Philadelphia social workers get prison terms in death of teenager by starvation
Social workers get prison for girl's death
A Philadelphia caseworker was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison for failing to visit a disabled teenager who starved to death while under her mother's care.
U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell handed down the sentence to Julius Juma Murray, 52. He also sentenced Mariam Coulibaly, 41, another employee of a social services contractor, to 11 years in prison for fraud and obstruction, saying that the case reminded him of the "banality of evil" seen in Europe during the Holocaust.
The social workers routinely skipped home visits to Philadelphia's most troubled families, leading to the slow, painful death of Danieal Kelly, 14.
The girl was one of eight children being raised by her mother in a squalid two-bedroom home. By the time Danieal died in August 2006, she weighed 42 pounds and had not been to school or seen a doctor in the previous 10 months, despite being on the city's radar.
And where is Attorney General Tom Corbett??? I guess he is too busy campaigning than to go after recovering the Medicaid funds that were defrauded in this case.
Showing posts with label danieal kelly. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Pennsylvania Attorney General Let Danieal Kelly Die
The sentencing for the federally funded fraudfeasors is taking place. My question to the State of Pennsylvania, more specifically to Attorney General Tom Corbett is this:
Why isn't your Medicaid Fraud Control Unit doing anything? Oh wait, I forgot. everyone benefited in Pennsylvania, including the Attorney General.
What many do not know is the child welfare services, the services that these people who allowed Danieal to be tortured and murdered, are funded through Medicaid. I place the blame on the Attorney General for her unfortunate life and horrendous death, but I am quite sure he will do it again and again, that is do nothing to stop Medicaid fraud in child welfare.
3 to serve time for fraud in wake of Daniel Kelly's death <=== (the paper misspelled her name.) By GLORIA CAMPISI Philadelphia Daily News
campisg@phillynews.com 215-854-5935
A co-founder and two employees of MultiEthnic Behavioral Health are being sent to prison in the federal fraud case that stemmed from the fatal torment suffered by Danieal Kelly, a 14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who starved to death while under the social-service agency's care.
Manuelita Buenaflor, 66, a co-founder of the now-closed agency, yesterday was sentenced to 36 months in prison. Two other employees also were sentenced to jail yesterday by U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell.
Buenaflor's job was to make sure that workers for MultiEthnic, which had been contracted by the city Department of Human Services to visit families, filed the proper reports, notes and case reviews.
She admitted in court to concerns that some workers were filing phony reports, dubbed "ghost visits," but she never alerted the city or the workers' supervisors. MultiEthnic employees also were accused of destroying records in a coverup.
The city paid MultiEthnic with money provided by the federal government to oversee social services for 500 at-risk, poor families between 2000 and 2006.
Buenaflor pleaded guilty to wire fraud, health-care fraud, and conspiracy to obstruct an investigation.
The feds said eight of the nine defendants they charged schemed to bill the city for services never rendered. The ninth was charged with perjury.
Besides Buenaflor, Dalzell yesterday sentenced former social worker Christiana Nimpson, 54, to 20 months for wire fraud, health-care fraud, and conspiracy. Sotheary Chan, 41, another MultiEthnic employee, received 15 months for wire fraud and conspiracy. None of the three sentenced yesterday was directly involved in the Kelly case.
Besides malnutrition, bedsores contributed to Danieal's death on Aug. 4, 2006, during a heat wave, officials said.
Danieal's mother, Andrea Kelly, was convicted of third-degree murder and sentenced a year ago to up to 40 years in prison.
Another co-founder of MultiEthnic, Earl McNeill, is scheduled to be sentenced next Thursday. MEBH employee Patricia Burch, who pleaded guilty to perjury, will be sentenced Tuesday.
Others will be sentenced in June.
Two MultiEthnic managers, Mickal Kamuvaka, 60, and Solomon Manamela, 52, and two caseworkers, Julius Murray, 52, and Mariam Coulibaly, 42, were convicted last month on charges of fraud and obstructing a federal investigation.
Why isn't your Medicaid Fraud Control Unit doing anything? Oh wait, I forgot. everyone benefited in Pennsylvania, including the Attorney General.
What many do not know is the child welfare services, the services that these people who allowed Danieal to be tortured and murdered, are funded through Medicaid. I place the blame on the Attorney General for her unfortunate life and horrendous death, but I am quite sure he will do it again and again, that is do nothing to stop Medicaid fraud in child welfare.
3 to serve time for fraud in wake of Daniel Kelly's death <=== (the paper misspelled her name.) By GLORIA CAMPISI Philadelphia Daily News
campisg@phillynews.com 215-854-5935
A co-founder and two employees of MultiEthnic Behavioral Health are being sent to prison in the federal fraud case that stemmed from the fatal torment suffered by Danieal Kelly, a 14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who starved to death while under the social-service agency's care.
Manuelita Buenaflor, 66, a co-founder of the now-closed agency, yesterday was sentenced to 36 months in prison. Two other employees also were sentenced to jail yesterday by U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell.
Buenaflor's job was to make sure that workers for MultiEthnic, which had been contracted by the city Department of Human Services to visit families, filed the proper reports, notes and case reviews.
She admitted in court to concerns that some workers were filing phony reports, dubbed "ghost visits," but she never alerted the city or the workers' supervisors. MultiEthnic employees also were accused of destroying records in a coverup.
The city paid MultiEthnic with money provided by the federal government to oversee social services for 500 at-risk, poor families between 2000 and 2006.
Buenaflor pleaded guilty to wire fraud, health-care fraud, and conspiracy to obstruct an investigation.
The feds said eight of the nine defendants they charged schemed to bill the city for services never rendered. The ninth was charged with perjury.
Besides Buenaflor, Dalzell yesterday sentenced former social worker Christiana Nimpson, 54, to 20 months for wire fraud, health-care fraud, and conspiracy. Sotheary Chan, 41, another MultiEthnic employee, received 15 months for wire fraud and conspiracy. None of the three sentenced yesterday was directly involved in the Kelly case.
Besides malnutrition, bedsores contributed to Danieal's death on Aug. 4, 2006, during a heat wave, officials said.
Danieal's mother, Andrea Kelly, was convicted of third-degree murder and sentenced a year ago to up to 40 years in prison.
Another co-founder of MultiEthnic, Earl McNeill, is scheduled to be sentenced next Thursday. MEBH employee Patricia Burch, who pleaded guilty to perjury, will be sentenced Tuesday.
Others will be sentenced in June.
Two MultiEthnic managers, Mickal Kamuvaka, 60, and Solomon Manamela, 52, and two caseworkers, Julius Murray, 52, and Mariam Coulibaly, 42, were convicted last month on charges of fraud and obstructing a federal investigation.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Philidelphia Child Dies Due To Health Care Fraud
Four Danieal Kelly social-service workers found guilty
By Nathan Gorenstein
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Two administrators and two caseworkers from a city-funded social service agency were convicted today of health care fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from the death of Danieal Kelly, the 14-year-old with cerebral palsy who died of bedsores and malnutrition at her mother's apartment.
It took the horrific death of a helpless child for the feds to finally stand up and do something about "health care fraud" (a.k.a. Medicaid fraud) in child welfare.
Medicaid fraud happens every day. The differences are most children survive the torture and most privatized agencies get away with the false claims.
By Nathan Gorenstein
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Two administrators and two caseworkers from a city-funded social service agency were convicted today of health care fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from the death of Danieal Kelly, the 14-year-old with cerebral palsy who died of bedsores and malnutrition at her mother's apartment.
It took the horrific death of a helpless child for the feds to finally stand up and do something about "health care fraud" (a.k.a. Medicaid fraud) in child welfare.
Medicaid fraud happens every day. The differences are most children survive the torture and most privatized agencies get away with the false claims.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Child Abuse Propaganda Machines
These are legitimate examples why all data used in child welfare, especially in child abuse and neglect policies should be considered as suspect.
Pennsylvania Judges Imprisoned For Kickback Scheme
February 9, 2010
Two judges have each agreed to plead guilty and serve more than seven years in prison for receiving kickbacks from a private juvenile detention facility. Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, both of the Luzerne County Common Pleas Court of Pennsylvania, were alleged to have received over $2.6 million for decisions from the bench that benefitted the construction, expansion and operation of a private juvenile detention center and also to the placement of juveniles in those facilities. In one case in 2004, it is alleged that an agreement resulted in the placement of juvenile offenders worth $58 million...more
How many children and parents are still were harmed with improper removals, malicious prosecution, and illegal incarceration? Were the state and federal data amended to reflect these horrific transgressions?
Of course not, the money continues to flow.
Ex-caseworker says she faked documents after girl’s death
February 9, 2010
By Nathan Gorenstein
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Within hours of 14-year-old Danieal Kelly's death, officials at the social services company responsible for her safety were rushing to produce back-dated paperwork, an effort that apparently included forging the signature of the teen's mother on a form, according to testimony today in federal court...more
If it happened in this case, how many other cases did it happen in, and how many parental rights were terminated because of it? How many children were improperly and unnecessarily removed and placed in foster care? How many children were falsely placed for adoption because of these practices?
No one will ever know.
How many of these children of this child placing agency were reunified? None.
Did the Pennsylvania Attorney General Medicaid Fraud Control Unit prosecute and recover the funds? Of course not.
For States to take any action to stop child welfare fraud, it would unravel the nation's history of abuse and neglect, being economically, technologically, politically and religiously not feasible. Therefore, the child abuse propaganda machines keep fighting for more and more money to stay in the business, with only very few voices advocating for the ones whose lives have been masticated and mangled by this very machine.
Pennsylvania Judges Imprisoned For Kickback Scheme
February 9, 2010
Two judges have each agreed to plead guilty and serve more than seven years in prison for receiving kickbacks from a private juvenile detention facility. Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, both of the Luzerne County Common Pleas Court of Pennsylvania, were alleged to have received over $2.6 million for decisions from the bench that benefitted the construction, expansion and operation of a private juvenile detention center and also to the placement of juveniles in those facilities. In one case in 2004, it is alleged that an agreement resulted in the placement of juvenile offenders worth $58 million...more
How many children and parents are still were harmed with improper removals, malicious prosecution, and illegal incarceration? Were the state and federal data amended to reflect these horrific transgressions?
Of course not, the money continues to flow.
Ex-caseworker says she faked documents after girl’s death
February 9, 2010
By Nathan Gorenstein
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Within hours of 14-year-old Danieal Kelly's death, officials at the social services company responsible for her safety were rushing to produce back-dated paperwork, an effort that apparently included forging the signature of the teen's mother on a form, according to testimony today in federal court...more
If it happened in this case, how many other cases did it happen in, and how many parental rights were terminated because of it? How many children were improperly and unnecessarily removed and placed in foster care? How many children were falsely placed for adoption because of these practices?
No one will ever know.
How many of these children of this child placing agency were reunified? None.
Did the Pennsylvania Attorney General Medicaid Fraud Control Unit prosecute and recover the funds? Of course not.
For States to take any action to stop child welfare fraud, it would unravel the nation's history of abuse and neglect, being economically, technologically, politically and religiously not feasible. Therefore, the child abuse propaganda machines keep fighting for more and more money to stay in the business, with only very few voices advocating for the ones whose lives have been masticated and mangled by this very machine.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Everyone Benefited In Pennsylvania, Except Danieal Kelly
To properly cover all facets of Pennsylvania's Department of Public Works Office of Children Youth and Families administrative failures, one must include the investigative findings of the Grand Jury Report on the woefully egregious actions and inactions of federal, state, county, city administrators and the parents of Danieal Kellly.
The failures of the State of Pennsylvania reach far beyond the ethical and legal obligation to protect a child. These failures reflect the lack of transparency, accountability and oversight of the child welfare system in the United States.
Look at it this way, everyone benefited from the child welfare system, except Danieal Kelly.
Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report of the Life and Death of Danieal Kelly
Child welfare, in its current form, does not and will not ever function for the common good and the general defense of the people.
The failures of the State of Pennsylvania reach far beyond the ethical and legal obligation to protect a child. These failures reflect the lack of transparency, accountability and oversight of the child welfare system in the United States.
Look at it this way, everyone benefited from the child welfare system, except Danieal Kelly.
Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report of the Life and Death of Danieal Kelly
Child welfare, in its current form, does not and will not ever function for the common good and the general defense of the people.
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