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Report: DHS worker faked report to cover up botched investigation
Report: DHS worker faked report to cover up botched investigation
By AP Monday, September 3, 2007 12:03 PM CDT http://www.examiner-enterprise.com/a...te/news115.txt OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A worker for the state Department of Human Services faked reports to cover up his failure to properly investigate accusations that a boy was being abused in the weeks leading up to his death, according to a published report. A report prepared by a state oversight committee at the request of The Oklahoman states that DHS discovered the fabricated reports only after the 2-year-old boy died from abuse and neglect, the newspaper reported in a copyright story in Sunday’s editions. Keenan Taylor died from burns on June 9, 2005, a day after he was scalded by boiling water at his home. The DHS “intake” worker reported he had checked on the boy and three other children two weeks earlier because of abuse complaints but found no problems at the father’s home. The oversight committee’s report states the worker may not have actually interviewed or observed the boy at all. Records show a DHS supervisor also found that key witnesses were never interviewed even though reports reflect the worker questioned them. The worker resigned after he was confronted about the inaccuracies, the oversight agency’s report indicates. The tragedy is an extreme example of a recurring problem at the agency — workers sometimes fail to check on a child’s welfare and then falsify reports to show they did. Some former employees have told The Oklahoman that workers make phony reports because they are struggling with high caseloads and are under extreme pressure from supervisors to make documentation a top priority. “They chose to put these kids in these types of situations and then they don’t follow up and they lie about following up,” said Keenan’s grandfather, Archie Taylor, who is suing DHS and current and former DHS workers. “It was like they were just half doing their job,” said Taylor, a Tulsa aircraft machinist whose daughter is Keenan’s mother. “I want to make sure that this don’t happen to other kids, and the only way to do that is to expose DHS.” In Keenan’s case, both the worker who faked reports and a “permanency” worker resigned shortly after the boy’s death, records show. The permanency worker failed twice to turn in accusations of mistreatment for possible investigation, records show. “When we hire and train staff to do a job, we have to rely on a certain amount of trust and honesty,” said DHS spokesman George Johnson. “With a work force the size of ours, that trust is going to be violated.” Keenan’s father, Carlis Anthony Ball, 25, is serving a life prison sentence for the boy’s death. He was found guilty of first-degree murder and neglect at a trial last year. Prosecutors say Ball deliberately poured scalding water on his son, burning 50 percent of the boy’s body, on June 8, 2005. Ball allegedly then stuck the boy in a dirty bedroom closet overnight. Ball called for help the next afternoon and claimed he accidentally knocked a pot of boiling water on Keenan while cooking, according to testimony at his trial. DHS disclosed to prosecutors that its intake worker had performed an inaccurate investigation. DHS did not discuss the fraud in its only public report on the case. Most DHS records on the case remain confidential by law. Some details about the case were detailed last week by the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth in an 11-page report. The report did not name the employees. However, a DHS attorney, Richard Freeman Jr., identified Granville L. Haynes II and Billie J. Mayberry as the two child-welfare specialists who resigned to avoid being fired for their actions in the case. Haynes and Mayberry could not be reached for comment. Freeman said DHS will not represent them in the lawsuit. 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 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. CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS 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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