Homeless Woman With 15 Kids Demands More Government Assistance

Remember Nadya Suleman, the “Octomom”? She already had 6 kids on welfare then some Einstein obstetrician did an in vitro fertilization, and she popped out 8 more. Well, Nadya has some competition.

TAMPA – In the space of a week, Angel Adams and a dozen of her 15 children was to have gone from living in a rundown, one-room motel room to a six-bedroom house, if all had gone according to plan.

It didn’t.

Building inspectors raised doubts about whether the selected Sulphur Springs home was suitable, and Adams’ plans to move into a rent-subsidized home today was put on hold. It was a glitch in her change-of-fortune run this past week, which included having a debt of several thousand dollars wiped clean and from being ineligible for Section 8 housing to living rent free.

Now, case workers say they are looking at other houses. Still, they say, the goal is to get the family of 13 moved into a home as soon as possible.

Currently, the family is staying at a temporary shelter near Brandon.

Adams’ sister, Mary Gibson, said the move has been put off because of the proximity of the home to railroad tracks. The house sits on a cul-de-sac in Sulphur Springs. A chain-link fence separating the home from the tracks is within a couple of feet from the two-story block home.

Because of that, Gibson said, home inspectors are looking at other houses.

Adams and her children “have all their stuff ready to move in,” Gibson said.

After she was evicted last month for not telling her landlord she had 12 children in her care, Adams, 37, landed in the Economy Inn on Busch Boulevard. Her plight came to light after she complained that the government didn’t do enough to help her.

Her comments unleashed a flood of criticism that she was abusing the system. Child welfare officials in Tampa said they were helping the family because of the children, despite Adams’ attitude that the government owed her.

Hillsborough Kids Inc., which manages child welfare in the county, agreed to pay off Adams’ rent debts and the Tampa Housing Authority agreed to waive a five-year ban on Adams, who owed the authority $6,000.

“We’re not here to start giving her handouts,” Nick Cox, the Florida Department of Children & Families’ regional director, said during a status hearing in family court this week. “We’re not here to provide for her. We’re not here to provide her a house that she wants or anything like that. We’re here to help and support and take care of the children.”

This afternoon, Adams said she was ready to leave A Kid’s Place, the shelter near Brandon.

“Well,” she said, “I’m still at the Kid’s Place and I’m just waiting to move into my new house.

“I’m really excited and I’m just ready to go home and just move on with my life,” she said.

She responded to critics who say she’s milking the system by saying, “Well, I tell those people I do pay for them [her children]. I have been paying for them and that’s why I’m where I’m at today.”

Last week, she said she had a right to have as many children as she wanted, even though she couldn’t support them.

Adams’ comments about social welfare agencies not doing enough to help was widely criticized during the past week. She doesn’t currently have a job. Her children were fathered by three men, including one who is in prison.

She lost her children two years ago after neglect accusations, but the family was reunited six months ago. Three of the 15 children don’t live with her.

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And here’s a lovely family portrait:
Staff photo by PAUL LAMISON

Adams’ sense of entitlement didn’t go over too well in court. She was held in contempt and her kids are in foster care:

A homeless mother with 12 dependent children didn’t win any supporters this week when she loudly complained that the various welfare agencies trying to help her weren’t doing enough. Angel Adams gained a new detractor on Thursday: a circuit judge who jailed the griping mom after she refused to reveal if she was pregnant with her 16th child.

Adams, 37, was held in contempt of court at a hearing Thursday morning. She was handcuffed and escorted from the courtroom. The judge then ordered her children placed in foster care for the second time in two years.
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That unremorseful, public assistance-mooching breeding machine, needs to be forcibly spayed. That would be tax money well spent.

Woman with 15 Children Arrested, Evicted and Blames State for Her Problems (Video)

Wed, Nov 30, 2011

Angel Adams with her 12 children in a hotel room after being evicted from their apartment.

The “system” has been blamed for dropping the ball for a lot of needy, at-risk families. In a lot of cases, their disorganized bureaucracy has cost children their lives and shattered families forever. But, in this particular case it appears that the system may have been somewhat exhausted.

According to several news sources in Tampa, Florida, Angel Adams, 36, is homeless after being evicted from an apartment with 12 of her 15 children. Three of her children are old enough to support themselves and the rest of the children’s ages range from 11 years old to six months old. Adams has 10 of her children with her fiance’ Gary Brown, Sr., and said that after he was arrested and social services got in her life everything went wrong.

After reporters investigated through the department of Children and Families what type of assistance they had been offering Adams, they found that she had her rent paid and her apartment furnished. Adams felt that wasn’t enough. She turned to news camera during one report and said:

“Somebody needs to pay for alllllllllllll my children! And my and Gary, and all our suffering and our pain! Somebody needs to be held accountable! Somebody needs to pay!”

According to reports, there was quite a stir of controversy over her disposition toward the system that had pulled out the stops to pay her bills and rent. It really wasn’t clear why she was evicted from the apartment, but apparently there were too many people for that size domicile.

Her sense of “entitlement” from the social services programs is almost unbearable to watch; especially during a time when everyone is coming up short financially. She is blaming the system for her inability to provide for her 12 children. But, this is a clear case for birth control. WHERE WAS IT ALL HER LIFE? But once she came up against a judge that had the final word over her situation and shut her up in a cell for contempt of court, her tuned changed. The judge merely wanted to know if she was pregnant and she would not answer. But her visit within the penal system seemed to change her disposition…completely.

There are a lot of twists and turns and information that comes out as several news agencies report on the family. One report said that her children had been taken from her before and it was 10 months before she came to see them. By the end of this report, all of her children were taken and several made wards of the state. But, all of the children initially went to a “special” place where all of them could be kept together.

What do you think about her situation? Is she right for demanding that social services take care of her and her family? And what does she mean that it’s their fault that she’s in the situation she’s in? Inquiring minds want to know. Check her out!

-J.C. Brooks

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