There was another case, I think it was in Maine. Teen mother had her daughters taken away because they felt she wasn't capable. I don't know if she resigned or what, but the Child Services bitch ended up adopting at least one of the children herself.

A while later when the older girl acted up, she duct-taped her to her high chair and left her to think about her behavior in the basement. When she came back she found the chair had tipped and the child was dead. I can't remember if it was Frontline, or 60 minutes, or another, but there was a documentary on it. It took the real mother a long time to get the second girl back.

Too much power, not enough oversight. This "informant-based" witchhunting is dubious at best, especially when the criterea is so subjective.

This "informant-based" witchhunting is dubious at best, especially when the criterea is so subjective.

And when the consequences are emotionally devastating, for both the parents AND the children.

That's messed up (not that your other stories weren't).

"Ten months later, China Marie Davis' autopsy revealed two broken collarbones, a broken left arm, a broken right rib, two fractures of the left upper arm, a fracture of the right upper arm, broken left wrist, a broken left hand, a broken left forearm, a broken right wrist, a broken right forearm, fractures of both thigh bones and a compression fracture of the spine.

No one suspected anything because her foster mother always dressed her in such pretty outfits."

God I hope someone pays for putting that child in that home. The girl being dressed in "pretty outfits" is no excuse for the case worker not to have noticed that many injuries over a 10 month period. Damn.

Unfortunately, people are all too focused on the child, and not on the homes they put them into. We all want to help the children, but caseworkers are overloaded, there is no money to hire more, and frankly, it's a thankless job. Social workers are harrasses, beaten, threatened; they've had their cars stolen, tires slashed.

Unless you're willing to become a certified foster care home or a case worker, you really can't sit on the sidelines and complain about how bad things are getting. (I volunteer in a runaway shelter for teens, before you jump all over me)

Here's an exercise = think about all the children you've seen today. In the last week? Can you recall the looks on their faces? Did they look happy or scared ore dead inside? Any of those children could have been a China.

"Unless you're willing to become a certified foster care home or a case worker, you really can't sit on the sidelines and complain about how bad things are getting."

Most times I'd agree, but as a taxpayer I pay for these services.

What you are saying would be like telling an employer that they don't have the right to criticize unless they are willing to do the employees job for them.

These are DEATHS, deaths of children we are talking about. I'm all for cutting civil servants a break, and I don't think they need to be abused, but nothing is being done to address the imbalaced power and lack of oversight they enjoy.