She keeps stating that Maleah was "staying with a relative" during the time she was "abducted", and has also said Mom did not have her full time even when she was in town before the trip, that there was a weekly visitation schedule. Several people have asked CM about this because it seems to conflict with the report that Maleah and brothers were "returned" to BB in February. She has confirmed that this is what it says in the CPS documentation.
Then when asked which relative was caring for Maleah (and thus either gave her to DV or he just took her at some point), she said "an aunt." I am speculating that this is the same aunt who came to pick up the kids on Friday and was not granted access to "sick" Maleah, which begs the question why they weren't with her in the first place if that's what CPS had dictated to keep the kids safe.
I also wonder if this aunt was the person CPS placed the kids with from August - September, rather than the grandmother.
Bowens also addressed Maleah's head injury. Houston police Sgt. Mark Holbrook has said Maleah had had multiple brain surgeries, including one in recent months.
The surgeries were intended to help an injury heal, he said.
Bowens on Tuesday disputed allegations that her daughter was physically abused at their home, and gave this account of the injury:
Bowens said she took her daughter to West Houston Medical Center last July because she was lethargic, but nurses didn't examine her head.
Weeks later, on July 28, Maleah fell while she was sitting at the table eating by herself, Bowens said.
"When she falls, she came around that couch, she had a deep gash in her head and it freaked me out," said Bowens, who again rushed her daughter to West Houston. Doctors discharged Maleah without performing a CT scan, Bowens said.
Five days later, in early August, Maleah suffered a seizure, Bowens said, sobbing. Maleah was taken to a children's hospital.
"They did a CT scan and that's when they told me there was bleeding on the left-hand side of her brain," she said. "At that point it was a life or death situation."
Doctors operated on Maleah, she said. A few days later, officials with Child Protective Services arrived at her home, Bowens said.
"They didn't find anything because we're not those kinds of people," she said.
But that month, child protective services placed Maleah and her two brothers with relatives -- an arrangement that continued until the judge ordered them returned home in February.
Maleah Davis missing: Her mother denies the girl was abused, and describes her head injury - CNN