Two Pocatello Girls Sent To Mexico By Health And Welfare To Live With Their Dad

An Idaho Representative is speaking out after two girls from Pocatello were ordered to live with their father in Mexico.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare determined that the father of the girls was a better fit parent then their mother.

The mother has a past of drug usage and the father has a criminal record in Idaho, but he was deported in 2012.

Representative Kelley Packer says she doesn’t know if sending the girls off was the best idea. “My concern was not necessarily on the job that they (Health and Welfare) had done, but on the fact that we would be sending two young girls to a place where we had no jurisdiction, where we had no visitation rights into their home, we have no way of insuring that their safe.”

The girl’s were sent to Mexico Monday.

The case can be re-examined by Health and Welfare, but it’s not known if it will be.

There’s only been one similar case in Idaho, where a child was sent to Mexico, in the past.