Grandmother accused of murdering granddaughter was reported for child abuse months earlier
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2023
- A WRAL investigation has now found that social services was called to the girl's elementary school back in December, after staff reported the girl had been brutally beaten. WRAL News is now pressing the county to explain why the girl wasn't taken from her grandmother at the first sign of abuse.
A Nash County grandmother accused of murdering her 8-year-old granddaughter earlier this week appeared in court for the first time on Thursday.
Patricia Ann Ricks, 72, of Nashville, North Carolina, is charged with first-degree murder and felony child abuse. On Tuesday, the Nash Sheriff's Office says Ricks beat the Lane to death with multiple items in the home used as weapons in the abuse.
Granddaughter was left in custody despite recent reports of abuse
A WRAL investigation has now found that social services was called to the girl's elementary school back in December, after staff reported the girl had been brutally beaten. WRAL News is now pressing the county to explain why the girl wasn't taken from her grandmother at the first sign of abuse.
A staff member at Cooper's Elementary School says Christal Lane came to school beaten so badly she was almost unrecognizable. They say social services didn't protect Lane. The staff member said Lane claimed she had been beaten for refusing to put lotion on her skin.
Nash County Schools say DSS investigators came to campus the day of the report and were in contact with the school all week.
The district also says a caseworker was assigned who visited Lane and the school multiple times, with investigators discussing this case with administrators throughout the month of January. Through it all, Lane and her four siblings remained in their grandmother's custody.
WRAL News asked Nash County DSS for a copy of the complaint filed by the school. We also asked what they found in their investigation into the reported abuse, and why Lane and her siblings were allowed to remain in Ricks's custody after the school's report.
In a statement, the department says they're currently conducting their own investigation into this incident, and when that's complete, they may be able to share more information.
Ricks appears in court for the first time
Ricks was taken into the Nash County court in a wheelchair.
When a judge asked if she understood the charges against her, Ricks said yes. However, as the judge explained she could face the death penalty if convicted, Ricks seemed to zone out, not giving an answer when asked if she had an attorney or wanted a public defender.
The state is set to show their evidence against Ricks in court in two weeks.
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The social worker assigned should be facing charges also
I 2nd that
Exactly
For sure!
But they never do get locked up
I agree with you.
They fuck with people who been called on because someone was being petty making false reports but people who really need to be investigated slide right on by!
Yes it's the truth I agree with you 💯
Exactly 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Exactly!!! Say it again! My mother has called on me repeatedly because she's mad at me. Yet the real criminals "slip thru the cracks" wtf
That part! It happened to me
@@DontDooTooMuch shit is sad smh
I hate when adults fail children. This is unacceptable! Protect these babies!!!
Pisses me off to no end.
Same here!
Protect them how?
@@binkersbonkers244 don't leave them in homes where they're being abused.
@@DontDooTooMuch And the homes that they do take kids from are good and loving parents or parent.
Why ITF wasn't the grandmother arrested when the girl showed up to school beat so badly she was unrecognizable????????? Not only that, she was allowed to keep FOUR kids in her care?!!! More than the grandmother needs to pay for this horrific crime.
Right!! Makes no sense.
They don’t care about a black life, people don’t have children if, you not ready to take care of them, foster care has so many children, because of unplanned pregnancies
And, why was she allowed to go back to that home? If the grandmother didn't want the kids, she could've put them in foster care.
All of the kids had been beaten
Where is the girls actual
Mom
& Dad?
@@lovepet4565 That’s the problem, why wasn’t they with their parents
Social services have been on the news repeatedly for not doing their job. Why isn't something being done?
Make jail terms and loss of certifications if social workers do NOT do their jobs of protecting and rescuing children in abusive settings!
Lately? You mean its been on the news for decades upon decades.
@@jazziez6467 i was just going to say that
Telling Kids to become Hookers??? WTF???
The system is corrupt, they're complcit, color of office, ecetera......
What a demon these poor children aren't even safe with grandma. Rip little angel 🧚♀️
MY MOTHER DIDN'T LIVE TO SEE GRANDCHILDREN..I'VE BEEN BLESSED WITH FIVE...I'D GIVE MY LIFE FOR THEM.
SO MANY THINGS WENT WRONG HERE.
She’s not
It’s not her responsibility to raise FOUR KIDS ALL OVER AGAIN. Her daughter or son whoever these kids belong too was fucked up by bustin it open having so many kids and passing off on mom. So I get why she snapped. She’s older and have to raise someone else’s kids not by choice. Men and women really need to close their legs I swear. Or get a hysterectomy or a vasectomy do sumthin I SWEAR. Cuz women are tired. If you notice kids is always raised by mom or by grandma. Never dad or grandpa. Never ever ever.
Ugliest woman ever, literally.
My grandmothers never laid a hand on me, but one of my grandfathers actually gave me a really bad whipping, because i went into the neighbors yard, for which i was okayed to do by that neighbors kid, who was my age. Well, after telling my mom about it, my mother, got his face, and told to never do that again, and he never did.
-- The child's MOTHER should have been taking care of her own child. Not a senior citizen 72 yr old grandmother.
May this little Angel Rest In Peace and In Jesus Christ Arms.
That’s exactly where she is, the BEST place to be. 🙏🏼
Y'all both stoopid. If your jesus existed he would have prevented the beatings. So in order to be with him she had to suffer a horrific death? Religious people sound dum AH.
An 8 year old can't do anything to be beaten to death, she must have hated her. my granddaughter is about to be 8 in June she's so sweet and precious to me I'm appalled.
My granddaughter will be 7 in June. I've had to take care of her and my first granddaughter at times and believe me you, I loved and love every minute of it. So happy to have my little angels in my life.
Since my grandmother died 25 years ago, my life never the same. She was the only pure and true love I've ever known😖
Poor little angel. Can’t believe someone would do so bad to a baby 😢
Makes me sick to my stomach. That poor child. 😢
As one of the teachers, there's no way I'd be able to sleep at night knowing Crystal was being returned to that home after that beating. Even if it meant me taking her home myself.
She was probably receiving money from the state to keep the grandkids….
Of course she was receiving one check per kid, plus free housing, health care,daycare
@@dar7230 Of course you would say that. Most family members don't receive payments for taking in a child.
@@kimgoode1591 while I agree, I think it’s fair to say this one didn’t have the girl’s best interests at heart.
In most cases you are correct, 💯
Damn man… grandma is supposed to be the one you run to when shit ain’t right smh
-- The child's MOTHER should have been taking care of her own child. Not a senior citizen 72 yr old grandmother.
@@VAIO294 different strokes for different folks my boy🫡
@@jasminetucker8213 -- My infant, listen. "Different strokes" is why that 8 yr old is dead. -- Her mama should have been taking care of her own child, or don't have kids in the first place.
@@VAIO294 well tell her mama that tf you want me to do I don’t know the mother’s situation as to why the girl was there to begin with and neither do you beloved so pray for the rest of the family and carry on about your day
@@VAIO294 and future reference address by my name I’m not your mf infant you got me fucked up
Why??? She needs to be jailed for life, and someone needs to be fired!!!! Where's the mother and father??? Prayers and condolences for the other children.
She needs to be put to death not life in prison that too good for her she killed her grandchild granny's suppose to love,care,and keep the grandchild safe and make them feel the warmth of being cherished
It's obvious that the mother and father weren't able to care for the kids that's why that evil being had kinship over them and I'm sure she only had kinship to get that check from the government and I'm sure she was using that check to get high off drugs because that irrational behavior is normally caused by drug abuse and I Know It All Too Well because we've escaped this from our mother and our grandmother with all the things to my great-grandmother and God for giving us a chance however baby girl didn't get a chance when these babies are coming to you all and they're confiding in you and speaking to you opening up to you letting you know what's transpiring and their household listen to them cuz where there's smoke there's fire
So badly beaten they didn't recognize her? Yet... They sent her home? So much for protecting your students. Unbelievable. Fire everyone involved and make them PAY
Poor baby. This is so shocking, grandmothers usually have a heart of gold with the grandbabies. Wonder why the kiddies were not taken away if they were being beaten to a pulp.
Hope they charge the social worker or workers involved, question teachers and ensure that grandma's punishment fit this diabolical crime.
R.I.P little one.
Why were the kids not with their parents?
@@cynthiakeller5954 Not sure why the grandmother Patricia Rix was the legal guardian of little Crystal Lane and her siblings.
I personally believe that grandmother was getting high doing some type of drugs also had a mental issue which is commonly caused by drug-related abuse and I know this all so well because I've experienced this firsthand from my mother and my grandmother my great-grandmother had to step in and remove us from my mother's custody to avoid something such as this I thank God for my great-grandmother and I miss her dearly cuz we got a chance at life and babygirl didn't everyone around her failed her along with her siblings up until this day me and my two younger siblings broke that generational curse that black deep dark cycle of hate and destruction of ourselves we love on our children unconditionally genuinely our mother didn't want us she gave us away to our great-grandmother however we have kids of Our Own one of us have 8 kids so that just shows you the amount of Love we've learned and indured In Our Lifetime and now we're showing that unconditional genuine love to our kids, informing them the importance of God, and loving they self no matter what and knowing that they have a purpose
Not my mum. She dgaf. I raised him myself. She even keep his red money packets he gets from our new years from all my uncles and aunties. I saw a draw full of empty packets n so she been keepin them for years. Lol.
@maggotstew oh. That suckz ball. Wow. Scary. I love my Lover. If any1 smacked her, i would fly kick them in the head. Old gramps or not. Maybe not a flykick, maybe a back hand or a bltch slap. Lol
If she didn't want the little girl she could have handed her over to CPS. Where were her parents? She was just a baby
You probably don’t want to know where or what the parents are doing.
@@jerrymylove1754 The parents could be dead.
She wanted that money 💰
Wants$$$$$$ not the children😢😢😢
They want the money but resent the responsibility they have to do.
Where is the mother and father?
Is that a serious question?
@@Lilboozibert exactly!!!
So sorry for this poor child. The school failed this child as well as the social worker. Teacher if a child shows up badly beaten you call the police and an ambulance to take the child to the hospital, be treated and document injuries. They know how to document and preserve evidence helpful to the child. The mandated reporters did not do their job. The mandated reporter can take custody of an endangered child for whom the home is unsafe.
This makes me wanna holler!
Why is it always someone else's responsibility to raise children and never the parents Some continuously blame school, govt, 3tc for their kids and their bad behavior. Take some responsibility for ONCE.
@@dar7230 Parents SHOULD take responsibility for their kids, but abusive parents and guardians will ALWAYS exist, just like murderers and rapists will always exists. So if you choose to pursue a career that also requires you to be a mandated reporter for abused and neglected children, then you need to do exactly that. No one is requiring anyone to be a teacher, social worker, physician, healthcare worker, etc. So if you make the decision to join those careers, then you also accept that you are required by law to report anytime you suspect a child is being abused and neglected.
That is not expecting other people to be responsible for raising someone else's child. That is expecting the people in these professions to adhere to the legal requirements of the jobs they CHOSE to take. It is the parent/guardian's fault for abusing the child, but if it is not correctly reported and investigated by the people whose job it is to teach and provide care for these children, then that is their fault as well, and they should face the legal consequences of that. There is a reason we have these laws now because parents aren't going to report themselves for abusing their children. You're asking abusive parents to take responsibility for their kids, which is pretty stupid because if they were responsible, they wouldn't be abusing their kids in the first place. And I'm guessing you've never heard the phrase "it takes a village to raise a child."
Exactly 😢 they don’t care 🤷🏽♀️ about us
The TEACHER didn't do his, her JOB!!!😡
As much as I love my grandchildren I can not understand how grandma of all people could do a thing like this!!😢😢😢😢 RIH beautiful baby girl💔
CPS should be held accountable for this child’s death. This is so sad.
As a person that was raised by amazing grandparents, I have never heard of a grandparent killing their grandchildren! This just really blew my mind smh
My grandparents saved me from some evil parents. I loved them dealy, they spoiled me rotten.
You know my mom cries all the time because she doesn't have any grandchildren and there's people out there just take lives for granted how sad
I know how she feels while i do have one granbaby i would love to have several. I was thinking of fostering children.
It NEEDS TO BE A FEDERAL LAW that ANYTIME a child is beaten or hurt in any manner...ALL CHILDREN IN THAT DWELLING MUST BE REMOVED IMMEDIATELY AS INVESTIGATION IS ON-GOING AND NOT ALLOWED TO BE RETURNED TO THAT DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENT IF INVESTIGATION CONFIRMS OR SUSPECTS ABUSE DID OCCUR AT HANDS OF ANY PERSON IN THAT ENVIRONMENT.
WHY FEDERAL LAW???? Enforce the STATE laws we have !!!! FEDS aren't going to do any good.
What the hell is going on with people on this planet seriously 👀.
That's what I'm trying to figure out. This is a sad case.
Evil evil Evil
My deepest condolences to the family may God comfort them and God bless them and give them strength 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Unfortunately all the adults in her family did not care, condolences only to her siblings.
This is just a sick story..That poor girl. RIP
Social services just as reliable as the police. I'm sure they'll find everything was hunky dory.
I thought that there wasn't anything more disgusting than a parent who kills their child, I was wrong. I'm so, so sorry little one, "grandma" may you receive absolutely everything that you deserve- in this life and the next....
🤔 being told your facing the death penalty would make anyone zone out
This is not child abuse This is EITHER 1st degree murder or premeditated murder 😳 🤔 PERIOD::::.......:::::: .........
Second degree before it’s all over.. she was not trying to kill her but she was handling too much. She is definitely guilty but good luck trying to prove she intended or planned to kill the child.. poor kids and the little 8 year old.
I have NEVER heard a grandmother abuse their grand child this world is definately deteriorating. We are certainly living in the last days🤔
@@Lilboozibert ok i agree my mom and dad spoils my children i wish i was treated like them when i was young . 🙂But i agree now a days grand parents do abuse their grand children SAD🤔
AMEN
Sad.
Once again social services and CPS is an absolute disgrace
🎯💯😤totally agree all the way around the board that princess was failed along with her siblings
Rest In Peace, little girl. 💐
Where the hell are the parents?
You know what the parents are to blame just as much as grandma.. She probably isn't mentally stable to take care of those kids but the parents don't want anything to do with them... It's sad
The parents are more to blame because the grandmother had to have been known to be abusive and to leave her responsible for 5 young children at her old age?
Crazy!
@@sarcasticallyrearranged They didn't care as long as they didn't have to take care of them they were ok with it and probably still don't care
I can not even comprehend how vile people like that exist, I guess it’s a good thing I don’t understand them but how truly disgusting and heartbreaking
She's gonna try and act old and crazy now? Screw that...monster
where are the parents?
The mother is probably some where popping out more kids for checks mean while daddy is on the street dealing drugs and robbing people..
Guess
Lord have mercy! Where were her parents? She didn't have anyone but her school? I wouldn't have let her go back home! Well.. as sad to write it but she is in a much better place. These people need to take responsibility for these children they are producing! It's a shame they dump these children on the Grandparent(s)!
It's honestly horrific how people can just reproduce then dump the innocent's to others . My mother was one.
Tuesday/February/14/2023
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You're absolutely right 👍
The child is back with God the God who created her in the beginning.
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Why is the grandmother guardian for the 8 year old and 4 other children?
There are millions of grandparents no longer necessarily equipped to parent their children's offspring, but when parent(s) get involved in drugs, find themselves in bad relationships, unable to provide for the children they have, either the parent(s) drop the kids off with grandparents, parent(s)l die of overdoses,and/ or social services takes children from an unsafe environment with parents, and look for a relative to place them with.
Maybe Grandma also treated her children brutally, perhaps taking on 5 children as she aged was too much of a burden, or she's developing dementia.
Think we're going to have wait for more details on her situation, but the real issue appears to land in the lap of Social Services, who ignored multiple red flags concerning the 8 year old.
Then again, think about this poor child next time legislators are considering hacking more money out of family support programs, public social service efforts intended to protect vulnerable children because people shouldn't expect "entitlement" programs to help them through challenging times.
If parents are in jail, they should be made to WORK to help pay for the upkeep of their neglected or abused children! ANYTHING they owned, cars, jewelry, house, guns, etc should be sold and all proceeds go to good care of helpless children! The courts decided years ago that it would be cheaper to put kids with relatives. Courts even let jailed abusive parents have a say to what relatives or friends can raise them. That is stupid idea, since often the other family and friends are also doing criminal lifestyles, are hard, uncaring criminals that keep the kids for money and the kids grow up in dangerous lifestyles, unloved, abused, neglected. They would be better off in adopted homes or in small group homes with college educated social workers, or child psychology caregivers, far away from neighbor"hoods" and bad influencers. Parents who abuse or neglect kids should lose all further contact and custody rights forever. No welfare checks or housing...put that money in kids childhood years, not paying for cons who are scamming and living crime and drug lifestyles.
So Nash DSS is charged as an accomplice? What's the point of the agency if no work is done?
Tremendously heartbreaking it's not fair for her rest in peace baby girl💝💫
I’m sure the child’s mother and father, are locked up or on drugs. They failed their child, then the grandmother took the child’s life. What a sad story. Something tells me, whichever one is the grandmother’s child, knew their mother is abusive. These children are in this world, with no one to protect them. It’s just terrible!
For not wanting to put lotion on??? Wow the grandma was pure evil!!!! The most frustrating part of it all is this poor baby could've been saved if they would've taken action on her sorry ass the same day it was reported!!!! Rest in heaven babygirl 🕊️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 no excuses for what she did but this is why some parents gotta know you can't/don't put your responsibilities out on the elderly some people can't do it!!! Meanwhile some can with ease it takes a village where was this old woman's help with 4 children and where was this babies safe haven?! this is tragic 😞😢😢
What an evil looking demon😢
😡Whoever responsible for that baby going back to the grandmother after being badly beaten should be on trial for second-degree murder as well.
VERY HEARTBREAKING & SAD! The SYSTEM failed this child by not removing her & her siblings away from the abuser! All ADULTS in this case she be held accountable!
Justice for this child
This is sick
Bro what? This 70 yr old woman killed her 8 yr old granddaughter r u fuckn serious!?
Unbelievable
or maybe she's protecting someone else
This one and can't say I'm surprised
This is an unbelievable tragedy that should and COULD have been stopped. Why the hell wasn't the POLICE called to the school the MINUTE that child was seen by any of the school faculty!?!?!? That was a assault with a deadly weapon!! No matter what was used on her!! What in the hell??? I
Beyond evil
Usually I'm willing to give grace to overworked social workers, but she was beaten badly enough for someone to notice - and the reason was nothing. This was completely negligent on their part.
Had enough experience watching some of those workers in nonaction taking really long lunch breaks, shopping while on the clock, complaining about such heavy case loads and I believe the system must be power washed !
Exactly ❗❗❗❗❗
Terrible we living in the last Dayz🙏🏾
This is totally unusual for a grandmother she must have been a grand dragon What an evil beast may the little innocent child rest in peace she was failed by family and the system but God has her now 🙏 she's safe
Thank GOD for my grandpa!
RIP to this little angle. 💔
So sad, May the granddaughter rest in peace.🙏🏿
They should have called police first for assault, then called child services
Department of human services goes after the ones who’s doing a great job of parenting and is responsible in every aspect of their child/ children lives. The parents that are neglecting their children’s and abusing their children gets by passed or if reports are made they get a slick check and case closed this is why everyday you see a child dead.
😭😡🤬The whole entire system FAILED that little girl! 😭😡🤬
Another system failure
Why is a 72year old woman watching that many Children anyway?! She is old and going through changes. A 72 year old woman should not be watching kids like that, her time has past. especially for watch children’
They need fire everyone involved in this situation.
This a evil shame 🙏🏾🙏🏾
NOT ONCE is anyone questioning the WHEREABOUTS of the MOTHER & FATHER!!!
EXACTLY where are mother and father
These evil demons are too busy going after the innocent parents😡😡😡
It’s amazing the community allows those people to keep their jobs
So heart wrenching such a horrific thing happened to a defenseless precious little child and by somebody who suppose to show her love 😢😔
Disgusting I'm so sick of these adults killing kids . And cps/social services need to be held accountable
How on earth was she sent back to this monster. These people in child services need locking up
Grandma should be in jail the same day she went to school beaten. WTF 😒
How did she ever get back in that home ? !!! God help this world
Terrible! That poor little girl...
CPS keeps failing these innocent kids. Ridiculous system.
Hope they charge social services to. And that person needs to be held accountable
How does a child that shows up to school severely beaten GO HOME?
There's not enough one can say, after seeing the evidence they made the children stay there, she took out that senseless beating on the poor helpless child smh
WOW this is ridiculous crazy.!
Beat to death?! 😱 what a demon!
No way in hell that baby should've been back in that house. As the social worker or teacher I'd have risked it all! She is not going back!
WHAT KND OF GRANDMOTHER kills her own grandchild ??? JAIL FOR LIFE
The system & everyone related to her failed her
I'm not defending the grandma but after you raised your own kids, you just want to enjoy your life and not raising another family. The so-called mom of these kids should be held accountable.
I'm going to hold this demonic grandmother for ACTUALLY khilling HER grandmother
"lf you don't raise your children, you will raise your grandchildren." Too many soft parents out here! If granny pounced on the grown parents, she wouldn't be raising their children.
But she won't be, where is she btw
Once that child came to school beaten, she should’ve never been able to go back to that so-called grandmother
HOW did she still have custody?!
The state shows up looks in the fridge if there’s food and the house is somewhat clean they will say the child isn’t in danger. I’ve seen them harass people who don’t deserve it but they let the kids who really need help slip thorough.
Damn shame.
I’m so f!!!!! Tired of hearing the bull crap excuses people have for not helping these children. Children service should take a pay cut everytime a child passes because of there negligence
Social services fails these kids so many times.
Where is the biological mother and father of this child.
She don’t deserve to be in a wheel chair let her walk in pain. I can’t stand when others have been abused then repeat the cycle with children. 🤦🏽♀️🦋🐣🧸🙏🏽😔
I bet she was standing when she BEAT the child to death!!!!
Mental health is real. 8 year olds are sooo sweet RIP
I’m so sick of these criminals being wheeled into the courtroom! She can beat the girl to death but she cannot stand up & walk to room?!
No words for Grandma Where is the child's mother?
Signed back in to answer your reply. A comment of this not being a , job responsibility to call cps. Human reflex dictates an action to help other humans, especially children. Police should have been called after principle was made aware. The adult that was lawfully responsible for child should have been required by police that day to explain and an investigation would follow. Also I am not doing any more replies on humans doing nothing.
The parents, where are they? Damn, a 72 year old woman should not be taking care of no children, if you are not ready to take care of children, don’t have any
Some parents get MANIPULATED out of custody I think it's wrong to not even consider that possibility and shift all blame on the mother
@@soso-mx8nb Their mother died during child birth, but the father or fathers was not around, sad situation, I wish I can adopt them, hopefully they family would step up
Rest easy little Angel🙏🏾❤️😢
Where's the parents????
Im shocked! That cps in NC did nothing