Philadelphia PA - Log of calls on day teen died is missing, aide says
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From: Greegor on 9 Mar 2010 19:20 "missing from documents turned over to federal prosecutors" Uh Oh! http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20100205_Log_of_calls_on_day_teen_died_is_missing__aide_says.html Log of calls on day teen died is missing, aide says By Nathan Gorenstein Inquirer Staff Writer Posted on Fri, Feb. 5, 2010 A call log listing messages from the day Danieal Kelly died is missing from documents turned over to federal prosecutors, and a witness yesterday described how the agency responsible for ensuring her health learned of the handicapped teenager's death. Silibaziso Sibanda, a billing clerk who rose to be office manager at MultiEthnic Behavioral Health Inc., stifled a sob as she recalled taking the call from a Philadelphia official on Aug. 4, 2006. Kelly, 14, had cerebral palsy, weighed 42 pounds, and was covered with bedsores when she died of starvation in her mother's West Philadelphia home. Sibanda also confirmed a government assertion that the company's office call log skips from Aug. 3 to Aug. 7, and she said torn-up slivers of paper shown to the jury appeared to have been ripped from the log. Assistant U.S. Attorney Bea Witzleben did not explicitly state that the shreds included the missing pages. Four MultiEthnic employees, including a founder, Mickal Kamuvaka, are charged with failing to provide in-home social services to Kelly and other children that the city's Department of Human Services had hired them to perform. Included were visits to Kelly's home that the government says never happened. The defendants are accused of tossing out subpoenaed documents after learning of her death and fabricating paperwork to make it appear the work had been done. Sibanda, who received an accounting degree from Temple University after immigrating from Zimbabwe, said that after a DHS worker called with news of Kelly's death, she contacted Kamuvaka and the social worker assigned to the family, Julius Juma Murray. Both arrived within an hour, and Murray spent part of the day filling out paperwork in the conference room, Sibanda said. She added that she had presumed it was "notes about the girl that died," but U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell struck that answer after a defense objection. Sibanda also said Kamuvaka had told her that if approached by investigators "not to talk to them because I wouldn't know who they are . . . [unless] they should subpoena me." Kamuvaka, 60, who was the agency's program director, has a doctorate in social work from the University of Pennsylvania, and is one of four MultiEthnic founders. A second founder, Solomon Manamela, 52 is also on trial, along with Murray, 52, and Mariam Coulibaly, 42, a former caseworker. MultiEthnic had contracts with the DHS from 2000 through 2006. Testifying about how DHS had managed the agency was Brian Clapier, the director of quality improvement. Kelly's death launched state, city, and federal investigations, and resulted in the demise of MultiEthnic, a prison sentence for the teenager's mother, and the firing of a number of DHS workers. |