Posted on 06/08/2020 12:19:05 PM PDT by Morgana
IRVING (CBSDFW.COM) – It’s been more than 12 hours since a baby, believed to have been abducted by her mother, went missing in Irving.
Police say little Serenity Berry, an African-American baby with brown eyes and black hair, was last seen wearing a white onesie and diamond stud earrings. The child, who was living with her grandparents as part of a Child Protective Services plan, was taken from the 2900 block of West Pioneer Drive on Sunday by her mother, Jocelyn Nicole Bridges.
According to police, the 35-year-old woman went to the grandparents’ residence at the Park Manor Retirement Homes, pulled a fire alarm ,banged on their apartment door in order to get them to open it, made her way inside and took the child.
“The grandparents gave chase to try and get outside to see what vehicle she was leaving in [and] saw that she left in the 2011 Ford Focus. That vehicle was recovered in Dallas…. it was found disabled, with a flat tire,” explained Irving Police public Information Officer Robert Reeves.
Police believe Serenity may be in “grave danger” because of Bridges’ mental health history. “The child is only 7 months old, but during her short lifetime CPS had already set up a safety plan to place the child with the grandparents,” Reeves said. “The safety plan did expire last week, on the 4th. They had plans to get a child custody hearing, but due to COVID-19 restrictions on court proceedings that’s kinda gotten delayed.”
Investigators say Bridges had made suicide threats and threats pertaining to Serenity in the past and that is why they believe the baby is n immediate danger.
“That’s why we need the public’s assistance, the media’s assistance, and anybody that may know who Jocelyn is — may recognize her, recognize Serenity — to please contact your local police department or call 911.”
A. Who would put earrings on a 7 month old baby?
B. Looks like the system failed, utterly and completely, in protecting THIS black life.
Very sad. Hope they find the little girl safe and sound.
Who would put earrings on a 7 month old baby?
Half of India?
Prayers up, for sweet baby Serenity.
May she be found unharmed, ASAP.
Mom sounds like a real basket case :-(
It’s not at all uncommon.
https://www.romper.com/p/9-things-white-families-dont-understand-about-piercing-a-babys-ears-64446
Amber alert came up on my I-phone here in SE NM at 5:15 a.m. this morning.
Prayers up.
Do you have any idea of why they do that?
The bigot who wrote the piece that you linked never explains the actual reason for doing this to a child and insults “white people” instead.
And a Texas sized test for the graphic that Windflier created.
They sent out an Amber Alert at 6 AM this morning. Woke me up.
I respectfully disagree. “Culture” can, and frequently does, mean the origin of a custom is obscured by centuries of history. They do it because they have always done it. The author all but says so.
The story is told about a young bride who invites her family to dinner. She plans to serve a family favorite, a ham. While in the kitchen, her husband sees her cut the end off the ham and asks her why she it. Her reply was that that was what the cooks in the family had always done, but it raised her curiosity, so first she asked her mother, who said that was what she had seen her mother do. And so it went, from daughter, to mother, to grandmother. When the entire family had gathered, she asked her great grandmother why she had always cut the end off the ham. Great-grandmother’s reply? “So it would fit the pan”. The reason had been lost in years of “custom”.
So any silly act can be excused by “that’s the way we’ve always done it!” - you know, kind of like Democrats continually electing Democrats to run cities.
Yes.
And the writer’s insulting of “white people”?
Prayers that this innocent baby is found safe soon and returned to her grandparents who are caring for her.
Another Amber Alert this time a 7 month old boy named Jason Roberts from Port Authur TX.
Prayers up!!
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