I think the bio parents should bear some responsibility here too. I've had difficult pregnancies...five of them to be exact. Stepping stone babies, that's how it's been with me, literally one right after the other. If you can't handle your kids during a difficult pregnancy that's one thing, but as with any other illness that prevents you taking care of your children, your job as a parent is to verify the cleanliness, safety, and supervision of the home and the adults that will be caring for your kids. If you willingly put your child in a situation where there is no food, lots of drugs, and no one is checking on the kids even on a daily basis, then you should expect to be charged. Let me put it this way, if mother or father had been calling a couple times a day to check on their kids, like parents are supposed to do, that would have ensured some type of daily monitoring. They couldn't be bothered to do that apparently, so I hope they are both charged as well, whether the mother is pregnant or has a new baby means nothing to me....I hope that any remaining children of these two are also evaluated very carefully for removal, as I believe it's warranted here.
JMO, MOO, and so on.
