Rodney Rodrick

In the days leading up to his death, 7-year-old Roderick “RJ” Arrington was subjected to escalating abuse at the hands of his mother, Dina Palmer, and his stepfather, Markiece Palmer. The situation came to a tragic head in their Las Vegas apartment in November 2012. The series of beatings that would ultimately claim RJ's life reportedly began over his failure to read the Bible and do his homework. School officials had already suspected abuse when RJ had difficulty sitting and mentioned being ...