MOM TO BE FREED IN TRAIN DEATHS.Byline: Cynthia L. Webb Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Friends said it was just a quick catnap, an exhausted single mother's moment to rest. But it was all the time two of her young children needed to wander outside, stroll down the sidewalk and cross right in front of a thundering commuter train. Jackie Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- hours after half sisters Alexes Elaine Robles, 3, and Deziree Andrea Soto, 22 months, were killed Tuesday morning by a Metrolink train. On Thursday, the San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. County District Attorney's Office said it would release Robles but did not fully exonerate her. Prosecutors will investigate the deaths further before deciding whether to file charges against her. ``We are not going to be making a decision on whether or not to file charges in the Robles case today,'' said Chief Deputy District Attorney Richard Maxwell Richard Maxwell is an experimental director and playwright in New York City. He is originally from West Fargo, North Dakota. Productions Maxwell's plays have been performed in New York at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, HERE Arts Center, P.S. . ``There's a great deal of evidence that has to be analyzed and evaluated and we're going to take some time to do that.'' In the working class neighborhood about 45 miles east of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , friends said the 21-year-old mother already had suffered enough and begged authorities to leave her alone. They described her as a good mom who turned a $500-a-month apartment into a loving home. ``Usually, this street during the day is empty,'' said Louise Harris, who lives downstairs from Robles, noting the stream of passers-by who have visited the crash site to leave flowers, messages, candles and stuffed animals
A stuffed animal is toy animal stuffed with straw, beans, cotton or other similar materials. Some stuffed animals are very old – home made cloth dolls stuffed with straw go back to at least the . ``The outpouring of support is unreal.'' ``They're painting her as a bad person, and she is not,'' said Latin Maxie, a 24-year-old neighbor. ``She was a good mother. It was an isolated incident and it could have happened to anybody.'' Robles raised her three children alone with occasional help from her mother, but it was a constant struggle, neighbors said. Robles apparently fell asleep because her 2-month-old son was sick all night, Robles' mother said. Robles' apartment manager said she was months behind in rent, and the father of Deziree and her brother was in jail for beating Robles. She didn't know where Alexes' father was. Neighbors telephoned police, urging them to release Robles. A petition was passed around. ``We petition that Jackie Robles is being unjustly charged for felony child endangerment,'' the appeal said, handwritten hand·write tr.v. hand·wrote , hand·writ·ten , hand·writ·ing, hand·writes To write by hand. [Back-formation from handwritten.] Adj. 1. on a piece of torn spiral notebook paper. It quickly gathered more than 100 signatures. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. why they would still want to investigate her,'' said Karen Grosenheiger, a friend who started the petition. ``She's innocent. . . . We are still standing behind her because she's a good mother.'' Neighbors planned a Saturday carwash to raise money for funeral expenses. ``They took her the same day her two daughters were killed. She'll probably come home and still see their toys lying around,'' said Anthony Salas, a Robles friend who visits the neighborhood often. ``It's gonna take her a while to get used to the fact they are gone.'' Calling those who arrested her ``animals,'' he said: ``They could have at least given her some time to grieve grieve v. grieved, griev·ing, grieves v.tr. 1. To cause to be sorrowful; distress: It grieves me to see you in such pain. 2. .'' The young victims lived with their mother and their brother in Apartment G of a nine-unit, cream-color complex. Metrolink trains, which carry commuters from San Bernardino County cities to downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or , rush by on unguarded tracks about 150 yards from the apartment's front gate. Metrolink announced Wednesday that it would fence the side of the tracks near the apartment complex. It won't help Robles. ``I hope that she'll be OK and that they won't charge her with anything. She was a good mother,'' said Louise Harris, who has lived in the same apartment house for more than three years and has known Robles since she moved in a year ago. ``I can only imagine the hell she is going through.'' CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1 -- color) ALEXES (2 -- color) DEZIREE (3) Janet Luna watches a Metrolink train pass a memorial that neighbors created in memory of the sisters. Associated Press |
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