Patricia Huizar had us fooled for five years. We are next-door neighbors. We began a close, familial relationship over time. She became my daughter's Christian mentor, babies' godmother and day care provider. Towards the last year of our close relationship, Huizar's truer nature became revealed for the lazy liar and inexcusable christian that she is.
For one year Huizar provided care to my two-year old granddaughter. Huizar was present at my second granddaughter's birth (quite an honor for my daughter to have invited her as well as ask to be the girls' godmother). Of course, this before we became extremely disenchanted with the relationship.
Apparently providing care for two children was too much for Huizar. We became unhappy with her lack of care to the girls. The older one reported that "Auntie Patty" cried all day and that "Auntie Patty" and "uncle Frank" are mad again.
My daughter repeatedly spoke her concern to Huizar about the lack of care to the baby. Huizar rarely took the children outside, or for walks. We noticed that the baby was constantly in a play pen, no matter what time of day I or my daughter appeared. The girls were not kept clean or provided any education or play. We noticed the baby was getting her diaper changed once or twice a day. Despite repeated discussions where Huizar would thank my daughter for stating her concerns, Huizar continued to be lazy and provide bad care.
We decided to take the one child to a licensed day care. Huizar tried to guilt-trip my daughter "I don't know how you could take her to a bunch of strangers". Unfortunately, my daughter felt 'responsible' for Huizar's income, and left the baby with Huizar, thinking with just one child the care would improve.
The older daughter started day care elsewhere on March 1. We had taken the play pen from Huizar to be used elsewhere and kept forgetting to replace it. Huizar repeatedly asked where the playpen was. It is clear that she relied heavily on the play pen to keep the 13-month old baby 'encaged'. Therefore, without being imprisoned, the baby naturally was exploring her surroundings, which was obviously too much for Huizar to handle, being the lazy slob that she is.
On March 10, Huizar hideously beat the baby. She informed my daughter upon my daughter's arrival. We have no idea when the baby was abused. The baby was terrified and ran to her mama when my daughter arrived. The baby was bruised purple, black, yellow, red, blue and green, with swollen skin, on both buttocks, thighs and back. Huizar said the baby wouldn't come to her and she just 'lost control' and she had no excuse.
We took the baby to the hospital where veteran doctors, nurses, and police were aghast at the extent and amount of injury the baby suffered. The hospital called the police who took a report and arrested Huizar. The district attorney charged Huizar with two counts of felony child abuse. Huizar walked on one misdemeanor charge of child abuse. She received informal probation - not even required to attend an anger management course or anything.
Huizar and her family subsequently have 'turned the table' around, and insist that she only spanked the child, and that we are harassing her and her family. She obtained a temporary restraining order which was granted by default, as my daughter was physically and emotionally unable to attend court. After that, Huizar used the order as a legal bat, calling in false reports to the police seemingly every-other day. She falsely accused us of throwing rocks at her house, stalking her family, violating approaching them etc. It became so ridiculous that the police have finally quit arriving, they merely report Huizar's lies over the phone.
This experience reminds me of the fact that too often in our liberal society, criminals are given more rights than victims, and as reported in several Reader's Digest Crazy Stories, the criminals prevail over victims. It also reminds me that it is indeed a crazy world. Christians certainly aren't perfect. They are human first.
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