…all he had to do at the moment he spoke with Huckaby was pull her name up on his car’s very expensive computer and he’d have rethought his flippant attitude towards a very hysterical mom.

She had a screaming red flag attached to her name in the system all over the state but you can bet some big bucks on the fact she used the same lie about being a Sunday school teacher to the officer as she did endlessly to the press while Cantu was missing.

Yeah, if MH was investigated it may have prevented this. But I’m sure she put on a wonderful act. Do not forget all of the people who speak of how kind she had always been and were so shocked. I have no doubt she feigned stupidity at the condition of the girl and did a sweatie-pie act. This is the pastor’s granddaughter, so bias was already in her favor. She’s put on quite an act for a long time and the curtain hadn’t fallen yet at that early in Jan!

Sad thing also is MH may not be the brightest bulb, but I do feel she targeted the Jan child because of the mom’s reputation…knew she’d be viewed as more believable. LE has to have believed MH that night when she claimed she thought she had permission to take the girl out to the park.

to the poster who mentioned my issue was a death threat and the other girl who was drugged was assaulted…true, we were not physically harmed thank God, for something to read…here’s what happened:

Guys we told to stop hunting our land decided it wasn’t our right to do so. He called three times to tell us we’d be shot in the back, would never see it coming, and leave the property in a body bag. Still, we are alive and this guy was charged. LE told us go take a warrant or we cannot do crap..so we went down within the hour. Magistrate told us to document EVERY little thing past and going forward, which we did.

This guy hid 3 days after warrant was first served, which made me pretty nervous. He finally turned himself in and made bail same evening. Even so, the idiot managed to sneak up to camp ground on land below us first day hunting season 2 wks later and spread nails, rip up the neighbor’s ATV, and knock down a number of treestands…this is AFTER being served the no tresspass and protective order. He even left beer cans on the camper porch as his “calling card”. Sociopaths do not care.

We are 9/10 of a mile off the hardtop, so we have to take care of ourselves….so we are way out there and the death threat on us was pretty serious if you ask me since this guy’s father spent 10 yrs in state pen for involuntary manslaughter (killed a guy in a knife fight…both badly injured and other guy died).

Not to belittle the fact MH is a worse monster though…she is! Also, tells me there’s something VERY dark about one of her parents if not both that she turned out like this, you know?

Brenda, thank you for your response. Yes trust me, I always try to be civil here. I agree hindsight is always 20/20 and that is why you will note with my post I relied on facts as they were known at that time. Not going to repeat them here, but now we at least know Mom was investigated and custody temporarily taken away that night so a little more was done for the sake of the child.

But, other facts did not point towards Mom. She had reported her child missing, child was with another adult, child ended up with drugs in her system and Mom brought her in. Parents who abuse their kids do not take them in unless seriously injured or on verge of death. They know they will be investigated. Especially here, Mom previously had child removed so she knew how the system worked.

Major distinction I see with case you mentioned is the person “threatened” to do harmful acts, while harmful acts were actually done to this child.

Threats of harm happen all the time in domestic cases, neighbor disputes, etc. but correct, outside of restraining order what more can LE do in response to merely a “threat?”

That’s not what happened here. This child deserved more.

Problem I often see in these kinds of cases is LE will often focus on one party and not the other. If that practice was employed here, then focus should have been on MH and not the Mom b/c of how this all went down.

If the mother was not at home when the child went missing and as soon as she was returned (4 hours latter)the entire family noticed odd behavior (witnesses not suspects) and took her to the hospital.

Drugs found in the blood of the little girl, Now the mother wants the police to investigate MH and they talk her out of it, because of the
smell of alcohol on Mother’s breath and past history. As stated previously, if I had my 7 year old went missing I would have lots of alcohol on my breath!

At the very least MH should have been taken in for questioning. And these police officers should also be investigated for their actions and negligence.

Make no mistake about it, MH’s crime of March 27 was as brazen as it was henious. Would MH have been so bold if she had not gotten away with the January 17 Kidnapping, drugging, and God only knows what else she intended to do to the 7 year old?

She learned from the January Incident that she could get away with this type of behavior.