Our System Sucks when IT comes to Saving a Helpless Harmless Child from Physical / Mental & Sexual ABuse especially at the Hands of their own Parents .. A Child I have known since she was very young went to the day care next door to me There was always thoughts of abuse going on So Her teacher my best friend reported this to Social Services She almost Lost her job over this... and then at the age of 5 McCayla Watkins was taken out of the day care and for the past 5 yrs Social Services has been involved and called in to this Home repeatedly Doing nothing about this.. there are also 2 other siblings in the home .. They Left Poor Helpless McCayla in the Hands of her abusive Father .. Neighbors said he was a very violent man... Now Poor Little McCayla has been Murdered by her father Due to OUr System not doing their F'ckn Job... Upon the investigation of her death The Sick bastard and Step Mother said she fell down the steps which has turned out to be untrue ... further investigation They found a potty chair next to McCaylas Bed and a video camera sitting on her dresser pointing right at her bed that was removed at the time of her death .. Can you only Imagine what went on all this time??? Neighbors have said that McCayla was a prisoner in her own home she wasnt aloud outside many times they witnessed McCayla being slapped across the face and Books being knocked out of her hands in the middle of the street .. late at night they could hear the beatings or whatever may have been going on .. Sounds of things which sounded like hammering almost like her door being nailed shut ... they could hear the parents so cruely screaming at her and calling her Terrible names and there were reports yet our SYSTEM DID NOTHING ........... and this Poor 10 yr old Little girls life was taken at the hands of these animals.. THIS HAS GOT TO STOP .... these are innocent Children that belong to God .. They are a loan to us from him to Love and care for and nuture and guide thru Life but they are not put here to Be mistreated .. abused / sexually abused and assaulted By ANIMALS....... This man should Be Hung up by his balls and shot between the eyes.. Im sorry but this breaks my heart and even more so Because I knew this poor innocent child personally here is a bit on the story and If anyone knows how to Link a video from a news Clip Id like to know so I can post that in my blog I cant figure it out.......... PLEASE PLEASE REPOST THIS ...... and Lets Make this SYSTEM WAKE UP and do something for Children growing up in this cruel world with Animals Such as Patrick and Joy Watkins... If The System had done their Job McCayla would be living today and in a Home of a Loving Couple who wouldve loved her Like She so Deserved...
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The father and stepmother of a ten-year old Winchester girl now face charges in connection to her death.
Police are investigating the death of ten year old McCaylah Watkins. This morning we've learned her father, Patrick Watkins, is in the Clark County Jail on an abuse charge. The child's stepmother, Joy Watkins, also faces similar charges.
The little girl died Sunday in the family's Memorial Park home.
At the time her father told authorities the child fell down the stairs.
An autopsy is scheduled for later today.
Patrick and Joy Watkins appeared this morning in Clark County District Court. Both had not guilty pleas entered on their behalf and are awaiting court-appointed attorneys.
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A 10-year-old child found dead in her family's apartment in central Kentucky was routinely belittled and lived in fear of upsetting her father, relatives and neighbors said.
McCaylah Watkins' bruised and lifeless body was found in her family's Winchester apartment Sunday. Her father Patrick Watkins, 30, and his wife, Joy Watkins, were charged with first-degree criminal abuse on a child under 12. Police said their investigation lead them to file more charges against the couple.
Police said the child was dead for at least 45 minutes before emergency workers were called to the apartment, The Lexington
Herald-Leader reported Tuesday on its Web site.
Family members and neighbors said the couple often cursed the
girl and called her harsh names in public.
Joy Watkins' grandmother, Betty Stokley, who lives next door to the couple, said Patrick Watkins was cruel to McCaylah, his daughter from a previous marriage. Stokley said she had seen him kick the girl in the back, knocking her down.
Winchester police Capt. Harvey Craycraft said McCaylah had "trauma injuries" on her body. Patrick Watkins told police that the girl had fallen down some stairs, Craycraft said.
Officials with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services declined to comment on past or current investigations involving the Watkinses.
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WINCHESTER - Ten-year-old McCaylah Watkins, whose bruised and lifeless body was found in her family's Winchester apartment Sunday, was an unhappy child who lived in fear of upsetting her father and stepmother, said those who know the family yesterday.
More than half a dozen neighbors and relatives said Patrick and Joy Watkins routinely belittled and yelled at the girl in public, cursing at her, telling her to shut up and calling her stupid, along with other, harsher names.
Police arrested the Watkinses on Sunday and charged each with first-degree criminal abuse on a child less than 12 years old.
"The parents were charged with criminal abuse for failing to get treatment for the child's injuries," said Winchester police Capt. Harvey Craycraft. He said the couple hadn't made any attempts to render aid to the suffering child, other than calling for an ambulance.
Betty Stokley -- Joy Watkins' grandmother, who lives next door to the couple, said Patrick Watkins was especially cruel to McCaylah, his daughter from a previous marriage. Stokley said she had seen him kick the girl in the back, knocking her down, and had seen him force the girl to spread her fingers out on a table so he could smash them with his hands.
Stokley said McCaylah was often not allowed out of her bedroom and rarely got to go outside to play. She said the couple wouldn't even let McCaylah go to the bathroom, which was across the hall from her room, but placed a potty beside her bed for her to use instead.
"Caylah would dodge him and move to the side if he walked past her," Stokley said of Patrick Watkins, 30. "She would shake and go on. She was afraid."
McCaylah was pronounced dead just after 4 p.m. Sunday, when an ambulance and police were called to apartment 35 on Memorial Park for an unresponsive child.
McCaylah, who was found in a bedroom, had what Craycraft described as "trauma injuries." Stokley said police told her the body was badly bruised.
Patrick Watkins told police that the girl had fallen down some stairs, Craycraft said.
Craycraft could not go into more detail, but he said more charges were possible once authorities view the results of an autopsy that was completed yesterday. He said authorities hope to learn exactly what caused the child's death and when and how her injuries occurred.
Police confiscated a Dumpster after neighbors told police they saw Patrick Watkins take out trash just before calling emergency workers. Police have not said what evidence, if any, was found.
In Clark District Court, a not-guilty plea was entered yesterday for the Watkinses. Judge William Clouse said he would appoint public defenders for them. Each was being held in the Clark County jail on a $20,000 cash bond; they will be back in court March 20.
Because they are in jail, funeral arrangements have not yet been made for McCaylah.
Brother recently adopted
According to Clark County court records, Patrick and Joy Watkins, 28, do not have extensive criminal backgrounds. The most serious crime was in February 2000, when each was convicted of domestic violence against the other.
Stokley said the couple have been married for about nine years and have lived at the apartment complex on Memorial Park for about five years.
She said they were raising four children, including two of their own, Zachary, 4 and Mariah, 6. They recently gained full custody of McCaylah. And they have adopted Michael Woodrum, 4, McCaylah's half brother. He and McCaylah share the same mother, but Michael is not related to Patrick or Joy Watkins.
The other three children have been in state custody since Sunday. Stokley said she hopes to gain custody of them.
Officials with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services would not comment yesterday on past or current investigations involving the Watkinses. They also would not say whether the remaining children will be released to family members.
In recent months, Stokley said, she hasn't been a significant part of Joy Watkins' life and hasn't been allowed to see the children often, because of Patrick Watkins. She said social service workers and the police have been called several times on the couple over their treatment of the children, and Patrick Watkins blamed her for the calls and attention.
Through tears yesterday, Stokley said she blames social service workers for not doing more to prevent McCaylah's death.
"The social workers, they didn't do their part," Stokley said. "If they had taken McCaylah out of there, this little girl wouldn't be dead. I don't know if I could have done anything to save her or not. I'm so broken-hearted about this that I can't hardly talk about it."
Neighbors grieving
As residents of the apartment complex recalled incidents of alarming physical or verbal abuse against McCaylah, many wondered yesterday whether there was something more they should have done.
"They were awful mean to the little baby," said Nancy Bowling, 60. "She was 10 years old, she wasn't nothing but a little baby who had no one to turn to."
Bowling, who used to walk her grandson to school with McCaylah and Joy Watkins, said Joy Watkins often seemed hateful and rarely said anything pleasant to the girl.
"She would call her stupid and say things to her like 'shut up,'" Bowling said. "Caylah was a real pretty, sweet little girl, but she didn't look happy. I don't ever remember seeing her smile."
In one incident, Joy Watkins became upset with McCaylah and began yelling at her in the street in front of Bowling's apartment. She was screaming so loudly that neighbors stepped out onto their porches to see what the commotion was about, Bowling said.
Watkins knocked the schoolbooks out of McCaylah's hands and then stormed off while the girl, who was crying, struggled to pick up her belongings, Bowling said.
Another neighbor, William Deaton, 35, said McCaylah, who was home-schooled this year, attended Shearer Elementary in Winchester last year with his 10-year-old niece. He said McCaylah told his niece that "her dad was being mean to her and beating her up."
Shearer Elementary Principal Ed Sigmon declined to comment about McCaylah yesterday.
"I don't know what happened down there that day," Bowling said. "But I do know what I've seen -- what we've all seen."
The Sick Animals that did this to her
