St. Louis, Missouri Mom of Murdered Child Says Family Court ‘Guardian’ Program Destroyed Her Life – IOTW Report

St. Louis, Missouri Mom of Murdered Child Says Family Court ‘Guardian’ Program Destroyed Her Life

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This article is part 13 of an investigative series looking into reported corruption in the Missouri judiciary. Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5, Part 6Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11Part 12

Theda Person has been waiting for this moment for eighteen years. For eighteen years her son, Christian, has been missing and presumed dead. Person says she always knew who the killer was, the child’s father Dawan Ferguson. She says when her child disclosed child abuse to her, she did what she thought was right and reported it to the child abuse hotline. That started a chain of events that led to Person losing her son to the custody of a child abuser who has been charged with his murder after eighteen years of searching for a body.

St. Louis County grand jurors Wednesday indicted Dawan Ferguson, 48, on first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death in the disappearance and presumed death of Christian Ferguson. Sixteen years after disabled 9-year-old Christian Ferguson disappeared, prosecutors in St. Louis County have charged his father in the child’s presumed death [Theda Person insists it has been 18 years, not 16]. Dawan Ferguson, 46, was charged with one count of first-degree murder. He was later charged with two counts of statutory rape, two counts of statutory sodomy and child molestation. Charges say he abused two children at various times from 2000 to 2013.

Person said Ferguson could have been stopped when she first reported the sexual molestation almost two decades ago but she says her court-appointed guardian ad litem, Nathan Cohen, did not believe her and worked on behalf of the abuser to remove Christian from Person and give him to a molesting murderer. “This GAL…he told me he was going to tell the judge that the father is the better parent,” Person told PJ Media. “My child is dead. My life is forever changed.” read more

7 Comments on St. Louis, Missouri Mom of Murdered Child Says Family Court ‘Guardian’ Program Destroyed Her Life

  1. You’d think that with the numerous horror stories we read about abusive and neglectful CPS enforcers and the corrupt systems they work for, that somebody, somewhere would come forward and tell us a CPS happy ending story. I sure haven’t run across any. Have any of you?

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  2. Unfortunately, CPS and GAL and foster care abuse goes on all over the country and has for decades. The horror stories family and dependency courts rarely make the news because they don’t result in indictments for rape or murder. A lot of it is the result of “it takes a village” crap and psychs pouring into the courts as “experts”.

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