How Could You? Hall of Shame-Dusty Hughes case UPDATED

By on 8-25-2018 in Abuse in foster care, How could you? Hall of Shame, Justine Kersey, Oklahoma

How Could You? Hall of Shame-Dusty Hughes case UPDATED

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From Warr Acres, Oklahoma, foster mother Justine Kersey is “charged with multiple counts of child neglect, months after a little girl is hospitalized with 3rd and 4th degree burns.

It happened in Warr Acres while Dusty Hughes and five other children were left in the care of a 15-year-old boy.

Dusty’s parents say Thursday’s charges are an answered prayer. They say because of one person’s gross neglect, their daughter will spend a lifetime recovering from her injuries.

After a months of around the clock care, multiple surgeries, and encouragement from her family, 3-year-old Dusty Dawn is now strong enough to move.

But according to court documents, Dusty has a long road ahead. Her burns are so severe, surgeons have told investigators her cartilage was cooking.

Dusty’s parents blame her foster mother Justine Kersey. They say one way or another, she’ll pay.

“See you later, you’re going to jail,” said Dusty’s mother.

“I’ll leave it in God’s hands,” said Dusty’s father.

The night of the incident police say Kersey made plans to visit a friend that was hospitalized more than an hour and a half away in Ada. But while in route with her boyfriend, the couple changed their mind, detouring to a casino before deciding to stay the night with a friend.

“Tell that to Dusty Dawn. That’s why she’s up there. I guess dinner and casinos is more important than watching my baby,” said Dusty’s parents.

While Kersey was enjoying a night out, her 15-year-old nephew was at home caring for her six foster children. Five of which are special needs. The youngest child only 11-months-old.

While in his care, Dusty fell into a bathtub of scolding hot water. When questioned, investigators said the teen was visibly shaken and upset. Telling investigators she slipped into a tub while he was win another room.

Although the teen was initially charged, they were later dropped. Investigators citing they believed it was a tragic accident.

Surgeons say Dusty will undergo years of intensive reconstructive surgery. Dusty and her three siblings have been in foster care for over a year. Her parents told News 9 they were unable to provide shelter. ”

Oklahoma Foster Mother Charged After Child Suffers Severe Burns

[News 9 8/24/18 by Sylvia Corkill]

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Update: A  search of the Oklahoma court records shows that Justine has a pre-trial conference on October 30, 2019.

Update 2: A search of the Oklahoma court records shows that a trial is scheduled for May 18, 2020.

19 Comments

  1. I am dusty dawns mother and nothing has happened in court at all for my daughter they let them walk freely how sick of the state and there so called pinnacle plan they used my daughter for benefits so they can live off gas and oil I think this was not a accident at all

    • Why is your daughter in foster care? What were you doing that caused the courts to take her from your care?

      • Well my children got illegally kidnapped by child welfare there was a call saying we lived in a abandoned home and was squatters and children were there with no lights water etc well come to find out a oil and gas attorney by the name of Walker died and Walker lawfirm was supposed to help us find mismanagement of funds for his momma my husband that is deceased well we wanted to buy a house we had an agreement that he would sue the oil fields for charging my husband’s account he gave us a house that had no electric lines or water meter the utilities was in the grid department so we was remodeling the house and my children were there so when we went to court they gave us a wrong address so they made us do classes for four years and we are still to this day taking all the classes had four homes waiting for them to give our children back and we have receipts and it’s like a circle over and over again but we will win every battle they have to put in our path we love our children we remodeled four homes pay our bills on time have every certificate for children u can think of its all a set up all the time but now they are messing with my children’s emotions and my babies will come back and dhs Will give us our children back and my children’s inheritance enough is enough they are nothing but embwzzlers that like to us deceased people’s names and this has to stop Susie Ann buffalo Hughes passed away ten years ago and my daughter is a heir to chiefs that fought for my family. We got set up

  2. Im bout to go protest for my little girl justine kersey im going to make sure u sit day by day fuck cps

  3. well i am so happy cause dont i have a surprise for cps and the news lady i have evidence of ther ewicked lies my husband got sick cause of there corruption i have court papers about the how much trillions or billions they use out embezzlers in cps using federal funding from jackies mommas account and father they are taking the funds out noif jackies trsut accunt alot of my family are in this predicument to but there children hAS NEVER BEEN BURNED OR HURT OR STARVED OR ABUSEWD NEGLECTED WE ARE INDEPENDENT MH FATHER IS PASSED AWAY WE ARE GROWN ADULTS THAT DECIDE TONTke care of our children withour sking anybnody for help anymore case ame it we are the resource we will shut down asnd plug the oil rigs have eery squater removed off trivbal lands my children i anmd jackie own 100 pwecent of soil minerals oi;a nd gas u

  4. if amypne makes a smart dum comment that has nothing to with my daughter getting hurt then i guess i will add u to the list of the guilty thesuspect list cuse what kind of cold hearted person actually asks why my children got put in cps that helps me none at all and really my daughter is a victim thimk about my vhildren that has witnessesd the inncident ause when i went to go see my children and my son sky eman hughes said momma dusty dusty and susie was crying i told my son dsuty is okay and she is going to make it from my undestanding this isnt a accident it was plotted ny oge corporation and some boswell to plan a state of emergency for the state or {aka}cps pinnacle plan to unleash 6 million dollars from the oklahoma bamk i read the documents my children got used my daughter got burned cause of inheritance well guesss what the crator decide she is here to stay and cps yalls pinnacle plan hyall forged jeanna denso a nd tammi whit somebosy by the name of harjo yall hurt my kids and i am demanding them back immeditly domhyall nderstand me

    • I have a update therr has been a lawsuit against cps dhs state child welfare for not protecting the health and protection of my daughter plus leaving my daughter unattended with a minor and not releasing records from the hospital this lawsuit is for her and i think that lawfirm busset ex dhs employees need to keep our lawsuot seperate from the rest thats on the contract we signed dahn gregg was at the casino records of progress reports got stolen from her car thats why dahn grgg was arrested they are also lawyers helping lawyers they fund raise and no telling what else they do not keep us updated on the lawsuit i will get down to the bottom of this and take this case in my own hands i already have exibits a-z with my own research

  5. When will there be updates

  6. hoping that the trial is still scheduled because isnt there enough evidence of rhe state hurting and qbandoning my daughter they knew that justine was at the casino left my daughter for 18 hours suffering and i did my isp completed they deleted the records i paid alot of money twords a home 1 year lease paid for and while i was in the hospital with my lil girl somwone stole titles to property of our ancestors that was given to us there are more nativc mothers that finished there isps and why does dahn gregg or who ever that was the one tha took our progress reports out of the state building so i thought that state meant the state of oklahoma something is not right i think its jelousy and discrimmintion a organuzed crime i found wierd documents in my reunification house im demanding answers i.mediatly i have human rights and am a citizen stop using children native children for federal tax credits and royalties that is against the law

  7. Why is Justine kara kersey still out and free I forgot her aunt represents her isn’t that illegal .I would think it would be

  8. Well I guess I will have to have Justine kersey investigated again this is not over with

  9. i am waiting for dhs case workers jeanna denson and tammi white to be put in jail then sent to prison for knowing that my daughter dusty dawn hughes was laying theer on the ground for 18 hours 18 hours is a true fact by the police investigator and that she was injured just cause justines aunty that is a rich lawyer dont mean that its ok for her to represent her niece justine kersey what at our courts in concho and how is her nephew cheyenne and ararapho i wonder what the violations si that these adults or so called adultsviolasted for justines aunt to go to my reservation concho and represent justine for getting custody of her nephew the one that hurt my daughter and dipped her head in boiling water of 150 degrees a true fact of a nurse ask kersey took me to her house and blamed it on the land lord after the incident she shouldnt have left my children with the fifteen year old and when he called she should have been going to the house to take her to the hospital or called 911 or told the nephew to call 911 instead she was getting her groove on at the casino newcastle anyways isnt that where the files of parents that had there progress reports stolen out of the car at newcastle cause a dhs worker stole the progress reports my progress reports was probably in there to so some type of scam was going on it looks to me think about it take those bitches to jail then boot there asses to prison

  10. why isnt dhs in njail and the foster mother my opinion is that the facts evidence is that the files got stolen in new castle thats the same time mabey that ents that completed my isps the cse workers knew that my daughter ws ther casue the caseworker actually admitted it jeanna at the team meeting kersey was at the casino getting her groove on the state a case worker stole the files out of the state office and these files was avturs ally progress reports of families that completed there isps i am one of the parents that completed one of my isps jeanna denson and tammi white said in front of the icwa workers that they knew that dusty dawn was laying on the floor for 18 hours at our family team meeting why is the state working with icw anyways cause they are the ones that hurt my lil girl and i am suing them and nothing has been don e it better not be for money and buissness

  11. i i have a question whats up with newcastle casino and the foster parents and the case worker sin 2018 going there and thats where the files of the progress reports got stolen in 2018 and justine and the caseworkers never got charged

  12. why is it taking so long for these people to m be thrown in jail

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