Rosemarie D'Alessandro who passed Joan's Law spoke at the Deshon Johnson First Annual College Scholarship Fundraising Dinner
Rosemarie D'Alessandro who passed Joan's Law spoke at the
Deshon Johnson First Annual College Scholarship Fundraising Dinner
Article by: Soulality staff
Rosemarie
D'Alessandro became a mother activist after her daughter, Joan, was
killed by her neighbor when she went door-to-door selling Girl Scout cookies.
After
the demise of her daughter, she made a very strong effort to
push a law to stop Girl Scouts from going door-to-door selling cookies.
Rosemarie never gave up trying to make a difference for
other parents and to keep their children safe from becoming
an easy target by going to people's houses selling
cookies.
Rosemarie
D'Alessandro, who heads the Joan Angela D'Alessandro Memorial Foundation, has
lived in Hillsdale for more than 40 years. It was on Easter Sunday,1973,
when Rosemarie D'Alessandro received the news that her 7-year-old daughter Joan
was found dead, days after disappearing while selling Girl Scout cookies
on her street.
Rosemarie D’Alessandro has worked to pass laws related to
keeping criminals who sexually assaulted and murdered minors in prison for life
at the state and national level. The law she passed is called Joan’s Law. In just a matter of
minutes, her life changed forever.
Rosemarie's
article touched Naomi Johnson. Naomi told Rosemarie, that if it was
not for Susan Little, Naomi's son Deshon's best friend James Little’s
mother sharing the link to the article and encouraging her to
contact the editor to put the event on the page, Naomi would not have taken a
step further to contact the editor who wrote the article to pass on her contact
information to Rosemarie. From that point on Rosemarie and Naomi have been
communicating about parents advocating for their children.
Naomi shared with Rosemarie how her life had changed on
a hot summer afternoon when she received a phone called from the Bloomfield
police telling her that they have a package and some belonging of hers. From that statement she thought her son or sister lost something personal
with her address affixed onto the unclaimed item.
The police asked Naomi to come to the police station.
When Naomi arrived at the Bloomfield police, they told Naomi her
son was in a terrible accident and he did not make it. Naomi never fathomed the belonging was her
son’s lifeless murdered body.
After, the
police told her that story, Naomi thought that Deshon was a passenger on the
bus and lost his life while on the bus. A day later Naomi learned her son was
not on the bus and that he was mowed down and dragged by the bus
driver 50 to 100 feet to his demise by Wilsome Romain, a Coach USA bus
driver, who sped around the corner and knocked her child down
and dragged him while operating NJ Transit bus 709 on Wednesday, July
18th, 2012. In addition to trying to pass a law for implementing stiffer penalties
with some of these bus drivers going to jail for killing innocent people, Naomi
is also trying to enforce laws for corrective actions.
Naomi
felt that she and Rosemarie had something in common and a strong
message to deliver. Naomi became so impressed with Rosemarie's energy to fight
to pass laws that she invited Ms. D’Alessandro to
speak at The Deshon Johnson First Annual College Scholarship Fundraiser Dinner.
Here are some pictures of Rosemarie
D’Alessandro giving her speech and with Deshon Johnson’s mother, Naomi. The two mothers are fighting for the same cause making a difference in
the world for the human
safety of innocent citizens.
Rosemarie
giving her speech in front of 57 guests at the Deshon Johnson Memorial
Scholarship about what it takes to get laws passed. The fund was created in
memory of Deshon who was killed by a reckless bus driver,. His mother
would like to effect change as well. She also talked about our
petition site. Here is the site: http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-reckless-aggressive-and-rude-bus-drivers-from-carelessly-taking-young-innocent-lives-like-deshon-johnson
Rosemarie
received the Deshon Johnson College Scholarship certificate
for
attending and speaking at the event.
Rosemarie
at the Deshon Johnson First Annual College Scholarship Fundraising Dinner.
Here is a picture of
Deshon’s and Joan’s mother on the same side for justice.
Naomi and Rosemarie and her son.
Naomi and Rosemarie
Naomi Deshon's mother, Rosemarie Joan's mother and her brother.
Two
mothers, Naomi and Rosemarie, fighting for the same cause...
justice for their children whose lives ended at
the hand of another human being who had no value for life.
Naomi is wearing two picture necklaces. One is a picture of her son, Deshon, and
the other is a picture of her and her son happy together. Rosemarie has a
necklace of a butterfly which symbolizes her daughter, Joan.
Should
you want to help make a difference in changing laws to have some of these
reckless bus driver be held accountable for ending innocent people's lives, please
click this link and sign the petition on change.org http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-reckless-aggressive-and-rude-bus-drivers-from-carelessly-taking-young-innocent-lives-like-deshon-johnson.
Please spread the word.
As
a birthday gift to Deshon Johnson you can sign the petition, contact your local
newspaper, talk show, assemblyman/woman and state senator to raise awareness about this serious
matter. This will be a wonderful birthday gift from you to Deshon
Johnson. Together we can make a difference for changes to happen!
On
the behalf of Deshon Johnson and the foundation, we thank you for your
signature and support.
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Naomi son Deshon Johnson
Rosemarie daughter Joan D'Alessandro
It
is not too late to invest and make a difference in our youth's educational
goals or be a part of this worthwhile foundation. You can make a generous
donation by clicking the gofundme link http://www.gofundme.com/1orzj4
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