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What do you think about what this woman did?  Do you think she was right in running with these 5 children who do not belong to her?

They are vitims of the Katrina Hurricane that she took in along with their mother.  She has housed them for over three years and this mother repaid her by stealing from her and and taking and wanting more.

I believe that she was doing it for the kids safety.  They have lived with her for a long time and says that she has witnessed the abuse to those children by the mother along with the drug use.

Maybe she could have reported it sooner, but, what would the mother have done if she did and the authorities did nothing of it.  Would they have been put into danger along with her for trying to help them?

What do you think should happen with these babies?

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Mother of 5 kidnapped children, caretaker dispute events 

HOUSTON  --  A woman accused of kidnapping five children said she did so because their biological mother had threatened her life but now says she plans to surrender to police, a newspaper reported.

 Houston authorities issued an Amber Alert on Wednesday in connection to the abduction of the Houston children. The Harris County District Attorney's office charged Rhonda Tavey, 44, with five counts of kidnapping. Tavey said she planned to surrender to authorities on Thursday but no additional details were provided about when she would do so.

Tavey, who is white, said all she ever wanted was to do God's will and that she also took the children, who are black, for their own safety. She said their mother, Erica Alphonse, was "abusive."

Tavey said last month she found her bank statements in the purse of Alphonse, whom she had opened her home to after the Louisiana family was devastated by Hurricane Katrina three years ago.

"When I confronted her with that, she pulled a knife and threatened to kill me. That's when I made arrangements to get the kids out," Tavey said Thursday in an online edition of the Houston Chronicle.

The newspaper reported that Alphonse denies pulling a knife on Tavey and said Tavey is lying to damage Alphonse's reputation.

"I wouldn't have thought in a million years she'd have done this to me," Alphonse said Wednesday night from her aunt's Southwest Houston apartment.

The women said they worked out an agreement after meeting in Reliant Park, where Tavey had been volunteering for the American Red Cross after the hurricane. Their arrangement called for Tavey, who has two teenage daughters, to care for Alphonse's two boys and three girls who are ages 3 to 8, while Alphonse sought work to become self-sufficient.

Alphonse, calling Tavey her family's "guardian angel" after Katrina's devastation, said she told Tavey she wanted to return to her New Orleans hometown eventually, even though Tavey prayed they would remain in Houston.

Alphonse said she returned to New Orleans two years ago and left the children in Houston. She returned this summer and their arrangement turned sour, culminating in the charges against Tavey.

"I had gotten her a job, a car, set her up in an apartment," Tavey said. "I'd helped her do all that when she decided she needed to go back."

Harris County District Attorney's office spokeswoman Donna Hawkins told The Associated Press constables had contacted Tavey's attorney before filing charges against her on Monday but the woman refused to return the children.

The children are identified as:

-- Rod Keesa Alphonse, age 8,

-- Alaysa Alphonse, age 6

-- Yasmine Alphonse, age 4

-- and twin boys, Eric and Erin Alphonse, who turned 3 on Monday.

Tavey is believed to be driving a blue 2004 Chrysler Town and Country Van, Texas License: 963-PTB. Officials say Tavey may be in the Dallas-Fort Worth areas.