Last Edited: Monday, 11 Sep 2006, 8:43 PM CDT

Jessica and Ray Nieto cried Monday morning outside a Denton County courtroom, where Child Protective Services was fighting to take back their only surviving son.

"I don't want them [CPS] in my house," sobbed Jessica. "I don't want them near my other son."

The Neitos are grieving because their baby, Christian, was killed on Labor Day in foster care. Corsicana detectives say Beverly Latimer beat the 16-month-old to death. She's now charged with capital murder.

Christian Nieto

The foster mother had been hired by Mesa Family Services to care for children in CPS custody.

CPS supervisor Teresa Morrow avoided FOX 4's questions about Christian's death, and Latimer as a foster mother. /

The Nietos say Morrow told them something else.

"She told us they had no idea where they [foster children] go," said Ray Nieto. "It's up to Mesa , it's a contract."

The Nietos are still angry at CPS for calling them instead of telling them in person that their baby was dead.

"They let us know we can visit our child in the Dallas County Morgue," said Jessica.

A CPS spokeswoman says Aleda Oaks, the CPS caseworker on the Nieto case, has only two years experience on the job. She didn't show up at work Monday morning.

But the family of the dead child says Oaks and her supervisor admitted they never did their own background check on Latimer.

CPS says they have no idea why Mesa Family Services kept giving Latimer foster children, because since last year, she had been accused three times of abusing kids in her care.

Beverly Latimer

CPS is now reviewing their employees work on the case, and they've suspended Mesa Family Services from placing any foster children.

CPS took the Nietos' children because they admitted they had smoked marijuana, but they were on the verge of getting them back.

"I want something done to change the system," said Jessica, "because obviously, our son isn't the only one who has died in their custody."

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