Linda Isgrigg said her son was making regular child support payments to his ex-wife and thought Gerren was still living with her. He was the couple's only child together. She believed the marriage ended over Gerren's medical problems.
Her son saw Gerren when he could, she said, but it was infrequent because he was in the military.
http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-wylie-angel-gerren-joseph-isgrigg-story,0,2882948.storyMr. Phillips says in a short phone conversation with his wife last night after her arrest, she told him she left Gerren at a place she thought he'd be found right away and when she did that, he was alive and fine.
moms a real piece of work if she was collecting child support for a child she abandoned to her mother. Do we know if she was passing that child support onto her mom, the boys grandmother, who was doing the caring for him? If not, there has to be some fraud here on bio moms part. Not to mention child abandonment charges. Did the grandparents ever get legal guardianship?
what a mess of a maternal family this poor child had.
At least dad was paying support but why no visitation? Did he not ask for it or did bio moms family deny it? did paternal grandparents ever inquire with their son, this childs father about visitation and requesting they be part of their grandchilds life? I'm not accusing anyone just curious becuase everyone seems to want to point the finger at someone else being responsible in times like this......
RIP Gerren, you will always be our angel!
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She thought he'd be found right away? A fire station, a police station or a hospital would have been the right choice, if she didn't want to keep him any more. She told her husband she called social services. Why didn't she really do that if she couldn't handle him anymore? I just don't get it. I can see be overwhelmed but just adbandoning him all alone in a secluded place? It just doesn't make sense but I guess I am trying to understand something that defies explanation.
I don't buy it but either way grandma caused his death. If she could no longer handle the responsibility of caring for such an ill child why not call social services and request he be turned over to a foster family capable of caring for a child with such needs?
My gut tells me because she and grandpa never had legal guardianship of this child and did not want to get their daughter in trouble for abandoning him with them. I think eventually we will see more charges in this case, particularly against the boys mother.
JMO
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She thought he'd be found right away? A fire station, a police station or a hospital would have been the right choice, if she didn't want to keep him any more. She told her husband she called social services. Why didn't she really do that if she couldn't handle him anymore? I just don't get it. I can see be overwhelmed but just adbandoning him all alone in a secluded place? It just doesn't make sense but I guess I am trying to understand something that defies explanation.
Mr. Phillips says in a short phone conversation with his wife last night after her arrest, she told him she left Gerren at a place she thought he'd be found right away and when she did that, he was alive and fine.