Posted on 03/02/2025 12:00:28 PM PST by KingofZion
A Detroit mother of four children, two of whom died from possible exposure to the cold this month while the family was living in a van, has been given a new home days after her son and daughter were laid to rest.
A video posted by the city of Detroit and Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries this week showed Tateona Williams receiving the keys to her home.
"We had to fix it, prep it, furnish it and then give them a good start so they don’t have to go one day with no food or being outside anymore," the organization's CEO and president, Chad Audi, said in a video that showed community members stocking the kitchen with food.
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries, which helps find permanent solutions for disadvantaged residents, said the home was freshly painted, and Williams received new furniture and appliances in the home that she can now occupy with her two surviving children.
*** Amillah Currie, 2, and Darnell Currie, 9, died Feb. 10 after the van the family was living in apparently ran out of gas. Williams found the children unresponsive and not breathing and called either a friend or a relative for help, police said.
The temperature in Detroit that morning was around 12 degrees F, with wind chills of 6 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
Hours before the deaths, Williams had parked the car on the ninth floor of Hollywood Casino's parking garage. Two adults and five children, ages 2 to 13, were in the van, Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison has said.
He said he believed the family was seeking shelter in the garage for safety and because they could use the casino's bathroom. He also said the family had moved around from various casino parking lots.
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no one besides immediate friends and family have ever given me anything.
I truly wish this poor, poor woman all the best, but please check on this woman and the house in about one year.
Down by the river eating government cheese?
Ditto
“...we expect responsibility and accountability to build toward her independence,” the organization said.”
We shall see.
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries...
Wonder where it gets its money.
The head is getting six figures...
Leave your child in a hot car on a summer day? The world will hate you for killing your child.
Your child freezes in a cold car on a winter day? You get a house!
USAID?
Yeah, she survived. Why didn’t she huddle around the children and share her body heat?
The children’s fathers must be devastated.
No word about the sperm donor(s).
That should be telling to see what kind of condition the house is in.
I think when someone is given the opportunity to have a new place like this or Habitat for Humanity, , there should be a requirement that they somehow participate in it’s construction and/or remodeling.
They need some skin in the game to value it.
Good point.
We will be bombarded with sob stories from “opressed” peoples now that mean ol’ Trump is back.
DRMM FORM 990 FOR 2022
https://drmm.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/DRMM-990-9-30-22-WEB.pdf
It shows DRMM received $8 million in government grants. Total receipts were $20 million.
I am suspicious that DRMM was getting grants that were exposed by DOGE and that is how NBC found this anecdotal story.
Expect more homeless kids being frozen to death in the future.
Call 911 - specifically if you are exposed to frigid weather.
The Police or someone from Social Services will come and get you.
This mother should be in jail if her kids actually froze to death.
That’s what we’d all like to know!
Exactly.
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