Found Deceased TX - Maleah Davis, 4, Houston, 5 May 2019 #2

[Snoopgal]

I just do not understand this. Who determined they knew better than the doctors and nurses?

I think believing their story vs having proof is where the difficulty lies. When CPS asks a doctor if they suspect abuse they may say yes, but no doctor can definitively say that an injury is from abuse. If you told me you fell off a chair and hit your head I could tell you that the injury is inconsistent with that explanation, but ask me to say with 100% certainty...you can’t. There is no way to prove it and no doctor is (rightly) going to stake their license on saying something they cannot know with certainty. There has to be a better way to keep these kids safe.

 

[nwmouse]

The odds all indicate that little MD suffered injuries due to abuse when she was previously examined by medical professionals.

CPS don't remove a child from their family unless they have good cause and there is a pattern of child abuse or neglect.
Why CPS says Maleah Davis was pulled from her home last year

Then she mysteriously gets "kidnapped" during DV's watch, and nothing he says adds up, and has not added up from the start.

IMO this is going to end in the worst possible way and the system, as well as those who were meant to protect her, have failed Maleah.

Same as it failed little A.J. Freund.

moo

 

[Snoopgal]

Did anyone notice in the 1st bolded part of the story, that it says Maleah was also living with her grandma, BB, and DV when she got the injury? That is the 1st time I have ever heard that. Now I'm really confused. Edited for grammar

If they all lived together, then how did B.B. stay at her mothers house when she was locked out of her own house on Friday night? I don’t think they all lived together. MOO

 

[Henry2326]

I am not sure the techniques used by that person would work with these two. It worked with Emily because she could be bullied and manipulated and I am not sure these two are as weak. (Btw, we were getting ready to start at the beginning of our grid search and Lucas would have been found then.)

Thanks for clearing it up....I misspoke.

 

[PommyMommy]

S. Okolie's twitter:
Law enforcement sources say Maleah’s stepfather has gone back and forth between saying he walked to the hospital and a stranger dropped him off. Detectives are looking into video that shows him being dropped off at Methodist Hospital. #Abc13

The way this is worded makes me wonder if she means to say that LE are looking at the specific video which shows DV being dropped off, or that LE are looking for video that might show this. I think it can be interpreted both ways. JMO

I hadn't noticed that but I see what you mean. It was reported on Tuesday that SLPD was reviewing surveillance footage, so I HOPE it's the specific video. MOO

 

[jenlag]

If they all lived together, then how did B.B. stay at her mothers house when she was locked out of her own house on Friday night? I don’t think they all lived together. MOO

They were living together when MD was injured last year. BB and DV were currently living on their own in an apartment.

 

[Djgirl76]

The photos I saw of that child’s head injury from a few months ago made me physically sick. Like hard to look at knowing what is going on now. Heartbreaking.

 

[Trudie]

I just do not understand this. Who determined they knew better than the doctors and nurses?

Maybe before returning kids to bio family, the judge should send his/her children to that home?!?

 

[mrsmmm]

If you want to hide a car in plain sight an apt. parking lot is a good place.Many different cars and people coming and going and usually no cameras.I have read cases on websleuths were cars were found in random apt. complexes .

I've heard the hospitals parking deck is massive. Wonder if LE has looked there.

 

[Snoopgal]

They were living together when MD was injured last year. BB and DV were currently living on their own in an apartment.

Got it! Thanks! Nana must have kicked them out and kept the kids? MOO

 

[Trudie]

I've heard the hospitals parking deck is massive. Wonder if LE has looked there.

I would think they did, first thing. LE must have officers scouting every parking facility in the area. Hopefully.
Oh, we know they want to arrest him but must hold off, it won’t be much longer, imo.

 

[Tbone144]

That car is going to be hard to find if they didn’t keep the paper tags on it. In my small town of Crosby I saw 5 gray altimas with TX plates while waiting at the stop light, granted I can’t tell one year from the next but if they put stolen plates on it so it doesn’t stick out it’s going to be a needle in a hay stack. Or a specific needle in a hay stack full of needles. A submerged one would at least stand out.

Bright blue Chevy trucks are much harder to come by and easier for me to tell old from new. Too bad that particular truck doesn’t exist.

I was thinking he did this all on his own so there wouldn’t be any one to turn on him or refute his story, no rides here and there, etc...now if there is video of him being dropped off I hope that person sings like a song bird.

 

[Trudie]

Maybe a family member will talk some sense into him?
Wishful thinking, idk.......
I see a wealth of charges coming.
Idk if I can even post what I think went on.

 

[Trudie]

That car is going to be hard to find if they didn’t keep the paper tags on it. In my small town of Crosby I saw 5 gray altimas with TX plates while waiting at the stop light,

What I’ve repeatedly heard is that it would be harder to find due to paper tags.

 

[Seattle1]

I would think they did, first thing. LE must have officers scouting every parking facility in the area. Hopefully.
Oh, we know they want to arrest him but must hold off, it won’t be much longer, imo.

I'm afraid that LE is having to take many manual steps to search for the missing vehicle as it's missing a license plate which is key to transponders, angled cameras, etc. I believe it will be located -- but it's going to take longer.

 

[Trudie]

I'm afraid that LE is having to take many manual steps to search for the missing vehicle as it's missing a license plate which is key to transponders, angled cameras, etc. I believe it will be located -- but it's going to take longer.

Yup, I think so.
By now, they’ve ruled a lot of parking facilities out, imo.
IMO, he did not travel far.

 

[PommyMommy]

I just do not understand this. Who determined they knew better than the doctors and nurses?

My understanding is that the caseworker concluded there was nothing more than neglectful supervision because the doctor couldn't confirm that the injuries were caused from abuse, just that the explanation given by the parents didn't explain the need for Maleah to have half her skull removed.

 

[MsBetsy]

Got it! Thanks! Nana must have kicked them out and kept the kids? MOO

Was it ever confirmed that she was the family member they were living with when they were removed from the home?

 

[Trudie]

My understanding is that the caseworker concluded there was nothing more than neglectful supervision because the doctor couldn't confirm that the injuries were caused from abuse, just that the explanation given by the parents didn't explain the need for Maleah to have half her skull removed.

Lack of supervising DV? Jmo
(Rhetorical, of course)

 

[Trudie]

Maybe DV did self inflict his head wound, after going too far, he hastily attempted to put together a story. A story that seasoned LE not see thru. He failed.