Justice For A year old Katera Jenkins (Barker)
Katera Jenkins died on the 23rd of May in Nashville Tennessee at the age of 1. Her death came after she was left in a car seat in the back seat of a hot pick-up truck by her soon to be adoptive father Matt Barker.
Katera was given out for adoption by her biological mother not because she couldn’t take care of her but wanted her to have more opportunities than what she could have offered her.
Katera biological mother kept in contact with Matt and Jenny, she discovered Jenny was loving and caring while Matt repeated distant himself, she reported the case to Bethany Christian adoptive services but she wasn’t given listen ears.
Less than 2 weeks after Katera’s 1st birthday, at 12 am Dedja gets an unexpected visit from Bethany Christian, about a “Freak accident” involving Katera. But there was no way this was an accident.
On May 23rd, Matt Barker was supposed to take both of his children to daycare, where the older child would then be shuttled off to school. Matt claims to be exhausted that day and running late and decided to drive his older daughter to school and double back and drop the baby off at daycare. That never happened.
Matt’s plan didn’t seem logical, considering that he claimed to be in a rush. The extra stops on his route would have taken much longer. Instead of dropping his daughter off at daycare, he arrives home phones a Uber and leaves little Katera to die a slow and painful death.
Later that evening, when Matt’s wife Jenny went to pick the children, she learns that little Katera never made it to daycare. Frantic, she calls Matt, and he tells her, “I might have left her in the care.”
Katera died strapped to a car seat, with the windows rolled up, it was over 100 degrees in that car. She died alone and scared, with no one to comfort her.
After a week of her funeral Matt Barker took a vacation to the island to the celebrate her life. in reality the inconvenience of Katera to Matt is over.
Justice For Katera Jenkins-Barker
Petition is being through change.org for justice in the death of Barker whose death has so far, sparked outrage.
The petition has been signed by over fifty thousand people in the past 4 days.