Attorney: CPS dropped the ball in kid cocaine case
Attorney: CPS dropped the ball in kid cocaine case
http://www.khou.com/news/local/crime...c21450f.htm l 06:07 PM CDT on Friday, October 26, 2007 By Jason Whitely / 11 News Inside apartment 46, at a northwest Houston complex, police say they discovered nothing short of squalor. See Jason Whitely's 11 News report. “There was nowhere you could look where there was not roaches,” said HPD Investigator Catheryn Garner-Sanders. Not only roaches. But investigators say drugs, too. Now, Tammy Lynn Melton and Emanuel Jones face felony charges after four of their eight children tested positive for cocaine. “We think that the children just somehow must have gotten a hold of the parents' cocaine. Because the children who tested positive were two 11-month-old twins. A one-and-a-half-year-old and a two-and-a-half-year old,” said Estella Olguin with Children’s Protective Services. A nurse at Texas Children’s made the discovery when she was treating one of the 11-month-old twin boys for a broken arm. She was alarmed the baby wasn’t crying in pain. A test revealed the 11-month-old had cocaine in his system. Records show that CPS has investigated the parents at least five previous times. In 2002, doctors suggested CPS watch the mother because she appeared so young and inexperienced. Months later, she was caught giving inappropriate food to the baby. In 2005, CPS looked into her again for using cocaine to induce labor. Her children were then given to their grandmother. Three weeks ago, Houston police told CPS about the children living in the roach-infested apartment -- grandmother and all. “Every time we would go out to the apartment, they were not there,” said Olguin. CPS couldn’t find them until the child ended up at the hospital. Finally, custody was revoked. Houston attorney Randy Burton, who founded Justice for Children, believes CPS should have intervened before Houston police finally had to. “CPS did clearly drop the ball,” he said. “If they hadn’t intervened when they did, I’m confident within months, we would have seen a dead child.” All eight of the couple’s children are now in foster homes. The mother, Tammy Lynn Melton, is in the process of posting bond and leaving jail. The children’s father is still locked up here though. Both deny giving their children cocaine or physically abusing them. If convicted, they could face two to ten years in prison. CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NSA / CIA WIRETAPPING PROGRAM.... CPS Does not protect children... It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even killed at the hands of Child Protective Services. every parent should read this .pdf from connecticut dcf watch... http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US These numbers come from The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN) Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS *Perpetrators of Maltreatment* Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59 Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13 Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241 Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12 Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5 Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per 100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a bunch of social workers. CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON... BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION... |
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