Woman Found in Child-Starvation Case in New Jersey

NY Times ^ | Jan. 9, 2003 | ANDREW JACOBS and RICHARD LEZIN JONES

[tdadams]

NEWARK, Jan. 9 — A woman sought in the torture and abuse of three young brothers, including a 7-year-old boy whose body was found stuffed in a plastic storage bin in her basement, was captured early today at a Newark apartment, police officials said.

The woman, Sherry Murphy, was found sleeping in the apartment around 2 a.m., Lt. Derek Glenn of the Newark Police Department told The Associated Press.

[tdadams]

Sometimes I wish we could dole out punishment that fits the crime. This woman should be locked in a Rubbermaid storage bin and left to starve to death.

[1Old Pro]

Reports describe this filth as a "dancer". I think that the media ought to tell the truth, if she's a stripper then say so....why attempt to protect her?

The link to your story says nothing at all about what she does....another attempt to OMIT facts.

[tdadams]

Further into the article:

Ms. Murphy was entrusted with the boys' care while Ms. Williams was serving an eight-month jail sentence for child endangerment. Ms. Williams has told investigators that she could not find Ms. Murphy or the boys after she was released in August. Both women worked as dancers in topless clubs.

Prosecutors described Mr. Reese as a family friend who occasionally stayed at a house in Irvington, where Ms. Murphy lived until November with the three children. Mr. Reese, a security guard, was charged with sexually abusing the 7-year-old boy. Law enforcement officials said it was unclear whether Mr. Reese had abused the other two brothers.

[tdadams]

The excerpt doesn't but the full article does. It describes the suspect and the boys' mother as dancers in a "topless club."

[martin_fierro]

Some people just need killin'.

[bvw]

Maybe she's a ho in pimp "Blackman Jones" Clinton's stable that he runs out of nearby Harlem, NYC.

[1Old Pro]

She looks like something Carville would drag a hundred dollar bill around for.

[max epr]

The far-left press in New Jersey is predictably giving Gov. McGreevy a pass. He campaigned on a theme that DYFS was poorly run then as governor did nothing to address the problems.
He is a shameless panderer and won't hold unions and minorities accountable for anything. Now that hideous crimes have attracted national attention he distances himself from the department and points his fingers at the culprits as if he is nothing more than an outraged outside observer.
The Newark Star-Ledger won't hold him accountable. The solution de jour is to spend more money on DYFS and expand its staff.
Curiosly, some case workers have only one or two cases to manage. These kids don't stand a chance.

[bvw]

More motion in that meat than your average $10,000-a-plate organizer's wife, I imagine a recent ex-President of the United States might say in this the year 2003 CE.

Maybe Senator-in-Chief Hillary should have a lunch with her and Marian Wright Edelman, President of the Children's Defense Fund to discuss children's welfare issues.

[bvw]

True ... so true ... the problem ain't DYFS. No way. The problem is personal, familial, nieghborhood-centric, job-centric. Where is the dad, are the dads? Look at what tolerance for strip-joints does. "Sex-workers" rot as moms, and the trade corrupts and destroys families. Children of sex-workers get killed, raped, tortured regularly at much higher rates than other "professions".

The ruckus about DYFS and any fixes in DYFS tragically only serve to delay dealing with the actual problem.

What is the problem? Here's one example of the problem: "The Man Show"!

We have removed the common sense of shame from the social equation regarding the sex-trade, the general sexual culture. Any modesty at all is Puritan wacko religious zealotry. Yet without shame and modesty, the most marginal -- the poor low-class single women are exposed, are caught and trapped in that modern post-Esquire, post-Cosmo "enlightened" tolerance.

The popular reign of the celebrated and affable US President Clinton was a epiphany of that enlightened, sophisticated attitude! How great it was that he had a new liberated-sexuality woman in every corner in which he wandered, wherever he worked!

All great and wonderful! A delightful man!

Except to the young boy wasted, stuffed in the wastebasket. And his tens and hundreds of thousands of brothers and sisters all crushed under the wheels of the libertine culture.

[little-e]

I agree with you....she should be locked in a rubber-maid storage container, but only after someone beats the life out of her, and repeatedly burns her with a cigarette all over her body....sorta the way she did it to those helpless kids....

[harrym]

That crack is some powerful stuff alright. Had a case here in the S.F. Bay Area about 15 years ago where a woman pregnant with twins in Oakland was in the midst of a crack run, gave birth to one, left it on the bathroom floor to die, went out and bought more crack, came back and had the other twin, left it to die also. The addiction is stronger than maternal instinct. But we are constantly bombarded with missiles from the left saying that drugs and pushers are involved in "victimless" crimes and that the jail sentences are too stiff. Tell that to the two non-victim dead twins or to that boy in N.J.

[thetruckster]

Killin' slow.