#6 - Latoshia Shunta Daniels
At about 9:30 pm on April the 4th of 2019, Arkansas woman Latoshia Shunta Daniels
arrived at an apartment in Collierville, Tennessee belonging to Brodes and Tabatha Perry. The latter,
who was home alone at the time, allowed 39-year-old Daniels, whom she and her husband
had known when they lived in Little Rock, inside. The two women talked until Brodes, the pastor at
Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis, came home about a half an hour later.
Shortly thereafter, Daniels pulled out a gun and shot the man multiple times in the head and torso,
repeatedly shouting “You broke my heart!”, according to the resulting police report. The
armed woman then shot Tabatha in the shoulder after she’d knelt down beside her husband.
Collierville police officers arrived at the scene at about 10:30 pm, at which point they
reportedly ordered Daniels to drop her weapon. When she refused to comply, she was shot with a
bean-bag shotgun and taken into police custody. The 2 victims were taken to Regional One Health
Medical Center in Memphis, where Brodes succumbed to his injuries the following morning. Tabatha
ultimately survived the incident and was released from the hospital within a few days.
Daniels, a social worker from Little Rock, was consequently charged with first-degree murder,
attempted murder, assault on a police officer, escape, and resisting arrest.
#5 - Nicole Berry
English woman Nicole Berry spent a night out with her boyfriend in March of 2019 in
order to celebrate her new job as a mental health social worker at a psychiatric unit in the Greater
Manchester area. After going to a restaurant in the city center, Berry’s partner, later named
as Justin Henry, reportedly bought her bottles of vodka as a congratulatory gift. Then, in the
early hours of the following morning, the couple got into an altercation with an individual at the
Revolution bar in the Deansgate Locks district. While waiting for a taxi to drive them home, Henry
began arguing with Paul Dann, who was reportedly with around 12 other people celebrating one of the
group members’ 21st birthday. Henry allegedly called Dann a derogatory name, at which point
the 2 got into each other’s faces, threatening violence. Dann pushed the man to the ground,
and he was then punched and kicked repeatedly by several members of the other group. Upon
witnessing her boyfriend under attack, 25-year-old Berry reportedly took the 2 bottles of vodka she’d
been given and smashed them over Dann’s head. Blood began pouring from the latter’s scalp,
and he was ultimately taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Although he was discharged shortly
thereafter, Dann later revealed that he began suffering from regular migraine headaches in
the wake of the incident. Berry was consequently arrested and charged with causing grievous bodily
harm. She was also reportedly suspended from her job as a social worker pending
a disciplinary investigation into the matter. Following a trial at Manchester Crown Court,
Berry was spared jail time, but she was ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid community service,
15 rehabilitation requirement days, and a 60-day alcohol monitoring program.
#4 - Alexander Averell
On October the 3rd of 2019, officers with the Pitt County Sheriff's Office
in North Carolina initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle being operated by Alexander Averell.
It was reported that, at the time, the 29-year-old man was driving an official
government-issued car in his capacity as a social worker with the United States Department
of Veteran Affairs. During the course of the traffic stop, officers found illegal substances
and drug paraphernalia in the vehicle, and the man was thus taken into custody on possession
charges. Averell’s arrest marked the culmination of a 4-month joint investigation by the Pitt
County Special Operations Unit and the VA's Office of the Inspector General. The official
probe had been set into motion after officials began to suspect that the social worker had been
using government time and a government vehicle to possess and transport illegal narcotics,
a suspicion proven correct by the events of October the 3rd. Two months later, investigators
determined that Averell had also been using his government-issued car for personal use, and had
driven it to several unauthorized locations in North Carolina and Virginia. He consequently faced
7 felony counts of embezzlement, in addition to the drug possession charges.
#3 - Chelsie Gray
In an Associated Press article published on April the 9th of 2019, it was reported that Iowa social
worker Chelsie Gray had been taken into police custody for delivering false testimony before
a judge. 30-year-old Gray, a Lawler resident, had reportedly been assigned as the case manager when
the Department of Human Services sought to remove 4 northern Iowa children from their biological
parents for reasons that were left unreported. As case manager, the woman was tasked with providing
social services to both the children and their parents, as well as evaluating any potential
mental health or substance abuse issues, among other duties. Following a court hearing on the
case, Judge Gregg Rosenblatt ruled that the parents involved be stripped of their rights.
He credited Gray’s testimony, in which she recommended that the children be placed in
foster care, as being “credible, unbiased, and persuasive”. However, it later emerged that the
social worker had allegedly committed perjury. According to affidavits signed by the Division
of Criminal Investigation, Gray falsely testified that she’d spoken directly with the children’s
teachers about academic and social concerns at school. She also reportedly claimed to
have visited the kids at least once per month, per Iowa code, which was also determined to have been
untrue. Upon her arrest, she was formally charged with 3 counts of perjury and booked at the Cerro
Gordo County jail in Mason City. In October of 2019, Gray entered an Alford plea, accepting
the punishment associated with her charges while officially maintaining her innocence.
She was consequently sentenced to 730 days of probation and ordered to pay a $750 civil penalty.
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#2 - Samantha Hamer
Wisconsin state senator Tim Carpenter was attacked during the chaotic protests and riots
that unfolded on the streets of downtown Madison on June the 23rd of 2020. During the course of the
night, rioters toppled statues erected outside the state Capitol, damaged the Capitol building
itself, and even tossed a Molotov cocktail into a county building that housed the 9-1-1 dispatch
center. 60-year-old Carpenter began filming the group’s destructive behavior with his cell phone,
prompting them to approach him. In the video footage captured by the senator,
2 women were shown charging towards him and grabbing his phone. Carpenter was then
punched and kicked multiple times by 8 to 10 people, resulting in him reportedly suffering
a broken nose and a concussion. Following a month-long investigation by Madison police,
the women in the video were identified as 26-year-old Samantha Hamer and Kerida O'Reilly,
aged 33. The former, a social worker for the Mount Horeb School District, turned herself into
the authorities in July of 2020, as did O’Reilly. Hamer was suspended from her position without pay
following the incident, and both suspects were charged with felony substantial battery
as a party to a crime. Following their trial, O’Reilly was ultimately acquitted of the offense,
while Hamer accepted a plea deal that lessened her charge to disorderly conduct.
#1 - Robert Riley Saunders
From 2001 to 2018, Canadian man Robert Riley Saunders served as a social worker for British
Columbia’s Ministry of Children and Family Development. The organization first began to
detect financial irregularities involving Saunders in 2017, prompting an official investigation into
the matter by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Saunders was ultimately terminated
from his position in 2018, and about 2 years later, investigators wrapped up their probe
into his financial dealings during his tenure as a government worker. It was determined that the man
had defrauded at least 102 of his former clients, 85 of whom were identified as Indigenous youth.
As was detailed in more than a dozen civil lawsuits filed by the victims,
Saunders had moved many of his clients out of stable homes and into independent
living situations, after which he would set up joint bank accounts to siphon money from them
that had originally been provided by the ministry. In total, the man had misappropriated more than
$460,000 from the teens entrusted to his care, and several of the victims claimed to have been
left homeless as a consequence of the fraud. It subsequently emerged that Saunders had falsified
his professional qualifications prior to being hired by the ministry back in 1996.
Court records indicated that he’d actually used a fake bachelor of social work degree,
purportedly from the University of Manitoba, as part of his original employment applications.
The ministry ultimately reached a multimillion dollar settlement agreement with the social
worker’s victims that awarded each of them between $25,000 and $250,000. In July of 2022,
the CBC reported that Saunders, who faced criminal charges of fraud, breach of trust,
and forgery, had been sentenced to 5 years in prison for his elaborate scheme.
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