Baby snatch victim loses kids to state custody

Source: Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A mother whose newborn was kidnapped by a knife-wielding woman posing as an immigration agent was briefly reunited with her baby Saturday, then saw him and her three other children taken from her and put into state custody. Rob Johnson, a spokesman for the Tennessee Department of Children's Services, said the children were taken from their mother, Maria Gurrolla, "purely for safety reasons," though he would not detail why the state deemed they were in danger.

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This is just so wrong for them to have taken all four of her kids away after what she has gone through - being stabbed and having her new born baby kidnapped. I am furious and very saddened over all of this! If the woman had been a rich white woman they wouldn't have even thought of taking away the kids from a mother.

of any threat to the family...this is definitely strange.

The perpetrators are pretty much universally women, usually loners with an unhealthy obsession about child rearing. Because they can't or don't have children of their own (and are prevented from adopting by either their circumstances or their mental instability) they decide to kidnap someone else's baby to raise as their own.

She was attacked to steal the baby, so her baby wasn't stolen because she left him somewhere alone.

when the line is "though he would not detail why", there are at least two possibilities, one: that he is lying through another orifice, or two, there really is a threat that they are not at liberty to discuss yet until they have people in custody.

Its just a coinkydink they have their own judges, special lawyers that only work DCS cases, and no form of judicial review. They are so correct in California a Federal Grand Jury can only make a recomendation (can not issue binding orders) to DCS.

Apperently the woman did not act alone.. or at least someone had knowledge. And the statement over heard by the mother telling who ever was on the other end of the line, the mother was dying. And the fact there were at least 2 similar abductions....Children could easily have been removed from the mother for safty reasons...

family into a safe house somewhere, if they're all in that sort of danger.

Or maybe they are trying to determine her "legal" status.

...immigration problems.

Then everything should be done to make sure that mom and baby are healthy and well and then put on a plane/bus to their country of citizenship.

and the baby would either be placed with relatives or transfer into the state's custody.

What a country.

:grr:

Maybe our outrage could use some tempering. She's not exactly in good health to care for four children right now.

It wasn't a snatch until the cheque bounced. (wound possibly self inflicted)

It could have been a baby trade that went wrong for some reason. Not likely, but not entirely dismissable either.


Some totally unrelated danger (in the home) was brought to light as a result of the investigation. This one certainly can't be discounted out of hand. Very roughly, theres a tenish percent chance of molestation or some other form of significant child abuse taking place in a randomly selected home. This could simply have been one of them.

Given a case with such a relatively high profile, I doubt the DCS is doing this without some sort of strong motivation. They have more than enough egg on their faces from their systemic failures to risk what could all too easily turn into a perfect media storm.