Social Workers Accused of Responsibility in Girl’s Death
Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 in News Stories
Back in August of 2006, a 14-year-old girl named Danieal Kelly starved to death under her mother’s care. Her death initiated investigations on the city, state, and federal levels. Danieal’s mother went to jail for third-degree murder, Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services fired some employees, and now four social workers are on trial in federal court for failing to oversee her condition as they were paid to do.
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From 2000 to 2006, Philadelphia paid the now defunct MultiEthnic Behavioral Health, Inc. about $3.7 million to monitor 500 homes of at-risk and poor families. MultiEthnic’s co-founders, Mickal Kamuvaka and Solomon Manemela, and two staff social workers, Julius Murray and Mariam Coulibaly, are now on trial for fraud.
Danieal, who suffered from cerebral palsy, was found dead on her bed, malnourished and with bedsores infested with maggots. MultiEthnic was supposed to check up on her periodically to make sure she was being well-cared for. But according to the government, that didn’t happen. Instead, they accuse MultiEthnic for lying and fabricating fake documentation of visits to at least 3 different homes, including Danieal’s.
The case gets more complicated. The lawyers for the two co-founders contend that the two social worker employees lied to them. They claim that the social workers said that they had visited the homes when they actually did not–and that the co-founders can’t be held responsible for the social workers’ crimes.
The lawyers for the two staff workers, on the other hand, insist that they indeed visited Danieal’s home and that her mother actively concealed her true condition by covering her up in blankets. They also point out that other agencies, such as the Department of Education, visited the home prior to the death without noticing anything wrong.
Five other social workers from MultiEthnic have already pleaded guilty.
Fay
Feb 17th, 2010
I remember this case it was big news. Its crazy its been going on for so long.
What_The_Heck
Feb 17th, 2010
They should strap all these people into beds and not feed them and allow them to get bed sores infested with maggots so that they can completely understand just what they have done.