Illinois Reporters Use Tragic Child Abuse Case To Dishonestly Smear Homeschool Families
Rather than hold abusive parents or government workers accountable, reporters point fingers at homeschoolers.Rather than hold abusive parents or government workers accountable, reporters point fingers at homeschoolers.Woman says Walmart fired her for posting video of toddler wearing only a diaper in store on 20-degree morning
A woman said a Mississippi Walmart fired her for posting video of a toddler wearing only a diaper in the store on a 20-degree morning earlier this month.
What are the details?
Felecia Darling told WLBT-TV she began recording after the boy’s mother entered the Byram store and put him in a cold shopping basket only wearing a diaper. The station in a previous story said the incident occurred at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 17.
Darling added to WLBT that she took off her black coat and put it on the toddler after several shoppers approached the boy’s mother.
"You’re a mother, a child represents you,” Darling noted to the station. “And if you come in the store fully clothed, and your son is not, that shows a lot about your character and that shows a lot that you don’t care. How could you come in Walmart fully dressed knowing it’s a lot of people watching you? She probably thought nobody was going to step up, but, you know, we did.”
Video shows the mother tossing a bag of frozen items just in front of the toddler, who was seated in the main part of the cart.
Amid an argument with a shopper over the toddler, the New York Post reported that the mother "delivered a vulgar rant, pausing only to twerk briefly for the camera."
Police charged the mother, Kambria Darby, with child neglect, WLBT noted, adding that she was booked and processed at the Hinds County Detention Center on bond conditions the county Youth Court ordered.
The station also reported that Child Protective Services got involved and later released the toddler to an approved relative.
A GoFundMe to help cover Darling's monthly expenses while she's out of work has reached $40,700 as of Monday.
Atlanta Black Star said it reached out to Walmart multiple times for comment.
'They did Jesus the same way'
The Post said another video Darling posted that is no longer live shows a shopper dressing the toddler in clothes from the store while the mother stands nearby scrolling on her phone.
The paper added that police spoke to Darby outside and learned about shoppers dressed the still-shivering child inside the store.
EMS personnel checked the toddler before Child Protection Services arrived, the Post noted.
Darby after her release from jail got on social media and defended herself, the paper said, citing a Facebook post the Daily Mail said it viewed: “They did Jesus the same way, he felt sick to his stomach as well; he didn’t want to go through it.”
According to the Post, the mother of three said she hasn’t seen her children since the Walmart incident: “I know this too shall pass. I know one day me and my kids will be reunited.”
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Stepfather to serve life in prison after perceptive waitress rescues young boy from horrific abuse: 'I was used like a tool from God to help him'
One brave waitress followed her instincts a couple years ago, and in doing so, she likely saved a young boy's life.
On New Year's Day 2021, a family of four entered the Mrs. Potato Restaurant in Orlando, Florida. However, waitress Flaviane Carvalho immediately sensed that something about the family wasn't right. While the mother, stepfather, and younger sister were all eating, the young boy was not. He was also quiet and not interacting much with the others. Upon closer inspection, Carvalho saw that he was covered in bruises.
Carvalho then quickly scribbled a quick note which read, "Do you need help? OK." She flashed the note to the boy once, careful not to catch the notice of the stepfather. At first, the boy gestured that he was fine, but Carvalho still wasn't satisfied, so she showed him the note again. This time, he nodded his head "yes."
Though Carvalho was also a manager at the restaurant, she consulted the manager on duty that day to see how she should proceed. The two agreed that she should call police.
She may have contacted law enforcement just in time. When police arrived and began conducting an investigation, they discovered that the 11-year-old boy was 20 pounds underweight and had been severely mistreated by his stepfather, Timothy Lee Wilson, and his mother, Kristen Swann, who witnessed the abuse and did nothing.
Reports say that Wilson, 36, had deprived the boy of food and water "for days at a time," forced him to perform "military-style exercises," and beat him when he didn't perform the tasks as expected. Wilson also hung the boy upside down from a door frame and chained him to a dolly on Christmas.
"We probably would’ve been talking about a potential homicide investigation," said Orlando Rolón, who was then the Orlando chief of police, "if [Carvalho] had not intervened when she did."
In June, a jury convicted Wilson of 10 charges, including false imprisonment of a child, aggravated child abuse with a weapon, and child neglect, and on Friday, the judge assigned to the case issued the harshest possible sentence.
"You have utterly failed, not only in the role of parent, but simply in the role of human being," Judge Wayne C. Wooten told Wilson. "For those reasons, I’m going to impose the sentence that the law allows me to impose, although candidly, in many ways, I feel like it is short of what you thoroughly and richly deserve."
Wilson will serve a life sentence plus 30 years. His wife, Swann, has been convicted of child neglect and will be sentenced on September 16.
Carvalho is grateful that justice has been served and that the boy is now living a much fuller and happier life. "I was used like a tool from God to help him," she told reporters.
The boy has reportedly been reunited with his biological father. There is no evidence that his 4-year-old half-sister had been abused.
Arizona Mom Who Works With Refugee Kids Fights Due-Process Denial That Would Place Her On No-Hire List
An Arizona mother who works with refugee families is fighting a state agency’s decision to place her on a child neglect no-hire list. Represented by attorneys from Pacific Legal Foundation and the Goldwater Institute, she is asking a state court to give her due process before allowing the agency to blacklist her. According to the […]Mother allegedly leaves 3-year-old child to sleep on a city sidewalk while she's out clubbing
Police arrested a 25-year-old Florida woman after she reportedly left her three children alone in order to go to an area nightclub.
At least one of the children apparently left the family home during the night, and was said to be found asleep on a city sidewalk.
What are the details?
Authorities said that Fort Walton Beach mother Shyla Heidelberg was at a nightclub for at least an hour as two of her young children slept alone at home and one wrapped themselves up in a blanket and took to a neighborhood sidewalk to doze.
The young child, who is said to be just 3 years old, was unharmed in the incident, WKRG-TV reported.
Police arrested Heidelberg after the child was found outdoors, and the other two were found unsupervised inside the family’s home.
She reportedly told investigators that she went to the nightclub and left her children alone at home.
Authorities charged the woman with three counts of child neglect without great bodily harm. She was released from custody on Sunday, according to various reports.
When reached for comment by the New York Post, a woman identifying herself as Heidelberg said that she was not actually at a nightclub.
She told the outlet, “It wasn't true. I have proof that I wasn't in the club."
“Heidelberg,” the outlet reported, “said she has footage from her Ring doorbell camera that proves she didn’t leave her children to go to the club, as well as a few witnesses who will vouch for her whereabouts.”
“A couple people can state that I wasn’t there,” she insisted.
What else is there to know about this?
The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office shared details of the incident in a news release on its Facebook page on Sunday.
A portion of the release read, “The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office was called to Gibson Street around one a.m. Saturday morning after a security officer found a three-year-old wrapped in a blanket asleep on a sidewalk. Subsequent investigation led to the discovery of two more young children asleep alone in an apartment at the complex.”
You can read the release in its entirety below.
For 2 years, parents gave teen babysitter alcohol and weed, texted, ‘Get drunk, pass the f*** out!’ while they went out and drank themselves
Two Florida parents are facing charges of child neglect after police allegedly discovered they had been providing their children's teenage babysitter and her underage friends alcohol and marijuana while she was at their home watching their children.
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, Adam Thayer, 38, who serves as the dean of students at Pinellas Academy for Math and Science, and his wife Misty Mitchell-Thayer, 37, left alcohol and marijuana for the babysitter 30 to 40 times over the last two years while they went out and drank alcohol themselves at local bars.
Detectives learned that the Thayers would often not return home until after midnight and on some occasions would continue to drink and smoke with the underage female babysitter, who is now 17 years old. They also permitted the juvenile to invite friends over and knowingly allowed them to drive home impaired.
The babysitter, who began caring for the Thayers' twin children when she was 15 years old, allegedly told detectives that she consumed alcohol every time she babysat for them, often getting "pretty drunk" to the point of experiencing slurred speech and blurred vision.
She also admitted to detectives that in the event of an emergency due to her intoxication, she would not have been able to care for the children. The children were 5 years old when she began babysitting them. They are now 7 years old.
In an October 2020 text message, Misty Mitchell-Thayer told the babysitter, "Get drunk! Pass the f*** out!" and "If you want to smoke Adam has weed there."
The teen also told detectives that one time the couple even poured her a glass of whiskey before leaving the house.
Last week, detectives with the sheriff's office arrested the Thayers and charged them each with two counts of child neglect. They were both transported to Pinellas County Jail.
The sheriff's office did not say in their press release how they first received information about the crimes.
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