5yr-old Oleander dead of "homicidal violence": dad & step-mom-to-be arrested

[Dakota Valkyrie]

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Gresham police arrested a man and his live-in girlfriend Friday in the suspicious death of his 5-year-old daughter earlier this week.

After officers interviewed the family and associates, they arrested Christopher A. Rosillo and Guadalupe Quintero, both 23, of Gresham on accusations of murder, said Sgt. Rick Wilson, a Gresham Police Department spokesman.

Police were dispatched shortly before noon Tuesday to the 400 block of Southeast 169th Avenue, where they found the girl, identified as Oleander Labier, unconscious and not breathing.

An ambulance took the girl to Portland Adventist Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
[...]

The autopsy and the investigation determined that the girl's death resulted from "homicidal violence," Wilson said.

Rosillo's other children, ages 3 years and 11 months, were removed from the home and placed in protective custody, Wilson said. Quintero was the mother of those two, but not Labier, he said.
[...]
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/gresham_woman_arrested_for_mur.html

According to this video, neighbors had threatened to report them to CPS. The girl was "fragile" and had been seen with a feeding tube.
YouTube- 100416_murder_charges.mp4
I wonder what "homicidal violence" means. They beat the crap out of her?

[Tundratot]

I know it's a stupid, pointless observation, but what's going on with this preying mantis's eyebrows? She does that deliberately? Yeeesh!

So, did she do it? Get rid of the non-related child to make space for her own pupae? Did he do it? Sacrifice her to the energy needs of his mate?

[Cholita]

Them be some TWEAKER eyebrows!...Overplucked when she was on a good one!
What a douche that guy is for letting that horseface treat his baby like that.
Poor thing.

[FlamingFox]

I'd love to smack the shitty looks off both of their fugly faces.

[jus shaking my head]

According to this video, neighbors had threatened to report them to CPS. The girl was "fragile" and had been seen with a feeding tube.


The child might still be alive if the neighbors had done more than threaten to call CPS!

[Silvahalo]

I agree Jus, one fuckn' call, ONE mighty have made the difference for this childs life. People like this don't deserve to breath the same are little one did. They took her air I say take theirs.

Rest in peace little one you deserved life, to be loved and cherished.

[Sister Iroz]

Them be some TWEAKER eyebrows!...Overplucked when she was on a good one!

Well, she won't be using tweezers in prison, give them time to grow out.

[MC30]

they thread them in prison..a piece of string, a knot and an eyebrow hair...
believe it or not

[ineedanap]

Here's how you can get your very own set of Chola eyebrows!


YouTube- Chola Makeup Tutorial

[Tundratot]

Oh, she's hilarious! That was fun!

[Dakota Valkyrie]

A 5-year-old Gresham girl who died last week of "homicidal violence" was the victim of years of child abuse that should have been reported by family members, neighbors or others, police said.

But no one contacted Gresham Police about Oleander Labier until last Tuesday, when an ambulance transported the unconscious girl to the hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. On Friday, police arrested her father, Christopher A. Rosillo, and his live-in girlfriend, Guadalupe Quintero, both 23. The two were arraigned today on murder by abuse charges.

Sgt. Rick Wilson declined to disclose details of the girl's death, saying police are waiting for a final report from the medical examiner's office. But she had obvious signs of abuse, he said, adding that the girl's death is "the worst case of child abuse" that members of the Multi Agency Child Abuse Team and East Metro Major Crimes team have ever seen.

"We want everyone to understand this was a very serious, unfortunate situation," Wilson said. "People need to be reporting this kind of stuff if and when they see it or have a feeling there might be a problem."

Two other children, a 3-year-old and an 11-month-old, were taken into protective custody. The two children are Rosillo's and Quintero's. Quintero was not Labier's mother.
http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2010/04/5-year-old_gresham_girl_had_be.html

[Mystica43229]

they thread them in prison..a piece of string, a knot and an eyebrow hair...
believe it or not

I just got mine threaded at a salon a few weeks ago. Better than waxing or tweezing!

[AngelFire]

Damn you,whore from the depths of fucking hell, and take ghetto satan with you while you are at it too. Just fucking kill them, why waste time, and money?

[Whisper]

Suspects arraigned in murder of 5-year-old Gresham girl
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Testimony from more than two-dozen witnesses have led to murder-by-abuse charges for a father and his girlfriend in the death of a five-year-old Gresham girl.
Authorities called the crime one of the worst child abuse cases they've ever seen.
After hearing from 25 witnesses, a Multnomah County grand jury Friday ruled that 23-year-old Christopher Rosillo would be charged with two counts of murder and two counts of murder by abuse for the death of 5-year-old Oleander Labier. Rosillo's 23-year-old girlfriend, Guadalupe Quintero, was charged with two counts of murder by abuse.
Two weeks ago, police were called to the couple's apartment just as Labier was being transported to the hospital with unknown injuries. The girl was pronounced dead when the ambulance arrived.
[...]
"This poor little girl endured some physical abuse for years and we want the public to know this isn't a one time thing; this has been going on for awhile," said Sgt. Rick Wilson of the Gresham Police Dept.
The couple in custody have two younger children together. Those children showed no signs of abuse and the State of Oregon took the two in to foster care until further notice.
http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Suspects-arraigned-in-murder-of-5-year-old-Gresham-girl-91561624.html


Indictment alleges years of abuse led to death of 5-year-old Gresham girl

A Multnomah County grand jury has indicted a Gresham couple with murder by abuse charges in the death of a 5-year-old girl.
The indictment suggests the girl, Oleander Labier, died from a lengthy pattern of assault, neglect, and maltreatment that stretched for more than three years.
[...]
Rosillo and Quintero are each scheduled to be arraigned in Multnomah County Circuit Court tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. on the indictments.

Rosillo and Quintero each face two counts of murder by abuse.
The first count of murder by abuse alleges that the two are responsible for the girl's death as a result of a pattern of assault. The second count of murder by abuse alleges the two caused the girl's death as a result of neglect, and, or, maltreatment, according to Nathan Vasquez, the Multnomah County deputy district attorney.
Rosillo faces an addidtional two counts of murder. The first count accuses him of causing the girl's death by first-degree assault; the second count alleges he committed second-degree assault against his daughter.
The East Metro Major Crimes Team and the Multi-Agency Child Abuse Team investigated the death, detecting years of abuse.
The indictment suggests the abuse occurred between Feb. 18, 2007 and April 13 of this year.
The state medical examiner's office only said the girl died from homicidal violence. Rosillo's other children, ages 3 years and 11 months, were removed from the home and placed in protective custody. Quintero, voted Miss Teen Clackamas County in 2006,
was the mother of the younger two children, but not Labier. http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2010/04/indictment_alleges_years_of_ab.html

[Tundratot]

Oregon, again. Oregon, western Oregon, is having some kind of problem with parents who engage in long-term, ultimately fatal child abuse and no one who knows the child, suspects abuse gets through to the social services. It's a long, distinguished list of tragic, needless, traumatic child abuse deaths. it's unbelievable. It makes me sick!

[Tundratot]

Quintero, voted Miss Teen Clackamas County in 2006, was the mother of the younger two children but not of Labier.
http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2010/04/indictment_alleges_years_of_ab.html

No way!


“… People should have noticed this, family in particular,” Wilson said, adding that the fiancee’s sister manages the Maple Meadows apartment complex where the girl lived and died.


Her biological mother is a transient in the Seattle area.


“It’s been a sad week,” said neighbor Max Rusk, who was smoking his pipe outside when he discovered the shrine that another neighbor erected.

“Somebody had to,” Rusk said. “Somebody’s got to mourn this child. … I just cannot believe this happened.”

Rusk, a retired police officer from California’s Bay Area, has lived in the complex for five years and estimates the family lived there for one to two years.

“I never saw her,” he said of the little girl. “I didn’t even know they had a third child.”

He only saw the 3-year-old girl and baby outside playing with other kids in the complex. “They kept her secluded. Now I know why.”

He’d heard the girl was emaciated, only about 25 pounds, when paramedics took her battered body to a local hospital.

“They can’t tell me her family didn’t know what was going on,” Rusk said.

Now Rusk is guilt-striken, depressed and angry that he didn’t put the pieces together.

“I’m an ex-cop for Christ’s sake,” he said. “Why couldn’t I have seen something. … I love kids. I had no idea this was going on.”

Then he swept his arm upward, gesturing toward the other tenants.

“None of us did.”
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/print_story.php?story_id=127126268570129100


An ambulance took the girl to Portland Adventist Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

She came in seriously malnourished, weighing 28 pounds with broken bones from head to toe, authorities said. http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2010/04/indictment_alleges_years_of_ab.html

[AmyB80]

A portion from Tundratot's first link:

Although the indictment suggests the abuse occurred between Feb. 18, 2007, and April 13 of this year, law enforcement said they had received no reports or complaints about the abuse. One complaint was made to the state Department of Human Services crisis line.

Gene Evans, spokesman for the Department of Human Services, on Monday would not confirm that. "We continue to cooperate with Gresham police on their investigation, and I am not able to provide you with specific information related to the case," Evans said.

Apparently there was the one call, it doesn't elaborate on when the call happened nor whether it was even about Oleander or whether it was followed up at all but I would hazard there was no home visit made...and DHS will say their action or inaction was appropriate for the nature of the complaint.

[Whisper]

Woman pleads guilty to manslaughter in killing of 5-year-old girl
Dead child’s father scheduled to enter plea Wednesday

A Gresham woman has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for her role in the killing of her fiancé’s 5-year-old daughter.

Guadalupe “Lupé” Quintero, 24, pleaded guilty on Monday, March 14, to manslaughter and three counts of criminal mistreatment in the death of Oleander Labier. Multnomah County Circuit Court Presiding Judge Jean Kerr Maurer sentenced Quintero to 20 years in prison.

The girl’s father Christopher “Andy” Rosillo, 24, is scheduled to plead guilty to one court of murder by abuse on Wednesday, March 16, and is expected to be sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 25 years.
Police called the girl’s death the worst case of child abuse and neglect they’d investigated.

Court documents show that the girl was abused and tortured for more than three years.

Gresham police found the girl unconscious and not breathing at about 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, April 13, 2010, after responding to a report of an injured child at 418 S.E. 169th Ave., just north of Southeast Stark Street. Officers arrived as the girl was being taken to Adventist Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead about 45 minutes later.

Quintero and Rosillo both were arrested three days later.

The girl was only 2 when her father and his fiancée began abusing her around her second birthday in February of 2007, according to court documents.
Grand jurors also indicted Quintero, Rosillo’s girlfriend of five years, on two counts of murder by abuse. She is not the victim’s biological mother but does have two children, a now 4-year-old girl and a now 2-year-old boy, with Rosillo. Both children are now in foster care and were not physically abused, police said.

Police marveled that relatives did not either notice or report the abuse to the police or child protective services. Neighbors also never reported the abuse and torture. Police noted that Quintero’s sister managed the Maple Meadows apartment complex where the girl lived and died.
A Gresham woman has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for her role in the killing of her fiancé’s 5-year-old daughter.

Guadalupe “Lupé” Quintero, 24, pleaded guilty on Monday, March 14, to manslaughter and three counts of criminal mistreatment in the death of Oleander Labier. Multnomah County Circuit Court Presiding Judge Jean Kerr Maurer sentenced Quintero to 20 years in prison.

The girl’s father Christopher “Andy” Rosillo, 24, is scheduled to plead guilty to one court of murder by abuse on Wednesday, March 16, and is expected to be sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 25 years.

Police called the girl’s death the worst case of child abuse and neglect they’d investigated.

Court documents show that the girl was abused and tortured for more than three years.
[...]
Quintero and Rosillo both were arrested three days later.

The girl was only 2 when her father and his fiancée began abusing her around her second birthday in February of 2007, according to court documents.

Grand jurors also indicted Quintero, Rosillo’s girlfriend of five years, on two counts of murder by abuse. She is not the victim’s biological mother but does have two children, a now 4-year-old girl and a now 2-year-old boy, with Rosillo. Both children are now in foster care and were not physically abused, police said.

Police marveled that relatives did not either notice or report the abuse to the police or child protective services. Neighbors also never reported the abuse and torture. Police noted that Quintero’s sister managed the Maple Meadows apartment complex where the girl lived and died.
The medical examiner’s office determined that the girl died of battered child syndrome.

Nathan Vasquez, a Multnomah County deputy district attorney prosecuting the case, said in court on Monday that the case has had a huge impact on the girl’s grandparents, investigators, medical personal and court staff.

“This is clearly a terrible, terrible tragedy,” he said. “And it was a crime that could have been avoided. This was a living, breathing, smiling, laughing child.”

At the time of her death, the girl weighed only 28 pounds. She was covered from head to toe with bruises, abrasions and wounds in various stages of healing. An autopsy showed multiple broken ribs, some of which had been broken repeatedly.

Her femur, or thighbone, also had been broken repeatedly.

Rosillo, according to a court document, told police he had an anger problem and sometimes spanked his daughter too much.

Rosillo’s criminal record dates back six years and includes convictions for cocaine possession, driving under the influence of intoxicants, reckless driving, criminal mischief and driving with a revoked license. He also faced a charge of felony cocaine possession resulting from his April 16 arrest.

Quintero has no criminal record and was crowned Miss Teen Clackamas County in 2006.




http://www.theoutlookonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=130015026303253500

[MadeaBecBec]

http://media.dtsph.com/sites/katu.com/files/imagecache/story615/110314_quintero_0.jpg
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Mmmm, the eyebrows have changed.... Still evil, looking!

n court on Monday, Quintero apologized for not doing more to prevent the abuse.

"I would like to say that I am sorry I wasn't there to protect Oleander as much as I should have," she said. "And I didn't mean for this to happen in any sort of way."


http://gresham.katu.com/news/crime/woman-gets-20-years-5-year-olds-death/439144

Yeah, right! If you didn't mean for it to happen, Oleanders abuse, then why didn't YOU call the hotline? Apology not accepted!
Get to reapin'......

[Tundratot]

I hate these two parasitic fleas with the fire of a thousand suns!!!

[Tundratot]

POS male parasite's turn:


A 24-year-old Gresham father who tortured to death his 5-year-old daughter pleaded guilty to murder by abuse this afternoon.

Christopher Andrew Rosillo is scheduled to be sentenced in late April to life in prison with the possibility of walking free after 25 years. . . .

He then admitted to causing the death of Oleander Labier on April 13, after three years of torture. He also pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal mistreatment for breaking her rib and femur, beating her with a belt in two separate instances and damaging her intestines.

According papers filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court, a deputy medical examiner noted that the severely malnourished girl weighed 28 pounds, and her eyes were noticeably sunken into her face. She had multiple broken ribs, some broken more than once. Her femur was broken multiple times. Her internal organs were scarred. And her body was covered in bruises, scrapes and gouges from a rod-shaped object.

. . .

The examiner also found “a coffee-ground-type purge” in her mouth that indicated she had digested blood, then regurgitated it.

According to police interviews with Rosillo and his live-in girlfriend, Guadalupe Quintero, Oleander couldn’t eat solid foods as a baby, so a feeding tube was installed. But she hadn’t needed the feeding tube in the one to 1½ years before her death.Really? So why was it still there?

A week before her death, the feeding tube came out and the couple put a bandage over the hole. The couple said Oleander had been vomiting in the week before her death — including vomiting blood that day. . . .

In court papers, police quoted Rosillo as saying “I have anger problems” and “I do spank her. And sometimes I take it overboard a little bit, .¤.¤.spanking hard when I shouldn’t.”

. . .http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2011/03/gresham_dad_pleads_guilty_to_t.html

Burn in hell, you stinking overgrown round worm!

[VXIII]

[QUOTE=MadeaBecBec;497983]http://media.dtsph.com/sites/katu.com/files/imagecache/story615/110314_quintero_0.jpg
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We can see she has been getting plenty of commissary potato chips and candy also... wow, hard to beleive just a few years ago she was a teen beauty queen...

[tmdgirl]

http://media.dtsph.com/sites/katu.com/files/imagecache/story615/100419_miss_clack.jpg
Evil bitch prior to becoming a baby killer

[MadeaBecBec]

Found pictures of Oleander, beautiful baby girl, how could they?

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff307/MadeaBecBec/Mugshots/Victims/OleanderLabier-18months-copy.jpg
Oleander, the day they took her to live with them, she is 18 months old here!

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff307/MadeaBecBec/Mugshots/Victims/OleanderLabier-withfamily.jpg
This was taken at a family gathering, you can see Oleanders demeanor is different with sperm donor that Guadalupe, God, how I wish Guadalupe had the 'balls' to confront Rosillo and taken Oleander out of the horror!

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff307/MadeaBecBec/Mugshots/Victims/OleanderLabier-withCousinNatalie-copy.jpg
Oleander Labier, God hold her lovingly.......

They called her Lil Andie......

[Morgana]

What a beautiful picture. As I go home to my 4 and 6 year olds tonight I say, it is not fair. Life is not fair. It is not comforting to see the smiles of angels whom are dead and gone. She is beautiful and the injury listing is graphic enough to piece together her hell on earth. My mind tries to grasp the look and agony of any child "hurt" let alone tortured....my mind thinks of all the autopsies I have read but I don't think I ever seen "homocidal violence". I did encounter 'shock' and that one was even worse....haunting. Over three years of abuse? Over 2 dozen witnesses? Who are they helping? Are they coming forward to be able to live with themselves at night, like now, it's ok, although the pain, torture and gurgling of blood has already taken place.... I have trouble knowing I live and exist with vile creatures known as humans who commit these acts...or will allow them to take place and do nothing.... Their voices are of little use now. What is prison to these two really? Structure? They torture children...they will eat, sleep and breathe... When the child who was not loved, thought of, helped, given even a moments notice to help preserve her life....she has died alone and suffering terribly and choking on her own blood. She died before any help or love or outpouring emotion of spineless pieces of shit decided to come forward....She is just gone now. There is no justice for her, not when she had no love and has no life, no chance in "this" world. RIP

[Tundratot]

@MedeaBecBec Thank you for the pictures. I never could find any and it troubles me when there are none. I worry that no one loved the child enough to take a photo.

[MadeaBecBec]

@MedeaBecBec Thank you for the pictures. I never could find any and it troubles me when there are none. I worry that no one loved the child enough to take a photo.

That's me, too, Tundratot, I just have to see their faces, hopefully smiling, to know that someone cared enough to document their smile. Oleanders was beautiful, but I take comfort in knowing that Oleander is now in Paradise, receiving all the love, she could ever desire.

[Silvahalo]

The girl was only 2 when her father and his fiancée began abusing her around her second birthday in February of 2007, according to court documents....a deputy medical examiner noted that the severely malnourished girl weighed 28 pounds, and her eyes were noticeably sunken into her face. She had multiple broken ribs, some broken more than once. Her femur was broken multiple times. Her internal organs were scarred. And her body was covered in bruises, scrapes and gouges from a rod-shaped object.
My heart weeps as I read her physical state. She came into this life of abuse at 2yo. Such a critical age, the importance in establishing trust from those closest, those who should love and protect. I cannot escape. but think of the complete despair and helplessness this poor child felt for more than half of her life. I picture a broken child who lived, breathed and endured day after day the beatings, the hate filled words, the indescribable fear...the countless cries returned only in anger...a kick, a punch instead of loving arms. The horror in her mind, her heart...her body.

How can people be so full of hate towards a child? this man who Oleander knew as daddy, was her tormentor; her killer. How can he look himself in the mirror as she looks back at him? live with himself?..I hope he cannot. I believe the wicked will despair for their sins, their lack of humanity, for their choice to kill an innocent. I believe little Oleander now is at peace and loved. Still, her life was stolen and her journey severe. For every pain she endured, every moment of sadness, I hope justice will be served if only for now to have her evildoers experience the same anguish for their remaining days.

Oleander, in the heavens there are tree's of life....yours blooms as lovely as your smile.
http://i510.photobucket.com/albums/s341/silvahalo68/Fallen%20angels/FallenAngels2/OleanderLabier.jpg

[Tundratot]

The complete story is heartbreaking. http://www.theoutlookonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=130050973003065100

[Investigating officer] Cobb was stunned by the girl’s emaciated 28-pound frame. Shocked by the dark circles under her sunken eyes. Horrified by the bruises, scrapes, wounds and scars covering the girl.

In a jarring juxtaposition, lilac polish coated her toenails. . . .

Bruises were heavily concentrated on her knees, back and legs. Her entire right side, from hip to shoulder was covered with red wounds.

The tops of her hands and feet also were bruised.
Oleander’s paternal grandparents, Frank and Marrian Turner, in Sandy, overcome with grief and guilt, gave detectives the girl’s heartbreaking life story.

Her biological mother was a 27-year-old drug addict, who’d already had many children. When she got pregnant, the father – Christopher Andrew “Andy” Rosillo – was just 17 years old.

The pregnant woman was living in Washington when she gave birth prematurely. The baby, named Oleander, weighed 2 pounds, 2 ounces when born Feb. 18, 2005. Due to a medical condition, the baby needed a nasal feeding tube to eat.

The baby’s mother was homeless, living in a shelter and would pass out, leaving the baby to cry. Shelter workers alerted police.

Washington child welfare officials placed Oleander with a loving foster family that specialized in medically needy children. “Salt of the earth kind of people,” Cobb said. . . .
Andy decided he wanted custody. The fact that the baby was called Andie, just like her father, seemed like a good omen, Marrian said.

Andy, his parents and Lúpe traveled to Bellingham, where they learned how use the feeding tube. When her foster family turned her over, they also gave Andy and his parents a photo album filled with pictures of Andie during her seven months with them. Pictures loving parents take of things like first steps and birthday parties.

In September 2006, Andy was awarded custody and brought the girl to Oregon. She was 17-months-old.

Four months later, Lúpe gave birth to Natalie in late January 2007.

Court documents show that Lúpe and Andy began abusing Little Andie about a month later, around the time of her second birthday in February 2007.

Andie’s paternal grandparents in Sandy discovered the abuse when Marrian went to give the little girl a shower and found a belt mark covering the span of her back.

They immediately took the girl into their care.

But a month later, her father wanted his daughter back.
Their visits with Andie became less frequent with each farewell increasingly painful.

“She told me, ‘I don’t want to go home grandma,’ but she’d never say why,” Marrian said. But grandparents are known for spoiling their grandchildren, and all 17 of their grandchildren loved coming over and didn’t want to go home.

“We didn’t know that she was meaning it in a different way than the other grandchildren meant,” Frank said.

Marrian began stopping by Andy’s apartment without notice to see the little girl. But she never got to talk to her alone.

When Andie came over to their house, she’d sit in the car while her dad came inside. But when Frank would ask why little Andie didn’t come in, her father would get defensive, a fight would erupt. And even more time would lapse between visits.

As for bruises or other injuries, occasionally they’d notice one. But Andy and Lúpe always explained them away. “And looking back, Baby Andy always knew the story she had to tell,” Frank said.http://i51.tinypic.com/sox27n.jpgOleander in 2010, at her grandparents' home
[Detective Cobb] studied the girl’s bedroom, consisting of little more than a bare mattress strewn on junk surrounded by piles of household stuff. There was no bedding – not even a blanket – in sight.

The girl’s father and his girlfriend slept in another bedroom, where the couple’s 3-year-old daughter and almost 1-year-old son also slept. Schmidt noted a portable crib for the baby and a small bed for the other girl.
Detectives questioned Andy and Lúpe, who said Oleander fell the day before while walking on the Springwater Trail and scraped her chin.

Those piles of stuff in her room? The family was in the process of moving.

Her bare bed? She’d wet it the night before.

“Loving parents would have changed the sheets, brought out some extra blankets and tucked her in,” Schmidt said. “They didn’t do that.” Instead, she was whipped with a belt and forced to stand in a freezing shower for 10 minutes.
Detectives interviewed more relatives. They’d noticed that Andy and Lúpe treated the girl differently than her siblings, punishing only her for something all three children were doing, like playing loudly.

Relatives reported Andie stayed locked in her bedroom while other kids played in the living room.

One friend saw Lúpe slap the girl’s hand, sending the book she was holding flying. The offense: Andie wanted someone to read her a story.

Family photos showed a smiling foursome with Andie notably absent. The only photos of just Andie – not with her brother and sister – were given to detectives by her paternal grandparents.

One relative worried so much about how thin Andie was that he or she called a county child abuse hotline. In January 2009, a child welfare worker performed an in-person investigation. At the time, Andie and her family were living with Lúpe’s mother, Melanie Quintero, in Eagle Creek.
Andy and Lúpe beat the girl with a belt and hit her with their hands.

“He was the primary abuser,” Cobb said, adding that he also beat the girl with a back scratcher and a broom handle.

As punishment, he’d force Andie to do wall squats, kneel on hard surfaces, such as a tile or linoleum floor, for up to an hour. He’d make her kneel on a brick or uncooked rice on the floor. Or make her stand on her toes in the corner. When she couldn’t endure the pain any more, he’d beat her.

The cold showers were Lúpe’s idea, Schmidt said.

The rest, Andy came up with from watching television shows.

Perhaps most horrifying was his admission that he forced Andie to eat her own vomit as punishment for throwing up her food, which she did due to her medical condition, which made it difficult to eat solid foods. . . .

Melanie Quintero also told the detectives she walked in on Andie holding her own excrement in the bathroom with her father yelling at her. Andie had messed her pants.
Andy has denied making his daughter eat feces, and detectives are inclined to believe him. After all, Andy admitted to the vomit incident and to punching her in the stomach and ribs – in short, using his daughter as a punching bag when angry – Schmidt said. Why lie about one more horrible act?

He also admitted to kicking Andie in the thigh, breaking her femur. Then he’d kick her there again, targeting the area because he knew it would hurt more.

The abuse accelerated during the last 6 months of Andie’s life. And yet, the younger two children were never beaten.

“In fact, several witnesses said Lúpe told her family that she would leave Andy if he touched them,” Schmidt said.

The implication: She knew exactly what Andie was enduring and didn’t care. She wasn’t her child.
Oleander’s paternal grandparents are left reeling, grieving and blaming themselves for not doing more. They also can’t understand how their son could do such vile things to anyone, yet alone his little girl.”

“My child didn’t grow up in an abusive home,” Marrian said weeping. “I don’t know how a child of mine could do that to a poor little baby. All she wanted was for them to love her. She was just the kindest, most loving little girl.”
“One of the elements that makes it so sad is how targeted she was,” said Claudio Grandjean, sergeant of the detectives division. “It wasn’t like, ‘I’m an abuser and I abuse everyone in my path.’ It was just her. And what makes it more disturbing is by all accounts this was a sweet little girl. She wasn’t particularly difficult.” . . .
“The heinous nature, I can’t even explain,” Schmidt said of the case. “One of the things I still think about is the foster family in Washington. Except for them, she was failed in every part of her life.

“Unfortunately, she didn’t have a chance.”
After reading this, I'm even more convinced these two worms belong on death row with Angela McAnulty. FFS, that POS male parasite had a choice, he could have left her with a loving foster family. Instead, he had to take her and use her for a punching bag at the age of two. He had another opportunity. He could have left her with his parents, who would have loved her and treated her well. WHY???!!!!!

[MadeaBecBec]

Oh My! I cried for Oleander, before, but now I am sobbing......She was so tough, coming into this world so fragile, overcame that and then enduring such torture for so long, I feel that her spirit was finally broken and she gave up this horrible world. I ask God, why? I haven't received any satisfying answer, except that our freewill gives us opportunities to do good and wonderful contributions and evil will always be in the hearts of mankind until He comes and rescues us. I, do, thank Him, Father God, for allowing Oleander to know some joy and love from foster parents and grandparents, I pray that her siblings will receive better and honor her memory, as adults, by being advocates for the abused......

[Morgana]

To further read on this, the details of her torture.... It is hard to function. We all say rest in peace, our hearts go out, blah blah blah.... she was so fucking hurt and suffered so much.... I don't know if a prayer or any word in the world could help. It's too late and it's bad. So bad... He doesn't deserve trial nor does her mom. They only deserve slow and methodicallly painful death. It won't do justice for this child, but it would be the right thing, the only thing left to do....

[Silvahalo]

http://i51.tinypic.com/sox27n.jpg
...gawd, that picture just did me in. She smiles even as you can see the sadness written allover her face.
You were love little Oleander, my heart will always remember you.

[AngelFire]

http://i51.tinypic.com/sox27n.jpg
...gawd, that picture just did me in. She smiles even as you can see the sadness written allover her face.
You were love little Oleander, my heart will always remember you.

I can't even begin to tell you what this picture does to me...too many memories and lots of tears.

[Whisper]

I can't even begin to tell you what this picture does to me...too many memories and lots of tears.

Ive said it before and will many times again kinda like water,lather, rinse, repeat
I will never understand the mindset of the freaks of nature that do this shit to the babies they are supposed to protect

[princessgrandma]

I don't understand how they could do it, and I don't want to understand.

That baby was failed all the way through. I tell you one thing, if I had neighbors who had kids and I heard shit going down, I for sure would be on the phone every single day with the cops or somebody. I wouldn't care if they got tired of hearing from me or whatever. Maybe then they'd do something. I cannot get over.... all those neighbors..... the family, the grandparents.... no one called except one person.

RIP little Andie. I know it's inadequate but I don't know what else to say. If I could fix it, I would.


**ETA: And it was YEARS that this went on. My tiny little mind cannot grasp it. No one cared enough to get involved.

[crimsonsorrow]

my daughter is close to her age...that poor girl probably didn't even make it to going to school, much less if they even let her go...this is so disturbing..on so many levels....
abuse+her illness=her suffering which beget more abuse (in which a cycle started)..
and she paid with her life for being a kid..whom no one fought for..

I really pray she is surrounded by the purest of love and with angels to play with forever...

[Whisper]

Dead child’s father sentenced to life in prison
Girlfriend serving 20 years for manslaughter, abuse
The father of a 5-year-old Gresham girl who was tortured, beaten and abused to death will spend at least 25 years in prison.

Christopher Andrew “Andy” Rosillo, 24, was sentenced by Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Michael McShane on Tuesday, April 26, to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 25 years.

Rosillo pleaded guilty to murder by abuse on March 16, two days after his longtime girlfriend, Guadalupe “Lupé” Quintero, 24, pleaded guilty to manslaughter for her role in the killing of Oleander “Andie” Rosillo. Prosecutors Quintero is serving a 20-year sentence.

Investigators called the girl’s death the worst case of child abuse and neglect they’d investigated. Court documents show the girl was abused and tortured for more than three years before she died on April 13, 2010.

Gresham police found the girl unconscious and not breathing when they responded to a report of an injured child in an apartment at 418 S.E. 169th Ave., just north of Southeast Stark Street.

At the time of her death, the girl weighed 28 pounds. The medical examiner noted the girl’s “general condition was emaciated and she had sunken eyes.” She was covered from head to toe with bruises, abrasions and wounds in various stages of healing.

She also had multiple broken ribs, some of which had been broken repeatedly, a repeatedly broken thighbone and scarring on some of her internal organs.
Rosillo admitted to breaking the girl’s femur, saying that he later made of point of kicking her there, knowing it would hurt more. He told police he was the sole disciplinarian, admitting to beating the girl with a belt, back scratcher and broom handle.

As punishment, he forced the girl to do wall squats and kneel on hard surfaces, such as tile or linoleum flooring, for up to an hour. He’d make her kneel on a brick or uncooked rice on the floor, or stand on her toes in the corner. Eventually she’d crumble from the pain and he’d beat her for that.

Meanwhile, his girlfriend also beat the girl and “made it easy” for the man to kill his daughter, police and court officials said. She also told people that if Rosillo ever touched her biological children she’d leave him.

Court documents report the girl was only 2 when her father and his girlfriend began abusing her. This was just a short time after the girl, who had been living with a loving foster family in Washington that wanted to adopt her, went to live with her biological father and his girlfriend.

Quintero is not the victim’s biological mother but does have two children – a now 4-year-old girl and a now 2-year-old boy – with Rosillo. Both children are in foster care and were not physically abused, police said.

Police marveled that relatives either did not notice or report the abuse to police or child protective services. Quinero’s mother, Melanie Quintero, in Eagle Creek told investigators that Rosillo told her that he forced the girl to eat her own vomit. She also walked in on what she thought was Rosillo trying to force the girl to eat her own excrement.

She didn’t report the torture and abuse to authorities, saying she had no proof of the allegations.
Rosillo’s criminal record includes convictions for cocaine possession, driving under the influence of intoxicants, reckless driving, criminal mischief and driving with a revoked license.
[...]



http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=130385636029485300http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story_2nd.php?story_id=130385636029485300

[Tundratot]

My heart breaks all over again when I read this stuff. I can't comprehend how anyone could be so consistently cruel and inhumane to their child, even as they love and hug other children. How can that child not simply give up and die like a flower in winter, after weeks of such treatment, living for years that way? Grandma was a weak old bat who'd become convinced that her eye witness testimony was somehow less credible than hard evidence! That her granddaughter's evident condition, possible testimony even, was also not credible. WTF!

[Tundratot]

Rosillo apologized to his daughter and other family members for the pain he has caused.

"I'm especially sorry for my daughter, who has passed on. She never deserved any of this," Rosillo said at his sentencing hearing. That right, you shitstain! Not once in the three years you had her did this occur to you. Only now, when you're about to pay for your crime does it cross your mind. Your deadpan, reading-from-notes delivery of this "apology" also shows your complete lack of conviction. Too damn stupid to make such a short, lame apology without a script!

Rosillo also said he plans to take parenting classes while in prison so he can help take care of his two other children, who are now in state custody. That better not happen! What maggot is in his head that he thinks this could ever happen, or why does he think saying this could possibly make any difference to his case?http://www.kptv.com/news/27681254/detail.html

Shitstain also has a new patch of pubes on his chin. Go check it out. It's awful. I'm too agitated to take the time to post it here.

[Silvahalo]

Dead child’s father sentenced to life in prison
Girlfriend serving 20 years for manslaughter, abuse
It's something but it's not enough.
It's when I read on sentencing that is so final too me. Justice has been served, but yet it has not.
Nothing will bring back little Oleander and take away what she went through all those years.

I know some believe the end is simply the end. Cannot be so, cannot tell you why, but it is not so.
Oleander is part of something very special that those who failed her, killed her took her precious light will never know.
That will have to be enough.
That is all there is at the end.

http://i510.photobucket.com/albums/s341/silvahalo68/Fallen%20angels/FallenAngels2/OleanderLabier1.jpg

[Tundratot]

Deputy district attorney Nathan Vasquez said Oleander’s death was preventable. His office has investigated whether he could prosecute family members who knew of the abuse, but no charges have been filed.

“This child was failed by many people,” Vasquez said to the packed courtroom. “Failed by family members. ...Failed in the sense that her abuse was apparent, was understood by the people around her. And no one chose to speak out on her behalf.”

As Vasquez spoke, relatives of the dead girl wept. . . .

After Rosillo’s sentencing, Rosillo’s stepdad said he and Rosillo’s mom are heartbroken over their granddaughter’s death.

Stepdad Frank Turner, who raised Rosillo with Marrian Turner, said when Oleander was about two, they learned of a wound on her shoulder from a belt lashing. They took in Oleander for three months, but Frank Turner said he thought he had no choice but to return Oleander when his son demanded it.

He said he didn’t realize how extensive the abuse was, and that his son was capable of such cruelty. Nonetheless, he called a national child-abuse hotline twice. He said he didn’t get any calls back.

Turner broke down in sobs on a bench in the courthouse halls. Although prosecutors are not pursuing charges against him or his wife, Turner is critical of himself. He says he should have called police. He wants the public to report suspected child abuse no matter minor it seems.

There were signs, Turner said. He knew his son was using drugs. Rosillo and Quintero made excuses for why he couldn’t see his granddaughter. And when he did see her, they didn’t want her to be alone with him — even for a minute. He thinks they worried she would tell him about the abuse.

“There’s all kinds of stuff I look back on now — and I want people to know: Silence is approval,” Turner said.

Authorities say they have found one call on record about possible abuse or neglect to Oleander before her death — a tip to the Oregon Department of Human Services a little more than a year before the girl died. A DHS investigator found no evidence of physical abuse after seeking information from the child’s doctor, preschool and family.

Now that the criminal case into Oleander’s death is closed, Gene Evans, a spokesman for the Department of Human Services, said the agency can release records about that investigationhttp://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2011/04/new_details_released_gresham_d.html

[Jerri Blank]

A DHS investigator found no evidence of physical abuse after seeking information from the child’s doctor, preschool and family.


Did they ever actually see Oleander though? If not they should be charging them as well as the pack of animals that choose to look the other way. this case has broken my heart. I think about this poor baby all the time, she never had a chance.

[MadeaBecBec]

This song, written by Julie Miller, is called 'All My Tears' and I believe it belongs to Oleander, such a precious and courageous child, to hold on to life for years, (albeit short in our terms, must've felt like eternity to her) to still smile and laugh, even though she was tortured beyond what most adults could endure. I have faith that Oleander lives, truly lives, now, with overwhelming joy and love, safe in the arms of Our Heavenly Father!
Here's some of the lyrics:

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff307/MadeaBecBec/Mugshots/Victims/OleanderLabier-withCousinNatalie-copy.jpg
When I go don’t cry for me

In my Fathers arms I’ll be

The wounds this world left on my soul

Will all be healed and I’ll be whole

Sun and moon will be replaced

With the light of Jesus’ face

And I will not be ashamed

For my Savior knows my name

It don’t matter where you bury me

I’ll be home and I’ll be free

It don’t matter where I lay

All my tears be washed away

[Tundratot]

The files concerning Oleander's death and the investigation of it have been released to the media. Going through them, reporters are appalled.


. . . in the portraits that emerge from the Oleander files, two contributing factors in the child's death are equally unsettling: the complacency of Guadalupe's parents -- Efren Quintero-Garcia and Melanie Quintero -- while witnessing the prolonged torture of the child, and the clumsy follow-through by Oregon's Department of Human Services. . . .

. . . Guadalupe insists, "She never once told me that her dad hurt her ever." . . .

In an April 2010 interview with Gresham police, Melanie Quintero detailed the abuse she saw Rosillo inflict on the child. He forced hot peppers down her throat "thirteen, fourteen times." He locked her in a bedroom at night so she could not reach the bathroom, then forced her to eat her own feces. He bent her fingers back and dared her to cry. Chewed her fingernails until they bled. Jammed a finger in her eye, or down her throat, laughing when she gagged.

"Constantly he would do it," Melanie Quintero said.

Yet when detectives expressed disbelief that Guadalupe's parents "allowed that poor baby to be beaten in your home," the Quinteros complained they were helpless to intervene. From the police transcript:

Efren Quintero: We didn't have nothing to do with the kid.

Melanie Quintero: We didn't have a right to say anything.

Efren: He owned the kid.

Melanie: He owned the kid. . . .

the caseworker writes, "Child is safe. The child is almost 4 years old and this is the first time the agency has been called. The child has been seeing a doctor on a regular basis and that professional did not appear concerned about the child's development needs. This issue is not likely to rise again."

As Vasquez notes, "That statement is inconsistent with what's in the report. Did the professional not appear concerned about the child's development needs? The doctor calls her and says the child has significant issues with failure to thrive.

"This is a child identified by an anonymous reporter with failure to thrive. A doctor said the child has issues with failure to thrive. And ultimately the child died from issues related to failure to thrive. I can not say that had the worker done things differently, the child would be alive today. But I can say this assessment could have been done better." . . .

Rosillo made sure DHS never got a second chance. He moved his family to Gresham. Pulled Oleander out of school. Cut off all contact with the Turners.

With grim resolve, he stepped into the torture chamber with his daughter -- "She's a tough little girl," Rosillo would later concede -- and shut the door behind him. http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf/2011/08/to_the_bitter_end_oleander_lab.html

Un-fucking-believable! Maddening! I have a mind to go to Oregon and kill that shithead myself, and his bitch of wife, too. And then I'd like to stalk the Quinteros and burn effigies of their daughter on their lawn. "Owns her," my ass!

[Tundratot]

More on the DFS investigation. It's apparent that the caseworker did not follow outlined procedures and did not weigh the input she was receiving from the doctor and concerned reporters.


. . . There was no fat stored in her body, not even in her abdomen – a likely place for the body to store fat. The malnutrition was so severe, her body had to resort to using bone marrow for nourishment. She had little bone marrow left.

. . . on Jan. 6, 2009, the state received an anonymous call reporting concerns about Labier’s emaciated and ill appearance.

The caller was familiar with the girl’s medical issues. Labier had a feeding tube inserted into her nose, later moved to her abdomen, because as a baby she was unable to swallow or eat on her own. Her parents had stopped using the tube when she was 3, saying she could swallow food and eat normally.

The caller reported symptoms of failure to thrive – both medically and socially.

“Her parents and her behavior was alarming. It set off all kinds of bells and whistles,” the caller later told police. “So I said if someone doesn’t help her she’s gonna die, that was my impression. … She just looked so like beyond frail for her, for what I previously seen of her. She was just very sick.”

Labier also “just didn’t seem very happy … and withdrawn. A lot more reserved than a child her age would sometimes normally be in my opinion.”This was an anonymous caller, but clearly someone who knew a lot. They should have listened to this much more clearly.
The caseworker . . . visited the house in Eagle Creek where the family was living with Quintero’s parents, Melanie Quintero and Efran Quintero-Garcia.

Not only did the caseworker not interview Labier or examine her for signs of malnutrition or abuse, the caseworker didn’t interview the other adults in the home who were not Labier’s parents or immediate caregivers, as is required under department policy. These people included Quintero’s parents, a sister and brother-in-law, all of whom lived in the house.

Instead, the caseworker interviewed Labier’s father and stepmother – the last people who are to be interviewed in such circumstances, according to the Oregon Department of Human Services’ policy on investigating child abuse and neglect reports.

The first person to be interviewed is the victim, states the policy, followed by the victim’s siblings or other children in the home, then by any parents not suspected of abuse, or caregivers, including other adults in the home. Next are any non-custodial legal parents and finally, the alleged perpetrator. . . .

The caseworker never interviewed Rosillo’s parents, Frank and Marrian Turner of Sandy. Department policy requires caseworkers to interview “collateral sources,” including but not limited to those with regular contact with the child, doctors and people with an established relationship with the alleged perpetrator who can judge his or her behavior. . . .

Frank Turner said he reported his concerns to a child abuse hotline, but the state has no record of the call. . . .

Five more calls or voicemails were received – all of which the state redacted in the investigation documents – including one from a doctor who said the girl still “has significant issues with failure to thrive,” said Deputy District Attorney Nathan Vasquez, who prosecuted the case.

“The anonymous caller reported failure to thrive issues,” Vasquez said, adding that a doctor echoed those concerns. “How do you start and end at failure to thrive … and say it’s unfounded?”

Vasquez also said Labier had missed doctors appointments, including her last one, and that the girl was being bounced from doctor to doctor – all of which are red flags for abuse and mistreatment.

The last call noted is from Guadalupe Quintero. On Feb. 10, 2009, she notified the caseworker that they’d moved to an apartment at 418 S.E. 169th Ave. in Gresham. That’s when Labier also stopped going to Head Start.

But the caseworker never visited the apartment. And she didn’t follow up with doctors to see if the girl was gaining weight, which at least one doctor indicated he or she would like to see.

Why not, especially considering the case’s end date was March 7 – two months after the call came in? . . .

The holes in Labier’s investigation mirrored those in the 2009 death of Jeanette Maples of Eugene. . . .

In cases such as Labier’s, in which a child is isolated and/or has medical needs, multiple follow-up visits to the home are required, in part to see that any doctor’s orders are being followed.

And renewed emphasis has been placed on supervisors to make sure caseworkers are doing their jobs and doing them correctly, even if it takes more time. . . .

“The most important thing we have learned from all these cases is that caseworkers need to follow the policy that is in place,” Evans said. “Investigations of abuse need to be done thoroughly. Cases like these ones are tragedies. We want to make sure they don’t happen again.” . . .

“The bottom line is relatives need to report more,” Vasquez said. If Labier’s family had reported their alarm and first-hand accounts of abuse, those reports may have sparked more scrutiny by the caseworker investigating the anonymous call.http://www.theoutlookonline.com/news/story_2nd.php?story_id=131475193099240300

While I agree that relatives need to report, there were 5 reports (or more, if at least one was lost) on this. Someone was not treating them seriously. And what the hell happened to the lost reports? Was Grandpa Turner the anonymous reporter?

[ScribbleMuse]

I truly, really think that the child abuse calls should be made to cops first. Preferably to cops AND child welfare agencies, but most important is to ensure that you attain EMERGENCY and immediate treatment for the child.

Had someone called the cops first, or at least in conjunction, the "anonymous reporter" would have been backed up by at least an official witness to current injuries and actions.

In all the stories that end so tragically, there are typically cops who are maddened with the grief and helplessness of never having had a chance to intervene. If the child is lucky enough to have anyone who doesn't think that the abuser "owns" them and therefore has a right to their lives just as they do to any possession, there doesn't seem to be much assurance that would be had with just calling and leaving a message on a national hotline. I'd personally never feel comfortable with such a very unpersonal report if I felt a situation was dire enough to deserve any reporting.

Reporting of any abuse is essential, and IMO it's a responsibility that cannot be denied. However, that doesn't mean that you can do a wispy little phone message to some "national" hotline. Call the cops at a minimum, the optimal and just as personally pain-free report should be to cops, then LOCAL child welfare authorities, and then leave a message at any and every other hotline you can find until you're in assurance that child is safe.

[Whisper]

http://i44.tinypic.com/wvd4xy.jpg
Christopher Rosillo

Family files lawsuit in child abuse death of 5-year-old girl

GRESHAM, Ore. -- Two years ago, a five-year-old child died as a result of some of the worst child abuse investigators said they had ever seen. Now, a multi-million dollar lawsuit has been filed.
Oleander Labier died April 13, 2010 as a result of ongoing child abuse by her father, Christopher Rosillo, officials said. Now, the girl's step-grandfather, Frank Turner, is suing the State of Oregon, along with a Clackamas County couple, who are accused of not doing enough to stop the abuse.

The $2 million lawsuit was filed this week names the Department of Human Services and three DHS employees as defendants. Also, two people who filled the role of grandparents for the girl are being sued as well for failing to report the child abuse.

"They could have saved my granddaughter's life," Turner said. "They could have did something."

Turner is referring to the Melanie and Efren Quintero, the parents of Rosillo's live-in girlfriend -- Guadalupe Quintero -- for failing to report the abuse.
[...]
Melanie Quintero said she felt like she could have stepped in and done something if she had seen any of the abuse.

"Yeah," she said. "I'm just saying if I knew stuff like that was going on ... I don't know. I did not see it."

But that's not exactly what Melanie Quintero told police. According to police, she told them her son-in-law forced Oleander to repeatedly eat her own feces and vomit as punishment. He also, Quintero told police, routinely hit her with a belt, gave her a blood nose and pushed her down stairs.

Quintero said police forced her in to saying those things, but did admit there was abuse in the family.

"Yes, he did chew off her nail," she said. "We put salsa on food and our other grandchildren eat it. The throw-up we would clean up. Feces, yes it was in her hand and I told them that when I opened up the door, it was in her hand -- not her mouth or he was going to make her eat it."

Efren Quintero also said he did not know of the abuse.

Officials from DHS refused to comment on the litigation, which is standard.
[...]
http://www.katu.com/news/local/Family-files-lawsuit-in-child-abuse-death-of-5-year-old-girl-147400115.html

[VAS1326]

Words cannot begin to describe how saddened this story has made me. It's unbelievable how horrific the abuse was and how so many people knew and did nothing to stop it. How once again DHS dropped the ball. I agree that it is so much worse that she was targeted. Why? There is no good reason why. No justification for this little girl's tragic life. When I saw her picture my heart sank. It's eerie how much her photo looks like my childhood photos. I'm not kidding, that photo of her could very well be my own at that age. I have to wonder if her mother is a relative of mine somewhere (I have family everywhere and some I have never met in person) I'm really in awe here. I have no words for how numb this story has made me.

The step mother makes me want to stab her in the eye. How do you say well you can torture yours but leave mine alone. I'm a mother and I hold all children in the utmost regard. I would never be with a man who I've witnessed hurt a child (mine or not) I would never allow any child to stay in harms way even if the child was a stranger to me. If I witnessed what she had I would have reported his ass myself. I would have threw his ass out of my house. I would have filled grandma & grandpa in on the whole story after the police were called. How do you watch you step daughter die and justify it as okay since she isn't really your child? The bitch has no heart and no soul. Selfish bitch I hope she never, ever see's her own kids again.

[Tundratot]

The state of Oregon has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing child welfare workers of failing to protect a 5-year-old Gresham girl from dying a torturous death at the hands of her father and his girlfriend.

The wrongful death suit over the murder of Oleander Labier in 2010 had been scheduled to go to trial in Multnomah County Circuit Court this week. But the girl's stepgrandfather, who was suing on behalf of her estate, agreed to accept the state's settlement offer.

If approved by a judge, as expected, the money will likely be split between Oleander's five or six half-siblings to go toward counseling, college or similar expenses. . . .

In 2009, acting on an anonymous tip about Oleander's wellbeing, a caseworker investigated whether the girl was being neglected or abused but ultimately determined she was fine, records showed.

There was no evidence the caseworker pulled the little girl aside and asked her -- outside the presence of the abusive adults in her home -- if she were OK, a DHS spokesman said. The caseworker also failed to return a voicemail from the girl's doctor, who had said Oleander "has significant issues with failure to thrive."

DHS didn't interview Turner or his wife -- Oleander's paternal grandmother. They both had suspicions about Oleander's father, Christopher Rosillo, whom they raised, and his longtime girlfriend, Guadalupe Quintero.

A little over a year later, Oleander was dead. She weighed only 28 pounds, after suffering years of abuse. She was forced to kneel on rice or bricks, beaten with a belt until it was bloody and thrown into icy baths or showers. She died about 30 minutes after her father and his girlfriend gave her an icy bath as punishment, Turner said. Such a shock to the system can cause cardiac arrest.

"She was already weak and frail from all the abuse," Turner said. "I've talked to doctors who said that (the bath) could have been the last straw." . . .

As part of the settlement, DHS dropped its countersuit against the Turners.

Frank Turner said he plans to refile a suit against Melanie and Efren Quintero. They weren't charged with any crimes.

Turner also said he wants to work to expand Oregon's mandatory child abuse reporting law to apply to all adults.http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2013/04/oleander_labier_settlement.html

It's unbelievable to me that child abuse inspectors don't take the child to a private place to ask them what, if anything, happened, and to actually look at their wounds. . . .