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The tragic story of Leiliana Wright - a little girl who became a victim of brutal violence at the hands of her own mother and her lover, deeply shocked the paramedic who tried in vain to save the child's life. The lifeless, cold body of four-year-old Leiliana will forever remain in his memory as a sad reminder of an unfulfilled desire to help.

Rest in Peace poor little angel 

Leiliana came into this world on January twenty-second, two thousand twelve in Galveston, Texas. Her mother, Jerry Quezada, was serving a six-year prison term at the time on charges of burglary. Little Leiliana was born in the prison hospital. The girl's father was Brian Maker.

Leiliana grew up to be a happy, cheerful, and funny girl with an infectious laugh. She loved to sing, dance, and play with the chickens that her grandfather and grandmother raised in the backyard. Leiliana's favorite song was "Ten Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed".

Two days after birth, the little one was given into the care of her paternal grandparents - Elise and Craig Clackley. Her father, for some reason, could not take care of her, and her mother was still serving time in prison. So the grandfather and grandmother took on the responsibility of raising their granddaughter. They provided her with a wonderful home and a happy childhood.

The Clackleys treated Leiliana more like a daughter than a granddaughter. When the girl was under their care, they would sometimes take her to the prison to see her mother. The Clackleys also gave Jerry money, which she spent at the prison store. It is important to note that they were not even Jerry's parents, but the parents of her father. However, this did not prevent them from supporting Jerry financially.

The Clackleys gave the impression of being very kind and caring people. Leiliana was very lucky to find a cozy home under their roof. However, unfortunately, this did not last long. In December two thousand thirteen, when the girl turned two, her mother Jerry was released from prison on bail early. And immediately took away the Clackleys' right to custody of Leiliana.

Jerry was not just a convicted criminal. She also suffered from addiction, and her older children had long been taken away by child protective services. She had not had the right to take care of them for many years. Currently, they all live with their father. In two thousand seven, in Illinois, Jerry was arrested for domestic violence. This prompted child protective services to open a case of abuse and neglect. In two thousand eight, Jerry was arrested again for driving with an open bottle of alcohol in the car. That same year, she was arrested for possession of prohibited substances. Two years later, a judge in Illinois stripped Jerry of her parental rights. And in two thousand ten, she ended up behind bars on charges of burglary - the very term she was serving when Leiliana was born.

Shortly after being released from prison and regaining custody of her daughter, Jerry became pregnant again and in October two thousand fourteen gave birth to another child. "That's the logic - if you can't take care of your previous children, just give birth to new ones." For the first five or six months, Leiliana occasionally visited her grandparents. She felt happy in their home. However, every time it was time to return to her mother, the girl would throw a tantrum. Gradually, these visits became less and less frequent.

On October twentieth, two thousand fourteen, child protective services received a report regarding Leiliana's younger brother, who was only six days old at the time. According to the report, the baby was born with drugs in his system because Jerry was using prohibited substances during her pregnancy. On November ninth, another alert was received regarding Leiliana and her little brother. This time, during a traffic stop, prohibited substances were found on Jerry. At that moment, Leiliana was with her in the car. The girl was temporarily transferred to the custody of Jerry's then-boyfriend, who was also the father of Leiliana's younger brother. However, this man also turned out to be a convicted criminal with anger control issues, who beat not only Jerry but also his own mother. "A real jackpot!"

However, the children did not have to live with their mother's lover for long. A few days later, they were found with the boyfriend's relatives on his father's side because the father himself had just been arrested on charges of sexual assault. Only after a few weeks was Leiliana sent back to her paternal grandparents,. This time, they filed an official application to establish custody of the girl, realizing that the child was at risk in her mother's home.

In the application, grandmother Elise wrote: "Leiliana's emotional state is very bad, she needs to be taken out of a dangerous environment. I beg the court to protect our granddaughter from what she is going through and facing now." She also mentioned that Jerry was using prohibited substances in the presence of both children.

Despite the concerns expressed by Elise Clackley in the application, her lawyer advised reaching an agreement outside of Judge Haddock's courtroom. He said, "Elise, if you go into her courtroom, his exact words, you will lose everything." These lawyers seemed to be afraid to cross the threshold of Judge Haddock's courtroom. Eventually, both sides agreed to give Leiliana's mother custody and the Clackleys visitation rights.

Under the agreement signed by Jerry from prison, the Clackleys were granted visitation rights with Leiliana. According to the agreement, the grandparents were to see the girl on the first and third Saturdays of each month. This was more than they had been able to do before, but how mockingly little compared to the full custody they were seeking.

Ultimately, the charge of possession of prohibited substances, for which Jerry was arrested in November, only cost her a few weeks behind bars. Upon her release, she settled in her mother's house and regained custody of Leiliana.

After Jerry's release, the Clackleys still occasionally saw their granddaughter - twice a month according to the court agreement. And representatives of child protective services began visiting the home where Leiliana lived with her brother on a monthly basis. Then, on February twenty-third, two thousand fifteen, Leiliana's grandmother expressed serious concern to a child protective services worker. She said that the girl had come to visit them with bruises on her face and a split lip.

In response, the social worker called Leiliana. During the conversation, the girl reported that her mother had hit her in the face and lips. Child protective services received photos with evidence of the beatings. The next day, a worker went to Jerry's mother's home, where Leiliana was living at the time, to check on the situation. This time, the girl again confirmed to the social worker that her mother had hit her in the face, but Jerry and her mother denied any physical abuse of the child.

Both women claimed that Leiliana was very clumsy and constantly bumped into things. And during a subsequent interview, the girl told representatives of child protective services that she had actually just run into a wall, which caused her lip to split. Of course, most likely the child was well-instructed because, as I said, this conversation took place later. Probably, the mother ordered her not to tell the truth. Therefore, the version of events changed.

On April third, two thousand fifteen, the investigation was closed, and any abuse was ruled out. And this despite the fact that Jerry's mother, Adelina Carr, described how timid and fearful Leiliana was. The woman described her granddaughter as a quiet and shy girl who silently looked at things and pointed at them with her finger instead of asking for them with words.

Leiliana was also afraid of loud and sudden sounds and did not leave her room without permission. In September two thousand fifteen, Jerry and the two children, over whom she somehow still retained custody, moved in with a new boyfriend, Charles Phifer. They settled together in a house in Grand Prairie that had previously belonged to Jerry's now-deceased grandmother.

After a few months of living together, Jerry returned with the children to the home of her mother, Adelina. But despite the fact that they no longer lived under the same roof, Jerry regularly visited Charles to use prohibited substances together.

As we can see, Charles is quite a specimen. Child protective services had already dealt with him before. His dossier included episodes from New Mexico and Texas. In two thousand three and two thousand five, he faced charges of child neglect and physical violence stemming from domestic conflicts. However, these allegations were never confirmed.

In two thousand eleven, the service had to take Charles' daughter into their custody, and later the girl was given up for adoption. On top of everything else, he had problems with abuse of various prohibited substances. At that time, it was heroin.

In January two thousand sixteen, child protective services received another report with suspicions of physical and sexual abuse, as well as neglect on the part of Jerry. The report mentioned that the abuse was perpetrated by another family member, but their name was not given.

Service workers tried to meet with the family several times until they finally succeeded on February ninth, two thousand sixteen. During that visit, Jerry, of course, denied any abuse. However, the social workers noticed a purple bruise under Leiliana's left eye, another older bruise under her right eye, and an old bruise on her arm.

Jerry explained that the bruise under the right eye, which was already healing, had appeared a year ago when Leiliana hit a table. According to the woman, the bruise had not gone away since then. The other bruise under the left eye, according to Jerry, was caused by the girl falling during a tantrum. And the bruise on the arm, as it turned out, was inflicted by Jerry's acquaintance, whom she asked to look after Leiliana. This "friend", as it would later turn out, was none other than Charles Phifer.

When asked about the origin of the bruises, Leiliana herself said that she did not remember exactly how they appeared. Instead, she accused another family member of sexually abusing her. Jerry was ordered to stop any contact between Leiliana and the relative the girl accused of abuse. She also had to keep her daughter away from the "friend" who gave Leiliana that bruise on her arm. Jerry agreed to comply with these requirements, but she did not keep her word.

Due to new suspicions of domestic incident, on February seventeenth, two thousand sixteen, child protective services filed an official application. It mentioned a high probability of removing the children from the family. However, this never happened, and all further attempts to contact the family proved futile.

Then, on March thirteenth, two thousand sixteen, child protective services received their last report regarding Leiliana. It was about her death. Shortly after midnight, Grand Prairie police were called for a medical emergency to the home of Jerry's deceased grandmother. This was where Leiliana was left in Charles' care.

When the medics arrived at the scene, they found four-year-old Leiliana, who was no longer breathing. Seventy-five percent of her face was covered in bruises. One eye was so swollen that the girl was unlikely to be able to see anything with it. There were marks from restraints on her wrists. The child's body was cold and lifeless.

Jerry tried to convince the rescuers that everything happened because Leiliana slipped in the shower. Allegedly nothing else happened. And then she asked to ride with her daughter in the ambulance to the hospital. But they refused, explaining that she and her boyfriend had to wait for the investigators and answer some questions.

One of the medics, who was the first to arrive at the scene, was so shocked by Leiliana's condition that he did not even wait for a stretcher from the ambulance. He scooped the girl up in his arms and carried her outside. After that, he ordered the other medics to immediately go with him to the hospital. They did just that, leaving the vehicle with the headlights on and the doors open.

Leiliana was taken to Arlington Medical Center. Doctors and nurses in the emergency department spent thirty minutes trying to resuscitate the girl. But they failed to save her life. Leiliana Wright was pronounced dead on March thirteenth, two thousand sixteen.

Police officers and medical staff could not hold back their tears standing outside Leiliana's ward. What they saw deeply shocked them to the core. Sergeant Brad McEvoy of the Grand Prairie Police said it was the most horrific thing he had seen in his entire career.

The autopsy showed that Leiliana died from blunt force trauma not only to the head but also to the abdomen. The girl was hit or kicked so hard that the abdominal wall was pressed against the spine. There were also signs of sexual abuse.

When police arrived at the scene to question Jerry and Charles, the woman was behaving erratically. Due to her emotional state, it was difficult for her to answer questions. On the other hand, Charles looked completely unfazed.

By that point, the couple had already agreed on their version of events. Allegedly, for the last two days, Leiliana had been staying at a friend's house in Oak Hill. When the girl returned home, she was already covered in bruises. Jerry and Charles assumed that the beatings were inflicted by the older sister of that friend.

After telling this version of events, Jerry asked to speak with the police officer alone. The officer took her to his patrol car. And there, the woman finally told what had really happened to her daughter that night. She also confessed that she was afraid of Charles.

According to Jerry, in the days before Leiliana's death, she was very annoyed by her daughter's behavior. The girl was misbehaving and being rude to her. In addition, Leiliana was constantly vomiting and refusing to eat. And in a text message from Jerry to Charles (which the police would later find), the woman wrote that she suspected her daughter of vomiting to get attention.

Throughout the day, Jerry and Charles were injecting prohibited substances and beating the little girl out of annoyance. Allegedly, she wanted attention because she was vomiting and not eating. To "fix" the situation, they decided to whip Leiliana with a bamboo stick and a belt throughout the day.

The next day, March twelfth, Jerry went to visit Charles. Once again, after injecting together, she ran off on errands, taking her younger son to her mother's house. But this time, the woman decided to leave Leiliana with Charles for a while.

Jerry explained her decision by saying that the girl was so beaten that she could not be shown in public. When Jerry returned around three-thirty, she bought an oral rehydration solution for Leiliana. According to her, at that moment, everything seemed to be fine. Her daughter was watching TV.

Except she was forced to stand the whole time - that's how Charles was punishing the child for vomiting. Jerry herself, not at all concerned about this, went to use prohibited substances again. After that, she decided to take a nap. To do this, she returned to her mother's house. Upon waking up, the woman called Charles to ask how Leiliana was doing.

He replied that the girl was fine. So Jerry, along with her younger son and parents, went to a steakhouse in Arlington that night. After dinner, somewhere between nine and nine-thirty, the woman brought the child to her grandmother and put her to bed. 

And then she rushed back to Charles. To once again give in to their shared addiction together. The moment Jerry crossed the threshold of his house, the couple immediately dashed to the bathroom. And only after their chemical rituals did the woman remember to ask about Liliana. "So that's how it was. She arrived, didn't see her daughter, and immediately went to satisfy her addiction, without even asking where the child was. And apparently didn't even suspect something was wrong. Really?"

So, finally asking about her daughter, Jerry heard from Charles that she was sitting in the pantry. When the man opened the door, the woman saw that Leiliana's hands were tied behind her back with an electrical cord. The girl was bent at the waist and hanging on a rod in the air so that she could not reach the ground, and something was wrapped around her stomach. There were fresh bruises on her face. Jerry ordered Charles to free her daughter, which he did.

Jerry said that her daughter was conscious at the time and "just saying that she loves me, and saying 'mommy,' and that's it." After that, the woman brought Leiliana to the kitchen and tried to feed her a peanut butter sandwich. But the girl still ate poorly.

This infuriated Charles, who decided that his stepdaughter was just trying to get attention. He put on gloves, grabbed Leiliana by the face, and began pouring oral rehydration solution into her. The poor child just stood silently beside her mother.

Suddenly, she vomited again. The girl rushed to the toilet but could not hold it and vomited on the kitchen floor on the way. Of course, Charles didn't like it. He grabbed his stepdaughter by the throat and lifted her off the ground with one hand. After which he threw the child against the drywall. It left a dent.

Next, Charles shoved Leiliana back into the pantry and slammed the door. After some time, he pulled the girl out of there. She was already all wet and vomited on. So Jerry decided to bathe her.

Before that, the woman went to get clean clothes for Leiliana. It was at this moment that she heard Charles shout something at the girl in the bathroom. After which he came out of there, and Jerry heard her daughter fall in the bathtub.

The woman said that she rushed to the bathroom and began wiping and dressing Leiliana. But at that moment, the girl fainted right in her arms. Jerry tried to give her daughter mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and ordered Charles to call an ambulance. In response, the man barked that the little one was just pretending. To which the woman replied, "She's not breathing." Only then did Charles finally decide to dial nine-one-one.

During the call to the dispatcher, he reported that the girl was having difficulty breathing. The dispatcher gave Charles instructions on what to do until the ambulance arrived. But it seems that the man did not follow the advice and did not pass it on to Jerry.

Moreover, at some point in the conversation, Charles blurted out to the dispatcher about Leiliana, "She's been hurting herself lately." She's four years old, what!

So, after telling the police what had really happened to her daughter that fateful night, Jerry inquired about Leiliana's condition. And the detective informed her that the girl had died.

During further interrogations, Jerry confessed that in the past she had kicked Leiliana, hit her in the chest, slapped her, whipped her with a belt, and beaten her with a bamboo stick as punishment for poor eating.

Thirty-year-old Jerry Quezada was arrested and charged with child abuse - a felony. The court set bail at five hundred thousand dollars. And a few days later, Charles Phifer also ended up behind bars - under the same article. However, he was assigned twice as much bail - one million dollars.

After her mother's arrest, Leiliana's younger brother was sent to a foster family. In two thousand sixteen, before the trial began, Charles Phifer, against his lawyer's advice, gave an interview. To be honest, most of his statements are laughable, as they are outright nonsense.

In the interview, Charles insisted that he did not kill Leiliana. And everyone who knows him is supposedly aware that he is not capable of such a thing. He also said that the girl was his " little girlfriend " and that he loved her like his own daughter. And he allegedly still misses her every day.

Next, Charles claimed that during the time he lived with Jerry, he saw her hit the girl twice. Allegedly, Leiliana was afraid of her mother and always did what she was told so as not to anger her. And when he said something to Jerry about it, she advised him not to stick his nose where it didn't belong.

Charles also tried to portray himself as caring and compassionate. He said that he had been in touch with the Clackleys because he wanted to help them regain custody of Leiliana. But he did not tell Jerry about it - he claimed he was afraid of her reaction. In the best case, he would be left without a roof over his head.

I think at most five percent of what was said is true. If not less. In July two thousand seventeen, as part of a plea deal, Jerry Quezada pleaded guilty to child abuse - a felony. Under the agreement, she was to testify against Charles at his trial.

Later, Jerry was sentenced to fifty years in prison. She explained that she took the deal to restore justice for her daughter. "I realize where I went wrong, but I didn't do it alone," the woman stated.

In October two thousand eighteen, the trial of thirty-six-year-old Charles Phifer began. Initially, he was charged with child abuse, but then the grand jury added a charge of intentional murder.

The prosecution included Jerry, her mother, emergency responders, investigators, and medical professionals. Charles himself refused to testify, and his lawyer did not call any witnesses. Instead, the defense focused on casting doubt on the credibility of Jerry's testimony against Charles.

Prosecutors provided the court with DNA test results. Leiliana's genetic material was found under Charles' fingernails. Her DNA was also found on the glove that, according to Jerry, the man used to torture the girl. Traces of Leiliana were also on the broken wall, against which, as the woman claimed, Charles threw the child.

When the jurors were shown photos of the mutilated, bruised Leiliana, they were shocked. The pictures clearly showed marks from restraints on the girl's wrists and wounds from beatings on her back. The medical examiner stated that they counted at least twelve blows on Leiliana's body, and possibly more. The injuries overlapped each other.

Jerry Quezada also testified in court in accordance with the plea agreement. However, she admitted that she was high on heroin for most of the day. So Charles' lawyers pointed out numerous discrepancies in her testimony.

The defense attorney claimed that the woman was simply trying to save her own skin by shifting the blame for her daughter's death onto his client. Well, of course, she made a deal with the prosecution, naturally trying to exonerate herself, of course.

But the prosecutor parried: although both Charles and Jerry are guilty of Leiliana's death, it was the man who was at home with the girl for most of the day. And Jerry's account of what happened to Leiliana in the last forty-eight hours of her life was corroborated by phone call data, eyewitness testimony, and receipts. The records showed that the woman was out of the house for most of the day. However, at the time of her daughter's death, she was at home. So who knows if she was not an accomplice to the murder.

Even before the verdict was announced to Charles, Brian Maker, Leiliana's biological father, made a victim impact statement. He recalled the last time he saw his daughter when he took her to see Santa Claus. According to him, Leiliana was happy.

Until she saw her mother again. Addressing Jerry in the courtroom, the man said, "The moment she saw your car, she screamed, cried, and begged not to send her to you. You should have given her to me."

Brian said that he still sees his daughter's frightened voice in his nightmares. He added that many people loved his little girl. And he expressed regret that his parents' attempt to gain custody did not succeed before her death.

At the end of the trial in October two thousand eighteen, the jury found Charles Phifer guilty of intentional murder. This automatically meant life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. For some reason, the district attorney did not seek the death penalty for him.

When announcing the sentence, the judge addressed Charles with a speech. He told the defendant that it was the most horrific case in his memory. And life imprisonment is not enough as a punishment. "Hanging a little girl in a closet is savagery. You deserve to die in a locked pantry. Except in Texas, there are none, unfortunately," the justice official stated.

However, shortly after that, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct reprimanded the judge, pointing out that his comments toward Charles Phifer were undignified and tactless.

Leiliana's death sparked public outrage and prompted an investigation and changes in child protective services. The agency acknowledged that the overburdened system led to social workers overlooking the systemic nature of the abuse. In light of this, within days of the tragedy, the social worker and her supervisor who handled Leiliana's case were fired. And one of the special investigators resigned himself.

A memorial service for Leiliana Wright was held on March twenty-second, two thousand sixteen at the Bean-Massey-Burge Funeral Home. Later, the girl was cremated. And on April tenth of the same year, more than sixty people gathered for a candlelight memorial mass at Catherine Rose Memorial Park in Mansfield, Texas.

Leiliana's grandmother, Elise Clackley, spoke the following words at the mass: "I hope this evening will give me the strength to move forward and continue the fight." Many of the girl's relatives and friends came to the mass wearing bright yellow T-shirts with the words "Justice for Leiliana."

The little girl was brutally beaten. But this is another story about how child protective services ignored all the warning signs. Until it was too late. All Leiliana wanted was love. And there were people around her who loved and cared for her. But they were never given the opportunity to do so. Instead, the little one was forced to live in a home filled with prohibited substances, anger, and violence. This should never have happened.


Leiliana's story is a tragic one. Despite having people who loved her, Child Protective Services failed to act on clear warning signs. Instead of being placed with those who cared, she remained in a home plagued by drugs and violence. Her death was preventable. Thank you for your comments, may sweet Leiliana rest in peace.Thank you for your comments, may sweet Leiliana rest in peace.


Thank you for listening to Leiliana's story to the end today.


Leiliana's story is a tragic one. Despite the presence of people who loved her, Child Protective Services failed to respond to the obvious warning signs. Instead of giving her to those who cared for her, she was left in a home of dependency and cruelty.              .         Her death could have been prevented. 

Thank you for your comments, may sweet Leiliana rest in peace.