Archive for the 'Child Abuse' Category

DHS Shakeup Overdue

Another Oklahoma child has died under Department of Human Services supervision. The latest victim is three-year-old William Barnard. Young William, who had Down syndrome, drowned in the bathtub within five days of being returned to a home from which he had been removed by Oklahoma City Police and DHS. As usual DHS administrators, attorneys and [...]

A Case of Double Standards

At about 2:50 a.m. on March 14, 2007 a motorist in Muskogee, Ok spotted a three-year-old boy wandering barefoot on Honor Heights Drive. Teresa Hughes who spotted the boy, said at first she thought it was an animal in the road and then realized to her shock it was a child. Hughes waited with the [...]

Robert Samuel Wheeland – Part 1

Publication Date: 3/10/07 Last Update: 3/10/07 For 16 years Robert Samuel Wheeland patrolled the streets of Haskell, Oklahoma as a police officer. A Muskogee County jury has now determined that for at least part of that time he was also a sexual predator, roaming the streets of Haskell, using his position of trust and authority [...]

When Is A Girl Not A Girl

Meet 17 Year Old Nicole (Nikki) Blalock of Kansas City. Actually the above mugshot is that of Shannon Phillip Tankersley, age 40, of Broken Arrow, OK, who was until his arrest and subsequent firing a school bus driver for Union Public Schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tankersley was arrested by members of the Innocent Images Task [...]

Simply Outrageous

A news headline titled, Convicted molester coached girls in the February 20, 2007 “Oklahoman” should be a cause for alarm for anyone that cares about children and their welfare. The report revealed that Albert Thorpe, 43, who was sentenced to 10 years probation in 1992 for lewd molestation and second-degree rape of a 14-year-old girl [...]

Melanie The Monster Sentenced

Melanie ‘The Monster’ Smith previous found guilty in a shocking child abuse case was sentenced on December 11th. We cover Smith’s sentencing and offer our take on this monster in an update to The Boy In the Closet Part 6.