How Could You? Hall of Shame-Jodi Kilpatrick/Glascoe and Richard Glascoe and Lawsuit UPDATED
This will be an archive of heinous actions by those involved in child welfare, foster care and adoption. We forewarn you that these are deeply disturbing stories that may involve sex abuse, murder, kidnapping and other horrendous actions.
From Artesia, New Mexico, foster parent and junior high school teacher Jodi Kilpatrick/Glascoe,42, was arrested on Friday November 2, 2012 for “allegedly raping young foster children in her care. Her ex-husband, Richard Glascoe is a convicted sex offender serving a 25-year sentence for raping three 7-year-olds while they were in foster care years ago.
Kirkpatrick’s charges stem from an investigation in Clovis. Court documents allege from 2003 to 2006, a 6-year-old was forced to watch and participate in sexual acts with Kirkpatrick and Glascoe, while in foster care. A woman who spoke with KRQE News 13 said her niece was a student of Kirkpatrick’s.
“They (Kirkpatrick’s students) were pulled into the cafeteria, but they were not actually told anything concrete about what was going on or why this was happening, they just said ‘oh you got a new teacher, here you go,'” she said. School officials would not comment on the case, citing personnel matters, but the Superintendent did say Kirkpatrick is in her first year with the school district. Police said one child was allegedly handcuffed in the Glascoe’s bedroom and threatened with a gun and knife on different occasions. Court documents state the child was also forced to watch the couple sexually assault a toddler. According to the criminal complaint, when a caseworker visiting the home asked Kirkpatrick why one of the children was crying, she allegedly blamed it on sickness.
Since Kirkpatrick worked with 8th and 9th graders, Artesia police are worried there could be more victims.
“We encourage them to talk to their counselors, their school resource officers, the detectives, whoever they trust to get that information where it needs to be,” said Commander Lindell Smith, of the Artesia Police Department, of potential victims. The Artesia Schools Superintendent confirmed Kirkpatrick is on administrative leave pending an investigation. Kirkpatrick and Glascoe are currently divorced.
When the crimes allegedly happened, police said the couple had at least seven children in the home ranging from a one-year-old to a 17-year-old.”
Jr. high teacher arrested for violent sex crimes
[KRQE 11/5/12 by Gabrielle Burkhardt]
“Kirkpatrick is charged with five counts of criminal sexual penetration and five counts of kidnapping.
Police said Kirkpatrick and her ex-husband, Richard Glascoe, sexually assaulted several foster children in their care while living in Clovis from 2003 to 2006.
Glascoe was convicted in 2007, but new evidence found last week prompted a warrent for Kirkpatrick.”
Teacher charged with sexual assault
[KOB 11/5/12 by Erica Zucco]
A search of public court case records shows that she has been charged with 5 Felony 1 counts of criminal sexual penetration (1st degree) child under 13; 5 Felony 1 counts of kidnapping; and 5 Felony 4 counts of contributing to the deliquency of minors.
REFORM Puzzle Pieces
Update:”A Washington state couple are suing the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department, alleging the agency failed to properly screen a Clovis-area foster couple accused of raping some of the children in their care, including a boy the Washington couple later adopted.
The two people accused of abusing the boy are Richard L. Glascoe and his wife, Jodi L. Kirkpatrick (aka Jodi Glascoe), formerly of Clovis.
Glascoe, a former Curry County jail guard, was convicted in 2007 of raping three 7-year-old girls and is serving a 25-year prison sentence.
Kirkpatrick — who divorced Glascoe around the time he was convicted — was working as a junior high school teacher in Artesia when she was charged with five counts of child rape in 2012. Those charges — some of which are related to Kirkpatrick’s alleged abuse of the Washington couple’s son — are still pending.
The Washington couple said in a complaint filed in state District Court last week that their son suffered heinous abuse during three different periods between May 2003 and December 2006 when he spent time in the Glascoe home. He was between the ages of 3 and 6 at the time. The New Mexican isn’t identifying the couple to avoid identifying the child.
Among the allegations are that the foster couple had handcuffed the boy, threatened him with a gun, forced him to watch them have sex, sexually and physically assaulted him and forced him to witness their sexual assault of other children of both sexes, including a baby.
According to the complaint, the child was removed from the foster home in late 2006, just as Richard Glascoe was being investigated on allegations of child abuse.
The mother said Monday that she and her husband had agreed to foster two children who had been in the Glascoe home — the boy they later adopted and a girl who ran away and was returned to CYFD a month later — but they were expressly told the boy had not been sexually abused.
“They assured us it was all against girls,” the adoptive mother said Monday.
The couple adopted the boy in 2007, the complaint says, and a few weeks later moved to Davenport, Wash.
In the late fall of 2012, the complaint says, the child began “acting out,” displaying concerning behaviors and commenting on things that had happened when he lived in the Glascoe home.
In addition to saying he had been forced to watch the foster couple have sex with each other and other children, both male and female, the boy said a state caseworker had visited the home during one of the abusive events and found the boy crying but had left him in the care of the foster couple, according to the complaint.
The mother said her son, now 14, is “far from” OK.
“He’s acted out, and we have a safety plan in place,” she said. “He has 24-hour supervision.”
She said her son is glad the foster couple have been criminally charged.
The parents claim in their lawsuit that the state agency failed to supervise, monitor or inspect the foster couple sufficiently and that the agency knew or should have known about the abuse but failed to reveal it to them before they adopted the child.
The mother said Monday that she wishes she’d known earlier about the abuses her son suffered so she could have gotten him more intensive counseling sooner.
“Overall, I wish CYFD would have told us as there were more charges and such throughout the years,” she said, adding that when her son exhibited strange behavior growing up, she and her husband didn’t know what to think and sometimes wondered whether his behavior was just “a boy thing” or if it was related to something he had witnessed Richard Glascoe do to another child.
The parents seek an unspecified amount of compensatory, incidental, special, punitive and exemplary damages, as well as legal fees and court costs, from the state agency.
The suit names CYFD Secretary Yolanda Deines, Richard Glascoe, Jodi Kirkpatrick and five unnamed CYFD employees as defendants.
According to a Nov. 8, 2012, story in the Clovis News Journal, court records introduced in the case against Kirkpatrick indicate the Glascoe couple had fostered seven children between May 2003 and December 2006.
Department spokesman Henry Varela said via email Monday that he could not comment on the case because the agency had not yet been served and because state law prevents the department from disclosing information in child abuse investigations.”
Couple sue CYFD over adopted son’s alleged abuse by foster parents[Santa Fe New Mexican 10/28/14 by Phaedra Haywood]
Update 2:“The state Children, Youth and Families Department has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to settle a lawsuit brought by a Washington state family who alleged the state agency failed to properly screen a Clovis-area foster couple accused of raping some of the children in their care, including a boy the couple later adopted.
“I can’t disclose the amount of the settlement but the facts of the case were horrific,” the family’s attorney, Kate Ferlic of Santa Fe said Tuesday after the case was settled. “This poor boy was systemically abused sexually for the duration of his custody with the state. It’s tragic, and the state did the right thing by settling this case.”
The parents claimed in their lawsuit that the state agency knew or should have known about the child’s abuse and they sought compensation from the state for the damages he suffered in hopes of securing a better future for him.
Children, Youth and Families Department spokesman Henry Varela referred questions about the settlement to the state Risk Management Division. A spokesman there could not be reached late Tuesday.
The New Mexican is not identifying the adoptive parents in order to avoid identifying the child.
The people accused of abusing the boy are Richard L. Glascoe and his ex-wife, Jodi L. Kirkpatrick, formerly of Clovis.
Glascoe, a former Curry County jail guard, was convicted in 2007 of raping three 7-year-old girls and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
In 2012, the lawsuit says, the boy adopted by the Washington couple began “acting out,” displaying concerning behaviors and commenting on things that had happened when he lived in the Glascoe home. The boy, who is now 17, was 12 when he disclosed the abuse, Ferlic said.
Kirkpatrick — who divorced Glascoe around the time he was convicted of raping the three girls — was working as a junior high school teacher in Artesia in 2012 when she was charged with five counts of child rape. Online court records show that those charges, some of which were related to Kirkpatrick’s alleged abuse of the Washington couple’s son, were dismissed by the prosecutor in September. The dismissal notice states: “A co-defendant has accepted accountability. Criminal charges may be re-filed at a later time.”
Glascoe pleaded no contest to charges related to the boy and was sentenced to 15 additional years in prison, according to Ferlic, but was allowed to serve those concurrently with his existing 25-year sentence.
In their complaint filed in state District Court in 2014, the boy’s adoptive parents claimed the boy suffered heinous abuse during three periods he spent with the foster couple between 2003 and 2006 when the child was between the ages of 3 and 6 years old.
Among the allegations were that the foster couple had handcuffed the boy, threatened him with a gun, forced him to watch them have sex, sexually and physically assaulted him and forced him to witness their sexual assault of other children of both sexes, including a baby.
The adoptive mother told The New Mexican in 2014 that the state agency expressly told the adoptive parents that the boy they adopted in 2007, when he was 7 years old, had not been sexually abused.”
CYFD settles suit over sexually abused adopted child
[Sante Fe New Mexican 7/25/17 by Phaedra Haywood]
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