I cannot believe this shit, this is horrible:
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A go-go dancer who was supposed to be caring for three young brothers who were discovered dead or starving in a locked basement was captured Thursday.
Sherry Murphy was found sleeping in a Newark apartment around 2 a.m., police Lt. Derek Glenn said. Police said it was not her apartment but offered no further details.
Murphy had been sought since the body of 7-year-old Faheem Williams was discovered Sunday, a day after his twin and a younger brother were found emaciated in the basement of a Newark row house. Authorities said the two survivors hadn\'t eaten in days.
Murphy, who was wanted on child endangerment charges, had been caring for the boys since their mother, Melinda Williams, was jailed on assault charges in March.
The FBI has also been preparing a warrant charging Murphy, Williams\' cousin, with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
Faheem Williams\' twin brother, Raheem, and another brother, Tyrone Hill, 4, remained hospitalized Thursday in fair condition. When they were found, they were cowering under a bed soaked with urine, feces and vomit. They were using a jar for a toilet and their hair was infested with lice.
Authorities did not know Faheem existed until Raheem said at the hospital that he hadn\'t seen his twin for a long time. Police returned to the home the next day and found Faheem\'s mummified remains in a purple storage box. He had been dead for more than a month.
No one has been charged in the boy\'s death, but authorities had been looking for Murphy, 41.
Williams, 31, told authorities she couldn\'t find Murphy or the children after she got out of jail several months ago. She was hit by a car Saturday while rushing to see the children and is hospitalized in critical condition.
New Jersey\'s Division of Youth and Family Services had received 10 complaints about the family over the past 10 years, including one in October 2001 that Williams was beating and burning her children.
Three of the complaints were substantiated: Williams left the children alone in 1996 and 1999, and she failed to get medical attention for another child, 7-year-old Fuquan, after he cut his hand in 1998. The boy, now 11, is in a treatment center.
Authorities say at least one of the boys also was molested. A friend of Williams was arrested Wednesday and charged with sexual abuse.
Yet the state agency closed the case in February 2002, saying it could not find the boys. That month, Williams was jailed for child endangerment stemming from a 1996 incident, and she entrusted the boys to Murphy, who was dancing in bars under the stage name "Ebony."
Police said Murphy has a crack habit but no criminal record.
Raheem and Tyrone were found by Murphy\'s boyfriend, who had gone into the basement looking for work boots. They were rushed to the emergency room weak and undernourished, and Tyrone, who had scars and burn marks, was put on a liquid diet because he couldn\'t handle solid food.
A cat in the apartment was immaculately clean and well-fed.
"The mere fact that he had food means he was better off than those kids," police Lt. Derek Glenn said.
Investigators say the boys had been subjected to nearly continuous abuse, including being burned with cigarettes and beaten, some of it apparently while they were under state child welfare agency protection.
"There\'s enough blame here to go around for a lot of people," said Newark Mayor Sharpe James.
The case is just the latest revealing the difficulties caseworkers have protecting some of the nation\'s most vulnerable children from abuse.
In Florida, the state child-welfare agency went through a shake-up last year after caseworkers lost track of 5-year-old Rilya Wilson for 15 months before realizing she was missing. Nearly after the discovery, Rilya still hasn\'t been found. In Missouri, a caseworker resigned last week after a 2-year-old boy who had been sent back to a foster home was shaken to death.
In New Jersey, Gov. James McGreevey ordered an investigation of the agency and new procedures for investigating allegations of abuse. The supervisor in charge of the Williams case was suspended with pay Wednesday.
"It appears that\'s where mistakes were made in this case," said Micah Rasmussen, a spokesman for the governor. Neither the supervisor nor the caseworker has been identified.
New Jersey\'s Division of Youth and Family Services has 1,400 people to supervise some 47,000 children; the average caseload is 35. National advocates recommend that a caseworker handle no more than 25.
Union officials say the caseworker assigned to the Williamses was juggling 107 cases, but state officials claim the number was far less. They say the unidentified worker was responsible for 53 children in 27 families.
And ppl wonder why sex offenders, serial killers, and general psychos roam the world.
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