Community activists to rally overnight in the murder of four-year-old Clevelander Aniya Day-Garrett, who was Black, and some 44 other murdered kids under the purview of child and protective services, the targets of whom are Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish, County Council and Cuyahoga County Job and Family Services, activists say....The sleepover will be held in front of the Jane Edna Hunter Building on Euclid Avenue on April 8, 2018, an event spearheaded by the Inner City Republican Movement and Black on Black Crime Inc....Activists say they will also unveil a portrait of Aniya and will take testimony at the event from other families victimized by child and protective services, most of them Black.... Activists, led by Black Lives Matter Cleveland, began picketing over Aniya's death last month and say they will not stop until that get reforms....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish

Cuyahoga County Job and Family Services Administrator David Merriman

 By editor Kathy Wray Coleman

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Four-year-old murder victim Aniya Day- Garrett
 and her father, Mickhal Garrett

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-Community activists, led by the Inner City Republican Movement and Black on Black Crime Inc., will camp out overnight Sunday, April 8, 2018 beginning at 8 pm in front of the Jane Edna Hunter Job and Family Services building on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland regarding the death by abuse of four-year old Aniya Day- Garrett and some 44 other children since 2015 they say have died via the neglect and malfeasance of Cuyahoga County Job and Family Services and county officials. For more information contact Donna Walker-Brown at 216-702-1207, Alfred Porter Jr. 216-804-7462 and Rhonda Hills at 216-799-1933.

Public records reveal that between 2015 and 2017 some 44 kids that have come through the office of child and protective services have been murdered and classified as homicide victims among 269 kids.

Most of the murder victims are Black and poor, like Aniya, data show.

"The media and the community are invited to the rally and sleepover on Sunday beginning at 8 pm and we will continue to keep the pressure on Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish, County Council and Job and Family Services until we get reforms on behalf of the community and our children, " said Donna Walker -Brown of the Inner City Republican Movement, the key organizer of the event and a community activist.

Cleveland activist Donna Walker-Brown

According to Walker-Brown, other groups associated with the event include Black Lives Matter Cleveland, the Urban Educational Justice League, Survivors and Victims of Tragedy, BBCI Hip Hop Workshop, Oppressed People's Nation, 10:08 Vision, Urban Survival, Black Votes Matter, and Giles Photography and Event Planning.

Aniya died March 11 at an area hospital after police were called that day to her mother's home at Cultural Garden Apartments on Lake Shore Boulevard for a report of an unresponsive child. 

Led by  Black Lives Matter Cleveland, activists began protesting last month over the child's untimely death.

The county medical examiner said the four-year-old suffered a stroke from blunt force trauma to the head and was malnourished and weighed hardly 29 pounds.

Sierra Day and Deonte Lewis

The child's mother, Sierra Day, and her boyfriend,  Deonte Lewis, have both been charged  with aggravated murder in Aniya 's death, among other charges, and are each being held on a $1 million bond.

David Merriman, a former special assistant to former county executive Ed FitzGerald and a former deputy chief of staff for Health and Human Services under Budish, is the administrator of Job and Family Services for the county.

A Democrat and former Beachwood councilman and state representative, Budish assumed office as county executive in 2015 and is running for reelection this year unopposed. 

Walker-Brown said that activists will also unveil a portrait of Aniya painted by Minister Arthur Rutherford that will be presented to Garrett's father, Mickhal Garrett, who sought custody and repeatedly begged child protective services to effectively address alleged abuse from the child's  mother and boyfriend.

"The portrait of Aniya will be presented to the father at the sleepover on Sunday, if he attends, or after wards, if he doesn't," said Walker-Brown.

Others families victimized by neglect and malfeasance by child and protective services are invited too, organizers said.

"We will also take testimonies from families victimized by child and protective services," said Rhonda Hills, a children's advocate and also an organizer of the gathering.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.