This is horrifying and heart breaking

[Moonpie]

I hear you about the pet adoption asshattery.

We wanted to adopt a pound puppy. Just a plain old mutt that needed a home.
The adoption place wanted to come to my house and do an "inspection" to see if we were even eligible to adopt! I told them I would cough up the $200 "adoption fee" but they could FOAD about the inspection.
You want to get rid of the dog or not??????
Hory Clap. We didn't get the poor dog either. They probably euthanized it. Azzholes.

 

[baboon]

Please elaborate as to why race would matter in the least?

It doesn't matter what race they are. This was beyond horrible, and being about race.

Not knowing more of the story leads me to think some heavy drug usage may have been involved. A "Mother" that abandon her kids to fend for themselves is about as low on the ladder of human evolution as one can get. Then again I knew a guy who got custody of his son in divorce. Sure the kid was probably better of with his father, but in no means a great decision by the courts!

 

[Haystack]

Mom released after 3 children found in Texas apartment with skeletal remains

A 15-year-old boy reported the body of his 9-year-old brother was in the room next to his, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said. The child had been dead for a year, he told authorities.

www.nbcnews.com

Authorities located the mother of the children and her boyfriend. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said Monday morning that they had been interviewed and released.

How will the Sheriff sleep tonight after releasing them?

 

[pronstar]

One of the reasons I refuse to deal with these shelters/rescue organizations. Their regulatory "standards" have grown unchecked based on the whims of the folks running them. If they later decide you aren't taking "proper" care of the animal by THEIR standards, they have the right to TAKE it back. And the detailed background info, "inspection" of your private property, etc....yeah, no - it ain't gonna happen.

And in our case, it was all for a special needs cat that was literally about to be put-down regardless…we adopted it to save it.


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[pronstar]

We live and work in one world, but there is another that exists just down the street. I've heard stories from EMTs that just made me sick. It's hard to believe that people live like that. If drugs are involved, then there is no bottom to how low people can go. A friend adopted a couple of kids. One of them was I think 18 months old when they got him and he was already scarred for life. Imagine a baby having to go through the garbage to try to find something to eat. Now that kid is a teen and they've had to have him locked up because he's out of control. It's a sick world out there.

My BIL was a career paramedic/firefighter, retired as a BC.

The stories he told of how some people live in absolute squalor were incredible.

That “nice looking house down the street” could be occupied by interior hoarders who shit in 5-gallon Home Depot buckets for all we know.


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[Sam7sf]

Mom released after 3 children found in Texas apartment with skeletal remains

A 15-year-old boy reported the body of his 9-year-old brother was in the room next to his, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said. The child had been dead for a year, he told authorities.

www.nbcnews.com

How will the Sheriff sleep tonight after releasing them?

That’s a head scratcher. If I didn’t find a paper trail of divorce/custody, what in the hell would put those kids In that place without care?

 

[Texasgordo]

Anything dead is going to stink bad after a few days so I don't understand how anyone else in the apartment building didn't smell it

 

[baboon]

Mom released after 3 children found in Texas apartment with skeletal remains

A 15-year-old boy reported the body of his 9-year-old brother was in the room next to his, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said. The child had been dead for a year, he told authorities.

www.nbcnews.com

How will the Sheriff sleep tonight after releasing them?

My guess the Sheriff sees it from a legal point. That legal point could very well be the mother did not have custody of the kids! The apartment complex doesn't look run down. Who ever signed that lease either had a job or financial help in the form of section 8 or some kind of vouchers.

The oldest boy @ 13-14 you would think would have done something about one of them dying. he was smart enough in getting by with food & rent, but WTF with the corpse/

Y'all do realize foster homes are many times a total train wreck run for profit & not kids best interest!

 

[benenglish]

That “nice looking house down the street” could be occupied by interior hoarders who shit in 5-gallon Home Depot buckets for all we know.

I've been in hundreds of homes where the occupants didn't want me but had no choice. From experience, I can say that the hoarders you describe are far more common than most people realize. Minimum, I'd say 5% of homes are bad hoarders and probably double that are on the path to hoarding hell.

 

[jamesmrj]

One of the reasons I refuse to deal with these shelters/rescue organizations. Their regulatory "standards" have grown unchecked based on the whims of the folks running them. If they later decide you aren't taking "proper" care of the animal by THEIR standards, they have the right to TAKE it back. And the detailed background info, "inspection" of your private property, etc....yeah, no - it ain't gonna happen.

I hear you about the pet adoption asshattery.

We wanted to adopt a pound puppy. Just a plain old mutt that needed a home.
The adoption place wanted to come to my house and do an "inspection" to see if we were even eligible to adopt! I told them I would cough up the $200 "adoption fee" but they could FOAD about the inspection.
You want to get rid of the dog or not??????
Hory Clap. We didn't get the poor dog either. They probably euthanized it. Azzholes.

Supposedly this crap is to prevent the animals from being used as bait animals for training dogs to fight.

 

[Sam7sf]

I get why but let’s be real: most animal shelters/adoption centers have over dramatic pet owners who think they are Cesar Millan and just need to stfu.

 

[FireInTheWire]

The parents need to stop using our resources asap.

Kids gonna need lots of therapy.

I can't even wrap my mind around this.....

 

[SQLGeek]

From the little bit I saw on Reddit, it seems there were several in the complex that complained for a long while about the smell but nothing was done about it.

A teen that is old enough to help the younger ones but doesn't get help until now? They didn't have power for weeks but a neighbor was bringing them food and letting them charge the phones but never called for help themselves? There were supposedly regular safety inspections by building management around the complex but this was never detected? So much doesn't add up based on the info we have now.

 

[Sasquatch]

From the little bit I saw on Reddit, it seems there were several in the complex that complained for a long while about the smell but nothing was done about it.

A teen that is old enough to help the younger ones but doesn't get help until now? They didn't have power for weeks but a neighbor was bringing them food and letting them charge the phones but never called for help themselves? So much doesn't add up based on the info we have now.

Abuse. Lots and lots of mental, physical, and emotional abuse. Maybe even molestation. Older kids conditioned that if they seek help, they'll be taken away someplace worse, or be killed. Who knows. I'll bet none of those kids grows up to be "normal" after that shit.

 

[SQLGeek]

That could partly explain why they just stayed in that...that had to be absolutely, unimaginably horrid. It doesn't explain the rest of it.

 

[45tex]

Take notice that it was the Harris County Sheriffs Office that responded to this case.
One of Houston's many leftest humanitarian secrets is that there are some neighborhoods so bad that the city annexed everything around the neighborhood leaving the area to the county. Some of these areas that are 100% surrounded by Houston don't even have sewer and water service. The county has its hands full outside of the city and Houston ignores the areas. This sort if tragedy happens in vacuums like this.

 

[Sasquatch]

Take notice that it was the Harris County Sheriffs Office that responded to this case.
One of Houston's many leftest humanitarian secrets is that there are some neighborhoods so bad that the city annexed everything around the neighborhood leaving the area to the county. Some of these areas that are 100% surrounded by Houston don't even have sewer and water service. The county has its hands full outside of the city and Houston ignores the areas. This sort if tragedy happens in vacuums like this.

Didn't know that. That's pretty despicable of the politicians.

 

[TexasRedneck]

Supposedly this crap is to prevent the animals from being used as bait animals for training dogs to fight.

Even if that's the case.....it's better that they be euthanized? The $200 fee was "justified" as being to preclude them being used at bait. The same is being claimed for the "background investigation". Which is it - or is it just another example of a non-regulated industry creating their own rules because they can?

 

[Brains]

This apartment complex is just off Highway 6 and Westpark, a mile south of West Oaks Mall. It's not a shady part of town at all.

 

[oldguy]

Our justice system has failed in so many areas difficult to imagine,
perhaps time to bring back the guillotine for child abuse.