CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – Mecklenburg County’s top attorneys were refusing to tell the public about when social workers last visited Dominique Moody’s home before her death.
North Carolina laws require both that and other information to be made public upon request when a person is charged in a child’s death. Yet the county attorney and district attorney claim that releasing that information about 6-year-old Dominique’s death would jeopardize the ongoing criminal cases into the women who lived at Dominique’s home.
But that position is a full reversal from Mecklenburg County’s own precedent – and how other county departments are currently interpreting the law in question in very similar cases.
County, district attorney’s office reverses their own precedent
Dominique Moody, 6, died in an east Charlotte home in December. Three women have been charged with murder in her case. Investigators have said in court records that Dominique had been kept in gruesome conditions while starved, beaten and tortured…