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Re: Toddler Abused/Locked in Closet for 6 yrs + Boy Chained Up/Starved/Tortured by Fa
Clayton Moss, Boy Chained Up/Starved/Sexually Abused & Tortured For yrs by His Family
jorear7088, WordPress. 13 JUN 2018.
Abuse – WARNING: Some Details are Graphic
While spending a relaxing evening at home, I began watching various youtube videos, starting with some various inspiring musicians. As one video would end, I would hit one of the related videos. After a few videos, I came across a video from that aired not he Oprah show a couple of years ago. The title of it was “Clayton Moss, a boy who was chained up and tortured by his own family.” Hoping the title was a sick joke, I clicked on the video. After watching the almost 45 minute video, I became disgusted and angry, but inspired and amazed.
I will not go into very many details due to the graphic nature of some of them, but I will give you an overview. Many of y’all may remember the story. I, however, had never heard of the story. When Clayton was a 6 year old boy, he lived with his father and step mother. Well, I actually don’t think you could call it living.
Clayton was locked in a closet 2 ft wide and 2 ft in depth. He had a fence tightly wrapped around him that was chained. He was kept in there for days without food or water, only to be let out by his stepsister on the rare occasion that both parents were gone. His rescue happened when his stepsister ran away from their trailer in Indiana to Kentucky. When she was picked up by Officer Todd, she begged him not to take her back to her parents. She eventually revealed the cruel torture her stepbrother was enduring.
After Officer Todd reported this to the police department in Indiana, a case worker was sent to the trailer to investigate. They found NO reason to take Clayton out of the house. After hearing the report, Officer Todd followed his gut and told Clayton’s father and stepmother they would have to drive to Kentucky to pick up their daughter, in hopes they would bring Clayton along.
When they arrived, Officer Todd had no doubt there was abuse taking place after taking just one look at Clayton. After interviewing Clayton, Officer Todd had Clayton’s father and stepmother arrested. After the court went in front of an Indiana judge, both Clayton’s father and stepmother pled guilty. The maximum the judge could sentence them to, according to Indiana state law, was 4 1/2 years in prison. They were both sentence to the 4 1/2 months with the judge agreeing they deserved more. Clayton’s father was released from prison after serving a measly 21 months due to good behavior and due to receiving his GED.
After watching this part of the story, I became infuriated. After working at the Children’s Home of Lubbock for about 2 years, I dealt with many children who were taken away due to counts of abuse and neglect. Never did I hear a story that was so heart wrenching as Clayton’s. And to think, the two responsible for this were in more or less terms, given a slap on the wrist. I then began to think of the possible outcome if Officer Todd had not followed his gut after the CPS case worker found no evidence to take Clayton out of the home.
As the anger began to rise inside of me, I continued to watch the story. I watched as the then (at the time of the airing of the show) a 19 year old Clayton told his story. I don’t know Clayton, obviously, but his mannerisms were not what I would have expected out of a child who dealt with such horrific torture. This young man chose to take his past and put it in a place that will help him grow into a caring and loving human being. Working with children who have been abused, I can tell you this outlook is very hard for those kids. I’m sure Clayton has his struggles, but, from what it looks like, he is using his struggles to help him get through the day.
As I continued to watch, a young girl’s story came on. When the Clayton’s story originally aired on the Oprah show, a 9 year old girl out of New York was watching. This 9 year old girl was being
sexually abused by a family member for many years. At the end of the original episode, the message for young people being abuse to tell someone they could trust was sheared. This 9 year old girl went to school the next day and told her teacher which resulted in her family member being put behind bars for many years.
Clayton has used his story to help save the lives of others. The overall end results of his story truly inspired me. It makes me disgusted to hear of the type of abuse and neglect that happens to anyone in this country, let alone innocent little kids who cannot fend for themselves. Many don’t understand the magnitude of this problem. I was one of those until I worked in the middle of it for 2 years. This is a problem that, unfortunately, is a growing one.
Clayton: Thank you for being an inspiration. I pray God continues to work in your life and continues to help you use your story to help others. I pray for strength to continue to grow. I pray that in days when it seems hard to bear, you find the courage to keep going. May God always be with you.
Officer Todd:I thank you for showing the courage to go with your gut. Many people would have kept the comments as simple allegations and done nothing further. You saved a young boys life and have been an inspiration to many. I pray God continue to show you the strength to stand up for what is right. I pray God continual guidance through you job. May God always be with you.
& MORE ....Even Worse.....
Boy, 7yrs Old Was Tortured to Death and Fed to Pigs. > US State Agencies Failed Him......
Adrian Jones’s short, tortured life was spent isolated from outsiders, confined in filthy, mice-infested houses where he was “home-schooled” by the parents who ultimately killed him, according to court documents.
But the abuse he suffered at the hands of his father and stepmother was meticulously documented, through dozens of surveillance cameras. As his family moved from place to place across Kansas and Missouri. His stepmother captured & ENJOYED photos of the horrors, images stored online and later recovered by authorities.
His was a brief life of great suffering, as described by police and prosecutors. The story has been extensively reported by the Kansas City Star and other local media, including KSHB.
In several instances, Adrian was shown strapped to a table and blind folded, or standing in neck-deep water in the family’s dirty swimming pool overnight. In other photographs, his mouth looks bloody and bruised, his teeth rotting, his hands swollen from being restrained, the Kansas City Star reported. In another picture, Adrian appears to be tied up with a plate of food in front of him, a bar of soap in his mouth.
Alongside one of the images, reportedly captured from a surveillance camera by the stepmother, there appeared two words: the boy.
During his final days in fall 2015, the young boy was trapped in a white-tiled shower stall and left to die, according to affidavits cited by the Associated Press. Prosecutors later said Adrian essentially starved to death.
His body was fed to pigs, authorities said. The young boy’s remains were found in a livestock pen on the family’s property on 20 Nov, 2015.
His father, Michael Jones, told authorities he purchased the swine after keeping the body inside the home for nearly two weeks, the AP reported. A child told investigators he heard Adrian screaming > “I’m going to die” through a vent and his stepmother, Heather Jones, telling him to “suck it up.”
Michael and Heather Jones both pleaded guilty last year to first-degree murder and were sentenced to life in prison.
Investigators referred to the child abuse case as one of the “worst things” they had ever seen. His disturbing case prompted a US state lawmaker to introduce legislation that would penalize adults who fail to report child abuse at home...  errr > STILL NOT DONE YEARS LATER AS OF JUNE 2018 !!!
In the Kansas City area, Adrian became known, hideously, as “the boy who was fed to pigs.”
But with his killers behind bars, Adrian’s family has been left wondering — could the state have done more to prevent the boy’s death?
Records in both Missouri and Kansas reveal a “seemingly endless series of reports and hotline calls” that informed social service and child welfare agencies of the abuse Adrian suffered.
So alleged a wrongful-death lawsuit filed in both states this week by Adrian’s biological mother, maternal grandmother, and oldest sister. It contends that child service agencies failed to keep Adrian out of harm’s way.
“Despite all the warning signs, the hotline calls, and the evidence of the child’s mistreatment, they effectively allowed his father and stepmother to continue to abuse, torture, and ultimately murder the little boy, while they stood idly by, writing it all down,” the family’s lawyer claimed in the lawsuit
NB from LADYBBIRD >
Where the heck were all those family members when
Adrian suffered so many years of abuse?? Now he is dead.. They are suing ... .. = MONEY...methinks folks..
The lawsuit alleges that the state’s intervention was “limited”
Adrian's father and stepmother agreed to sign a piece of paper agreeing to stop abusing the boy — “the legal equivalent of a ‘pinky swear.’”
“As it turned out, that signed paper might as well have been A.J.’s death warrant,” the family’s lawyer, Michaela Shelton, wrote. The lawsuit asks for $25 million in damages.
Representatives from the Kansas Department for Children and Families declined to comment to the Kansas City Star.
But a spokeswoman previously released a statement about the case, saying that the agency followed the family as Michael and Heather Jones “worked constantly to evade our intervention.”
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“This family moved frequently between Kansas and Missouri, which greatly disrupted continuity of services and evaluation,” the spokeswoman said in a statement to KSHB. Officials in both states remained in regular contact, shared information and continued to talk to the family, the spokeswoman said, adding that child welfare workers thoroughly investigated each reported incident of alleged abuse and neglect.... 
“It is very difficult to assist families who are constantly transient, especially those who move across state lines and thereby deprive the State of any jurisdiction,” the statement read.
For Adrian’s first two years of life, he lived with his biological mother and siblings in Lawrence, Kan. After the toddler was found at home unsupervised, he was removed from his mother’s home and placed in the custody of his father..... 
But within three months of Adrian moving in with his father, Kansas child welfare workers became aware of problems in the home. Hotline calls began pouring in with troubling information: his father had guns all over the house, his stepmother was observed to be high on drugs, according to the lawsuit.
Adrian’s siblings were reported to have suffered significant weight loss and a number of physical injuries, the lawsuit claims.
Other calls reported evidence that Adrian was being beaten and choked by his father and stepmother. One hotline caller said Adrian had been spanked to the point where his buttocks were bleeding.
Adrian eventually underwent treatment for disruptive behavior and “parent-child relationship problem,” the lawsuit states. His father and stepmother reported that Adrian frequently wet the bed, stole and hoarded food, picked at sores and lit fires — characteristics that the lawsuit says are common in young victims of child abuse.
The family temporarily moved to Missouri, where hotline calls continued — one caller reporting that Adrian’s stepmother would beat “the living daylights out of the kids for no reason” and would sell “meth” out of the home, the lawsuit stated.
Records show that Adrian himself opened up about the abuse to child welfare workers. In a July 2013 interview with a Missouri Children’s Division worker and a police officer, Adrian — then age 5 — said his father would kick him so violently in the back of his head that a “little bone come out,” the Kansas City Star reported.
“My daddy keeps hitting me in the head and punches me in the stomach and my mom keeps pulling on my ears and it really hurts,” Adrian said. “Mommy and Daddy lock me in my room by myself. Mommy and Daddy can’t feed me.”
On another occasion, Adrian told a case worker that he was forced to stand in the corner and do jumping jacks and push-ups all day.
For a period of several months in 2014, Adrian was placed in a residential treatment center in Grandview, Mo., having been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. He was discharged on Sept. 4, 2014, on the condition that his father and stepmother follow an “aftercare plan,” including enrollment in school and therapy.
The center did not follow up with Adrian after he was discharged, the lawsuit alleges.
A month later, Adrian’s stepmother emailed the boy’s therapist at the treatment center, saying Adrian was “getting to be too much all over again.”
Leading up to the boy’s death, his stepmother, Heather Jones, often posted angry rants about Adrian on a private Facebook page, and alluded to wanting to kill him.
& His stepmother made a reference to wanting to simulate an episode of “The Walking Dead” in which a character shoots a child in the back of the head.
Three days later, Heather Jones posted that she “might be the next (redacted) and have to feed some pigs a body.”
Just over a year after Adrian was discharged from the residential treatment center, he died.
At Adrian’s father’s sentencing hearing, a detective nearly broke down in tears during his remarks. He said the torture Adrian went through was unlike anything he had seen in more than two decades in law enforcement.
The detective, Stuart Littlefield, recalled how Adrian was shocked with a stun gun by his stepmother. Littlefield paused his words for 20 seconds — demonstrating how long the shocks would sometimes last.
“Imagine the screams of a 7-year-old boy,” the detective said. “Twenty seconds is a very long time when you are in agony.as either an adult or a child”...
LAST WORDS From Adrian Before He Died > WARNING VERY UPSETTING :
NB: All those children are now with God's Angels..Their abusers will feed the fires of HELL..
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