Showing posts with label abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abuse. Show all posts
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Candace Clark
MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) -- One of four housemates accused of helping kill a woman and torture the woman's 11-year-old son said the group took its cues from the only man implicated in the case.
"I am not a monster," Candace Clark, 23, told reporters from the Portage Daily Register and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel who interviewed her at Columbia County Jail on Friday night.
She described her boyfriend, Michael Sisk, 25, as the ringleader at the house they rented in Portage, some 40 miles north of Madison.
Clark denied involvement in the killing of 36-year-old Tammie Garlin, whose body police found buried in the yard.
As for the other charges she and three others face, Clark said, "No one's innocent in this."
All four -- Clark, Sisk, Michaela Clerc, 20, and a 15-year-old girl -- are charged with first-degree murder, child abuse, mutilation, hiding a corpse, false imprisonment, aggravated battery, three other felonies and a misdemeanor. The three adults are also charged with contributing to the delinquency of a child.
Earlier Friday, the secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Families called it "unconscionable" that state child welfare workers took four months to alert police that Clark had taken her 2-year-old daughter from a foster home in Florida. The Florida Department of Children and Families is investigating and hopes to have answers next week.
Acting on a tip from Florida detectives, Wisconsin police visited the Portage house on June 14.
They found Clark and her three children, including the 2-year-old, as well as Clerc and Felicia Garlin, Tammie Garlin's teenage daughter. They all gave police false names, according to a criminal complaint.
Police: Injured 11-year-old locked in closet
Police found Tammie Garlin's 11-year-old son, bloody and covered with burns, locked in a closet, and Garlin's body buried in the yard. A preliminary autopsy indicated she had been strangled.
Investigators took the women into custody and captured Sisk later at a Milwaukee bus terminal. Authorities believe all of them were part of a band of identity thieves who crisscrossed the U.S., surviving through financial fraud schemes.
The children were placed in the state's care.
Clark earlier told the Orlando Sentinel from jail that her boyfriend, Sisk, was controlling and considered the group to be a cult. She said she lied to police about her name because she was afraid Sisk might kill her.
"You don't call the police when you and your kids were threatened," Clark said.
Clark says she led police to buried body
Clark refused to tell the newspaper who killed Tammie Garlin, saying only that one person did it. She said she led police to the body.
"That was a burden that I had on my chest that I had to get off," Clark said.
Others in the group took turns beating and torturing the boy, Clark said, calling him unruly. He would bite, kick and punch, and even Tammie Garlin said he had to be disciplined.
Clark called the kidnapping accusations overblown.
She said the foster parents dropped the 2-year-old off at her home in Sanford, Florida, last July and told her they couldn't afford her any longer. She tried calling a caseworker, but never heard from the woman.
Sisk and Clark are both wanted in Colorado -- Sisk for walking away from jail while out on work release and Clark for failing to show up in court for allegedly writing bad checks and stealing a car, prosecutors say.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
"I am not a monster," Candace Clark, 23, told reporters from the Portage Daily Register and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel who interviewed her at Columbia County Jail on Friday night.
She described her boyfriend, Michael Sisk, 25, as the ringleader at the house they rented in Portage, some 40 miles north of Madison.
Clark denied involvement in the killing of 36-year-old Tammie Garlin, whose body police found buried in the yard.
As for the other charges she and three others face, Clark said, "No one's innocent in this."
All four -- Clark, Sisk, Michaela Clerc, 20, and a 15-year-old girl -- are charged with first-degree murder, child abuse, mutilation, hiding a corpse, false imprisonment, aggravated battery, three other felonies and a misdemeanor. The three adults are also charged with contributing to the delinquency of a child.
Earlier Friday, the secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Families called it "unconscionable" that state child welfare workers took four months to alert police that Clark had taken her 2-year-old daughter from a foster home in Florida. The Florida Department of Children and Families is investigating and hopes to have answers next week.
Acting on a tip from Florida detectives, Wisconsin police visited the Portage house on June 14.
They found Clark and her three children, including the 2-year-old, as well as Clerc and Felicia Garlin, Tammie Garlin's teenage daughter. They all gave police false names, according to a criminal complaint.
Police: Injured 11-year-old locked in closet
Police found Tammie Garlin's 11-year-old son, bloody and covered with burns, locked in a closet, and Garlin's body buried in the yard. A preliminary autopsy indicated she had been strangled.
Investigators took the women into custody and captured Sisk later at a Milwaukee bus terminal. Authorities believe all of them were part of a band of identity thieves who crisscrossed the U.S., surviving through financial fraud schemes.
The children were placed in the state's care.
Clark earlier told the Orlando Sentinel from jail that her boyfriend, Sisk, was controlling and considered the group to be a cult. She said she lied to police about her name because she was afraid Sisk might kill her.
"You don't call the police when you and your kids were threatened," Clark said.
Clark says she led police to buried body
Clark refused to tell the newspaper who killed Tammie Garlin, saying only that one person did it. She said she led police to the body.
"That was a burden that I had on my chest that I had to get off," Clark said.
Others in the group took turns beating and torturing the boy, Clark said, calling him unruly. He would bite, kick and punch, and even Tammie Garlin said he had to be disciplined.
Clark called the kidnapping accusations overblown.
She said the foster parents dropped the 2-year-old off at her home in Sanford, Florida, last July and told her they couldn't afford her any longer. She tried calling a caseworker, but never heard from the woman.
Sisk and Clark are both wanted in Colorado -- Sisk for walking away from jail while out on work release and Clark for failing to show up in court for allegedly writing bad checks and stealing a car, prosecutors say.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Friday, March 16, 2007
You don't have to hit a child to abuse them............
This was written by member of Angels That Care in answer to what I wrote. Amber AlertS set wheels in motion
I know someone that tried to put out an Amber Alert on her 12 y/o daughter when in fact the 12 y/O was at the Grandparents house after being threatened and kicked out of the house by the mother the night before. Apparently the mother (MOM) was drunk, had blacked out and "forgot" where her child was. At this point Child Services were called and the other child that was 13 was also removed from the home.
This was an acquaintance I had met first moving here.....a neighbor of my friend and our kids went to school together. I watched this woman slowly deteriorate into drugs and alcohol. When she got caught driving drunk....she lost her license. My friend would call me every day telling me things about this woman and I would get so mad and tell her to call the police or report it. I called one time and they did go investigate but the complaint was not substantiated. However, the police and DCS kept a close eye.
One day...my daughter saw the 12 y/O and her mom in the principle's office. Passing in the hallway my daughter asked out of concern what was wrong and made a statement that she hoped her mother didn't drive. This led to many harassing phone calls from the mother saying my daughter was a liar and harassing her daughter at school.... which was not true; they were friends. One evening after taking my friends daughter home after one of my sons baseball games, this woman came out of her house so drunk screaming at me. I tried to talk to her but she insisted on calling me names and doing anything to goad me into getting mad. I told her she was drunk and to go in her house and go to bed........her daughters had come over to my friends house at this time. She started screaming at the top of her lungs that I was a fat b*tch and my daughter was nothing but a "nasty nigger half-breed piece of sh*t."
Please know that ALMOST all tact and moral integrity almost went out of the window.....I felt like a lioness at that very moment wanting to protect her cub....even though, THANK GOD my daughter she was talking about wasn't there at the time to hear those horrible words. I wanted to shred that woman to pieces! I kept my cool but she ran inside her house.....her mother had driven over at that point and I was literally yelling at her to stop enabling her daughter and to protect those kids! The police were called by MOM....I was crying to the officers that this woman had in fact been harassing me....she was a danger to herself, her kids and anyone else on the road. She frequently drove drunk and I was told she smoked crack. They told me it was hear-say but that they were familiar with her and were watching her.....
After that it wasn't a week when the kids were removed. The kids are thriving at their grandparents and I see them frequently as I take them to our church. MOM has been arrested for driving w/o a license...been in jail and has failed many urine tests. She for some reason has said she doesn't claim the youngest of her daughters but has weekly visits w/the oldest daughter.
It breaks my heart because I know that these kids have seen things they should never see.......many one-night stands and strange men in the house after a long night of partying by MOM , drugs, alcohol.....they were forced to make her drinks, clean up her puke and take care of her when she was incapcitated.
You don't have to hit a child to abuse them............
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I know someone that tried to put out an Amber Alert on her 12 y/o daughter when in fact the 12 y/O was at the Grandparents house after being threatened and kicked out of the house by the mother the night before. Apparently the mother (MOM) was drunk, had blacked out and "forgot" where her child was. At this point Child Services were called and the other child that was 13 was also removed from the home.
This was an acquaintance I had met first moving here.....a neighbor of my friend and our kids went to school together. I watched this woman slowly deteriorate into drugs and alcohol. When she got caught driving drunk....she lost her license. My friend would call me every day telling me things about this woman and I would get so mad and tell her to call the police or report it. I called one time and they did go investigate but the complaint was not substantiated. However, the police and DCS kept a close eye.
One day...my daughter saw the 12 y/O and her mom in the principle's office. Passing in the hallway my daughter asked out of concern what was wrong and made a statement that she hoped her mother didn't drive. This led to many harassing phone calls from the mother saying my daughter was a liar and harassing her daughter at school.... which was not true; they were friends. One evening after taking my friends daughter home after one of my sons baseball games, this woman came out of her house so drunk screaming at me. I tried to talk to her but she insisted on calling me names and doing anything to goad me into getting mad. I told her she was drunk and to go in her house and go to bed........her daughters had come over to my friends house at this time. She started screaming at the top of her lungs that I was a fat b*tch and my daughter was nothing but a "nasty nigger half-breed piece of sh*t."
Please know that ALMOST all tact and moral integrity almost went out of the window.....I felt like a lioness at that very moment wanting to protect her cub....even though, THANK GOD my daughter she was talking about wasn't there at the time to hear those horrible words. I wanted to shred that woman to pieces! I kept my cool but she ran inside her house.....her mother had driven over at that point and I was literally yelling at her to stop enabling her daughter and to protect those kids! The police were called by MOM....I was crying to the officers that this woman had in fact been harassing me....she was a danger to herself, her kids and anyone else on the road. She frequently drove drunk and I was told she smoked crack. They told me it was hear-say but that they were familiar with her and were watching her.....
After that it wasn't a week when the kids were removed. The kids are thriving at their grandparents and I see them frequently as I take them to our church. MOM has been arrested for driving w/o a license...been in jail and has failed many urine tests. She for some reason has said she doesn't claim the youngest of her daughters but has weekly visits w/the oldest daughter.
It breaks my heart because I know that these kids have seen things they should never see.......many one-night stands and strange men in the house after a long night of partying by MOM , drugs, alcohol.....they were forced to make her drinks, clean up her puke and take care of her when she was incapcitated.
You don't have to hit a child to abuse them............
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