FATHER slaughters his 9 month old son and Maternal Grandmother, tries to kill Mother of his child. Has History of Domestic Violence, Kidnapping attempted Murder

Johnson faced previous charges before murders

VIDEO HERE: http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14395442

Justin Johnson (Source: Clarendon County Detention Center)

By Jack Kuenzie - bio | email

CLARENDON COUNTY, SC (WIS) - More details were released about the man charged with a double murder and another shooting inside a Clarendon County home Wednesday.

Justin Johnson had previously been charged with domestic violence and kidnapping in December. But those charges ended up being greatly reduced.

Johnson faced a half dozen criminal charges. They included two counts of murder, one each of attempted murder, kidnapping, burglary and weapon possession.

The Clarendon County sheriff said the 21-year-old had confessed to the brutal killings of his 9-month-old son Jayden and the boy's grandmother, 59-year-old Maxine Carraway. Other charges stemmed from an attempt to kill the boy's mother.

Sheriff Randy Garrett said Maxine Carraway was the first to die. She was shot in the back of the head as she was trying to phone for help. Then, "He's chasing his girlfriend into the house," said Sheriff Garrett, "The girlfriend retreats to the kitchen where the 9-year-old little boy is at. He goes into the kitchen. I understand there's some confrontation between him and her. At that time, he shoots the 9-month-old boy.

Sheriff Garrett said Johnson fired through a bathroom door at 21-year-old Kaisha Carraway, wounding her before forcing her and a two-year-old daughter into his car and trying to drive away.

A deputy arriving at the scene stopped the car, saw blood on Johnson's shirt and ordered him back to the house where he was arrested.

Sheriff Garrett said the slaughter might never have happened had Johnson remained in jail on charges filed in December.

At the time, he was accused of criminal domestic violence and kidnapping the mother of his children. But in February, Kaisha Carraway retracted her story. Court records showed the kidnapping charge was dropped, the criminal domestic violence charge was reduced to a case of simple assault, which was handled in magistrate court - allowing Johnson to get out of jail. An assistant solicitor who handled the initial charges said Carraway even agreed to plead guilty to filing a false police report. "If he'd still been in jail, you and I wouldn't be out here talking today," said Sheriff Garrett.

Investigators suspected Carraway was persuaded to change her story by an outsider who suggested she might lose financial support or benefits if Johnson stayed in jail.

But one question remains. Why shoot two people, including a baby who was sitting in his high chair at point blank range? Sheriff Garrett said when Johnson was asked that question, he just shrugged his shoulders.

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Amy Leichtenberg plans run/walk in honor of her murdered children Duncan and Jack

Local mother plans run/walk in honor of her murdered children

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Amy Leichtenberg and Hary Johson of the Children's Home and Aid organization are teaming up to raise money to support a local visitation center for parental visitations and child exchanges in high conflict situations. (Photo/Laughlin WJBC)

A local mother who is trying to get laws changed to protect children tells Scott Laughlin and Colleen Reynolds about an event on Sunday to raise awareness and money for the Children’s Foundation. Learn more abut the event by clicking HERE.  Listen to the full interview with Leichtenberg and Harry Johnson of the Children’s foundation below.

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(KS) Battered Mother Who Lost Children and Appealed to Kansas Legislature, jailed for 12 days!! OUTRAGEOUS! KSWatchDog

Abused Wichita mom, who lost children and appealed to Kansas Legislature, jailed for 12 days

By Earl Glynn On April 11, 2011
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Cecillia Arnold was released from jail on Sunday after 12 days. Her offense? She talked to her daughter in foster care.

Wichita.  Cecillia Arnold bonded out of jail on Sunday after serving 12 days in jails in Texas and Wichita.

Kansas Watchdog contacted Arnold by phone in Wichita late Sunday after learning about her current legal battle from a Wichita source.

Arnold said she was arrested in Arlington, Texas on March 29 on an outstanding arrest warrant and extradited to Kansas.

What was the offense?

As reported last year by Kansas Watchdog, Sedgwick County officials issued an arrest warrant for Arnold in Feb. 2010 after she talked to her older daughter while traveling through Wichita on her way back to Texas on Dec. 1, 2009.

Arnold’s trip back to Texas was after she testified before a Joint Committee on Children’s Issues at the capitol in Topeka about losing her daughters to foster care when she was an abused mom herself.

Arnold’s older daughter was in foster care in Wichita and Arnold violated a court order by talking with her.  For talking with her daughter Arnold became one of the “Featured Felons” in Sedgwick County in Feb. 2010.

Arnold said “they came to my job” on March 29 and she stayed in Texas jails in Arlington and Ft. Worth until April 7 waiting for “Kansas to come and get me.”  Arnold said she was transferred by plane to Wichita on Thursday evening.

Arnold said some Texas officials told her “we never see an extradition for something like this.”

The Wichita Eagle‘s daily bookings from the Sedgwick County Jail show Arnold was charged on April 7 with “Interference with parental custody; other than joint custody.”

The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office web site still shows Arnold as a wanted person.

On Monday officials from the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s office declined to verify anything about the extradition and declined to comment about the case since Arnold had been released.

The Sedgwick County District Attorney’s office on Monday said they could not verify anything about the extradition and declined any comments until after Arnold makes her first appearance in District Court.

Terry Grisham, Executive Director at the Tarrant County, TX Sheriff’s office on Monday confirmed Arnold was arraigned in Ft. Worth on March 31 and released to Sedgwick County officials on April 7.  A senior clerk with the Arlington Police Department confirmed Arnold’s arrest there on March 29.

Arnold said she was in Sedgwick County jail until Sunday when her dad posted bond for her.

According to Arnold she was given documents that her daughter and her parents will be witnesses against her at her preliminary hearing in Wichita on April 21.

In previous conversations Arnold said her 9-year-old daughter was upset and scared and had asked “Mom, are you going to jail?”  Arnold asked, “who does this do a kid” in making a child testify again her mom?  Arnold is 25.

Arnold said “I lost my job” after being arrested and is concerned that she will go to jail if she only has a court-appointed attorney.

In an interview in Topeka in 2009 after testifying to the Joint Committee on Children’s Issues, Arnold said she thought she could have done a better job representing her case than the court-appointed attorney representing her.  [See first video below, or listen to audio of her testimony below.]

Arnold plans to see if she has enough money in her 401(K) retirement account to obtain better legal counsel than she received in the past.

Monica and Albert Arnold are trying to help their daughter. They do not understand why they cannot have custody of their grandchildren if their daughter is denied custody.

Her dad explained “We don’t have money” and are limited on what legal help they can afford to give their daughter or to fight for their granddaughters.   [See second video below.]

Arnold’s parents, Albert and Monica Arnold from Wichita, traveled to Topeka in 2009 and 2010 trying to testify to the legislature on their daughter’s behalf about the treatment she has received from the legal system in Sedgwick County.

Albert and Monica Arnold are frustrated that as grandparents they have been denied custody of their own grandchildren.

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• Warrant out for mom who testified at hearing about losing custody of children, Kansas Watchdog, Feb. 28, 2010.
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• Parents, grandparents ask why children removed from homes, Kansas Watchdog, Dec. 1, 2009.

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Excerpts from testimony on Nov. 30, 2009 to Joint Committee on Children’s Issues:

Cecillia Arnold:  “I did all court orders and my girls were placed back home with me”

“The case workers changed many times. I couldn’t get through to them sometimes.”

“The reintegration itself … was going well”

“I had stability. I had a home. I had a job. I had everything that they would ask someone to do for reintegration to occur.”

“My abuser … was going to jail at the time at the time the girls were removed from home. He was incarcerated for, I think, it was two years for the crime he committed against me.”

“The girls were removed from home for the second time.”

“The assistant [Sedgwick County] DA … filed a petition for termination [of parental rights], and after … the trial termination was granted.”

“As of now I have not seen my children since March of this year”

“During the trial I had testimony from different people — the foster care parents … — their testimony was overlooked.”

“… bad experiences with DCCA …”

“They said the reason for termination was … me not following the reintegration plan. That was not true.”

“… the ball got dropped on me from the Agency that was contracted through the courts … They didn’t do the job that they were supposed to do, which resulted in my girls being removed from home”

Senator Oletha Faust-Goudeau: “Her parents are in the audience … They have been denied custody of their grandchildren, too, and told there were too old; they were too sick.”

State Rep Bill Otto (R-LeRoy): “Your rights are severed?”

Arnold: “My rights have been terminated … I have no rights to my children. I have not seen them since March. I filed an appeal that didn’t go anywhere. I’m here today because I want my children back.” …

Otto: “Where was your lawyer?” …

Arnold: “I had court-appointed attorneys … I feel I could have done a better job representing myself” ..

Otto: “This should not happen to anybody … I’m so sorry.” …

Chair Kiegerl: “Your problem mainly is with the courts, although, I’m sure, the agency’s testimony was instrumental in the decision. … My heart goes out to you …I wish there were a magic wand that … we could use to solve your problem.”

Arnold left in tears.

Listen to Cecillia Arnold’s testimony:

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Contact: Earl F Glynn, earl@kansaswatchdog.org, KansasWatchdog.org

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Million Mom's March day 4 challenge, 4/11/11.

Million Mom's March day 4 challenge, 4/11/11. Pick up your phone and call your United States Senator, or send an email/ letter if you prefer. If you need to be anonymous, a letter works best. Put "a Voter", your city and town in the return address area. If you don't put a return address of some sort it will not be opened. Tell them you want them

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“Hearts Across America” -- Million Mom March Mother's Day 2011, at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, D.C.

The Mothers Movement is a Persistent, Insistent,  Civil and Human Rights Campaign. We Will Never Give Up Until This Horrible Nightmare For Children and Their Mothers Ends.

SEE VIDEO: Million Moms March - Mother's Day, May 8th, 2011 D.C.

This page will be updated as events and information are disseminated through Mothers Day, May 8th, 2011. If you have an event going on anywhere on Mother’s Day please go to the contact and send to us. We will promptly update this page!

For Up to Minute Information: Please Visit the Facebook Page:

Million Mom March

Wear White Clothing (see photo's of last year's march and video) and be at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. throughout Mothers Day, May 8th, 2011. Events follow below.

Wear Cool Clothing and have lots of fluids with you. It will be a long and hot day on the sidewalks of the Whitehouse.

Unite With Each Other through Facebook- for joint travel, lodging, individual events and Camaraderie.

Travel and Lodging: (if you Google search; cheap air or cheap lodging and others you will be able to find more). We placed the following links below to get started with. * Special Offers - Southwest Airlines * Washington DC Hostel’s * Cheap Flights and Lodging *Amtrak *Greyhound * Expedia *Washington DC Hotels/Motels

Mr. President,

Mothers across the Nation are losing custody of their children to pedophiles and batterers through the Fatherhood Initiatives’ Program. Fatherhood Funding receives in excess of $500.000.000.00 to fix bad dad, these funds are diverted and used to take mothers children and give them to the abusive father under the pretense of ‘involving fathers’ in their children’s lives.

Mothers across the Nation call for a Congressional investigation into the failure of family courts to protect children and the potential fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars. Obama (and Congress) you are killing children with the tax payer’s money. STOP FATHERHOOD FUNDING NOW! Sample letter you can use to write to your congressman.

During the past two decades, mothers have been losing custody of their children (even nursing infants) in increasing numbers to fathers who are convicted or identified batterers, child molesters, drug addicts, gang-bangers and felons. Family courts force children into the custody of abusive fathers at alarming rates, allowing these men to continue controlling and abusing their victims.

According to a Presidential Task Force Domestic Violence Report in 1996; state's: "70% of Batterers who seek custody of the children get full custody." Courts Awarding Custody to Abusers and, Domestic Violence Homicides - There is a Connection.

Mothers who stayed in abusive relationships to "protect" their children were charged for 'failure to protect'. Mothers who left their abusers and tried to be "friendly" and co-parent in the face of 'Mandatory Shared Parenting Laws', lose their children to abuser's and Mother's are being ordered to 'Supervised Visitation' or are completely denied ANY contact with their children.

The National Fatherhood Initiative website states in the past 15 years it has "ensured that two million more children are living with their fathers". The Leadership Counci's research conservatively estimates that "over 58,000 children are placed with abusers every year." These statistics are obviously connected. Read more here:

If You Want to Help Organize a Similar Demonstration in Your State, contact Amanda at thomaap@auburn.edu

Corresponding Events are Being Planned on Mother’s Day in Conjunction with the Washington, DC March and Rallies.

• MOTHERS DAY IN WASHINGTON DC

Mother's of Lost Children, American Mothers Political Party, Courageous Kids, Mothers For Custodial Justice, Mothers From the East Coast to the West Coast and more Mothers and Organizations are Marching in Washington D.C on Mother's Day, Sunday May 8th, through Monday May 9, 2011. Some of the events and goals through out the day will include but are not limited to;

• Bringing attention to the Crisis of Family Courts helping Pedophiles and Batterers get Custody. Children and their Mother's are being seriously Harmed.
• Speaker Pro Tempore Fiona Ma has graciously agreed to speak at event.
• Assemble a panel of experts: attorneys, investigators, child abuse experts, judges, domestic violence experts, psychologists, authors, etc.. to speak.
• Create a survivor's panel comprised of those who have survived or are surviving Abuse by a perpetrator of Domestic Violence/Child Abuse AND  Litigation Abuse by the family or juvenile court system.
• If you have contacts who may be willing to participate in our panels, please send their contact info to Sue at 209-217-4948 skyleramelia@yahoo.com

• Sacramento, California

Mothers, Fathers, Familes and Friends who would love to be in Washington D.C. but can't -- Please Join Us in our local Mothers Day MARCH AGAINST JUDICIAL CORRUPTION – Mothers Day, May 2011. Follow our Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=190065104361414

My mom, Caroline Marie Rice, was arrested on Monday. This was the third time she had been arrested…I watched the arrest, trying to hold back my tears.

 

Open to possibility  http://opentopossibility.blogspot.com/

Click on this link to donate money to help get my mom out of jail and to get her false charges removed

Click here to donate on PayPal to the Rice Children Foundation

Daily Activities to Prep up for Mothers Day Rally, All Protective Mothers Needed to help! DAY 1 CHALLENGE

Daily activities to prep up for mothers day, all protective mothers needed to help! DAY 1 CHALLENGE

by Mia Tyler Kailin on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 7:48pm

We have a month until the March on Mother's day, and in support of that we will be doing daily activities to raise awareness and ensure a huge turnout. Invite your friends to participate and watch for a challenge each day! These will be simple things that anyone can do, even those with gag orders! Do this for your kids! Do it for my kids!

For day one, we all send letters to President Obama, you can copy and paste this letter to a word document and then print. Then you can fax or snail mail, and you can just put town and state for the return address. You will need to put some kind of return address or the Pres won't  open it for security reasons.

Many thanks for the mom who wrote this! Will give her credit if she wants her name out here. Feel free to mail a few for your friends who are too scared, or one of the moms in jail. You can tweek it if you want to, and it would be BEST if you handwrite the signature so he knows it is not a mass mailing from the same folks. We hope to get at least 1000 out. Let us know if you can, so we have an idea of how many respond. Lets give those who march a headstart!

contact info

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500

Please include your e-mail address

Phone Numbers

Comments: 202-456-1111

Switchboard: 202-456-1414

FAX: 202-456-2461

Or you can email here < http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact> just copy and paste without the arrows.

Dear President Obama,

   Hopefully you are aware that in one month, Mother's across this great Nation of ours will gather in front of the White House. It is our intention to bring attention to the ongoing problem with the Family Court System.

   For several decades the Family Court System has been broken.  Judges are universally handing children over to father's who abuse them physically, mentally and sexually. When Mother's attempt to seek help in our judicial system, we are finding it has been hijacked by our abusers. Despite common knowledge and recognition that Domestic Violence and child abuse exists and is against the law, we have found that these laws do not apply in Family Court.

   When we attempt to seek help from our local Governments, we are being told that there is nothing they can do. When Mother's ask for help from Senators and Congressmen, we are told that it is not a Federal problem.  These issues extend throughout all fifty states. Therefore, it clearly is an issue for our Federal Government.

  With recent findings of corrupt procedures and court personnel in states, such as California, and recent news articles, like those by Peter Jamison from the SF Weekly, it is becoming apparent that these issues and problems are spiraling out of control. It is time to reconsider the validity in paying men to remain in the lives of their children. Especially when we consider that much of these funds are being used by abusers to take children from their mothers simply for the purpose of continuing the cycle of abuse.  Family Court is perpetuating the continuation of abuse.

   President Obama, we would like for you to acknowledge us when we are in Washington DC. We would also like for you  to acknowledge the seriousness of this issue. We would also like for you to inform us on how your administration is going to start taking action and begin protecting women and children. Finally, we would like for you to outline what specific steps you are going to take to end Family Court corruption.

   President Harry Truman always stated, "the buck stops here." We realize the you inherited the issues with Family Court. The issue is that when you accepted the position and took the oath, you became responsible for the existing problems that were carried over from previous administrations. Unfortunately, the past administration passed "the buck" to you. We are asking that you do not "pass the buck" and instead work toward fixing a broken system, providing women and children with the hope that you consider us an important part of your constituents.

Sincerely,

A Mother

Enough Is Enough. Domestic Violence Statistics Proves That Women Are Not Dying At The Hands Of Strangers

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In 2010 New York City Domestic Violence Hotlines Received Over 320 calls per day. One of Those Calls Was From Survivor Tiffany Johnson.

New York, NY (PRWEB) April 10, 2011

New York, NY (April 7, 2011)  Author Tiffany Johnson takes a stand against domestic violence. The former victim is set to release her first intimate memoir Enough Is Enough: This Is My Story. The book release and signing will commence on Saturday April 16th, 2011 at Roy Arias Studios, located at 300 West 43rd Street suite 401C @ 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10036 at 3pm. Over 100 advocates and supporters are scheduled to attend this event.

“My 4 year old son was almost the witness of my attempted murder,” says Tiffany Johnson. In her memoir she is quite candid; Tiffany talks about the violent beatings, her experience in Safe Horizon domestic abuse shelters, the visits to Rikers Island and the day that she was left for dead lying in a pool of blood. Unlike 70% of women in domestic violence situations, Tiffany survived and is now sharing her story to help women worldwide. “I found Enough Is Enough to be quite moving. Going through Tiffany’s book took me on a roller coaster ride. Several times, I caught myself wiping away my tears and biting my nails” says Carmen Garcia of New Mexico City.

Domestic violence is an epidemic. The dialy news headlines in New York City continues to
report recent crimes, including the case of former NYC police officer Eddy Coello, indicted for the murder of his wife Tina Adovasio. In 2010 the New York City Police Department responded to 249,440 domestic violence incidents; this averages to over 680 reported incidents per day. In addition, NYPD’s Domestic Violence Unit conducted 67,761 home visits in 2010, a 77% increase since 2002. On average, more than three women and one man are murdered by their intimate partners in the US every day.

Enough Is Enough: This Is My Story, is certainly a solution to this epidemic that plagues our nation. This book is a must read for women, men and families whose lives have been affected by domestic violence.

A portion of all event proceeds and book sales will be donated to Child Abuse Prevention Program; an independent non-profit child safety workshop that speaks directly to children about the prevention of physical and sexual abuse. And P.O.W.E.R.S. INC., a nonprofit organization providing restorative services to individuals who have been victimized by domestic violence.

About Tiffany Johnson
Tiffany Johnson is a mother, an author, entrepreneur and an advocate against domestic violence. She is also a full time student at Bramson Ort College, pursuing a degree in Health Care Administration. Tiffany currently reaches out to domestic abuse organizations within her community to help educate women and families who are victims of domestic abuse. She is also CEO and founder of Treasure Box Publishing, a book publishing company in Queens, New York City. With dedication Tiffany Johnson continues to be “the voice” for millions of women who are no longer with us.

For more information about Enough Is Enough: This is My Story, events, upcoming book signings and the author, please visit: http://www.treasureboxpublishing.org or send an email to info@treasureboxpublishing.org

About Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP)
The Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP), an independent non-profit agency founded in 1986, is the only agency of its kind. The effective CAPP Child Safety Workshop speaks directly to children about the prevention of physical and sexual abuse. For children that are experiencing abuse, this program can be the first step to getting help. For thousands of others, it ensures understanding of their right to be safe, their right to speak up and their right to a childhood that is free from abuse. Over the past twenty-five years, CAPP has reached over 400,000 New York City school children and made them aware of their right to be safe from abuse. To help protect a child today, please visit cappnyc.org

About P.O.W.E.R.S. INC.
P.O.W.E.R.S. INC. is a non-profit program of packaged restorative services for victims of Domestic Violence. The mission of P.O.W.E.R.S INC., is to restore the lives of individuals who have been victimized by abusive predators. P.O.W.E.R.S INC. provides life educational and wellness services, counseling, job training and protection technique courses. The organization was founded in 2010 by Executive Director Steven Walerstein, who prides himself in the ability to reframe and redirect the best attitude and skills development, to counter balance and eradicate the ravages of Domestic Violence. His earnest beliefs and active hands-on approach, has led him to protect, model and mentor in the most kind and loving ways. To learn more about P.O.W.E.R.S. INC., please visit powersinc.org.

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