Kizza Lopez, Melonea Feagin burned & tortured child

[Jaded]

An 11-year-old Fort Walton Beach girl will likely be permanently scarred by a pattern of abuse, during which the girl’s caregivers repeatedly used boiling water to punish her, according to a Fort Walton Beach Police Department arrest report.

Kizza Monika Lopez, who is 31, was charged with aggravated child abuse May 8, after officers were called to the child’s home to investigate an abuse complaint. The child’s babysitter, Melonea Feagin, was also arrested.

During a taped interview, Feagin confessed to “purposely pouring hot water onto the back and right shoulder of the child, causing severe injury,” according to the report. She also admitted to forcing the child’s hand into a pan of scalding water and striking her numerous times with a coat hanger to punish her for “stealing and lying.” Feagin admitted to doing these things over a period of several weeks on at least three separate occasions.

The officer said that after studying photographs, he noted that the wounds were in different stages of healing, which corroborates the victim’s story of an ongoing pattern of “willful, malicious, torturous abuse.”

On Lopez's arrest report, her occupation is listed as housekeeper. However it is not clear in what capacity she had contact with the girl.

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/14391

Looking for pics of the dumb bitches....

[Mom of 4]

Found a link for Melonea Feagin of Walton Beach on Reunion.com http://www.reunion.com/nea282003

Says she is 33 and her birthday is March 20th.

[Mom of 4]

Found Kizza's myspace which is private but I got her picture.

http://i28.tinypic.com/30mb8up.jpg

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=76603085

[SoUncool]

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/child_11660___article.html/lopez_feagin.html

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SHALIMAR - The trial of Kizza Monica Lopez has been postponed until November.

Lopez, 31, is charged with allowing a child in her care to be disciplined with scalding water and beaten with coat hangers. She also faces charges of administering some of the abuse herself.

Melonia Feagin, a woman who Lopez allowed to act as a caretaker for the child, is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 13 for aggravated child abuse. Fort Walton Beach police have said Feagin admitted to her role in the scalding and beatings.

Christine Bosau, who is prosecuting the case, said the state will request that Feagin receive the maximum sentence of 30 years.

"That's what we feel is appropriate," Bosau said.

Lopez appeared in court Thursday with her attorney, Don Dewrell. But her trial was delayed until Nov. 3 because Okaloosa County Circuit Judge Thomas Remington has two trials scheduled next week.

Feagin, 33, has agreed to testify at Lopez's trial, Bosau said.

Lopez had been raising the child since 2002, when the girl's mother went to prison, according to police reports.

[silvahalo68]

I say administer the very same..“willful, malicious, torturous abuse..." as punishment. Only repeat, repeat, repeat... Both are sadistic *M*F...they knew what they were doing was wrong and cruel.

Poor child, along with physical scars that will never disappear emotionally she is scared for life.

[SilliMari]

30 years sounds damn good to me. Refreshing, actually. Thanks for the update!

[crickett]

Well now these two cunts can go to prison along with this childs incubator. Isthere some point in getting a sadistic sitter for the 11 year old. I mean, the girl could hardly be any more injury if she were alone and did something stupid.
Poor baby, I hope that she gets placed with someone who will give her the love that she needs.

[Envy]

Forgive the pun, but were they WIRE coat hangers? Mommy dearest can't and won't have Wire hangers...

Dunk her ass a couple times in boiling water, see how she likes it, then make her sit on it

[nurseronda]

I am so glad that this child is finally out of this situation. I was just wondering why the school didn't realize that this child was being tortured. I would just love to get my hands on this one and dip them into hot, boiling oil. :mad:

[Jaded]

Sentenced....

Circuit Court Judge Thomas Remington, a battle scarred Vietnam veteran, has seen his share of suffering.

But the torture endured by an 11-year-old child at the hands of Kizza Lopez and Melonea Feagin reduced the veteran jurist to tears Monday as he passed sentence.

"I've been a judge or a lawyer for 38 years and I have never had the occasion to see this kind of abuse of a child," he said. "It literally brings tears to my eyes, as it does to anyone involved with this case."

Still Remington declined to go along with a prosecution request to sentence Lopez, the child's guardian, or Feagin, her baby sitter, to the 45 year maximum sentence for their crimes. He set Lopez's sentence at 20 years and Feagin's at 15.

Each will serve 10 years probation following their release from prison.

......

The child was in court Monday to see Lopez and Feagin sentenced. She addressed those present in a letter read into the record by prosecuting attorney Christine Bosau.

"I will forever and ever have the scars that remind me of that time that they caused me a lot of pain, fear and suffering. I thought it would never end," the 11-year-old wrote.

"I would like both of them to be in jail forever because they were supposed to take care of me and instead they both did very bad things to me."

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/child_14135___article.html/feagin_lopez.html

[flawed_existence]

My thanks is gone, but thanks!

These people are horrible. If Lopez didn't want the responsibility of the child when the mother went to prison, why didn't she just give her over to the state?

Poor little girl. I hope the rest of her childhood comes straight from a storybook. A HAPPY storybook!

[DarkPrincess]

I don't get why he went with the lesser sentences. They should both be doing the max. This made me cry.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

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An update we don't usually see:Katelyn Colbie Pendleton is a normal 12-year-old girl, if you don’t look too closely. If you don’t notice the pink, bubbly scars on her hand and thigh. If you don’t see the faint red lines on her arms and back that linger from repeated whippings.

Unlike most girls her age, Katelyn is a survivor of horrific child abuse.

“Don’t be scared to tell anyone if you’ve been hurt,” the blonde, blue-eyed girl says when asked why she’s willing to share her story. “I just wanted to help other people.”

In the spring of 2008, the young girl was at the center of an investigation of one of the worst child abuse cases Okaloosa County lawmen had ever seen.

Now, she’s the happily adopted daughter of Christie and Jeff Pendleton.
[...]

Katelyn was born Jamie Leighanna Brooks on Feb. 6, 1997, to Velma Hare, a woman with a long history of prostitution and drug use. Her father is a registered sex offender.

In 2006, Hare gave her then-9-year-old daughter to a friend, Kizza Monika Lopez. Initially, Lopez — a mother and a college student — took the girl on shopping trips and treated her kindly.

But that gradually changed. By 2007, Katelyn was being intermittently starved and force-fed until she vomited. She ate leftovers and spoiled food off the floor and slept in a closet.

Lopez and another woman, Melonea Feagin, whipped her with plastic coat hangers, threw scalding water on her in the bathtub and then set the pan used to heat the water on her bare leg. They also splashed bleach on her wounds, picked her up by the hair and punched her in the face.

In December 2007, Lopez took Katelyn out of Calvary Christian Academy where she had been in fifth grade. She told school officials that she planned to home-school the child.

Instead, the abuse escalated.

In early April, the women took her hand and plunged it into a pot of boiling water. Twice. The first time, her hand wasn’t in long enough.

A few days later, an anonymous tip led investigators to the home where Katelyn had been tortured. But Lopez learned that they were coming and had arranged for another child Katelyn’s age to be at the house that day. The investigator met that child and ruled the abuse report unfounded.

The tipster called back and said he’d seen the other child leaving the house and she was not the one they needed to examine.

Investigators returned and found Katelyn lying on the floor, starved, dehydrated, beaten and ill from untreated wounds. At the hospital, they had to cut the clothes off of her bloodied back.
[...]

Lopez tried to blame Feagin; she said she had no idea the abuse was going on. But when the women were sentenced in January, Lopez received 20 years in prison, while Feagin got 15.

The judge cried.
[...]

Katelyn, who was still Jamie at the time, sat in the courtroom, sandwiched between Jeff Pendleton and a Fort Walton Beach police detective who had become fiercely protective.

Her birth mother also was there — to support Lopez.

Katelyn had asked to be there and her adoptive parents supported her decision. She needed to see the women led away in handcuffs on their way to prison.
[...]

Less than a month after her abusers were sentenced, Katelyn was formally adopted by the family she had met in her hospital room 10 months earlier. Surrounded by medical staff, investigators and therapists, she had everyone there to help her except a family.
[...]

The past is behind her. It can’t hurt her anymore. A local plastic surgeon, George Novak, already has performed several surgeries to help undo the physical damage. The hand that had been plunged into boiling water was webbed with scar tissue. Now, she has full use of it.

But many more surgeries are in her future.

She went to counseling until recently through the Children’s Advocacy Center, where she now spends time volunteering. She has become close to executive director Julie Hurst and plans to do Julie’s job someday.
[...]

“I just try to set it aside,” she says when asked if she ever thinks back to that time in her life. “I just want to grow up to be a good person that has a good job.”Full article: http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/purple-21488-favorite-abuse.html

[jus shaking my head]

I hope she has a bright future and a wonderful life. She deserves it.

I still can't help but wonder if it is possible to remove all the psychological damage.

[sorrow_discord]

I still can't help but wonder if it is possible to remove all the psychological damage.

She seems to have the love and support that will give her the skills to cope and heal. The psychological wounds will always be there it is more about how one deals with and how their outlook on life is. She seems to be a very strong, smart little girl and that will help her in many ways. The strength that it took to not only survive that but also to talk about it is nothing short of amazing.

I hope that she continues to heal and that she does indeed fullfill her hopes and dreams.

[thequeenofsorrow]

The bio mom was there to support the abuser? What the fuckin hell?
I'm glad the girl is in a happier place with people that are good to her.

[Little Pea]

I am so glad the girl is moving in a good direction and is free from the torture. She is a brave girl.

Lopez, Feagin and bio mom are evil. I hate them. I cannot imagine what the hell...?????

I also want to say kudos to the tipster, who called back and told them about switching the kids out. That girl may not have survived much longer. The tipster was obviously keeping an eye on things and truly concerned for the welfare of the girl.

[badfish76]

YAY, KAITLYN!!!!!

This child is my hero along with the anonymous tipster!

She shows a spirit and bravery that an adult would be challenged to show.

I hope that every law enforcement official, prosecutor, doctor, advocate, and individual that has come in contact with this wonderful child knows that they have reached the summit because they truly have been able to help at least ONE child! One beautiful child with an indomitable spirit!

I feel really good and bad after reading this post.

I also feel like I should be doing my homework since the degree I am working on will someday put me in the position to be one of the good guys like these officials were for Kaitlyn.

[jenthgr8]

What an amazing follow up. It's so heartening to see that there are good families out there, willing to adopt and really love these damaged children.

[Pene784]

Why is boiling water so popular with child abusers? Do they go to some child torture class that the rest of us don't know about?

I am so happy for this little girl. She finally found her family, the family she was meant to have!

[TDH]

urgh...i cannot imagine the pain she must have been in.
i accidently poured boiling water on my hand when i was making cup a noodles..
and that hurt like a beeeyotch for hours afterwards, the burning sensation wouldnt go away unless i had it in a cold wrap and then finally put some polysporin on it...
that must have been horrendous for her!! poor child.
im soo glad that she is in a loving supportive home. it looks like her future will be bright. which is good news!! thank goodness.

[AussieMum]

if my child or a child in my care pissed me off that much... I'd be sending her to school for as long as I could!! Why pull her out?? Take her earlier than normal and pick her up as late as possible. Not ideal but geez so much better than boiling water!!!!! For f@#ks suck!!

She is a very brave girl who is going to go places in life. She has obviously had a very tough life and yet can still show such strength.

[koochie]

one cannot say enough prayers of thanks to that person who tipped them off!~. what evil women to do this and then to go out and actually get another girl to fill in for her? sick in the head!!....

beautiful katelyn you will be a wonderful strong survivor! God bless.

[lagrima]

Her birth mother also was there — to support Lopez.=

Neither of these witches are fit to breath our air!! Stuff their faces in boiling water!

I am so happy you found someone to live and care for you and to protect you all basic needs all humans have>

[Bay]

15 and 20 years they both got? That's it?
This is truly sickening.

[Mybabiesmomma]

Katelyn, I hope you will only know happiness from this point forth.