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NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the city's childwelfare commissioner on Friday, a day after a damning report concluded 10children had died as a result of the agency's inept investigations.
Bloomberg Defends Commissioner Despite Report on Child Deaths
http://www.1010wins.com/pages/795850...ntentId=786810 NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the city's child welfare commissioner on Friday, a day after a damning report concluded 10 children had died as a result of the agency's inept investigations. On his weekly radio show, Bloomberg called John B. Mattingly, head of the Administration for Children's Services, "as good a guy as you're ever going to get to head an agency like this.'' Asked Thursday if he should step down, Mattingly had replied, "The mayor will let me know any time that he feels I'm not carrying out what I promised him I would do when I came in August 2004, and I will be here as long as he wants me.'' The Department of Investigation report outlined a troubling pattern of lying, incompetence, carelessness, ill-trained caseworkers. The DOI said child protection workers sometimes simply took parents at their word when they denied the allegations. Sometimes they closed cases without even trying to interview people who probably had relevant information. The deaths occurred in an eight-month stretch beginning in October 2005. The report gives grim details about the children whose deaths likely could have been prevented: Nixzmary Brown, 7, and Quachaun Brown, 4, beaten in 2006; 2-month-old Michael Segarra, who was born with cocaine in his system and died in his crib of neglect. After 16-month-old Dahquay Gillians drowned in a bathtub on Nov. 6, 2005, an ACS manager admitted that he had falsified records to make it appear he had been actively supervising the investigation, the report said. Dahquay's mother has pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide. "It's sad that they are letting children die,'' Latisha Bond, Dahquay's cousin, told the New York Post. Bloomberg ordered the 18-month DOI investigation in January 2006. In response, the agency said it has drastically increased the number of caseworkers, reduced each worker's caseload from 22 to 11, and made important personnel changes. Mattingly said ACS investigated more than 63,000 abuse and neglect reports in 2006, up from 48,000 the previous year, and expects the number to reach 61,000 by the end of this year. ACS also has hired 20 investigative consultants with law enforcement experience and plans to bring on 100 more. The intention is to have one investigative consultant per 15 caseworkers. "In child protection, there is no quick fix, no silver bullet,'' Mattingly said. "We have made progress ... but we are by no means done.'' On his radio show, Bloomberg said Mattingly heads an agency ``that has a very tough job and we don't pay people that well and it's dangerous and you see things that you never thought you'd ever see.'' "It is what it is,'' Bloomberg said of the report. "Let's focus on making it (the agency) better rather than yelling and screaming.'' 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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