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UPDATE: July 20, 1010. Foster Mom + Boyfriend Formally Charged for Girl’s Hammer Death. Bail Set in Millions. Los Angeles (KABC). A Los Angeles foster mom has been charged in the death of a 2-year-old girl who was killed with a hammer. Police said 30-year-old Kiana Barker was arrested Thursday on murder and child abuse charges. They say Barker initially told investigators she accidentally hit Viola Vanclief with a hammer while trying to free the girl, who had become trapped in a bed frame. But authorities say records show the child had several bruises. The girl died on March 4. Barker is being held on $1.1 million bail. Her boyfriend, 38-year-old James Julian is facing an accessory to murder charge. His bail is set at $1.6 million. Related Content on link: County fires foster care agency after deaths, Foster mom previously accused of abuse, Foster mom + boyfriend probed in child’s death. http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7564504

Report: Foster mom previously accused of abuse. March 18, 2010, South Los Angeles, KABC. The family of a two-year-old girl who died after being beaten with a hammer questioned how the toddler was placed in the South Los Angeles home following a report that the foster mother had been the subject of five child abuse complaints.
A South Los Angeles foster mother and her live-in boyfriend are under investigation in the death of a 2-year-old girl who was struck with a hammer. Thirty-year-old Kiana Barker and her boyfriend, 38-year-old James Julian, were arrested on suspicion of murder, then released after prosecutors sent the case back to the police and coroner for further investigation.
Barker told investigators that she accidentally struck Viola with a hammer while trying to free her after the girl became trapped in a metal bed frame from the torso down on March 4.
The coroner ruled the death a homicide caused by blunt force trauma. There was also bruising to the lower back, buttocks and hips, according to the complaint filed by the Department of Social Services.
“How can you hit a child with a hammer and not take them to the hospital. It just don’t make sense to me,” the victim’s sister, Sonja Vanclief of Columbus, Ohio said in a phone interview. “Just talking about it is just so sad because she was just an innocent child. Children are the purest things in this world, especially when they died young, they come back directly from God.”
Multiple agencies are investigating the toddler’s death. Her family now questions whether Viola would have been better off with her birth mother, Olivia Vanclief. The family acknowledges Olivia was bi-polar. The Los Angeles Times reports she was also a drug addict. She is currently in a rehab program, where we cannot reach her.
Yet there were also danger signs with foster mother Kiana Barker. The Los Angeles Times, citing confidential records, reports there were five allegations against her and one substantiated complaint that Barker had severely neglected her own child in 2002. Under state rules, the inconclusive cases should have been entered into the state database and might have precluded a state license.
The non-profit group United Care Inc. placed Viola with Barker. Child care workers failed to discover that Barker’s boyfriend, convicted felon James Julian, was living at the home. Both adults should have been disqualified from caring for a foster child.
“The Department of the Children and Family Services joins the community in mourning the loss of the child Viola,” said Neil Zanville, a spokesperson for the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services. Department officials pledge to work with every agency to determine what went wrong. “Safety remains our first and foremost concern and we’re committed to keeping children safe whenever possible,” said Zanville.
But Viola’s family still has many questions and doubts. “She was a child. She couldn’t fend for herself and in actuality they put her in more danger than my mom would have,” said Sonja Vanclief.
The child welfare workers who were in charge of checking in on Viola have been placed on desk duty pending the outcome of the investigation.
The LAPD juvenile division is seeking the public’s help in the case. Anyone with information was asked to call (213) 486-0580. http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7338830

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I want to begin the process of obtaining a pardon for crimes I was convicted of from an accident back in 2002. Basically I went to 2 different pardon attorneys and recieved very different information. I assume this is because until I pay a retainer they are not going to spend anytime looking at my case. I want some other oppinions.

I was charged with Homicide by vehicle and reckless endangerment for an accident in which I was unable to stop for a red traffic signal and collided with another vehicle in which the other motorist was killed. Back then i was young and nieve in thinking that my attorney would actually help me. Instead he forced me to plead guilty to these crimes. At face value, everyone comes to conclusions thinking I must have done something wrong otherwise I wouldn’t have been charged this way. I say BS, there was no extenuating circumstance that I commited with gross negligence. Now I believe, at most and by talking to other officers, and reading about law that I should have been charged with Carless Driving with Accidental Death. I did nothing to warrant criminal action in that accident.

So talking with one attorney who barely had any facts and contacted the pardon board, said they would not grant a pardon for something like this. She said people need to know about it. She also said the only way I would have a chance is if I could prove I was wronfully charged. The other attorney with little information said I should wait until 15 years pass and then file for a pardon based on the fact that I have trouble obtaining jobs. He said accusing them of excessive charges would not go in my favor and that it is water under the bridge.

These people are contradicting eachother and I am confused. I feel like I have to say I was somehow wrongfully charged, however I am afraid I will get denied like the second attorney said.

Please, someoene who knows something about law give me some advice. I am desperate to have this criminal record removed. I am not a criminal and don’t believe I should be looked at as a criminal.

Thanks for any help.

The second attorney is pretty much right on. The fact that you plead guilty and the facts are not in dispute will make things considerably more difficult.

Your allegation that you were "forced" to plead guilty by your attorney does not hold water. Don’t go there.

The reason people conclude that you "must" have done something wrong to get the charges you did is because that’s how it works. The state "must" prove that you’ve done what the law describes for that charge in order to be convicted. The judge would not allow you to plead guilty to a charge either if it didn’t appear that you actually did what the charges say you did. You can’t plead guilty to bank robbery if there’s no evidence that a bank was actually robbed, and you can’t plead guilty to vehicular homicide if you were simply in a bad accident.

My mother was murdered in the mid to late 60’s. Why is it so hard to find any record of this? I do not think it right that corporations should make a dollar on my search for information on her death, and I will not tarnish Her memory by paying one red cent to them in my search. Not that She isnt worth it, but that they should not profit one bit from her murder. The homicide happened in Chicago, Illinois in the mid to late 60’s is all I know, and I have to find the death notice/obituary regarding this, I just have to. Please, if you know anything about this, or how to find out, tell me. She was buried in Resurection Cemetary.
Thank You.

try the local paper’s archives.

"Springfield, IL (Nov. 29, 2005) — Compared to women who have not been pregnant in the prior year, deaths from suicide, accidents and homicide are 248% higher in the year following an abortion, according to a new 13-year study of the entire population of women in Finland.

The study also found that majority of the extra deaths among women who had abortions were due to suicide. The suicide rate among women who had abortions was six times higher than that of women who had given birth in the prior year and double that of women who had miscarriages.

The epidemiological study, published in the European Journal of Public Health, was conducted by Finland’s National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health (STAKES). The researchers looked at data between 1987 and 2000 on all deaths among women of reproductive age (15 to 49).

While the risk of death from suicide, accidents, and homicide was highest among women who had abortions within the prior year, the risk of death was lowest among women who gave birth within the prior year, who had less than half the death rate of women who had not been pregnant. The risk of death following a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy, however, did not significantly differ from the risk of death among non-pregnant women.

The new study confirms findings from previous record-based studies carried out in Finland and the United States that have found elevated risks of death among women who have abortions. A 1997 government-funded study in Finland found that aborting women were 3.5 times more likely to die within the next year compared to women who gave birth.

In addition, researchers examining death records linked to medical payments for birth and abortion for 173,000 California women found that aborting women were 62 percent more likely to die than delivering women over the eight year period examined. That study also found that the increase risk of death was most prominent from suicides and accidents, with a 154 percent higher risk of death from suicide and an 82 percent higher risk of death from accidental injuries."
http://www.afterabortion.org/news/suicide205.html
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47705
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-459789/Abortion-risk-mental-health-make-suicide-times-likely.html
A similar study…

"There is strong evidence that abortion dramatically increases the risk of suicide. According to a 1986 study by researchers at the University of Minnesota, a teenage girl is 10 times more likely to attempt suicide if she has had an abortion in the last six months than is a comparable teenage girl who has not had an abortion.(2) Other studies have found similar statistical significance between a history of abortion and suicide attempts among adults. Thus, the actual data suggests that abortion is far more likely to drive an unstable woman to suicide than is pregnancy and childbirth.

Meta Uchtman, director of the Cincinnati chapter of Suiciders Anonymous, reported that in a 35 month period her group worked with 4000 women, of whom 1800 or more had abortions. Of those who had abortions, 1400 were between the ages of 15 and 24, the age group with the fastest growing suicide rate in the country."
http://www.abortionfacts.com/reardon/abortion_and_suicide.asp

Until there is a study proving that every single one of those women who committed suicide after having an abortion did so explicitly BECAUSE of said abortion, this proves nothing. Did those suicides leave notes detailing that they could not live with what they had done? Chances are very few did.

Having an abortion is highly stigmatized. Perhaps these women killed themselves afterwards not because they felt guilt or whatever it is you’re trying to imply, but because so-called "pro-lifers" made their lives completely miserable.

Additionally: you are only looking at statistics in Finland, which are hardly representative of anywhere else in the world. Finland has a population of only 5.4 million people – less than the population of New York City – and has an extremely good health care system, which means post-natal care is superb.

In other words: you can find results that fit your hypothesis if you plan it that way.

there was 1 newpaper article of when body was found and the ssi index shows the death with most details missing. cant find any obituary or any arrest record. not even coroner report. its like it never reallly happened. it was a brutal homicide.

after you go to the l library and look in the newspaper archives, copy the name of the officers, and call that police stations general line and ask how you can buy a police report (that is if its not a cold case.)