Angel Barteaux, Richard's third child

The Life of Angel Barteaux

When Angel was 17 in 1993 she was getting into serious trouble. At the time she was living with her mother, Beverly (Saville) Barteaux, in Modesto and going to high school, but not doing well. She had been caught for shop lifting, crashed her car, purchased for her by her grandfather Barteaux entirely wrecking it. She was also dating an older guy, the manager at the local Taco Bell there in Modesto and unwilling to accept her mother's rules.

She had been attending high school, but was not doing well.

During a domestic dispute over her staying out with her boyfriend at night a physical argument erupted. Angel called the police and had her mother jailed.

Her grandparents and her brother and sister-in-law, were entirely fed up with her. Her mother was no longer willing to have Angel living with her, either, when she turned to them for help, again. Angel had lived with her grandparents, Dean and Betty Barteaux, on and off over the years. They could not deal with her.

It was decided, probably by Dean, she should just move into Richard Senior's home, vacant since his death two months earlier. Therefore, she was shipped off with a girl friend, Brandy, to live at the house in Cheyenne, Wyoming, which had belonged to her father.

Richard, Jr’s wife, Jill, accompanied the two girls and got them settled in, ensuring they had all they needed. Jill, was also the one handling the allowance and paying the bills. Angel had to do nothing but go to school. A new Ford Escort was purchased for her. Angel complained because it was not what she wanted.

Brandy only lasted for 24 hours. She called Jill from the home of Richard Senior's old girlfriend, Peggy, begging to come home because Angel was being entirely unreasonable about everything.

Jill says Angel was a pathological liar and refused to cooperate on anything. Angel signed up to go to high school, attended for a month, then dropped out. The partying began immediately.

She was outraged to discover her allowance was cut in half because Brandy was no longer there. “Tough,” said Jill.

Shortly thereafter, just a little later in 1993, Jill received a letter from Chayla Rae Brown, a connection of Peggy's , telling them Angel was using drugs, not going to school, and hanging out with a druggy guy, Jason. Disgusted, the Barteauxs stopped sending Angel any money.

The house was in the names of Angel and her brother, Richard, Junior as tenants-in-common. Ignoring the fact she did not actually own the house, Angel sold it, taking the entire proceeds of around $76,000.

The following year there was a shot gun wedding because she was pregnant by Jason. Married October 14, 1994, giving birth on January 9^th of 1995.

Jason was working as a cook at Denny's in Cheyenne. Angel was staying home. The couple was receiving food stamps. Shortly thereafter she became pregnant again with Sarah. The new baby was born May 31^st, 1996.

While she was pregnant with Sarah, Angel began calling the Barteauxs for help. Her mom, Beverly, went down to help when Sarah was born. The Barteauxs spent $86,000 for a house trailer so she and her kids and husband would have a place to live.

After Sarah was born Jason began battering her. Angel sent pictures of her bruises.

By October 1996 Angel reported the abuse from Jason was too much for her to take. She decided she wanted a divorce and to return to California and get a trailer home there.

The trailer was sold at a huge loss. Angel returned to California in the same Ford Escort which had been purchased for her when she relocated to Cheyenne.

The Barteauxs again dipped into Angel's trust fund and bought her another trailer home, this one in Modesto. The divorce was finalized. Jason paid nothing.

Angel was sold a used Jeep Grand Cherokee, which had been owned by Jill and Richard, Jr.

An attempt to allow her to have credit cards ended after one month. Angel had blown through $20,000 on trinkets and junk.

Right after she moved to Modesto she met Damann Rogers and, again, fell in love. Rogers adopted her kids. They lived in the trailer home purchased for Angel until they got the inheritance after Betty died and then bought a house, where they still live.

The Barteauxs paid for Damann to go to school to repair copiers.

Today Angel does passion parties, selling sex toys, to make money and receives a monthly stipend from her trust fund.