WASHINGTON - A two-year-old girl has been diagnosed with one of the worst cases of lead poisoning that’s been seen in the District in decades, according to doctors.
Her parents say the lead is in her bones and will have long lasting developmental and health effects. The Luster family was living in an apartment that they were paying for with D.C. housing vouchers, and their daughter, Heavenz Luster, was exposed to lead paint chips. The lead was found all around the apartment, as well as the front and back yards.
Now, the nonprofit firm representing the family wants to ring the alarm about why this could be a potential risk for many low income families.
“What is happening is they are rushing families in to end homelessness, but you are creating another issue because we are creating young African American children who are growing up with learning disabilities and behavioral problems,” said Crystal Luster, Heavenz mother, as she was talking about the lead paint that has caused severe health issues to her two-year-old daughter.
At first glance Heavenz looks like a normal toddler, but the scars on her legs from the shots she's had to endure tell a different story. Her severe lead poisoning started shortly after the family moved into a townhouse on Emerson Street in Northwest D.C.
Josiah Carter
This is why you shouldn't ban abortion.
It's the only thing keeping your nigger population in check.
Julian Hughes
bump
William Lopez
you call what we have now in check?
Connor Hernandez
needs some acute lead poisoning
Jordan Taylor
>“What is happening is they are rushing families in to end homelessness, but you are creating another issue because we are creating young African American children who are growing up with learning disabilities and behavioral problems,”
Lol that isn't caused by the lead, it's caused by shit genes.
Ayden Hughes
Wtf? Lead from paints? Even my shithole checks for lead in paints. Most people just use lime and some shit to paint walls though. Don't you have fda or some agency to regulate those items?
Jayden Murphy
Should of invested in some water filters
Cameron Wilson
Lead in paint hasn't been legal for 40 years.
That place must have been a real dump.
Brayden Stewart
water filter are a diamond dozen but lead-free apartments are a true gem around here.
Henry Gutierrez
>let brat gnaw on lead paint walls while you get high on purple drank MUH BABBIES LEAD POISININ!
Asher Foster
VERY RARE
Jace Ramirez
>Americans are still unironically getting fucked by lead paint
Srsly, why did you keep using 'white lead' for 40 years after everyone else again?
Connor King
>crystal >heavenz
going to take a wild guess that these are niggers.
with that in mind, I don't care. fuck the niggers, they can drink lead for all I care, hell i'll take a piss in their lead cocktail and spice it up for them.
Jason Wood
The people coming up with these retarded fucking names certainly do. >HEAVENZ >DeKendrix >JaTavious >Takeitha >Litrelle >LaDarius >Latevin >HEAVENZ Jesus Christ.
Isaiah Bennett
>intentionally feed your baby lead paint as a "late abortion" >doesn't work >"HELL NIGGA, I KNO WAT WE DO, BLAME IT ON THE WHITEYS!" >Money from media to pay crack habit. >some money will go to helping daughters passing easier.
Sebastian Hill
I was of the impression that to rent out anything, you were required by law to have it de-leaded. Wtf is going on?
Grayson Torres
I mostly posted this for the names. Sort of ironic being named Heavenz Luster and getting lead poisoning of all things.
Joseph Robinson
I wasn't aware that naming your child in the US is like naming a fucking Neopet
Ian Bailey
Its one tier up from naming your daughter Nevaeh.
Benjamin Johnson
>nigger lead poisoning
how do we promote these conditions?
get them coons off the fuckin' street they need neurological defects stat
Owen Johnson
That would mean poor niggers couldn't afford to live there while on welfare
Jeremiah Cruz
Forgot to put >AirWrecka on that list.
Camden Howard
just because it's a law doesn't mean it will happen. owners probably didn't want to spend the money for specialists to take care of it. i think it's pretty expensive because of all of the regulations required with cleaning lead painted places.
Elijah Martin
How the fuck do you even pronounce this name, is it even english?
Jonathan Baker
its just what blacks do
John Nelson
>rent >rent >rent
implying a bunch of monkeys know what rent is, they're crackhouse squatters
Caleb Perez
>was exposed to lead paint chips I think the article means to say: Negligent dumbfuck parents don't stop their child from eating paint chips.
It's extremely easy to control the behaviour of toddlers, they don't hide it from you.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING WAY that the mother didn't see her child eating those paint chips.
Henry Wood
It's off the charts expensive, but to rent something out, even if it's section 8, actually especially if it's section 8, you have to have it inspected... I thought testing for lead was part of that process. I could be wrong, and am most familiar with MA law. DC is probably different.
Samuel Allen
i was thinking there was probably major ingestion going on as well. a two year old doesn't get severe lead poisoning by passive exposure if the parents weren't also fucked up just as bad.
>nigger babby so hungry it eats lead paint chips as its 'parent(s)' don't give a shit
life imitates art
Bentley Campbell
you can't rent out a house with food stamps.
Easton Fisher
>being named Heavenz Obviously a suicide attempt.
Nolan Wright
Didn't toys used to be painted with lead? How those kids didn't present such diseases. There is somehing wrong. Can you eat lead?
Jonathan Watson
She would have had to eat the paint chips. So her parents weren't watching her and they didn't bother to repaint flaking walls. The parents are the true culprits
Nathaniel Wright
Not a law nationally. Possibly some state or local ordinances.
You are supposed to enclose a disclosure that advises renters that the property MAY have lead paint, along with steps to minimize exposure.
My rental has lead paint, lead-soldered plumbing, and asbestos siding.
I enclose a note asking them not to eat, grind, smoke, lick, or snort the stuff.
Jaxon Evans
Nigger population has never gone past 15%. It WAS 20% back in the old days.
Charles Harris
>Heavenz Well, poor kid obviously isn't white. Why the fuck was she chewing on paint chips, though?
Landon Martin
I was referring to the landlord.
Jace Williams
>Heavenz Luster
How did I know it was gonna be a niglet?
Logan Kelly
>because we are creating young African American children who are growing up with learning disabilities and behavioral problems,” kek
Logan Gutierrez
Posting is about lead.
Has photograph of beryllium and indium.
Brayden Edwards
The image search said it was lead.
Gabriel Rogers
Paint chips are sweet tasting and yummy.
Landon Collins
Makes sense.
Also seems unreasonably reasonable. That you have to tell them this. Covering your ass legally I suppose. On par with, >Dear McDonald's customers, coffee is hot, BE CAREFULL!
>Don't snort this! Makes you wonder why, when, where this legal precedent was somehow set. Christ.
Noah Robinson
Lead paint is somehow the tasty paint. Not joking. Animals have been known to make a snack out of it too.
