This woman, Ramona Coleman, thinks it’s funny to watch her 3-year-old son while he’s high on cocaine.
She got caught when she showed up to court high on an different charge and the judge ordered a drug screen on the spot. She was loaded.
A mother of a 3-year-old child in Taylor has been charged with giving her son cocaine and marijuana.
Ramona Coleman, 25, is charged with felony child endangerment.
The child was removed from his home in early June, the day state investigators were tipped off. He remains in foster care. Coleman has no other children.
According to a police complaint filed July 31, a witness claims seeing Coleman give her 3-year-old son cocaine. After he was removed from the home, hair samples were taken, which tested positive for marijuana and cocaine.
According to court documents, the tests were at a level that indicated a high and constant use.
Child Protective Services tries to reunite families, but when Coleman came to court last week, investigators say she was high on drugs. She was also arrested.
KVUE News spoke to several people in Taylor who say the mother has a lot to prove.
“I think everyone is worthy of a second chance, but how are they really going to, I mean do they have enough forces where they can monitor her every move?” said Sandra Smith, resident. “I mean, right now she has been doing it for how long, and nobody knew, so how are they really going to make sure? I mean, I believe everybody needs a second chance, but this soon? I don’t think so.”
“If they have tried to rehabilitate them before and it didn’t work, then put them somewhere they are forced to rehabilitate which will be a place where they are locked away and they have time to think about it, and they can rehabilitate,” said Karen Hansen, parent.
Coleman no longer lives in the Taylor house.
Officials say her 3-year-old son is not showing any signs of long-term health damage.
CPS officials say it is their policy to try to reunite children with their parents, and in some cases, the parent must complete several courses in court-mandated counseling.
I’ve heard people blaming the caseworkers for not taking the child away from this horrible woman. The problem is that our current laws are such that they are instructed to do everything they can to teach people how to be better parents. They will give the children back to someone like this over and over again and give them chance after chance while the child gets worse and worse.
The system is set up to help the parents, not the child.
That has to do with money more than anything. Its cheaper to give children back to their biological parents than it is for the State to pay for foster care for the child. And so the cycle continues, because its only cheaper in the short run. In the long run it will cost us dearly for doing this to children.
I don’t care about the parents. Everyone can make a mistake, but if you do it repeatedly then you have used up all your chances. At that point its time to save the child.
Just save the children.
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