Anonymous
Post 10/08/2016 11:53     Subject: Relisha Rudd
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:look at the Post today, there is the story of a homeless woman with a two weeks old baby girl. the city provided shelter when it was cold. because now the temperature is above freezing, she was told she needs to find a place to stay on her own because shelters are full. she is a new mom, the baby is two weeks and on the streets. the reality is that a new mother on her own with a newborn cannot find a job (where is she going to leave the baby while she works?), so DC services should either take the baby away from her, or give the mother a shelter and help her get back on her feet (I think they should do the second, BTW). after the baby is dead that would be an outpouring of grief. what about doing something when she is still alive.

as for Relisha's mother, I pity her for the way she herself had to grow up, but cannot really have sympathy for her. she gave her daughter away to a stranger, lied for weeks to her family, lied to the school, provided the school with fake certificates excusing the absences. her child was with 50 yr old male stranger, missing school for weeks and that was OK for her? she lied to the social worker. she knew very well that what she had done was wrong, otherwise why lying to everybody including her family. clearly the guy prayed on very fragile and vulnerable people, but this does not excuse the mother for her outrageous behavior, which most likely cost that little girl her life.


No the reality is that one should not have a baby until they can provide for and take care of themself.


Bingo
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2016 11:44     Subject: Relisha Rudd
So sad. Her mom should be sterilized and jailed. She sold him to that man and didn't even report her missing.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2016 11:19     Subject: Relisha Rudd
Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/an-8-year-old-girl-in-dc-tragically-disappeared-what-happened-to-her/2016/10/07/d63704a8-8bef-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.html?utm_term=.33e2c63eb62c

I didn't realize that there is a good possibility she was being trafficked. I think about this poor kid so often.


This is so sad. I work at the school she attended and am saddened and horrified every time I think about her.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2016 09:55     Subject: Relisha Rudd
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/an-8-year-old-girl-in-dc-tragically-disappeared-what-happened-to-her/2016/10/07/d63704a8-8bef-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.html?utm_term=.33e2c63eb62c

I didn't realize that there is a good possibility she was being trafficked. I think about this poor kid so often.
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2015 10:33     Subject: Relisha Rudd
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's a tragedy in so many ways. I can't help but think CPS should automatically take custody of homeless kids and find them foster care. I have read too much about the mom and grandma to have sympathy. She was horrible and abusive. We have got to stop making reunification the goal and start cutting parental rights. Is you read the moms FB page you will be furious, bragging about the jelly Hanson jackets and Jordan's on her kids fit while living in a shelter. Where did she get that money? Drugs or sex? And what did she sell her daughter for and why is she protecting the abductor. No children should be allowed in a shelter. And relisha should have been taken from her mom permanently five years ago. I worked in social services for one year and I never saw one mom come close to being rehabilitated but the kids always go,back. It's horrible.


You know Relish Rudd's mother was removed from her home as a child and bounced around to different foster homes and group homes. It did not adequately prepare her to be a functional adult.

I think relisha Rudd story shines a light on the fact that there are no easy solutions to resolving generational poverty and the traumas that come along with it.


Birth control would solve a lot of problems of generational poverty. I was a social worker for one year and quit because I realized it was pointless. I would see women who might start to get a leg up and then tell me they were pregnant again, quit their minimum wage job and apply for more benefits. As a society, we need to provide free birth control to every woman and make it available in the community. Seriolusy, there needs to be a one stop shop located in probably 20 places around the City, where a woman could see and OB and get a prescription filled in one place at no cost. You would think a city as progressive as DC would offer free IUDs to every poor woman. Its next to impossible to help a single person in extreme poverty and when you throw kids into, its never ever going to change. Repeat over and over. Every woman receiving TANF should be required to have an IUD. Not politically correct to say that but it would do more to help than just about anything else.
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2015 09:40     Subject: Relisha Rudd
Anonymous wrote:It's a tragedy in so many ways. I can't help but think CPS should automatically take custody of homeless kids and find them foster care. I have read too much about the mom and grandma to have sympathy. She was horrible and abusive. We have got to stop making reunification the goal and start cutting parental rights. Is you read the moms FB page you will be furious, bragging about the jelly Hanson jackets and Jordan's on her kids fit while living in a shelter. Where did she get that money? Drugs or sex? And what did she sell her daughter for and why is she protecting the abductor. No children should be allowed in a shelter. And relisha should have been taken from her mom permanently five years ago. I worked in social services for one year and I never saw one mom come close to being rehabilitated but the kids always go,back. It's horrible.


You know Relish Rudd's mother was removed from her home as a child and bounced around to different foster homes and group homes. It did not adequately prepare her to be a functional adult.

I think relisha Rudd story shines a light on the fact that there are no easy solutions to resolving generational poverty and the traumas that come along with it.
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2015 09:12     Subject: Relisha Rudd
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"Relisha was most likely sold by her mother to a predator. No police involved until it was way too late."

For what purpose?


That is horrible speculation and cruel.


I'm not the person who posted it, but as horrible and cruel as saying that may be, all signs point to that being exactly what happened. If you think it was horrible and cruel to write that, imagine the horror and cruelty of being a little girl and subjected to that horrific fate. There are a LOT of signs that point to that being exactly what happened, the primary two signs being the amount of cash that mom and her boyfriend/husband had right around the time of her disappearance, and the fact that she was the one who covered for the abductor and lied to the school about where she was and why she was with him.

Relisha's disappearance would have been discovered much much earlier if mom hadn't lied for as long as she did about why she wasn't in school and who she was with.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2015 23:07     Subject: Relisha Rudd
Anonymous wrote:"Relisha was most likely sold by her mother to a predator. No police involved until it was way too late."

For what purpose?


That is horrible speculation and cruel.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2015 20:00     Subject: Relisha Rudd
"Relisha was most likely sold by her mother to a predator. No police involved until it was way too late."

For what purpose?
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2015 08:23     Subject: Relisha Rudd
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think about her a lot. That poor child.


Me too.


+1. That poor kid. I think about her siblings too and wonder how they're taking it.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2015 20:57     Subject: Relisha Rudd
Anonymous wrote:I think about her a lot. That poor child.


Me too.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2015 20:31     Subject: Relisha Rudd
I think about her a lot. That poor child.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2015 14:22     Subject: Relisha Rudd
There's about 2500 homeless students in the school system.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2015 10:22     Subject: Relisha Rudd
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Police-Renew-Search-for-Relisha-Rudd-361389911.html

This poor child. I hope there are answers soon.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2014 01:47     Subject: Relisha Rudd
Agreed- utterly disgusting