Crystal Snow Is Down A Kid – Thanks, DCS!
October 21, 2008 by impqueen
Franklin, TN – Crystal Snow, 22, has been a time bomb parent waiting for casualties for quite some time. Just months ago, in April, she was cited for a vehicle accident in which her then-five children were not properly restrained or in car seats. In August, SnowSnow reviews
stabbed her ex-boyfriend in front of her children.  And now, her four year old son, Beqwatrus Miller, has died in yet another collision – because he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.
The Division of Children’s Services has yet to remove any of Crystal Snow’s children, saying they are “working with her on questionable parenting issues”.  Oh, well, as long as they’re working on it.
Crystal Snow has a penchant for giving her kids nigh-unto-unpronounceable names: Deciandra, 6; Beqwatrus, 4; Lavontasha, 3; and the one year old twins, Jajayveon and Kajayveon. But given that she started having these babies at the ripe old age of 16, I guess it’s no surprise she wasn’t finished adding extra letters and dotting her i’s with little hearts.
But she seemed to be doing all right, even with her near-constant state of pregnancy, until late 2007. Between December of 2007 and AugustAugust reviews
20, 2008, Franklin police were called to Snow’s house 17 times. SEVENTEEN. That’s a lot of domestic disputes and welfare check-ups, folks.
On April 30, Snow was driving a Plymouth Voyager with her five kids in it when she got into an accident. None of the kids were properly restrained – Deciandra, then 5, was in the front seat without a booster. The twins were in booster seats, but were sliding out of them because infants don’t belong in booster seats. And Lavontasha and Beqwatrus were in the back of the van, unrestrained. The details on that accident are largely unavailable except that it was an “injury accident”. Crystal Snow lost her license, but kept her kids. It was the second time in a month she’d been ticketed for improper child restraint.
In August, Crystal got into a fight with a former boyfriend – not, apparently, an unusual occurrence. She pulled a knife and stabbed him in full view of several of her children. She was charged with aggravated assault, bonded out, and… kept her kids.
Family, friends and neighbors were having fits, calling the Department of Children’s Services, asking for help. DCS hasn’t released how many hotline calls were made, but neighbors say they called multiple times asking for something to be done.
DCS says that improper child restraint isn’t necessarily neglect – that they “take things on a case by case basis”. When asked about whether aggravated assault in front of the kids constituted endangerment or abuse, a spokesman said that the agency had been “working with” Crystal Snow on her “questionable parenting”. Which, I guess, makes it okay that she apparently still had no decent carseats and can’t drive to save her life – or her child’s.
On Saturday, Snow was behind the wheel of a 1992 Buick LeSabre when she ran a stop sign and slammed into a tractor-trailer – or, rather, she slid under it. None of the children was restrained. Beqwatrus, 4, was killed, along with Snow’s current boyfriend Deadrick Harrison, 24.
Snow and her surviving four children were taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in critical condition. They are now listed as “stable” and charges are likely to be forthcoming for Crystal when she gets out of the hospital. Fortunately, the driver of the semi and his wife are okay.
But get this – DCS still says they “have not made a decision” about what to do with Snow’s remaining children if and when they recover. Um, say what?
Jaded’s on this in our forums.
8:09 am on October 21st, 2008
The stabbing incident wasn’t enough to warrant her children being removed? I don’t get it……
This moron has me at a loss for words.
8:21 am on October 21st, 2008
Oh, and is it just me or does Crystal bear a faint resemblance to Britney: The Federline Years? She looks like she’s about to grab some cheetos and Red Bull and swing the various and sundry progeny through Mickey D’s drive-thru sans car seats.
8:25 am on October 21st, 2008
They ought to slap a few extra charges on her for those names. I guess that’s what you get when you mix alphabet soup and meth.
8:26 am on October 21st, 2008
OK, she named her kids Beqwatrus, Deadrick, Deciandra, Jajayveon, Kajayveon, and Lavontasha and DCS didn’t get her for intolerable cruelty?
Why do people NOT get that when you name a kid something ridiculous like that, not only do you advertise the fact that YOU as a parent are a fucking moron, you’ve doomed your kids to be fucking morons too? How long do you think it would have taken before Jajayveon ended up getting called VaJayJay and killing someone in a fight?
God, the kindest thing they can do is take the kids away and rename them and put them with people who won’t doom them to perpetuate the cycle of ‘tard.
8:31 am on October 21st, 2008
Please someone take her ability to have children away!!!!! Put her under and rip it out! Ok so when she goes to jail are these kids going to have a better home with “her family”. Why do I think not! Why do the kids have to suffer? You are a freaking idiot Crystal!
8:42 am on October 21st, 2008
Bitch needed mandatory sterilization about 5 kids ago. Just blows my mind! DCS has blood on their hands just as much as this skank ho! Lord, please let those children never see this bitch again!
8:43 am on October 21st, 2008
Right on Raven. Good God the names are bad enough. But WTF is DCS thinking? One baby is dead now and they’re still thinking about what they’re going to do with the rest of them?
Are they going to wait till she kills them all and then use the excuse “We have heavy case loads and are overwhelmed”?
8:52 am on October 21st, 2008
Five children by 22? Ridiculous!!
I’ve read so many stories about DCS dropping the ball. I really think for the safety of the children, when there is something obviously happening, they should yank the kids out of the home and ask questions later. Lots of lives would be saved.
8:57 am on October 21st, 2008
I will tell you, from experience, that child protective services does not always work and they are as twisted as a granny’s panties!
I have shared my story with the DD before, do not feel like rehashing it.
So I will share another. A friend of mine had her three children taken away from her, after she divorced her husband. He was good friends with a Judge, and that Judge somehow was able to give this man custody of the kids. This man was wealthy and “powerful”. And, out of spite, he ripped those kids away from his mother, my friend.
Child protective services was called several times on this man, for neglect, and the guy just kept saying that it was his “wife’s way of getting back at him”. And he would just always “fix the situation” and make it look like all was ok.
Well, all was NOT ok. This man took those three children out on his big expensive boat and threw them over….
all when his 22 year old girlfriend left him because he hit her. He was “mad at women”. Guess this was his way of making himself feel better.
All because a twisted system chose the wrong parent.
Not uncommon at all.
May these babies be taken care of properly. I will take them all, odd names and everything.
RIP Beqwatrus
9:13 am on October 21st, 2008
What a piece of trash.
9:26 am on October 21st, 2008
GOOD CALL RAVEN!
this whole story is so sad and beyond fucked up….stupid bitch
maybe DCS is feeling overwhelmed with the names and paperwork! makes me wonder what their middle names are….poor kids
9:30 am on October 21st, 2008
I used to work with a women who named her boys, well let me do the pronuncation first: La Mon Ga Lo and Or Lan Ga Lo
Spelling: Lemonjello and Orangejello
Get it, they will be picked on all through school I’m sure
9:31 am on October 21st, 2008
could her name be a clue to her own parents?
9:51 am on October 21st, 2008
Holy shit. How could this girl possibly still have custody of those kids? I just don’t get it.
My co-workers and I just tried to pronouce the names. WTF?
10:06 am on October 21st, 2008
this whole system is totally fucked if u ask me she shudda had those babies taken the first time ALL 5 of them werent n their seats properly. i have 0 kids and know how to put them n their seats. why havent they done anything this is totally screwed up. they are just letting people like this girl harm innocence. its very disturbing. and im disgusted that they are observing this and letting it get away. something could be done to better these childrens lives. what is up with the damn legal system it seems stuff like this is happening everywhere and noone is taking it seriously but this IS SERIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10:12 am on October 21st, 2008
Stupidass names are a self-fulfilling prophecy, that’s for sure. Look what happened to poor Deadrick the boyfriend. Most sadly accurate naming since Jaileen.
10:20 am on October 21st, 2008
Wow. Just wow.
RIP little man. And big man.
She reminds me of my step-son’s mom. 6 kids, and she has custody of…you guessed it, 0 of them. The huz and I have one, her mother has four, and the last one she gave up for adoption. I just don’t get it. You can’t handle the responsibility of your kid(s)? Then get fixed or get some birth control that you can’t fuck up. WHY keep having kids you won’t take care of properly?
10:20 am on October 21st, 2008
Wow, and my sister said that my middle grandson would get picked on for his name. And it’s just Sirius……….. Poor kids……….
10:27 am on October 21st, 2008
A little bit, but I was thinking more along the lines of the girl in Different Strokes, the one who overdosed.
MY GOD! Take those kids far far away from that woman!
10:31 am on October 21st, 2008
What should they do??? They should foster her children and give her dumb ass a hysterectomy since she obviously doesn’t know what birth control is! OMFG. 22 w/ 5 kids…classic. White trash at its best…
10:35 am on October 21st, 2008
Unfortunately she can’t be stopped from having kids, wish they could just glue that cunt shut. Child services must do some good somewhere, it’s just that I’ve never heard anything positive, guess we don’t hear about the successes. Sure seems their failures are outrages, this could be considered one of their successes, some of the kids are still alive and they currently actually know where they’re at
11:00 am on October 21st, 2008
Had I been one of those neighbors, I would have been charged with kidnapping when the calls to DCS weren’t effective. Some people were just seriously not meant to breed…or apparently name children.
11:09 am on October 21st, 2008
I know this is a shallow point, but the NAMES here are just beyond. Crystal Snow is like a made-up stripper name. And Beqwatrus is, well, it’s a caricature of itself.
This doesn’t even sound real.
11:09 am on October 21st, 2008
These kids should have been taken away on the very first offense.. Free carseats are available at police and fire stations all the time. This lazy,prego,POS should have had all of them in car seats.. And DCF is just as despicable as her.. These children deserve a life that is free from harm and neglect.. Can someone get a link for DCF so we can all e-mail them and put some pressure on?? Otherwise I think she will get them back and put them back in danger.. OMG what a fucked up agency!!!
11:11 am on October 21st, 2008
Yes, Imp, I imagine she is wearing Uggs, too.
In happier news, Britney’s new video has her just about back at 1999 levels of hotness
11:38 am on October 21st, 2008
Our system is shit! These people get paid nice wages and all any of them do is sit on their asses and ignore the obvious. A baby dies and it is still not enough.
She is a trashy whore with 5 kids and why does she have 5 kids? As we like to refer to it-please don’t be offended- KEEP A NI$%A BABY. I have seen plenty like her-the only thing is, they never keep him! All that happens is they have a multitude of kids running around with no care and no supervision while the mother continues to get knocked up.
I know of a guy that is about 35 yrs old-he has-13 kids by multiple women. He does not see or take care of any of them! He passes his kids on the street and says hi like they were strangers. WTF is wrong with these women? People like her will always exist, it’s how society works. So sad for that little boy…
11:45 am on October 21st, 2008
there are also available at crisis pregnancy centers, “sharing centers” (which provides clothes, furniture, food, etc to people who need it.). Sometimes churches have them or the resources to help you. Hell, I bet she had friends who have kids – who have outgrown their seats.
The point is she was neglectful. It is sad that it sometimes takes death to open DCFs eyes – The warning signs were THERE! DCF/DCS should be held responsible as well.
She was young to have 5 kids – But this seems to be an alarming trend – I see young mothers with all these kids that they can’t handle. (Don’t get me wrong – i also see young mothers that CAN handle the kids – they have 1 or 2 – not 5!) But being young is not an excuse that will fly with me!
11:48 am on October 21st, 2008
Oh, God, Imp. You’re right. Trailer Trash Britney look-alike. *Sigh* Sometimes I really hate our system. It seems like most child protection agencies view their jobs as “work”. They seem to forget that children in bad situations rely on these people to keep them safe. Ugh. The system is obviously failing in this case. How is not ensuring your child’s safety in a vehicle (roughly a ton of steel and fiberglass that is often moving at high speeds) by buckling them up and securing them in the proper safety restraints NOT neglect? You are NEGLECTING your child’s safety, you irresponsible cow!
11:50 am on October 21st, 2008
These poor kids lives were doomed from the start. Even if she never had the issues with the cars and the restraints, I highly doubt they were living a great stable life. Unless these remaining children are taken from her and put into loving homes, their future is bleak. It’s scary to think that this girl is human.
12:00 pm on October 21st, 2008
http://www.tennhelp.com/tennHelpView?th_id=3178
They have this statement on their website:
DCS has responsibility for protecting children from abuse and neglect, providing temporary care for children who cannot safely remain in their own homes, providing permanent homes for those children who are legally free for adoption and rehabilitating delinquent youth. We also provide supportive services to help strengthen families so that they are able to safely care for their children at home, prevention services for unruly youth and their families, as well as probation and aftercare services for juvenile offenders.
Someone should remind them that they were not doing their job. I tried to find an email but all I came across was a phone number.
12:03 pm on October 21st, 2008
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Ja-hay-vee-on and Ka-hay-vee-on = poor kids!
She is a typical white female that is involved with black men commonly referred to as “Hood Rat”. A “Hood Rat” is the one that is white but thinks she is black because she chooses to be with a black man ( or in her case, a black man or two) and takes on all the mannerisms of a black female. Hope I don’t offend anyone. It’s not my intention…
Now don’t get me wrong, my husband is a beautiful black man. However when we were pregnant with my daughter-I made it perfectly clear that our child would not have a name with “sha, qua, ka, nay, tre, dre,. etc.” He agreed. There is no way to understand how these types of names come about and quite frankly-it’s child abuse in itself when these kids go to school and get teased.
12:39 pm on October 21st, 2008
Whaaa? Makes no difference if these children are black, white, green, or plaid, does it?
I actually think Kajayveon sounds nice. But Jajayveon, well, the nickname is going to be “Va-jay-jay”–and you know that is not good.
I just don’t understand why people have children if they don’t want them (or don’t want to take care of them, or can’t take care of them–amounts to the same thing). The system is not a good place for a child, either. Every child a wanted child, please. Birth control. Abortion. These are options, CRYSTAL, and every one of your lame eggs does not have to become a child. For shit’s sake.
12:44 pm on October 21st, 2008
Of course, are plenty of hoods full only of white people. Also Latino hoods. And so forth. She’s a hood rat, that I’m willing to bet, but we don’t even know her children’s races or her BF’s race for sure, do we?
1:05 pm on October 21st, 2008
I agree with you-we don’t know and God knows I am not the know all-I am just commenting on my past experience and those names sound awfully black.
And you are also correct-it makes no difference if they are black, white, etc-the comment wasn’t in regards to the children-it was about a selfish female getting caught up in herself and not caring for her children- all the while her children suffer the consequences. All hoods have “Hood Rats” true-she jsut happens to be a white hood rat.
1:09 pm on October 21st, 2008
Oh- and the term “Keep a Ni$%a Baby” applies to any race-at least if I say it, I utilize it for any type of a woman who keeps having children in order to keep a man.
1:22 pm on October 21st, 2008
OR A WELFARE CHECK HERE IN THE SOUTH!
1:30 pm on October 21st, 2008
Same here in California-the more the kids, the more money. My husband is an Assistant Principal, High School. He tells me horror stories about women who fight to have their kids declared Special Ed so that they can collect disability for them. That’s beyond pathetic.
1:43 pm on October 21st, 2008
Damn, Cassiemomma. You don’t happen to work in Georgia do you? My wife taught a Lemonjello.
Of course she also taught a ‘Clamidia’ at one point in time as well. People are such ‘tards when they name their children.
1:46 pm on October 21st, 2008
Close, NC – hee hee
Please tell me this isn’t a common name like Tom…….
2:09 pm on October 21st, 2008
I wonder when naming your children after gelatin became acceptable … one of my best friends is a teacher and she taught twins named Lemonjello and Oranjello. She told me she had to try really hard to keep from laughing every time she read or said their names.
2:19 pm on October 21st, 2008
No way, that is crazy. Who woulda thunk?
2:28 pm on October 21st, 2008
Apparently so.
Maybe it’s one of those stories that teachers just tell. That’s wild. I’ll have to tell my wife when she gets home.
Just came across this link when I did a Google search for the name. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/513339/lemonjello_and_female_debunking_the.html
Pretty telling. I know the Clamidia girl was real though because I met her. Had a hard time keeping a straight face.
2:49 pm on October 21st, 2008
And four more to go if they give them back to her.
After the first accident you would have thought they’d wise up and take her kids..
Not to mention the stabbing incident
Fucking morons!
2:49 pm on October 21st, 2008
While we are on the subject…I had a co-worker about 5 years ago.
Her last name was Kerr…..
She named her little girl Massa…
Unbelievable what these parents come up with!!!
2:53 pm on October 21st, 2008
not trying to be mean or insensitive just what could she be thinking when she came up with these ridiculous names?
poor babies.
3:02 pm on October 21st, 2008
THIS IS AN URBAN LEGEND. I HAVE HEARD THIS STORY NUMEROUS TIMES–AND IT’S ALWAYS SOME VERSION OF “MY FRIEND’S AUNT IS A SOCIAL WORKER, AND…”
Literally–I have heard this too many times. And I see both Rmiles and Cassimomma have, too.
http://www.snopes.com has a wee article about it:
http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp
3:09 pm on October 21st, 2008
In my case it’s not. Maybe she heard the urban legend and liked it, I don’t know. Also in my case they weren’t twins (born shortly apart, maybe a year or two). and who would admit to it anyway
This freak lady has some weird ass names for her children so I don’t know what to tell ya.
I was also looking at Porcelin’s comment about the stabbing and yeah duh who does that. I have been plenty mad at my husband, but I’ve never had the thought in my head to just stab away. If she’s that off, they should of taken her children.
3:09 pm on October 21st, 2008
p.s. the story I’ve heard–like the one Cassiemomma just repeated–specifically involved the twins Lemonjello and Oranjello (pronounced Le-MAHN-je-LO and Or-RAHN-je-LO).
There’s no way there are multiple sets of these twins running around.
The 1st time I heard this story was like 15 yrs ago. I repeated it myself, until I heard it another time about yet another person’s “best friend’s mom the teacher” or whatever and realized…oh, well, obviously, this is an urban legend!
P.S. I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO USE THE NAME FOR A KITTY! An orange tabby named Oranjello would be sweet as hell!
3:10 pm on October 21st, 2008
Yeah…hmm…maybe quiz your best friend about it and then get back to me
3:11 pm on October 21st, 2008
That’s what I meant sorry. I thought about that after the fact…
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