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THEY HAVE RECEIVED ASSURANCES
THAT THE CREW WILL BE RETURNED
SAFELY AND PROMPTLY.
HERE AT HOME, THE FATHER OF
A YOUNG BOY WHO WAS MAULED TO
DEATH BY A PIT BULL IS FILING A
WRONGFUL DEATH SUIT AGAINST
CPS.
WE ASKED WHY DID NOT THE
DEAD HAVE CUSTODY AND WHY IS HE
HOLDING CPS RESPONSIBLE?
LIVE IN CITRUS HEIGHTS, WE ARE
GETTING ANSWERS WITH LEIGH
MARTINEZ.
REPORTER: THE FATHER SAID
HE NEVER GAVE UP PARENTAL
RIGHTS.
HE SAID TYLER WOULD STILL BE A
LIVE IF CPS INVESTIGATED THE
TRAILER HE WAS STAYING AT WITH
THREE PIMPLES.
I LOVE MY SON VERY MUCH.
I GAVE HIM EVERYTHING I DID NOT
HAVE.
REPORTER: JOHN HOUSTON
KEEPS THE PHOTOS AT HIS
FINGERTIPS.
THEY TOOK TYLER AWAY FROM
THE FATHER BECAUSE HE'S
MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
HE LOST CUSTODY TWO YEARS AGO
WHEN HE WAS IN THE SACRAMENTO
COUNTY FOSTER SYSTEM.
ACCORDING TO THE ATTORNEY, CPS
ALLOWED THE 9-YEAR-OLD TO STAY
WITH US HAVE SISTER ON
WEEKENDS.
THE BACK THEY KNEW OR SHOULD'VE
KNOWN THAT THERE WERE THREE
PIMPLES THEY ARE.
THERE WAS NO WORKING BATHROOM
THEY ARE, THE 24-YEAR-OLD GIRL
WAS GOING TO BE GONE AND LEAVE
THE BOY ALONE WITH THE DOGS.
REPORTER: ALEXANDER WENT TO
WORK AND LEFT THE BOY LONG --
ALONE WITH THE DOGS.
I DETECTIVE BROKE THE NEWS TO
EUSTON.
THEY SAID MR. HOUSTON.
PLEASE SIT DOWN.
AND I WAS LIKE WHAT IS THIS
ABOUT?
AND THEY SAID IT WAS ABOUT YOUR
SON AND THEY TOLD ME THAT HE
PASSED AWAY -- HOUSTON -- HE
WAS MAULED BY THREE PIMPLES.
TYLER WOULD'VE BEEN SAFER.
Reporter: TYLER SISTER
ATTENDED.
HOUSTON IS NOT FILING SUIT
AGAINST HER THINK CPS HAD
BETTER OPTIONS.
IT IS RECKLESS TO LET THE
CHILD GO STAY IN A TRAILER
ALONE WITH THREE PIMPLES.
IT'S RECKLESS.
TYLER THE FATHER'S ATTORNEY