How Could You? Hall of Shame-Roger and Carmela Johnson
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 Rupert, West Virginia, Foster and Adoptive parent Roger Johnson was arrested “on sexual assault charges” on May 16,2014. “Sergeant Roger Baker tells WVVA that Roger Johnson of Rupert is charged with sexually assaulting children in his care. He says the victims are foster children and adopted children who live with Johnson and his wife in their S Street home. Sergeant Baker says Johnson’s wife was involved but he would not confirm whether or not she had been charged.
Roger Johnson has been arraigned and is being held on $45,000 bond. ”
Rupert man charged with sexual assault[WVVA 5/16/14 by Greg Carter]
Carmela
“A teacher’s aide in Greenbrier County has been accused of striking one of her foster children in the face.
Carmela Johnson, 52, was arrested Friday morning on a charge of one count of domestic battery.
The criminal complaint against her says that she hit an eleven year old child in the face, causing a nose bleed. The incident occurred in April 2014.
Johnson’s bond was posted at $3,500. According to Sgt. Baker at the Greenbrier County Sheriff’s Department, additional charges are pending, and the investigation remains ongoing.
Carmela’s husband, Roger Johnson, was arrested on May 16 and charged with felonious sexual abuse by a parent or guardian.
Roger Johnson has been accused of sexually assaulting four girls between the ages of 12 and 17.”
Woman charged with domestic battery towards foster child[WVVA 5/30/14 by Mycah George]
REFORM Puzzle Piece
I know these people and this is not what happened. They had a teenager who was upset when Carmella and Roger told her that she could not move in with her boyfriend. The girl is 17 and was in foster care. The girl then stated If you don’t let me move in with him, then I am going to bust up this house. About a week after she stated that is when CPS took the kids and apparently all of this stuff came out of the woodwork.
Really,
It’s possible. Unlike a small child, a teenager IS old enough to create false allegations out of vengeance.
However, law enforcement is obliged to seriously investigate ALL charges of sexual abuse by a minor, not just accept the parents’ claims that “She’s just saying that because she didn’t get her way on something” at face value. Especially given that per FBI statistics there are FEWER false reports of sex crimes than any other type of crime.
And CPS workers are obliged to act to protect any vulnerable children in the home. If it is indeed only one teen with a grudge who is slandering the APs, then the other three girls will fail to back up her story, and the case will undoubtedly be closed as “unsubstantiated”.
Ever occur to you that if the foster father’s account is true, all he had to do is say to her is “Take it up with your caseworker. You’re a ward of the courts, so I don’t have the authority to approve your living in a different household. That has to go through DSS.”
Really? I know these people to … my kid is related to them. U don’t know what happened. Its 4 girls not just one! Your sick! And if it isn’t true why have they not contacted family? Never a word about it….. lucky for all that my girl wasn’t there!
The problem is, CPS will NOT ALLOW the other girls to testify. It was 2 girls who were saying anything of the like and that is the oldest girl and the girl who is 12 who was raped and running around Rainelle prostituting herself out once she was placed into the foster home after Carmella and Roger.
Re: “…The problem is, CPS will NOT ALLOW the other girls to testify…”
If they’re saying nothing happened to THEM, then they have nothing to testify ABOUT. Their saying “Roger Johnson didn’t do anything sexual to me” doesn’t have any bearing on whether he DID molest the other girls or not.
Re: “…the girl who is 12 who was raped and running around Rainelle prostituting herself out once she was placed into the foster home after Carmella and Roger…”
If true, this is strong evidence that she was once in an abusive relationship with SOMEBODY, and a pimp took advantage of her prior grooming to sexually exploit her.
This is also something that should be reported to law enforcement, because she’s a victim of sex trafficking. Have you done this yet?
First of all, you are dumb. You do not know anything! were you there when all this stuff went down? I do not think so! How do you know what happened? Oh that’s right you don’t. You are just assuming and making stupid comments on a social media site because you have no life! you are a low life who needs to get a life. People like you make me sick! You have no business putting your two sense in about CHILDREN! And if more than one child made allegations that happened than how is it made up? go care about your own damn kids and get off here and take your trash else where.
You all are dumb. When an innocent elementary school girl should hardly know what the word sex means has had more sexual abuse than many will in there life. She was removed from a home for sexual abuse and placed her in a “safe” home the same thing happened there also. Just because you think you know someone personally or are family with them doesn’t mean shit. What they do behind closed doors is something that no one knows except for the people that were involved. Maybe it did happen, maybe it didn’t but it’s no ones business but theirs. [Rally edited]
I am Carmela Johnson and
I would like everyone that reads these comments to know that the charges were dropped against us. But if course most wouldn’t know that because Sergeant Roger Baker didn’t contact the TV news to cover that, just the arrest. I guess being there for the charges being dropped looked too bad on them. It took us a while but everyone of our children came home but one. We jumped thru all the hoops that they wanted us to. Finally the judge was tired of carrying on the court case and instructed DHHR to come to an agreement. They wouldn’t so he returned all the children that wanted to come home back to us. The one child that started all of this had already made accusations and been thru 4 other foster homes. The charges pending against her step father were dropped because she got caught lying on the stand in our court case. The foster home that she was in after ours contacted DHHR and told them to come and get her she would not be staying one more nite in her home. That foster home happened to be the home of the principal of Greenbrier West. Hopefully this cleats things up a bit.