GRANDMA TO THE RESCUE

[Dazeemay]

This is what our local newspaper printed and did not reprint an updated version to this story.

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/ ... 48,00.html

Go here and it is a video explaining the controversy.

http://www.wate.com/

If you can't download it, it is about the grandmother coming to the rescue of her grandson. She contacted this tv station and they showed that the child had no blisters on his back. Close up photos showed the child had nothing on his body anywhere except some flea bites confirmed by drs.

I would love to get hold of the grandmother, but they would not show her picture or give her name or the front view of the child for protection.

[Greegor]

If the video won't load there is a print story
and it has a picture of the boys back.
METH is horrible but I think the system
benefits from whipping up HYSTERIA like this.
Also, How could the mother not have known?

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/ ... 48,00.html
Blistered toddler found in S. Knox meth-lab bust
By News Sentinel staff April 11, 2006

Knox County Sheriff's Office officials on Monday evening found an 18-month-old boy
suffering from chemical blisters when they busted a working meth lab in a South Knox
County home, a sheriff's official said.
Narcotics officers discovered the meth lab at 7624 Hodges Ferry Road, said KCSO
spokeswoman Martha Dooley. They had a warrant to search the home.
They found the toddler with blisters on his back from the chemicals, she said. He was
decontaminated at the scene by Rural/Metro and transported to East Tennessee
Children's Hospital for treatment, she said.
Officials arrested the boy's mother, Krystal Lynn Hodgson, 34, and charged her
with manufacturing meth and aggravated child abuse, Dooley said. They also
arrested her boyfriend, Kevin Wayne Price, 31, and charged him with manufacturing
meth, she said. Hodgson and Price were decontaminated at the scene before
being transported to jail, she said. This is the 11th meth lab found in Knox
County this year, Dooley said.

vs.

http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?s=4755956

Controversy over 18-month old boy taken during meth lab bust
The boy's grandmother showed 6 News his back on Tuesday.
April 11, 2006 By AMELIA GRAHAM 6 News Reporter

KNOXVILLE (WATE) -- An 18-month-old boy is with his grandmother Tuesday
after he was removed from a home with a meth lab. Bonnie says she's outraged
at reports the boy had blisters on his back caused by the chemicals. The bust
happened at a home on Hodges Ferry Road Monday night. The boy's mother,
Krystal Lynn Hodgson, and her friend, Kevin Wayne Price, were arrested and
charged with aggravated child abuse and manufacturing methamphetamine.

During a recording on the media information line, Knox County Sheriff's
spokesperson Martha Dooley said, "An 18-month old boy was at the
house and had blisters on his back from the chemicals." Bonnie says there
were no such blisters. "The doctor said the only thing he found on him was
a few flea bites, and that's just from playing in the yard and being
fair-skinned and a redhead." But the baby's mother and her friend Price
are charged with aggravated child abuse. It's a charge her mother
doesn't understand. As for the two counts of manufacturing
methamphetamine, she says that may be a different story.
"I don't know what went on over there. I had no idea that anything was
going on over there. I don't know what involvement my daughter
had in it," Bonnie says. In response to Bonnie's concerns, the sheriff's
office has issued the following statement: "Officers observed visible
marks on the child's back. Their first impression was that the marks
could have been blisters from meth. Later, paramedics from
Rural/Metro indicated the marks could have also been insect bite marks."
Due to privacy laws, 6 News does not have access to the medical records.
Hodgson and Price are in the Knox County Jail.
They're each being held on a $125,000 bond.