Living in a trailer in Las Vegas Nevada, little Adacelli and her siblings were
forced to walk among garbage, rotting food, dirt and what appeared to be
animal and human feces. Flies, lice and roaches were everywhere. What
wasn't there were the people who SHOULD have taken these children away
before Adacelli died. Adacelli who was two years old, weighed only 11 pounds when she was found dead, in her home in June 29, 2005. 

Jack Richardson and Charlene snyder have been booked on charges of 
second degree murder, child abuse and child neglect. This goes FAR beyond
the abuse and neglect of a child. Las Vegas Police Captain, Terry Lesney
said:

In a broken crib, surrounded by bugs, having a severe diaper rash and using
soiled blankets, Adacelli was kept isolated, with her two sisters in totally
unlivable conditions. With reports dating back to 2002, Clark County Child
Protective Services SHOULD have done someting to intervene. In July of 
2003, Charlene Snyder was reported to CPS TWICE for the filthy conditions
in her home as well as Adacelli's weight loss and neglect of her other children.
For a year, CPS had an open home-monitoring case against Charlene. In
June of 2004, Clark County CPS said they had done all they could and closed
the case with Susan Klein-Rothschild, director of the Department Of Family
servies stating that the county would not have any legal grounds to check on
the family after the case was closed, unless another report was made against
Charlene.

Terry Lesney said that a police investigation uncovered several recent reports
made to CPS about this family. Questions about this were referred to CPS.
Susan Klein-Rothschild claims they have no records at all of reports on this
family between the time the case was closed and the time they found Adacelli
dead. Claiming the county had given intensive case management in the case
of Charlene and Adacelli, was Ann Rubin, manger for the county's Department
Of Family Services. Ann Ruin claimed that the social workers met with the family on a regular basis, bringing along a public health nurse who focused on teaching Charlene how to handle her child and an early childhood intervention worker.

Donna Coleman who is President of the Children's Advocacy Alliance says
that as she has read the case, she is finding there is plenty of blame to go
around. The family was provided intensive help for a long period of time with
very little improvement and Donna Coleman says the children should have 
been removed from the home under those circumstances.

Police reports show that Charlene file a domestic violence report against Jack Richardson in April. Donna Coleman said:

Any sane person would think so, I guess noone who could do anything before
Adacelli died, cared enough to try. The lawyer who represents the Adacelli's
siblings said the children, Annalisa Dees who is 5, Maryposa Dees, who is 4
and Jack Richardson who is one, will be released from the county's temporary
home for abused and neglected children and will be able to live with Beverly
Snyder, Charlene's mother.

Upon learning that Adacelli was buried in an unmarked grave, a woman by the
name of Jen Critchlow decided to do something about it. After raising $5,400.
for a memorial bench and headstone, in January of 2006, the memorial bench
and headstone were put into place and a memorial service was held. Jen
Critchlow said:

"As a mother it just ripped my heart out to think not only that she had to suffer, the suffering she went through and then to just be buried in an unmarked grave with no sort of a memorial or remembrance of what 
life she did have."
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During her court appearance Charlene said:

Where was her mercy for Adacelli and what is her excuse for not taking care of
her other children? Making them live the way they did? Luckily, Judge David
Wall didn't buy her story and said the following:

Now we can only hope and pray that a parole board will NOT see fit to let her out, EVER!

Adacelli's Godmother, Keli Cruz was happy about the verdict:

Keli Cruz said she noticed when things started to change:

Keli Cruz says she thinks Adacelli's deth was for a reason, to stop her brother
and sisters from being abused and neglected"

How could ANYONE with a conscience NOT know that this little girl was being
abused and her treatment was wrong? Jack's attorney tried to say that he was
abused as a child and was thrown away as a very small child. He also said:

Tinmothy O'Brian said that Adacelli was severely brain damaged and he felt
she probably would have died a natural death by the age of five staing that he
doubted the evidence in the case would have shown that Adacelli was even
neglected at all. The words spoken by Keli Cruz about how Adacelli would
begin to cry when she was taken away from her, speak differently.

If a person is abused, they KNOW how terrible it feels and certainly they would
try NOT to abuse another person. The defense of "I was abused as a child", is
one that is use so much when someone commits a crime these days, it's a
shame and anyone who uses it needs to be made away that it is NOT okay to
abuse someone else simple because THEY were abuse. Jack Richardson
didn't say a word as Judge Wall imposed his sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after ten years. The Judge added:

What goes through the minds of the judges who impose such a ridiculous
sentence for the suffering and murder of a beautiful child?

O'Brien said the girl was severely brain-damaged and probably would have died a natural death by the age of 5. The lawyer said he doubted that evidence in the case would have shown neglect caused her death, "but indeed this child was neglected."

Please don't let them become Angels to soon.

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