The Case of Malachi and Sariah

ACCOUNTS AND RECOLLECTIONS

The Case of Malachi and Sariah
Prepared for: Investigator Boyd, Riverside County Sheriff
Prepared by: Angelina Villa, mother
January 7, 2016

HISTORY
WARNING SIGNS

CPS Report in 2015
CPS contacted Angelina Harris in early 2015 to inform her a closed investigation involving Malachi reporting inappropriate contact at home with father and girlfriend. When Malachi was questioned, he had nothing to say. Angelina spoke with Bobby, and he said that he didn’t know who made the report, but someone may be attempting to harass him.

Angelina spoke with Bobby’s former girlfriend, Andrea Poma, and she reported that there had been issue with Crystal and her ex husband. He was upset that she had abruptly left him with the children to move into Bobby’s home. He had sent Facebook messages to many of Bobby’s friends, and Angelina reasoned that he may have made the report. (Article 1) He sent messages as James Darnell, but his name is Rashaud Turner.

made the report. (Article 1) He sent messages as James Darnell, but his name is Rashaud Turner.

Personality Changes
Malachi was having issues at school with emotional outbursts, threatening other students, aggression, and claims that he wanted to die. He gained a signiﬁcant amount of weight in 2015, and his self esteem was very low. He has issues with peeing on himself during the school day. Angelina had multiple conversations with his second grade teacher, Mrs. Garcia, through email and by phone. She recommended that he see a counselor, and he began seeing Zandra Glover, a family friend, in October 2015. An email from Mrs. Garcia is attached in Articles 2 & 3. Sariah was often anxious and regularly wet the bed, and seemed generally disconnected from her surroundings. She also had sexual undertones to her affection given to family and friends.

She also had sexual undertones to her affection given to family and friends.

Disclosure
Malachi and Sariah began disclosing sexual and emotional abuse on November 24th, 2015. A CPS report was made on November 25th, 2015. Malachi and Sariah were taken to Kaiser Permanente in Riverside and disclosed their experience to the social worker on call. The social worker called the police and they arrived around 9 pm to interview the children.
Sariah informed ofﬁcer Johnson and Cox of sexual abuse at home by her father, Crystal, and his friends. They told Angelina that Sariah’s statements were inconclusive, and told Angelina that they would not arrest an innocent man on a felony based on false allegations. Angelina did not know what was said at the time, and was offended that the ofﬁcers drew the immediate conclusion of Bobby’s innocence. It was nearly two weeks before CPS would interview the children.

Since November 23rd the children have disclosed the following experiences:

Malachi was made to touch and rub Bobby’s privates with his hands, feet, and cheeks. His hair was used to rub his father’s private parts.
Malachi was made to touch and rub Bobby’s privates with his hands, feet, and cheeks. His hair was used to rub his father’s private parts.•
Malachi was made to rub Crystal’s breasts, butt, and private parts with his hands and mouth.
Malachi and Sariah were given pills that make them dizzy, sleepy, and hyper. He described that one of the pills affected his hearing and that Bobby would laugh at him. The affects of these pills would last for two days and would make it hard for him to concentrate at school.
Malachi was treated differently from the other children in the home. He was punished disproportionately, not allowed to eat with the others, and made to clean up after the other kids or act like a dog.
Sariah was made to play with Bobby, Crystal, Rodney, Ronald, and others she cannot name.
She says they took turns with her exposing her to ﬁre, playing sexual games, playing with poop and pee on cardboard boxes
Sariah was forced to sleep alone in a pod outside, where she was bitten by bugs. She regularly returned from Bobby’s house with bites all over her body. Bobby would say in texts messages he didn’t know how or why she had the bites, and claimed they were an allergic reaction. He sent her to Angelina with allergy medicine to address the bumps.
Sariah describes cops coming to her room at night with a cage and taking her away from her room to play games on a hard wooden bed with chains and handcuffs. She would have to do what they said if she wanted to work her way out of jail.
Sariah describes peeking into Bobby’s room while he was having an orgy in the morning. She said there were 4 women and 5 men, and that three men were touching daddy’s private parts.
Sariah describes peeking into Bobby’s room while he was having an orgy in the morning. She said there were 4 women and 5 men, and that three men were touching daddy’s private parts.• She says that daddy and Rodney would touch their privates in front of her
She took baths with Rodney
She said Rodney cussed a lot while playing with her
She says that Crystal told her to only love brown people and disgusting people. Disgusting people are those who poop and pee wherever they want to.
Sariah says that Bobby ad Crystal touch Elijah’s privates and smear poop on his face during the gross games.
Both Malachi and Sariah say they are made to watch bloody movies that have people being operated on while they are awake. They hate this.
Malachi says he heard plans made by Crystal and Bobby to poison mommy, steal all of her stuff, and make a video of her stealing the items, and to get rid of her.
Malachi says that Bobby and Crystal hated Angelina and said she was a terrible mother and wanted her to go to prison. They would take pictures of themselves committing crimes and replace the faces with Angelina and laugh.
Sariah says Crystal would whisper in her ear “Your mommy is going to prison”
Sariah says Crystal would whisper in her ear “Your mommy is going to prison”
Sariah reports nearly drowning in an overﬂowing bathtub that Rodney left her in• Malachi says he was listening at the bathroom door, because he didn’t know why Rodney came to have a meeting with Sariah. He heard no talking, but heard running water. Her opened the door because he had to go to the bathroom, and was knocked down by all of the water that spilled out of the bathroom. He says Sariah was at the door soaked with red eyes and could barely see. He says he saved her life.
Malachi says he was often made to go to school stinky
Malachi says he was often made to go to school stinky
Malachi says he saw Crystal and Bobby steal from stores. They would place items in their mouths, so that they could leave with items, even if the sensors went off.

The Court Case
Sufﬁcient abuse was proven and the restraining order was granted for nine months pending the criminal investigation.

Deputy Cox took the stand, shaking and nearly in tears. He said that Sariah reported being abused by “Bobby”, and his friends, but she was not emotional and was standing, spinning a chair while telling her experiences. In his opinion, she was lying and coached. When asked how many children he had seen who had been molested, he said one and that he had taken a class on t subject years ago in the academy. He is still in training. The judge was appalled by his testimony and made a closing statement at the end stating that he was surprised that no one objected to his testimony. How could a man, with experience or not, discount accounts of abuse by a ﬁve year old, because she did not ﬁt his proﬁle of an abuse victim.
Olivia Baker took the stand and said that Malachi and Sariah had disclosed abuse. She did not recall what was said in the forensic interview, she said she was there, but was not paying attention.• She did say that when they searched Bobby’s home on the day the abuse was reported, he did not allow them to search his garage. Bobby claimed that only his friend had access to the garage and requested that she return later to search it. The garage was searched two weeks later.
Bobby took the stand and admitted to renting a u haul van the day after the search to clear out the contents of his garage. He loaded up the truck and disposed of the contents in the Homecoming apartment complex dumpsters.
Angelina took the stand and testiﬁed to what the children had reported to her. She described having open access to the garage from the kitchen, while living in the home for 8 years. There were also two garage doors with separate openers and an entry door to the garage from the outside. There was no reason that the garage would have been inaccessible, unless Bobby had made purposeful modiﬁcations to the garage access points.
The details of Bobby’s assault on Angelina was told by both parties. the judge did not believe Bobby’s story, and granted the restraining order.
Bobby claims he had to clear his garage of debris left behind from the construction project that ended the day before the search. But the paperwork from the insurance company shows that the work was completed a week earlier and included clean up of all construction materials. The reason for the work was water damage. Bobby claims he had two faulty washing machines, but Malachi and Sariah’s accounts of the ﬂood say otherwise.

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