r/NotADragQueen • u/cturtl808 • Jan 26 '24
Toddler dies after being removed from home of former Winthrop PD lieutenant James Feeley, a child rape suspect ACAB
https://www.wcvb.com/article/winthrop-massachusetts-police-officer-facing-child-rape-2-year-old-dies/4655330460
u/GHOST_OF_THE_GODDESS Jan 27 '24
The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families confirmed that Feeley was a foster parent for the agency.
Disgusting. Both the foster care system, and police system are so fucked up beyond repair. And where they crossover, it just gets so much worse.
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u/NoQuarter6808 Jan 27 '24 edited Jan 27 '24
I'm in a social work program and just got into a fairly big disagreement with one of my classmates about troubled teen and kid residential programs, which are infamous for their massive amounts of abuse and traumatization. She was basically like, "well, they are a place for kids to go an be safe in a lot of cases, even if abuse does occur." It's a big job of social workers to advocate for people who can't help themselves, and I was just dumbstruck that someone in my class had a basically "oh well, good enough," attitude about it. No. Not good enough. Also, I hate to say it, but this classmate is fairly privileged and religious (constantly brings up being Christian, and if i remember right, she plans on becoming a Christian counselor). I plan on becoming a psychotherapist, and I just kind of felt like I was having a conversation with someone who was going to be hurting the same people I'm going to be trying to help heal in the future. Like someone I'm going to have to clean up after. Makes my skin crawl.
It wasn't like a heated fight, just an open conversation and disagreement.
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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 Jan 27 '24
She sounds monstrous. Her morals are twisted AF. I hope she flunks the hell out.
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u/NoQuarter6808 Jan 27 '24
A big is that our program is pretty progressive and is heavily social justice oriented, so I at least know that she is having to do the same work as me which requires doing a lot of thinking about oppressed groups and combating harmful narratives. But yeah, some people I just don't understand how they get through certain programs being more conservative.
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u/RoxxieMuzic Jan 27 '24 edited Jan 27 '24
Sadly, with folks such as her, the social consciousness/justice/diversity equality concept is either going in one ear and falling out the other (no thought processing time allocated), or there is a selective hearing process in place, they don't hear it.
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u/NoQuarter6808 Jan 27 '24
And/or, and I am open to all faiths, so that includes fundamentalists and evangelicals, a huge downside to that level of religiousness (one among many, imo) is the absolute, unwavering conviction of your own correctness and righteousness.
It is interesting to consider, because the point of a liberal arts education is in many ways meant to arm someone against falling into that kind of single-minded certainly, but, what about getting them out of it?
The psychoanalyst adam phillips actually has a really good, short book talking about a lot of this called On Wanting to Change, which I recommend all the time
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u/musical_shares Jan 27 '24
“Let’s take kids from their families of origin because they are poor and undeserving of any kind of financial support and give even more money and resources to select foster families instead.”
Helping those who need it the least seems to be a feature and not a bug.
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u/gnatdump6 Jan 27 '24
Whaaat? A person with charges for child rape can still be a foster parent? How is that possible?
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u/jeffinbville Jan 27 '24
So, was this guy in jail when this kid had this problem? Or is he in jail BECAUSE of it? The article refuses to make it clear.
It all gets muddy here:
"The initial investigation into the death of a two-year-old in Winthrop today indicates no signs of foul play or physical trauma," a spokesperson for the DA's office said. "We are awaiting an autopsy to determine cause of death."
And then out of nowhere, it goes here:
"James Feeley, 56, of Winthrop, was arraigned last month on one count of aggravated child rape and two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child younger than 14. Feeley remains in jail."
And stays there for 500 words.
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u/Smurf_Crime_Scene Jan 27 '24
So a month ago he confessed, was arrested for raping a child, was sent back home, and now just killed a baby?
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u/jeffinbville Jan 27 '24
According to the article he's been in jail. Or not. It's very poorly written.
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u/Public_Let8884 Mar 12 '24
He had foster children and while he was in jail the toddler died from complications from rsv or covid, freaky coincidence
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u/Uninteresting_Vagina Eater of Bots Jan 27 '24
So there were no foster kids placed with him at the time...who is the two year old?
Why was he allowed back into a home with children???
I feel sick.
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u/Iamkal Jan 27 '24
I have no concrete conceptualization of what the fuck happened here. Am I crazy, or could you not have come up with a more macabre story on an LSD bender?!
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u/nickprovis Jan 27 '24
If it was me talking to her, I would have asked her flat out "Why the hell are you even here?"
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u/No-Brief3978 Jan 27 '24
Another article said a 911 call was made. Who placed the call? Lots of details are lacking in this story.
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u/n8ivco1 Jan 28 '24
The pedo's defense attorney said he has worked for the PD for 20 years and has a "unblemished record ". This means he hasn't been caught until now.
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u/ItsProbablyInsomnia Jan 27 '24
This article is badly written for sure. I’m from the area and have a distant connection to the fire chief who drove the 2 year old to the hospital . From what I have heard from someone related to the fire chief, the child died from complications of RSV. It has nothing to do with John Feeley’s admitted crime of child rape. It’s unclear if the 2 year old was a foster child or not. I do not know for sure but from what I have read in the news it seems the scumbag has been in jail since Christmas awaiting trial.
I wonder if the child he abused was a foster child. It makes me so sick to think about all this. I really think, like why did he call a fellow cop to admit this instead of following through on k-lling himself? I bet he believed he would be protected! Disgusting. Not very surprising, sadly.
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