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    No bond for mom charged with aggravated murder of toddler

    Andrea Bradley arraigned in death of Glenara Bates

    CINCINNATI -- A mother accused of torturing her 2-year-old daughter to death will be held without bond.

    Andrea Bradley was arraigned Wednesday morning in a Hamilton County court. A grand jury indicted her April 8 on charges of aggravated murder, murder and felony child endangerment in the death of daughter Glenara Bates.

    The child’s father, Glen Bates, faces the same charges. He was arraigned Monday and also ordered to be held without bond.

    Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters has said he’ll pursue the death penalty against Bradley and Bates if a jury finds them guilty.

    At Wednesday morning’s hearing, Bradley’s attorney said there are no concerns as to his client’s competence to stand trial.

    Bradley and Bates were charged with felony child endangering on March 29 shortly after taking their already dead daughter to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

    The charges against the parents were upgraded to murder after Hamilton County Coroner Lakshmi Kode Sammarco completed an autopsy on the toddler.

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    Mom's attorney in 'tortured' toddler case seeks to portray dad as manipulative abuser


    CINCINNATI – The defense attorney for a woman accused of torturing her 2-year-old daughter to death claimed Wednesday that his client is just another victim in the case.

    Andrea Bradley and Glen Bates, the child’s father, were indicted April 8 on charges of aggravated murder, murder and felony child endangerment in connection with the death of their daughter Glenara.

    Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters and County Coroner Lakshmi Kode Sammarco said the child suffered terrible abuse before her death.

    A tearful Bradley was arraigned Wednesday morning; a judge ordered she be held without bond.

    But her defense attorney, William Welsh, said Bates was to blame, portraying him as manipulative, controlling and abusive.

    “From our initial investigation, there seems to have been unquestionably abuse in the house. But obviously the abuse didn’t stop at the children. We’re finding out our client was abused as well,” Welsh said.

    Bradley suffers from depression and bipolar disorder, Welsh said, and has been under medical care for years.

    “So you have someone who is suffering from psychiatric issues and if an abuser comes into the relationship, I think everyone knows what happens then. The abuser takes control.” Welsh said.

    He also sought to portray Bates as a serial abuser, bringing up a past case in which Bates was accused of assaulting a woman.

    “We found out another independent woman has alleged he assaulted her, and those are the same things our client is telling us,” Welsh said.

    Hamilton County court records show Bates was involved in a prior domestic violence case in April 2009. He was accused of attacking his son’s mother “by pulling her hair and pushing her to the ground.” The case was eventually dismissed.

    In 2012, Bates received a disorderly conduct citation. In that case, investigators said he sprayed his child’s mother in the face with Mace, punched her in the head three times and hit her in the head with a frozen water bottle. In that case, Bates received a $100 fine, and 29 days of a 30-day sentence were suspended.

    For his part, Bates' attorney Norman Aubin pointed to Bradley's previous history with Hamilton County Jobs and Family Services (JFS).

    "We haven’t seen any of the discovery evidence. Both sides are just getting into this case. We really don’t know what happened. With that said, it’s interesting to note [Andrea Bradley] also has a previous conviction for child endangering and her children were taken away by JFS. Those are just the facts,” Aubin said.

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    Caseworkers resign after girl's death


    The children's services caseworkers assigned to look after a 2-year-old girl who died under their supervision have resigned.

    Prosecutors say Glenara Bates, who died March 29, had been abused, malnourished and tortured after returning to live with her parents in East Walnut Hills. They say she slept in a feces- and blood-filled bath tub in the family home.

    Hamilton County officials said Thursday the two Job and Family Services caseworkers involved in the case – Shamara Stephens and Kassie Setty – have turned in their resignations.

    Stephens, 34, had been previously suspended for her involvement in a case of potential child abuse or neglect and then twice lying about it to investigators. Setty, 27, is a former Urban League and Cincinnati Public Schools employee who was hired 11 months ago by Job and Family Services.

    JFS Director Moira Weir said last week her agency "failed to follow our own policies and procedures" in Glenara's case. The agency has not, however, detailed exactly what went wrong.

    "We will continue with out internal investigation and an independent review of the case," Weir said Thursday, declining further comment.

    State officials said Thursday they will begin a review of the case as soon as possible to determine whether the county agency followed state and federal rules in handling Glenara's case.

    "The allegations in these cases are horrific and heartbreaking," said Angela Terez, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

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    JFS checked starved girl 3 weeks before she died

    Three weeks before 2-year-old Glenara Bates died, a social worker visited the home where prosecutors say the child was starved, beaten and locked in a bathroom, The Enquirer has learned.

    The caseworker visited the small, two-story East Walnut Hills house on March 4, according to Brian Gregg, spokesman for Hamilton County Job and Family Services.

    The caseworker reported that she saw Glenara – who weighed 13 pounds when she died – sleeping in a crib, Gregg said Friday in response to questions submitted by The Enquirer.

    "The worker assessed there to be appropriate sleeping arrangements for the children," Gregg said in an email, "including documenting that she saw Glenara."

    Prosecutors, however, have learned that Glenara slept in a bathtub containing feces and blood. Several times, they said, Glenara was locked inside that bathroom.

    JFS had begun monitoring Glenara and her siblings in December, after she was treated at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center for severe malnourishment. Glenara had been given an IV that raised her weight to about 17 pounds, and her mother

    Andrea Bradley was told to feed her more. Bradley, officials said, told hospital staff at the time that she thought Glenara was overweight.

    Hospital staff reported Glenara's condition to JFS, Gregg said. The spokesman told The Enquirer he could not say how many times caseworkers visited the home between the December hospital treatment and the March 4 home visit.

    Bradley's history with the agency goes back eight years.

    This week, officials announced that two JFS caseworkers involved in the case have resigned. JFS Director Moira Weir has previously said policies and procedures weren't followed by caseworkers, but declined to comment further. An internal investigation and independent review are ongoing, she said.

    Inside the house

    The Enquirer reviewed public records and talked to neighbors and others who knew the family to give a more complete picture of the last months of Glenara's short life and try to determine what went wrong.

    Six children, including Glenara, lived in the house on Hackberry Street. Glenara's parents, 32-year-old Glen Bates and 28-year-old Andrea Bradley, left few clues about what was happening inside. Another of Bradley's children lives with his father's family.

    The Hackberry Street property manager had been inside the home and says he saw and heard nothing. Their neighbors hardly knew them. But prosecutors said Glenara endured "a constant state of neglect" and that both Bates and Bradley constantly lashed out at her.

    Officials also said they believe people knew what was happening to the child – but didn't report it to authorities.

    Three or four of the children attended school, neighbors said, driven in a green minivan by Bradley. A 1-year-old was often seen in a car seat. The oldest child was 8.

    No one remembers seeing Glenara.

    In fact, none of the children were ever seen playing outside. And Bradley, who moved into the federally subsidized house in October, kept to herself. She paid $100 a month for the three-bedroom, wood frame home that has two full bathrooms.

    "The kids pretty much stayed inside unless she was going somewhere," said neighbor Shay Jones.

    Neighbors were surprised to learn late last month about a sixth child in the house. When Bradley carried Glenara's cold body into Children's Hospital on March 29, she had no muscle mass. Her body was covered with bite marks, bruises and marks from being whipped with a belt. She also had stitches in her head that were done with needle and thread, apparently done at home, prosecutors said.

    If Glenara had wanted to cry out, she likely wouldn't have been able to, said Hamilton County Coroner Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco. She had gone days, at least, without food or something to drink.

    One of Bradley's sisters, Twonisha Bradley, in an April 7 Facebook post, said she had heard from people who knew Glenara was being mistreated.

    The Facebook post states, in part: "I'm sick right now. My niece is gone, and she didn't deserve this kind of life – like how and why did this happen... I just want to understand... For the last week all these...people keep calling me and telling me about what they witnessed... but not one person reported her to the police or somebody... At the end of the day you was there, you witnessed it, yet you did nothing, so the heat is on you too! RIP GLEN YOU'RE FOREVER IN PEACE! MY HEART BREAKS FOR YOU BABY!"

    Twonisha Bradley did not respond to a message seeking further comment. Other relatives either declined to comment or did not respond to messages.

    Bates and Bradley have been charged with murder and face the death penalty. Bates is the father of two of Bradley's children, according to court records. Bradley is now pregnant with her eighth child.

    Glenara only child targeted

    Prosecutors say Glenara was the only child her parents targeted for severe abuse and neglect. The reasons for that are unclear.

    Jones, who lives across the street, described Glenara's 1-year-old sibling as "big in weight." The other children seemed healthy,as well.

    Jay Zhang, property manager for the company that owns the home, went to the house last month after Bradley reported that the furnace wasn't working. In the kitchen, he said, was "a lot of food," including containers of baby food. He didn't go upstairs.

    Allegations of Bradley abusing her children go back to 2007, records show.

    September 2012: JFS took custody of five of Bradley's children after she was accused of physically abusing one so badly that the child could barely walk.

    January 2013: JFS took custody of Glenara days after her birth.

    September 2013: Glenara and her siblings were returned to Bradley.

    December 2013: Caseworkers stopped visiting after it was decided they and Bradley were doing well.

    Children kept inside house

    Jones and other residents of a two-story apartment building across the street from the house said Bradley didn't associate with anyone on the block, which includes a handful of vacant homes. The apartment building's first-floor porches are only a few feet from the sidewalk, where residents' young children often play.

    Some neighbors say they never saw any of Bradley's children.

    "Never seen any kids over there," said James Cromwell, who has lived on the street about two years.

    Cromwell also recalled a green minivan that would "come and go."

    Bates told detectives that he and Bradley had been together about two years. When he was arrested, his primary residence was listed in a police report as the Hackberry Street address.

    Neighbors recalled him visiting – seemingly always arriving on foot – but they said it was unclear if he lived there.

    "If he did come," said Jones, "it would be (for) a short period of time."

    Bradley's attorney, William Welsh, has described Bates as a controlling and abusive man. Bates' attorney, Norm Aubin, has said he is still gathering information and urged the public not to jump to conclusions.

    Bradley has been treated most of her life, Welsh said, for mental health issues. She has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and depression.

    Both have admitted abusing Glenara, according to court records.

    The Hackberry Street house has been cleaned out. Early this week, plastic trash bags, some filled with children's clothes, lined the street. In the tiny, front yard, a couch was overturned, partially resting on top of another. A mattress and box spring had been leaned against concrete steps that lead to the front door.

    A table was on its side against a recycling container. There were no dressers. One neighbor said the inside of the house had been littered with clothes and fast food bags.

    There was little evidence that the house once had been filled with children.

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    Ohio Dad Charged in Tot's Starvation Death Set For Hearing

    CINCINNATI (AP) — The father of a 2-year-old girl who weighed 13 pounds when she died of starvation and blunt-force injury is set for a hearing in a southwest Ohio court.

    Court documents show a hearing is set for Wednesday in a Hamilton County court to set a trial date or hear any change in plea for 32-year-old Glen Bates. The Cincinnati man has pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated murder and child endangerment in Glenara Bates’ March 29 death.

    The child’s mother has pleaded not guilty to the same counts in their daughter’s death. A prosecutor says Glenara had been badly beaten and had belt marks and bite marks, among other injuries.

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said an average 2-year-old girl weighs twice what Glenara did.

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    Father accused of killing 2-year-old daughter to go on trial in September

    Glen Bates faces death penalty

    CINCINNATI -- A father accused of killing his 2-year-old daughter was back in court Wednesday to learn his trial date.

    The Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office accused Glen Bates and his wife, Andrea Bradley, of beating and killing their daughter Glenara.

    Prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty against the pair.

    Officials said the little girl was covered in bite marks, bruises and other injuries when she was brought to Children’s Hospital.

    A judge set Glen Bates’ trial date for Sept. 16 during Wednesday’s hearing.

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    Sweeping reforms coming to JFS in wake of Glenara's death

    By Patrick Brennan

    Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters, county Commissioner Greg Hartmann and Hamilton County Jobs and Family Services Director Moira Weir announced child welfare system reforms at a Friday press conference.

    Among the changes recommended are:

    * reduced wait times for substance abuse and mental health treatment;
    * increases in intensive in-home services for high-risk families;
    * and mentoring for teen parents and at-risk youths.

    An increase in transportation services was also discussed.

    "Moira Weir has the worst job in government," Deters said of the JFS director. "She has to monitor safety of children who aren't in safe environments. It's important for everyone to realize there are some environments where some kids just should not be at all."

    The recommended changes grew out of the Glenara Bates death case.

    Andrea Bradley, 28, of East Walnut Hills and Glen Bates, 32, of College Hill were charged with felony child endangerment after authorities said serious physical abuse resulted in the March 29 death of 2-year-old Glenara Bates.

    An autopsy revealed the malnourished Bates was likely abused throughout her life.

    Hartmann voiced support for Weir at the press conference and cited job turnover within JFS as an issue that must be addressed.

    Weir said fewer people are going into social work and each JFS caseworker handles 25 to 30 cases a year. She said there are 17,000 kids being serviced, but only 235 workers.

    JFS and county officials have recently come under scrutiny for abuse-related deaths of children under their supervision. As a result of the Bates case, 12 workers have left JFS. Two were firings directly related to the case and others to "burning out," the three county officials said.

    http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news...nced/28530483/
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    Lawsuit: JFS made 'indefensible' decision

    By Kevin Grasha
    Cincinnati.com

    A lawsuit filed by the grandmother of a 2-year-old girl who authorities said died after being starved and beaten gives new details of a hospital visit three months before her death.

    In December 2014, doctors at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center found that Glenara Bates was severely underweight at 17 pounds, anemic, had a protruding abdomen, “abnormal skin appearance” and was suffering from muscle wasting.

    Her mother, according to the lawsuit, told staff that Glenara, who was nearly 2 years old, "rarely walks" because of pain.

    Despite that, the lawsuit says Hamilton County Job and Family Services allowed Glenara to continue to live with her parents, Andrea Bradley and Glen Bates. The lawsuit also says the agency didn’t report the “obvious case of child abuse” to police.

    “Defendants,” the lawsuit says, “made the indefensible decision to return Glenara…to the depraved custody of her parents.”

    According to prosecutors, when Bradley brought Glenara back to Children's Hospital on March 29, the child was cold, limp and lifeless. She weighed 13 pounds and injuries covered her body. She had bite marks, cuts and marks from being whipped with a belt, prosecutors said. A cut to her head had been stitched with thread.

    The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, records show, on behalf of Glenara’s maternal grandmother, Desena Bradley.

    It names multiple defendants, including: JFS Director Moira Weir, two caseworkers who handled Glenara’s case – Shamara Hooks-Ware and Kassie Setty – as well as Andrea Bradley and Bates. Hooks-Ware and Setty resigned in April.

    A JFS spokesman referred questions to the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office, which will represent the agency. Julie Wilson, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office, said her office hadn't yet seen the lawsuit.

    Both Bradley, 29, and Bates, 33, have been charged with murder and face the death penalty. The county coroner said she believed Glenara was tortured for most of her life.

    Also according to the lawsuit: JFS took custody of Glenara soon after she was born in January 2013 because of abuse and neglect allegations against Bradley and Bates. She was in foster care for eight months, when JFS placed Glenara and five of her siblings, who also were in foster care, back in Bradley's care.

    Records show that by December 2013, caseworkers stopped visiting after it was decided the children and Bradley were doing well.

    After the December 2014 Children's Hospital visit, however, JFS again started monitoring Glenara and her siblings. The six children, ranging in age from 1 to 8, lived in a rented East Walnut Hills house with Bates and Bradley.

    A caseworker visited the home in early March and reported seeing Glenara sleeping in a crib, officials have previously said.

    Prosecutors say Glenara slept in a bathtub containing feces and blood. Several times, they said, Glenara was locked inside that bathroom.

    http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news...eath/77487852/
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    Mom in 'tortured' toddler case to take plea deal, prosecutor says

    By Tanya O'Rourke
    WCPO News

    CINCINNATI -- A woman Hamilton County officials accused of torturing her 2-year-old daughter to death will take a plea deal to avoid the death penalty, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters told WCPO late Tuesday.

    Andrea Bradley was indicted in April 2015 on on charges of aggravated murder, murder and felony child endangerment in connection with the death of her daughter, Glenara. Deters and County Coroner Lakshmi Kode Sammarco said the child suffered terrible abuse before her death.

    Deters said Tuesday that defense attorneys approached his office about entering a plea in exchange for a sentence of life in prison without parole.

    "Because of the current makeup of the Supreme Court of Ohio, it’s almost fruitless to seek the death penalty anymore," Deters told WCPO.

    Bradley is scheduled for a court appearance at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

    Glen Bates, Glenara's father, was indicted on the same charges as Bradley. Deters said Bates' mother is trying to talk him out of taking the deal.

    The prosecutor previously said he'd like to see Bradley and Bates sentenced to death.

    "If they get executed, God bless them, I’d like to see it,” Deters said last April.

    Bradley and Bates were charged with felony child endangering on March 29, 2015, shortly after taking their already-dead daughter to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. The charges were upgraded to murder after Sammarco completed an autopsy on the toddler.

    “I’ve never seen starvation like this before, and I’ve traveled around the world,” Sammaraco said of her medical findings.

    Glenara weighed 13 pounds when her parents brought her to the hospital. Sammaraco said the toddler’s small intestines and bladder were empty when she performed her medical exam.

    "We are not sure the last time she had been fed or given anything to drink,” she said, adding 13 pounds is the average weight for a 3-to-4-month-old.

    Sammaraco said it was likely days since the child last ate or had water. She slept in a bathtub filled with feces, Deters and Sammaraco said.

    The autopsy also confirmed multiple lacerations and cuts on the child that doctors reported to Cincinnati police when Glenara was brought to the hospital.

    "And then it took one of our forensic pathologists over four hours to document the number of scars and wounds on her extremities and her torso and her body," Sammaraco said. "Over four hours just to document the wounds on the outside of her body."

    Glenara also suffered internal bleeding in her head on three separate occasions, the autopsy uncovered.

    "There is no doubt in my mind this child was tortured for the majority of her pitifully short life," Sammarco said.

    County Agency Admits Missteps

    Juvenile Court records obtained by WCPO show social workers removed some of Bradley's children in 2010 because she knowingly "allowed drug trafficking" in her home.Documents also showed one of Bradley's children suffered bruises to the neck, eye, back and legs in 2012. The child's bruises were so severe that he had difficulty walking, the report states. That child, Glenara and others were placed in foster care.

    Then, in December 2014, Glenara was hospitalized with malnutrition as Bradley dealt with depression and bipolar disorder.

    Glenara was given back to Bradley a few weeks before she died.

    Deters said Hamilton County Job and Family Services "dropped the ball" in Glenara's case by putting her back in her mother's care. JFS Director Moira Weir admitted her agency mishandled the case, and two workers charged with overseeing Glenara resigned a short time later.

    The child's grandmother, Desena Bradley, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county in December. The suit claims that a series of bad decisions and misconduct lead to Glenara being put back into the “squalor and depravity” of her parents’ home. It also attributes the girl’s death to the alleged misconduct of JFS.

    The family claims the evidence shows Glenara was functioning normally while in foster care, but abuse was evident when her mother took her took Children’s Hospital because of her inability to walk.

    In the suit, the family argues that despite signs of abuse and neglect pointed out by physicians, JFS decided to return the girl to her parents.

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    Mom rejects plea deal, still faces death penalty in death of daughter

    Andrea Bradley, Glen Bates accused of killing toddler

    By Andrew Setters
    WLWT News

    CINCINNATI —A mother charged with the murder of her 2-year-old daughter will take her chances with a jury, she told the court during a Wednesday hearing.

    Andrea Bradley, 29, of Cincinnati, declined a plea deal which would have taken the death penalty off the table.

    The accusations against Bradley and her boyfriend Glen Bates, 33, of Cincinnati, are disturbing – that’s why the prosecutor is asking for the death penalty.

    Bradley and Bates are charged with the death of 2-year-old Glenara Bates.

    The girl was taken to Children’s Hospital in March 2015, where she died a short time later.

    Prosecutors described disturbing injuries – including bite marks, belt marks and broken teeth.

    She weighed just 13 pounds when she died. The coroner said starvation and blunt force trauma were the cause of death.

    As Bradley came into court before Judge Robert Ruehlman Wednesday morning, it was still unclear if the deal would go through.

    Her defense attorneys explained that they had a potential agreement in place that would have taken the death penalty off the table, but Bradley turned it down. Her attorney Will Welsh went on the record today to make it clear she knows the stakes of going to trial.

    “By continuing on this path she is exposed to the possibility of receiving a death sentence and she fully acknowledges that, understands, and wishes to proceed,” Welsh said.

    Rather than admit to killing her daughter, she will head to trial.

    Another member of her defense team, Scott Rubenstein, described the plea offer as “the holy grail” in a death penalty case – avoiding death row.

    “That was on the table and we'd be in a position to argue for a possibility that she would be paroled at some point, but she's not comfortable with that and we have to respect what our client wants to do,” Rubenstein said.

    Her attorneys could not discuss why she turned down the deal.

    Bradley’s father was at the courthouse on Wednesday. He didn’t want to talk on camera, but he said his daughter has mental health problems and he was happy she did not accept the plea.

    But talk of a deal may not be done yet.

    “Obviously, if there is a way to resolve it short of that and avoid the death penalty that’s something that we’ll certainly consider and I hope our client will too,” Rubenstein said.

    Bradley will be back in court on this case next month. This could go to trial later this year.

    Bates is scheduled for trial in September, where he could also face the death penalty.

    http://www.wlwt.com/news/mom-rejects...trial/39716688
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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