Posted on 06/22/2015 2:01:29 PM PDT by bgill
Attorneys at a hearing to determine who would receive temporary custody of the 5-year-old boy told a judge Friday morning that his mother and an aunt had been notified that the hearing would take place but that neither were in the courtroom to speak on his behalf. His father hadn’t yet been found, and the grandmother who abandoned him Tuesday at Kohl’s when she bolted from a shoplifting stop was still on the run from law enforcement, Sedgwick County Assistant District Attorney Amanda Marino said.
The judge placed the child in the temporary custody of the state.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansas.com ...
The "mother" should be staked out in the desert. If she's supposed to live, she'll live.
Grandmother on the lamb... Cancel the benefits that she’s collecting for the 5 year old. When the EBT card shuts down, she’ll show back up. When she does, arrest her for child abandonment and whatever other charges can be imagined.
Father? What father? State should file immediately for child support from both the mother and the father. They can reclaim their child whenever and continue collecting the support from whoever doesn’t show up.
Why there are so many messed up people.
“dangit kid, I tolja to keep up!”
Many commenters to the news article want to “take in” the boy. I hope that means they want to adopt him.
This entire story is sad...on so many levels. Prayers up for this child...for a loving and caring forever home.
Lets hope he’s not too screwed up by whatever parenting/environment he was raised in. And on top of that be careful of what may happen to him in foster care. There are plenty of foster parents who only do for the money much like the welfare queens.
My heart goes out to the little guy but I can tell you from personal experience of being a father of two kids adopted out of foster care that they do come with baggage and it can very trying on a person to deal with the issues that these kids can bring.
I would take that child. My husband and I would do it in a heartbeat. Lord, save that child.
half my siblings are adopted my experience with my four adopted siblings tells me that if a family take the kid in unless the kid has really been traumatized he can become will adjusted but it is really iffy after 5 years of age.
Mom’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mommytiff
After 5 years old and countless moves between foster homes.
My boy is now 17 and he mostly just does goofy teenager stuff but early on age 6-14 you never knew what to get. His biological half sister started exhibiting signs around 8 and has been a nightmare since 9 and today she is 12 (adopted when she was 18 months). Without going into details lets just say it is a good thing that I earn a decent living and can afford to take off time for her issues. And the school and bus camera videos are classic You Tube material but then you realize she’s your kid.
OMG.....poor child.
I have a sister that was adopted at seven in the end she never bonding with the family and later as an adult decided to break off contact with the family. it really hurt my mom and dad when she did that not to mention the rest of us who still consider her our sister. I have another brother that was adopted at age nine. he was so traumatized by the time my parents got him they could only watch as his behavior got worse each day not knowing what to do. he is now in prison on a ten to life sentence for murder. the kid was so damaged bye the time of the adoption he was a sociopath
my other two siblings bonded with the family and everything is all right with but they were much younger one was adopted as a infant and the other at age three....
I hope that the child that was abandoned by his grandmother ends up in the adoption system and is adopted because if he stays with his family he has no future.
White trash Lives Matter Too
You are absolutely right!
We are more obsessed about whether we like men or women or want to be a man or a woman than the basic and simple things that enrich our souls and the souls of the people around us. We are more concerned about scamming other people than how being a shoplifter might affect our grandchild. Or where the mother and father have disappeared to leaving the only option for a 5 year old child is a grandparent who is a criminal.
Put the 5 year old up for adoption...He needs a family with a mom and a dad...
The court should sever two things: 1) all family claims to the child himself and 2) all financial support being paid to grandma and mom by the government, whether for child support or any other purpose. (Why should the taxpayers subsidize people like this?)
Then, put the child up for adoption immediately. His case is getting widespread attention and he would almost certainly be readily adopted.
Next, publicize another case, rinse, and repeat.
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