Posted on 04/09/2016 6:57:04 AM PDT by Perseverando
AUSTIN (KXAN) – In an article published in December 2014 by Texas High School in Texarkana, Meechaiel Criner, the suspect in the murder of UT freshman Haruka Weiser, said he was bullied his whole life and went through the foster care system as a child.
In the story titled Voice of Hope, Criner said he was a victim of physical violence. He said one foster parent threw him to the ground and injured his back. The Department of Family and Protective Services confirms Criner was in the state’s foster care system and in August 2015 was enrolled at Killeen High School. Killeen police say Criner was reported as a missing person/runaway to their department on March 24.
Haruka Weiser’s accused killer hopped from town to town through the foster care system.
“I thought he was going to kill or somebody was going to kill him. That’s what I thought,” said Mary Wadley, the grandmother and legal guardian of Meechaiel Khalil Criner.
Criner described in the school newspaper how he was often bullied growing up, because of his accent.
“All I know, CPS [child protective services] was supposed to be having him, cause he wasn’t 18 yet. If you made him mad, he snapped. His temper would snap real fast. Even the school knew about it. Thy tried to work with him too, make sure the kids didn’t bother him,” his grandmother said.
The Department of Family and Protective Services moved Criner to a high school in the Killeen School District.
Several students and faculty members tell KXAN he was a student at Ellison High School in Killeen and he walked out of school around two weeks ago.
Killeen police say someone filed a missing person report on Mar. 24. New rules for notifying authorities of runaway foster kids
The Texas Department of Family Protective Services is employing newly amended rules when a child in foster care also known as conservatorship runs away, online records show.
The agency’s CPS handbook lays out how within 24 hours of a child fleeing care, a caseworker must notify:
• the appropriate law enforcement officials in the jurisdiction where the child went missing and
• the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) at the 24-hour call center: 1-800-THE LOST (1-800-843-5678)
Click here for the full list of requirements.
Online policies dated this month show a caseworker who believes a child has left substitute care unwillingly can request a child be placed on the Amber Alert System.
If a child in DFPS conservatorship is abducted by his or her biological family and law enforcement declines to file a missing person report with the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), the caseworker must immediately notify their supervisor.
Agency staff must request that DPS place the child and the family on the Child Safety Check Alert List (CSCAL).
The caseworker must continue ongoing efforts to locate the child, and the assigned special investigator (SI) must actively assist the caseworker in searching for the child until the child is found or the court dismisses conservatorship of the child.
Well, now he’s in for some real bullying in the pen.
Making the Murderer the victim. Its the Progressives way.
How old is Criner??? The article over and over refers to him as a “child”.....
There are all these statements that he has this accent.
another report said it was an African accent. I don’t understand.
does that mean someone who speaks purely in Ebonics or does it mean somebody who got off just got the boat from Ghana?
which is unlikely because he’s been in this system here for so long.
he’s an animal who should be drowned in a tub or get the needle but I’m sure he’s just going to get 20 years since he Is 17.
I’m not saying that foster care/physically abusive adults can’t mess up a kid. I am sure it can. HOWEVER, how many FReepers do we know (and I know several) that had horrendous childhoods and CHOSE to be caring, good, kind people? This man CHOSE to end the life (and brutally) of a young person. His childhood and the issues he faced mean so little to me and the poor, heart broken parents/family who know have to bury her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oWZwCO0qrk
It’s the age old quest for a more psychological villain.
I have known foster parents of the years as to be some of the most caring, patient people I have ever known. Once my wife and I considered being foster parents and went through the training which was outstanding. We both commented that we wish we had had the training before raising our children.
I cannot believe he was abused in a foster home. He probably was disciplined, but never physically.
The ‘child’ who committed this vile, sadistic murder is at least 17
Of course, we have to consider these 19-23 year old college students who cringe in fear and scramble to their “safe spaces” when they hear or read the word “Trump” as children, infants, ot toddlers, I suppose...
That’s what they act like anyway....
“I cannot believe he was abused in a foster home”.
I am afraid that is where you and I will have to agree to disagree. I’ve known two and the foster parents viewed the kids as “cash” cows. One family had the kids out in a field every day during the summer. (weeding, planting, etc). By everyday.. I mean the hottest part of the day and for 4-5 hours straight. The kids wore clothes that never fit and were as skinny as rails. The other family purchased Christmas gifts for their bio child. The two foster kids didn’t receive as much as a darn orange. My one friend actually was told about it and went out Christmas day and bought the kids gifts. Bless the good foster families that do this and try to make life a bit better for these throw away kids. Unfortunately, there are other people who see a monthly check and aren’t good people.
Remember the two gay guys allowed to adopt something like three little children and who left one to die in a hot car while one of them was smoking pot?! The one guy looked like Rosie O’Donnell on crack!
I know there are very good foster parents but there are examples in the newspapers all the time of bad ones.
I have seen this happen up close and personal.
“Cash for kids” foster families should be rooted out of the system, they are destructive to the children and give good FF’s a bad rep.
I keep thinking of the horror that Haruka Weiser faced when this ANIMAL raped and killed her. What about her rights?? America is so screwed up.....the only victims anymore are the those who break the laws. Oh, I’m sure that the defense will clean him up, and present more sob stories than you can shake a stick at, and very little will there be anything said about the real victim, Haruka. Please LORD take us home.
Raise the cash cow money and have the foster parents adopt them.
“Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen!”
It could be a speech impediment. Many children are born with them.
And people should never underestimate the power of Political Correctness. Jared Loughner was a known wacko, but his mom worked in the Parks and Recs Dept in Tucson, so he was allowed to get away with lots. IIRC, several people had reported death threats from him, only to be told he was being handled. Many knew he was a ticking time bomb, but did nothing. BTW, she was a Dem. So many lives could be saved if people were motivated to SPEAK UP! The Dems and the ACLU have created an atmosphere in which people are too intimidated to speak the truth. The San Bernardino victims might still be alive if the neighbors had been strong enough to report the dangerous goings on at the murderers home. The Dems and the ACLU are a cancer on our Society/Culture.
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