Food Stamps: Case Study
Per Reporter:
The children do not have food in the home. Mom (Natasha) receives about $500 or $600 in food stamps. Mom allows the maternal grandmother to use the food stamps and sells plates out her home. The child walk two blocks to the grandmother house to eat. All the remaining food stamp is used for mom to buy powder and snort it. It is unknown if mom is using powder in front of the children. There are many people in and out the house snorting powder. Mom smokes marijuana in the presence of the children and they may have access to the drug. Reporter heard that mom was leaving the children home alone. She may be leaving them home alone at night while she is looking for powder in the streets. Mom did not have an iron and the reporter gave
her one. The children have to get themselves ready for school, and it is not telling how they look because mom probably stayed out all night and she is too tired to get up. On 11/12/17, dad (Gene Jr) took Kayla to the hospital for scabies. She was bleeding form the head. She got the medicine she needed today. Reporter believes all the children need to be checked for scabies. They sleep on a mattress and they do not have sheets on the bed. They pee in the bed. It is filthy. Tamara has sores in her head. Mom does not wash their children hair, their hair is muddy. Reporter tried to help mom out early this year and allowed her and the children to stay with her. Mom stayed for 4 days and left the children. Reporter stated she tried to help but she only receives $733 a month for herself. Reporter stated mom needs to go to rehab, and the children need to go with their grandmother or their dad. All the children are currently with dad. Reporter stated she spoke with mom and mom said “ain’t nothing wrong with me”. Reporter stated that is something a powder head would say. The utilities are on in the home. None of the child have any physical or mental limitation.
The children do not have food in the home. Mom (Natasha) receives about $500 or $600 in food stamps. Mom allows the maternal grandmother to use the food stamps and sells plates out her home. The child walk two blocks to the grandmother house to eat. All the remaining food stamp is used for mom to buy powder and snort it. It is unknown if mom is using powder in front of the children. There are many people in and out the house snorting powder. Mom smokes marijuana in the presence of the children and they may have access to the drug. Reporter heard that mom was leaving the children home alone. She may be leaving them home alone at night while she is looking for powder in the streets. Mom did not have an iron and the reporter gave
her one. The children have to get themselves ready for school, and it is not telling how they look because mom probably stayed out all night and she is too tired to get up. On 11/12/17, dad (Gene Jr) took Kayla to the hospital for scabies. She was bleeding form the head. She got the medicine she needed today. Reporter believes all the children need to be checked for scabies. They sleep on a mattress and they do not have sheets on the bed. They pee in the bed. It is filthy. Tamara has sores in her head. Mom does not wash their children hair, their hair is muddy. Reporter tried to help mom out early this year and allowed her and the children to stay with her. Mom stayed for 4 days and left the children. Reporter stated she tried to help but she only receives $733 a month for herself. Reporter stated mom needs to go to rehab, and the children need to go with their grandmother or their dad. All the children are currently with dad. Reporter stated she spoke with mom and mom said “ain’t nothing wrong with me”. Reporter stated that is something a powder head would say. The utilities are on in the home. None of the child have any physical or mental limitation.