In August we rescued my sister in-law her under 1yr old child and boyfriend "babies father" from a garage they were living in right outside of houston Texas.the conditions we saw once we got their made me want to cry for them!everywhere piles of trash everywhere around the yard and in the main part of the house "looked like a junk yard"inside and out!their were roaches all over the home the garage they were living in with this baby was so dirty and crampt it was sadly deplorable I have never in my 33 yrs of life ever seen anyone live in such horrific conditions!we helped them get to buffalo New York from right outside of houston Texas in mid-august,we had gotten his siter's boyfriend a jod during the first week making $400.00 wkly "not bad considering he never graduated & has no GED & she has a 6th grade education seriously that is the last year she successfully sed".they managed to cause him to loose his jobwith in two weeks time.they have been living rent free in one of my fiancee's bosses apartments since day one.the just put the bills in their own name there a month ago & have only received one gas bill and now that the eectric is owed and they have rent to pay beginning January 1st they just sold the boyfrinds 1969 chevy truck and their other car for maybe enough o get a uhaul a get home to Texas using the rest for gas.they are leaving tomorrow and taking our poor niece willingly back to that deplorable garage they call home!this little girls does not deserve this lifestyle!after they arrived in buffalo we shortly after learned they were making a small living off robbing households where people had moved out or died by stealing the copper & turing it in for cash!before we helped move them here we wre sending diapers,food,you name it they were drounding and we could care less if they want to go back to that but,don't want the baby living like that!what can we do?would it help to cal children's services in Texas after they arrive & right them something to use against them so they can buils a case against them?can we then move in & take our niece back here in buffalo to a safe stable life with security and love?they claimed in the beginning they wanted to move to New York to build a family life style for their daughter but, they ended up only sitting aroundsmoking marijuana and sucking everyone dry and,once no one had anything left to give and,started to tell them they had to work to make a living they had no money to smoke marijuana!that's when the calls from my sister in-law started coming in saying her boyfriends pissed,wrecking the house,throwing and breaking things as well as threatening her because he couldn't get high and how it was her fault they were stuck in the situation they were in and that they could be in Texas living back in his fathers garage not having to worry about getting money to buy weed and paying bills!we need advice and fast.please help us to help this por little girl!she is still very young and still has a good chance if her life is turned around now this may not affect her as much as it would if she were older.

Contact the local Family and Children Services promptly, this is possibly an abuse case and something you may not be able to address.

If the child is being abused or was being abused and you can PROVE it, contact Child Protective Services in your area. Do it immediately or you will be seen as turning a blind eye to the abuse. Call whichever agencies you need to call to get a response - where you are, where they were, where they are going.

I don't understand - you knew they were stealing and did nothing? You knew they were using marijuana in the presence of the child and did nothing?

Why? The child has certainly been living in a dangerous and unstable house for a period.

I think you made a mistake by "rescuing" them in the first place. I think when you first saw the condition of the garage you should have called Family Services immediately to come and evaluate them. You could have told family services, that you are willing to help them relocate, but you would like guardianship of the child until they can prove they can care for her. Had you done this the RIGHT way, you would not have to let the them go with the child.

Unfortunately, but providing them a place to live you got them to clean up a little bit so I'm not sure you can prove the abuse now. So you may have to let them move. Then give them a chance to let the conditions get back to what they were and THEN call in family services. Unless you have some concrete proof of the living conditions they were in (did you take pictures?) or proof of the marijuana usage in the presence of the baby, I don't think you have any grounds to stop them from moving back.

You will need to have someone in Tx monitor them and when they can show abuse of the child call in family services.