Life isn’t always easy. Many times, it is hard. I’ve had my share of good times and bad times and I’d be willing to bet that every single one of you reading this has experienced the same.
We don’t all go through the same experiences in life, and I know that there are some who have it worse than others.
Keisha Bazley is one of those people who have had a rough time. She is the mother of nine children and actually asked Child Protective Services to help her with one of her children who keeps running away from home and getting into trouble at school.
I think that there are a lot of assumptions that could be made about this situation, and honestly, I would bet that most of them would be accurate. Is there a permanent father figure in the home? I doubt it. He wasn’t mentioned at all. If you’ve got nine kids and have to turn to CPS, that also tells me that she didn’t have anyone else to turn to.
More could be said, but I’ll leave it at that.
But what Bazley said happened between the CPS worker and her 14-year-old daughter was shocking!
“My daughter told me that the worker had been telling her she should do these things, so she said she decided to video her,” Bazley said.
CPS is housing the girl at a hotel. She’s one of dozens of foster kids living at hotels in Harris County.
In the video, the girl tells the CPS employee she wants food. The CPS worker tells her to be a prostitute.
“And giving her an incentive to do so, and almost a threat of not having her needs being met, if she didn’t do what this woman very explicitly told her to do,” Schneider said.
“If me, the parent, was to do something like this to my child, I would be bashed,” said Bazley. “I would be called a horrible parent. I would lose my kids.”
Jamie Masters, the Commissioner of CPS, came to Houston to personally apologize to Bazley and her daughter.
“I’ve never seen that happen before where the commissioner of CPS comes in from Austin, just to apologize about something horrible that’s been done to a child involved with CPS,” Schneider said. “It’s bad enough if it’s just one bad rogue worker. It concerns me that it may be bigger than that, and they need to make sure it’s not just one person, and they’ve got to find a way to protect these kids.”
It really is such a sad state of affairs that this is the world that we live in now. People don’t care about other people. They care about themselves and have no regard for others. That’s how you destroy a society. It’s been done many times in the past and it never works out. How do I know this? Because there is no place that exists like that today which has done what is right in their own eyes and survived the consequences of it.
Sources:
Fox 26 Houston