Parents arrested after three children test positive for meth

Three children- ages 1, 2, and 3- were tested positive for drugs in Florence, Texas. Their parents, Michael Denson and Melody Whatley, were taken to the Williamson County jail, and are facing child endangerment charges. The children were taken by Child Protective Services because of the "garbage, filth, and stench all about the house" according to the affidavit. According to this article, this is not the first instance that their children have tested positive for drugs. When Melody Whatley gave birth to her children in 2001 and 2006, they both tested positive for marijuana. Although Child Protective Services knew that the children tested positive for marijuana, they didn't think that Whatley's drug use would endanger them.

So, really, what is the world coming to? The parents definitely deserve to go to jail -for a very long time. It's amazing that the garbage and filth was the reason the children were removed from the home and not the fact that 2 of her children tested positive for marijuana at birth. That should've been a red flag right there. Surely this will be a lesson to Child Protective Services. If a woman has the audacity to use while pregnant, she is definitely not going to stop after her child is born.


http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/TX_Children_Meth.html