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Naked Girl Eating From Trash Cans Shocks Temecula Neighbors [Temecula? Should Shock America!]
LATimes ^ | February 18, 2012

Posted on 02/18/2012 2:11:09 PM PST by Steelfish

Naked Girl Eating From Trash Cans Shocks Temecula Neighbors February 18, 2012

Neighbors in Temecula expressed shock after seeing a 12-year-old girl walking naked through a neighborhood and eating out of trash cans.

Neighbors noticed the girl roaming through trash cans looking for food and called 911.

Police arrested the girl's mother, Tracy Betts, shortly after officers, acting on witness tips, searched for the girl Thursday and found her without clothes and sitting in a car parked near Vail Elementary school.

Once they discovered who the girl’s mother was and where she worked, police went to the Vail campus and took Betts into custody.

Betts’ daughter was placed in protective custody and treated at a hospital.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: abuse; childabuse; temecula
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To: struggle

or a public school teacher gets to her


21 posted on 02/18/2012 2:43:42 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
JAF0V...
22 posted on 02/18/2012 2:44:33 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Steelfish

Good thing the school authorities didn’t notice. They would have made the girl put the food back because it didn’t measure up to standards.


23 posted on 02/18/2012 2:46:49 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: GeronL

Um - her mom IS a public school teacher.

(Well, a teacher’s aide anyway).


24 posted on 02/18/2012 2:48:33 PM PST by 21twelve
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To: mamelukesabre

When I was a little kid, there was a little girl that lived across the street from me (say 5-6 years old) that was very weird. She liked to run around the neighborhood with no clothes. Her mother would chase after her carrying a robe screaming at her to come back and the little brat would laugh hysterically as she ran.
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This child returned to a car and was trying to warm herself with a floor mat. A neighbor had time to observe the child eating from trash, get food for the child and locate her in the car.

There was no mother running after her with a robe, trying to feed her or take her home. It seems this child didn’t run from or laugh at the neighbor.

Obviously if the child was eating from the garbage, she was hungry, hunger takes some time, too. It seems the mom was so little aware, she missed several things that wouldn’t take the average mom much time to notice/correct.

Mostly being—the child is missing.


25 posted on 02/18/2012 2:51:59 PM PST by Irenic
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To: gaijin

>>The REAL lesson here: If you want the UNVARNISHED TRUTH about the USA, then American readers MUST go to BRITISH newspapers.

Worth saying again.

And the German press has woken up regarding the Great Global Warming Scam.


26 posted on 02/18/2012 2:53:24 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: mamelukesabre; JRandomFreeper; tomkat

First off, that’s a pi$$ poor analogy, second off, bite me.


27 posted on 02/18/2012 3:01:20 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6

You need to look up the word “analogy”. You can bite yourself, fool.


28 posted on 02/18/2012 3:20:27 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: Steelfish

This is illegal in California?


29 posted on 02/18/2012 3:26:37 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Steelfish

I saw Pauly Shore eat at Steak & Shake. Nothing shocks me now.


30 posted on 02/18/2012 3:47:03 PM PST by tumblindice (Whitey-American: Taxed Enough Already)
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To: Steelfish

Damn George W Bush.


31 posted on 02/18/2012 3:51:06 PM PST by Wagonboy (STOP GLOBAL WHINING!)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Why are people so extra prickly around here and other places on the net lately?


32 posted on 02/18/2012 4:01:25 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (....The days are long, but the years are short.....)
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To: mamelukesabre

Huge difference between and 5 yr old and a 12 yr old.
The girl was trying to warm herself in the car, she was eating food not bugs, there was no mother looking for her.
I am intrigued that you apparently are not bothered by the story.


33 posted on 02/18/2012 4:08:25 PM PST by svcw (Only difference between Romney & BH is one thinks he will be god & other one thinks he already is.)
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To: SaxxonWoods
Why are people so extra prickly around here and other places on the net lately?

Because we have allowed ourselves to be divided and because this is a tense time and because perspective has been lost. Now, if you will excuse me, someone on the internet is WRONG! AND I HAVE TO GO CORRECT THEM!!!
34 posted on 02/18/2012 4:09:08 PM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: Steelfish

I suspect the girl is mentally deficient. In a lot of places, they try to “mainstream” such children into ordinary public school, which sometimes works, but much of the time does not.

Mental illness is not fun to watch, and it is very frustrating to try and communicate with someone who looks like they *could* understand, but none of what you are saying is getting through.

It is especially painful when it is intermittent, so they are aware and alert for minutes or hours, and then they aren’t.


35 posted on 02/18/2012 4:10:27 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Steelfish
Police arrested the girl's mother, Tracy Betts, shortly after officers, acting on witness tips, searched for the girl Thursday and found her without clothes and sitting in a car parked near Vail Elementary school.

Once they discovered who the girl’s mother was and where she worked, police went to the Vail campus and took Betts into custody.

This girl's mother was working in an elementary school????
36 posted on 02/18/2012 4:12:58 PM PST by Bob
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To: svcw

I am intrigued that you think you know more than you do. For all we know, the girl ran away and LIKES to crawl around in dumpsters naked. There are some very strange kids out there. They grow up to be strange adults. We have no idea if this girl is a victim or if she is just a nut or just plain ignorant. If she is a victim, we don’t know if her parents are the ones who did it.


37 posted on 02/18/2012 4:24:14 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: Spirit of Liberty

>>Fox News story states the car was a BMW!!!

I think there was a rush to judgement on this one. Upscale neighborhood. The kid probably has some mental issues.


38 posted on 02/18/2012 4:35:57 PM PST by expat1000
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To: mamelukesabre
Gimme a break. You don’t know enough about the story to form an opinion.

If YOU read the story you would know enough not to make these comments.

The mother took the girls cloths and shoes so she wouldn't leave the car.

39 posted on 02/18/2012 4:39:23 PM PST by WesternPacific (Deafness has its Advantages)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Because we can feel something is on the horizon. Don’t know what is is, but I have a feeling it ain’t gonna be pretty.


40 posted on 02/18/2012 4:56:53 PM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV))
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