How Could You? Hall of Shame-Allen Clayton Fulks, Dakota Wayne Singletary, and Stacy Lynn Tharpe

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 Vernon Parish, Loiusiana, guardians “Allen Clayton Fulks, age 20, of Rosepine, Dakota Wayne Singletary, age 22, of Lake Charles and Stacy Lynn Tharpe, age 29, of Rosepine, are all behind bars charged with second degree cruelty to a juvenile. ”

“Faulks and Singletary are charged with severely beating the [7-year-old girl] and Tharp is charged with witnessing them do it and then attempting to conceal her whereabouts by leaving her unattended.

Detectives discovered the child and her deplorable condition through a bizarre series of incidents that led them to her.

Just before 9:30 p.m. on July 6, Rosepine Police Officer Robert Green and Louisiana State Trooper Peter Smith responded to a vehicle accident on Lockhart Cutoff Road in the Rosepine area. When they arrived, the officers found Singletary and Fulks inside the vehicle suffering from minor injuries.

As the officers were investigating at the scene, Tharp arrived with her children. Rosepine is a small town, and Green knew Tharp was caring for an additional child, who was not with her.

Green asked Tharpe about the child, and she indicated the child’s mother had the child.”

But a witness at the scene said the child was in Tharp’s care. At Tharp’s home, the girl was suffering from severe bruising and her eyes were almost swollen shut.

Singletary and Fulks had repeatedly beaten her with their fists and choked her until she lostconsciousness. Her hair had also been cut off.

Craft said the victim told deputies she “was tired and couldn’t take the abuse any longer.”

While officers investigated the apparent horrific case of child abuse at Tharpe’s house, Singletary and Fulks were at the hospital being treated for their injuries from the automobile accident.

Upon their release from the hospital the following day, investigators interviewed them at the Vernon Parish Sheriff’s Office on July 7. Both men admitted to Detective Vance that they had abused the child, according to sheriff’s officials.

Following those July 7 interviews, Singletary and Fulks were arrested and each charged with three counts of second-degree cruelty to a juvenile. They are being held at the Vernon Parish Jail on a $450,000 bond set by District Judge Tony Bennett.

On July 8^th, Vance interviewed Tharpe, who admitted to witnessing the child being abused. Because she allegedly failed to report the abuse and attempted to hide the child and left her home alone, Tharpe was arrested and charged with one count of principal to second degree cruelty to a juvenile.

She is being held in the Vernon Parish jail on a $300,000 bond.

Although the child’s mother has not returned since she dropped off the child with Tharpe five months ago, detectives located her biological father and are now working jointly with a social worker from the Department of Child and Family Services on the case.

Craft said if not for the efforts of Green, Smith and Vance, and their diligence and hard work in the rescue of the child, investigators believe she “would have become a tragic statistic…”

The child continues to undergo medical treatment for her injuries.  ”

Sheriff: 3 charged in one of the ‘worst’ child abuse cases ever in Louisiana parish

[Fox8 7/13/2020 by Nancy Cook and Nexstar Media Wire]

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