Sisters "Jane" PERRY - 9 and 11 yo - (2006) / Accused: Windie L, Earnest, and Elizabeth A Perry Clarksville TN

Second teen testifies about abuse in Clarksville child abuse, torture trial

12:55 PM, Jan. 19, 2012

A 15-year-old girl took the witness stand in Judge John H. Gasway’s court Thursday afternoon and described in detail how her adopted mother and adopted sister brutally beat and tortured her from the time she was 9-year old until she was 11 years old.

The girl was the second alleged victim to testify in the case against Windie L. Perry, 55, Earnest Perry, 68 and their adopted daughter, Elizabeth A. Perry, 23, who are charged in a 45 count indictment with
aggravated child abuse, especially aggravated kidnapping and sex abuse against two adopted girls.

Windie and Elizabeth Perry are charged with child rape and aggravated rape.

The 15-year-old’s testimony mirrored that of her older sister and two adopted brother who testified earlier in the week and described a one time good life that was shattered by violent abuse abuse.

“At first it was good, when we first got adopted everything was normal,” the 15-year-old said. “We went places, like shopping, out to eat, to church and we dressed up.”

The 15-year-old and her 17-year-old sister had been in the foster care system for 5 years and came to the Perrys home as young children, the only two not adopted as infants. The abuse began after July 2006, she testified.

“Things were rough,” she said. “We got abused…we got hit on a lot with chains, belts, ropes anything.”

The teen said being confined and locked inside of a dog kennels with her older sister was almost a daily occurrence, and being tied to cot, barricaded in a closet, hit with bats, hammers, chains, a metal pole, an axe, a red hose and belt by Windie and Elizabeth Perry were also frequent punishments for “not cleaning fast enough.”

The teen said Earnest Perry was often gone from the home and did not inflict the “punishments” but also never said anything about what was allegedly happening to them.

Specific incidents involving Windie Perry using jumper cables, a staple gun, pliers on her frenulum and
wrapping her face in duct tape and beating her until unconsciousness with a bat were also discussed at length. She also said she was deprived food for as long as five days.

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Perrys receive mixed verdict, Windie and Elizabeth convicted, Ernest acquitted

Two week child torture trial ends with mixed verdict
2:41 AM, Jan. 28, 2012


Windie Perry looks at Elizabeth Perry, her adopted daughter, as
the guilty verdicts are read in the aggravated child abuse and torture
trial of the Perry family. Windle Perry was found guilty on fourteen
counts. / THE LEAF-CHRONICLE/ROBERT SMITH

Written by Tavia D. Green
The Leaf-Chronicle

Elizabeth Perry, the adopted daughter of Ernest and Windie Perry
wipes away tears as the verdict was read in the aggravated child abuse
and torture trial of the Perry family. Elizabeth Perry was found guilty
on seven counts of the indictment. / THE LEAF-CHRONICLE/ROBERT SMITH


Ernest Perry listens as the guilty verdicts are read against his
wife, Windle Perry early Saturday morning. Ernest Perry was found not
guilty on the charges against him in the aggravated child abuse and
torture trial of the Perry family. / THE LEAF-CHRONICLE/ROBERT SMITH

As the clock struck midnight, Judge John H. Gasaway's courtroom was filled
with silence as friends, law enforcement and others involved in the
Perry case filled the courtroom gallery.
The jury foreman read each count of the 34 count indictment in the child abuse, child
torture trial of the Perry family and announced that they had become
deadlocked or hung on two counts.
The jurors faces showed mental and physical exhaustion, some seemed as if
they had become emotional at some point. The faces of the accused showed
stress and the room was still as the jury read their verdict:

Windie Perry, 55, was charged with four counts of child rape, 9 counts of
especially aggravated kidnapping and 19 counts of aggravated child abuse
and two counts aggravated child neglect.

Verdict: Windie was found guilty of the lesser charge of facilitation of rape of a
child, two counts of aggravated child abuse, two counts of the lesser
charge false imprisonment, two counts of especially aggravated
kidnapping, one count of aggravated assault and six counts of reckless
endangerment.

She was found not guilty of 19 counts and one count that was hung.
Her bond was revoked and she was turned over to the custody of the Sheriff's Office until her sentencing hearing on March 13.

Windie, showed little emotion as the verdict was read. Her face saddened and
full of grief as she'd cried and prayed all day she said.
During the deliberation, she could be heard praying with her friends. She
clutched a Bible as she entered the courtroom to hear the verdict.
As her friends left the courtroom, she sat alone waiting for deputies to take her to be booked in the Montgomery County Jail.
"Obviously, she's disappointed," said her attorney, J. Runyon. "I respect the jury system and the jury. "
Ernest Perry, 68, was charged with two counts of aggravated child neglect and one count of especially aggravated kidnapping.

Verdict: Acquitted of all charges.

When asked about his client, Charles Bloodworth said, "We are proud of his
service as a retired 1st Sgt, as an Austin Peay police officer,"
Bloodworth said. "He took on adopted children, which is always a risk.
He never shied away from difficult situations. His family has always
been the most important thing to him."

Elizabeth Perry, 23, was charged with four counts of child rape,
six counts of especially aggravated kidnapping and three counts of
aggravated child abuse.

Verdict: Elizabeth was convicted of the lesser charge facilitation of rape of a child, one count of false
imprisonment, two counts of the lesser charge facilitation of especially
aggravated kidnapping and three counts of reckless endangerment.
She was found not guilty on five counts and one count that was hung.

She was allowed to remain on her same bond and a sentencing date was set for March 13.
Elizabeth, who showed little emotion during the duration of the trial, left the
courtroom quickly and could be heard sobbing as her mother prepared to
be taken by deputies for booking.

There was one count the jury was deadlocked on.

Kimberly Lund, prosecutor said the trial was the most difficult and extensive case she's ever tried.
"It's overwhelming," she said. "I think the girls got a measure of justice. It's been very difficult on everyone."

Lund said the jury was one of the best juries she's ever worked with.

"They were all diligent, and took notes...that means a lot to the girls."
After two days and more than 20 hours of deliberation, the jury decided that
Ernest Perry was not guilty of all charges, but Windie, 55, and
Elizabeth Perry, 23, were guilty of some of the numerous counts they
faced.

The jury began deliberating Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. after hearing about two weeks of evidence.
Friday at 8:30 a.m. they continued their deliberation. Friday afternoon they asked Judge Gasaway to allow them to work into the evening until they reached a verdict.

At 10:30 p.m., Gasaway called them into the courtroom and the foreman announced they had decided 14 counts but were hung on 20. At midnight they had agreed on 18 of those 20 counts.

Jury praised

Judge Gasaway thanked the jury for their service noting that they fulfilled their service and were an excellent jury.

"I want to sincerely thank you for the service you have rendered for the last two weeks, very few are actually called for jury duty and serve for as long as this," Gasaway said. "It's been complex...you've worked hard and taken your service sincerely and all the trial participants are grateful."

Attorneys for the defendants and the State lauded the jury's’ diligence in one of the most extensive and hardest child abuse cases they have ever tried in Montgomery County.

“Regardless of the verdict, this jury worked hard from the beginning,” Charles Bloodworth, Ernest Perry’s attorney said. “Those 14 jurors gave two weeks of their life under strict conditions of no contact.
Even riding up and down the elevator became an undertaking. They were given questionnaires, poked and prodded and responded fairly to the inquires from the defense and state. I think we had a fair jury.”

During the questioning portion of the jury selection process, Bloodworth said
both sides selected this jury with challenges to dismiss to spare.

“No one was stuck with this jury,” Bloodworth said. “Both sides declared
themselves satisfied with the jury. I think it says a lot about the jury
we had. (Everyone) was very content with the jury and believed they
were a fair minded cross section of the community.”

It was not surprising that the jury took two days to decide on a fair verdict.

“They had to sit as three juries at once and each count of each defendant was like a separate trial,” Bloodworth said.

Shifting through extensive notes taken over a 7-day period and dissecting the case count by count, defendant by defendant and alleged victim by alleged victim was a huge responsibility.”

Bloodworth said it is one of the most extensive cases he has ever been involved in.

“In terms of length of trial, 10-full days it’s the longest I’ve ever been involved in,” Bloodworth said. “This case everything was questioned, the identity of all three, the two complainants. This case had more expert witnesses than any case I’ve ever seen…everything was challenged. .. It has been one of the most difficult cases I’ve had as a defense attorney.”

“Everyone­-prosecutors, the defense, worked hard on this case. It has got to be three times worse on the judge who has got to ensure a fair trial and his secretary who works to help in preparing jury instructions and verdict forms,” Charles Bloodworth, Ernest Perry’s attorney said. “America should feel excited that we are willing to spend this much time, effort and dollars to get a fair result…”

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A Clarksville woman and her daughter are scheduled to be sentenced
Tuesday in the child sex abuse and torture case involving two of six
adopted children in their home.The two
girls were abused from the period they were adopted in July 2006 until
the then-13-year-old ran away from the Perry’s R.S. Bradley Boulevard
home on March 18, 2008.
Police
discovered extreme bruising and disfigurement on both girls, who
testified at trial that Windie and Elizabeth Perry beat and raped them
with various objects, tied them down and put them in dog kennels on
numerous occasions.
Ernest
Perry, 68, his wife Windie Perry, 55, their adopted daughter Elizabeth
Perry, 23, underwent a two-week jury trial in January.
After
almost two days of deliberation, the jury found Windie guilty of
facilitation of rape of a child, two counts of aggravated child abuse,
two counts of false imprisonment, two counts of especially aggravated
kidnapping, one count of aggravated assault and six counts of reckless
endangerment.
Elizabeth
was convicted of facilitation of rape of a child, one count of false
imprisonment, two counts of facilitation of especially aggravated
kidnapping and three counts of reckless endangerment.
Ernest Perry was found not guilty.
Their
sentencing hearing was postponed on March 13 because Elizabeth Perry
was serving a jail sentence in Christian County, Ky., on a shoplifting
charge.

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I don't understand why the adopted father wasn't convicted of some kind of child abuse because he knew about it. And I'm not sure the POS mother and stepsister were convicted of enough charges. Seems to me the jury was too easy on them. I just hope they get harsh sentences.

my thoughts exactly babyj!