What is CPS Doing???
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| Sun, 10-04-2009 - 9:59am |
Mother of newborn stabbed and baby stolen. Baby found. CPS takes baby and 3 siblings!! What?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-10-03-newborn-kidnapping_N.htm?csp=34
Also taken into the custody of the Tennessee Department of Children Services on Saturday were the infant's three siblings.
"It's for the children's safety," said DCS spokesman Rob Johnson. "I can't tell you how long. It will all be reviewed by a judge."
Police said 8-day-old Yair Antonio Carrillo, who was kidnapped from his South Nashville home Tuesday, is in good condition.
The baby's mother, Maria Gurrola, told police that a woman posing as an immigration agent came into her East Ridge Drive home Tuesday afternoon, stabbed her and stole the newborn. Gurrola, who suffered multiple stab wounds and a collapsed lung, was released from the hospital on Thursday.
The baby is with a foster care family, Johnson said.
"It's a happy resolution to this case," Johnson said. "We're working actively to reunite them but we don't know when."
Jose Antonio Carrillo has not seen his son but is relieved that he is safe. "We were ecstatic when so many of the agents came by last night to tell us they had our son," Carrillo said Saturday. "We cannot wait to see him."
Carrillo had taken the only picture of his newborn son on his cellphone. That image was widely circulated during the search.
"I think that picture really helped," Carrillo said. "That one photo was e-mailed everywhere."
Gurrola and the family all have the same thought: Thank God and the police, said Norma Rodriguez, Carrillo's cousin.
"Our supplications were answered," Rodriguez said as she waited for a carpet cleaning crew working in the home that was the scene of the abduction. "The police said they worked around the clock and this was a great result," Rodriguez added.
Tammy Renee Silas, 39, of Ardmore, was formally charged with federal kidnapping Saturday.
In the federal complaint against Silas, Gurrola told federal investigators she heard Silas on the phone after attacking Gurrola say "It's done. She's dying," in Spanish. Gurrola then ran to a neighbor's house for help. When she returned, the suspect and baby were gone.
The break in the case came as a task force of Metro police detectives and special agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the FBI developed information on a Kia Spectra seen Tuesday afternoon following the child and his mother from a Wal-Mart parking lot, Metro police spokesman Don Aaron said. Investigators used technology to enhance the numbers on the Kia's license plate and determined that it was a rental car.
They learned that Silas had rented the car at Nashville International Airport early Tuesday.
Investigators traced Silas' rental car records back to her home in Alabama. When investigators knocked on the door of her home on Friday night, a man answered the door. Silas appeared shortly after with the baby in her arms and agreed to talk.
Silas surrendered without incident and was taken into custody about 10 p.m. Friday.
My Harrison, special agent in charge of the Memphis office of the FBI, said the baby is undergoing a routine medical exam and will be reunited with his family as soon as possible.
Harrison said she could not talk about a motive or what Silas has told police because of the ongoing investigation.
Silas has been arrested previously in Nashville for drug offenses, according to Metro Police spokeswoman Kristin Mumford. She has an outstanding warrant from California on a similar drug charge, Mumford said.

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Knowing so little about this story, I assume they found something out that put the children in danger. Maybe the kidnapper made threats. They could have found a filthy house. No food. Drugs. Who knows. There will probably be more in the news next week.
After all, David Letterman's news story is more important for the whole weekend. (eye roll)
Yeah, there's probably something we don't know...
It's just that CPS makes some really stupid decisions, and I don't usually trust them.
I don't think this story covered it, but a previous one said they had a sign in their yard saying "It's A Boy!".
Seems odd that they would keep the baby and take it's siblings too.
And then again, CPS takes kids away willy nilly for little to no good reason sometimes.
I'm just guessing here, but if she was stabbed, there was probably a lot of blood on the carpet.
I have my own feeling about CPS. I'm still upset that my son's ex got my grandson back after being found walking alone at 4 years old. My son just heard from her for the first time in about 6 months. The call was from Utah.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091006/ap_on_re_us/us_tenn_newborn_snatched
Sources: Family tried to sell snatched Tenn. baby
It really is bizarre.
And to add, I can't imagine parents trying to sell a baby, while at the same time putting signs up in the yard
She's apparently been cleared and will be getting back her kids.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,561060,00.html?test=latestnews
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