A Not So Shocking Confession-ADDENDUM

We knew coming into the SOAH hearing that childcare licensing representatives had falsified write-ups.  We also knew that write-ups were added, after Adrienne Driggers had closed the daycare, for an inspection that never occurred. The thing about this phantom inspection is that there is only one person who could have added those deficiencies, Adrienne Driggers.

Corpus Christi is a relatively small town. One thing that Adrienne Driggers never considered is that here in Corpus, you run into people all the time. I had the pleasure of running into one of her henchmen, or rather henchwomen, at a local Walmart. This person was so frightened after seeing me that she literally ran out of the store. Though I did nothing to provoke that reaction,  I am certain that she knew that no matter what position she has with the State of Texas, having a title isn't going to protect you when you are out in the streets! I believe that all of the people that have helped Adrienne Driggers succeed in abusing her power, carry a fear of retaliation especially in South Texas where minorities have long had to take matters into their own hands as a result of the justice system's failure to protect them. The fear that these people have I believe is the fear of knowing that evil deeds do not go unpunished.

Other Childcare Licensing Representatives carry guilt and shame. We ran into such a person. This person confessed that Adrienne Driggers ordered the Corpus Christi staff to stay at our daycare longer than was necessary and gather as many as deficiencies as possible even if they had falsify them. But Driggers did not, nor could she, act alone as we were notified that the officers from the Corpus Christi office were involved in targeting us. This person stated that in all of the years in service for this Department never had that person witnessed such an ugly and disturbing abuse of power.

I feel horrible for this person as I know that this blog will get the Department to try and find out who this person was that gave us this information. My hope is that this person will come forward and disclose this information to the public. The community needs to know about the tyrants that are affecting the lives of their children.

There are good people within the Department but there is nobody for them to go to when they have a high-ranking official like Adrienne Driggers that is ordering her staff to falsify deficiencies against people. If the Department would go through great lengths to deny us of our Constitutional rights, can you imagine what they would do to one of their employees who refuses to cooperate in breaking the law? I am certain that the Department would trump up allegations that person, call daycare operators that have been written up by that person just to give that daycare the opportunity to make a complaint, then terminate that person. Retaliation is how Adrienne Driggers runs this Department. Given that she has been enabled for many years to do as she wishes, she would have no problem breaking the law to target her own staff.

As captain of the ship, John Specia, Jr the Commissioner of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, has an obligation to look into these allegations. I ask that he promise to protect the Corpus Christi staff from retaliation from Adrienne and the supervisors in Corpus Christi office. I also ask that Mr. Specia inform the Corpus Christi staff of whistle blower laws, and to permit an anonymous reporting of any wrong doing by their superiors and co-workers.

Unfortunately, my asking John Specia, Jr., to investigate this matter is made under the assumption that he himself was not involved in the abuse of power. I would not be surprised if he was involved as he does seem to be nothing more than a figurehead, the emperor who wears no clothes, a person who rubber stamps the termination of people's careers and the uprooting of children.

This case has exposed a great deal of corruption among State of Texas employees that goes beyond the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. The most disturbing thing about this corruption is that it has a deep impact on the most defenseless in our society, the children.

ADDENDUM:
My wife reminded me of additional information that was provided to us in the conversation that we had with the Childcare Licensing Representative that disclosed to us that Adrienne Driggers ordered the Corpus Christi office to falsify write-ups against our daycare. This person stated to us that in all of this persons years of experience never had there been a case where the Director of the daycare is placed on the State of Texas Central Registry especially when that person clearly did nothing wrong and was not even present at the time of the incident in question. Adrienne Driggers was clearly targeting Marla.

We had already suspected this but Adrienne Driggers also tried to me (Hilario) on the Central Registry by having Monica Martinez, the Childcare Licensing Representative investigating the incident of the child walking out of the building, ask for my first aid/cpr and transportation training as part of her so-called "investigation". I would be the only employee that she would ask for this information.

Even though these Childcare Licensing Representatives were merely following orders from Adrienne Driggers and their upper management here in Corpus Christi, as we learned in the Nuremberg Trials, following orders does not excuse their behavior.