Detroit Mother Who’s Homeless Speaks Following Her Children Freezing To Death In A Car ‘It Hurts’ [VIDEO]

In theory most people are one paycheck away from being homeless, and to be quite honest that is one of every parents worst nightmares.  A mother in Detroit had been homeless for months when on a night with frigid temperatures decided to park in a Detroit Casino, Hollywood Casino Hotel at Greektown, parking lot to get some sleep.  When she woke up she found that two of her children, a 9 and 2 year old had froze to death.  How can this happen in America where we have so many resources?  According to the mom she tried to get help, but it took her children dying to get it.

According to the mother Tateona Williams she parked their van in the garage Monday around 1 a.m. The van ran out of gas. Around noon, she realized her 9-year-old was not breathing.

“Yesterday, it was like a normal day… I woke them up to wake them up for school, my son wasn’t moving. And I kept saying ‘Fatty, please get up. Please, please for me, just get up. Don’t do this to me,’”

Tateona Williams who has 3 other children that survived says:

“I asked everybody for help. I called out of state, I called cities I didn’t know, I called cities people asked me to call. I even asked Detroit — I’ve been on CAM list for the longest,” “Everybody now wants to help after I lost two kids? I’ve been asked for help.”…”It took my two kids to die for ya’ll to help me? It just doesn’t work like that,”

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said outreach workers are sent out. He said that the family never called back, and as far as they know, no one reached back out to the family to see if their situation was resolved.

Tateona Williams is now staying in a homeless shelter while her other children have been placed with family.  A Detroit funeral home will be handling the funeral services of the children at no cost.

Let’s keep this family uplifted in our prayers.

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