I'm talking about being turned away by investigators even though my mom was in possession of a video tape that documented the abuse and neglect, with several family members already known to children's services, meth being sold out of the home, etc., etc. I saw stuff like that happen a lot. Eventually the kids were taken away after a drug bust when it was noted that the grandma was shot gunning crack smoke into one three year old's mouth and the mother was giving beer to another nine month old (who was hog tied by a telephone cord so she couldn't run around and get into stuff and the adults could have play time.)
I don't remember now if the bigger kid got the crack or vice versa, but I hardly think it matters This isn't the only time we dealt with the Warren County children's services department. And the other time was also useless. Not to mention my own issues growing up and how children's services (and the police, and teachers, and everyone else for that matter) were asleep at the wheel. liz From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CrossBow Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Book Club >From what I can remember of that hell, the system was setup to try to protect the family first, and try to rehabilitate the parenting skills so the children could eventually return to their biological parents and everything would be cool. Many false claims came through that were from instigation calls only. The system out there, though fallible, is setup to help keep those kinds of situations from taking a child out of a good home. Too bad it also puts kids back into the hands of psychopaths repeatedly until they are dead or freaked for life. Those social workers fought the ugliest,nastiest battles you can't imagine, and often got dirt thrown in their faces, and door shut on thier toes...or the rare death threat. I was always stunned when they brought the kids straigt off the street into our front room to sit on our desks while the police did their thing. That produced my total intolerance of percieved screwy parenting. I wonder about some of those kids at odd times. On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Liz Purkrabek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've seen this sort of thing happen from the outside with children's services. Remind me to tell you my horror stories. I don't know why exactly, but the system that is setup to protect kids is horrible. At least from what I've seen. liz -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clogtowner Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 3:26 PM To: Memphis Freethought Alliance Subject: Book Club Hi y'all - after reading our current book detailing the difficulty in identifying child abusers without medical evidence, and giving many examples (even a club) of those falsely charged with this, I thought this terrible current case from the UK would be of interest: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/baby-p-the-official-files-102 <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/baby-p-the-official-files-10 23092.html> 3092.html <br --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
