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Another DSHS Failure?: It certainly appears so.
Another DSHS Failure?
http://soundpolitics.com/archives/008831.html It certainly appears so. It took 10 years for the state of Washington to decide Chornice Lewis was an unfit foster mother. The price of official inertia was a young girl's vision. Lewis, 33, is awaiting trial on two charges of assault, including torture. Her plea: not guilty. The victim: her claimed cousin and foster daughter, now 16, who lived with Lewis for a decade in Tacoma and South King County. State records show the girl was abused for years: beaten, burned, locked in a storage closet and a car trunk, and partially blinded with hypodermic needles. Let me be clear. The villain, assuming these charges are true, is Chornice Lewis. But it is also true, assuming this story is generally correct, that Washington state officials should have rescued the victim years earlier. And credit where due: The official who finally removed the girl from the home is social worker Heidi Canfield, who works for — DSHS. Posted by Jim Miller at June 26, 2007 09:16 AM | Email This Comments 1. You are right. We use agency, but DSHS and the judge require 3 month checkups on-site where they interview the child about things and report to the judge about status. Those are scheduled visits but there is no way the foster parents can control bruises, burns, etc.. I would say this is a failure. Posted by: swatter on June 26, 2007 09:34 AM 2. DSHS is a seriously broken agency. And it's broke from the top down. Gregoire's and previously Locke's failure to demand reform at DSHS has given the entrenched bureaucracy the go ahead to continue as before. Meanwhile the budget goes up, and services to kids and parents are cut. Posted by: JCM on June 26, 2007 10:13 AM 3. another DSHS failure. And everyone knew. This agency stinks. Gregoire, what say you? Posted by: Michele on June 26, 2007 10:25 AM 4. #3 Michele, Increase the budget by another 12% should solve the problem. Posted by: JCM on June 26, 2007 10:43 AM 5. If you are willing to trust your personal responsibility to the government, or when you have no choice as in the case of a child, you just might be severely maimed or die. The government can't possibly do the right thing for everyone, and when we expect it to do so, there is always disastrous results. If this is what happened with child protective services, imagine how the government will botch something more routine as socialized health care. But wait, the evidence for that is already out there in the the British and Canadian systems. There is no substitute for personal responsibility, a caring family unit and a for-profit system that recognizes the urgency of responding to customer needs. Posted by: Jeff B. on June 26, 2007 11:45 AM 6. Can you imagine the howls from the left if it were a GOP governor? To get a grasp of it, just recall how they squealed about Gitmo and the need to hang Rummy. Gee, we have torture to children going on just shy of being endorsed by the agency and it's system. Posted by: PC on June 26, 2007 12:55 PM 7. Two things struck me about this. The first was the case worker's bureaucratic attitude of "well, there wasn't a problem before, so there must not be one now". You would think when numerous neighbors are complaining, the cops are suspicious, and the teachers and counselors are not only fearful for her, but disputing the mother's claims that the kid is a lier and troublemaker, you probably shouldn't be so damned lazy and simply take the foster mother's word for it. Even taken at face value, the mother's story doesn't pass the sniff test. Thank God this kid got a new case worker, or she'd probably be dead right now. The other thing that struck me was, why in the world was this woman being licensed by the state to be a foster mom in the first place, and being given custody of this girl based solely on her word the kid was her niece, without anything resembling proof? I mean really, this woman was 22 at the time, single, on welfare with three kids, and taking "care" of her disabled mom, and the state was giving her two or three foster kids at a time? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Posted by: Mike H. on June 26, 2007 01:26 PM 8. Blinded with hypodermic needles? What kind of a sadist is this foster mom? Sounds like Saddam Hussein. Posted by: Peggy U on June 26, 2007 01:38 PM 9. These things are easily explainable if you look at the larger picture of the ideology that controls DSHS. It's leader, with her hyphenated last name, as well as Gregoire, are Gender Feminists. The belief that all ills in society are the result of "patriarchal control and oppression." Most of the DSHS funds are committed to collecting child payments from fathers that have been kicked out of the lives of their children. This is doubly rewarding for DSHS, because they get a "reward" from the federal government for collecting these funds. And, of course, it fits with the overall ideology that men and fathers are bad. So, in that context, it runs against the prevailing ideology to ever question a woman or a mother. Even though the majority of child abuse is committed by women. You can't fix the problem until DSHS is cleaned of the gender feminist scream queens that run the place. Posted by: BananaLand on June 26, 2007 02:41 PM 10. There will always be some who fall through the cracks and there will never be a way to make all caregivers responsible. The best way to ensure that the great majority of children can thrive and grow up is to nuture and support strong families. Government will never be able to do what a strong family support system can. DSHS, like public schools has suffered through a couple of decades of "progressive" thought. It is going to be difficult to fix a seriously flawed system. Meanwhile, society has delinked, in my opinion, the responsiblity aspects of parenting. Back in the day, people use to get married and then have kids. Now, they hook-up producing children and they may or may not marry the sperm donor. The effect on kids has been devasting. Yes, I know that there are some abusive marriages, but by and large, committed partners are better for raising kids. Posted by: WVH on June 26, 2007 02:54 PM CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 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 Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per 100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a bunch of social workers. 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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