SWEET Caleb, Justice has started!!!

The 7th Judicial District Grand Jury has concluded its investigation into the death of Caleb Jensen that occurred on May 2, 2007 in Montrose County , Colorado , while Caleb Jensen was in the Alternative Youth Adventures program. As a result of their investigation the following people and entities have been indicted in Caleb Jensen’s death:



1] Community Education Centers, Inc. has been indicted for the crimes of:

a. Criminally Negligent Homicide, F-5;

b. Child Abuse Resulting in Death, F-3;



2] Alternative Youth Adventures, Inc. has been indicted for the crimes of:

a. Criminally Negligent Homicide, F-5;

b. Child Abuse Resulting in Death, F-3;



3] Dr. Keith Hooker has been indicted for the crimes of:

a. Criminally Negligent Homicide, F-5;

b. Child Abuse Resulting in Death, F-3;



4] Mr. James Omer has been indicted for the crimes of:

a. Criminally Negligent Homicide, F-5

b. Child Abuse Resulting in Death, F-3;



5] Mr. Ben Askins has been indicted for the crimes of:

a. Manslaughter, F-4

b. Child Abuse Resulting in Death, F-3.



The possible penalties range for these crimes is from one [1] to twelve [12] years in the Department of Corrections plus parole with possible fines of up to $750,000.

The Grand Jury’s investigations are secret by law and can only be released by court order if there is an indictment or report. The scheduled first appearance for the above listed individuals and entities is on August 25, 2008 , at 9 a.m. , in Montrose District Court.

I will be there I will see them Son. I will see this through. I miss you so BAD!!!

 
This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Caleb Jensen who was born in Washington on September 11, 1991 and passed away on May 02, 2007 at the age of 15. We will remember him forever!





My Son Caleb was in a wilderness program that the Juvenile Justice services from Salt Lake City Utah sent him to. It is located outside of Mount Rose County in Colorado. He was expected to be home by may 28th. 2007    
Wednesday May second at 7:30 at night I am sitting at my computer eating my dinner. I get a phone call I answer and the Man on the other side of the phone tells me he is Jim something from AYA. He goes on to say Caleb was life flitted out of the program Caleb is dead. I said what did you just say??? Did you say Caleb is dead I repeated this three times I fell to the ground and began whaling and screaming. Oh God how could this man be so heartless. How could he on the phone tell me my son is dead? Why didn’t they show me the some common curtsy that would be shown some one’s family that was in a car accident? Some one should have come to my door. I had no answers no one told me anything no one said how or why he died just that he died. Every hour seemed like an eternity to me, every minuet was an hour. Just waiting with no explanation as to why or how my son died. I called all my family. The family that lives here in Utah came to me as fast as they could. The church I was in years ago the Pastor came. We sat out side for the longest time. My oldest daughter Heather had not been told my youngest daughter Marie was trying to hold it together for me. She was on the phone to her oldest Brother Brian and other family and friends in other states. We were so worried about telling Heather because she was three months pregnant and I was worried she would freak so bad and it might hurt the baby. We were looking all over for her. Finally she called she said what is going on Mom what is going on tell me Mom. I said come home honey and the Pastor took the phone he said your Brother Caleb has died. Oh man I wanted her to be home when she was told. Earlier when I had found out I handed the phone to Eddie. I fell to the ground and Eddie walked out side on our patio to hear what the Man was saying. I followed him in despair. I fell on the patio and I was so weak I was so hurt; I began to whale and scream. No, No, NO, not my baby. I was so lost I felt such diaper as I have never felt in my life. It took so long to get answers I still don't have them all.

I DREAM OF HOLDING YOU IN MY ARMS!!!

This is the link to Caleb's myspace that we set up for him please feel free to visit.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=258331375  

copy and paste in your browser to go to link

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Sister Seagraves' poem for Caleb:
A candle in our hearts to brighten up the day,
A candle in our hearts that brings a song along the way;
A light to see your smile, that twinkle in your eyes;
A candle in our hearts -- where love abides.
(The spirit of man is a candle of the Lord, Proverbs says.) 



   

This Letter was writen two weeks before Caleb passed away.

Here are some things Caleb liked over the course of his very short life.

Buggs life was a movie Caleb liked.



Caleb had a big tub full of all his toys,
One thing I remember the most is his
Mr Potato head he loved it.

Caleb really liked the Movie ET. He would walk around with a finger in the air saying "ET phone home". He was such a clown.


He really liked Garfield He used to read Garfield comic
books all the time. He would laugh so hard. Caleb loved
Garfield’s personality. In allot of ways he had some of
Garfield in him. 
                                  


Caleb Loved scooby doo.
 He liked the cartoon a lot 




This was a Movie, he really liked. He would walk around singing Aconanatana, means no worries for the rest of your life. Acoonanatana!! NO WORRIES NOW BABIE NOT FOR YOU. 






This picture of tweety would have cracked 
Caleb up. I could see him wanting
 this as a poster on his wall.






This was Caleb YUM YUM eat um up. 
He loved his snacks.



For the first year of Caleb's life we lived in a travel
Trailer like this. Oh boy fun year with toddlers and an infant cramped in that small thing. It was nice freedom when I moved in a big house.

When my children were little our yard was huge we had 5 apple trees and 4 pear trees. We had grape vines goose berries raspberries black berries and a huge garden where we grew cucumbers pumpkins all kinds of squash, corn and much more. While Mom was in cooking and canning big batches of apple sauce and pears stuff and pies, the kids job was to pick up the pears and apples. Caleb thought eating the apples and pears was a good way to help out. So he would hide and eat. My husband built the kids a tree house in the biggest apple tree in the yard. It’s also the one he put a huge sand box around. So if you were looking for Caleb that tree is the first place to go. Because if he is not playing in the sand box, witch was his favorite thing to do he was up in the tree fort. He would pretend in it a lot and he would hide to eat apples. Oh and if he was feeling a little naughty he would pitch apples at his brothers and sisters who were down below doing what they were asked to do. Caleb would laugh and laugh at his antics. As brothers and sisters would go after him. He was our family clown.





We were very involved in Church as Caleb grew up. One thing he wanted to be a preacher he loved to act like he was a preacher. One day we had some friends over two boys. GGermy and Justin. Caleb and Germy loved to be the Preachers SO one day they took over the house they were having church. They set the house up as a church they planed the way the service would go and the special speakers were Germy and Caleb. They invited our Pastor and his wife. And they preached. Oh I wish I would have got it on Video. They had so much fun. 




 

Caleb was so funny, when you poked him on
his side he would make the dough boy
giggle, so we called him the dough boy.. 

He and his brothers and sisters loved
Monsters INC. His big sis Heather would
always say do you have to pick on the
little guy with the one eye. I can hear Caleb
laughing now, as I remmber how this made him laugh.

                                                                                    
Oh Man how all of his siblings liked veggie tales but not as much as him. He sang all the songs mostly the hair brush song...



                                                                                                            There's actually two things this reminds me of, One is how Caleb
 loved to dress up, I know they are supposed to be singing the YMCA song but look past that at how they are dressed. The next thing is how when Caleb was a baby I sang the toe piggy song to him. You know this little piggy went to, so on ... Caleb my little guy would giggle and giggle.





My husband bought the kids a moving Basket Ball hoop for Christmas one year. Caleb loved to shoot hoops with his brothers and sisters. 



I personally do not like him, But Caleb did. He loved his ability to rime and Caleb was real good at it his self. He wrote a lot of cool stuff. I wish I had copies of all the stuff he wrote but I don’t know what happened to it. This is one I could find that he wrote..                                                                                                
Dance to the beat and don’t you stop dance to the beat that funky hip hop*2

Yo it’s like a massive scheme my rhymes go up quicker than burning gasoline

It’s like a miracle yo, yet a lyrical flow,

Its like a Simi automatic, that pops and pops and these holes keep getting bigger and I just flow and flow tell you let go of the trigger, these rhymes keep getting sicker

These rhymes keep on coming off the top of my head, and like iv already said its like a never ending story that never get glory its like Fantasia my rhymes are major they go from America to Europe to Asia

Where some Japanese fool starts beat boppin and every one around him tries to stop him but rhymes is to powerful and this full aint no cowered yo

My rhymes go from Asia to Africa and go up the artic where some fools try to start it



This just reminded me of Caleb's silly personality.








THIS IS CALEB AND ALL HIS BROTHERS & SISTERS TOGETHER 2004 BIG BROTHER JASON IS NOT IN THIS PIC

THIS IS ALL CALEB'S BROTHER'S, SISTER'S, GRANDMA REESE HOLDING YOUR NEPHEW DAYLIN, YOUR MOM & EDDIE, TOGETHER TO SAY GOOD BY TO OUR LITTLE CALEB. WE WILL NEVER BE COMPLET WE LOST OUR LITTLE CALEB!!!





Baby I think of you in a beautiful peaceful place. 



 












   


























This photo was taken when Caleb was in preschool. He really enjoyed preschool. He had his favorite Teacher ever there, Teacher Carol. He came home singing this song one day, and he sang it all the time. He loved the little songs he learned at school. Have you ever been swimming on a bright and shinny day, All the little fishies swimming up and down the bay. With their hands in their pockets’ and there pockets in their pants. All the little fishies doing the boogie woogie dance.



  








          



          


        
            
  
                     
My Loving Son
My heart aches like frostbite on a cold winters night
you died in a treatment center,
No one wants to explain to me why?
My Loving Son
Tears of pain just keep flowing like the pouring rain, you were only fifteen,
only a young teen,
No more 'I Love You’
No phone calls, God is this all true!
No more visits and no more hugs,
No more kisses or soft tugs,
My Loving Son
My broken heart will never mend
Until I meet you again!
I know you now have wings
And your Halo is made of Gold...
You are smiling and so happy
A smart boy who was so bold
Where you are in heaven there is no more pain
I only hope your death will not be in vain
Words cant express how much we miss you
Only our heavy heart know the truth
No goodbyes my son, wait there for me
We will rest in Gods home eternally! 



Don't tell me
Don't tell me that you understand,
don't tell me that you know.
Don't tell me that I will survive,
How I will surely grow.

Don't tell me this is just a test,
That I am truly blessed.
That I am chosen for the task,
Apart from all the rest. 

   Don't come at me with answers                                           That can only come from me,
Don't tell me how my grief will pass,
That I will soon be free.

Don't stand in pious judgment
Of the bonds I must untie,
Don't tell me how to grieve,
Don't tell me when to cry.

Accept me in my ups and downs,
I need someone to share,
Just hold my hand and let me cry,
And say, "My friend, I care."





A Mother's Grief
by
Kelly Cummings

You ask me how I'm feeling,
but do you really want to know?
The moment I try telling you
You say you have to go

How can I tell you,
what it's been like for me
I am haunted, I am broken
By things that you don't see

You ask me how I'm holding up,
but do you really care?
The second I try to speak my heart,
You start squirming in your chair.

Because I am so lonely,
you see, no one comes around,
I'll take the words I want to say
And quietly choke them down.

Everyone avoids me now,
Because they don't know what to say
They tell me I'll be there for you,
then turn and walk away.

Call me if you need me,
that's what everybody said,
But how can I call you and scream
into the phone,
My God, my child is dead?

No one will let me
say the words I need to say
Why does a mothers grief
scare everyone away?

I am tired of pretending
as my heart pounds in my chest,
I say things to make you comfortable,
but my soul finds no rest.

How can I tell you things
that are too sad to be told,
of the helplessness of holding a child
who in your arms grows cold?

Maybe you can tell me,
How should one behave,
who's had to follow their childs casket,
watched it perched above a grave?

You cannot imagine
what it was like for me that day
to place a final kiss upon that box,
and have to turn and walk away.

If you really love me,
and I believe you do,
if you really want to help me,
here is what I need from you.

Sit down beside me,
reach out and take my hand,
Say "My friend, I've come to listen,
I want to understand."

Just hold my hand and listen
that's all you need to do,
And if by chance I shed a tear,
it's alright if you do to.

I swear that I'll remember
till the day I'm very old,
the friend who sat and held my hand
and let me bare my soul.


Kelly Cummings
12/8/03





Really Gonna Miss You
by Smokey Robinson
      Really gonna miss you
Its really gonna be different without you 
Time is going to be hard and slow
For the rest of my life
Gonna be thinking about you
Yes I am
Time came when you had to go
I'll miss you my buddy
I'll miss you my friend
I promise my love for you will never end
In your finest hour I was there with you
And without you things won't be the same
But there's a higher power that we answer to
And you heard him calling your name
Really gonna miss you
Everything about you your smiling face
I know you want us all to be strong
Really gonna miss you
I know your going to that magic place
Singing you a brand new song
I'll miss you my buddy
I'll miss you my friend
I promise my love for you will never end
Really Gonna Miss Youuuuuuuuuu 


 




  CALEB JENSEN MY SUPER STAR!



Caleb was born in Vancouver, Washington in September eleventh of 1991. Shortly after the family moved to Mesa, Arizona, they lived there for four years. 


After that time the family moved back to Washington in the Kelso, Longview area. They attended the Longview United Pentecostal Church. This is where. at the age of seven, Caleb gave his life to Jesus and received Gods spirit. 


Caleb had many fun days there, being raised with seven other siblings. There were his natural siblings Brian Burgess, Heather Burgess, Marie Burgess. There was his step Brothers and sisters, Jason Boyd, Chad Boyd, Cari Boyd, and Candice Boyd. 

All of the children were inseparable in there young ages. Particularly Caleb and Candice. They were like Tweedledee and Tweedledum, or as his mother would say "peanut butter and jelly". 



Caleb has always been such a clown he loved to hit people’s nerves. He would sing, “It’s the song that never ends it goes on and on and on”. He would sing it over and over again. 

He loved veggie tales he would sing songs from it like "where is my hair brush". Caleb loved to draw he was learning to draw cartoons and he was real good at it. 



Caleb was involved in many different church activities and plays. Caleb was quite the character he loved to dress up and play the part. Each week he was a different character. One day he may be a pirate, the next a star wars character, an army man or bible character. 

In June 2004, the family made another move to Salt Lake City, Utah and that is where they currently reside. Caleb went away for a time from his beliefs in the lord, with all my heart I know he called on Him at the end. I also know he was going to be an awsome Man of God one day. Caleb will be greatly missed and always loved by many.






     
CALEB WAS NOT ALONE 

The Children-in-Treatment Memorial Website was created in memory of all children who have died "in treatment" and "at the hands of those who were supposed to be there to help them" - like Caleb. 

These children were children like all others. They loved kitties and puppies, playing, jumping, running, hugging, and just being kids.

As it says on the Children-in-Treatment Memorial Website, some had special needs, some did not. But they all had one need in common - the need to be loved. Their lives were taken from them in ways unimaginable to most. Many died at the hands of those who were there to help them.

If a child is in trouble or needs help, help him. If a child needs compassion, give her your time. If a child needs love, give him a hug. If you know a child is being abused, don't be afraid to speak up and seek help.

It is time people take accountability for these needless and wreckless deaths of innocent children. Parents seeking help for their children should not have to worry that their child might be abused or neglected, or worse, that their child could die.

If you would like to help CAICA fight against institutionalized child abuse, please take a moment to sign our International Petition to End Institutionalized Child Abuse. The children will thank you.
http://ipetitions.com/endchildabuse/petition/.

Let us be the voice of children who no longer have a voice. We will remember them forever. May they not have died in vain. 




Isabelle Zehnder
Founder and President
The Coalition Against Institutionalized Child Abuse (CAICA)
Website: www.caica.org 







When he was little I would sing, you are my sun shine, my only sun shine, you make me happy when skies are grey, you are my sun shine my only sun shine, PLEASE DON'T TAKE MY SUN SHINE AWAY!!!






















 

To all who have helped with this site for Caleb, Thank you so much!