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Terror, torture – abetted by a negligent agency...
Terror, torture – abetted by a negligent agency
THE NEWS TRIBUNE Published: June 24th, 2007 01:00 AM http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/story/94680.html Sometimes what is done to a child is so cruel and brutal that just thinking about it is hardly bearable. Such is the case with a South King County foster girl, now 16, whose foster “parent” – that word is far too kind – inflicted torture upon her for as long as 10 years. The word bears repeating: Torture – as in “intentionally inflicted injury amounting to torture” – is the exact term used by a physician who examined her after her years-long ordeal. The News Tribune’s Sean Robinson documents her shocking abuse on today’s Page One; we won’t detail it here. Suffice it to say that the girl, after her rescue, was found to have multiple scars and bruises, burns and blunt-force injuries, a bruised face and a chipped tooth. That’s not the worst of it. Her “caregiver” – Chornice Lewis, now jailed on charges of child assault – apparently liked to go after the girl’s eyes, sometimes with needles. Her eyes were often blackened, swollen or inflamed when she came to school. The examinations turned up a broken eye socket and puncture wounds to both eyes. Her right eye is now functionally blind. But no, maybe that’s not the worst of it. The worst may be the fact that public agencies charged with protecting children, the Children’s Administration of the Department of Social and Health Services and the King County Juvenile Court, overlooked the girl’s torture over all those years. It wasn’t because they weren’t told. Time after time, as Robinson recounts, teachers, neighbors, school counselors or police officers alerted Children’s Administration social workers to the girl’s injuries and signs of her suffering. Time after time, the social workers “investigated” and accepted Lewis’ version of the truth: that the girl was a liar, a thief, difficult and out of control. This despite the lack of evidence of any such tendencies when she was at school – where she was quiet, poorly clothed and friendless. Nor did the juvenile court provide the supervision that might have compensated for the social workers’ negligence and gullibility. A critical review initiated – to its credit – by the Children’s Administration found that the court gave little scrutiny to the girl’s placement and treatment and failed to provide an effective child advocate as required. As for the Children’s Administration, the internal review noted that the complaints it ignored followed a classic pattern of abuse, including physical injury, poor hygiene, frequent changes in schools, inadequate food and being locked out of the house. Yet the Children’s Administration has not held even one social worker or supervisor accountable for this monumental failure. No one has been disciplined for their part in this horror story. The review did lead to one astonishing recommendation: that Child Protective Services investigators and DSHS social workers should be trained in the “detection of patterns in child abuse and neglect cases.” Silly us. For some reason, we imagined that the professionals charged with stopping child abuse might already know what it looks like. 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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