"Dan Sullivan" wrote in message
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On Jul 30, 3:01 am, fx wrote:
Police say man abused two foster kids
Miami-Dade police arrested a man they say abused two girls; the home
continued to operate after the first victim came forward.
BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER


http://www.miamiherald.com/569/story/185302.html

When a 10-year-old foster child complained to state child-abuse
investigators in November that her foster mother's boyfriend had
molested her, caseworkers removed her from the home.

But the foster home remained open, and a month after the molestation
report was received, child welfare administrators renewed the home's
license.

Now, police say, there is a new victim.

On Wednesday, acting on a report from the Department of Children &
Families, Miami-Dade police arrested Ian Garrick, 42, on charges he
molested the now-11-year-old in 2006 -- and raped another girl, 8,
in
April. Garrick is being held at the Miami-Dade County jail without
bond.

Al Zimmerman, DCF's Tallahassee spokesman, said the agency is still
looking into how the case was handled, but state confidentiality
laws
forbid him from discussing the details.

Said Thomas G. Franklin, a DCF administrator in Miami: ``This is a
tragic situation, and we continue to do all that we can to assist
law
enforcement. Children in the state's dependency system are often
already
victims of very sad, very traumatic situations, and to learn a child
has
been revictimized is heart-wrenching.

``When we learned that one of the children in our care may have been
assaulted, we acted quickly. When our investigation resulted in
verified
findings, we immediately contacted the police.''

WRONG!!!

When an allegation of molest of a child in FC is made to DCF they
should IMMEDIATELY notify the police. And the investigations can run
concurrently.

BUT - - - ALAS Dan they often don't and try their hardest to sweep the
**** under the rug. CPS for some reason has considerable paranoia
about
admitting to ANY flaws in their system. We could go ON about how hard
Florida's agency fought keeping quiet that a foster father with a LONG
LONG LONG LONG LONG history of sex with kids (some of us even DARE
call
him a pedophile) that after a child placed in his care was admitted to
the
hospital with SEVERE vaginal injuries was placed by the agency RIGHT
BACK
with him and he did it AGAIN! Yean Dan we ALL are just agog at CPS and
it's INFALLIBILITY!

NOT!!

Lots of hot air there, krp.

Did you do anything about your dissatisfaction about how DCF took care
of
this case?

Not much *I* could DO Dan.

So what did you do, krp?
Anything at all?

WHAT should I have done? Wasn't hired in it, just contacted about it
after it was over.

However the case got lots of notoriety
because the father of the child was a reporter for the Sun Sentinel. By
the
way, after CPS sent the child BACK to the pervert (foster father) she was
AGAIN injured vaginally and you can feel GOOD about that?

Why do you ask if I feel good about what happened?


About how abuse by foster parents is all too common......