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Re: "junkie mom, out in Upland" -- Really??
Author: WebDigger
Date: 01-20-2018 - 13:23
HUTCH 7.62 Wrote:
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> Heres the story for those interested.
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> LA Times
The article is dated October 22, 1997, twenty years ago.
It says the mother was napping. Nothing about drugs.
It says "Those who know the family said Tuesday's tragedy was all the more painful because Jackie Robles is a cautious and caring mother."
OTOH, Google-searching for [Jackie Robles upland] -- [www.google.com] -- turns up articles that are less sympathetic and more in line with HUTCH 7.62's original title.
Here's part of one, from June 06, 1998:
"The mother of two small girls who were fatally struck by a commuter train last year has pleaded no contest to charges of drug use in a case unrelated to her daughters' deaths.
Last October, Robles' daughters, Alexes Robles, 3, and Deziree Soto, 22 months, wandered from their Upland apartment and onto nearby railroad tracks. They were killed by a Metrolink commuter train.
Robles told authorities she had fallen asleep that morning. She was not charged in that case.
She is still attempting to regain custody of her third child, 9-month-old Fernando Soto Jr., who has been living with an aunt.
Robles and her fiance, Fernando Soto, have also filed two lawsuits totaling $30 million against Metrolink charging that the transit agency was negligent because there was no fence protecting the tracks." [articles.latimes.com]
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"Public Turns Against Dead Girls' Mother" [articles.latimes.com] November 21, 1997
"The turning of the public tide of sympathy apparently has hinged on two developments: the disclosure by the San Bernardino district attorney's office that Robles had been using methamphetamine, and her decision last week to sue Metrolink--claiming it bore the responsibility for her children's death because the tracks that course alongside the working-class neighborhood were not protected against trespassers."
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> Heres the story for those interested.
>
> LA Times
The article is dated October 22, 1997, twenty years ago.
It says the mother was napping. Nothing about drugs.
It says "Those who know the family said Tuesday's tragedy was all the more painful because Jackie Robles is a cautious and caring mother."
OTOH, Google-searching for [Jackie Robles upland] -- [www.google.com] -- turns up articles that are less sympathetic and more in line with HUTCH 7.62's original title.
Here's part of one, from June 06, 1998:
"The mother of two small girls who were fatally struck by a commuter train last year has pleaded no contest to charges of drug use in a case unrelated to her daughters' deaths.
Last October, Robles' daughters, Alexes Robles, 3, and Deziree Soto, 22 months, wandered from their Upland apartment and onto nearby railroad tracks. They were killed by a Metrolink commuter train.
Robles told authorities she had fallen asleep that morning. She was not charged in that case.
She is still attempting to regain custody of her third child, 9-month-old Fernando Soto Jr., who has been living with an aunt.
Robles and her fiance, Fernando Soto, have also filed two lawsuits totaling $30 million against Metrolink charging that the transit agency was negligent because there was no fence protecting the tracks." [articles.latimes.com]
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"Public Turns Against Dead Girls' Mother" [articles.latimes.com] November 21, 1997
"The turning of the public tide of sympathy apparently has hinged on two developments: the disclosure by the San Bernardino district attorney's office that Robles had been using methamphetamine, and her decision last week to sue Metrolink--claiming it bore the responsibility for her children's death because the tracks that course alongside the working-class neighborhood were not protected against trespassers."
