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SPLENDORA, Texas — Two children who were found living in a stench-filled abandoned school bus near Houston, its windows blocked and the lot around it covered in trash, are in the custody of Texas child welfare workers, officials said Thursday.

A postal worker discovered the children, ages 11 and 5, at the bus in Splendora about 10 a.m. Wednesday, officials said. Their parents are believed to be in prison for embezzling money from Hurricane Ike victims in 2008. The children are not enrolled at local schools.

The bus appeared to have electricity, an air conditioning unit installed in one window and bunk beds inside for the children. But several neighbors told the Houston Chronicle that the children typically looked unkempt and could often be spotted running around at night.

"They always had dirty clothes on (and) no shoes, even in the winter," said nearby resident Gayla Payne, who said the 11-year-old girl told her daughter that she bathes twice a week.

Investigators told KTRK-TV that the children have been living in the bus since the beginning of the year.

The children told Texas Child Protective Services workers that they were home-schooled. A woman on the property — believed to be the children's great-aunt — told CPS she worked 12-hour shifts Monday through Friday but that she stayed with the children at night.

"The aunt said that she does provide meals for them during the day," Montgomery County Constable Rowdy Hayden told KTRK-TV. "Looking around the (the bus), we didn't see a lot of food readily available. One of the neighbors had told us earlier that from time to time she will bring food over for the children."

The children are in foster care pending an investigation by Child Protective Services, spokeswoman Gwen Carter said. CPS workers will appear in court Thursday to ask a judge for emergency custody of the children, she said.

Splendora is 35 miles northeast of Houston.

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Information from: KTRK-TV, http://abclocal.go.com

So sad.

What's the point of bringing food to the kids and not calling CPS? They're not stray cats.

morningsong said:

What's the point of bringing food to the kids and not calling CPS? They're not stray cats.

Exactly what I was going to say.

now they're in foster care

i wish they would follow the story 'til

they end up in juveile detention

then prison.

as for feedin the strays

grown folks should be

held responsible for not havin

said somethin sooner, no matter

the outcome they deserve

to be fed and clean...

The Aunt that knew about this and next to nothing to get them help ought to be put in jail too. She Knownly allowed this to happen.

Things aren't to splendid in Splendor damn shame.

nursev said:

Things aren't to splendid in Splendor damn shame.

i susspect it happens way more often than we will ever hear.

OnlyNDaUsa said:

nursev said:

Things aren't to splendid in Splendor damn shame.

i susspect it happens way more often than we will ever hear.

True You know what bothers me and I'm not bitter, but the other day there was a story on DFW news about a CPS worker who paid a teen for sex I was like damn when I had an interview with them they told me I hadn't lived in Texas long enough that was in 07. They gave that scumbag a job, but good, qualified people like me they pass over

nursev said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

i susspect it happens way more often than we will ever hear.

True You know what bothers me and I'm not bitter, but the other day there was a story on DFW news about a CPS worker who paid a teen for sex I was like damn when I had an interview with them they told me I hadn't lived in Texas long enough that was in 07. They gave that scumbag a job, but good, qualified people like me they pass over

you know you talkin 'bout TEXASS don't you???

KingBAD said:

nursev said:

True You know what bothers me and I'm not bitter, but the other day there was a story on DFW news about a CPS worker who paid a teen for sex I was like damn when I had an interview with them they told me I hadn't lived in Texas long enough that was in 07. They gave that scumbag a job, but good, qualified people like me they pass over

you know you talkin 'bout TEXASS don't you???

Yes I know what I'm delaling with When my son goes to college and gets settled I'm leaving this redneck ass state

But the U.S. has billions 2 send 2 country's like Israel every year.

Graycap23 said:

But the U.S. has billions 2 send 2 country's like Israel every year.

THANK YOU! There is no excuse for this. Even after the parents were incarcerated, the children should have been placed in foster care or at least checked on regularly if being left with other family members.

This makes me sick to my stomach. No child should live in such conditions, not in America.

Just imagine if some unscrupulous degenerate would have found them. They could have been sexually violated and murderered and nobody would know anything. Disgusting!

Here's a link to that sick ass CPS worker

http://www.nbcdfw.com/new...90373.html

nursev said:

Here's a link to that sick ass CPS worker

http://www.nbcdfw.com/new...90373.html

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kill that muthafucker right now!

HotGritz said:

nursev said:

Here's a link to that sick ass CPS worker

http://www.nbcdfw.com/new...90373.html

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kill that muthafucker right now!

The kid took the CPS person to his house and said she had been paid to have sex at his house-sick bastard

nursev said:

HotGritz said:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kill that muthafucker right now!

The kid took the CPS person to his house and said she had been paid to have sex at his house-sick bastard

Our children are just ruined. America just don't give a damn. Might as well change our name to United States of Thailand.

HotGritz said:

nursev said:

The kid took the CPS person to his house and said she had been paid to have sex at his house-sick bastard

Our children are just ruined. America just don't give a damn. Might as well change our name to United States of Thailand.

So true and damn sad

nursev said:

HotGritz said:

Our children are just ruined. America just don't give a damn. Might as well change our name to United States of Thailand.

So true and damn sad

If the parents are jacked..........the kids have no chance. When your life revolves around chasing small pieces of paper ($) and not much else, u really have no chance anyway.

Graycap23 said:

nursev said:

So true and damn sad

If the parents are jacked..........the kids have no chance. When your life revolves around chasing small pieces of paper ($) and not much else, u really have no chance anyway.

Damn Gray that's depressing, but true.

Graycap23 said:

But the U.S. has billions 2 send 2 country's like Israel every year.

it also has billions to give to

american oil co.s that have

billions in proffits in cali. alone

no tellin how much in the country

but the prices still go up

KingBAD said:

Graycap23 said:

But the U.S. has billions 2 send 2 country's like Israel every year.

it also has billions to give to

american oil co.s that have

billions in proffits in cali. alone

no tellin how much in the country

but the prices still go up

of all the billions given to oil companies the federal got back every dime in taxes and fees and fines.

and taking said money away from oil companies would just raise the cost of gas for all.

do you think that gas prices are too low?

OnlyNDaUsa said:

KingBAD said:

it also has billions to give to

american oil co.s that have

billions in proffits in cali. alone

no tellin how much in the country

but the prices still go up

of all the billions given to oil companies the federal got back every dime in taxes and fees and fines.

and taking said money away from oil companies would just raise the cost of gas for all.

do you think that gas prices are too low?

you should be in politics

this government don't get nowhere near whut you say it does in TAXES.

if it did THE OIL CORPS, would be footin their share of that TAX BURDEN

instead of lookin for a way to lessen their share, while STILL RASIN PRICES

but then it ain't like they put more people to work either, IS IT?

are the prices too low you ask?

the $ is worth 67c and gas is $4.59.9

now i'm no math wiz, but it's costin

a hellalot for gas these days which is good

because i can concentrate on growin up

instead of 'trollin the freeway "lookin fo lub"

Graycap23 said:

But the U.S. has billions 2 send 2 country's like Israel every year.