Porfirio Olivas-Lopez and Minerva Lopez charged with 75 count of child abuse.

[SoUncool]

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/307392

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Porfirio Olivas-Lopez and Minerva Lopez


A town of Madison child whose parents were arrested last week for allegedly abusing her for several months had "very serious" injuries that could have been life-threatening without treatment, police said Wednesday.

Porfirio Olivas-Lopez, 38, and Minerva Lopez, 32, are tentatively charged with 75 counts of physical abuse of a child, strangulation, causing mental harm to a child, reckless child abuse and failure to act to prevent bodily harm to a child, according to town of Madison police.

Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard said formal charges are expected to be filed today. The couple are being held in the Dane County Jail.

Lt. Wayne Stolpa said a worker from Dane County's Joining Forces for Families program notified the Department of Human Services of the suspected abuse, which was then reported to police. Officers and detectives went to 2721 Pheasant Ridge Trail, No. 8, on Sept. 25, and the child was taken to a hospital for extensive injuries, Stolpa said.

Stolpa on Wednesday declined to provide additional details about the case, which is still under investigation.

According to court records, the couple have four children, who have been placed in the care of Human Services, police said.

At a hearing Tuesday, cash bail for Lopez was set at $25,000.

Olivas-Lopez also is being held on an immigration detainer.

[Ruby]

Heh. I just posted a story on these two to the FP, but it hasn't been approved yet. I guess I forgot to copy it here to the forums, too. My bad.

Thanks, SoUncool!

[SoUncool]

Ack! I'll give you creds!!!


Thanks to Ruby who is working up this story for the Front Page but FORGOT to post it in the forums...shame on you Ruby...:tongue2:

[Ruby]

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[SoUncool]

Okay so it looks like that charges went down from 75 to 27.
They should have increased it IMHO.

http://www.channel3000.com/news/17611895/detail.html

TOWN OF MADISON, Wis. -- A town of Madison couple arrested on charges of repeated child abuse made their first court appearance on Thursday.

The parents are facing more than two dozen felony charges.

The couple are charged with 27 counts of intentionally causing physical harm to a child, WISC-TV reported.

The alleged abuse involves all five of their children, the youngest of whom is just 2 weeks old.

Minerva Lopez and Porfino Olivas appeared together in Dane County Court Thursday afternoon.

Madison police said a social worker went to the couple's home on Pheasant Ridge Trail and found evidence of serious child abuse -- including a frail, and likely malnourished, child in the closet, WISC-TV reported.

Another child was covered from head to toe with open wounds and bruises, with broken fingers and a broken right kneecap, police said.

All five of the children, ranging in age from two weeks to 14 years old, appeared severely malnourished, police said.

The alleged abuse first came to light when one of the children showed up at school with bruises on her face.

School officials then alerted Dane County Social Services.

The couple are being held in the Dane County Jail on $40,000 cash bond.

They are forbidden from having any contact with the five children; all of them are in protective custody.

[Envy]

I have my nail gun ready... should i bring something for the kids to use?

[SoUncool]

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/editstaging/307593

Parents admit to abusing child: 'I just used whatever I had,' mom says

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The parents accused of badly beating their 14-year-old daughter with items ranging from broomsticks to belts to a frying pan were each charged today with multiple counts of intentionally causing bodily harm through child abuse.

Cash bail was set at $32,000 for Minerva Lopez, 32, who recently gave birth to the couple's fifth child, and at $22,000 for her husband, Porfirio Olivas Lopez, 38. Minerva was charged with 16 counts of child abuse while Porfirio was charged with 11. The incidents, which resulted in serious injuries to the child, occurred between April 1 and Sept. 25, when they were discovered by police.

Although schools and social service agencies were involved before police were notified, the girl kept telling authorities her injuries were self-inflicted or accidental, blunting any chance social service agencies had of getting her out of the home, the criminal complaint against the parents says.

Both parents eventually confessed to causing some harm to the child, according to the complaint.

But when town of Madison police were sent to the home on Sept. 25, it became apparent the girl had been the victim of crimes, the complaint says.

Town of Madison detective Rob Hale is quoted in the complaint as saying as soon as he saw the 14-year-old victim, "he immediately identified her as a victim of horrendous crime inasmuch as she was virtually covered from head to toe with bruises with various bloody wounds to the top scalp of her head, an open gash to her right cheek, various generations of bruises ranging in color from purple to green to yellow, and injuries that were consistent with what he later found were breaks in her right hand and a broken right kneecap."


Hale also described the girl as emaciated.

Noted child abuse expert Dr. Barbara Knox of the University of Wisconsin Children's Hospital examined the various injuries to the girl, and said she would need surgical treatment for the broken kneecap.

Knox "indicated that (the victim) is potentially going to be suffering from life-long disabilities due to injuries sustained from the abuse, including but not limited to scarring resulting in permanent disfigurement and injuries leading to limb immobility," the complaint says.

In statements to detectives, Minerva admitted to abusing her daughter by punching, kicking, hitting with a belt, hitting with objects such as a frying pan, cutting her with a knife, strangling her and pouring hot water over her. "I used just whatever I had," she said. "I would never stop to think about the consequences."

Porfirio also admitted to beating his daughter, but on fewer occasions. He also admitted to twisting her arm backwards, punching her in the stomach and said he "used a belt a few times on her."

No real reason was given for the constant abuse, except that the parents portrayed the 14-year-old as being loud. It appeared they were concerned there were warrants out for Porfirio's arrest, and they feared the consequences of police being sent to their Pheasant Ridge Trail apartment. Porfirio was convicted of drunken driving earlier this year and a warrant was issued for his arrest when he failed to show up to serve his 100-day jail sentence.

Since his arrest on the child abuse charge, he has also been charged with failing to show up at the jail and is now the subject of a federal immigration hold, meaning immigration authorities are likely to seek his deportation to his native Mexico when his legal problems are over.

Minerva is quoted in the complaint as saying she wanted to move back to Mexico after their fifth child was born because she knew law enforcement was looking for Porfirio, and she did not want him arrested.

[crickett]

WHAT THE F-U-C-K???? She didn't want this prick so much as arrested but she has no problems with torturing and killing her children a little at a time? ENVY....get out the NAIL gun now!!! I got my soldering gun and welding equipment. We gotta go get us some REALLY sick worthless fucks!:five:

[Envy]

WHAT THE F-U-C-K???? She didn't want this prick so much as arrested but she has no problems with torturing and killing her children a little at a time? ENVY....get out the NAIL gun now!!! I got my soldering gun and welding equipment. We gotta go get us some REALLY sick worthless fucks!:five:

When i read this my jaw dropped... 75 counts? but dropped to 26? makes no sense, but Crickett, i am with you! *picks up nail gun and lines up the site* up close or far away? i'm good with both.

[nurseronda]

WHAT THE F-U-C-K???? She didn't want this prick so much as arrested but she has no problems with torturing and killing her children a little at a time? ENVY....get out the NAIL gun now!!! I got my soldering gun and welding equipment. We gotta go get us some REALLY sick worthless fucks!:five:I agree with you on this one. They need to suffer just as bad as the children did. However, I would be happy to see his penis and nuts nailed to a wall and her welded shut.

[Owd Scrat]

Damn that is one fugly ass woman! :stoned: