9/28/09

"The Daniels story is a bit long and complicated, but I will make it as clear short as possible.

The Daniels have been attending our church since April 08. They had four little boys when we met them, the two oldest they adopted from Ethiopia and the two youngest were their natural children. They are a very sweet home schooling Christian family.last May they had another little boy, Isaac, to bring their number up to five.

Some time last July a rather sad accident happened that would not have mounted to much if it had not been for CPS sticking their noses into it. Kristen (Mrs. Daniels) had been very ill for over a week and was just recovering she needed to run to the grocery store to pick up items, so she dropped the four oldest boys off at her mother's house (which is right next door to them) and just took Isaac, because she would have to nurse him. She got to the store and parked next to the cart return so she could put Isaacs heavy car seat straight into a cart(which was her habit to do). The cart return was empty however, so she decided to run to the front of the store and grab a cart from there. Anyway, Kristen went to grab a basket at the front of the store and some how and for what ever reason had a mental laps, went into auto pilot, and forgot that Isaac was still asleep in the car. She went into the store and started shopping. It was not until she was picking up some ice cream for the kids that she looked down where Isaac's car seat should have been and realized what had happened. She ran out of the store as fast as she could in near hysterics, fully realizing she could find a dead child when she reached the car. Very, very, thankfully Isaac, though a little over heated was fine. She rushed him back into the store and cooled him down in a bathroom sink and tried to feed him to rehydrate him. Someone in the store meanwhile called 911.

A police officer and an ambulance arrived and they rushed Isaac to the hospital. The hospital declared him fine, and considering how hot it was that day and how little damage was done, they said he had not been left in the car very long. They released him that day and the Daniels went home.That night CPS and a police officer showed up at the Daniels door at 11:30 PM wanting to interview their kids. The children were of course all asleep by that time, so after going through their house they said they would come back on a certain date. That is what started the nightmare.

Over the next couple weeks they had their children interviewed/interrogated, and were threatened with their children being taken away. The police threatened to charge Mrs. Daniels with "Child Neglect" which to be legally charged with that in the state of Texas the "neglect" has to be intentional, whereas all the proof and according to all the witnesses (including the officer that arrived on the scene) they did not believe Kristen meant to leave Isaac in the car. So as far as we know they don't have any case against her, but as we know from the Hannah Overton case, that doesn't seem to matter. Everything became quiet over the last month and a half, we heard nothing from CPS, the Police, or anybody.

We thought and hoped everything had just gone away, but today [Sep. 24], out of nowhere as it would seem, the police showed up at their door, and in front of all their children, arrested and took Mrs. Daniels away."

Kristen is home now, but please be in prayer for the upcoming court case.

*The information was found at A Southern Perspective* PLEASE be praying for the Daniel's family.