OK MIRACLE CROOK & TONY CROOK: Missing from Tulsa, OK - 22 May 2020 - Age 3 & 2 *Found Deceased**Guilty Plea*

Oklahoma authorities continue search for missing children

TULSA, Okla. (KFOR) – The Tulsa Police Department says the search for two missing children is still underway after the mother allegedly refused to cooperate with the investigation. Officials are lo…

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Oklahoma authorities continue search for missing children

The Tulsa Police Department says the search for two missing children is still underway after the mother allegedly refused to cooperate with the investigation.

Officials are looking for 2-year-old Miracle Crook and 1-year-old Tony Crook who were last seen Friday, May 22, near the Shoreline Apartments in Tulsa, near East 21st St. and I-44, around 9 a.m.

Another affiliate reports the children were with their mother, Donisha Willis, when they went missing.

On the night of May 21, Willis’ parents and sister stopped by the apartment.

The last time the children were seen was on surveillance video at Ryan’s Mingo, a convenience store near the complex, around 8:30 a.m. the next morning. They were with Willis at the time, police say.

“That’s the last time we saw them,” said Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin. “Those are the last images we have and we believe that’s what they were wearing.”

About 30 minutes later that morning, a witness saw the children at the apartment with Willis.

However since then, the children have not been seen, and Willis was found passed out on the couch by police at the apartment.

She allegedly became “verbally abusive,” Affiliate KJRH reports, saying she didn’t care when asked where the children were.

Lt. John Adams says Willis is not giving any information on the whereabouts of the children and refused to cooperate.

“[We] Canvassed the apartment complex several times. Helicopter. Did everything we could,” Adams said.



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[GrandmaBear]

I want to add that willful also means they know their choice, act or lack of one can result in serious injury or death the way I came to understand it. So even if a person throws or batters a baby and the baby survives, they KNOW it could have resulted in death. Or fails to get medical help. And more. They wouldn't be charged with murder if the child does not die, but if the child dies, it applies. I think if the jury understands the law it will come down to whether she knew or should have known what her actions or lack of them could result in... Most likely including getting "messed" up...

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Tulsa toddlers' mother had looked for them within minutes of their disappearance before drowning, videos indicate

But in finding probable cause for Donisha Willis to face trial on felony murder charges, a Tulsa County special judge determined Monday that Miracle and Tony Crook were "rightly or

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Tulsa toddlers' mother had looked for them within minutes of their disappearance before drowning, videos indicate

A Tulsa woman jailed in the May drowning deaths of her two toddlers apparently attempted to look for the children within minutes after their disappearance, a detective acknowledged in a court hearing on Monday.

But in finding probable cause for Donisha Willis to face trial on felony murder charges, a Tulsa County special judge determined Monday that Miracle and Tony Crook were “rightly or wrongly” in Willis’ care when they disappeared.

The Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office alleges that Willis, 24, caused the deaths of Miracle, 3, and Tony, 2, by committing child neglect, which court documents state was allowing the children to “wander out of an apartment” and failing to locate them.

Though Willis did not have legal custody or visitation rights at the time of the children’s disappearance on May 22, Special Judge April Seibert said Monday that there was evidence to support charges of second-degree felony murder, child neglect and assault and battery against a police officer.

“This is an unimaginable tragedy,” Chief Public Defender Corbin Brewster said during Willis’ preliminary hearing. “But not every tragedy needs to be charged or prosecuted.”

But Assistant District Attorney Katie Koljack drew attention to testimony that Willis had said “I don’t give a f---” when asked about her children’s whereabouts and also an allegation that she had acted out physically against her father the day before.



Brewster pointed to surveillance footage from the Shoreline Apartments, where the children had been staying, that showed the pair on camera walking in the direction of Mingo Creek “less than 10 minutes” before Willis is seen in the same area looking in more than one direction.

He contended that the state did not present evidence indicating that Willis committed a crime based on that timeline, later telling Seibert, “No parent can be held to helicoptering over their child 24/7.”

Leverington told Brewster that Willis appeared on the surveillance video “probably … 5 minutes after the other videos” from the apartment complex.

Brewster said that information is not consistent with statements Police Chief Wendell Franklin made in a May 26 news conference about Willis’ behavior or allegations in police reports that the children disappeared while she was “incapacitated.”

“Donisha Willis didn’t have custody or a legal right to visit either of these kids,” Brewster said. Therefore, he said, it was reasonable for her to believe at first that they could have been with another family member, telling Seibert, “She couldn’t conceive that her children wandered into the creek.”https://www.crimewatchers.net/javascript:void(0)

 

[GrandmaBear]

Tulsa toddlers' mother had looked for them within minutes of their disappearance before drowning, videos indicate

But in finding probable cause for Donisha Willis to face trial on felony murder charges, a Tulsa County special judge determined Monday that Miracle and Tony Crook were "rightly or

tulsaworld.com

Tulsa toddlers' mother had looked for them within minutes of their disappearance before drowning, videos indicate

A Tulsa woman jailed in the May drowning deaths of her two toddlers apparently attempted to look for the children within minutes after their disappearance, a detective acknowledged in a court hearing on Monday.

But in finding probable cause for Donisha Willis to face trial on felony murder charges, a Tulsa County special judge determined Monday that Miracle and Tony Crook were “rightly or wrongly” in Willis’ care when they disappeared.

The Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office alleges that Willis, 24, caused the deaths of Miracle, 3, and Tony, 2, by committing child neglect, which court documents state was allowing the children to “wander out of an apartment” and failing to locate them.

Though Willis did not have legal custody or visitation rights at the time of the children’s disappearance on May 22, Special Judge April Seibert said Monday that there was evidence to support charges of second-degree felony murder, child neglect and assault and battery against a police officer.

“This is an unimaginable tragedy,” Chief Public Defender Corbin Brewster said during Willis’ preliminary hearing. “But not every tragedy needs to be charged or prosecuted.”

But Assistant District Attorney Katie Koljack drew attention to testimony that Willis had said “I don’t give a f---” when asked about her children’s whereabouts and also an allegation that she had acted out physically against her father the day before.



Brewster pointed to surveillance footage from the Shoreline Apartments, where the children had been staying, that showed the pair on camera walking in the direction of Mingo Creek “less than 10 minutes” before Willis is seen in the same area looking in more than one direction.

He contended that the state did not present evidence indicating that Willis committed a crime based on that timeline, later telling Seibert, “No parent can be held to helicoptering over their child 24/7.”

Leverington told Brewster that Willis appeared on the surveillance video “probably … 5 minutes after the other videos” from the apartment complex.

Brewster said that information is not consistent with statements Police Chief Wendell Franklin made in a May 26 news conference about Willis’ behavior or allegations in police reports that the children disappeared while she was “incapacitated.”

“Donisha Willis didn’t have custody or a legal right to visit either of these kids,” Brewster said. Therefore, he said, it was reasonable for her to believe at first that they could have been with another family member, telling Seibert, “She couldn’t conceive that her children wandered into the creek.”https://www.crimewatchers.net/javascript:void(0)

To be fair, not once in all of the media nor by LE about this did I ever hear she went looking for them fairly quickly or was even capable of doing so. And while I guess charging that person does no good, the person in charge of these children who left them with her knowing she was not to be alone with them does play at least a part here. Tough case, she did not directly injure her own children and nothing will bring them back but again, she should not have had them to begin with and she knew that as well. It said she did not have visitation rights even, I would like to know if she was actually forbidden to be around them, meaning if she stopped by to visit say a cousin and the cousin had the children, or her mother, or her father, whoever, is she in violation? I guess it might not matter but to me, if she was not even to be in their presence EVER with others, then I think there was a big wrong done here by her and the other person. When it comes right down to it though, she was alone with them and they ended up dead on her watch. Just thoughts.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Mother of 2 Tulsa children who drowned ordered to trial

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A Tulsa woman whose two young children wandered away from an apartment and drowned has been ordered to stand trial on murder charges. Court documents show 24-year-old Donisha Wi…

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Mother of 2 Tulsa children who drowned ordered to trial

A Tulsa woman whose two young children wandered away from an apartment and drowned has been ordered to stand trial on murder charges.

Court documents show 24-year-old Donisha Willis was ordered to trial Monday on two second-degree murder charges for the deaths in May of 3-year-old Miracle Crook and her 21-month-old brother, Tony Crook.

She also is charged with assaulting a police officer and has pleaded not guilty.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Trial Date Set For Mother Of Toddlers Who Drowned In May

A Tulsa County judge set the trial date for the mother of two Tulsa children who drowned in May.

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Trial Date Set For Mother Of Toddlers Who Drowned In May​

A Tulsa County judge set the trial date for the mother of two Tulsa children who drowned in May.

Donisha Willis is scheduled to stand trial on second-degree murder charges in March.

Trial set for mother of 2 young children who wandered away unsupervised, drowned in creek

UPDATE: Donisha Willis, the mother charged with murder after her two young children wandered away unsupervised and drowned in a creek, was in court Tuesday morning. Her lawyers filed a motion to quash and dismiss the charges against her, but the judge overruled that motion on all accounts. Her...

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Her trial is set for the week of March 29.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

They were never gonna get her on murder charges, second degree or not, IMO.

Tulsa woman whose children drowned in creek pleads guilty to lesser charges

The woman whose two young children walked away from their Tulsa home and later drowned in a creek has been sentenced to prison.

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Tulsa woman whose children drowned in creek pleads guilty to lesser charges​

The woman whose two young children walked away from their Tulsa home and later drowned in a creek has been sentenced to prison.

Donisha Willis was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Willis was initially charged with second-degree murder, but recent court records show that she pled guilty to lesser charges of child neglect on Monday.

Tulsa mother of drowned toddlers convicted of child neglect after plea 'to take responsibility,' prosecutor says

"We know kids can wander off. The really egregious part of this case is that she spent maybe a total of 30 seconds looking for her two children under the

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Tulsa mother of drowned toddlers convicted of child neglect after plea 'to take responsibility,' prosecutor says​

More than eight months after Miracle and Tony Crook walked alone, hand-in-hand toward Mingo Creek, their mother was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the toddlers’ deaths.

Donisha Willis, soon to be 25, accepted a plea agreement during a discovery hearing Monday morning. She was sentenced to 15 years in Department of Corrections custody on two counts of child neglect and five years for assault and battery on a Tulsa police officer, a charge resulting from the investigation. The last five years of each of the neglect sentences are suspended, and the sentences were to run concurrently.


In August, a Tulsa County special judge determined that Miracle and Tony were “rightly or wrongly” in Willis’ care when they disappeared. Although her defense argued Willis can be seen on apartment surveillance footage going outside to look for the children after she awoke to their absence, Koljack said it was mere moments of looking up and down the street.

“There were a lot of people that did things wrong” that day, Koljack said, but as the adult left with the children, Willis was responsible for the children’s safety regardless if she was their legal guardian.

“The neglect charge isn’t so much the kids wandering off,” Koljack said. “We know kids can wander off. The really egregious part of this case is that (Willis) spent maybe a total of 30 seconds looking for her two children under the age of 5.”

 

[Sllywbbt32]

They were never gonna get her on murder charges, second degree or not, IMO.

I agree totally but what really ticks me off in the justice system is the whole 'sentences to be run concurrently'. IMHO if someone pleads or is found guilty of multiple charges they should d**n well run consecutively or what's the point?

 

[GrandmaBear]

I agree totally but what really ticks me off in the justice system is the whole 'sentences to be run concurrently'. IMHO if some pleads or is found guilty of multiple charges they should d**n well run consecutively or what's the point?

I agree. Happens enough with deals but even on a guilty verdict by a jury a judge will often do that, run things concurrent, or hardly any sentence on the smaller charges, etc.

Honestly those that left her around and with the children knowing she was not to be with them are fortunate they were not charged as well imo.