson: The Charlenni Ferreira Child Abuse Story-DHS Fails Yet Another Child!

In every case of horrific child abuse there are always questions left unanswered and unresolved. This is the case of a ten year old child who suffered tremendous abuse by those that were suppose to shelter her and protect her from the rigors of the treacherous and harm. Charlenni Ferreira was a fifth grader whom should have been looking forward to what the future held for her. Instead at the tender age of ten years old suffered the fate of child abuse by those that were suppose to love and protect her. Charlenni’s abuse went on without any intervention from adults. Neighbors acknowledged she walked with a limp and she had a swollen face, yet felt there were no signs of child abuse. Helloooooooooo this alone should have caused an adult to perhaps go to the police and have them investigate if there was not something seriously wrong going on with the child.

This Article is written and owned by: Arnelle Aris Durocher

Charlenni died from an infection caused by untreated broken ribs. Her left lung had collapsed and she was found unconscious at her home where she was tortured for years. Charlenni’s abuse was so severe that it took the coroner more then a half hour to chronicle a report of his findings. She had several other injuries that were tortuous and signs of sexual abuse. Other significant injuries proved that the child had a gash on her head that was seven inches long and four inches wide. That injury had been stuffed with cotton and concealed under a hair weave. Here left lung had fluid around it and would have caused her pain every time she breathed. Imagine we breath at a normal respiratory rate somewhere around 8-14 breaths per minute, and this child was in pain for thousands of minutes per day. Cherlenni also suffered from a broken hip, broken fingers and ripped tissue near her private parts/pelvic area.Yet only one school nurse thought to try and intervene, the girls Dr didn’t think she was being abuse and alleges that the child told him that she was treated like a princess. In fact case/welfare workers were so hoodwinked and convinced that the parents were treating Charleeni like gold, that they advised the parents that if the school nurse continued to lodge complaints against them, to contact a legal aid agencey. I love it when the abusers are so advised and protected by the very system that was suppose to protect Charleeni. Other adults in Cherlenni’s life , or whom saw this child such as other family members, school authorities, friends and neighbors never thought to intervene, only one nurse knew that this child was suffering. The school nurse did her job and was put down for trying to not only do her job by reporting several times on the abuse but trying to save the child’s life. Neighbors in fact didn’t think that there was any signs of child abuse. Really a child constantly limping, walking funny and with a swollen face did not cause some suspicion from anybody other then the school nurse. A child that would have shown she was in pain when she was breathing didn’t cause rise for an adult to do the right thing by the child including the child’s Dr.

I have often wondered if we are so desensitized by the daily event that we see in life that it has caused the conscious of humans to ignore the obvious, to think it is not their business to perhaps save a life of a child. We seem to be able to poke our noses in the life of stars, we cluck, gossip, point fingers, make assumptions ( whether true or untrue) about those people that are entertainers and always in the limelight. We all tend to say the right things if the subject of child abuse comes up, but when it comes down to it, most humans are not prepared to go the extra mile for the sake of the precious life of a child.

It is disgusting and sickening that as adults we think so little of the reality of child abuse. I see so many venues for the rights of animals and animal abuse, yet the same people don’t give a fleeting thought on the rights of a child. While I don’t think an animal should be abuse, after all they have the same feelings and experience the same pain we do. I also don’t think that a child’s abuse should go unnoticed, unresolved and uncared for. We simply reject that child abuse is a grave problem and we go on being blissfully ignorant when we should be well versed and ready to do the right thing!

Where are our minds in today’s society and communities? Where is our human greatness and courage to stand up against child abuse. In past eras and this era we as humans have lost something, we have lost our willingness to stand up against issues like child abuse. Politicians that we elect do very little in my opinion. Must the elected officials wait until there is such an extreme case of child abuse before they will take undeniable affirmative no nonsense action? What will it take to get people to start being outraged? What are we as humans are waiting for? How much abuse is too much? In my thought one case of abuse is one to many, one child dying is representative to all other children that have died though the sickening veil of child abuse that we the adults in this society and whom elect our politicians in continue to ignore day in and day out.

Charlenni’s death may have been preventable had other adults that mattered taken the time to care and review the school nurse’s report and complaints she lodged. I would rather be wrong in my suspicions and report it to the authorities then right and permit a child to die at the hands of tortuous abuse. The school pleaded, pounded and tried to get DHS to listen and yet DHS failed another child and the one adult that tried to save her. Wake up adults and take some action, things need to change and child abuse is something that should not be ignored any longer. Laws seem to be only brought in after the death of a child. Simply it is not good enough! In my opinion countries need to assign special task forces to really put together a report on how grievous child abuse is then sound laws should be legislated and brought into law. The bottom line if you abuse a child where they have collapsed, lungs, broken bones, swollen faces and sexually abuse, then you have revoked your right to have the freedom of life and you should be behind bars and quite frankly in accordance to some of the abuses that are leveled on little children that cannot fight back, the death penalty is suitable in many cases, in my opinion.

In ending, on October 22, 2009 the short life of Charlenni Ferreira ended by the hands of child abuse. Charlenni never had the opportunity to experience a care free life that every child should experience. She was abused and tortured sexually, physically and emotionally without a single intervention from just one adult and only the one school nurse that tried to do something and was shot down by DHS. One person caring and investigating the nurse’s allegations would have made all the difference in the world to this child and may have spared her life.

Finally I will leave you with the thought of his quote “To the world you may be one person, but to one person child you may be the world”.

This is the one video I found on Charleeni’s Story. While I love the message that warrior for kids is sending out to us about child abuse and Charleeni’s plight. I disagree with the fact that despite all the efforts of adults, when there was in reality only one adult that tried to do something and intervene and that was the school nurse, evidence and even the court contends that failure applies to many adults professional and non professional that had the opportunity to help Charleeni and failed to do so or even act on the complaints lodged by the school nurse. Still the message is clear from this lady, and she is right we must do more to stop child abuse, we need to talk about it and act on it!

On October 26, 2009 the father of the child Domingo Ferreira ironically was found dead in his jail cell. The torture and abuse he leveled on his child when he was suppose to protect her, yet this big brutish man could not face a courtroom of his peers when he and his wife were charged with his daughters Cherlenni’s murder and endangering the life of a child. Margarita Garabito felt she did what she could for the child which included that she admitted to beating Charlenni with a metal broom handle on several occasions. Her defense plea is she did nothing to kill her. Excuse me!! beating a child on several occasions is doing nothing to kill her? Is this the defense? Right! Beating a child on several occasions with an object that can be considered a weapon is slowly killing the soul of the child if not the child’s willingness to live. The stepmother lays full blame on the coward whom hung himself in his jail cell Domingo Ferrira, he was the one that killed her. They are both responsible, if Margarita Garabito thinks that standing by and watching a child being sexually abused and beaten at the hands of a man that was 2000 times bigger then this child, and that her own abuse leveled on the child is doing what she could, and that she herself was a victim, that is total BS and she deserves life in prison without the possibility of parole. She did absolutely nothing to prevent the child from being harmed and in fact added to the abuse. She not only stood by she didn’t do anything to spare the child this living hell ( as quoted by the judge presiding over the case). Margarita Garbito could have taken the child to the nearest police station, and made a report, in fact she could have phoned the police and have them remove Domingo Ferrira from the house. I am wondering if Margarita Garbito felt she was helping the child out by stuffing cotton in her gaping head injury and giving her a weave on top of that to conceal the injury. She not only failed the child, she herself beat the child. Who the hell does she and her defense attorneys think they are kidding here.

“She has to be an angel because her life on earth was pure hell,” “Basically, a lot of people failed this kid — family, doctors, any agencies that were involved.”

~Judge Patrick Dugan~

Oddly there was only one picture that I could find of Cherlenni unlike other child abuse victims. I had the thought that missing of many pictures were as the child lived in her short time on earth. A life of missing and alone. Cherlenni missed out on her childhood, had to handle and go through every torture imaginable and was indeed alone in this world. Only one picture is found on this internet of Charlenni and no you tube video as memory or tribute. Cherlenni after all and in reality had no life to capture on video or in pictures. I took it upon myself to try to capture her as her soul lives now in peace and surrounded by love. May the God/dess bless little Charlenni and may she forever and eternally rest in peace among the stars and the angels.