Five years after the killing of 17-month-old Semaj Crosby ignited widespread outrage at Illinois' child welfare system, the case remains open.
“Everything is actually, believe it or not, worse now,” he said in an interview with the Tribune. “By just about any metric of how DCFS is doing that you can look at, DCFS is doing much worse than they were five years ago when they dropped the ball many times, resulting in Semaj Crosby’s death.”Gov. J.B. Pritzker vowed to overhaul state’s child welfare system. Despite additional funding, some say it’s in worse shape than ever.
“It just hurts my heart,” a neighbor said at the time. “ was just laid down at peace, and someone wants to burn the house where her spirit was last.”Now the memorial tree — in the front yard where the house at 309 Louis Road once stood — remains the last vestige of Sema’j at the scene, commemorating her short life and unsolved death.
Bishop Warren Dorris vividly remembers the service at Prayer Tower Ministries Church of God in Christ in Joliet.The church, which seats about 900 people, was standing room only. Later, at the cemetery, a flock of white doves was released, he said. “She did not get in that couch herself,” he said. “Someone did that. The community needs to know, and the family needs to know.”
Soon after, the Will County sheriff’s office named five “persons of interest” in the case: Gordon, the mother of Sema’j; the child’s paternal grandmother, Darlene Crosby; an aunt, Lakerisha Crosby; a family friend; and a minor who was present at the home. As the afternoon ended and the sky grew darker, the mood became somber, Jungles said. Authorities knew finding the child safe was becoming less likely.“Once we got through all that searching and didn’t come up with anything, that’s when we realized this isn’t a little girl that wandered away,” he said.
“They’re completely disorganized and uncooperative, and their actions will probably ultimately result in letting those who caused the death of Sema’j to go free,” Deratany said. on placement for her siblings, a Will County judge criticized DCFS and its caseworkers who had visited the home prior to the homicide.into the household, investigations that were handled by at least four DCFS workers, agency officials had said.“What did they do to help the family and to help these children?” Judge Paula Gomora had said, adding that caseworkers missed obvious signs of trouble in the household.
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