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Washington: Child Protective Services needs an overhaul...
CPS needs an overhaul
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...weblets03.html Recently, I read yet another horrific story of another inexcusable failure by Child Protective Services. "Plea deal for mother in death by dehydration of boy, 7" [Times, Local News, July 15] told of a poor 12-year-old boy who was tortured by his grandparents in Tacoma. At least six complaints, citing abuse, were filed by the boy's teachers and school counselors to CPS. Three years later, there was still no response from CPS in regards to these complaints. This little boy is hardly the first case to make headlines. In November 2004, Justice and Raiden Robinson died from starvation and dehydration at the hands of their mother. This was after CPS received six complaints against their mother. There is also the case of 7-year-old Tyler DeLeon, who weighed just 28 pounds, the size of an average 2-year-old. Tyler, a boy so thirsty he ripped a hole in the screen of his bedroom window to eat snow, died of dehydration. Then there is 2-year-old Rafael Gomez, whose caseworker, in 2003, simply ignored the abuse (exposure to cocaine and methamphetamine, broken legs, a skull fracture, cuts and burns) and returned the boy to his mother, who killed him. I don't understand the leaders in this state. They engage in endless discussions, but do not seem capable of making the hard decisions, or accomplishing anything of substance. Eight years after the Nisqually earthquake, Washington's leaders are still at the discussion phase of viaduct solutions. Traffic congestion grows worse each day, with no solution in site. But those things I can live with. What I can't live with is this same lackadaisical attitude when it comes to endangering our state's children. I have to wonder where our leaders' priorities are. The Legislature had time to write and pass legislation concerning the gratuity charged in restaurants, but not a single piece of legislation to overhaul or dismantle Child Protection Services? Perhaps it's because those kids, who cannot afford lobbyists to line our representatives' campaign pockets, simply fail to matter? How many of these stories have to come out before somebody does something besides pay lip service to it? There have been calls by the public for the overhaul of the CPS system for years. Politicians, including our state's governor, go on TV, acting appropriately outraged, making the same tired speeches calling for change, but those efforts wane about the same time the press attention does. What will it take for the outrage to become action? OK, governor, where is the change? What steps have you put in place to create this change? -- Dawn Schink, Duvall CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NSA / CIA WIRETAPPING PROGRAM.... CPS Does not protect children... It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even killed at the hands of Child Protective Services. every parent should read this .pdf from connecticut dcf watch... http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US These numbers come from The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN) Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS *Perpetrators of Maltreatment* Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59 Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13 Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241 Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12 Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5 CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING HUNDREDS OF INNOCENT FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON... BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION... |
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