Tiara Jefferson left her two children, ages 2 and 2 months in the care of Detress Richmond while she went to work in hopes of making a little extra Christmas money. Richmon left the two young children and nearly a dozen other children with a 15 year old sitter while she left her home.
Reports suggest that while the teenage babysitter was in another part of the home, a nine year old boy- the son of Richmond, stabbed Jefferson's two year old- Damya Jefferson.
Siblings of the nine year old referred to him as a bully, and that he often pushed them around.
As for Richmond, he has 13 children and has a history of being investigated by Texas Department of Child Protective Services, who have been to her house eight times since 1994 to investigate allegations that her children were neglected, not fed or living in filth. State officials are not offering any reason as to why the children were never removed from the home.
As for the nine year old- because of his age, he can not be charged with a crime, and therefore has been sent to a state hospital while the case is investigated.
Richmond's remaining children have been removed from the home, and CPS workers also took "Damya's 2-month-old sibling, because caseworkers questioned Jefferson's judgment when she left her children at a home that police said was dirty and potentially unsupervised". Personally, I find that odd. They had 8 chances to remove children from this home- and by their failing to act they were pretty much providing a seal of approval, and yet they expect that a 17 year old should make better choices than state trained and employed CPS agents did. After all, if they found no reason to remove children, that there was no "level of imminent danger", then how can someone else be blamed for failing to see the same things they missed?
Categories: abused, murders
Reports suggest that while the teenage babysitter was in another part of the home, a nine year old boy- the son of Richmond, stabbed Jefferson's two year old- Damya Jefferson.
Siblings of the nine year old referred to him as a bully, and that he often pushed them around.
As for Richmond, he has 13 children and has a history of being investigated by Texas Department of Child Protective Services, who have been to her house eight times since 1994 to investigate allegations that her children were neglected, not fed or living in filth. State officials are not offering any reason as to why the children were never removed from the home.
As for the nine year old- because of his age, he can not be charged with a crime, and therefore has been sent to a state hospital while the case is investigated.
Richmond's remaining children have been removed from the home, and CPS workers also took "Damya's 2-month-old sibling, because caseworkers questioned Jefferson's judgment when she left her children at a home that police said was dirty and potentially unsupervised". Personally, I find that odd. They had 8 chances to remove children from this home- and by their failing to act they were pretty much providing a seal of approval, and yet they expect that a 17 year old should make better choices than state trained and employed CPS agents did. After all, if they found no reason to remove children, that there was no "level of imminent danger", then how can someone else be blamed for failing to see the same things they missed?
Categories: abused, murders
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