My cousin got her kids taken away, because she was a slob. Whereas a mother who beats her kids gets to keep..?

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Someone called CPS on her because she didn't clean her house EVER. There was dog poop on the floor and everything. I know these are bad conditions, but how come CPS reacted so fast to this, and they took her children and this I applaud.
Now I live in San Antonio and there was a horrible tragedy that happened last week. A young mother murdered her 1y/o and 4 month old babies. She stuffed them in a trash bag and put them under the house FOR A MONTH. CPS was called on this woman to NUMEROUS times...But the children remained with her. And she knocked her one year olds teeth in and bruised the babies body badly.
This is where the irony comes to play. My cousin's kids are white and the babies that were murdered were mexican. Could CPS want to protect white children more than hispanic or black?
Is there some sort of sick thing that whites should be protected more that minorities? It sickens me.

Answer 1

they arent doing a very good job if there allowing horrifiying things like that happen

Answer 2

I don't think it's a race issue. (I certainly pray it's not) I live in TX, too, and I have issues with CPS as well. They have ignored my husbands complaints and let his 3 boys remain with the mother (she's white), even though we have pictures of bruises and cig burn scars and a tape of the kids talking about being hit and their mother and her bf smoking weed and "putting white stuff" in it. We have reported this more than once and sent a copy of the tape in, but nothing's done. One caseworker told him-"There was some drug use going on, but we're just going to watch them for now." It's ridiculous. The police in her city (Plainview) filed charges but never even went out there. They dropped it a few days later. My husband pays $1000 a month in child support, but we've still had to buy the boys clothes, shoes and school supplies 3 different times. 2 of those times they were still wearing the shoes we had bought them 2 years before, and were 4 sizes too small. Their toes were curled up in the end of the shoe and it hurt them to walk. She's on food stamps, housing and her live in bf works. She was just taken off TANF bc she reached the max time allowed--3 years. She says she can't work bc her hand hurts! The kids are each 3 grades behind in school. We could get them 1 wknd a month, but he has to pick them up and take them back. They live 8 hrs away. By the time you get home, it's time to leave. I would be more understanding about the money situation if she had regular bills and an actual reason for not working, but she's just lazy. We're blessed that he has a good job in the oil field. We're not in debt or on any kind of welfare, and our 2 kids are not deprived of anything. The problem is that bc we're making it on our own, he can't afford a lawyer. It's sad that the people who really are looking out for the kids are being held back by the people being paid to do the same but aren't.

Answer 3

No, its called "postpardum depression"-it makes new mothers do things like this. They are psycho, but others may or may not know it because most of the time it is temporary. I don't think this has to do with bigotry.

Also, when you do not clean your house at all...you put your children at risk for disease and knowingly do that. This is considered child abuse. Young children crawling on the floor are going to eat whatever, etc. Kids eating off dirty dishes can get samonilla. People not washing can transfer diseases easier on hands.

Defacs comes on KNOWN cases and they have to have definate proof of abuse. There may have not been any pre-determinated things with the case you were speaking of. I heard it too on the news. What a shame.

Answer 4

I honestly don't know HOW those people work. I have heard cases of abused children being overlooked, and children being taken for minor reasons. Personally I have seen one friend who is a great mother, have her kids nearly taken away because the property owner was angry that there were crayon marks on the wall, so he called DHS and made up a bunch of nonsense about the kids being neglected (and they were white). And on the other hand, in our old neighborhood, there was a family (not-white) who would leave their four year old home alone for up to nine hours while they went to work. I called so many times, the police gave me their CASE NUMBER to use for reference when I called! They wouldn't feed him, he would get lonely and come to our house. One time he came over to eat dinner with us before his mom went to work, and she locked him out of the house. When I realized it, I called the police to say he was left alone AGAIN. They said they'd send someone out, but two hours later, we hadn't seen anyone and his drug-abusing teen brother showed back up. I was sooo angry. I called the police and they said since there was a responsible person there now they might as well not come out. When we moved I felt so horrible for leaving him behind, I saw him a few years later, he was twelve and thankfully still alive.