Minisode 2: Amari's Life Mattered

Suffer the Little Children

Suffer the Little Children Pod

Social Sciences, True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 993 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 12, I told you the story of 3-year-old Amari Boone, who was a ward of the state of Texas and under the care of foster parents when he died on Easter Sunday of 2020. Those foster parents, Deondrick Foley and Joseph Delancy II, were arrested last week and finally charged after 9 months. However, their charges of injury to a child come nowhere close to encompassing the brutal blunt force injuries Amari suffered, including broken ribs, arms, fingers, and pelvis, as well as bleeding in his brain that ended his short life.
My guest on this minisode is Amari’s father, Rodney Boone, who won’t rest until his son gets justice. Neither will the grassroots advocates who have pushed for justice for Amari for the past 9 months. We demand justice for Amari.#AmarisLifeMattered #JusticeForAmariBoone
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0:31.8	of violence against children and adult language and is not suitable for all audiences.
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1:21.7	podcast giving voices back to the victims of child abuse and
1:25.0	shining a harsh spotlight on the parents, guardians, and caretakers who silenced them.
1:30.1	I'm your host and this is Minnesode number two, Amare's life mattered.
1:35.0	In this Minnesode you'll hear my conversation with Rodney Boone, the father of three-year-old Amari Boone.
1:41.0	Rodney, along with members of grassroots advocacy groups, are demanding justice for Amari,
1:46.2	especially after the men accused of causing his death were finally charged, arrested,
1:51.2	and subsequently released from jail after making bond on their pathetically inadequate
1:55.3	charges.
1:57.0	In episode 12 of this podcast, I told you Amari's story.
2:01.3	Three-year-old Amari Boone was a ward of the state of Texas and in the care of family friends
2:05.4	Dion Foley and Joseph Delancey Jr. when on April 10th, 2020 he was rushed to the emergency room
2:11.5	at Cook Children's Hospital in Fort Worth with severe head trauma.
2:15.7	Medical staff immediately suspected child abuse and contacted the Fort Worth Police Department.
2:21.2	Two days after Amari was admitted to the hospital in a coma, he was declared brain dead and he was removed from life support at 1.19 a.m. on Easter Sunday. This sweet little boy who was born on June 9th, 2016 to Ariana George and Rodney Boone was a bright spirit, a tiny child with a huge personality whose favorite things were snacks and the TV show PJ Mask.
2:44.7	Amari and his little brother were removed from their parents custody in 2018
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