“I Will Not!”

Horrific, despicable, callous, and cowardly. When the news revealed the murder of 10-year-old Charlenny Ferreira by her father and stepmother, the human emotions are anger, outrage, and finally silence.


In the mist of our anger and outrage of the grotesque, inhumane treatment, and subsequent death of Charlenny Ferreira, we focus in on demanding justice to those distorted souls who perpetrated this unspeakable crime.

However, in a short time, our anger subsides and in the process, children like Charlenny Ferreira and Danieal Kelly are forgotten and designated to the back pages of history in human services and cast onto the mountain strewn with forgotten abused and dead children only to be remembered as "the unfortunate."

Charlenny Ferreira and Danieal Kelly are victims of two of the worst cases of child neglect known to civilization perpetrated by the parents, friends, and those individuals in human services that were suppose to protect them from real life “monsters.”

A travesty like this occurs when those who either choose to have children or choose a career in human services to protect the sick, the weak, the poor, the defenseless, and the frightened instead embrace malice, apathy, and unspeakable cruelty.

Conversely, can you imagine Charlenny and Danieal in their final days, hours, and minutes and seconds and how alone they felt with no one to speak on their behalf, to feed them, to bathe them...to love them unconditionally? The perpetrators ideology was these children lives were irrelevant and insignificant.

The penalties that will be administered against all those who conspired in this assault on Charlenny must be swift, severe, and just.

Justice will prevail. Justice MUST prevail.

Anyone that desires a career in human service, and what I believe is the greatest and most noble profession in the world must be held to a high standard of compassion, intelligence, reliability, responsibility, and ethics. NO Exceptions!

Never forget Charlenny Ferreira and Danieal Kelly!

I will not.




Best Regards,

Anthony P. Johnson,
Candidate for State Representative for 42nd Ward & 180th District