Social Worker Charged With Child Abuse

Did this woman pass a psych eval?
Beat a two month old baby?
She is OBESE as hell! (Photo) (Serious Psych problems?)
She fostered with bugs, rats and rotting food?
How was she licensed and how did she pass inspections?

Kansas CPS and Arizona CPS both ought to be ashamed.

Is the term Case Manager just the same as "case worker"?

caseworker not a LICENSED Social Worker, right?

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Social Worker Charged With Child Abuse
Hersh Accused Of Assaulting Foster Son
UPDATED: 10:36 pm CDT September 27, 2006

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A former Kansas social worker has been charged with
child abuse, KMBC's Natalie Moultrie reported Wednesday.

Beth Hersh, 28, formerly of Blue Springs, is accused of assaulting her
2-month-old foster son at Children's Mercy Hospital. Hersh is charged
with first-degree assault, endangering the welfare of a child and child
abuse.

Moultrie reported that Hersh worked as a contracted children's social
worker for the state of Kansas.

The case began on April 11, officials said. A social worker at
Children's Mercy called police to report a case of child abuse.

Investigators said Hersh attempted to smother the 2-month-old while he
was in the hospital being treated for something else.

Hersh's former landlord, Melodie Chrisman, told KMBC that she isn't
surprised by the charges.

"From the beginning it was just an odd situation," Chrisman said.

She said Hersh, who started renting from her in January, told her that
she would have between two and four foster children.

"I asked her, 'So do you get involved with the people you work with and
then fall in love with the kids and then you're their foster mom?' She
kind of indicated that's what happened," Chrisman said.

She said she never saw Hersh with the children, but was surprised when
she found the duplex scattered with children's clothes and broken
furniture after Hersh suddenly broke her lease in July to move to
Arizona. Chrisman said Hersh left a big mess behind.

"Refrigerator full of spoiled food and running down the floor. There
were bugs, rats, we had to fumigate several times. Just wasn't a clean
place for children to be," she said.

Chrisman said Hersh claimed to have several reasons for suddenly moving
to Arizona, including a sick father, a new job and financial problems.

"I asked what would happen to children, and she said they would have to
go back into the system," Chrisman said.

Moultrie reported that Hersh was hired as a child protective service
case manager in Prescott, Ariz., and was going through the department's
specialized training.

Officials said the alleged incident happened in April, but the charges
and Hersh's arrest warrant weren't filed until this week.

Police said Hersh was arrested Wednesday in Yavapai County, Ariz.
Officials told KMBC that Hersh was arrested while she was in the middle
of her first training class for her new job.