Ex-daycare worker indicted for Murder, 52 counts of Child Abuse following infant homicide investigation
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, July 17, 2020
A New Castle County grand jury has indicted a New Castle woman for 53 felonies following the alleged murder of an infant and the abuse of four other children at a Bear daycare facility. Dejoynay Ferguson, 20, is alleged to have suffocated a 4-month-old child to death and to have abused that child and four other children between July […]
Jennings announces settlement with Universal Health Services regarding allegations of improper admissions, discharges
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, July 17, 2020
Attorney General Kathy Jennings announced Friday that Universal Health Services, Inc. (“UHS, Inc.”) and a subsidiary of UHS, Inc., UHS of Delaware, Inc., have agreed to a settlement of which $34,338.73 will go to the Division of Medicaid and Medicaid Assistance (DMMA) within the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS). “We expect all […]
Statement from Attorney General Jennings on Governor Carney’s executive order announcement
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Thursday, June 18, 2020
Attorney General Kathy Jennings released the following statement regarding Governor Carney’s announcement of a forthcoming executive order on police reform: Governor Carney demonstrated real leadership today. Banning chokeholds, ending the practice of ruining kids’ lives by posting their mugshots online while they are presumed innocent, participating in the national use-of-force database, and implementing greater officer […]
Statement from Attorney General Jennings on violence in Washington, D.C.
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Attorney General Kathy Jennings released Tuesday the following statement on brutality authorized against protestors in Washington D.C.: I have struggled to find the words for yesterday’s events in Lafayette Square. In a long series of daily outrages and capricious decisions, the violence exacted yesterday against lawful, peaceful protestors is among the most shameful. That lawful Americans […]
Nearly $7 million in civil penalties secured against criminal enterprises involving human trafficking
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, May 8, 2020
A group of Superior Court judgments issued on April 22 impose a total of $6.79 million in civil penalties against a Middletown pawn shop and its operators for violations of Delaware’s racketeering statute. The Department of Justice’s Civil Division secured the judgment as the outcome of a 2017 civil racketeering complaint filed against Gold Fever […]
