JEREMIAH OLIVER - 5 yo - (9/14/2013) - / Charged: Mother and boyfriend: Elsa Oliver and Alberto Sierra - Fitchburg, MA

December 17, 2013, 11: 55 AM

Last Updated Dec. 17, 2013 12:15 PM EST


FITCHBURG, Mass. - A mother and her boyfriend have been arrested and charged in connection with the disappearance of the woman’s 5-year-old son, reports CBS Boston.

Jeremiah Oliver has not been seen since Sept. 14, but police only found out about the child’s disappearance on Friday after his 8-year-old sister revealed concerns to a teacher and then a counselor at school. Authorities were subsequently notified by the school, according to the station.

In response, police executed a search warrant at the family’s Fitchburg home.


 Worcester County DA Joseph Early would not give specifics on what the little girl said or what was found in the apartment, but it was enough to bring charges against the children’s mother and her boyfriend, according to the station.

Court records reportedly show the girl told authorities her mother's boyfriend used a belt and his fists to beat her, her siblings and her mother.

“I don’t want to speculate but we are treating this as a homicide investigation based on the facts that we have,” Early said.

The mother’s boyfriend, 22-year-old Alberto Sierra, was arrested Saturday morning and charged with harming Jeremiah and his sister. He is facing two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (a knife) and two counts of assault and battery of a child causing bodily injury, according to the station. One of the charges reportedly involves an assault on the children’s mother.
He pleaded not guilty Monday and is being held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing.

Elsa Oliver, the children’s mother, was arrested Monday on two counts of reckless endangerment of a child and two counts of accessory after the fact of a felony, reports the station. Oliver appeared in Fitchburg District Court on Tuesday and her lawyer requested she undergo a mental evaluation prior to her arraignment. A judge granted the request.


DA Early confirmed both Oliver and Sierra were known to authorities, according to the station. Court records reportedly show Sierra has a history of assaulting women and children.

In 2012, a woman filed a restraining order against Sierra alleging that he hit her and their son and threatened to kill them both and burn down her parents’ home, reports the station.

A neighbor in the building where Oliver and the children lived said she heard loud noises Dec. 12, the night before police showed up. She said she had seen two older children, ages 7 and 8, but in her two months living there, had never seen Jeremiah, reports the station.

Jeremiah is described as having brown hair and brown eyes and standing three feet, four inches tall. Early is asking for the public’s help in the case and is thankful Jeremiah’s sister came forward.

“… That little girl showed a lot of courage showing what she did,” he said.

Anyone with information about the boy is asked to call the State Police Detectives at (508-832-9124) or Fitchburg Police (978-345-9648).

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mass-mom-boyfriend-arrested-in-disappearance-of-boy-5/

This poor little boy is dead IMO, murdered by a POS monster who is not a real man.

Why did this mother bring this person into her home with her children?

Why didn't she care enough about her little boy to even contact authorities.  She knows he's dead, was likely there when he was beaten to death.

Another POS mother, another POS "man", another dead child.

Thank God for his brave little sister.  I hope she iand her siblings are put into a loving home and have a wonderful Christmas.

When something official is issued, I'm sure this will be moved to murdered children.

Two DCF workers fired in missing Fitchburg boy’s case

Tuesday, December 17, 2013


Photo by: 
AP/Rick Cinclair
Elsa Oliver is escorted into the courtroom for her arraignment in Fitchburg District Court Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, in Fitchburg, Mass., on on charges of reckless endangerment of a child and accessory after the fact of assault, in regards to her missing 5-year-old son, Jeremiah Oliver.

Two child welfare workers have been fired in the case of a missing Fitchburg boy, which the head of the state’s Department of Children and Families is calling a “serious failure.”

Jeremiah Oliver, 5, has been missing since Sept. 14 and is feared dead. His mother and her boyfriend are in custody on assault charges related to abuse of severa

DCF Commissioner Olga Roche said a social worker and supervisor assigned to Oliver’s family have been “terminated” after the worker failed to do mandated in-person, monthly checks on the family. The supervisor, she said, didn’t enforce the policy.

“This case represents a serious failure on the part of the social worker and supervisor assigned to the family,” Roche said in a statement released this afternoon. “All of the cases assigned to that social worker are currently receiving an in-person review and all the cases assigned to that supervisor are being reviewed as well.”

DCF officials said in today’s statement say the family had been receiving state services since September 2011, though they did not detail what the services included.

The DCF statement said in June 2013, the social worker, who Roche did not identify, had received a message from Jeremiah’s day care indicating his mother said it was his last day and that she planned to send him to Florida to live with his grandmother. But the social worker never verified that.

Jeremiah Oliver’s his three-month disappearance is being treated as a “potential homicide,” authorities have said. His mother, Elsa Oliver, 28, and her boyfriend, Alberto L. Sierra, 22, are under arrest, and the mother appeared in Fitchburg District Court, where a judge ordered her to be hospitalized and evaluated mentally — prompting a relative to leave the courtroom with an expletive-laced outburst. Judge Andrew Mandell sent Elsa Oliver, who was handcuffed at the wrist, to the Worcester Recovery Center so her competence can be evaluated based on the recommendations of a state forensic psychologist.

A police detective who began investigating Oliver’s disappearance just this month following a complaint said he was given a 51A filed on May 14, 2013, stating “the victim,” whose name was redacted, told “a school nurse that his mother, Elsa Oliver, struck him with a belt prior to going to school earlier in the morning on 5/10/2013.”

The report continues, “(Redacted) made a report to the Reingold School staff that his mother got mad at (redacted) and hit (redacted) with a belt. (Redacted) said that (redacted) mother hit (redacted) on his back, leg and feet. (Redacted) further states that he tried to block with his feet. The school nurse reports that (redacted) she checked (redacted) and observed a slight “pinkness” on (redacted) back, but could not confirm it was from a belt mark.”

The document continues: “Based on the investigation by DCF it appears that the children continue to make allegations of physical abuse by Elsa Oliver. Ms. Oliver admits to DCF of striking the children with a belt, but she states that (redacted) gets his dates confused and the allegation is an old one from 2012. Without further investigation, this detective has verified through the school nurse and school records that there was a documented injury to (redacted) on 5/10/2013.”

A police report also indicated that the mother’s boyfriend had viciously abused the woman and her children.

According to a Dec. 13 police interview with Jeremiah’s sister, Sierra punched and slapped Elsa Oliver and held a knife to her face. He struck her children with fists and with a black belt with a gold buckle, causing one child’s “bum to bleed,” and knocking a child “off of the bathroom toilet with such force it caused him to fall to the floor,” the girl told police.

Elsa Oliver faces two counts of reckless endangerment of a child and two counts of accessory after the fact. Mandell set a dangerousness hearing for her on Dec. 24.

The judge’s ruling infuriated Jeremiah’s uncle, Sandrino Oliver, who stormed out of the courtroom, demanding to know why his nephew’s name was never mentioned in the brief proceeding.

“Where is my (expletive) nephew,” he shouted. “Ask the (expletive) question.”

Outside of court, he questioned whether the boy’s mother was faking mental illness.

“She knows where he is. She knows what’s going on. She just doesn’t want to talk,” he insisted.

In court, Elsa Oliver’s attorney James G. Reardon, said his client was unresponsive to all of his questions. Reardon said after the hearing he has “almost no means of communicating with her.”

State forensic psychologist Hanya Bluestone told Mandell that Oliver has a history of psychiatric treatment, feared she would be poisoned, and was unresponsive to her.

“She is very suspicious,” Bluestone said in court. “Her mood is irritable and angry.”

Reardon said after the arraignment, Oliver was taken to a juvenile court hearing in the same building.

He wouldn’t disclose what happened in that hearing, but he said, “She’s been ordered to produce her son. She has not done that.”
Jeremiah’s relatives had pleaded for answers in his disappearance today outside Fitchburg District Court before his mother’s arraignment.

“I just want him back, I just want my nephew back,” a tearful Sandrino Oliver screamed on the court steps. Sandrino Oliver is the brother of Jeremiah’s father, the boy’s relatives said. The father lives in Connecticut, they said.

The boy’s relatives said they haven’t had contact with Elsa for two years, when she left Worcester.

“We want to know if he’s alive, if somebody can bring him back to us,” Sandro Oliver, 20, the boy’s cousin said.

He described Jeremiah as a “smart little boy” who likes video games, drawing and building things with blocks.

“Christmas is around the corner, New Year’s is here. We just want him home,” Sandro Oliver said.

He added, “He is only 5 years old. What is he going to do to a grown man? The guy is 23,” he said, referring to Sierra, Elsa’s boyfriend. “There is nothing we can do.”

“The District Attorney’s office was notified on Friday of a potential missing child in Fitchburg,” Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. said yesterday in a statement. “The investigation led to charges against his mother and her boyfriend.”

Oliver is facing two counts of reckless endangerment of a child and two counts of accessory after the fact to assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Her other two children are now in state custody. Sierra was arraigned yesterday on two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, a knife, and two counts of assault and battery on a child causing injury for alleged attacks against Oliver and her son. He pleaded not guilty and is being held pending a dangerousness hearing.

The investigation began after Elsa Oliver’s daughter told counselors at Reingold Elementary School that “she had been abused by their mother’s boyfriend,” according to the police report.

The girl’s statement to school counselors resulted in Oliver’s children being taken into protective custody, the report said.

Oliver appeared at a Care and Protection Hearing Friday “and was observed to have bruised, disheveled hair and appeared to have been assaulted,” the report said. She refused to cooperate and left the courthouse, the report said.
Sierra was arrested Saturday, the report said.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/12/two_dcf_workers_fired_in_missing_fitchburg_boy_s_case

She's not a mental case, she a horny bitch protecting her boyfriend.  Won't do her any good, he's going down for murder and she won't ever be with him again.  She needs to go down with him.

Prayer vigil held for missing Fitchburg boy Jeremiah Oliver

By Katina Caraganis , kcaraganis@sentinelandenterprise.com
Posted:   12/18/2013 07:24:30 PM EST


Leona Phaneuf and her grandson Adrian Espinal-Phaneuf, 2, place their candles at the makeshift tribute in Fitchburg on Wednesday during the vigil for Jeremiah Oliver, 5, who has been missing since Sept. 14. SENTINEL & ENTERPROSE/JOHN LOVE

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FITCHBURG -- A makeshift tribute of candles and teddy bears in a snowbank grew quickly in a vacant parking lot on Kimball Street where a prayer the vigil was held Wednesday afternoon for 5-year-old Jeremiah Oliver, who has not been seen by anyone in his family since Sept. 14.

Mary Santos said she has lived right below Jeremiah's apartment at 276 Kimball St. since the summer, and she said she could hear screaming coming from the home more than once.

"I hate to say it now, especially considering everything that's going on right now," she said. "I heard a lot of screaming, especially from the mother. It's just heartbreaking for me to know something like this is going on. I have my own grandchildren. It's devastating."

Jeremiah's mother, Elsa Oliver, and her boyfriend Alberto Sierra of 164 Meadowbrook Lane were arrested Friday.

Sierra was arraigned Monday on two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (knife) and two counts of assault and battery on a child causing bodily injury. Oliver was arraigned Tuesday on two counts of reckless endangerment of a child, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and two counts of accessory after the fact of a felony (assault and battery with a dangerous weapon).

Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. said his office is treating Jeremiah's disappearance as a homicide.

Santos moved in in August and said she never once saw Jeremiah.

"I honestly thought she only had the two older kids. I never once saw Jeremiah," she said.

Candace Perales organized the vigil, which included prayers in both English and Spanish and was held across the street from 276 Kimball St.. Perales said she did not know the family personally but as a mother she felt compelled to do something.

"It kills me that something like this happened in my city. My father-in-law lives next door, and I just can't even imagine this," she said.

Perales has a 4-month-old daughter, and she said if she can't see or hear her for more than a couple minutes, she makes sure she's OK.

"I've been in touch with the family since everything in court. I just wanted to show support for this family," she said.

Angelina Melendez went to the vigil with her two teenage daughters and said her 5-year-old son attended the Montachusett Opportunity Council (MOC) Head Start program on South Street with Jeremiah Oliver.

"I never knew the family or Jeremiah, but I know he went there for a little while at least," Melendez said.

Fighting back tears, Sheryl Senecal brought over a large stuffed bear and put it at the makeshift memorial.

"I have 13 grandkids. I just hope he's OK. It's awful for this to happen. I pray for him and his family," she said.

Perales said she got the word out about the vigil on Facebook after attending Oliver's arraignment.

"It (arraignment) was all about her and her mental state in court. This isn't about her. This is about Jeremiah," she said.

Authorities were not alerted to the boy's disappearance until Friday, after Jeremiah's sister disclosed to a guidance counselor at Reingold Elementary School that she had been abused by Sierra. As a result of those statements, the children were taken from the home and placed into protective custody, according to court documents.

A judge ordered Oliver to undergo a psychiatric evaluation in Worcester ahead of her next court appearance.

Both are scheduled to be back in Fitchburg District Court Dec. 24 for dangerousness hearings. Sierra's was originally scheduled for Thursday, but it was postponed.

Both are being held without bail pending their dangerousness hearings.

One of Oliver's children had disclosed on May 10 to school staff at Reingold that before he went to school, his mother struck him with a belt on the back, leg and feet. He was looked at by a school nurse, who documented slight "pinkness" on his back, according to court documents.

 http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/breakingnews/ci_24752643/prayer-vigil-held-missing-fitchburg-boy-jeremiah-oliver#ixzz2nuPOapJM

Jeremiah Oliver was a little boy lost

By Yvonne Abraham
 |  Globe Columnist  
  December 19, 2013.


A prayer vigil was held Wednesday across the street from the home on Kimball Street in Fitchburg where 5-year-old Jeremiah Oliver lived.


They lost him. And they didn’t even bother to look for him.

The case of Jeremiah Oliver, the missing Fitchburg boy, is a story of monumental, catastrophic failure. State social workers were all that stood between the 5-year-old and disaster. But instead of protecting him, they left him to suffer alone. He was just one endangered child among many, his precious little life failing to rise to the top of a pile — and not even a tall pile — of case files on a desk.

Here is a child who, along with his two siblings, had the great misfortune of being born into mayhem, to parents who were sick, lost, and cruel. No one close to these children appeared able, or willing, to protect them. Not the addicted, mentally ill, abused, and abusive mother who stood in a courtroom on Tuesday. Not the father who appears to have done nothing — not even see them – after his wife took the children away a few years ago.

And certainly not Alberto Sierra, the man accused of terrorizing Elsa Oliver and her children for months before Oliver’s daughter raised the alarm that finally delivered her from evil a couple of weeks ago. Imagine the fear this 7-year-old girl must have felt — the isolation, the horrors playing out in the place where she was supposed to feel safest. What courage it took for her to tell a school guidance counselor what was happening: That her mother’s boyfriend had been hurting all of them, for months. By then, only one of her brothers remained in the home. Jeremiah is missing, last seen by a relative in September. Police fear he has been killed.

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It is sickening to think of how it came to this. The Department of Children and Families, which exists to protect kids when nobody else will, had been involved with the family since September 2011. A social worker should have been visiting the family’s home every month. There was a visit in May, after one of the children told staff at his school that Sierra had beaten him, and one in November, by which time Jeremiah was gone. The social worker didn’t bother to follow up on a report that the boy had suddenly gone to live with relatives in Florida. DCF Commissioner Olga I. Roche said Wednesday that the social worker failed to recognize or report other huge red flags in the case, like the mother’s mental illness and drug use. She did not follow up with others who dealt with the children and said they were concerned about the child’s sudden absence.

Even more stunning, Roche said the social worker and her supervisor were actually recommending that DCF close the case on this cauldron of potentially lethal dysfunction. The children were utterly on their own.

It’s one thing when abused kids fly under the radar. It’s another when everything is working as it should — educators spot warning signs, case files are opened, monitoring begins — and yet the children’s suffering continues as if they were invisible.

Roche said Wednesday that the social worker had neglected her duties with other children, too. Of the 18 cases she was handling, Roche said, the social worker had failed to make monthly visits to eight of the households. (The commissioner said the other seven families were doing fine despite the social worker going MIA.)

There is no nuance here, as there is in so many of these awful stories, nothing hard to understand except the cruel ending. This is not a case in which an overtaxed worker was trying to balance the benefits of keeping a family together against concerns for the children’s safety. Dedicated social workers make those agonizing judgments all the time, and Roche was careful to pay tribute to them. No, there is no gray here: If what Roche says is true, this social worker and her supervisor simply failed to do their job.

And because of that, a child who could have — should have — had a reason to hope is gone.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/12/19/little-boy-lost/VxuYm0ixER7qWActgfJVfI/story.html

Pictures of dear little Jeremiah - parents and Social Services let him down.
see bold below - 3 DCF workers now fired and a 4th suspended!.

The father of missing Fitchburg boy Jeremiah Oliver — who is seeking custody of his two other kids while authorities search in vain for the 5-year-old — has been arrested in Connecticut on charges he sold heroin to undercover cops, police said.

Jose Oliver was arrested Monday on felony charges, said New Britain, Conn., police Capt. Thomas Steck.

“He did have three bundles, or 30 bags, of heroin,” Steck said.

Oliver was released and will be arraigned within 10 business days of his arrest on charges including possession of narcotics, possession of narcotics with intent to sell, possession of narcotics within 1,500 feet of a school or day care, and criminal intent to sell narcotics, Steck said.

Steck said officers, acting on information that Oliver was selling drugs, set up the “street rip” that led to the arrest.

Oliver, 41, could not be reached for comment yesterday. His brother, Sandrino Oliver, of Worcester, declined to comment.

Oliver told the Herald last week he is seeking custody of his other son and daughter, who are currently in the care of Massachusetts child-welfare officials. He said a hearing had been set for Jan. 10.

Jeremiah, who authorities fear is dead, lived with his mother, Elsa Oliver, 28, and her boyfriend, Alberto Sierra Jr., 23, in Fitchburg. He was last seen Sept. 14 — but police and state officials did not know he was missing until last month.

Sierra is accused of assault and battery on a child, and Elsa Oliver is charged as an accessory after the fact.

Three employees of the Department of Children and Families have been fired and a fourth has been demoted and suspended in the agency’s badly botched handling of the case. Officials say the family’s social worker regularly skipped monthly visits, and the demoted manager decided not to investigate after multiple reports of abuse and neglect in the Oliver family.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/01/jeremiah_oliver_s_dad_faces_heroin_rap

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Report: Boyfriend's brother contacted DCF days before Fitchburg boy's disappearance


Jeremiah Oliver

By Paula J. Owen TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF

CORRECTIONS / AMPLIFICATIONS

The headline on this story has been changed. The brother of Alberto L. Sierra Jr contacted the state with concerns about the mental health of Jeremiah Oliver's mother.

FITCHBURG — Luis Sierra, the brother of Alberto L. Sierra Jr., who is being held without bail in connection with the disappearance of young Jeremiah Oliver, contacted the Department of Children and Families in December, 10 days before the boy was reported missing to authorities, over concerns about the mental health of Jeremiah's mother, according to a report released Monday by DCF.

Additionally, the report says Jeremiah's siblings told the family's DCF social worker that Luis Sierra used to baby-sit Jeremiah and that the boy had gone to live with his "other family" whom they did not know.

DCF Commissioner Olga I. Roche on Monday announced a third DCF employee was fired in the wake of investigations into the missing 5-year-old Fitchburg boy and state officials have concluded that numerous failings and misconduct by staff contributed to the disappearance.

Ms. Roche issued the agency's final report on the case of the missing boy, whose disappearance is being treated as a possible homicide.

The details, which she called troubling and sad, were disclosed as Jeremiah's mother, Elsa Oliver, 28, and her boyfriend, Alberto Sierra, 23, remain in custody facing abuse charges, and family members and friends continue searching for the boy. The state is also caring for the boy's 9-year-old brother and 7-year-old sister.

Ms. Oliver is being held without bail on a contempt charge in juvenile court, where she was ordered to produce her son and she also faces child abuse charges. Family members say she has a history of mental illness dating back to when she was 17.

Jeremiah's father, Jose Oliver, from New Britain, Conn., is due back in Fitchburg Juvenile Court on Jan. 10 to seek custody of Jeremiah's older siblings.

According to the DCF report, a social worker from the DCF's North Central office in Leominster failed to conduct home visits regularly to ensure the Oliver children's safety. The social worker only visited the Oliver family three times in 2013 after the case was transferred to the Leominster office in January — twice in February and once in April, the report states. The social worker's supervisor did not take steps to ensure home visits were made, the report says.

Additionally, when the case was first transferred to the Leominster office, the social worker admitted she did not take the time to read the Oliver family's DCF file dating back to September 2011, and only read the transfer summary. Her supervisor didn't read the file, either, but did look at some of the reports contained in it, the report said. Moreover, DCF records were falsified to say the Oliver home was "clean and suitable," in September, though no one had seen it, the report said.

The last time a DCF employee saw Jeremiah, the report says, was on May 20 after another report of physical abuse by Ms. Oliver toward the oldest child was made. An investigator visited the Oliver home and said he spoke at length with Jeremiah, later describing the boy in his report as "precocious, talkative and articulate."

The social worker later canceled a home visit scheduled with Ms. Oliver and her children on May 28, the report says, and failed to follow up on three more reports of abuse and neglect of the Oliver children made in June; a report by Jeremiah's preschool that he was coming to school hungry and another report from the preschool that Ms. Oliver said she was considering moving to Florida.

The next contact the social worker had with Ms. Oliver was on June 26, when Ms. Oliver called her and said she did not want to work with the DCF any longer because she was "not receiving any services or help from the Department," the report said.

But, it wasn't until more than four months later that the social worker assigned to the Oliver family would have contact with the family again, finally visiting Reingold Elementary School on Nov. 5 where Jeremiah's older siblings attended school.

The social worker spoke to the guidance counselor and others at the school, the report said, and also interviewed Jeremiah's sister and brother.

"The oldest child reported that his youngest sibling resided with their 'other family' that he did not know," the report said. "The middle child reported that the brother of her mother's boyfriend sometimes watched her younger sibling."

The school visit was conducted about a month after the social worker called Jeremiah's preschool on Oct. 9 and was told that he had not attended the program since June 26, the report said.

After leaving Jeremiah's siblings' school on Nov. 5, the social worker finally made an attempt to make an announced home visit to the Oliver home, the report said, but only left her business card in the door when no one answered the door. The social worker did not try again in November to visit the Oliver home even after the guidance counselor from the older children's school called to notify her on Nov. 15, he was unable to get in touch with Ms. Oliver.

Then, on Dec. 2, a mandated reporter filed a 51A report for neglect of the Oliver children by their mother. The social worker and her supervisor finally went back to the Oliver home the day the report was filed, but, again, no one answered the door, the report said.

That same night just before 9, Ms. Oliver left an incoherent voicemail message for the social worker, the report said. The next day, the social worker called Ms. Oliver back and left her a voice-mail message and later that day, Luis Sierra called the social worker to alert the agency of his concerns about Ms. Oliver's depression.

"The social worker asked Luis to have Mrs. Oliver contact the department immediately," the report said.

Two days later, an investigator tried to conduct a home visit and though that investigator heard voices inside the Oliver home, no one answered the door and the investigator left, the report said. The same thing happened the following day. On Dec. 7, emergency workers with DCF visited the home and also heard voices inside, but couldn't get anyone to come to the door. Finally, on Dec. 9, the DCF social worker left a voicemail for Ms. Oliver stating if she did not contact DCF by 5 p.m., legal action would be taken. She did not respond and the agency took custody of the three Oliver children on Dec. 10.

"On Dec. 13, the investigator spoke with the maternal grandmother and maternal aunt at their respective home in Florida and they denied that the youngest child was in Florida," the report said. "The local sheriff's office in Florida sent an officer to the maternal grandmother's home and confirmed that the youngest child was not there."

Ms. Oliver and Mr. Sierra were subsequently arrested.

On Dec. 17, Mr. Sierra's brother Luis Sierra posted on his Facebook page, "Hbd (Happy Birthday) lil bro. I'm gonna do everything I can to get to the bottom of this."

Then, in response to posts of support from his friends, Luis Sierra posted, "Thanks and everything they said on the news is a lie. My brother didn't know what was going on. She told him she sent the boy to her fam's in Florida and he never once laid a hand on them kids. That was all her. She was an abusive and a neglecting mother and I will fight to the end to prove my brother's innocence."

http://www.telegram.com/article/20140101/NEWS/301019870/0

Mother and boyfriend indicted in Jeremiah Oliver case by Worcester County Grand Jury


March 21, 2014 at 4:26 PM

WORCESTER — The mother of missing Fitchburg 5-year-old Jeremiah Oliver was indicted along with her boyfriend by a Worcester County Grand Jury Friday on charges related to the boy's disappearance.

The indictment on charges previously out of the Fitchburg District Court moves the cases to Worcester Superior Court, said officials from Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.'s office.

Jeremiah Oliver was last seen on September 15. The case is being investigated as a homicide by the District Attorney’s Office, which was notified of Jeremiah’s disappearance on Dec. 13.
 
Oliver, and her boyfriend, Alberto Sierra, had previously been charged in the Fitchburg District Court in connection with his disappearance. Oliver is being held on $100,000 cash bail and Sierra without bail in Fitchburg. The indictment by a grand jury moved these charges to the Worcester Superior Court, according to the D.A.'s office.

Oliver, 28, of 276 Kimball St., Fitchburg, is charged with permitting bodily injury to a child, three counts of reckless endangerment of a child, kidnapping a child, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and three counts of assault and battery, according to the Worcester D.A.

Sierra, 23, of 164 Meadowbrook Lane, Fitchburg is Oliver’s boyfriend. He was indicted on charges of indecent assault and battery on a child, permitting bodily injury to a child, three counts of reckless endangerment of a child, kidnapping a child, assault and battery on a child causing bodily injury, four counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and two counts of assault and battery.

Court documents allege Sierra abused Elsa Oliver and her three children, beating them and threatening his girlfriend with a knife.

Oliver's father has appeared in court to seek custody of his two other children. The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families has fallen under scrutiny following Oliver's disappearance.

The disappearance is being investigated by State Police Detectives assigned to the District Attorney’s Office and Fitchburg Police.

http://www.masslive.com/news/worcester/index.ssf/2014/03/mother_and_boyfriend_indicted.html

Elsa Oliver, Alberto Sierra to be arraigned in Worcester in Jeremiah Oliver case

In a Dec. 17, 2013 file photo, Elsa Oliver is escorted into the courtroom for her arraignment in Fitchburg District Court in regards to her missing 5-year-old son, Jeremiah Oliver. (AP Photo/Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Rick Cinclair, Pool)


March 26, 2014 at 3:34 PM

Jeremiah Oliver's mother and her boyfriend will be arraigned this week in Worcester on charges stemming from the boy's disappearance and abuse of two other children.

Elsa Oliver, 28, and Alberto Sierra, 23, were charged in Fitchburg in December, after the Worcester District Attorney's office began investigating the boy's disappearance. Five-year-old Jeremiah, of Fitchburg, has not been seen since September and is presumed dead.

Oliver and Sierra were indicted by a grand jury last week, moving their cases to Worcester Superior Court, where more serious crimes are handled.

Sierra will be arraigned on Thursday, while Oliver will be in court Friday, Worcester District Attorney's office spokesman Timothy Connolly said.

Oliver, of 276 Kimball St., Fitchburg, is charged with permitting bodily injury to a child, three counts of reckless endangerment of a child, kidnapping a child, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and three counts of assault and battery, according to the Worcester D.A.

Sierra, of 164 Meadowbrook Lane, Fitchburg, is Oliver’s boyfriend. He was indicted on charges of indecent assault and battery on a child, permitting bodily injury to a child, three counts of reckless endangerment of a child, kidnapping a child, assault and battery on a child causing bodily injury, four counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and two counts of assault and battery.

http://www.masslive.com/news/worcester/index.ssf/2014/03/elsa_oliver_alberto_sierra_to.html

Autopsy to ID dead boy; body fits description of missing Massachusetts 5-year-old

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Massachusetts State Police stand along Interstate 190 where police said a child's body was found Friday, April 18, 2014, near Sterling, Mass. Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr., said the body has not been positively identified as Jeremiah Oliver, of Fitchburg, but that the height and weight of the body was consistent with Oliver's size. Jeremiah Oliver was last seen by relatives in September 2013 but wasn't reported missing until December. His mother Elsa Oliver and her boyfriend Alberto Sierra are both charged in the case. (AP Photo/Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Tom Rettig)THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


WORCESTER, Mass. –  All authorities are saying for sure is that they found the lifeless body of a small boy, apparently cast off the side of a highway in central Massachusetts.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/19/autopsy-to-id-dead-boy-body-fits-description-missing-massachusetts-5-year-old/

Published: Saturday, April 19, 2014, 5:10 pm
Saturday, April 19, 2014, 8:38 pm

Body of Missing Massachusetts Boy, 5, Found by Highway


The body of a small boy has been confirmed as a missing 5-year-old, authorities said Saturday.

The body found Friday off an Interstate that runs north in Massachusetts has been positively identified as Jeremiah Oliver, Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. said. No charges were immediately announced related to Jeremiah's death.

He was last seen by relatives in September but wasn't reported missing until December. Authorities had said they feared the Fitchburg boy was dead.

Early said the body was found at about 9 a.m. Friday by a police search team. He said it was wrapped in blanket-like material and packed in material that resembled a suitcase.

He would not say what led authorities to the location or how long the body may have been there.


Massachusetts State Police stand along Interstate 190 where police said a child's body was found on April 18, near Sterling, Mass. Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr., said the body has not been positively identified as Jeremiah Oliver, of Fitchburg, but that the height and weight of the body was consistent with Oliver's size. Jeremiah Oliver was last seen by relatives in September 2013 but wasn't reported missing until December. His mother Elsa Oliver and her boyfriend Alberto Sierra are both charged in the case.

Jeremiah's mother, Elsa Oliver, 28, pleaded not guilty in March to charges including kidnapping, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and reckless endangerment. Her boyfriend, Alberto Sierra, 23, pleaded not guilty to similar charges.

The family was being monitored by state social workers since 2011. And after Jeremiah's disappearance, their case led to intense scrutiny of the state Department of Children and Families.

Oliver and Sierra, who were indicted by a Worcester County grand jury, are both being held on bail — $100,000 for Oliver and $250,000 for Sierra.




http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/630623-jeremiah-oliver-dead-body-found-in-massachusetts-confirmed-to-be-missing-5-year-old/

I knew when I first posted this that it belonged here, not in missing.  Sadly, I moved it.

Another POS mother.  Another POS man.  Another dead little boy.

DA's office seeks access to Elsa Oliver mental-health assessment

Sentinel & Enterprise
POSTED:   05/28/2014 10:37:16 AM EDT

FITCHBURG -- Prosecutors fought in Worcester Superior Court on Wednesday to access the mental-health evaluation of Elsa Oliver of Fitchburg, who is being held on assault, child-endangerment and kidnapping charges related to her slain son Jeremiah Oliver.

Oliver is currently being evaluated at Worcester State Hospital to see if she is mentally competent to stand trial.

Assistant District Attorney Cheryl Riddle said she wants to see the records of Oliver's mental-health assessment, but defense attorney Gavin Reardon Jr. said he does not believe state law allows prosecutors to access those records.

The records are part of the court documents but are impounded and inaccessible to the general public.

Judge James Lemire was not able to find the answer in state law Wednesday morning, and the parties will return to court July 10 with an answer.

Police have not yet revealed how they found Jeremiah's body April 18 off the side of Interstate 190 in Sterling.

Jeremiah was last seen by relatives in September, but authorities didn't realize he was missing until December, when the boy's sister told a teacher that her boyfriend, Alberto Sierra, Jr., 23, was abusing her and another male sibling. The Department of Children and Families discovered Jeremiah was no longer in the home.

DCF had been monitoring the family since 2011 but were told that Jeremiah was living with family in Florida.

Elsa Oliver did not attend Wednesday's hearing.

Read more: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/breakingnews/ci_25849591/das-office-seeks-access-elsa-oliver-mental-health#ixzz33UVgu6RH

3 arraigned in disappearance of Mass. boy

Wednesday, September 17, 2014
By: Associated Press

WORCESTER, Mass. — Three Massachusetts residents charged with hindering the investigation into the disappearance and death of a 5-year-old boy have been arraigned in Superior Court.

Christian Sierra, Ashley Cormier and Caily Thibault pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of perjury and intimidating a witness.

Prosecutors sought $25,000 bail for each suspect, but the judge released them on the same conditions previously set in District Court — $2,500 cash each for Cormier and Thibault, and $2,000 cash for Sierra.

The three are charged with misleading police searching for Jeremiah Oliver.

The boy was last seen alive in September 2013, but wasn't reported missing until December. His remains were found wrapped in a blanket and packed in a suitcase by the side of Interstate 190 in Sterling in April.

The boy's mother, Elsa Oliver, and her boyfriend, Alberto Sierra, were indicted on child abuse charges related to the case, but no one has been charged with the boy's death. They have both pleaded not guilty.

Christian Sierra and Alberto Sierra are brothers.

Thibault's attorney, Patrick Burke, said his client has insisted that she never knew where Jeremiah was before his body was found.

"This woman has told me repeatedly she had no knowledge of the whereabouts of that little boy, and if she did, she would have told police and prosecutors when asked about it, given the nature of what was alleged on a child," Burke said.

Cormier's attorney, Sean Gallagher, also said the case against his client is without merit.

"I think at the end of the day, she will be exonerated," he said.

Sierra's lawyer said he had no comment.

Jeremiah's case led to an overhaul of the state child welfare agency, the resignation of its commissioner, and the firing of three agency employees.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/09/3_arraigned_in_disappearance_of_mass_boy

Another POS mother.  Another POS man.  Another dead child.