Sentenced: Atlanta Man Charged With Murder, Abuse And Kidnapping Of 4YO Daughter

[Sugar Cookie]

Officers apprehended Rodney McWeay on Dec. 21 and have charged him in the murder and kidnapping of a 4-year-old boy from an incident that occurred the week before.

On Dec. 11, officers were called to a home on Renfrew Court SW for a report of an unresponsive child. When they arrived, they found the boy unresponsive and not breathing. Emergency crews took the boy to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

McWeay is charged with murder, cruelty to children in the first degree, cruelty to children in the second degree, kidnapping, and also imprisonment.

Police did not specify the relationship between the child and the suspect.

Atlanta man charged with murder, abuse and kidnapping of 4-year-old boy

Officers apprehended Rodney McWeay on Dec. 21 and have charged him in the murder and kidnapping of a 4-year-old boy from an incident that occurred the week before.

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[Sugar Cookie]

A father in Georgia who was recently charged with murder had so badly malnourished and neglected his 4-year-old daughter that the girl had less than an ounce of water in her belly at the time of her death, according to police.

This shocking detail is one of many that emerged nearly a month after Treasure McWeay, 4, was pronounced dead at a children’s hospital in Atlanta on Dec. 11 and her father, Rodney McWeay, was subsequently arrested and charged with murder on Dec. 21, Atlanta Police reported.

McWeay is charged with 13 other counts including first and second-degree child cruelty, kidnapping, and false imprisonment, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Those records also show that the alleged abuses spanned from May 2021 to December 2023. Notably, McWeay was charged with battery family violence for the very first time in June 2022.

Police records state he estranged himself from his family in recent years and that one relative said he suffered from an addiction to ketamine or “special k.”

The starvation and severe neglect experienced by Treasure McWeay also extended to two other children in the home, boys ages 3 and 4, according to a copy of an arrest report obtained by Law&Crime. One of the children was autistic, police said.

After a complaint was filed to social services about the “unsatisfactory conditions” of Rodney McWeay’s home in Atlanta, Child Services removed the children from the home in late June. But within a week, police said McWeay “traveled to Maryland” where the children’s mother, Passion Mitchell, lived.

He then “stole her car and left it parked at a train station as he brought the kids back to Georgia,” police said.

Last month, when police showed up at the hospital to assess Treasure McWeay’s siblings, they noted that the boys’ injuries included scratches to their face, chest and back, as well as contusions and bruising. They were both underweight as well. Reports of child neglect and abuse were filed against McWeay dating back to 2021, police said, including a reported incident where he allegedly knocked his son’s tooth out.

Police said the siblings were placed in the custody of their aunt while the mother came to Georgia from Maryland to get them: McWeay had stopped all contact with her, and social services workers once he allegedly kidnapped their children this summer.

McWeay allegedly kept his daughter and sons contained in one room and would only let them leave it with his permission. When police responded to the home on Dec. 11 in suburban Atlanta, they found only expired eggs and milk in the home and no other food, the Georgia Gazette reported.

The Gazette also reported that police, bizarrely, did not find a shred of children’s clothing in the home, though they noted there were cameras placed throughout the property.

Some were allegedly pointed at the children’s beds.

In a police interview, McWeay allegedly said his children were not allowed outside, and “if his kids need something, he will take it to them.”

Barely an ounce of water in starved, kidnapped toddler's stomach; father charged with murder

A 4-year-old child had less than an ounce of fluid in her stomach and weighed just 25 pounds after her father Rodney McWeay starved and neglected her for months, according to police in Atlanta.

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[Future_Milf]

Disgusting, useless, barely human.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Treasure

 

[Danaf]

Barely an ounce of water in starved, kidnapped toddler's stomach; father charged with murder

A 4-year-old child had less than an ounce of fluid in her stomach and weighed just 25 pounds after her father Rodney McWeay starved and neglected her for months, according to police in Atlanta.

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kill him!!!!

 

[BuffettGirl]

I cannot fathom starving toddlers, one of them to death. How you look at that baby face and deny it anything? And was the malnourished four year old boy her twin? Because that's a scar that doesn't heal well if he is her twin. Legit Pops seems mentally unwell. Not that it's an excuse, but I don't feel like he did this for funsies. I feel like he did it because he has critters in his head.

 

[Satanica]

Wish we could starve him slowly and painfully, too.

 

[runninfawn]

Wish we could starve him slowly and painfully, too.

while being kept in one room and never get a breath of fresh air... and having to ask permission to do even the basic as needing to go to the bathroom so no toilet or sink in his "room" please and no change of clothing etc just him and a place to sleep ....

 

[Sugar Cookie]

He should get the death penalty because he not only decided to neglect Treasure he tortured her.

 

[Ellen Brody]

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Treasure

I’m so sorry nobody loved her naming her Treasure then treated her like trash. I’m sorry baby girl

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Atlanta police are investigating why, despite three requests from child welfare authorities, no officer ever checked on a family living in squalor.

Two weeks before Christmas, one of the children died of starvation, described by a detective on Thursday as "just pure bone" at the time of her death.


Her father, Rodney McWeay, faces multiple felony charges in the death of his daughter and alleged abuse of her siblings. The FOX 5 I-Team has been asking questions about the case and this week obtained the state Division of Family and Children Services’ file, as well as 911 call logs and recordings from Atlanta police.

"It appears to me that a bunch of different systems here failed," said Tom Rawlings, an attorney, former juvenile court judge and director of DFCS from 2018 to 2021. "This is one of the more troubling situations I’ve reviewed."

The records reveal that for months leading up to 4-year-old Treasure McWeay’s death, DFCS workers sought assistance from police in finding the children, but got little help. Rodney McWeay, 31, did not have legal custody of his three children, DFCS said. He is accused of traveling to Maryland in July and kidnapping them from their mother, returning them to the same duplex DFCS had removed them from less than two weeks earlier.

Arrest affidavits described Treasure and her brothers, ages 3 and 5, living in a house of horrors inside their lower-level unit on Renfrew Court. The children allegedly watched their father beat their mother and 8-year-old half-sister, before their mother left the home with her older children. The affidavits say McWeay kept the three younger children separated and locked in their rooms, with surveillance cameras aimed at their beds and no access to food, water or bathrooms. The only food inside – some expired eggs and expired milk.

"Officers were dispatched to the home, but it does not appear officers had contact with Mr. McWeay or the children during these calls," Atlanta police told the I-Team in an emailed statement. "In an effort to ensure these calls were handled properly, the Atlanta Police Department’s Office of Professional Standards has initiated an investigation into these calls."

Atlanta police launch internal investigation into handling of 4-year-old who starved to death

Treasure McWeay died of starvation. Now, the Atlanta Police Department has launched an internal investigation into its handling of the case as her father, now accused of malice murder, appears in court.

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[cubby]

He was a hyper controlling asshole who wanted to keep his ex terrified of him by keeping the kids away from her. Going and getting the kids in Maryland should have landed him with an interstate kidnapping charge, why is it when the system fails it's always the children who pay for it?

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A father charged with starving his daughter to death suffered stab wounds inside the Fulton County jail, after allegedly trying to rob another inmate who fought back, according to sheriff’s office records.

Rodney McWeay, 32, already faced 16 felony charges and four misdemeanors in the killing of 4-year-old Treasure McWeay and alleged abuse of her brothers and other family members, including murder, cruelty to children, kidnapping, aggravated assault and family violence.

Fulton jail records: Father charged with starving daughter stabbed in botched robbery

Another violent incident inside the Fulton County jail: Rodney McWeay, charged with starving his daughter, Treasure McWeay, to death, suffered stab wounds after allegedly trying to rob another inmate. The other man fought back, incident reports say, and McWeay now faces additional felony charges.

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[Sugar Cookie]

I am disappointed that this piece of shit is still breathing.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A Fulton County jury has found a man guilty of starving his 4-year-old daughter to death.

Rodney McWeay has been standing trial in the December 2023 death of his daughter, Treasure McWeay.

On Wednesday, he was found guilty on all counts, including malice murder, felony murder, cruelty to children, kidnapping and false imprisonment.

McWeay nodded along as the jury read out the verdict on each count.

Police responded to Renfrew Court on Dec. 11, 2023 and found the 4-year-old girl who was not alert or breathing, they said.

Grady EMS responded to the scene and took the child to the hospital where she was later pronounced dead.

Atlanta father found guilty of starving 4-year-old daughter to death

DEVELOPING

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An Atlanta man accused of killing his 4-year-old daughter by denying her food and water has been sentenced to more than 150 years in prison after being convicted of murder, kidnapping and other charges, prosecutors said.

Rodney McWeay, 33, was sentenced Thursday in Treasure McWeay's death. He was also convicted of other counts stemming from the abuse of his two other children, who are 3 and 4, authorities said.

“Treasure suffered from hunger, thirst and neglect at the hands of her father, who used violence and control to keep her and her brothers from the help they needed,” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said in a statement.

Atlanta man gets more than 150 years in prison for starving daughter and abusing other children

ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta man accused of killing his 4-year-old daughter by denying her food and water has been sentenced to more than 150 years in prison after being convicted of murder, kidnapping and other charges, prosecutors said.

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