SEVERAL DOCUMENTS OBTAINED FROM THE CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INDICATE AN OAK GROVE GIRL COULD HAVE POSSIBLY BEEN SAVED FROM HER ALLEGEDLY ABUSIVE FATHER BEFORE BEING MURDERED EARLIER THIS YEAR.

THE LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER REPORTS ON THE STORY, WHICH RESEMBLES THE MURDER CASE OF 9-YEAR OLD AMY DYE OF TODD COUNTY.
DOCUMENTS SHOW HOPKINSVILLE OFFICE SOCIAL WORKER DONNA MONROE CURREY WAS TASKED TO INVESTIGATE AN INCIDENT ON JUNE 14^TH, WHEN 3-YEAR OLD ALAYNA ADAIR OF OAK GROVE WAS TAKEN TO GATEWAY MEDICAL CENTER FOR A BROKEN ARM.

OFFICIALS AT THE HOSPITAL REPORTEDLY TOLD THE STATE THE GIRL HAD MULTIPLE BRUISES, MOSQUITO BITES AND A FEVER IN ADDITION TO THE INJURED ARM.

WHEN MS. CURREY ARRIVED, THE GIRL AND HER FATHER—22-YEAR OLD CHARLES MORRIS OF OAK GROVE—WERE ALREADY GONE. WHEN MORRIS WAS CALLED, HE REPORTEDLY TOLD MS. CURREY HIS DAUGHTER HAD INJURED THE ARM ON A WATER SLIDE. HE HAD PREVIOUSLY GIVEN TWO DIFFERENT STORIES ON HOW THE INJURY OCCURRED.

GATEWAY PERSONNEL TOLD INVESTIGATORS THE BREAK COULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED DUE TO AN ACCIDENT, ACCORDING TO FILES.
MS. CURREY WAS REPORTEDLY TASKED TO INVESTIGATE FURTHER AND TOLD HER SUPERVISORS SHE INTERVIEWED MORRIS ON POST AND THAT THE YOUNG GIRL HAD A SOFT CAST WHICH SHE KEPT PULLING HER ARM OUT FROM. SHE ALSO WROTE MORRIS APPEARED TO BE A LOVING FATHER.

LATER, CABINET OFFICIALS REPORTEDLY TALKED TO A SURGEON WHO SAID ADAIR’S ARM WAS, IN FACT, IN A HOT PINK HARD CAST. THE CABINET ALSO SCOLDED CURREY FOR ALLEGEDLY NOT QUESTIONING MORRIS ABOUT BEING DISCHARGED FROM THE ARMY FOR MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, INCLUDING THE INABILITY TO CONTROL HIS ANGER.

MS. CURREY RESIGNED ON OCTOBER 7^TH, SAYING SHE WANTED TO LEAVE BECAUSE SHE NEEDED A LESS STRESSFUL JOB. SHE STATED HER CASELOAD WAS MORE THAN FOUR TIMES THE BEST PRACTICE CASELOAD OF 17 CASES PER WORKER.

THE CABINET WAS REPORTEDLY PREPARING TO FIRE MS. CURREY DUE TO THE ALLEGED MISREPRESENATION OF FACTS REGARDING THE INVESTIGATION OF THE ADAIR’S BROKEN ARM.

COMMONWEALTH’S ATTORNEY LYNN PRYOR TOLD THE HERALD-LEADER SHE IS LOOKING CLOSELY AT THE MATTER AND HAS REQUESTED THE CABINET’S RECORDS IN THE CASE. COMMONWEALTH’S ATTORNEY GAIL GUILING DEALS WITH CASES IN TODD COUNTY AND NEVER RETURNED MULTIPLE CALLS FROM WHOP NEWS REGARDING THE DYE CASE.

MORRIS WAS INDICTED BY A CHRISTIAN COUNTY GRAND JURY JULY 19^TH ON MURDER CHARGES AFTER HE CALLED 911 JULY 2^ND SAYING HIS DAUGHTER HAD FALLEN IN A BATH TUB AT THEIR PEMBROKE-OAK GROVE ROAD RESIDENCE AND WAS UNRESPONSIVE.

THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE IN NASHVILLE WOULD LATER RULE HER DEATH AS TRAUMA TO THE HEAD—A HOMICIDE.
WHERE THE ADAIR AND AMY DYE CASES COME TOGETHER IS IN MONROE-CURREY’S INVOLVEMENT. MS. CURREY WAS EMPLOYED AT THE TODD COUNTY OFFICE UNTIL 2010, WHEN SHE TRANSFERRED TO HOPKINSVILLE.

CABINET FILES DO INDICATE SHE HAD INVOLVEMENT IN THE YEARS-LONG ABUSE/NEGLECT INVESTIGATIONS OF THE DYE FAMILY, BUT THERE ARE NO INDICATIONS SHE DID ANYTHING WRONG AND SHE WAS NEVER DISCIPLINED FOR ANYTHING RELATING TO THAT CASE.

A CABINET SPOKESPERSON ALSO TOLD THE HERALD –LEADER THAT AN INTERNAL REVIEW OF MS. CURREY’S CASES IN CHRISTIAN COUNTY HAD BEEN DONE AND THERE WAS “NO FURTHER EVIDENCE OF FALSIFICATION OR LACK OF FOLLOW-UP.”

WHILE MORRIS IS IN JAIL FACING MURDER CHARGES, 18-YEAR OLD GARRETT DYE OF DOGWOOD ROAD NEAR TRENTON WILL FACE FORMAL SENTENCING WEDNESDAY IN TODD CIRCUIT COURT. HE WILL LIKELY RECEIVE 50 YEARS IN PRISON WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE IN 20 FOR BEATING HIS 9-YEAR OLD SISTER TO DEATH WITH A HYDRAULIC JACK HANDLE.

EXTENSIVE STATE RECORDS DETAIL YEARS OF ABUSE AND NEGLECT ALLEGATIONS AGAINST NOT ONLY GARRETT—BUT ANOTHER BROTHER AND THE ADOPTED PARENTS—KIMBERLY AND CHRIS DYE. NO ONE OTHER THAN GARRETT HAS EVER BEEN CHARGED WITH ANYTHING IN THAT CASE. AT LEAST TWO GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMITTEES COULD HOLD HEARINGS ON THE DYE CASE AND STATE REPRESENTATIVE JOHN TILLEY SAYS HE WILL BE TALKING TO ATTORNEY GENERAL JACK CONWAY ABOUT THE MATTER.

AMY DYE

WHOP NEWS/11/20/2011