Sociology > Education > OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Oklahoma County prosecutors have charged a DHSemployee with a misdemeanor for allegedly not believing a 5-year-old girlwho said she had been sexually abused.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Oklahoma County prosecutors have charged a DHSemployee with a misdemeanor for allegedly not believing a 5-year-old girlwho said she had been sexually abused. |
Employee charged for not believing abuse claim
AP - 9/22/2007 3:35 PM - Updated 9/22/2007 3:45 PM
http://www.kotv.com/news/local/story/?id=136469
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Oklahoma County prosecutors have charged a
Department of Human Services employee with a misdemeanor for allegedly
not believing a 5-year-old girl who said she had been sexually abused.
Nancy Cannady, 63, was charged on Friday with a misdemeanor count of
failing to report the child's claim that she had been sexually abused
while in foster care.
Cannady, a child welfare specialist, told Oklahoma City police she did
not believe the 5-year-old's claim because the little girl lies,
according to court papers.
However, the teenage boy admitted to sexually assaulting her and another
girl in a foster home, investigators allege.
Department of Human Service spokesman George Johnson declined to comment
on the case because he was not familiar with the allegations.
Cannady has worked for DHS since April 2006, but Johnson said she has
prior experience as a child welfare worker.
Cannady served as the case worker for 17-year-old Cecil Frazier and the
5-year-old he allegedly abused, placing them in the same south Oklahoma
City foster home. The girl was placed in the home in November and was
removed six months later because of her violent behavior.
Attempts to reach Cannady or an attorney for Frazier for comment were
unsuccessful.
In June, the 5-year-old told her new foster mother she had been sexually
abused by Frazier. The foster mother and a therapist reported the girl's
claims to Cannady, officials said.
Two months later, Oklahoma City police learned about allegations against
Frazier, when his foster mother reported her daughter had been raped.
Detective Tony Foreman found out about the other girl's allegations
about a week later when he talked to her former foster mother, he said
in an affidavit filed in the case.
Prosecutors charged Frazier last week with eight counts of rape, sodomy,
and lewd acts with a child.
Even with the misdemeanor charge, Cannady's job with the Department of
Human Services hasn't been affected.
Johnson said the Guthrie resident recently transferred to the Logan
County office, and the change was not a result of the allegations
against her.
Cannady could be assigned to administrative duties until the criminal
case is resolved, but the agency is not required to fire her unless she
is convicted of a felony, Johnson said.
Nobody is talking about America’s Hidden Holocaust, the Destruction of
Hundreds of Good and innocent Low-Income Families by Child Protective
Services…
Currently Child Protective Services violates more civil rights on a
daily basis then all other agencies combined, Including the NSA/CIA
wiretaping program…
Personally I Do Not appreciate Child Protective Services using the
Constitution of the United States as Toilet Paper in a Time of War,
while the Good Men and Women of our Armed Forces are Fighting and Dying
for It.
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"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us
tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second
will not become a legalized version of the first.": --Thomas Jefferson
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Somebody needs to remind the individual State's and their governors that
children stolen from innocent low-income families in many cases through
out the United States are not commodities to be traded for federal
dollars...
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side
of the oppressor."--Bishop Desmond Tutu (1931- ) Nobel Prize for Peace 1984
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