Kimberly Broffman Video: Grandparents Ordered To Evict 6 Year Old

How dare they try and evict this little girl!!!!! she has no where else to go. how can they try and do that.This makes me so mad because i live with my grandparents also and they wouldn't ever try and evict me and my mom because we cannot stablely live on our own.

The only question I have is: is this little girl really bothering anyone or are these OLD people just being petty.  I mean I understand that a bilaw is a law but come on should this 6 year old little girl and her grandparents be punished because they can't sell this property?  Maybe once this gets around people will not want to buy in the community, have they ever stopped to think about the BAD publicity this is bringing on themselves.

I am torn, as I understand that rules are written & agreed to for a reason & must be strictly adhered to. However, considering that the Stotlers are trying to sell & move, I think it should be a democratic vote within the community & NOT a secretive written vote. Sit the 6 year old girl on a stool up front and let the community vote a verbal yeah or nay among those present. Non present voters are a "yeah", unless hospitalized or dead. If the end result is to evict, then the counsel needs to buy the Stotler's home at (at the least) the same price the Stotlers gave for it. 

Question-- why now? This is wrong. Surely a child would bring joy to the commuity. I see no way that this hinders the lifestyle presened and desired.

The POINT of the American justice system is to protect the family, therefore where is the justice here? Let her live with her family who loves her. That is something she will need later and will never experience in foster care.

These people should all be ashamed. Be reasonable. Be empathetic. To refuse is to lead to hardship by negligence and as an extreme even death.

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As someone who has been in foster care, it sickens me how casually the seperation of a child from their natural family and placement into foster care is suggested.  People who suggest such things do not have the ability or brain power to comprehend what it means to a child to be ripped from his/her parents arms and forced to live with strangers.  The loss, the trauma, the helplessness, the powerlessness...it will change this little girl and give her a bitter picture of the world.  Maybe that's what these people want?  For this innocent child to be as bitter and crotchety as they are?

I find this upsetting deeply disturbing that a bunch of old people could do this to a six year old, but not surprised.  A few months ago my nearly 70 y.o. landlady evicted me.  Why?  Simply because I adopted a black child.  While we have laws to "protect" our children and families, there are ignoramuses (and the Stottlers retirement community seems to be loaded with them--especially that Leland Wheeler guy--didn't you just want to punch that smug look off his ignorant face?) who don't care who they hurt due to their own selfishness, ignorance, and prejudices.  Well, Kimberly is learning a very hard lesson just like my child did.  But don't worry kids, there is still justice in this world and the next one to come.  People like these bigots get their due eventually.  The laws regarding discriminating all kids should also be included in retirement communities as well--as long as one parent or legal guardian is over 55, then child/ren should be permitted in.  Most parents are younger than that.  If old people don't want to be blessed by children and youth, they should go live in an assisted living facility or nursing home. 

This is just aweful. I mean I understand their are policies, but it's not like their bum 18 year old grandchild is just lounging around with no job causing problems. It's an innocent 6 year old. I'm sure her grandparents are the only ones she has in the world. Taking her away from her grandparents would completely screw her up for the rest of her life i'm sure. What's better? Going against a little policy and having the child grow up relatively normal and happy....or take her away and put her into foster care where there is the chance she could be mistreated or turn into a little deliquent. I know lots of kids go into foster care and turn out ok. But still...why chance it. I grew up with too many foster care kids who were on the wrong path in life. If her grandparents really are that old and on the edge of life...just let her enjoy the last couple of years with them so she's a little older and can understand whats going on. If she happens to fall into foster care that way...well it can't be helped.

I think the best situation would be for the homeowners association to allow this child to stay until the family can sell the house. I think the ultimate goal should be to prevent this child from moving to foster care, as that could create a myriad of social problems later on. That said, I'm in agreement that this family should have moved once they took in their grandchild a long time ago. They moved to that community knowing full well it didn't allow for children. That's probably what made it so appealing in the first place (yes, hard to believe, but not everyone wants to live around darling children). To say that they weren't planning on keeping her and their flake daughter just abandoned them completely doesn't wash with me. They knew their daughter was a drug addict. Even if she was able to take the kid back, the liklihood that the daughter would relapse and they'd once again be dealing with the child was far too great. The grandparents are the ones that knowingly got themselves in this fix. However, the child shouldn't suffer because of their procrastination. She should be allowed to stay while the house is on the market. If the grandparents have to take a hit on the price they can get for the house, so be it. Poor choices lead to poor outcomes. And for everyone who's up in arms about this place not allowing children to live there, it's probably because this story is about an adorable 6 year old. What if 15 years had elapsed and the adorable granddaughter was now following in her moms footsteps having her druggie friends over and stealing from the neighbors to support their habit? Would you blame the HOA for wanting to enforce the no children policy then? Probably not. There's no real difference. NOT EVERYONE LIKES TO BE AROUND CHILDREN!!!

Im dont want them to take that child away from her grandparents. I was in foster care and I can stand hearing that kid are in foster care. I 7 days you could move 3 different homes. How can you live like that. I seriously dont like them dang old people and how they are acting now. Why wasnt this an issue when the child moved in. The people in my community that I grew up in would tell you the day that child moved in the rule and what they thought of you breaking the rules. But after they told you what they thought they would help find you a better place that you could live that would fit you and the childs needs. Help them find somewhere else if it was so big a problem now after the fact that the kid has been there for a while. Dont be mean it doesnt get you anything but told off.

Leland Wheeler should be ashamed of himself. But he does have to answer to God about his selfishness. No it would not be the sheriff who is the ogre it would be him. Now this is one of those issues where someone should agree to pay for the grandparents place, the full price, and let them leave and live in peace. May God have mercy on the rest.

Here is more information, as well as reader comments that are clear, concise, and responsible:www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/55-and-over-community-wants-to-evict-family-with-6-year-old/1045969?comments=legacy

it's hard for me to say this as the parent of the coolest little 7 year old in the whole wide world - but I dont see why the HOA is painted as the bad guy in this story. This has been going on since april of '05! it's the tail end of '09 now! they say their home is listed at 125k$ now - they live in a community where most of the homes are valued on zillow at about 60k$ - homes in that community have sold for between 60 and 90k$ in the last year. No wonder why they have had 1 showing in 9 months! They listed their home at 225$ when first asked to leave and according to zillow homes in that community peaked in value at about 125k$! it doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out whats going on here. the baylaws are the bylaws. plain and simple. the child's grandparents have had 5 years to make an honest effort to rectify the situation. if they arent willing to do so, I say evict them.

Laws were written to protect the public, individuals or groups of individuals.  Laws were also written to get around certain laws.  That is why we have senior developments.  This way they can get around the Fair Housing Act which states you can discriminate against certain individuals.  These old farts are using their bylaws to enforce their mean old hearts!  I have been around lots of retirement villages and I would never let my loving, giving kind parents EVER live in one of those miserable, depressing places!

THERE IS NO MORAL VALUE OF AN EVICTIONS,IF VIOLENCE ARE OCCUED THAN YES, THAN ZCTIONA SHOULD TAKE PLACE. THIS LOVABLE FAMILY IS NOT CAUSING NO HARM JUST RASING A INNOCENSE CHILD WHO HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN THIS WORLD. THAT IS WRONG AND I WISH YOU THE BEST. GOD IS ABLE ALAWAYS. DON'T ALLOW YOUR SELVES TO STEP OUT ON FAITH.  THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THIS WORLD OUT FOR THEM SELVES. I HOPE EVERYONE THE BEST. SINCERELY MOGUEL FAMILY IN MICHIGAN!

Realizing that bylaws in 55+ parks are designed to keep the riff-raff and their squabbling brats out, I find it hard to believe that EVERYONE in that park is dead set against this little girl. If the park won't allow the prices of the mobile homes to be lowered to current FMV, then it is their responsibility to buy the mobile home at current FMV, and issue the eviction. However, as they bought the home -- and the law gives the grandparents 90 days to move, they should find something. Even where I live, mobile homes that were once over 100K in value, are now down in the low 15K because nobody has the money to move. Has the child committed a crime against property, or violence against a senior? Make her the 'unofficial' ambassador to the shut-ins there... they'd like to see a cute, prety face saying good morning, I'll bet!

Note to CM (unverified): Show me 100 old people who don't like to be around children, and I can show you hospital wards and assisted living nursing homes with patients/resident numbering in the thousands that would. I hope that when you're lying in a hospital bed dying, and you wonder where your family is -- wait a second, you don't like kids, so you won't have any there -- I hope that last few seconds of your miserable existence passes to the sounds of the blood vessels bursting in your brain and the leaking of blood out of your ears...

Well GOOD GRIEF!!!!!! YOUR A MORON !!! SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!! YOu are annoying. You know nothing and babble lie you are god! It is not every parents fault when a person turns to drugs. Did you ever think that these grandparents can not afford to move... Atleast not with out the sale of there house. Maybe you should buy it for them . Kids are expensive and love doesnt cover everything. At least they didnt turn there back on the child ... Sounds like you would just not to inconvience anyone else. I have kids, and would do anything for them.If I ever have to take care of Grandkids... Well just dont live on my block!!!!!!!!!!!

I have two children as well and live in Florida.  My in-laws live in a 55+ community that only allows children/grandchildren under the age of 19 to live with them 2 months out of the year because the taxes are structured (for them, anyway) so that they pay less school tax than that of people that live in regular communities.That being said, if something were to happen to myself or my husband -- my in-laws would get the children.  The market down here sucks right now, but there should be some sort of hardship clause for people in this type situation.  So what if the little girl lives there?  Is she causing a ruckus?  Probably not.  Heck, she's only 6 years old.Perhaps now that this is a human interest story, someone will step up to the plate and either buy their home or offer them a place to live rent-free until their home is sold.Karma will come around and bite those in the asses that aren't doing right by this kid.