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Woman accused of child endangerment, DUI; 1 child critically injured
Monday, Nov. 2, 2009 | 12:49 p.m.
Two mothers are facing charges after three toddlers fell from a Chrysler PT Cruiser that had 10 people in it Sunday night in the northeast Las Vegas Valley, Metro Police said.
Nancy Lopez is charged with seven counts of child endangerment, seven counts of having children unrestrained inside the car, driving under the influence of alcohol, driving on a suspended license, having an open container in a vehicle and driving after dark without headlights, police said.
Lopez is the mother of a 3-year-old boy who was treated for a cut above his eye at University Medical Center before he was taken into protective custody at Child Haven, police said.
Vanessa Ramirez is charged with seven counts of child endangerment after 1-year-old twins fell out of Lopez's car. The twins are at UMC, where one is in critical condition and the other is being held for observation, police said.
The rest of the children are at Child Haven as the investigation into the incident continues, police said.
Police took Lopez into custody at the scene Sunday night after officers saw one of the children falling out of the car at Owens Avenue and Bruce Street, police said.
Child Protective Services is also investigating this incident.
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The state cut child-care to the BONE; what's a couple of partying welfare mothers to do?
I recall the days when dad had to install seatbelts in our family vehicles because they didn't come with them -- how times have changed.
Don't you also find it disturbing that those tasked with enforcing vehicle restraining device usage are the very one's not enforcing their usage upon themselves?
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They need to send these 2 women to prison, take ALL of their children away, remove them from the welfare system, revoke her drivers license, then never allow them to have any more children again !!!
These kind of story makes someone want to puke !!,I hope that when they get to prison all the other inmates know why they are there !!
It's interesting that the above commenters assume these women are on welfare. I doubt they are.
I can see the kid in ten years (when he can finally move his lips & talk) asking his mother "Why am I a vegetable?".
Well, if they were not on Welfare before, they are now!
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These toddlers in training have a bright future ahead, riding upon the backside of our community sanitation vehicles or perhaps becoming featured heroes in a Metro parade.
All is not what it seems.
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this is racist discrininating against people with large families.
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thats very funny - racist discrimination against people with large families... what if you have alot of children it's ok to drive around drunk, without headlights and let the kids fall out of the car??? are you thinking clearly??? doesn't matter if you have one child or 10 children, it's the parents JOB to make sure they are as safe as possible. you need to go to school and learn lst what racist is and second take a few classes on parenting. i'am sure no one is told if you have a large family you don't have to follow the law. the children are better off in child haven, and the mothers are in jail, thats better for all of us... keep them there for a long long time and maybe they will figure out what being a parent is, and they may also figure out that it's illegal to drink & drive and by the way, use headlights at night.
You can remove my comments all day long but the facts are the facts!
lucy,Who are you refering to?
Nancy Lopez & Vanessa Ramirez are total scum. I hope they are "taken care of" in prison.
These kids just lost out in the parent lottery.
I think for a mother this is just a shameful act to put your kids in and around.what happened to babysitters.these 2 probably are on welfare because they sure as hell can't be educated adults.When you take your children out you think of their safety first not yours and you don't put them in a car with 10 people without enough seatbelts to go around.they need to go to prison to learn a lesson.
I have seen on too many occasions hispanics driving with unrestrained children, and even children in the drivers lap. Please..us as Americans need to address this problem...OUR LAWS NEED TO BE ENFORCED STARTING NOW!seeing how immigration has failed us, lets get them on the municipal/driving laws. NOW!
Here we go again; this is going to cost taxpayers a few more tens of millions to house and support the families and their gene pool. They're not done yet, they young enough to have 10 more each and then their offspring, we'll have a few hundred more baby making drunks.
Deport them and put back in their country where they belong and take the kids; we can't afford to continue spending trillions upon trillions supporting illegals and their offspring.
10 people in a PT Cruiser?
10 people in a PT Cruiser, the kids dad probably had the Club Wagon. I'm sure some ambulance chasing lawyer will spin and twist the story into something completely different and figure out some way to sue Chrysler, or at least try.
I gotta tell you...I am so glad we moved out of Vegas a few yrs ago. When we left it was obvious that the problems with the hispanics were going to be so big that it would ruin that wonderful town. I read the RJ & Sun everyday, and its just so sad. I just can't believe what is happening there!!
POS!! Can someone push those "mothers" out of a moving vehicle so I can run them over? Thanks.
Pgctg - you mean sue the government? The government owns Chrysler. So, good luck?
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Spock,,I"m refering to mreds comment about being racist and large familys
So saith the herd
killerB:
Amen.
Two crackheads & 10 tens kids in a PT Cruiser.....
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FYI-according to KTNV, there were 2 adults & 10 kids(3 of which fell out) in the car.
Not sure who to believe in this town-but the car was obviously packed
2 MORE CANDIDATES FOR "MOTHERS OF THE YEAR" AWARDS
I am so disgusted by this story, and completely enraged that these mothers were ever allowed to set foot on this land. Everything that I'm thinking right now would so be "removed by staff" that I'm gonna just leave it to my fellow posters imagination of my thoughts on this story...
They are both a couple of real "beautys" arent they? lol
racists have such short memories. they use any story to spew their hate. Wasn't it just a week a ago, maybe a month, that two WHITE mothers driving while drunk killed a child? VEGAS IS SUCH A RACIST PLACE ANY STORY ABOUT A NONWHITE ALL THE RACISTS COME OUT. A WHITE PERSON COMMITS THE SMAE CRIME RACE IS NEVER COMMENTED ON!!! sometimes I think the Sun puts these articles out on purpose. I see comments removed by the staff and the staff commenting on stories. why then doesn't the Sun permanently remove these racists commentors? I believe because they are as racists as the commentors and are sitting back laughing. There has to be some kind of enforcement if the Sun won't do it, there has to be somekind of regulation. I JUST WANT THE NEWS NOT THE RACISTS COMMENTS!!!
Honestly, i see two things wrong with this picture. One the actual accident and two the comments on this blog.
I hope the law enforcement crucify these women as an example to others. Their action are unacceptable to society and truly irresponsible.
The second thing, these comments. Truly the commentators are in as much emotional distress as the women in the accident. Race, the size of their family and being drug addicts might be a indecators that they have problems. So why are ignorant and useless comments being posted? Because it is funny? This is the problem with our beautiful country. The problem is that we have a bunch of individuals that like to complain about something and not do anything about it. How about instead of doing that get togethere and do not let this happen again. Pass a law, use our tax money to reach the needy, or volunteer your time.
wakeup : If The Sun were to do as you espouse, how would you be able to get your anger and hate posted.. Jus 'sayin..
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u make no sense. so should I smile after reading racists comment after racist comment? or should I just be quiet when I see an injustice? YEAH I HATE RACISTS!
wakeup: Your missing the point here, freedom of speech is our constitutional right. Unfortunately the hate mongers get their say as well as the non hate people like yourself get to post your views.. What a country!
this story does two things for me...THANK GOD I HAVE THE MOTHER I DO! THESE TWO ARE LIKE A NIGHT MARE... TWO... YOU SHOULD HAVE TO GET A PERMIT TO HAVE CHILDREN EXCEPT ITS TOO BIG BROTHER AND SCAREY FOR THAT TOP HAPPEN ,.... BUT MY GOT THEY ARE JUST RAISING BODIES TO FILL PRISON BEDS
We don't need no stinkin seatbealts.
mred you are full of sh-- this is bad parenting to the bone.who cares about the race.common sense says if you can't fit everyone in the car with a seatbelt then you get another car involved or make 2 trips,that's what parenting skills are about knowing the dangers ahead so your child is not put in harms way,and the grandfather involved also I'm appauled,he should have known better.hope they teach parenting classes in prison,find these children homes with responsible people in them.
What does race have to do with irresponsible mothers killing their children? It's a tragedy when any parent's irresponsibility or selfishness has caused the life of a child to CEASE!! Susan Smith, the mother that drove her two kids into a lake to drown; Andrea Yates took out 5 of her children; Dena Schlosser killed her baby by dismemberment.
Nobody yelled "Stupid White Honky Bitches". Stop the madness and hypocrisy!!!
If these children could be done like this in an over packed car with a couple of drunk's, Their home life must be nasty at best.
To "wakeup", your an ass! The Sun reports what it does. You cant please everyone, and im sure the Suns main journalistic goal is to only please you. The solution to this problem of yours with the Sun, is as simple as you are. Dont like it, then dont read it!!
Having dealt with Child Haven, I don't know which is worse, leaving the children with their parents or putting them in DFS custody. Child Protective Services should be renamed Child Endangerment Services. All the horror stories you might have heard about DFS are all true and probably worse!!!!
All I want to know is...how many years these two will spent in jail? They don't deserve to by mothers to any children....under any circumstances......period!
Why are there always race comments on any story? The story did not dwell on race.
Freedom of speech does not mean-you shouldn't THINK before you speak, instead of just mouthing off.
The individuals in this situation made endangering decisions for their children. They are accountable for the care of those children.All the newer cars have a child lock on the back doors.(Look at the edge of the door and it will show directions.)If you are going to drink, do it at home or at least don't drive. You endanger your own friends and family as well as others on the road.
Reading the posts, some are wondering about jail time and the children and what is going to happen.
We're in Clark County, Clark County courts here are liberal biased and the prosecutor's office will not take this to trial. I tend to think our lazy prosecutors will enter into a plea agreement where these two will get unsupervised probation for a few years and will attend a taxpayer funded parenting class and taxpayer funded alcohol awareness class and a $1,000.00 fine, when it is all said and done charges will be dropped if they're on good behavior for 1 year and they're records will be expunged.
And we wonder what is wrong in America today; the court system and liberals have enabled drunks, criminals, murderers, rapists, drug addicts, sexual predators, and any vile act one could imagine to be committed against humans to be excused or justified because of something or somebody made them do it, therefore, rehabilitation is needed.
I for one would hope that they permanently remove the children from the parents and forced serialization for these two so they can't reproduce and bring more harm to children that they can't afford, when this is done then put them in prison for 10 years, 1 year per child and another 10 years of supervised probation with mandatory drug and alcohol testing for 10 more years.