Posted on 08/09/2013 7:47:38 PM PDT by redreno
ROUND ROCK -- He never thought his visit with her Thursday, July 25 would be his last.
“We got to sit down at McDonalds and have lunch and play for a while,” said Round Rock resident Joshua Hill.
“She got a little 'Despicable Me 2' toy in her happy meal and she loved it. She kept climbing up in my lap and she fed me french fries.”
But on Monday night, Hill’s daughter Alexandria, or Alex as they liked to call her, was rushed to a Rockdale hospital with severe head injuries, then flown to Scott and White Children’s Emergency Hospital in Temple and immediately placed on life support.
Alex was living with foster parents after DFPS removed her from her parent's home last November for "neglectful supervision."
Hill admits they were smoking pot when their daughter was asleep.
(Excerpt) Read more at kvue.com ...
I will wait before passing judgement on this one until some actual information comes out rather than vague ambiguities and inuendo.
Poorly written article with too little substance.
The press is fading away for more reasons than just their bias. They are also lazy and incompetent.
One of the missions of Social Services is to equalize the percentages of white and black children taken from homes. So we have white children removed from mostly stable home environments simply to ‘even out the numbers.’
Before we adopted her, our daughter spent 11 months in foster care. They were wonderful people. But there are evil people out there for whom it’s just a paycheck.
What a sweet looking child she was. While there are undoubtedly many good foster parents, there are some evil ones who are basically in it solely for the money the state gives them. This little girl found herself placed by negligent state employees into a dysfunctional foster home. The foster parent or parent needs to be prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned for causing the death of this child.
“One of the missions of Social Services is to equalize the percentages of white and black children taken from homes.”
BINGO. A black case worker and black judge in Omaha in 2008 did that to my white grandchildren. If it were not for the mother getting pregnant with #3 and then #4, the state had plans for the first two all sewn up!
I don’t approve of smoking dope, but that alone is no reason to remove a child from their parents.
Texas might as well open up the checkbook now, because it is going to get expensive.
Did you even read the article?
Getting moderately buzzed or high is not in itself a threat to a child, if the child is home asleep and the parents are responsive and reactive to what’s going on.
There may have been more going on than just the odor of marijuana drifting out to a passing police officer, but I sure wouldn’t pull a child out of a home with her parents and put her with strangers just because daddy puts away a few beers or mommy likes her joints.
You do know that nothing happened to the little girl when she was under her parent’s care don’t you?
If child abuse/neglect was treated as an actual crime, the parents would have been punished with fine or jail time. Child stays at home, lesson learned -— 90% of the time. Foster care would be reserved for those few truly needy cases.
I don’t think he cares. There are posters here who believe people who smoke pot deserve whatever pain and evil that comes into their lives, even if it means the loss of innocent loved ones.
Normally, you can find out a lot by “following the money.” Does a foster mother/father get paid? Sure.
Who makes the placement decision? Start there to see if there is a felonious relationship btwn the foster mother/father and someone in government.
This happened 3 months later.
“State custody” is much more dangerous it seems. Not that this excuses the crappy things the parents did.
I remember YEARS ago when Poltergeist came out. The parents were upstairs in their bedroom smoking a joint after they put their kids to bed. He was reading a book on Reagan. It was a funny scene and a storm came and one of the kids came bursting into the room on them.
Even in the early 80s, it wasn’t looked at like the crime of the century.
To bad CPS people have the strongest sort of immunity there is.
Another very sad sad part of this affair (other than the child dying) is that these very CPS people who took the child, and the ones who the father complained too probably feel like they did the best job they could and none of it is their fault. The judge who signed the original order taking the kids probably doesn’t even know her eventual fate. They’ll just keep auto signing warrants and orders as they cross their desk.
“”She had evidently been frustrated with the child all day long. She had... the child... had evidently gotten up before the Smalls did and she had went and got into some food and some water,” said Harris. “That is what Mrs. Small was initially upset with her about.... had made her stand in a dark room, according to our reports, for at least three-to-four hours, wouldn’t let her sit or anything.”
Then around 7:00 that night, the young child, so full of life, was knocked unconscious.
“She actually admitted that she had slung the child down on the floor,” said Harris.
Small told investigators she raised the toddler over her head and slung her down toward the floor twice.
“On the third time down she said she lost her grip and dropped the child. Slammed the child down on the floor,” explained Harris.
Harris says Small’s husband, who wasn’t home when the incident happened, became emotional and even cried when talking to police. But not Small.
“I did not see a whole lot of remorse. I think it’s more like a lot of times these people’s, they’re sorry that they’re in trouble. This is the sense that I get. It’s still about them; it’s not really remorse about the child. I never got that feeling,” added Harris. “
Gut shoot her and leave her to die.
“Sorry...you get drunk or high when you’re caring for a child and something bad happens to him/her you’re responsible...even if what happens would otherwise be considered an “accident” or “unavoidable”.”
Wouldn’t the same be true, using your logic, if the parents were sleeping?
Very true.
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