Parents Emanuel Jones, 43, and Tammy Lynn Melton, 25, currently sit in jail facing felony charges.
Hospital nurses became suspicious and called the police after their 11-month-old boy made a second trip to the emergency room for yet another broken bone within the week.
“He seemed very lethargic and he wasn’t showing the pain reaction a child should show,” Gardner-Sanders said. “A urine test showed him positive for cocaine.” (My guess is they were intentionally feeding him drugs to dull his pain.)
The other kids were brought in for testing, 4 of which tested positive for drugs; a 2 1/2 -year-old girl, a 22-month-old boy, and 11-month-old twin boys.
The abuse and neglect doesn’t stop there. These two are absolutely horrid parents.
There were 11 people all living in a one bedroom apartment, including a great-grandmother who only stays with them because her social security check pays the rent.
With that many people all living under one roof, as you can imagine it would be pretty nasty in there, the place was littered with bugs and trash and I’m sure smelled like the rancid armpit of a bum.
Under these conditions, I really feel that these two have lost all 8 of their kids for good. CPS will fail greatly in my eyes if they let even a single child back in to their custody.
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