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.
“Making the Murderer the victim. Its the Progressives way.”
At a dinner several years ago, the topic arose of a recent brutal murder of a local elderly teachers’ aide, by her druggie nephew and his felonious pal. Opening comment of the leftist/”liberal” moron couple: “I feel so sorry for those boys”.
When I said my sympathy went to the victim, not to her murderers, I was told that “I obviously didn’t know what those boys had been through to do such a horrible thing”. Did they have knowledge of any mistreatment? Well, no... but surely there must be something or they wouldn’t have stabbed an old lady 35 times to steal her $1500 car.
What motivates people like this to explain away criminal conduct and blame something imaginary that can’t be held responsible?
My little brother did this. He and his wife started out as foster parents and they loved the check the baby brought. They were made foster parents when the baby was a day old. My brother and his wife are the only parents that child has ever known.
The mother had 3 kids, by 3 different fathers, was a drug abuser and alcoholic who couldn’t and wouldn’t take care of the kids. All 3 were in different foster homes.
Long story short, my brother and his wife legally adopted ALL THREE to keep the kids together.
Today they’re one happy family.
I am not defending the thug who murdered the lovely UT student — please believe me about this! Nothing he has gone through justifies his brutally murdering an innocent young woman. That aside, your statement is naïve in the extreme. A friend of mine who works in the foster care system has said of foster parents, “10% are saints and 90% are in it for the money.”
This country has an underclass of people who mindlessly reproduce, then dump the children they can't or won't care for on a system that can't handle them. Understandably, few middle class people want to be foster parents because they fear investing themselves in troubled children, only to have them ripped from them and returned to abusive biological parents who are happy to collect welfare for (semi-)caring for their own children.
The government encourages women to have babies and collect welfare; then the government has to place the children with foster parents when the biomoms get arrested or run off with some dirtbag. Yes, many foster children are abused, physically and sexually, because many foster parents are motivated only by the money — and the more foster kids they take in, the more money they get, so foster kids are often neglected, too.
Again, I emphasize that I have zippo sympathy for the murderer of the UT student. Also, I state again that my friend believes 10% of foster parents are "saints", and I am sure this is true.
And there you have it ... he’s the victim.
I just wish this beautiful young woman had been armed.
He’s a rabid feral dog deserving to be thrown off of a 25 story building.
That the media seems to defend his horrendous evil behavior means they are complicit to defending murder.
for libtards, it's always society's fault.
Interesting - although the foster parents I knew over the years certainly must have enjoyed the extra income, they loved and cared for the kids. They were an opposite of all you describe. One was a farm family in Indiana and they had several of their own plus foster kids younger than teen, and you wouldn’t know theirs from the foster ones. And yes they did work in the yard and barn - all did. One foster family in my neighborhood adopted them after a couple years. When I policed for while, again years ago, I did run into kids treated as you describe, but they were always biological children being mistreated. I don’t think they had fostering programs in those days.
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The Austin, TX, fifth-column leftist TV stations are already hyping sympathy propaganda for Meechaiel, with a KVUE “reporter” whining that the “foster care system” (but not any individual person) is to blame for causing the scum to murder a UT coed. “More money” for the bureaucracy will solve the problem, it is claimed.
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