TX - Raven Yates charged with abandoning 12-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son at her home for 2 months - 3/11/23

[Laughing]

Bbm.
The posts on the egg donors facebook pages are critical of the twelve year old's father.
So it's possible even if he had regular visitation, Raven was denying him access ?
After two months, though, he could have gone to court to enforce visitation; esp. after getting pleas for money for food ?
It looks like these kids were being let down by everyone -- including the school authorities who must have wondered why this child wasn't in classes ?
Imo.

bbm

only if he could pay an attorney or it was time for a Federal modification iirc.

He could have called LE for a welfare check, but -- the tween said Raven was 'working.'

No real cause for him to be concerned, apparently?

 

[evilwise]

Knowing 12 year olds in situations like these she probably thought she could handle it and managed to keep all the balls in the air for two months before something happened or got to a point where she had to call her dad. Probably real stressful for her.

 

[tlcya]

uggh

 

[cvaldez1975]

Bbm.
The posts on the egg donors facebook pages are critical of the twelve year old's father.
So it's possible even if he had regular visitation, Raven was denying him access ?
After two months, though, he could have gone to court to enforce visitation; esp. after getting pleas for money for food ?
It looks like these kids were being let down by everyone -- including the school authorities who must have wondered why this child wasn't in classes ?
Imo.

texas drags feet to enforce family orders. look up cash gernon and samuel olsen.

 

[tlcya]

Carlisle, the RFPD Chief, tells PEOPLE that authorities didn't initially release the story to the public because they wanted to try and track Yates down first, but when they were unable to, they informed the public, which caught a lot of people's attention.

"She saw it, just like we figured she would, and then she started posting actively on social media because she's that type of person that likes the attention," Carlisle says.
[snip]
During the three months between the arrest warrant and her apprehension, numerous posts were made on Yates' Instagram and Facebook accounts. On Feb. 11, she posted a selfie video on her Instagram with the caption, "When you minding your own businesses and know the truth."

Then, later that day, she posted a video of a fridge and cabinet with food and clips of a child eating cereal near a computer and playing in a pool. Additional videos posted on that day also featured a young girl.

Carlisle tells PEOPLE the photos and videos used in these posts were all from before Yates allegedly abandoned her children.

"She was not with them," Carlisle says. "Those were older pictures. We know where the kids were. The kids were with family members."
While Cops Searched for Her, Texas Mom Accused of Abandoning Kids Responded to Their Social Media Posts: Chief

this woman is her own worst enemy. Like a moth to the flame, she couldn't deny the appeal of all that attention and took to social media. what a clown.

 

[WingsOverTX]

When did the 12 yo last go to school & where? The child endangerment may be more long-standing than this criminal incident. There are other adults in this older child's life who need to be questioned.

All three of the accused children are with their maternal grandmother in Alabama. Is that a legal custodial placement?

Prosecution of this mother is good. Protecting her children long-term is better.

mhoo

 

[mgeni]

I’m glad the children are safe now. I had a friend in college who was abandoned by his mom for months at a time from ages 12-14. He never told anyone. Often times he didn’t have anywhere to stay, as she had been evicted. He would spend the night with friends, hardly anyone questioned it. He would always have an excuse, didn’t want his mom in trouble. Finally a teacher became concerned and reported it. He went to foster care.

 

[Erutan]

When did the 12 yo last go to school & where? The child endangerment may be more long-standing than this criminal incident. There are other adults in this older child's life who need to be questioned.

All three of the accused children are with their maternal grandmother in Alabama. Is that a legal custodial placement?

Prosecution of this mother is good. Protecting her children long-term is better.

mhoo

bbm
Agreed.
Even if the twelve year old was trying to 'cover' for this woman, other adults should not have let it go this long.
M00.

 

[LadyL]

Following to see if this happened and if so, what her defense will be.

Also answers are needed as to why no relative, including their father, realized this was happening for 2 months. Maybe they all have a reasonable explanation, but let's see. It's very sad no one noticed for that long.

Did the 12-year-old take care of the 3-year-old from Sept. to Nov? Wow!

the article in the OP say he was working in California and had contact with his 12 year-old who asked him to send food

 

[LadyL]

The father might be out of state. They might not have had a way to contact him, even if they wanted to. It's not like it was when I was a kid, where phone numbers of close family and friends lived in the little book by the phone or the White Pages. Most homes don't even have landlines any more, many payphones just don't exist any more.

I would hope the home had electricity, had heat. Had at least some pantry staples for the kids to eat.

But this is someone who, with the little information we have, seemed to just want to go off with some guy and pretend she was single and childless and pretend those kids didn't exist.

I think she just walked out the door one day and didn't look back, or care.

MOO

at least she didn't pull a Casey Anthony ...