Posted on 03/12/2019 8:42:05 AM PDT by Gamecock
The mother of five young children left them alone in a filthy home for days while she went to a beach more than 1,200 miles away in South Carolina, Texas police say.
Round Rock, Texas, police say Chrystal Walraven was in Myrtle Beach, where she “went to the beach and visited a male friend,” when police discovered her kids alone in a home that smelled like feces and garbage, KXAN reported.
Court records show the 28-year-old said she went to South Carolina last summer in search of a job and “because she needed to get away with everything that was happening at home,” according to the Austin American-Statesman.
What Walraven left behind were two sons, ages 12 and 10 years old, and three daughters who are 6 and 3 years old along with a 15-month-old baby, the newspaper reported.
Police visited the home after being notified by an elementary school principal, who said the children complained “about having to stay up all night to change their sibling’s diapers,” per KTBC.
When they searched the house, investigators thought the baby was dead because they found her covered by a blanket in a crib, and did not breathe until she was rubbed by one of the responding officers, according to KXAN.
According to court records, the house was a mess, “with stained carpets, scattered dirty diapers, and accessible knives,” KTBC reported.
The kids were removed from the home and, after being placed in foster care they are now living with relatives, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services said, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
Police said even after they contacted Walraven, her return from South Carolina was delayed more than once, but she took responsibility for leaving her kids, saying it was something she should not have done, per KXAN. Still, Walraven said she asked a neighbor in addition to the father of one of the children to help watch them.
“No, definitely didn’t abandon them,” Walraven said, the TV station reported. “They were supposed to be here with the children and did not do that.”
They were not arrested, but Walraven was charged with two counts of second-degree abandoning or endangering a child, imminent danger bodily injury, according to the Williamson County Jail inmate database. Jail records show the 28-year-old was released after her bond was set at a combined $30,000 on the charges.
While Walraven returned to Texas on Aug. 30, 2018, she was not arrested until Feb. 11 because police said they “needed to conduct a thorough investigation,” the Austin American-Statesman reported.
If convicted, Walraven could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on each charge, per KTBC.
All her Exes live in Texas?
Myrtle Beach has been something of a trash magnet and sketchy for as long as I’ve been alive and really all the way back to the late 40’s. That little “wedding chapel” in Conway on 17 on the way in married many a 15 year old girl back in the day when SC was much more lenient in such matters. “Running off to South Carolina” was a euphemism for a pregnant teenage girl around here well into the 80’s.
Fudd!!!
LOL!
Adoption is an option. We spend a lot of cash in this country pimping abortion. At least these kids are alive. I give her that much.
Virginia Mayo.
If only FR had a like button.
effing b
It's a horrible look. To me, it screams KEEP AWAY FROM THIS CRAZY BROAD.
That said, where is the father in all of this? Often in these situations, we beat up on the mother and the father never gets mentioned. The fathers need to be held accountable too!
Texans, don’t look now, but you’ve got plenty of your own “home-grown” trash to take out, as evidenced by the “woman” in this article.
vette, you’re so right about that. The dregs of society have no boundaries.......it seeps in everywhere......like sewage. God help us and God bless Texas........;)
One of the baby daddies had done time in prison for murder.
Another baby daddy admitted he was supposed to watch them but was only there a short time. A neighbor admitted she, too, was supposed to watch them but apparently only made them dinner once. So, why haven’t they been arrested? It sounds more like the neighbor and the baby daddy abandoned the kids.
Good grief, the police are upset because there were knives in the house. Oh, the horrors!!! My kiddo was slicing cucumbers to make pickles when she was 3. Yes, 3, and didn’t get so much as a nick on her fingers unlike mama here.
“vette, you’re so right about that. The dregs of society have no boundaries.......it seeps in everywhere......like sewage. God help us and God bless Texas........;)”
Yes, we should extend God’s Blessings to the whole country. Decent people live everywhere, and a lot of us are damned unhappy by the great unwashed that have taken refuge in our RAT-run big cities and are exercising way too much control over the rest of us. If we do not act soon, this trash humanity will take over, and America will cease to exist.
That was my father's policy (worked third shift), and I only had to implement it a few times :-)
Is that her “come hither” look, or did someone poke a stick up her butt?
Innocent children like these are always the victims...they have no chance..none.
In the dictionary under “White Trash” is this guy’s picture.
Don’t knock Texas. It only took from August of last year until now, just six months, to decide whether to charge this breeder, who, after all, was going out of state to get newly pregnant.
They weren’t aborted. They have a chance.
It’s guys like this that
give white trash a bad name.
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