Mother arrested after five children found living in-police surprised how well children were doing

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[chance33_98]

Mother arrested after five children found living in squalor

(9/10/03 – LEAGUE CITY, TX) — League City police arrested a mother of five after her children were found living in deplorable conditions.

Twenty-nine-year-old Brandy Crider is charged with five counts of endangering a child. Police were tipped off by the children's father, who suspected they were living in a filthy apartment. Police investigated and found he was right.

They discovered spoiled food, animal feces and drug paraphernalia all over the apartment. Despite the conditions, police were surprised to find how well the children were doing.

Sgt. Glenn McCann of the League City PD said, "Fortunately, all the kids appear to be healthy and well cared for. They were clean and they were clothed."

All five children are with foster parents this morning. Crider is in jail on a $50,000 bond while Children’s Protective Services investigates the case.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Nope - I'm simply asking that the parents drop the bong. It is really easy to make that choice, I'd think.

What is more important to parents - their kids or a bong? If you have to take more than a millisecond to answer that, then you have a problem you need to address.

[Porterville]

Let's through in alcoholics, smokers, and people on Prozac, they should have their children stripped too; and also, anyone who homeschools their kids, or whatever the state deems deviant from the "norm" ... which I'm sure every DA and police officer lives by....LOL

[Porterville]

Let's throw in alcoholics, smokers, and people on Prozac, they should have their children stripped too; and also, anyone who homeschools their kids, or whatever the state deems deviant from the "norm" ... which I'm sure every DA and police officer lives by....LOL

[battousai]

"Okay ... and the "father" is doing WHAT, besides snitching tattling tipping, to provide a decent life for his children? "

Don't be so quick to blame the father, the way the courts are geared to side with the mothers in most things, he probably wasn't even allowed within 10 feet of the children or some such inane restraining order.

[dead]

Nope - I'm simply asking that the parents drop the bong.

That is not at all what you said. You said they should have their children taken away from them.

And I asked you if you were then willing to pay to take care of these tens of thousands of virtual orphans you will have created.

You don’t seem to want to answer my question for some reason.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

American child protective laws always give people the opportunity to reform. If they don't, the kids get stripped away, period.

For those parents who deem it more important to keep the bong, they can pay very healthy child support on the kids that they aren't interested in raising.

[_Jim]

Shades of the McGuckins?

[dead]

American child protective laws always give people the opportunity to reform.

Because you’re not in charge. Thankfully.

For those parents who deem it more important to keep the bong, they can pay very healthy child support on the kids that they aren't interested in raising.

They were interested in raising them, until you took them away and gave them to the state to raise.

[Porterville]

Time for a long trusted cliche:

"When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side.' I calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.'"

[anotherdubya]

I agree with you...I had a friend who was in the same situation. There was nothing he could do about because of the courts. I would go with him to drop off his daughter so I could drive home while he had tears in his eyes. Lord knows he tried everything possible to protect the girl, finally he was able to get the courts to give the grandparents the girl...I never understood why the courts wouldn't give him his daughter, because he was a good hard working man...all they wanted from him was his money.

My question would be why "foster parents" and not the dad? If he is a good father they should someday be given to him.

[FourPeas]

I wondered the exact same things. As a person who hates cleaning the fridge, there's often a plastic container of something fuzzy that I've forgotten. Being allergic to the cats, Mr. FourPeas cleans the litterboxes, but not as frequently as I'd like. I can't do much with the drug paraphernalia, but we *do* have various medications around (see above allergy). We also homeschool (which, of course makes us: anti-social), are evangelical Christians (*gasp*, now we can add in religious fanatics who don't want their children to learn about government mandated PC), and believe that the government has too much power and we own firearms(ooooh, we're militia-types). It seems like anybody with an adgenda could word a complaint against us that might sound similar to this one.

[mommadooo3]

NO, the CPS does NOT give parents an opportunity... they STRIP kids away FIRST, THEN offer hoops, demands, opportunities.

In the eyes of CPS, a complaint means you ARE guilty until you can prove yourself innocent.

[anymouse]

The Signature Point Apartments are a fairly upscale apartment complex in the upscale part of League City called South Shore Harbor.

I find it hard to believe that the conditions were too bad, else the neighbors or apartment office people would have noticed sooner.

My guess is that this is part of a child custody battle after an ugly divorce.

[Just another Joe]

What is more important to parents - their kids or a bong?

What's more important to parents - their kids or a beer?
Different choice, same analogy.

So if I leave a beer bottle on the coffee table overnight?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I've asked that of parents whose alcohol habits got them in trouble. There is only one correct answer to that question, you know.

[stands2reason]

Do you have any indication that he doesn't pay child support?

[Just another Joe]

I've asked that of parents whose alcohol habits got them in trouble. There is only one correct answer to that question, you know.

That's correct, there is only one answer to that question.
What about person that doesn't get into trouble using marijuana? and please don't tell me that there are no such persons. I know several personally.

[justshutupandtakeit]

That is a distortion of what happened and you know it.

[stands2reason]

My guess is that this is part of a child custody battle after an ugly divorce.

In Texas, CPS will not take a complaint from a non-custodial parent even if there is a hint of a custody battle.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

As do I.

Like it or not, bong use is a different delivery mode, and indicative of somebody who is seriously losing control of their drug use (a particularly bad mark in a parent). This isn't just a bunch of pals sitting around exercising some occasional irresponsibilityl and casually smoking pot for a bit of a giggle, or taking a hit or two at a concert. The bong is delivering a much larger load, indicating that the casual use just isn't getting them what they want in terms of the high - consider that the tube to the bowl is wider and draws better, plus the cooled smoke is easier to take in in larger amounts. You know that, I know that. Somebody using a bong does have a problem, and has left the realm of casual use.