Mother of 5 Year Old beaten to death by her Ex-Soldier Father Gets $2million From Government

An Atlanta woman will receive $2 million after military police did not alert child protective services before the death of the 5-year-old daughter at the hands of the former soldier father
Tarshia Williams filed the lawsuit against the government over the 2005 death of her daughter, Talia, in Hawaii.
The suit maintained that the military didn't tell the proper authorities that Talia's father and stepmother 'abused and tortured' her throughout the seven months she lived in Army housing.

In what was the first death penalty case to go to trial in the history of Hawaii's statehood, Naeem Williams was convicted of murder in his daughter's death.
Hawaii does not have the death penalty, but because the crime was committed on federal land at Schofield Barracks.
He was eventually sentenced to life in prison without possibility for parole in February this year.
Talia's stepmother, Delilah Williams, testified against her husband as part of a deal with prosecutors for a 20-year sentence.
She provided some details of abuse that included withholding food for days at a time, keeping her out of school to hide from others the physical signs of beatings and whipping the child while she was duct-taped to a bed.
A judge's 2010 ruling noted some of the interactions between the family and the military, including one on June 29, 2005, that was not passed on to child protective services.
'The military police responded to the Williams' home, but despite finding Talia, 'naked and mute, in a room standing near feces on the floor' and thinking 'something did not look right.
However, ' no reports were ever made to CPS,' said the order by US District Judge Alan Kay in allowing the lawsuit to move forward.
Talia died July 16, 2005, after prosecutors said her father dealt a blow so hard it left knuckle imprints on her chest.

Tarshia's settlement from the 2008 suit was announced Tuesday at a brief hearing at a federal court in Honolulu.
The deal brings some relief because it ends years of litigation and prevents Tarshia Williams from having to return to Hawaii for a nonjury trial that was scheduled for June, she said.
At Naeem Williams' trial, she testified that the last time she saw Talia was when the child left South Carolina to live with her father in Hawaii.
She said the last time she spoke to Talia was by telephone on July 2, 2005.
The settlement has been approved by the Justice Department and will be paid in about six to eight weeks, Assistant US Attorney Thomas Helper said in court. He declined to comment after the hearing.
Tarshia Williams and her Honolulu attorneys want to work on federal legislation that would require the military to directly report child abuse to state child protective services, said one of her attorneys, Mark Davis.
According to the Attorney they hope that what may come out of the case are some fundamental, systemic changes.
If Talia Williams was alive she would be 15 years in high school. Talia Williams was buried in South Carolina.

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