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Post by withlove on Sept 28, 2016 14:11:46 GMT -5
Arraignment was set for August 22, I believe. I haven't found any info about whether it happened. Withlove ~ Thanks for providing us with this date. When I checked for more info. on line, nothing came up but the above link as being the most current. However, we know how Court dates linger on for months before ever coming to trial. It really sickens me that two married ex-workers committed these acts they are accused of by 11 of the foster children, with five (5) of the girls saying they were sexually abused by the father. That's just beyond belief and so sick! You're welcome, I can't remember which article it was in. There probably is a way to search court record...what was on the the docket, or delayed. Right, these things stretch out for so long. Did all 11 accuse them? I was thinking it was the older 4 girls who accused on behalf of the rest...? Three initially, and then the 19 year old who had already left home, backed up the sex abuse claims. The children were removed and sent back to Alabama. It seems unlikely that they are being kept together since there are so many of them. Sad situation. I cringe to to think about either scenario...that the abuse did occur to vulnerable helpless children, or that innocent adoptive parents may be sent to prison. There are so many charges, that the sentences can't be light if they are convicted of all.
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Post by faune on Sept 30, 2016 12:45:53 GMT -5
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Post by openingact34 on Oct 1, 2016 11:15:26 GMT -5
Does anyone have an update on this topic? You can follow the progress of the case through the court website: matrix.leeclerk.org/ Just do a search on their names. It appears that discovery is underway and the next scheduled step is a Case Management Conference on 10/19. Also note that the 7/19/2016 "Record of First Appearance and Booking Report" for Jenise contains the Probable Cause Statement that the news reports drew from. It has been classified as public; you can read the original, full text of what the police reported.
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Post by gsamuelwalker on Oct 2, 2016 14:28:42 GMT -5
Thank you all!
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Post by gsamuelwalker on Nov 2, 2016 14:10:31 GMT -5
Surprised Daniel remains in custody
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Post by gsamuelwalker on Nov 2, 2016 14:10:42 GMT -5
Surprised Daniel remains in custody
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Post by emy on Nov 2, 2016 16:07:13 GMT -5
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Post by gsamuelwalker on Jan 29, 2017 13:58:17 GMT -5
Wondering if anyone has an update on these cases? Looks like trials have been significantly delayed because of the complexity of the charges. Thanks
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Post by CherieKropp on Jan 29, 2017 14:23:06 GMT -5
I was told:
He had a court date on December 21 which was very short.
They postponed it until some time in February.
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Post by someguy on Mar 2, 2017 1:15:10 GMT -5
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Post by CherieKropp on Mar 10, 2017 8:41:54 GMT -5
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Post by alistairhenderson on Mar 10, 2017 14:25:41 GMT -5
I just read this. Of course, they have been charged and not yet convicted.
If it is true, though, all I can say is "sanguinary hades"!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 14:40:34 GMT -5
They will be convicted for certain. Maybe not all the charges will stick, but most of them will. No DA is going to go through the trouble of setting up this sort of case with little to no evidence. Just too many charges from too victims for them to be not guilty. One or two victims, it's possible it's a set up. But this is full blown nearly every child they had contact with is testifying against them.
Prison for these two is going to be very rough. Don't expect them to make it out alive, no matter how short their sentence is.
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Post by jondough on Mar 10, 2017 16:57:05 GMT -5
Sad no doubt.
Reserve judgement until proven guilty...no matter how many charges.
There was a case here on the West Coast that a man had multiple charges against him (43). He worked part time at a day care if I remember correctly. Everyone was hopping the bandwagon.
He was acquitted of all charges. It was all fabricated.
Google Dale Akiki.
P.s. I didn't have time to look it up for correct details, but I do remember this witch hunt that happened here.
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Post by sharingtheriches on Mar 10, 2017 18:24:38 GMT -5
Sad no doubt. Reserve judgement until proven guilty...no matter how many charges. There was a case here on the West Coast that a man had multiple charges against him (43). He worked part time at a day care if I remember correctly. Everyone was hopping the bandwagon. He was acquitted of all charges. It was all fabricated. Google Dale Akiki. P.s. I didn't have time to look it up for correct details, but I do remember this witch hunt that happened here. Sometimes someone gets it in for someone else and when there's children involved then the innocent one being set up often has a horrible struggle to clear their name. Vindictiveness should be a crime.
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Post by withlove on Apr 21, 2017 18:00:57 GMT -5
NBC articleJenise has been extradited to Alabama, where police think they can prove all the same abuse happened there before their move to Florida. Daniel remains in Florida to be tried there. Between them, they face 700 charges, including incest and human trafficking. Does anyone have an idea of why Jenise would be moved to Alabama rather than Florida?
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Post by Gene on Apr 21, 2017 19:44:11 GMT -5
For everyone involved, primarily the children, I hope the allegations are proven false.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2017 19:46:09 GMT -5
NBC articleJenise has been extradited to Alabama, where police think they can prove all the same abuse happened there before their move to Florida. Daniel remains in Florida to be tried there. Between them, they face 700 charges, including incest and human trafficking. Does anyone have an idea of why Jenise would be moved to Alabama rather than Florida? sounds like the authorities just want to cover all their bases....
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Post by PrueBert on Apr 21, 2017 20:23:44 GMT -5
Ross, what Diocese are you in? Maybe it's time to move church.www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-17/anglican-church-ashamed-child-sex-abuse-royal-commission/8363126 Every Anglican Church diocese in the country bar one has received complaints of child sexual abuse in the past 35 years, a report has found.
The Anglican Church says it is ashamed that between 1980 and 2015 there were 1,082 complaints of child sexual abuse, with 22 of the 23 dioceses reporting at least one complaint.
The Diocese of Brisbane (371) received the most complaints followed by the Diocese of Adelaide (155).
The figures were revealed in the first day of the final hearing into the Anglican Church by the royal commission into child sexual abuse. At least you had the honesty to state what church you now belong to. Most here are deliberately vague about this because they will come under this sort of scrutiny.
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Post by Pragmatic on Apr 22, 2017 2:50:41 GMT -5
I agree with what Ross has posted here, 100%
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Post by sharingtheriches on Apr 22, 2017 4:15:15 GMT -5
Ross, what Diocese are you in? Maybe it's time to move church.www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-17/anglican-church-ashamed-child-sex-abuse-royal-commission/8363126 Every Anglican Church diocese in the country bar one has received complaints of child sexual abuse in the past 35 years, a report has found.
The Anglican Church says it is ashamed that between 1980 and 2015 there were 1,082 complaints of child sexual abuse, with 22 of the 23 dioceses reporting at least one complaint.
The Diocese of Brisbane (371) received the most complaints followed by the Diocese of Adelaide (155).
The figures were revealed in the first day of the final hearing into the Anglican Church by the royal commission into child sexual abuse. At least you had the honesty to state what church you now belong to. Most here are deliberately vague about this because they will come under this sort of scrutiny. I don't think there is one church organisation on earth that doesn't have cases of Child Sexual Abuse. Very sad and very true. The same applies for secular organisations where access to children is available for some with depraved minds. On the Anglican front there are some excellent Anglican churches around the world and there are some that have clearly rejected the gospel. We are blessed to go to a really good church in Sydney which upholds Jesus as the Way, Truth and Life. But our faith is not in the church nor its ministers - even though we value the fellowship. This weekend are attending a non-denominational church. We have Christian brothers and sisters that we have fellowship with across many churches. We are all One in and through Christ Jesus our Lord. When I meet another person who says they love the Lord it is just normal to have fellowship with them and read the Word and pray together. I'm not interested in which church they go to apart from a passing interest. Re CSA I was encouraged by what Bruce Murdoch said recently that one state in your church in Australia was making substantial progress in addressing the issue. I have strong views on this issue because if churches, which purport to uphold the teachings of Jesus and the holiness of our Creator, cannot demonstrate that they are doing everything possible to protect the vulnerable, why would anybody believe that they were serious in upholding any of the teachings of Jesus. The horrible thing is many with nefarious ideas often cloak themselves with the church because no one wants to think that the darkness of humanity is found in churches because of the holding forth that love abounds there and love just doesn't trepass on one another.
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Post by faune on Jun 14, 2017 21:18:41 GMT -5
I have left the fellowship over CSA and sexual abuse/immorality cover-ups, but don't blame the fellowship for this, provided that charges are even true. I do blame them though for not reporting whatever neglect or abuse they suspected in this case early on, so that everyone can get help if needed. I don't think that shunning is appropriate in case of abuse - nobody gets help that way. Otherwise, as Cherie has said, with RAD children further investigation is needed. Just wondering if labeling them RAD children wasn't the parents means of cover-up of their abusive behavior of the same foster children within their home?
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Post by faune on Jun 14, 2017 21:23:34 GMT -5
Are you thinking it happened while they were in the work also? Yes for sure. You don't just start abusing people out of the blue. This was a long standing issue. Would be interesting to know the reasons both left the work. Maybe even forced out by other workers. That is just me speculating. I know of another worker who is / was a pervert and was caught exposing himself to a random women in a park. He was never even charged / put on record(first offense) and he was forced out of the work. It was kept very hush hush. Wish I would have posted about it at the time, don't see much point in naming him now. He was a young man, only in the work a couple years. Any recent updates on this couple regarding child abuse? This was the most recent article I could find on the Internet, dating back to April 2017. It's pretty sad to think his couple, both prior workers, were charged with over 700 counts of abuse from 2008 to 2016. The accounts reported are truly shocking to my senses!
www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2017/04/abuse_foster_child_alabama.html
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2017 17:07:47 GMT -5
Jenise Spurgeon is accused of choking and smacking the children and keeping them from receiving health care. *** She was on the Ohio staff. I remember her so well. I never knew she would be involved in something like choking.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2017 17:26:12 GMT -5
A former Alabama overseer is preaching in Indiana and no longer an overseer. Did he suspect something wrong and felt the need to step down? There were a lot of overseer changes in the last decade in Alabama. I wonder who was in their fields during those years? Did they suspect something wrong? Were they still professing in Florida?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2017 17:43:22 GMT -5
in 1991, Janice was in Ohio/Caribbean while Daniel was in Georgia.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2017 19:57:30 GMT -5
I wonder if this couple wasn't over their head into the foster children thing and snapped? Some people leave the work with emotional scars and struggle both emotionally and financially for years.
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Post by CherieKropp on Jul 30, 2019 14:13:28 GMT -5
Foster father pleads guilty to abuse, rape, torture of children in Alabama
Posted Jul 30, 11:11 AM Caption to photo: Daniel Spurgeon's plea deal will send him to prison for 25 years for abuse, torture and rape of foster and adopted children in Florence, Ala. A man who fostered and adopted children while he lived in Alabama has pleaded guilty to 14 felony crimes for abusing, raping and torturing the children. Daniel Spurgeon’s plea agreement will send him to prison for 25 years. The crimes happened when Spurgeon lived in Florence from 2008-15, according to the authorities. The case for his wife, Jenise, is scheduled for trial later this year. www.al.com/news/2019/07/foster-father-pleads-guilty-to-abuse-rape-torture-of-children-in-alabama.html
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