The two women also say Butler and Chief Deputy Cuyler Windham ignored complaints about Davis' behavior and that County Attorney Grainger Barrett ignored requests for an investigation. A four-page complaint has been filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Police arrested Michael Earl Green and Alexandra Goehl on yesterday after Jared Michael Green died at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center. They are each charged with first-degree murder and felony abuse and being held in the Cumberland County Jail. Fayetteville Police Sergeant Mike Todd says the boy had been tied to a chair and was stuffed in his bedroom closet, and had cuts and bruises over much of his body.
Police say social services contacted the children's mother near Fort Lewis, Washington.
Investigators had yet to speak to her. A report on public school discipline shows minority students are suspended more often for serious offenses than are white students. The new report says 63 percent of students who received long-term suspensions were minorities. However, minorities comprise only 38 percent of the state's public school enrollment. Greg Malhoit, executive director of the North Carolina Justice and Community Development Center, says the statistics should be raising concerns at school systems around the state.