PRESS RELEASE FOR NOVEMBER 24th,
2006
The Law Offices Of Robert R. Powell will be holding a press conference at 6:30 p.m. on November 27th, 2006, at the Clarion Hotel, located at 1355 North Fourth Street, in San Jose, California regarding the death of Jaime Ceballos while in foster care with Monterey County on November 27th, 2005.
The Law Offices Of Robert R. Powell will be filing a complaint in the U.S. District Court of Northern California (San Jose) on the 27th of November, seeking damages for the wrongful death of Jaime on behalf of Megan Allen, Jaime's mother. The complaint also alleges the unlawful removal of Jaime and his three siblings from Ms. Allen by Monterey County Child Protection Services social workers.
At two years of age, Jaime and
his siblings were removed from
their mother after Ms. Allen
contacted the police to make a
report about allegations by
daughter that she had been
molested in some manner by a
family relative. There were no
allegations of abuse by mother
of any kind.
After the children's removal by Monterey CPS, they were placed in a foster home, where Jaime was later found deceased in a hallway of the home on November 27th, 2005. At the time of his death, Jaime had multiple bruises all over his body, a depression of his skull from some unknown blunt force trauma, and had suffered a series of blows to his abdominal area, with one or more blows delivered with enough force to tear his colon and rupture other internal organs. He died a slow agonizing death, without receiving any medical treatment. Amazingly, the Monterey County Sheriff concluded the death was "accidental."
Jamies sister had been removed from the home not long prior to Jaime's death for alleged abuse against her by the foster parents which was deemed "substantiated," and CPS had received numerous complaints of abuse of the children, not only from the mother, to whom the children reported abuse during visitations and revealed visible marks of their injuries to visitation supervisors, but also from third party witnesses, including neighbors of the foster family.
In addition, Jaime and his siblings were placed in a foster home that was carrying more than the allowable number of children under state law, and was not properly licensed and/or qualified for providing services to "special needs" children, a description Monterey CPS executives have claimed fit Jaime at the time of his death.
When Jaime was found in the hallway of the foster family's home early on the morning of November 27th, 2005, no attempts were made to resuscitate the child.
Refreshments and copies of the
complaint available at the press
conference.