Shock: Duct-Taped Toddler Returned to Teen Mom
- Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:32pm by
Meredith Jessup
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After a teen mother and her ex-convict boyfriend were prosecuted for torturing her 2-year-old son by locking him in a dark closet and duct-taping his tiny body to wall because they thought it would be funny, the boy has been returned to the custody of his mother, Jayla Hamm, an 18-year-old drug user.
As we reported earlier this week, Hamm and her boyfriend, 19-year-old Corde Honea, were high on drugs when they used duct tape to affix the toddler to the wall of Hamm’s Beatrice, Neb., home. After the couple took pictures of their barbaric exploits, Hamm shared them with a friend who reportedly “didn’t find anything funny” about them. The friend reported Hamm and Honea to the police.
As part of a plea deal, Hamm agreed to serve 10 days in prison with two years probation, attend drug counseling and to become a cooperating witness in an upcoming trial against Honea who was out on bail at the time of the incident. Honea was sentenced to three to five years behind bars for child abuse and faces an additional 12 to 24 months for reportedly stealing 20 firearms.
According to reports, health officials say they will now closely monitor the home for any future signs of neglect or abuse. When police previously arrested Hamm and Honea, they reported finding marijuana, drug paraphernalia and stolen weapons out in the open and in places where the 2-year-old could reach them.
Prosecutors also say they are pursuing a separate case to determine whether Hamm should retain custody of the child.
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Comments (63)
Diane TX
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 4:27amIt’s not the taping of the baby to the wall, or taping his sippy cup out of reach. It’s having drug abusers having a young child in their care.
These two idiots can not even take care of theirselves, and they are trusted to care for a 2 year old?
That little boy needs to be removed from the two idiots and placed into foster care, with the hope that he is adopted into a family where getting your next high isn’t the highest priority.
Report Post »LeonardH
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:49pm“There are more than half a million children and youth in the U.S. foster care system today. Studies reveal that children are 11 times more likely to be abused in state care than they are in their own homes, and 7 times more likely to die as a result of abuse in the foster care system.”– John Walsh Show April 16, 2003
“As many as 75 percent of all children in foster care, upon leaving the system, will have experienced sexual abuse. One study by Johns Hopkins University found that the rate of sexual abuse within the foster-care system is more than four times as high as in the general population; in group homes, the rate of sexual abuse is more than 28 times that of the general population.” –Sexual Abuse: An Epidemic in Foster Care Settings? By Orlow, Orlow & Orlow July 17, 2009
Not since the overthrow of the Weimar Republic have the leaders of a major democracy used their offices and the mass media to disseminate invective against millions of their own citizens. In fact it was Adolph Hitler who urged that “the state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people” and who explained, in the words of Rabbi Daniel Lapin, that “as long as government is perceived as working for the benefit of children, the people happily will endure almost any curtailment of liberty.” Using children to tug on our heartstrings may be not only a weakness of the sentimental. It also may be a ploy by those cynical and unscrupulous enough to exploit children for their own purposes.
This is likely to be remembered as one of the most diabolical perversions of governmental power in our history, a time when we allowed children to be used and abused by fast-talking government officials and paid for it with our families, our social order and our constitutional rights.– STEPHEN BASKERVILLE (in about 2000)
Oh, and let’s not forget the BRAND NEW STUDY just released-
Study: Why Child Abuse Investigations Don’t Help Kids
By Maia Szalavitz Monday, October 4, 2010
http://familyrights.us/news/archive/2010/october/study.html
Leonard Henderson, co-founder
Report Post »American Family Rights
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“Until Every Child Comes Home”©
“The Voice of America’s Families”©
Frog
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 3:48amfirst,Thumbs up to the friend that turned them in!!!! Lets pray that the cps will do their Job, keeping an eye on this child. I have dealt with the cps in the Tx. & La. Tx. is better but still needs improvement. One thing they are so shorthanded, of officers & foster care. The child should not be sent back to the home before the mother has completed a drug program of at least 4 to 6 months,depending on what the addiction was & during that time she should be attending parental counseling. The Ideal set up would be if they can find a family member that would take the child temporarily, & continue to have custody of the child for at least a year, before the mother is allowed to have full custody. Then the family member, continue to be a mentor. But so many people like that do not have family to help, It is a real commitment for someone to take on themselves. I know I have done such as this. Maybe some of you ,that seem to really care, could spend less time blogging your complaints & volunteer your time to be a foster parent, mentor or get a degree to work with the CPS. Please be aware of anyone around you that could be treating their child like this and don’t be afraid to report it. I’m not trying to judge any of you , I‘m 57 and I’ve seen a many that would talk about seeing someone do these things & do nothing about it. Remember, if you see a problem & you do nothing about it , then you are part of the problem!
Report Post »Barb1954
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:09pmThis kind of stuff KILLS ME! Social Services will NOT take a child from drug addict parents/grandparents(in some cases) because “just because they use drugs does not mean they are neglecting or abusing the child”! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Oh, and now that the child is BACK with a whacked out parent Social Services will be SURE to let them know AHEAD OF TIME when they are planning to visit! Again…GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Another FAILED GOVERNMENT AGENCY!
Report Post »Conservative Grinch
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 10:39pmI Knew this would happen. America, I mean Adumbica is a Godless Whore!
Report Post »Conservative Grinch
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 10:46pmWay to prostitute yourself out kangaroo court judge. I can’t wait to you face a real judge, God All Mighty!
Report Post »hiramsmaxim
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 10:17pmgenerally news like this and the fact you have the right to picket a veterans funeral for (anti war) funeral is rather disgusting. There is a point where push gets a face to your decision to follow a rotten agenda god protects those with his intentions. Careful what you wish for god and his spirit is on the horizon. Its not for everyone but however it is.
Report Post »bclassic
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 10:16pmWhat a tragedy. This young woman will likely not get herself together in time to save the childhood of her toddler. Both their parental rights should be terminated and the baby given a real chance at life with a loving permanent adoptive family far, far away.
Report Post »hiramsmaxim
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 10:12pmsometimes examining the “adult” in the situation makes you wish abortion was not such a sin but prison is just around the corner I believe. lesson learned
Report Post »neverending
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 9:56pmEveryday, actions like this – so disgusting one can’t even find words to express their outrage. Just another example of what happens when there is no sanctity of life, GOD taken out of everything and everyplace and to top it all off – a president that appears to be the most pro abortion president we have ever seen and is even okay with infanticide!!! Unbelievable – is amazing that GOD doesn‘t pour out his wrath on this nation if he hasn’t already started.
Report Post »Zcat
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 8:02pmThis is a f’n outrage! When something happens to the poor child the person/persons who gave the child back to idiot should eb charged right alone with the mother! This is very up setting to me!
Report Post »Al Gator
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 8:01pmUhh, I’m gonna put my asbestos suit on here because I know the flammers are going to hit hard.
When I was a kid, we put velcro on my kid brother and stuck him to the wall. Took lots of pictures.
That was in the ‘60’s. It was funny as hell.
He’s a successful business man now, and shows those photos to anyone who will look. And laughs like a bugger at them, as we all do. Tells people, “until you been nailed to the wall, you don’t know life!”
Me, when I was a toddler, my sisters decorated my head with doilies. Then took pictures.
So now, I’m a mass murderer. NOT!
Social workers have too much time on their hands and are too stupid to know how to use it.
We had a sense of humor back then. Somehow it got lost.
I think a kid duck taped to the wall is one of the best ideas I have ever seen on kid control.
Now you can hate me.
Report Post »Bill Smith
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 8:26pmKids playing with other kids is not, Parent’s laughing at the child who trusts them…..only God knows why!
the wife
Report Post »PatriotsLikeMe
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 10:26pmNo hate, just pity.
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 8:35pmO.K. AlGator I do hate you.
Report Post »Are you kidding me? A drug addicted mother duct taping her baby to the wall is not the same as being velcroed, or having doilies on your head as a family joke.
Oh wait…,am I missing something in your post? Was your mother a drug addict? Did she have a boyfriend who was an ex convict?
If that is the case MEA CULPA!
Rowgue
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 7:42pmThe problem in this case is that they don’t have any evidence of abuse other than the picture. Any lawyer would get that case laughed out of court.
Report Post »mizflame98
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 7:40pmI fear this child will not live to see his 5th birthday. God please watch over him.
Report Post »Desma
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 6:39pmIf the child was blonde and blue eyed, CPS would have permanently removed the child and sold them later on for the money that they get. It is true that CPS is a very wicked outfit that is a mixture of contradictions.
Report Post »Prospero
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 6:33pm“Honea was sentenced to three to five years behind bars for child abuse and faces an additional 12 to 24 months for reportedly stealing 20 firearms.”
Five years for using duct tape to play with his kid, two years for grand theft firearms….mmmmmkkkkaaayyyyyyyyyyyy……….
What did he get for the doobie, life?
Report Post »aebe
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 10:43pmBeing duct taped is fun ? did the kid get to tape up the grownups,leave ‘em to wonder when they’ll be cut loose ? Where’s the game ? How about you getting wrapped up ? Fun ?
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 8:27pmAh…,Prospero. Your comments belie your name.
Report Post »Are you empathy challenged?
Prospero
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 6:30pmThere’s no audio, and the kid‘s face is blanked out so you can’t see if he’s laughing or not….
Report Post »alekzanderfaber
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 1:52amThank you! If he is crying during the time I can see the concern, but a felony??? Shoot, I doesn’t even thinks this should require the law to handle this. People need to keep there noses and hands to themselves!
Report Post »All I can say is they need to choose some better “friends”.
The KGB uh I mean CPS needs to be down-sized.
Prospero
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 6:27pmUh, mkay, I’m seeing a lower-class white family grab arsing around with some duct tape.
Felony???
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 6:26pmLook at the statistics, and you’ll see that kids are actually more likely to die in the “care” of CPS / temp foster homes. Google (Georgia state senator) “Nancy Schaefer” and read her work. There are plenty of videos too.
Glenn could do a whole week on CPS if he chose to look.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 10:01pmYou sound like the voice of experience, and if that is so, you have insight most of us don’t have. My three children were not submitted to a dysfunctional childhood and, as a mother and grandmother, I don’t want to think of any child being raised in that environment and being at risk. It is apparent that the mom does not seem to care what type man she brings into her house so the next one could be a pedophile or child killer. If there is family capable of caring for the child until mom gets her act together I would hope that would be a solution. I will pray for both of them.
Report Post »PatriotsLikeMe
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 10:23pmN37BU6 You don’t sound to me like you have much experience at championing the rights of children just the rights of abusers. Child welfare isn’t perfect, we all know that, but it sure beats the hell holes these children are rescued from. Duct tape? That’s nothing. Would you muster some outrage at a parent who nailed their kids hands to the floor to keep them in place? I am so sick of hearing about preserving the rights of parents who take their parenting so very lightly, who only know to diminish, and in far too many cases, distinguish, the light in the precious children in their care. I’m proud to be a child advocate–the best of us, the bravest, the dearest, the most in need of our protection.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 6:40amI meant, he sounds like he may have had personal experience in the system. If so, not everyone had a wonderful experience and perhaps he was one of them. Just pray for the child and mother.
Report Post »LeonardH
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:37pmTo “PatriotsLikeMe”-
You are hardly a patriot. Your posts sound like you are a CPS agent or contractor. Anybody who is interested can see what is really going on with CPS at -
http://familyrights.us/news/archive/2010/july/cps_corrupt.html
Lots and LOTS more about the CPS nightmare at American Family Rights Association
Leonard Henderson, co-founder
Report Post »American Family Rights
http://familyrights.us
“Until Every Child Comes Home”©
“The Voice of America’s Families”©
N37BU6
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 8:56pm@PATRIOTSLIKEME
I’m all for protecting kids… as well as families.
You obviously don’t know much about CPS, which is a federal agency. Have you looked at their statistics? What about the quotas and the tactics used to meet them? You’re fine with having your kids taken from a “biohazardous environment”, right? That’s what CPS calls it. You may know it as “dirty dishes in the sink”.
Have you been paying any attention to Glenn at all? The Fed is basically just a gigantic social engineering machine; make people dependent, replace the parent with the teacher, discredit the family as an institution, cripple the economy…
CPS is just like any other federal agency, except they come for your money AND your children. Remember who is running all of these things: psychotic globalist control-freaks.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 6:13pmEverybody deserves a second chance… it’s not like they were beating him.
Don’t be so quick to wreck a family.
RobertCA
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 6:30pmA second chance if you‘re on your own but not if you’re a drug addict and abusing your own child .
Report Post »This girl is not and will never be cured from her addiction and child abuse in few days .
aplemmons
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 7:13pmAre you kidding, let me tape your crying butt to a wall at 2 years old the fear this little guy felt with his mom laughing at him. secondchance to what kill the little guy
Report Post »PatriotsLikeMe
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 10:12pmAnyone who works in the child welfare field knows that child protective services and juvenile judges are pretty slow at wrecking families. Instead, children are reunited with their bio parents time and again only to have those reunifications disrupt resulting in the children being placed back into foster care, or worse, residential care depending on how complete a number mommy and daddy, or a succession of nameless junky, pedophillic boyfriends, perpetrating siblings or relatives, etc etc etc, did on them. Because of this hesitation to cut the umbilical while the child is still somewhat cute and cuddly, you have lifetimers who suddenly, magically, have hit their teen years not a part of anyone’s forever family. I don’t believe in the rights of parents over the rights of children. They are not our possessions. They are people deserving of our respect, care and empathy–even if they can’t vote!!
Report Post »cubanbob
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:03pm@PatriotsLikeMe are you serious? CPS/CFS/HHS or whatever you want to call them is an evil entity. They have way too much power, if they mistakenly take your children on false reports you cant sue them or have any legal recourse. Even when these Social Worker are caught lying can you do anything. about it.Most CPS workers remind me of DMV employees, just cashing in a frakkin check an not really care about their job.
Report Post »Keith Fowler
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 10:03amIf they think it’s funny to tape a crying 2 year old to a wall for hours on end, imagine what is being done to this poor child when he does something bad. And giving custody back to a drug addict is irresponsible, if the mother shapes up after 6 months of rehab, then maybe give the child back. Otherwise at least give this kid a chance with a family that will care for him.
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:03am@Patriotslikeme that depends on where you live. In other parts of the country, CPS workers are paid a bonus for every child that they adopt out, so they have been known to take poor kids away from their families and adopt them out to wealthier families so they get the money.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,44851,00.html
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:26amWhat the HELL N37BU6????????????? Do the actions of that boys parents count as abuse????
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 6:10pmBye Bye Commonsense & Welcome Stupidity !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Poor Kid :(
Sunnyr
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:50pmThis poor child will become another generation of the prison population, no doubt. If he lives. I will pray for him.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 6:16pmAs if that doesn’t happen to foster kids…
Report Post »wecanhandlethetruth
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:46pmIf this is true,being Nebraska HHS it doesn’t surprise me one bit !!!!!!!!
Report Post »uncivilized
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:46pmThey will “CLOSELY MONITOR” the home??? How, exactly, does that work?
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:51pmThey’ll call the woman every month and ask her if she has any drugs on her. When she will say
Report Post »” yes, I have drugs on me ” they’ll tell her that she is not allowed to do that and to shape up.
Ammonihah
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 7:27pmNo, no, no… you have it all wrong. They will just park a x-ray van outside the house. No need for phone calls or visits.
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:42pmWho in their right mind would think that child is in a safe inviroment. Maybe we don’t know the whole story but from what we do know this is insane and asking for trouble.
http://www.josephfawcettart.com (western artist)
Report Post »jcessna
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:42pmUnreal! That all I can say
Report Post »cubanbob
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:41pmCPS is a mixed bag, some times they use their gestapo powers to break up families without any proof and then they pull this number. CPS has way too much power and they are known for their abuse. I can’t believe they would allow that child back to that home.
CPS or CFS as its known in California is known for corruption specially the Rancho Cucamonga offices. \you should here the stories coming out of there.
Report Post »Robert W
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:51pmDo we expect common sense from any goverment agency?
Report Post »Masamune
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 5:47pmIt would certainly be nice once in a while Robert. Too bad we don’t have that luxury anymore.
Report Post »RONALDREAGAN1980
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 6:38pm“You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog, to drive a car – hell, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they’ll let any butt-reaming ******* be a father.” the character Tod (played by a very young Keanu Reeves) in the 1989 movie Parenthood
Report Post »aebe
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 10:36pmGlenn knows a woman that will use a pillow to put the poor kid out of his misery.
Report Post »Being raised by animals,he will grow to be a subhuman creature like his mother.Better if he were adopted by a human family,and Christian would be better than not.
It is truly a shame that we have allowed our government to have the power it does.
TruthLover
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:56pmThis happened in Nebraska. I have personal knowledge of CPS in Omaha – and they 1. have their hands FULL, and 2. are rather incompetent. The state laws don’t help, because they prohibit extended family members from easily obtaining custody unless they live in the same county.
We tried unsuccessfully to get custody of many of my second cousins but CPS handed them either back to my deadbeat cousins or into foster care or group homes rather than let us take them out of state.
Hopefully this baby will be safe. Probably not, but hey – he’ll be just as safe as half the other kids that grow up there. My second cousins were blowing fire bombs with whiskey by their 3rd birthdays. They “lived” through it.
Report Post »SashaH40
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 4:46pmCPS/CFS does not make up the rules… it is the law and Judges, and crazy lawyers too!! but the law is if the child is not at risk and safe… the parent’s have completed their case plans and complied with court orders…. this is AMERICA folks.. they should go back to the parents.
Report Post »Proud Mother
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:41amPlease God tell me that someone will see this picture and be moved to ACTION to help this little boy. The emotional abuse he is suffering if far worse than any beating his Mother could give him. I am so upset by this image and I can’t believe that any agency could think this was an acceptable home to return any child to.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:24amThis child better not end up dead.
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