NEW: After a federal law embraced the “death penalty” of child welfare, more parents lost their children permanently — sometimes in just months, NBCNews propublica found. In W. Virginia, 1 in 50 kids had their parents’ rights terminated from 2015-2019
, a Republican, told ProPublica and NBC News that they are committed to keeping families together when possible. Capito added that the news organizations’ findings are “concerning” and that her staff would look into those issues.
Jackie Snodgrass admitted in court to using drugs and neglecting her children’s education; she acknowledged in an interview that she regretted that her instances of meth use had put her family in jeopardy. But she never thought the mistake could lead to the end of her relationship with her daughters. After all, Snodgrass said, she had never hurt the girls, and according to court documents, they wanted to go home.
From the start, Snodgrass and her husband were prohibited from seeing their daughters, even for supervised visits, because they couldn’t test clean consistently. She was testing positive for marijuana at the time, but she said she soon became so hopeless about the prospect of losing the girls forever that she used methamphetamine again to cope.
Her reluctance to enter an inpatient program proved critical, according to case documents. West Virginia is among 22 states with statutes saying that parents’ failure to comply with court-ordered rehabilitation or drug treatment plans, regardless of any evidence of harm to children, can itself be grounds for permanent termination of parental rights, according to a ProPublica and NBC News analysis of state laws.
Her husband said in an interview that he was shocked to hear this in court but that he understood the position she was being put in. “I felt real low,” Wes Snodgrass said. “I felt like I didn’t have a family no more.”
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