“I just … part of me died. I thought I was never going to see my girl again. And I just thought, why God, why?” via readfrontier
my Slagle lives in a tidy, one-story rambler in south Tulsa.
Amy Slagle sits in her kitchen in south Tulsa. Slagle’s daughter Clorinda Archuleta is serving three concurrent life sentences for permitting child abuse and child neglect. “She never shouldn’t be there. She doesn’t belong there,” says Slagle, who believes her daughter’s sentence was excessive. Photo by Shane Brown.
Blake is also working on behalf of the coalition, Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reforms, and is handling Archuleta’s case. He feels pretty good about her chances and that if she doesn’t get her sentence commuted, she’ll at least get it knocked down. He said it all just depends on how the pardon and parole board reacts. The coalition sent a number of women’s cases, as a batch, to the board to be reevaluated, though its timeline is unclear at this time.
However, statistics from the Oklahoma Department of Human Services tell a different story: Data spanning from 2007, six years after the law was passed, until 2017, shows that substantiated child abuse claims rose from 21% to 24%. The department investigated nearly 63,000 cases of suspected child abuse in 2017.
Archuleta spoke from the prison phone service over the course of three months. She says she got a longer sentence because she didn’t appear sorry enough. Her emotional demeanor was described as “flat” by the district attorney and reinforced by media coverage. “They kept asking me a million different times, did I hurt my sons and I kept telling them I would never hurt my sons.”
Archuleta isn’t the only one who felt this way. Joshua Wray’s mother Ruth Wray also thinks Archuleta was treated unfairly.Ruth Wray said both her son and Archuleta were trying their best to be good parents, but they were facing huge challenges. Both were still struggling to overcome a heroin addiction by taking methadone. On top of that, Archuleta claims she developed C. diff, a serious bacterial infection.
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