Child Welfare

'Bark in the Park' set for Saturday at Okeena (04/30/08)
Saturday's weather forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with daytime temperatures in the 70s -- a perfect day for people and people's best friends to gather at Okeena Park for the annual 'Bark in the Park' celebration. The event coincides with National Pet Week. The Dyersburg/Dyer County Humane Society, Animal Care Hospital, and Dyer County Animal Hospital are sponsoring the day and invite everyone to bring their dogs to the fourth annual festivities...

88 indictments include variety of sex crimes (04/21/08)

17-year-old charged with rape (04/02/08)
A 17-year-old was transferred to Dyer County Circuit Court on Tuesday to face rape and aggravated sexual battery charges as an adult. Timothy Andrew Pettie, no address listed, Dyersburg, was transported from Youth Villages in Memphis after a 30-day evaluation ordered in February by Juvenile Court Judge Tony Childress. He was charged with rape of child (less than 13 years of age) and aggravated sexual battery...

Public defender services revoked in child abuse case (04/01/08)
The man accused of aggravated child abuse was released from the Dyer County Jail on Monday after posting a $25,000 bond. Joseph D. "Binks" Lee, 36, 313 Williams Dr., Dyersburg, was arrested on Friday after police investigators found he had assaulted a 12-year-old relative...

Suspect arrested for abuse of child (03/31/08)
A man suspected of abusing a 15-month old child was arrested by Dyersburg Police investigators on Friday. Joseph D. Lee, 36, 313 Williams Dr., Dyersburg, is lodged in the Dyer County Jail without bond. According to arrest documents, the 6-foot-4-inch, 280-lb. Lee is suspected to have abused the child after a relative of the child's saw bruises and sores in November 2007. The ensuing investigation resulted in the arrest...

Woman ordered to repay child's transplant fund (03/25/08)
A Dyersburg woman must repay $10,590 missing from her grandson's transplant fund, a circuit court judge declared Monday afternoon. Phyllis D. Vaughn, 57, 711 Wendell Ave., was charged with theft of property in excess of $10,000. She and her husband, Charles Norman Vaughn Sr., were in charge of a fund to benefit their grandson, Odell Terry, a teen-aged cystic fibrosis patient...

Workshops offered to caregivers of mentally ill people (03/20/08)
The National Alliance on Mental Illness-Dyersburg chapter will offer "With Hope in Mind" workshops at Dyersburg State Community College, beginning April 8. The series is a life-changing series of eight workshops on mental illness for family members and caregivers of people diagnosed with mental illness. ...

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