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I'm like anyone and people will say no doubt 40 million and it is all about money BUT this agency DOES have some explaining to do AND they have every right to do this. There are sooooo many pictures of these boys happy before being with the Wests. Or before whatever started all of their journey.Cal City Boys: Biological mother, grandmother seek $40 million from countyCal City Boys: Biological mother, grandmother seek $40 million from county
Sixteen months have passed since toddlers Orrin and Orson West were first reported missing. Last month, adoptive parents Trazell and Jacqueline West were arrested on murder charges. Now, the boys' biological mother and maternal grandmother are demanding $40 million in damages from the county...
Sixteen months have passed since toddlers Orrin and Orson West were first reported missing. Last month, adoptive parents Trazell and Jacqueline West were arrested on murder charges. Now, the boys' biological mother and maternal grandmother are demanding $40 million in damages from the county.
They sent a claim to the Board of Supervisors, and it is expected to be reviewed at their next meeting on Tuesday during their closed session.
Ryan Dean, the biological mother, and Dana Moorer, the maternal grandmother, allege the county repeatedly ignored their reports of suspected abuse while the boys were in the West's home. According to their claim, Orrin was allegedly taken unlawfully by the Kern County Department of Human Services following a trip to the emergency room, where doctors said he had multiple broken bones.
According to the claim, Dean had no prior criminal record or history of abuse. And when Orson was born, he was also taken by the county.
The biological father and paternal grandparents have filed a similar lawsuit against the county, alleging they also requested the boys be placed with them as well.
Eyewitness News reached out to both biological parents' attorneys and Human Services but did not receive a response.
The murder trial is scheduled to begin on May 23.
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Oh yeah. Riiight...$40 million. NONE of you were fit to begin with!Cal City Boys: Biological mother, grandmother seek $40 million from countyCal City Boys: Biological mother, grandmother seek $40 million from county
Sixteen months have passed since toddlers Orrin and Orson West were first reported missing. Last month, adoptive parents Trazell and Jacqueline West were arrested on murder charges. Now, the boys' biological mother and maternal grandmother are demanding $40 million in damages from the county...
Sixteen months have passed since toddlers Orrin and Orson West were first reported missing. Last month, adoptive parents Trazell and Jacqueline West were arrested on murder charges. Now, the boys' biological mother and maternal grandmother are demanding $40 million in damages from the county.
They sent a claim to the Board of Supervisors, and it is expected to be reviewed at their next meeting on Tuesday during their closed session.
Ryan Dean, the biological mother, and Dana Moorer, the maternal grandmother, allege the county repeatedly ignored their reports of suspected abuse while the boys were in the West's home. According to their claim, Orrin was allegedly taken unlawfully by the Kern County Department of Human Services following a trip to the emergency room, where doctors said he had multiple broken bones.
According to the claim, Dean had no prior criminal record or history of abuse. And when Orson was born, he was also taken by the county.
The biological father and paternal grandparents have filed a similar lawsuit against the county, alleging they also requested the boys be placed with them as well.
Eyewitness News reached out to both biological parents' attorneys and Human Services but did not receive a response.
The murder trial is scheduled to begin on May 23.
Lying. There is plenty of desert to bury them. It sounds terrible. But I think that's where they are.Where are the boys? The tragic disappearance of 2 children from California City
The sun had sunk below the horizon and temperatures were dropping when Orrin and Orson West were reported missing from their California City home Dec. 21, 2020. After a desperate, fruitless search …Where are the boys? The tragic disappearance of 2 children from California City
The sun had sunk below the horizon and temperatures were dropping when Orrin and Orson West were reported missing from their California City home Dec. 21, 2020.
Orrin, 4, and Orson, 3, had been playing outside in the early evening, adoptive parents Trezell and Jacqueline West told police. Trezell West said he kept an eye on the boys as he gathered firewood.
He said he briefly went indoors and when he came back out the children were missing. He realized he left the gate open and conducted a frantic search of the neighborhood before calling 911, Trezell West told police.
Police and volunteers searched the area using K-9s but came up empty. They sent out a news release with a description and photos of the boys.
By the next morning, the community came together in the first of many massive searches. Even with a larger group of volunteers and sunny conditions, searchers found nothing.
What no one walking those neighborhoods or driving through the surrounding desert knew that morning — and wouldn’t until a shocking twist more than a year later — is the boys were already beyond their help.
According to prosecutors, Orrin and Orson were killed three months before they were reported missing. Their bodies have not been found.
And, prosecutors say, their killers were the two people trusted with their safety and well-being — their adoptive parents.
“This family shouldn’t have gone through this,” McCoy said during an April interview. “The foster system clearly failed here and so that is really our main goal.”
Pettus has also filed suit and has a hearing scheduled for August.
In the meantime, the question remains: Where are the boys?
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I don't back that family at all. It's about money. They were taken away for a reason. However, It isn't the first time that a child was placed with the wrong people and never had a chance in life. Foster parents, Adoptive parents need to be screened way more so it doesn't keep happening. I've seen a few times people become foster parents for a monthly check. Someone actually suggested that to me once. I went OFF!
totally agree. They lost custody for some reason...ALL of them.
No one else is making the agency answer for anything so far and they need to. And there are serious questions.
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Good. The county rejects it do they? Probably standard but even so pretty arrogant since they placed these children into the hands of sick murderous abusers when family members wanted them. They haven't had to answer for ANYTHING yet which is TOTALLYT disgusting and unbelievable. I don't think they have even had to answer as to how and why you could put ANY children with those two. How does a Jacqueline and Trezell even qualify with no income, no home, when the bio family was not in agreement with this and far more? California better be taking a look at this agency of theirs, taking them to task and more. Who was the worker who did all of this and WHY? And the entire fed system of $$$ for agencies adopting children out is also reprehensible imo.Maternal grandfather of Cal City toddlers files claims against CPS
The maternal grandfather of Orrin and Orson West — the California City brothers whose adoptive parents now face murder charges in their deaths — has filed a claim against thewww.bakersfield.com
Maternal grandfather of Cal City toddlers files claims against CPS
The maternal grandfather of Orrin and Orson West — the California City brothers whose adoptive parents now face murder charges in their deaths — has filed a claim against the Kern County Department of Human Services for allowing the boys to reside with their adoptive parents after he requested custody.
Leif Dean, the maternal grandfather, seeks upward of $25,000 in a civil case against Child Protective Services, an agency under the Department of Human Services. He maintains the agency ignored his requests to gain custody of Orrin, 4, and Orson West, 3, after they were adopted by Trezell and Jacqueline West. The claim is filed under the Kern County Board of Supervisors Tuesday agenda.
“His rights … were taken away and divested when CPS did what they did and handled everything inappropriately,” said Antonio Castillo, Dean’s attorney. The biological family “begged and pleaded with CPS to put the boys” in their custody, Castillo added.
Castillo is also representing the toddlers’ biological father, Charles Pettus, and paternal grandmother, Brenda Pettus, who have filed a lawsuit against CPS making similar allegations. He said he hopes to add Dean to the lawsuit. Kern County has rejected the claim, the attorney added.
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I honestly don't like the money end of this but that agency needs to have significant consequences. Serious ones. And not just in $$.Biological mother of West brothers breaks silence, files multi-million lawsuit
SAN FRANCISCO (KGET) — Eighteen months after Orrin and Orson West disappeared from the home of their adoptive parents in California City, the boys’ biological mother is breaking her sil…Biological mother of West brothers breaks silence, files multi-million lawsuit
Eighteen months after Orrin and Orson West disappeared from the home of their adoptive parents in California City, the boys’ biological mother is breaking her silence.
“This is really hard to talk about,” said an emotional Ryan Dean, speaking to the public for the first time at a news conference in San Francisco since the day her biological sons went missing. “You guys ruined my life.”
Joined by her parents, Dana Moorer and Leif Dean, the family announced the federal lawsuit filed Friday against the state Department of Social Services, Kern County Human Services, and Jacqueline and Trezell West.
Representing the Moorer-Dean’s is San Francisco-based civil rights attorney Waukeen McCoy. McCoy believes the actions taken by county agencies to remove the children are in direct violation of the Family First Act of 2016.
“Each of them [county, state, Wests] interfered,” said McCoy. “With the reunification of and the preservation of the family.”
In April, McCoy filed a claim on behalf of Dean and Moorer. Since then, McCoy says the county rejected the claim and instead delegated the matter to county counsel, and the state failed to respond.
In 2016, Dean was suspected of child abuse after her she took her oldest son Orrin to Memorial Hospital for a broken leg. According to the suit, Dean filed reunification requests and completed parenting classes to regain custody but had no luck. In 2017, she gave birth to Orson only to have him removed a week later.
“To lose my child and to take my second child for a week and then lose him, it hurts,” said Dean.
In late 2018, both boys were removed from a foster home and placed with the Wests. Afterward, Dean noticed during visits that her children seemed scared and were losing weight, and Orson had scratches on his face, the suit says.
“I just want answers,” said Moorer. “Why? Why Kern County? What was the purpose of not giving them to me?”
In the suit, Moorer claims to have filed a request to have the children placed with her, but in 2019 the department revoked Dean’s parental rights “without explanation,” and denied Moorer’s request.
“Placing the children in the home of the Wests’ was a state-created danger,” said McCoy. “My clients want to make certain that this gut-wrenching loss does not happen to another family in the future.”
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The correct answer is NO. First delay announced.
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I don’t. It seems awful fast actually.Does anyone expect this trial to proceed as expected?
Readiness hearing set for adoptive parents of Orrin and Orson West
Trezell and Jacqueline West, the adoptive parents of Orrin and Orson West, are expected in court for a readiness hearing Friday.Readiness hearing set for adoptive parents of Orrin and Orson West
Trezell and Jacqueline West, the adoptive parents of Orrin and Orson West, are expected in court for a readiness hearing Friday.
Both are expected in court for a hearing at 8:30 a.m. Friday.
The jury trial is expected to begin July 25th.