NC - Danielle Lunsford, 8, starved to death, Danville, 2 Oct 2010

[tlcya]

It is not just NC, its happening across the United States.DSS,DYFS,CPS what ever Child Protective Services is called,they are failing our children everyday!These 'S make me sick:furious:They both need to be jailed for abusing this child,if she was not eating take her to a doctor.You don't sit on your @ss letting her starve ! Just makes me sick.RIP Danielle.

You are so right mommom. I am sorry, that was the heat of the moment and you are right. It's not fair to suggest the problem is only NC's. It just seems through bad timing there are alot of these really horrific cases there lately.

Children are being abused daily all over this country and DCF/DSS/whatever the agency is not really doing at all an adequate job of handling the volume

 

[alsmom]

The older children will definitely be the key to what's going on here. They are all old enough to tell. Parents usually don't mistreat their youngest child unless they are mistreating all of them; which may be the case one way or another. I hate to say it, but the home schooling is a red flag to me considering what's happened. Eating disorders do happen with children this young, but the lack of medical intervention makes no sense.

ETA: The parents seemed oddly unemotional also which didn't bode well for them.

 

[MorenoI]

I don't understand why they didn't get her any help. My daughter had a similiar problem this summer. She is 11 and thought by not eating she would lose weight. It was a horrible expierence good thing it lasted 1 week. I told her if she didn't start eating I was taking her the the hospital and that seemed to solve my problem.

 

[Rayemonde]

This is so sad After three whole years on life support, Danielle Lunsford finally died on September 5th 2013, at age 11. Her parents' child abuse charges were upgraded to murder after Danielle died.

October 2013:

Willie and Dominique were initially charged in October 2010 with felony child abuse with serious bodily injury. Caswell County deputies served the murder warrants Monday.

http://m.wxii12.com/news/parents-charged-with-murder-after-11yearold-daughter-dies/22320922

 

[Rayemonde]

December 2013 - the state seeks the death penalty.

Dominique Lunsford was charged with first-degree murder, three counts of intentional child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury, first-degree sexual offense and indecent liberties with a child.

Her husband, Willie Lunsford Jr., has been charged with first-degree murder, three counts of intentional child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury, injury to personal property, indecent liberties with a child and first-degree sexual offense.

http://m.godanriver.com/news/danvil...108-61db-11e3-9c98-0019bb30f31a.html?mode=jqm

 

[Rayemonde]

[County Assistant Da] Martin said Danielle gained weight in the hospital, and showed no signs of illness.
“She and the other children were home-schooled. They were isolated from relatives and neighbors, and moved multiple times,” said Martin. “She slept on the floor between her sisters’ beds.”
She said Danielle’s brother “revealed evidence of brutal beatings at the hands of their parents, and sexual abuse to him.”
Dominique published a book which Martin called “a chilling comparison” to what happened to Danielle.

http://m.caswellmessenger.com/mobile/news/article_3f982352-6270-11e3-a7bf-001a4bcf887a.html