How Could You? Hall of Shame-Davon Moore and Aleesha Washington

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.

A 2024 case has come to light.

From Socastee, South Carolina, adoptive parents, Davon Moore and Aleesha Washington, have been arrested “in connection to an abandoned children case in the Socastee area.

Police arrested Davon Moore and Aleesha Washington on Wednesday, May 22 [2024] and charged them with two counts of kidnapping, three counts of unlawful conduct toward a child and two counts of abuse inflicting great bodily injury upon a child.

The charges stem from a case on May 7, when police found two boys at a business in the 6300 block of Bay Road off 707. A police report described the two boys as “abnormally skinny.”

Arrest warrants show that around 1 a.m. on May 7, the two boys ran away from a home in the… Spice Bush Crescent and went to the business for help.

The two boys were taken into protective custody and admitted to the hospital. Warrants state that while at the hospital it was discovered the boys had multiple fractures throughout their body, along with bruising, scarring and cuts.

According to the arrest warrants, a forensic interview was performed where the victims said from December 2023 to May 2024, Moore and Washington would lock them in a room all day, withhold food, clothing and bathroom privileges and would “excessively physically punish” them.

The warrants state the abuse was so bad it resulted in permanent disfigurement and that the boys could have died if they had not been treated.

The documents also show that Moore and Washington would use zip ties and other restraints to tie up the boys’ hands and feet together.

According to the warrants, Moore and Washington would make a third boy at the home lock his adopted brothers in their room.

Moore and Washington are being held at J. Reuben Long Detention Center with no bond.”

Warrants: ‘Emaciated’ boys abused by adoptive parents, tied up in room for hours in Socastee
[WMBF News 5/28/24]

A search of the South Carolina court records shows that Davon had a “Competency Observation Evaluation” in 2025 and a “letter” on 2/27/26. The case is still pending.

Aleesha was charged with “2481-Children / Unlawfully place a child at risk of or cause harm or willfully abandon the child” and a formal order was granted on 6/18/26 (of which was not revealed).Case is still pending.

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