Two young children were found alone in their home yesterday by two Brushwood County Police Officers as they were responding to complaints of a strong oder coming from their apartment by other tenets of the apartment building.
After entering through the unlocked apartment door the officers found eight year old Joseph Williams and his six year old sister Nichole had been living on there own for nearly 2 weeks. The children had not had any food to eat for at least the last two days and told the Officers that there mother had not been home when they had awaken from there nap nearly two weeks earlier.
While trying to find the source of the oder Sargent Robert Strickland and Officer Paul Walters found one of the
bedroom doors to be locked from the inside. Upon forcing the door they found the mother of the two young children Susan
Williams lying on her bed with a needle and a baggy containing a small amount of Crystal Methamphetamines on the floor where they apparently fell after during seizures caused by the drug.
The children have been admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital for observation and a series of test to check on their health before they are released into the custody of the Child Welfare system to hopefully find homes together with a loving family.

There are too many bad things happening with children. I think she thought by not letting her children see her shoot up she was protecting them. I wish I thought this kind of thing would not happen anymore, but I see no way to stop it.

Those poor children. I hope there is a family who is willing to take them in before Christmas. They deserve a Christmas.

I HATE DRUGS!

So do I Bobbi all things that hurt children. When I was young I loved Christmas but knew my Dad was going to drink to much so I hated it too. I was a teenager when he stopped drinking and I was very proud but I still remember those bad times.

Kids never forget.

Never. I still remember my Mom and myself working hard all day to decorate the house only to have my stoned brother stagger in and fall on everything. One year he waited 'till Christmas Eve to finally take out the tree. I have no use for any of it. That's probably the reason why I don't even drink. The silver lining is it kept me straight.

It's great that everyone in everyone's past makes your present that much better. Me? I've learned from all the male figures in my life how NOT to be as a man. Don't cheat on your loved one. Don't freaking throw reclining chairs at them. Don't cheat on them. Don't make your loved one break your stupid nose. Don't make your loved one sic the doberman on you. Yeah...my mom is one tough cookie and yes... my dad threw a freaking reclining chair at her. I witnessed the entire incident. And then I watch her very quickly and very precisley break his dumb freakin nose. It was Classic! Yes, so classic that it deserved a capital C.

All of these bad experiences that my mom had to endure has tought me how not to be and I am very greatful for it. As you can probably tell, me and my mom are VERY close and she is thee strongest person I have yet to meet. So strong is she that a psychiatrist of hers at the time told her, after telling him her life story, that he was surprised that she didn't kill herself by now. She is kickass.

I'm sorry that your parents had all that trouble Wesley, but I am glad to hear that your Mom was a strong person and not a doormat.

“Meth Orphans Revisited”

After receiving several requests I have decided to do a follow up report on the children who I originally told you about in an article written on December 20, 2004 titled “Meth Orphans”.
The two children of Brushwood County were taken to St. Joseph's Hospital after being found by police officials along with the body of their deceased mother.
Sources inside the hospital have released information stating that despite some malnutrition and psychological issues the children should be fine after time and treatment.
A young couple known to the children has begun adoption proceedings and hope to have them complete by later this summer. This reporter has decided not to print the name of the young couple in order to help the children and there new family have a clean start in a new town.
No charges have ever been filed in the death of the children's mother and it has been written off as an accidental overdose of Crystal Methamphetamine.
Although the children were still in the hospital on Christmas Day they along with several other children in the hospital did receive a visit from Santa Clause who had special gifts for each child.
After questioning hospital staff I found out that Santa did indeed have a Elf who helped him pick out gifts for all the children in the hospital. The Elf's name however remains a mystery as it has for the last seventeen years.
I would like to add my voice to those of the hospital staff and thank the mysterious Elf for helping all the children have a better Christmas.
We here at the paper would also like to thank one of our new favorite young couples for stepping up and taking in what has to be two of the bravest young children on the face of the Earth. We would also like to thank the generous citizens of our reading area for the contributions made in the name of the children who the original article was about.

I am so happy for the children.