Aliahna Marie Maroney Lemmon, 9, Missing 12/23/11 Fort Wayne, IN (BODY FOUND)

[cw618]

I still can not wrap my brain around someone doing this to a sweet little child..
apparently the bio father was not actively in this little girl's life..typical..then they are overcome with grief when something really bad happens..He didn't protect her either as far as I am concerned..but I will give him the benefit of the doubt until I find out more about him.

hi cookie dad is from the same city that,the mother moved from,i found this listing,so maybe he saw her more when they lived in iowa
wonder why he didnt keep the kids while mom was taking care of her dad

Tarah Souders
311 N Haynes Ave
Centerville, IA 52544
http://www.whitepages.com/name/Tarah-Souders/Centerville-IA/3kdrh6n

Maroney, the girl’s father, said he plans to attend the funeral, although he doesn't yet know when it will be. The Daily Iowegian in Centreville ran a story that it was helping to raise money to help Maroney attend the funeral.
“I had no reason to suspect anything,” he said.
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20111228/NEWS02/312280100/Fort-Wayne-girl-death?odyssey=nav%7Chead

[cookie]

thanks CW...
yes..why wouldn't dad be able to keep his daughter while mom was so ill? good question..

[HopeForAll]

I withdraw my membership in scared monkeys. Tho all your hearts may be in the right place, your hate and condemnation of a family who has had a child murdered in such a horrific manor sickens me. Do you know why the mom is in a wheelchair? Neither do I. The family's ignorance of who this monster is, is. . matched by the ignorance shown by too many monkeys. Some people quite frankly are simple, some are messed up from childhood on and do indeed  make poor decisions and choices. And many are forced to choose to live in their cars or shelters and yes in bad neighborhoods.  All are doing the best they can with what they have to work with. And they love their children just as much as you and I. With hindsight  we all may know and see better what was right before our eyes.  Indeed it saddens me to monkeys so hateful and sometimes Pius.,  Say what you will about my thoughts. I hope you take my words to heart and open your minds.

[Amys Sister]

I withdraw my membership in scared monkeys. Tho all your hearts may be in the right place, your hate and condemnation of a family who has had a child murdered in such a horrific manor sickens me. Do you know why the mom is in a wheelchair? Neither do I. The family's ignorance of who this monster is, is. . matched by the ignorance shown by too many monkeys. Some people quite frankly are simple, some are messed up from childhood on and do indeed  make poor decisions and choices. And many are forced to choose to live in their cars or shelters and yes in bad neighborhoods.  All are doing the best they can with what they have to work with. And they love their children just as much as you and I. With hindsight  we all may know and see better what was right before our eyes.  Indeed it saddens me to monkeys so hateful and sometimes Pius.,  Say what you will about my thoughts. I hope you take my words to heart and open your minds.

I know your heart is in the right place, and I myself have known some very poor but very good and loving parents.  A child would be safer living in a car with their parent by their side than in a house down the street with a convict and no one to protect them.

When a child is murdered it is appropriate to sit in condemnation lest we see these murders happen over and over again.  If we don't look hard at what led to this child's death how will we end the cycle?

Would you leave your three small girls with a 39 year old man who has a criminal record for four whole days without speaking to them?  Seeing them?  Checking on them daily?  Even with the babies only a couple of doors away??  Neither the mom nor her husband bothered.

Not even a poor and simple parent with a tiny bit of common sense would do this.  This is complete negligence.  Especially in light of the fact that her daughter is already ill and suffering from previous molestations (yes, plural, yes this woman somehow managed to have the bad luck of having a daughter who was mysteriously molested multiple times by multiple men and finally murdered). 

I do judge this woman who birthed three babies and refused to love and parent them enough to protect them.  What is hate?  I will tell you that I would not do to someone I hate what this woman has done to her own children... exposing them to monsters and ignoring them for days at a time when they are young and incapable of protecting themselves.

When children are harmed we should critically analyze the situation that allowed it to occur otherwise we can just consider ourselves passive bystanders of evil.  It is an act of love to be courageous enough to do so.  Most people are afraid of being thought of poorly if they speak out even when children are being molested, abused, and murdered all around us.

I know this sounds harsh and I don't like that it does, but it is truth, my truth.  I do not wish for you to feel badly and I appreciate your kind soul and compassion but children need protection and we can't keep turning away from them. 

[AmandaReckonwith]

STANDING O for your post, Amy's sister.

Every word, and said so well.
This baby who is stuffed into freezer bags got there with a push from mommy.
No, Tarah is not guilty of the murder, but there is NO reason, NO DAMN REASON those 3 girls had to stay a few doors down without anyone even bothering to check their safety.

[Anna]

BBM
then the mother moves into a RSO nightmare unbelievable
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Last updated: December 28, 2011 9:07 a.m.
‘Silent Night’ vigil echoes with anguish
Dominic Adams | The Journal Gazette

 ::snipping2::
Tarah Souders sat in a wheelchair a few feet away from where her 9-year-old daughter was brutally killed.
Sitting in front of a memorial of crosses and teddy bears for Aliahna Marie Maroney Lemmon – a blanket covering her waist – Souders tried to light her candle as tears streamed down her cheeks.
 ::snipping2::
Surveillance video at Phil’s One Stop Marathon, in the 10000 block of North Clinton Street, showed police stopping in front of the Dumpster about 9:20 p.m. Monday and hauling it away on a flat-bed tow truck about 25 minutes later.

Aliahna’s stepgrandfather said at a candlelight vigil Monday that the girl suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder brought by abuse she suffered on two different occasions last year in Iowa. Story said the people who were responsible were caught by police, but he had no other details.

He said Aliahna felt bad about telling on the men because she didn’t want them to get in trouble. Aliahna also had a history of sleepwalking and vision and hearing problems and had attention-deficit hyperactive disorder, her family said.
more
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20111228/LOCAL07/312289983

TY CW, I, too, have been waiting to see where the PTSD diagnosis originated.  It is not something kids get routeinly like strep or chicken pox.  Poor angel; she endured a lot in her short life.

And then the mother moves her daughter(s) into Pedophile Park???  WTF????????????????

Hiya my friend!

Yes, apparently she did just that.  And how can she not know all too well what could happen because it already had happened in the past.  She had personal experience with this child being molested and yet chose a convicted felon 39 yo man living alone to watch 3 little girls.

I just hope the other two are removed from her custody before she finds some more deviants to do something to them.

[sunshine12]

Hopeforall- Respectfully, if it wasn't for the disgusting decisions and actions of her family (if we can even call them that), and their failure in the ultimate responsiblity to PROTECT their child, Aliahna would be alive today.


Amy's Sister-AMAZING post, thank you for expressing so eloquently something I could not without my head exploding

[cookie]

I withdraw my membership in scared monkeys. Tho all your hearts may be in the right place, your hate and condemnation of a family who has had a child murdered in such a horrific manor sickens me. Do you know why the mom is in a wheelchair? Neither do I. The family's ignorance of who this monster is, is. . matched by the ignorance shown by too many monkeys. Some people quite frankly are simple, some are messed up from childhood on and do indeed  make poor decisions and choices. And many are forced to choose to live in their cars or shelters and yes in bad neighborhoods.  All are doing the best they can with what they have to work with. And they love their children just as much as you and I. With hindsight  we all may know and see better what was right before our eyes.  Indeed it saddens me to monkeys so hateful and sometimes Pius.,  Say what you will about my thoughts. I hope you take my words to heart and open your minds.

I can not turn my back on what has happened to this child and many other children..I can not dismiss it by thinking that the parents were 'simple' or had bad child hoods..so, we trudge on trying to make a difference so that it does not happen to another child..How very dare you say that this woman loves her children as much as we do! maybe as much as you do, but not as much as I do and the rest of the monkeys on here..How very dare you!!! Make excuses for these parents if it makes you feel good about yourself ...If you notice, Scared Monkey members do not say things about TRUE parents who grieve for their missing child who did not contribute to their child's disappearance/murder as this mother did!  You need to turn in your membership for the post that you left for us on here. Read Amy's Sister's very eloquent post to get a sense of what a real Scared Monkey is all about...
goodbye...You have really made me angry by attacking the gentle souls who post on here for children...

[cookie]

Excellent post Amy'sSister...very well stated!

[sunshine12]

I withdraw my membership in scared monkeys. Tho all your hearts may be in the right place, your hate and condemnation of a family who has had a child murdered in such a horrific manor sickens me. Do you know why the mom is in a wheelchair? Neither do I. The family's ignorance of who this monster is, is. . matched by the ignorance shown by too many monkeys. Some people quite frankly are simple, some are messed up from childhood on and do indeed  make poor decisions and choices. And many are forced to choose to live in their cars or shelters and yes in bad neighborhoods.  All are doing the best they can with what they have to work with. And they love their children just as much as you and I. With hindsight  we all may know and see better what was right before our eyes.  Indeed it saddens me to monkeys so hateful and sometimes Pius.,  Say what you will about my thoughts. I hope you take my words to heart and open your minds.

I can not turn my back on what has happened to this child and many other children..I can not dismiss it by thinking that the parents were 'simple' or had bad child hoods..so, we trudge on trying to make a difference so that it does not happen to another child..How very dare you say that this woman loves her children as much as we do! maybe as much as you do, but not as much as I do and the rest of the monkeys on here..How very dare you!!! Make excuses for these parents if it makes you feel good about yourself ...If you notice, Scared Monkey members do not say things about TRUE parents who grieve for their missing child who did not contribute to their child's disappearance/murder as this mother did!  You need to turn in your membership for the post that you left for us on here. Read Amy's Sister's very eloquent post to get a sense of what a real Scared Monkey is all about...
goodbye...You have really made me angry by attacking the gentle souls who post on here for children...

excellent post cookie!!!!!

[cookie]

Hopeforall- Respectfully, if it wasn't for the disgusting decisions and actions of her family (if we can even call them that), and their failure in the ultimate responsiblity to PROTECT their child, Aliahna would be alive today.


Amy's Sister-AMAZING post, thank you for expressing so eloquently something I could not without my head exploding

   amen Sista!

[darla]

Good morning Monkeys and Guest!

Thank  you Amy's sister and Cookie for your eloquent post back at Hopeforall. Since I am not prone to eloquence ,( I am just a simple mother and not a pious person) . My two cents worth is Hope ..don't let the door hit you in the arse on your way out. nuff said.

[flutter1]

Hopeforall- Respectfully, if it wasn't for the disgusting decisions and actions of her family (if we can even call them that), and their failure in the ultimate responsiblity to PROTECT their child, Aliahna would be alive today.


Amy's Sister-AMAZING post, thank you for expressing so eloquently something I could not without my head exploding

[flutter1]

I withdraw my membership in scared monkeys. Tho all your hearts may be in the right place, your hate and condemnation of a family who has had a child murdered in such a horrific manor sickens me. Do you know why the mom is in a wheelchair? Neither do I. The family's ignorance of who this monster is, is. . matched by the ignorance shown by too many monkeys. Some people quite frankly are simple, some are messed up from childhood on and do indeed  make poor decisions and choices. And many are forced to choose to live in their cars or shelters and yes in bad neighborhoods.  All are doing the best they can with what they have to work with. And they love their children just as much as you and I. With hindsight  we all may know and see better what was right before our eyes.  Indeed it saddens me to monkeys so hateful and sometimes Pius.,  Say what you will about my thoughts. I hope you take my words to heart and open your minds.

I can not turn my back on what has happened to this child and many other children..I can not dismiss it by thinking that the parents were 'simple' or had bad child hoods..so, we trudge on trying to make a difference so that it does not happen to another child..How very dare you say that this woman loves her children as much as we do! maybe as much as you do, but not as much as I do and the rest of the monkeys on here..How very dare you!!! Make excuses for these parents if it makes you feel good about yourself ...If you notice, Scared Monkey members do not say things about TRUE parents who grieve for their missing child who did not contribute to their child's disappearance/murder as this mother did!  You need to turn in your membership for the post that you left for us on here. Read Amy's Sister's very eloquent post to get a sense of what a real Scared Monkey is all about...
goodbye...You have really made me angry by attacking the gentle souls who post on here for children...

I refuse to be intimidated into silence by someone who believes that what I say would have one scintilla of effect upon those responsible for this child and the hundreds like her. 

I challenge each of you who read here to find a child who has disappeared who came from an intact nuclear (non-blended) family.  I can't think of one.  If you want to blame someone for the plague of dead children that litter this country, blame the Brady Bunch and all those who decided that divorce should be easy, affordable, and blameless.  With that mentality, came the fall of the time built custom of parents taking care of their own children.  The bounding that takes place upon birth, is not shared by a step parent or live-in or any other surrogate with the exception of perhaps grandparents.  Most steps are good, loving parents but many are placed in the position of being responsible for children that they do not know and can not bond with.

Children a fragile creatures and God created the nuclear family to protect them until they are able to do so on their own.  Break that family, usually because the two parties are immature themselves, and add the elements alcohol, drugs, porn, along with monetary strains that usually accompany these ill-conceived unions, and you have the recipe for disaster.  The target for this storm of unintended consequences more often than not, is the children. 

I say to those who criticize my rage at these "parents" is that if the sperm and egg donors had made the hard choices, the choices that were the best for their children and not themselves, they wouldn't find themselves mourning their loss and playing the "pity me" game.

That is why I mourn for the children, true the innocents, and not the parents, who more often than not, brought about the circumstances that eventually led to their children's deaths.  Call me cold-hearted, but I have been where these parents are and more important, where their children are or were.  I am lucky, however, I am a survivor of such "parents".

JMHO

[MuffyBee]

cartfly

[flutter1]

Sorry, MB...to the rafters for self-imposed time out/period of reflection.   

[cw618]

i feel Aliahna Marie Maroney Lemmon's death was a preventable tragedy.
all it took was a little commonsense,which seems to be in short supply
for the majority of these cases


FWIW
i went back a few pg and didnt see this posted,though it was in several of
the links,mind you that Tarah Souders,has not disputed what Greg Shumaker,
one of 15 convicted sex offenders who live at the park,has had to say,or any
of the news sources,i guess do we believe Greg Shumaker,and dad,trusted
mom's decision to,so he says

Mother of slain Indiana girl had asked about alleged killer, neighbor says
from pg1
FORT WAYNE, IND. — To assist her dying father, Tarah Souders made a choice: She moved her three young girls to a run-down trailer park in rural Indiana to help take care of him as his lungs rotted from emphysema.

She knew it could be dangerous. The park of about two dozen homes was teeming with convicted sex offenders, with one living at nearly every address.

She worried about neighbors with sex offense records who had been helping her father get by, according to trailer park residents. And before she arrived, she even asked her father if her children could be at risk for abuse from two specific men — including a suspect now accused in her daughter's death.

"He said, ‘No. They will not touch your children. They're doing everything they're supposed to do,’ ” said Greg Shumaker, one of 15 convicted sex offenders who live at the park and the other man Souders had inquired about.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20111228/NEWS02/312280100/Fort-Wayne-girl-death?odyssey=nav%7Chead

from pg2
But Aliahna’s father, Dawayne Maroney of Centerville, Iowa, said in a brief interview with the Associated Press that he knew Plumadore through Souders and had no reason to distrust him
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20111228/NEWS02/312280100/Fort-Wayne-girl-death?odyssey=nav%7Chead

[cookie]

Sorry, MB...to the rafters for self-imposed time out/period of reflection.   
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No way missy...you need to stay right here with the rest of us....hugs to you,Darla,CW and the rest of the monkeys here..

[cookie]

Sorry that I messed up that. Quote box..not used to my new kindle fire...

[MuffyBee]

Sorry, MB...to the rafters for self-imposed time out/period of reflection.  

flutter, my posting the picture of Aliahna wasn't directed to anyone in particular, so no need to go up to the rafters. 

It can be very difficult to read  case after case of children that are neglected, bartered, maimed, dismembered, murdered and more when it seems like the adults, including parents and others around the child failed that child.  We have infants disappearing from homes in the middle of the night.    We see cases right here in this forum of parents that not only neglect their children, but some bring the SO's, druggies and murderers right into their home where the children live or as in the case of the child in this thread, left them in the care of someone that shouldn't have been around them (ya'll know what I mean).  To mind comes the photo of little Shaniya Davis, with her rapist and murderer holding her outside the elevator of the hotel, just before she was killed. And remember Robert Manwill?  It just breaks my heart.  All of this brings out so much emotion.  And we all have our feelings and emotions and sometimes it all just comes out.  We look for answers, we ask why.  How could it have been prevented?  And there is the discussion that's been on this thread.  There are some parents that are good and are vigilant and watch over their children and bad things can still happen.  Then there are some that leave their children to the wolves.  It's hard to continue watching case after case after case.   The children are paying with their lives and it hurts us.  The children are the weakest and the most frail and they depend on us for everything.  And too many times the adults around them failed them.  JMHO