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‘Someone Needs to Pay’

Posted on | April 23, 2010 | 75 Comments

Meet Angel Adams, 37-year-old single mother of 15:

The lifelong Tampa resident said she wants justice from the Hillsborough County sheriff’s child protection team that took her kids away from her two years ago and from Hillsborough Kids Inc., which got her kids back six months ago.
“What do I do?” she said earlier in the day. “I have no answers. My family has been railroaded. Someone needs to pay.
“Nobody’s helping me.” . . .
This morning, inside the dingy motel room, Adams handed out a list of her children’s names and ages. Across the top: “Three fathers. One Mother. Fifteen Children.”
Ten of the children, she said, were fathered by Garry Brown, currently serving a five-year prison term for dealing cocaine. A sampling of his kids’ names: Garry Nesha, Garry Brown Jr., Garry Lethia, Garryiell and Garry Rick. . . .
The 12 kids [currently living with Adams in a Tampa motel room] are the youngest of 15 altogether, she said. Three have “aged out,” meaning they have turned 18 and are on their own, no longer a part of the child welfare system.
“I can have as many as I want to,” she said. All her kids, she added, “are gifts from God.”
The 37-year-old mother doesn’t work. “This is my work,” she said gesturing toward the bunch. “I do this all by myself. I don’t know what I’m going to do. This is a revolving door going nowhere.”
She said her problems began two years ago when Brown was arrested and the money dried up. Right after that her children were taken away and put into foster care over allegations of neglect, she said.
Hillsborough Kids stepped in and took the case, eventually returning the children to her and Brown. Before Christmas, the couple took a two-bedroom apartment off North Boulevard near Columbus Drive.
Hillsborough Kids agreed to pay the $800 a month rent after caseworkers inspected the apartment and, though a bit cramped, said it was OK.
But the landlord, who evicted Adams in March, thought differently.
Sandy Chiellini said Adams showed up to sign the lease with Brown and one child. She didn’t learn until later that there were 11 other children. . . .
She said Adams’ apartment was trashed. Clothes and food were scattered everywhere, screens were broken out. Chiellini began eviction proceedings. Adams failed to show up for two eviction hearings. . . .
“I need money,” she said. “I need transportation. My children need a place to live.”
Hillsborough Kids spokesman Elaine Olszewski said her agency has been working with Adams for months and there is a system of support at work behind the scenes.
Case managers have been in constant contact with Adams, Olszewski said.

Yeah. “Someone needs to pay.” Because she’s a victim.

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Comments

75 Responses to “‘Someone Needs to Pay’”

  1. richard mcenroe
    April 24th, 2010 @ 1:00 am

    Victim? This gal’s gonna be keynote speaking at the 2012 DNC!

  2. richard mcenroe
    April 24th, 2010 @ 1:00 am

    Victim? This gal’s gonna be keynote speaking at the 2012 DNC!

  3. richard mcenroe
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 8:00 pm

    Victim? This gal’s gonna be keynote speaking at the 2012 DNC!

  4. richard mcenroe
    April 24th, 2010 @ 1:02 am

    Co-Sponsor of cap and trade. Good enuf?

  5. richard mcenroe
    April 24th, 2010 @ 1:02 am

    Co-Sponsor of cap and trade. Good enuf?

  6. richard mcenroe
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 8:02 pm

    Co-Sponsor of cap and trade. Good enuf?

  7. Mark J. Goluskin
    April 24th, 2010 @ 4:45 am

    Where is the gal’s photo? Hmm, I wonder why we do not see what she looks like? Just askin’!

  8. Mark J. Goluskin
    April 24th, 2010 @ 4:45 am

    Where is the gal’s photo? Hmm, I wonder why we do not see what she looks like? Just askin’!

  9. Mark J. Goluskin
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 11:45 pm

    Where is the gal’s photo? Hmm, I wonder why we do not see what she looks like? Just askin’!

  10. Roxeanne de Luca
    April 24th, 2010 @ 5:38 am

    Exactly. There have always been poor people in the world, but it was the “Great Society” that gave us this entitlement mentality.

    Poor, by what standards? As my blog-friend Neil keeps pointing out, if you make more than $850/year, you’re in the richest half of the world. “Poor”, here in America, means having a clean living space (or as clean as you want to make it), vaccines and health care for your children, a microwave, clean water, healthy food, probably a car, and education – or, by the standards of the rest of the world, “ridiculously wealthy”.

    It’s certainly not an entitlement mentality, nor this business of treating wealth as a zero-sum game, that got us to this degree of opulence.

  11. Roxeanne de Luca
    April 24th, 2010 @ 5:38 am

    Exactly. There have always been poor people in the world, but it was the “Great Society” that gave us this entitlement mentality.

    Poor, by what standards? As my blog-friend Neil keeps pointing out, if you make more than $850/year, you’re in the richest half of the world. “Poor”, here in America, means having a clean living space (or as clean as you want to make it), vaccines and health care for your children, a microwave, clean water, healthy food, probably a car, and education – or, by the standards of the rest of the world, “ridiculously wealthy”.

    It’s certainly not an entitlement mentality, nor this business of treating wealth as a zero-sum game, that got us to this degree of opulence.

  12. Roxeanne de Luca
    April 24th, 2010 @ 12:38 am

    Exactly. There have always been poor people in the world, but it was the “Great Society” that gave us this entitlement mentality.

    Poor, by what standards? As my blog-friend Neil keeps pointing out, if you make more than $850/year, you’re in the richest half of the world. “Poor”, here in America, means having a clean living space (or as clean as you want to make it), vaccines and health care for your children, a microwave, clean water, healthy food, probably a car, and education – or, by the standards of the rest of the world, “ridiculously wealthy”.

    It’s certainly not an entitlement mentality, nor this business of treating wealth as a zero-sum game, that got us to this degree of opulence.

  13. Patrick
    April 24th, 2010 @ 10:17 am

    Perfect example of why women should always swallow! 😯

  14. Patrick
    April 24th, 2010 @ 5:17 am

    Perfect example of why women should always swallow! 😯

  15. Rich Fader
    April 24th, 2010 @ 4:50 pm

    You want some help, Angel? Here’s some help: Buy a vibrator.

  16. Rich Fader
    April 24th, 2010 @ 11:50 am

    You want some help, Angel? Here’s some help: Buy a vibrator.

  17. Tom
    April 24th, 2010 @ 6:45 pm

    LoL, Stacy McCain being sarcastic? That’s a good one. Correct me if I’m wrong, but are you or are you not yourself a religious crackpot who fathered six children, because, like this woman, you have a delusional belief that the human race is running out of people?

    This woman is an evangelical Christian, like you and most of the people who read your blog.

    If she had been white, your take on this whole story would have been different, and you would have been accusing child protective services of OUTRAGEOUS ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY, LIBERALS HATE BABIES, BLAH BLAH BLAH.

  18. Tom
    April 24th, 2010 @ 1:45 pm

    LoL, Stacy McCain being sarcastic? That’s a good one. Correct me if I’m wrong, but are you or are you not yourself a religious crackpot who fathered six children, because, like this woman, you have a delusional belief that the human race is running out of people?

    This woman is an evangelical Christian, like you and most of the people who read your blog.

    If she had been white, your take on this whole story would have been different, and you would have been accusing child protective services of OUTRAGEOUS ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY, LIBERALS HATE BABIES, BLAH BLAH BLAH.

  19. Rich Fader
    April 24th, 2010 @ 8:47 pm

    The difference being, of course, that our delightful if mildly deranged host is at least making a good-faith effort to pay his own way.

  20. Rich Fader
    April 24th, 2010 @ 3:47 pm

    The difference being, of course, that our delightful if mildly deranged host is at least making a good-faith effort to pay his own way.

  21. Tully
    April 24th, 2010 @ 5:04 pm

    Now, how could anyone allege that her kids are neglected?

  22. Tully
    April 24th, 2010 @ 10:04 pm

    Now, how could anyone allege that her kids are neglected?

  23. A_Nonny_Mouse
    April 25th, 2010 @ 3:42 am

    Reminds me of something I read, ‘way back before the Age of Internet (at least 20, maybe 30 yrs ago): Some politician was speechifying during his re-election campaign; at the question-and-answer session a woman confronted him “I’ve got six kids and welfare only pays for a three bedroom apartment. I NEED a house with a yard for the kids, and at least five bedrooms. What are you gonna do for me?” The pol asked, “Good grief, why do you have so many children when you’re on welfare?” She said, “I’m a Christian woman and I’m going to have as many kids as God gives me.” What caused the furor was his final statement: “Well, since you say it’s all up to God, tell HIM to provide you with the house. The taxpayers can’t afford it.”

  24. A_Nonny_Mouse
    April 24th, 2010 @ 10:42 pm

    Reminds me of something I read, ‘way back before the Age of Internet (at least 20, maybe 30 yrs ago): Some politician was speechifying during his re-election campaign; at the question-and-answer session a woman confronted him “I’ve got six kids and welfare only pays for a three bedroom apartment. I NEED a house with a yard for the kids, and at least five bedrooms. What are you gonna do for me?” The pol asked, “Good grief, why do you have so many children when you’re on welfare?” She said, “I’m a Christian woman and I’m going to have as many kids as God gives me.” What caused the furor was his final statement: “Well, since you say it’s all up to God, tell HIM to provide you with the house. The taxpayers can’t afford it.”

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