Thread: CPS removes 10 children from Laredo home

CPS removes 10 children from Laredo home

Jason Buc, Express-News
By Jason Buch, Staff Writer

Published 10:20 am, Friday, June 14, 2013

LAREDO — Authorities in this border town are scrambling to learn the identities of 10 children taken by Child Protective Services from a sprawling home in one of its nicer neighborhoods.
CPS cited unsafe conditions when they removed the children from the home of Elsa Cuellar Galvan in May. The rest of the story is far more strange, and many questions remain unanswered.
The children, ranging in age from 5 to 17, believe they're Cuellar's sons and daughters and have lived with her since they were infants. But most of them are not related to each other and none of them appear to be related to Cuellar, authorities said.
When school district officials opened an investigation into whether Cuellar and her husband were falsifying documents, it looked like a standard case of someone in Laredo letting families from Nuevo Laredo claim residency at their address to attend U.S. schools, but all but four of the children are from the U.S.
The children will undergo DNA tests, but officials don't know who to compare it with. Weeks after Cuellar's arrest was splashed across the news media here, only one possible biological parent has come forward, a young woman who attended the small nondenominational church Cuellar ran and says she was talked into giving up her son.
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