Monroe Dispatch - No Struggle, No Progress

Children don’t ask to come here. Many variables play a role in what causes a mother to hurt her own child including mental illness, drug, addiction, or someone who was once themselves abused, deepening the mystery of how anyone could do such a thing.

According to police reports, On June 13, Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 21-year-old Julexis D. Wiley, the mother of a five-year-old victim in a child abuse case. Wiley was charged with second degree battery and cruelty to juvenile, after her son was taken to University Health Conway hospital by his grandmother with severe inju...