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The system failed Neveah Gallegos

Wednesday, October 10 at 6:00 PM

By Tina Myers, Westminster

This Speakout has not been edited.

To abuse, assault and murder a 3 year old is okay. To have too many animals in your home, forget to pay traffic fine, shoplifting or some other crime that hurts know one but the person doing it, you find yourself in jail for several years. Murder a small child and spend little or no time in jail. What is wrong with today’s legal system?

Are we trying to slow down the population growth by allowing these people to go free and do it again? I am the mother of a now 16 year old boy who was abused from the time he was born until he was 4 months old when his mother and father nearly killed him. He is one of the lucky ones, why, because the Dr.’s and Nurses at Children’s Hospital cared enough to take control of the issue.

Not child services. They wanted him to go back to parent’s who did not care enough about him to coddle and love, but to begin breaking bones when he was just a couple days old and continue until he suffered serious life threatening injuries at 4 months. The parents were ordered to spend 45 days in jail on work release. Spent only a very small part of that time. Wow, pretty serious for what they did.

Over the past several years, there have been other infants and young child that have been murdered by his or her own parents or someone related. Children’s Protection Services were aware in all cases that the child’s well being was in jeopardy. What action did they take? NONE. Now the children are dead.

The horrible story of Neveah Gallegos was the last straw. Maybe it is time for Child Protection Services, the Police and our legal system to begin doing what they are being paid to do. Protect the innocent, not sit on your butt at a big desk and get paid lots of money for doing it.

How long does this have to go on? My son is a survivor and a very lucky young man to have had people care enough to make sure he never went back into an environment that would cause him more pain and possible death.

What is our legal system and what do they do? Witness protection program? No, most of them are dead. Child abusers, molesters and murderers, they continue to walk the streets. Angel Montoya and Miriam Gallegos. Now what? They are free. Angel has been charged in the past for abuse and molestation, he continues to walk free. Who will be his next victim?

Who will be the next innocent child beaten, murdered, molested that Children’s PROTECTION Services is aware of and what will they do about it? It is time to protect the small children who have done nothing wrong, the only thing they have done is love, and want to be loved in return. I hope all persons involved in this very sad story can live with themselves. The mother, Angel, the Case worker from Child Protection Services and the Judge.

God Bless you Little Neveah. You are now at peace and will never have to undergo the ugliness of abuse or hurt again. The angels now surround you with their love. Rest in Peace Little Princess!

Tina Myers is a resident of Westminster.

READER COMMENTS

Tina,there really is not much anybody can do about it.Neveah isn't the first innocent murdered most foully around here and she for sure won't be the last.
From a dry-as-dust legal perspective,the government has no duty to protect any individual person.None. Furthermore,government cannot be punished if its agents fail to prevent a crime,or fail to solve a crime,or if they decline to prosecute an individual for a criminal act.
As heartrending as Neveah's case is,it points up that "the system" has its own definitions of success and failure,definitions not necessarily related to what they tell us those definitions and goals are.
In other words,any child born is on its own,except only for the competence of its parents to keep it safe,happy,and healthy.Neveah's father has not been mentioned anywhere in the publicity surrounding her murder.No one knows who he is.He himself may not know of his paternity. What is known is that Neveah's mother had a long term relationship with a man she knew was a child molester and yet she repeatedly refused to assist in the investigation.
Neveah was on her own and S.O.L. from the moment she was born.
You'd think that those who lead us might at least require prospective parents to show as much competence to parent as they require competence to drive safely of someone wanting a driver's license.

Posted by Jimminy on October 19, 2007 12:30 AM