Death penalty to those who cause death in children due to abuse .

If you haven’t heard of the sad death of 7-year old Adrian Jones, then prepare yourself for a horrific story.
Adrian Jones father, Michael Jones, was sentenced to life in prison for killing Adrian his son in the Kansas City area. His stepmother, Heather Jones is also serving a life sentence for her role in his murder. Adrian was abused by his parents and starved to death. Yet, it was what happened after his death that was equally horrific.
Adrian’s home became a prison prior to his death. The 7-year old was blindfolded and strapped to a table, his face was cracked with a broomstick, he was forced to eat out of a maggot infested bowl outside his home with his hands tied behind his back, he was stripped naked and confined to a shower stall for hours, forced to stand in neck-deep water in the Jones dirty swimming pool overnight, and even trapped to an inversion table with handcuffs. Yet, this is not the worst part.
After Adrian had died alone in the shower (for which he was left there for two weeks after his death), his parents went out and purchased pigs. They intentionally did not feed the pigs for period of time just to make sure they were extremely hungry. Then, they threw Adrian’s dead body to the pigs. Yes, his sadistic parents fed him to pigs. If you are interested in reading more on this story, I recommend you read this 3-part series by Jessica McMaster at KSHB.com.
I want to know why the child welfare system failed this child so badly.
You knew he was being abused, yet you did nothing. Why was Adrian not removed from his home?
In 2012, the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) removed Adrian from his biological mother. Guess who they gave him to… his father, Michael Jones. In 2013, a Missouri Children’s Division social worker and police officer actually spoke with Adrian. The little boy told them the following,
“Daddy kicks me.”
Adrian stated that his father,
“Keeps hitting me in the head and punches me in the stomach and mom keeps pulling on my ears and it really hurts.”
He added that his parents,
“Always lock me in my room. I have to sleep without a pillow and blanket.”
The Kansas City Star reported that the Missouri Children’s Division found a preponderance of evidence that Adrian had been neglected in July of 2013. Investigators and medical staff actually examined Adrian. Yet, Missouri’s plan was to provide in-home services to the family, even though the family failed to cooperate with Missouri authorities. This should have been blatantly obvious to all involved. This should have been an easy decision to remove the boy from these horrible people… especially since they clearly did not want him.
The family stopped communicating with Missouri authorities and moved out of state to Kansas. However, for those of you who live in Kansas or Missouri, you know that Kansas City lies directly on the border between the two states. They remained in the Kansas City area (they just crossed the state line).
“I made KS aware that Adrian had disclosed physical abuse by his stepmother — Heather Jones — and his father.
What is the purpose of the child welfare system if we fail to protect the welfare of our children?
Have you ever noticed how people will see something horrible, yet they turn their head and pretend not to notice? Well, that’s exactly what happened here.
Former Deputy Director of DCF, Dianne Keech, informed KSHB.com that she is appalled by the lack of transparency from the agency. She quit the department due to issues similar to this case. Dianne stated that DCF often kept secret these type of child death cases from the public. She remarked,
“It’s unconscionable. When there’s a child death and that child has had a history with DCF, that information needs to go to the family and the public and that agency needs to be held accountable.”
Diane also commented about a DCF attorney,
“She (the attorney) didn’t feel like we should document anything related to a child death. She wanted to only have verbal conversation over the phone. If we took handwritten notes we were instructed to shred them afterwards.”
Yet, here is the most alarming remark from Diane,
“I’ve personally viewed numerous deaths in Kansas where we’ve missed it.”
Adrian’s parents had an elaborate camera system setup around the home. In fact, KSHB.com found that the timestamps on the surveillance footage show Adrian was abused over the course of 9 months. They recorded the torture and killing of their son. Additionally, another adult male was living in the home at the time. Willie Flowers, who can be seen on camera in the home knew what was going on. This person did absolutely nothing. According to KSHB.com, John Picerno (criminal defense attorney) said it’s not a crime to live in a home while a child is being abused or even tortured and killed.
This is insane!
· Heather Jones asked her landlord to log into her iCloud account to save pictures of her kids. When she logged in, she found pictures of Adrian being tortured and abused. She turned them over to the police. Heather Jones also shared these pictures to groups of people over Facebook. She discussed and shared stories of torturing young Adrian.
Yet, no one did anything!
I don’t understand why, after what he initially said, there wasn’t an immediate request to pick him up. He was very detailed, saying in his (then) 5-year old voice he was being dramatically abused.”
So, what was the response by the child welfare system. In Kansas, a new Task Force was launched after Jones was sentenced to life in prison for killing Adrian. It’s too bad it takes a horrific death of a 7-year old child to finally get people to do something.
Yet, guess who we are hoping will fix this horrible system? You got it… the same people who allowed this to happen!
If I performed as poorly in my job as the child welfare system has, I would hope that I would be fired. Everyone involved in Adrian’s case should quit. Obviously, you are in the wrong line of work.
Lastly, my hope is that everyone who reads this will share this story and never allow the child welfare system to forget what happened to young Adrian Jones.
I WANT FOR THESE PEOPLE AND WHO EVER CAUSES THE DEATH TO ANOTHER CHILD DUE TO ABUSE TO GET THE DEATH PENALTY BECAUSE JAIL IS A RESORT TO THESE MONSTERS.THEY GET HOT WATER IN JAIL THEY GET FOOD IN JAIL THEY GET GOOD SLEEP SOMETHING THEY DENIED THIS PRECIOUS BABY BOY. AM ANGRY THAT THIS JUDGE WOULD NOT GIVE THE DEATH PENALTY TO THESE 2 MONSTERS.PLEASE HELP ME.