Blumenthal's Big Problem...Mom stabbed kids because of chronic DCF abuse
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Subject:
Blumenthal's Big Problem...Mom stabbed kids because of chronic DCF
abuse
Date:
Sunday, December 10, 2006 5:38:28 AM
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And this is not the first time (story below).
Last year it was Elsie Figueroa.
'Chronic abuse and harassment by DCF, her whole life.
'Threats of DCF taking her kids away by in-laws who know how
to "work" this system of DCF torture as vengeance.
'She could not even ask them for help, because if you
ask DCF for help, they immediately look for a reason to
take your kids away, and if they have no reason, they simply
make it up - to include false criminal charges.
DCF is a cult of psychopaths.
And remember, these psychopaths "work" for Richard Blumenthal
so there's a clear conflict of interest for the DCF psycho club to be
"working" for the person whose job it is to protect the public.
KMDickson
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HARTFORD COURANT
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We Should Be Asking Why Mom Stabbed Her Kids
December 10 2006
You hear the story of Carmela Ortiz and you think "monster." Who else
but a monster would repeatedly stab her babies in their sleep?
"Jose, I killed the kids," Carmela told her foster brother, Jose Oslan,
when she
called in the early morning hours of Nov. 18. "They're just laying
right there
and they're not moving. The baby, he don't want to cry."
"Don't say that!" Jose screamed. "What are you talking about?"
But, Jose recounted when the family and I spoke in their North End
apartment,
Carmela only kept repeating herself. So he and his mother jumped into
the car
and sped the few blocks to her Ashley Street apartment, where what they
found
was so unbelievably gruesome Jose fears he will never be able to close
his eyes
without reliving it.
Carmela was pacing in the foyer, dazed and muttering as she suddenly
grabbed a
knife and turned it on herself. "I want to die, I want to die," she
yelled,
before her foster mother, Nilsa Oslan, said she managed to wrestle the
knife
away from her.
Inside the bedroom of the 2-year-old twins, Noah and Elijah, Jose found
the boys
lying on the floor in pajamas soaked with blood.
"I threw myself on the floor and started smacking them to see if they
would
move," he said. "One of them lifted his head, opened his eyes a little
bit and
looked at me. Then his head went back down and he closed his eyes."
"They were dying," Jose cried, wiping away tears with a trembling hand.
And then Jose remembered the baby, 7-month-old Isaiah.
He ran into his room, and saw blood dripping from the crib.
What wasn't said, what didn't need to be said in the silence that
followed is
what everyone is thinking: What kind of monster would do this?
Certainly, what Carmela Ortiz is accused of is monstrous - how the
babies
survived such brutality is nothing short of miraculous. But unravel the
22-year-old's life, talk to those who know her, who love her, and it's
not so
easy to simply dismiss her as a monster - as comforting as that may be.
By the time Carmela was 5, she had already been taken from her family
by the
Department of Children and Families, an organization she would fear the
rest of her life.
She landed with Nilsa Oslan, a religious woman who said Carmela was a
good girl,
an obedient child. But even then the family could tell that there was
something
"not quite right" about Carmela. She'd rock back and forth; she'd twist
her hair
and stare off into space.
"She was talking to you but then she'd say something and it was like
she was
somewhere else," Nilsa said.
As she got older, the family said, Carmela became moody; quick to
anger. And by
the time she was 15, she wanted out. She dropped out of school, and
spent the
next few years bouncing among DCF shelters - dumping grounds really,
for
teenagers with nowhere else to go.
At 18, Carmela walked out of DCF custody and, shortly thereafter, into
motherhood. She met Manuel Padilla through a mutual friend, and they
quickly
became close. The twins were born two years ago, the baby earlier this
year.
"They were always together," Jose said. "He seemed fine. She seemed
happy."
But there was another side to the relationship. There were accusations
of physical
violence on both sides. The scars on Manny's neck, he says, are from
Carmela's
outbursts. In 2004, Manny was arrested after Carmela accused him of
choking and
hitting her.
They'd break up, get back together. Sometimes he was living with her;
sometimes
he wasn't.
Manny's mother, Margaret Valentin, who is in the process of obtaining
custody of
the boys, isn't shy about saying the relationship wasn't working. She
threatened
to call DCF on more than a few occasions, and shortly after Manny's
arrest, she
did.
But nothing came of it. The one thing that everyone agrees on is that
Carmela
was a good mother. The kids were clean, and fed. Even now, they ask for
her.
Unfortunately, what everyone missed is that this good mother was also a
troubled
young woman overwhelmed by rejection, loneliness and a despair she
couldn't
shake.
She'd beg Nilsa to come over and help her clean, looking out the window
as they
tidied up, convinced DCF would arrive any minute to take her children.
She called family and friends at all hours just to talk.
She slept all the time.
"Is it normal to always be crying and be scared?" she asked her foster
sister
Zenia Oslan shortly after giving birth to Isaiah.
"I told her no," Zenia said. "I told her to go to the clinic and get
some pills
for depression."
But Carmela refused. Always, the fear of DCF loomed.
"I can't do that," she told her. "They'll take away my kids."
The night of the stabbings, Manny came over to watch the boys while she
visited
her family. She and Manny got into another fight when she came home and
found
other women's numbers in his cellphone. He told her he had had enough.
He no
longer cared for her; he was leaving. She told him she wanted him to
stay.
When she found herself alone again, records show she later told police,
she
heard voices in her head - voices that told her that she and the kids
would be
better off if they were "not around."
Manny called an hour after leaving to see how she and the kids were
doing; she told him she stabbed the kids.
"See what you made me do," Carmela said, before hanging up the phone.
Of course, her story doesn't forgive what happened that night, it may
not even
explain it - how do you ever explain a mother turning on her own
children?
But this much, at least, is clear. Everyone saw the problems. No one
saw what
they were adding up to.
"Now you look back and you think, what if," her sister Zenia said.
What if.
What if someone had seen that Carmela wasn't just another young mother
coping
with mounting stress? What if they saw she was a woman spinning out of
control?
Just hours after the stabbing, Nilsa Oslan got a phone call from
Carmela, who by
then was in lockup and charged with attempted murder and assault.
She was crying, Nilsa recalled. Confused.
"Ma, I'm over here and I'm in a hospital robe and the cops are telling
me that
I'm going to court tomorrow."
Nilsa tried to comfort her. It's going to be all right, she told her.
But Carmela didn't understand.
"Ma, did I do something bad? What did I do? Are the kids OK? Is Manny
OK? Ma,
did I do something bad?"
Before Nilsa could answer, the call was disconnected.
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Copyright 2006, Hartford Courant
Dan Sullivan
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