Neal and Jesse Eldridge
Neal and Jesse Eldridge are two young men on trial. For over ten years,they suffered severe physical, emotional, and psychological abuse at the handsof their father. It ended the day they shot and killed him. Now Neal and Jesseare charged, as adults, with first degree murder; they face the possibility of lifein prison. All this because Arkansas Department of Health Services, DHS, didnothing to step in and save these young lives.On January 24th, 1998, Rick Eldridge was supposed to take his sons, Nealand Jesse, to "Buckarama", a deer hunting show at the Little Rock Expo Center. Before they left that morning, Rick caught the two teens smoking cigarettes. Hetold them they could not go to "Buckarama"("Neal & Jesse Eldridge: ChildAbuse Tragedy" 1), then tried to suffocate them. "Neal said his father pickedhim up and threw him headfirst into a wall" (Haddigan 1). As he left, Rick toldNeal and Jesse that when he returned "he would beat them to death." He alsogave them an "impossible list of household chores" to do before he returned,and said that he would kill them if they didn't. Fearing for their lives, the boys, ages 14 and 15 at the time, decided theyhad to protect their mother and sisters,
" Henderson was also there during Aday'sincident with Rick. "Jesse told her his father would kill him if he told abouthow he got the bruises"(Shull 1). " Bartlett wasfrightened and intimidated by him. as well as themselves, from the monsterthey called Dad. She corroboratedBartlett's story and added that Rick "was loud, abrasive, and profane towardsNeal after the playground accident. Simmons was convicted andexecuted for the December 1987 murders of 12 members of his family and twoother people. They could not just pack uptheir belongings and leave. " Rick had a book written about the case. Muriel Dean Blaylock is the retired school counselor. "Judy Aday, a first grade teacher, had a face-to-face confrontation withRick Eldridge in the hallway outside her classroom. " The first incidentJesse remembers, took place at the age of five.
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