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.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/apr/27/271707/complaining-mom-12-kids-moving-rent-free-home-toda/
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.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/apr/29/291352/homeless-mom-12-held-contempt-kids-put-foster-care/
That unremorseful, public assistance-mooching breeding machine, needs to be forcibly spayed. That would be tax money well spent.
Related articles:
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/apr/21/211620/homeless-mother-15-says-she-needs-help-justice/
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/apr/26/262200/mother-unrepentant-demanding-more-help-kids/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/the-octomom-bailout/
Posted by sfcmac on 08/12/2011 at 08:41
“amerikanknight”,
I don’t give a shit about your skin color or the number of children you have, as long as you can afford to support them and don’t suck off the public teat like it’s an automatic entitlement. “Kate+8″ was a ridiculous show, but the parents are EMPLOYED. The “19 kids and counting” reality show is also just an exploitation of over-breeding, but the parents are EMPLOYED. Octomom and the Homeless Woman are both welfare-collecting breeding machines with no sense of responsibility. I see a pattern there.
SFC MAC
Posted by kash on 07/12/2011 at 02:13
as a black women this is sooooooo embarassing, because people see this women and equate her to me just because we have the same skin color. as a human being period this is sooooo embarassing, why keep having kids when you can’t afford them. also why in the world does she thinks anybody OWES her something. I hope they don’t give back those kids.
Posted by mel on 06/12/2011 at 18:55
this makes me sick she is a prime example of why this country is going to hell, if she wants to be on welfare she needs to be sterilized.. before she hits number 17.. crazy..
Posted by amerikanknight on 06/12/2011 at 10:16
i don’t think the kids should be exploited in this negative manner at all … racist bastards! white family is given all the media hype over having 20 kids, another gets a show to exploit hers and loses her husband in the process of being kate + 8 and now she is spending all the money made for them on plastic surgery … Octomom was criticized for having artificial insemination … where were the complaints after child number 5, 6, 7 how could a doctor continue to allow her to go without tying her up??? all this is after the fact and society needs people to pick on to make themselves seem like their so right on course… the woman is obviously ignorant and can’t articulate that she needs help – so what if she feels a sense of entitlement those children need someone to step in and take over with proper care or we will have an even bigger problem on our hands once they turn 18 … your not getting screwed by these people your getting screwed by your public officials who are taxing you more for their free homes – free healthcare – free limos – free meals – free parties – free utilities – free flights – etc … utterly ridiculous …
Posted by Leetta Wilson on 04/12/2011 at 20:34
I cant believe she thinks we the goverment should help her. Why she had these children not us. But the goverment will pay for her and all her kids. The kids did nothing wrong but she needs to stop having children or call the duggers and learn how to care for that many children without goverment help. And to think she is only 38 so she can have more kids. Let the goverment pay her to get fixed I will even donate $100.00 for that. Again call the Duggers and learn how to take care of your own.
Posted by marco morales on 04/12/2011 at 12:08
where is our congress? why don`t you come up with a law to stop this type of business in america, so nice that we as tax payers get screwed from these people.