Court Oversight of Utah Child Welfare Should Continue Until DCFS
Corrects Background Check Blunder, Child Advocates Say
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,187931.shtml
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Utah Division
of Child and Family Services should not be freed from oversight by a
federal court until it keeps its promises to undo a tragic
misinterpretation of federal law, a national child advocacy organization
said Friday.
Because Utah misunderstood how to implement the so-called Adam Walsh
Child Protection and Safety Act, and persuaded the legislature to change
state law to conform to that misunderstanding, hundreds of children have
spent days, sometimes weeks trapped in institutions, even when safe,
loving grandparents and other relatives were available to care for them,
according to the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, which
released a report on the issue Friday.
"Even as state officials engaged in an orgy of self-congratulation this
summer over the impending exit from the consent decree, children were
trapped in shelters because of a bureaucratic blunder by the state
Division of Child and Family Services," said NCCPR Executive Director
Richard Wexler.
"Months after promising to undo the mistake, and even after DCFS
Director Duane Betournay explicitly acknowledged that his agency had
erred, DCFS has evaded, DCFS has stalled, and DCFS has dissembled. DCFS
should not be freed from the consent decree until the children are freed
from the shelters."
NCCPR first notified DCFS that it had misunderstood the law in April.
NCCPR has found no other child welfare system in the country that made
the same mistake.
"In May, NCCPR and the Youth Law Center, a public interest law firm,
obtained a series of assurances from Betournay, including a promise to
return to the legislature in January and ask the legislature to undo the
change in state law.
"But now there are disturbing indications that he may keep none of these
promises," Wexler said. "Indeed, Utah officials have cast aspersions on
the safety of placements with grandparents, even though studies
repeatedly have found such placements are safer than placements with
strangers. DCFS' stalling is making children less safe."
NCCPR
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...
.
|
