‘Someone Needs to Pay’

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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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  20. Ms. Adams does need help, her parental rights need to be terminated on her 15 gifts from heaven and she needs her tubes tied (unfortunately the later is not constitutionally permitted).

  21. Ms. Adams does need help, her parental rights need to be terminated on her 15 gifts from heaven and she needs her tubes tied (unfortunately the later is not constitutionally permitted).

  22. Ms. Adams does need help, her parental rights need to be terminated on her 15 gifts from heaven and she needs her tubes tied (unfortunately the later is not constitutionally permitted).

  26. “I can have as many as I want to,” she said. All her kids, she added, “are gifts from God.”

    Last time I checked, the deity that she mentions does not endorse having children out of wedlock and isn’t too keen on that drug abuse thing, either, probably because married parents who aren’t strung out on coke don’t have these problems.

  27. “I can have as many as I want to,” she said. All her kids, she added, “are gifts from God.”

    Last time I checked, the deity that she mentions does not endorse having children out of wedlock and isn’t too keen on that drug abuse thing, either, probably because married parents who aren’t strung out on coke don’t have these problems.

  28. “I can have as many as I want to,” she said. All her kids, she added, “are gifts from God.”

    Last time I checked, the deity that she mentions does not endorse having children out of wedlock and isn’t too keen on that drug abuse thing, either, probably because married parents who aren’t strung out on coke don’t have these problems.

  29. Ol Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of the boreal brahamins, who was into eugenics before it was fashionable!

  30. Ol Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of the boreal brahamins, who was into eugenics before it was fashionable!

  31. Ol Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of the boreal brahamins, who was into eugenics before it was fashionable!

  42. “Children always are better with their biological parents,” [Hillsborough Kids spokesman Elaine Olszewski] said.

    According to whom?

  43. “Children always are better with their biological parents,” [Hillsborough Kids spokesman Elaine Olszewski] said.

    According to whom?

  44. “Children always are better with their biological parents,” [Hillsborough Kids spokesman Elaine Olszewski] said.

    According to whom?

  45. Ladies and gentlemen i give you the end result of LBJ’s great society.

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

  46. Ladies and gentlemen i give you the end result of LBJ’s great society.

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

  47. Ladies and gentlemen i give you the end result of LBJ’s great society.

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

  48. Thank LBJ for this horseshit-and an honorable mention to all of the current crop of “progressives” and the left dominated media

  49. Thank LBJ for this horseshit-and an honorable mention to all of the current crop of “progressives” and the left dominated media

  50. Thank LBJ for this horseshit-and an honorable mention to all of the current crop of “progressives” and the left dominated media

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