12.12.07
Tajanay Bailey, Beaten & Tortured by Parents
Tajanay Bailey (3) Indianapolis, IN
TaJanay Bailey, 3 years old will not get to celebrate the holidays this year. While other children are excited, thinking about what Santa will bring on Christmas morning, this child will have already had her funeral.
Just a mere month after child protection services placed little Tajanay Bailey (3) back into her mother’s custody her young life was suddenly ended. Tajanay’s “mother” Charity Bailey (20) (*or as I liked to call women like this (egg donor), and her punk boyfriend Lawrence Green (20), allegedly tortured this innocent little girl. They are accused of the following crimes against the preschooler:
- Hanging her in the closet for wetting herself
- Kneeing her in the head
- Delivering blows to Tajanay’s chest
- Whipping her with a belt
According to the police, when the paramedics arrived to the home, it was filthy and descibed as “an apartment in squalor.” The girl was later pronounced dead after being rushed to the hospital. Tajanay had previously lived with a foster mother named Janice Springfield, for a while. This foster mother warned the state’s child welfare authorities that Tajanay would be in danger in mom’s care. Tajanay and her infant brother had previously been removed from the mother before due to medical neglect and child abuse.
However, the state of Indiana for some unGodly reason decided to return Tajanay back to her mother anyway. They totally ignore the advice of a foster mother who had bonded with and cared for this child for most of her life and now that child is gone. Killed after being tortured, humiliated and treated no better than a rabid old dog.
This is still happening and I don’t know why these state agencies turn a deaf ear to good foster parents who work so hard to protect these kids and nurture them, and give them a better life. A life they deserve! It was clear Charity Bailey was not going to improve-why did Tajanay have to be the failed experiment on this?
Sources:Indianapolis Channel
Bailey and Green Speak Out-From News WTHR
TaJanay murder suspect speaks out
Originally Posted: Nov 30, 2007 12:48 PM EST
Updated back on: Dec 19, 2007 01:11 PM EST
Emily Longnecker/Eyewitness News
Adrian Springfield, TaJanay’s former foster parent: “I’m just going to make sure that they get this right this time because it is terrible,” Springfield said. “The system — somebody failed her.”
Marion County - A mother and her fiancé faced a judge Friday and heard accusations of killing three-year-old Tajanay Bailey. Both face life without parole if convicted in her death.
Charity Bailey and her boyfriend Lawrence Green both pleaded not guilty to charges of neglect, battery and murder. It was the scene before court that revealed what Green may have told fellow jail inmates about what happened.
With charges of murder for neglect awaiting her, Charity Bailey hid her face from cameras as she got ready to face Judge Tanya Walton Pratt. For Bailey’s live-in boyfriend, Lawrence Green, who is also facing the same charges as Bailey plus a felony battery charge, it was a different story.
Green kept his head up and had this to say about TaJanay. “I’m not the one who whipped her,” he said.
The inmates behind Green taunted him to answer, saying, “Might as well speak up,” “It’s over for you, bro,” and “Tell her what you told us.”
When Green wouldn’t answer, they did it for him. “He said it wasn’t him. It was his girl. He said his girl put it all on him,” one inmate said.
Investigators have said Green and Bailey beat and tortured Tajanay over several days, at one point hanging the toddler by her
T-shirt in a closet. The inmates said Green had his own version of the story.
“He said he hung her on the hanger to stop the girl from beating her. That’s what he said. He hung her on the hanger to stop his girl from beating him.”
But if Green said anything like that to his fellow inmates, he wouldn’t repeat it for cameras. It was dead silence getting ready to face Judge Walton Pratt.
Heading into court, TaJanay’s foster father Adrian Springfield spoke briefly, saying he was there for TaJanay, a little girl he loved and lost.
“I’m just gonna make sure that they can get this right this time, ’cause it’s terrible, the system. Somebody failed is what it seemed to be and I want to make sure she’s treated fairly. That’s all,” said Springfield.
Charity Bailey and Lawrence Green sat next to each other in court but did not speak to each other or even look at each other. Only Bailey showed some emotion, shaking her head with her eyes full of tears when the judge read the charges against her.
Prosecutor Carl Brizzi, meanwhile, says going for life without parole is smarter than going for the death penalty.
“You need a very compelling criminal history and also with the state of the death penalty, difficult obtaining a conviction, the possibility of reversal, this is really the better choice with these facts,” he said.
In another courtroom, a judge is deciding whether to make public TaJanay’s case as a foster child. A mountain of paperwork could reveal why she was returned to her birth mother after a doctor found evidence of neglect.
Undoubtedly more facts of the case will emerge as investigators pour over Department of Childrens Services files about TaJanay. For now, Brizzi said it was too soon to say if anyone at DCS could face criminal charges in the toddler’s death.
A trial date was set for March.
geminigirl07 said,
January 8, 2008 at 10:37 am
New Details Revealed in TaJanay Case
Updated: Dec 19, 2007 05:40 PM EST
Rich Van Wyk/Eyewitness News
Indianapolis - “There’s new information in the TaJanay Bailey case. Court and child welfare records detail the tragic death of the three-year-old girl who died last month. TaJanay’s mother and boyfriend are charged with murder.
Among the 500 pages of newly released documents, Eyewitness News found that Charity Bailey cared for her child for about eight months of TaJanay’s three years of life. The girl lived about two and a half years in the guardian home, foster homes and the care of DCS.
Tajanay was first taken from the home in 2004 when she was just three months old. Records show she was dirty, suffering from numerous skin conditions and hadn’t received proper medical attention.
Mother and child were reunited 14 months later. They moved to Oklahoma and the case was closed.
In May 2006 TaJanay was back in Indianapolis and in foster care. Previous records say she was neglected and abused.
After another 17 months of care and counseling the family was reunited again. Less than a month later, in late November, TaJanay was dead.
Her death is prompting change. The child welfare system and Indianapolis just started sharing information, attempting to prevent a similar tragedy.
Indianapolis Police now know when they are called to a home or apartment where children have been abused or neglected. At the Marion County Communications Center, the computerized dispatch system contains the roughly 300 addresses of more than 700 children under the supervision of the Department of Child Services.
Officers have orders to be more attentive to living conditions, and other questionable circumstances.
Even if the incident appears insignificant and doesn’t require a police report, police are required to notify DCS they’ve been to the home.
It is information that could have saved TaJanay Bailey’s life. The three-year-old had been a victim of abuse and neglect.
TaJanay was killed after case workers returned her home. A short time later, police were called to the family’s apartment to quiet a domestic disturbance between her mother Charity Bailey and boyfriend Lawrence Green. Had DCS known of the incident, officials say they would have likely acted quickly to remove the child.
Seventeen days later, Tajanay was dead, with Bailey and Green charged with her murder.
Eyewitness News partners at The Indianapolis Star report that Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi plans to open a satellite office at the Phoenix Apartments where TaJanay’s family lived. It is one of the city’s most violent areas.”
Source:http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=7520989
What a shame the loss of this precious little girl. We can and should do better than this.
Kimeca said,
February 3, 2008 at 2:09 pm
You would think that the state would have listen to the foster parent when she told them that the ,mother is not ready for that child and that something would happpen to her. It is very sad and hurtful to hear this.some parents meaning young parents should not have kids something bad always happen to the babies and then every body play dum.then you have a dead child on your hands. every body deserve to live and grow up and be happy as a child. thank you
Kimeca said,
February 3, 2008 at 2:13 pm
They need to beat and tortured the mother aand boy friend just like they did that baby. let them see and feel the pain and being scared. hang them from some rope and watch them pea on them selves. God do not like ugly and when you mess with a child of god you never win, god do allthe time.
geminigirl07 said,
February 7, 2008 at 8:11 am
“…when you mess with a child of god you never win, god do allthe time.”
I couldn’t agree more Kimeca,Tajanay’s ‘mom’ and the mom’s boyfriend should have to spend the rest of their lives behind bars for robbing that baby of a chance to grow up and become somebody. Moms and Dads who choose the party lifestyle of drugs and non-responsible sex, over their babies make me see red.
Thanks for posting,
C Latour said,
February 16, 2008 at 2:26 am
I hear this a lot from state of Indianna. We need a federal Nixmary’s Law were the killer will go away for 25 no if ands or buts. Please sign the Child Abuse Prevention Act petition at gopetition.com. We need tougher mandatory sentences for child abusers and killers. We need to take this country back from the crooks and criminals, make your vote count!
geminigirl07 said,
April 13, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Post From IN Topix Forum-From Tajanay’s Maternal Grandmother
Originally posted Feb.2008:
#35 Barbara Bailey wrote:
“I do not live in Indpls, I live in Oklahoma, and had no idea of the abuse. My daughter (Charity Bailey) was here in Oklahoma living with me the year prior to this situation. I am deeply disturbed especially because I had tried to convince Charity to stay here with me prior to her return back to Indpls. She refused. I even tried to get her to let me keep TaJanay but she claimed they were doing good and that she (Charity) was in school. Then The last time I spoke to Charity she said she had a new boyfriend and was pregnant again and was diffentaly not coming back here to Oklahoma with me and my other daughters. Then I hear from my father that TaJanay had been murdered and that my daughter was a suspect.
Now I have no way of going back to the past to urge her to change her mind. So when people say things like where the “loving grandparents” it hurts me because I had no control over my daughter who is old enough to decide where she wants to live. Nor do I live near enough to her to help intervene. So now just 3 months after this horrific incident I am here in Oklahoma wondering what more could I have done. I do not know who I could contact in order to get my comments out there, so here I am on this web site. I refuse to allow anyone to judge me because ultimately the judgment for the entire event belongs to God. Therefore, I am not condemned but very grieved. My heart aches daily over my granddaughters death and the fact that my daughter was responsible. However, God is in control now and it is through
Him that we all will get past the hurt of this. God bless you all and please remember our family in your prayers.
Charity Baileys’ mother,
Barbara Bailey”