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Death points to flaws in foster system
Death points to flaws in foster system
By Brian Newsome, The Gazette October 13, 2007 http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drm...721613,00.html COLORADO SPRINGS - Months before a foster mother allegedly slammed 2-year- old Alizé Vick into a coffee table, causing fatal head injuries, state auditors warned that children in foster care could be at risk. An audit released in May looked at El Paso County and seven other counties and found faults in the system from the state to county levels. It concluded that the Department of Human Services lacked adequate safeguards for foster children. Alizé's case has spotlighted issues identified by the report, including that parent files often lack basic documentation and that investigations are sometimes deficient. "Weaknesses in the Department's oversight of abuse or neglect investigations may result in counties' and (child placement agencies') continuing to place foster children in abusive foster homes," the audit said. Many of the problems had been identified in previous audits. The Colorado Department of Human Services agreed with auditors' recommendations for improvements and is implementing them, spokeswoman Liz -McDonough said. Any changes will come too late for Alizé, who died Wednesday at Memorial Hospital. An autopsy Friday found that she died of head injuries and ruled her death a homicide, said Bureau Chief Joe Breister, of the El Paso County Sheriff's Department. Cuneo is jailed on suspicion of first-degree murder and felony child abuse after telling a detective that she threw Alizé "hard enough that she landed on the opposite side of the table on the floor," according to the arrest affidavit. It is the first homicide this year in unincorporated El Paso County. There have been 20 so far in 2007 in Colorado Springs. Sheriff's deputies are looking into past child-abuse complaints against Cuneo and executed search warrants Friday for files, computers and other potential evidence from DHS and Kids Crossing, the child placement service that handled her case, Breister said. DHS is conducting its own investigation, which includes a review of its handling of the case and that of Kids Crossing. Alizé is the first child in El Paso County to die in foster care since at least 1988, the earliest records in the state's database, said Barbara Drake, the county's director of the Department of Human Services. In the report, the Office of the State Auditor reviewed DHS files and interviewed employees in the state's largest counties on the Front Range, Mesa County on the Western Slope and Alamosa County in the San Luis Valley. An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and the Child Protection "INDUSTRY" 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. Currently Child Protective Services violates more civil rights on a daily basis then all other agencies combined, Including the NSA/CIA wiretaping program… FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILU. A Brief Analysis of the Casey Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache...fpanalysis.doc or for .doc http://www.nccpr.org/reports/cfpanalysis.doc HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster ca 30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children. 27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated 33% were receiving public assistance 37% had not finished high school 2% receive a college degree 50% were unemployed *Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems, including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and impaired social relationships. Some experts estimate that about 30% of the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment than the general population. *Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support 80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system. The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should just be blown up. http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991 This study found thousands of children already in foster care who would have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away in the first place. Front-page story in USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...m?csp=34#Close The full study is available here. http://www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fo...arch07_aer.pdf The bottom line? - the foster care system nationwide for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than walking wreckage... |
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