Please help The Diamond Dez Org. eradicate further tragedies in Sacramento, Ca. against innocent children & their mothers/families who become victims of their abusers.

On February 28, 2022 Northern California’s most wrenching spasm of domestic violence in years, questions abound about how an unstable father under a restraining order was able to obtain an AR-15-style rifle & walk into a Sacramento church and then kill his three daughters and a family friend designated to chaperone a visitation with them. Circumstances leading up to this tragedy should have been “red flags” against allowing Mora to keep seeing his daughters, say domestic violence experts and some state lawmakers. And if the current system isn’t equipped to flag and respond to such situations, the system needs to be changed. 

“The mother here did everything she could to protect her children,” said Faith Whitmore, chief executive of the Sacramento Regional Family Justice Center, which provides services to victims of domestic abuse. The mother, Ileana Gutierrez Rios, had asked a Sacramento County court to include her children on the restraining order, but Mora objected, writing last May in court documents, “I do not agree to the protective order for my children.” The court sided with Mora, declining to put the three girls on the restraining order despite granting it to the mother. Instead, the court ordered weekly supervised visitations for Mora and his daughters. The abuser was still allowed to see his children. Visitation should have been paused to allow the victim time to assess the dangers to her and her children. The legal system failed the mother and her three children. We need to find ways to close these gaps.”

A Sacramento Mother is now forced to live with the tragic reality that her three young daughters were shot and killed by their father who had a restraining order. "The unspeakable tragedy that happened in our back yard" shook us. This happens too often." The Diamond Dez Organization has decided to dedicate their efforts to helping Sacramento prevent further tragedies as We will personally volunteer to fight for the victimized children & families of Sacramento.

This was hardly the first time the Sacramento region has endured a horrific killing resulting from domestic violence. In the first nine months of 2017, 14 people died — eight of whom were children, according to authorities in Sacramento and other nearby counties. In one of those slayings, a 32-year-old man choked his wife until she fled to the street, then killed their children, ages 11, 9 and 7 months, inside their West Sacramento apartment.

“Kids need to be given more consideration in these cases,” Whitmore said. “Their views and well-being need to be given real consideration.” Julie Bornhoeft, chief strategy and sustainability officer for WEAVE Inc., a crisis intervention service in Sacramento, said courts rarely cut off complete access to children. “The court sees children as needing both parents. But that makes a lot of assumptions about how a parent is behaving at a given time.”

We are a community based, non-profit organization est. on March 28, 2020 in Sacramento, Ca. Our Mission has been to prepare at risk youth with a hope for their future, providing services that enable our youth to overcome traumas while thriving in their gifts and passions. Please join us in being a VOICE for our innocent children Laws Need to be changed because our system has fatally failed us too many times!