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Revealing new video shows a toddler living in a Nashville homeless encampment, months before she was killed by fentanyl poisoning in November.
Ariel Rose was less than two years old when Metro Nashville Police Department officials say they spotted her living with her father in a tent surrounded by mud and needles.
The officer walked up to the tent where Ariel was waving from the other side of a screen opening.
You can hear frustration in the officer’s voice as he tells Ariel’s father that the toddler was not supposed to be there.
“I’ve seen that child in here one too many times and I’m not happy,” the officer said.
The officer repeated over and over that Ariel should not have been there. Ariel’s father explained that this was only temporary and that Ariel had not been there long. There had been rumors last spring of a child living in what was considered Nashville’s most notorious homeless encampment.
This was now indisputable evidence of Ariel Rose living at the since-closed encampment with her father. At one point the camera points down and the officer says there are needles within feet of the tent.
He then tells Ariel’s father and a woman also staying in the tent that he now must notify the Department of Children Services.
“That child is in danger in here,” the officer said.
“Yes sir. I guess having a father is not that important,” the woman said.
“Having one and having one that plays the role correctly are two different things,” the officer responded.
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Metro Nashville Police are now investigating the death of 23-month-old Ariel Rose as a homicide.
Rose was found dead at a Nashville halfway house where her father and grandmother were living back on Nov. 11.
Officers said she was in the care of an extended relative at the time of her death and not her parents.
On Tuesday, the Davidson County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Rose’s cause of death was fentanyl toxicity and the manner of death was ruled accidental.
Rose first made headlines when a video surfaced of what appeared to be Rose with her father living at the homeless encampment in Brookmeade Park last April.
Not long after that, her aunt was granted custody of the little girl.
When her aunt could no longer take care of Rose, she was sent to live with her fraternal grandmother and father who were both at the halfway home.
Rose’s grandfather Mickey Rose spoke with NewsChannel5 Investigates last November and said Rose stayed the night with a neighbor before she was found dead.
Mickey Rose said the Tennessee Department of Children Services should have acted sooner to take custody of his grandchild away from her parents who he says struggled with substance abuse. Mickey says he called DCS multiple times after he found the Brookmeade video online.
“DCS failed her because she should have been taken out of that encampment on day one. They should have placed that child in the state’s custody. Maybe the state’s custody is not the best. It’s not what a child wants, but she would be alive,” Mickey said. bbm
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Ariel Rose was less than two years old when Metro Nashville Police Department officials say they spotted her living with her father in a tent surrounded by mud and needles.
The officer walked up to the tent where Ariel was waving from the other side of a screen opening.
You can hear frustration in the officer’s voice as he tells Ariel’s father that the toddler was not supposed to be there.
“I’ve seen that child in here one too many times and I’m not happy,” the officer said.
The officer repeated over and over that Ariel should not have been there. Ariel’s father explained that this was only temporary and that Ariel had not been there long. There had been rumors last spring of a child living in what was considered Nashville’s most notorious homeless encampment.
This was now indisputable evidence of Ariel Rose living at the since-closed encampment with her father. At one point the camera points down and the officer says there are needles within feet of the tent.
He then tells Ariel’s father and a woman also staying in the tent that he now must notify the Department of Children Services.
“That child is in danger in here,” the officer said.
“Yes sir. I guess having a father is not that important,” the woman said.
“Having one and having one that plays the role correctly are two different things,” the officer responded.
Police release new video of a toddler living in Brookmeade encampment just months before her death
Revealing new video shows a toddler living in a Nashville homeless encampment, months before she was killed by fentanyl poisoning.
www.newschannel5.com
Metro Nashville Police are now investigating the death of 23-month-old Ariel Rose as a homicide.
Rose was found dead at a Nashville halfway house where her father and grandmother were living back on Nov. 11.
Officers said she was in the care of an extended relative at the time of her death and not her parents.
On Tuesday, the Davidson County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Rose’s cause of death was fentanyl toxicity and the manner of death was ruled accidental.
Rose first made headlines when a video surfaced of what appeared to be Rose with her father living at the homeless encampment in Brookmeade Park last April.
Not long after that, her aunt was granted custody of the little girl.
When her aunt could no longer take care of Rose, she was sent to live with her fraternal grandmother and father who were both at the halfway home.
Rose’s grandfather Mickey Rose spoke with NewsChannel5 Investigates last November and said Rose stayed the night with a neighbor before she was found dead.
Mickey Rose said the Tennessee Department of Children Services should have acted sooner to take custody of his grandchild away from her parents who he says struggled with substance abuse. Mickey says he called DCS multiple times after he found the Brookmeade video online.
“DCS failed her because she should have been taken out of that encampment on day one. They should have placed that child in the state’s custody. Maybe the state’s custody is not the best. It’s not what a child wants, but she would be alive,” Mickey said. bbm
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