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On the second anniversary of her death, the parents of Jennifer Cobb have filed a civil lawsuit against her alleged attacker and the Bell Family YMCA in Hartwell.

Jennifer’s mother Susan Cobb, issued a brief statement this week stating their civil attorneys have filed a lawsuit against Jeremy Leonard Green and the Bell Family Branch YMCA.

Wayne Cobb filed the complaint on June 30, exactly two years after his daughter died.

Jennifer’s parents say they believe their daughter’s death is related to years of sexual abuse on the part of Green though he has only been indicted for alleged crimes in 2015.

Green was arrested in June 2021 and ...

Devereux Behavioral Health, an organization that provides services to individuals with behavioral, developmental, and intellectual disabilities, has paid $9,236,006.56 in damages and litigation expenses to the estate of Tia McGee, who was sexually assaulted by a Devereux employee while a patient at their behavioral health facility in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Tia was just fifteen years old when she was admitted to Devereux’s facility for treatment of sexualized and oppositional behavior, and instead of receiving the help she needed, she suffered further abuse at the hands of a Devereux employee. The employee, Jimmy Singleterry, was later convicted of child molestation, statutory rape, and sex with a ...

Deitch + Rogers is proud to announce its support of the Mask Up for Justice campaign, a joint effort between the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and the Georgia Defense Lawyers Association to provide personal protective equipment to Georgia’s courthouse facilities amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

This non-profit initiative is particularly focused on supplying clear masks to jurors, witnesses, and attorneys to ensure the safe resumption of jury trials. Juries are a vital facet of our justice system, and providing masks to courthouses throughout Georgia is an essential step toward equipping every courtroom, judge, clerk, deputy, and juror with one piece of the protection needed to begin ...

The crime victim attorneys at Deitch + Rogers are pleased to announce that Andy Rogers has been selected to serve on the Resumption of Jury Trial Committee for Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit which was formed in response to Chief Justice Harold D. Melton’s directive in the Sixth Extension Georgia Supreme Court’s Statewide Judicial Emergency Order on September 10, 2020 for DeKalb County.

As directed, the Committee will develop detailed guidelines for the safe resumption of jury trials in the county utilizing the Georgia Supreme Court’s “Guidance for Resuming Jury Trials” and will issue a final jury trial plan for DeKalb County.

The jury trial is the most important part ...

Join the Georgia Rights Alliance today. The attorneys at Deitch + Rogers devote the firm’s practice exclusively to representing crime victims attacked on unsafe properties. A vital factor to ensure justice for crime victims is access to a jury trial, which is a Constitutional right under the 7th Amendment. To be clear, “crime victims” may be a mother raped by an intruder in her apartment with her young children present, a five-year-old little boy struck by a stray bullet while in his bed at an apartment complex, a baby starved to death in a hotel room over 15 months, a 28-year-old man shot at an apartment ...

At Deitch + Rogers, we care about our neighbors and fellow Atlantans, and we work hard every day to ensure that victims get the necessary assistance to help them move forward from the trauma they have suffered, whether that be physical or emotional.

As victim attorneys, we understand that these last couple of months have been extremely difficult for many people.  With so many restrictions on where people can go and what people can do because of Covid-19, people are under a tremendous amount of stress.  Families have been required to spend more time in close quarters with additional responsibilities in the home; worrying about their ...

Deitch + Rogers sexual assault lawyers Andrew Rogers and Kara Phillips obtained a $60 million jury verdict on behalf of a 15-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted at Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health. The jury also awarded attorney fees and expenses as a result of Devereux’s bad faith in the litigation in an amount to be determined by the court at a later date.

The victim was admitted for treatment at Devereux, a behavioral health facility located in Kennesaw, Cobb County, Georgia. While at the facility, she was sexually assaulted by 40-year-old Devereux employee Jimmy Singleterry.

A recent article from the Philadelphia Inquirer details the events that occurred on ...

A Gwinnett Country jury found a Georgia hotel partially responsible in a premises liability case for the death of an infant who was killed at the hands of her cult leader father. The 15-month-old infant, Alcenti McIntosh, weighed a meager 7.5 pounds at the time of her death.

Cult Leader Brutally Abuses Women, Children

The tragic case began in November 2014, when cult leader and member of the Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, Calvin McIntosh, showed up at Northside Hospital carrying the infant’s body. On-site doctors pronounced the severely abused and malnourished child dead upon arrival.

Gwinnett County Officers inspected the Extended Stay America Hotel in Norcross ...

When a parent or grandparent can no longer care for themselves, you may have to make the difficult decision of seeking assistance from a nursing home. The situation becomes devastating when you discover your loved one has been sexually abused.

If you’ve put your trust into a professional nursing home staff only to have that trust shattered, it’s imperative to understand that you did nothing wrong. Our firm has supported devastated families whose guilt has stalled healing. Blame may cloud your head, but be assured – you are not at fault.

This article aims to bring awareness to elderly sexual abuse. There are 5 signs you can look ...

Security has long been considered one of our basic needs for survival. If you should feel safe anywhere, it ought to be in your own home. Sadly, this basic right is coming under attack in the greater Atlanta area where violent home invasions are on the rise.