There has been recent news reports of DHS not doing a thorough enough job at protecting the children of Michigan. The young man who slept while his children drowned is a prime example. I must admit, when I first heard his mother talking, I thought he was guilty. Then I heard the police report on the children's injuries and it was clear to me that the little boy had turned on the water, while his sister stood watching. The burns on his body were consistent to that scenario. The mother stepping up and saying that her son beat his children was wrong, and someone should question her motives for making her son out to be a villain. I think maybe she wanted to tell him what to do, and he wasn't willing to listen. Making me wonder what kind of mother she was that her child wouldn't accept her help. They were actually estranged, and at a time he needed help. I wished I could ask HIM why.
Department of Human Services is a really simple organization. If their are no bumps, burns and bruises, everything is fine. There is no count for psychological abuse or mental torture. Only the things that they can see. There are so many children in the system they have devised a plan that states, "if they ain't half dead, there nothing we want to do about their situation." That's what they do, and they don't take in to account these days parenting classes and help. They need to place a child and move on. With the current economic situation there is no money. I know colleges that have programs for daycare providers who want to start a business that is equal to a parenting program. This includes psychology and parenting classes that help structure the home. They aren't free, but with Federal grants and loans they are possible. Besides, there is daycare that can help with job searches to become gainfully employed. This young man needed "help" in the rawest form, but I believe no one cared. Not the people who placed the children in his "alternative" home or the judge who made the decision.
Then there is is the young woman who beat her child, and the father told DHS that the child was in danger and they did nothing. No bumps, no bruises so no action. Now a man has to live with the idea that the very people who were meant to help his child; failed his child. If someone would have just heard his calls for action things would be better for him, because he would still have his infant child. A woman capable of slamming a child into a wall is crazy and that should be obvious to anyone. I know the judge who couldn't get her attention knew, "Something ain't right here." You mean a social worker couldn't see it, in a visit or subsequent follow-up visits. But they will only come if they are called and never address the true abuse that is so obvious to others, but missed, dismissed or overlooked by them. The Department of Human Services don't serve humans, but act as if they are doing a job that just isn't being done. Not done properly anyway, and the children are paying dearly for their lack of skills and performance.
Do you know that the people who work for DHS on the lowest levels, the ones that investigate abuse and neglect may not even have a degree in social work? Or if they do have one, it's a two year degree. It takes a keen eye to discover abuse, moreover it takes someone willing to do the extra paperwork to take a child of a a bad situation, before they grow old enough and run away. Like in the case of my nephew who is living with my 350 pound sister who abuses him, makes him sleep in the hall on the floor and uses him to pump money out of my mother. DHS won't even hear the allegations about my sister molesting my great-niece, because she never told me she was being abused and I never witnessed any abuse. Only when they botched the initial investigation by not even informing my niece and the child's mother of the allegations, on the second investigation after allowing my sister to create her own version of events, they found no abuse. Well, I guess not, because if you did find some abuse you would be negligent and guilty of leaving a child in an abusive environment, not informing the parents of the possible abuse and therefore allowing the abuse to continue. Would you find any abuse if that would be the end result? Nope, but this is what I'm dealing with.
Not only did my sister make up her own story, but it included my 15 year old nephew (the one who sleeps on the floor), and she told my entire family that he and her husband were the reason they were there. She told them that I said they were having sex with my niece. I NEVER SAID THAT! This is the work of the crooked fraction of Pontiac, who not only allow her to sexually abuse my niece, but also have wiped all criminal court cases against my sister out of the system. When I called specific courts in Oakland County and the State for that reason it is clean, but I know she has had several fights and assault cases that were heard in Pontiac, Bloomfield and Waterford. They have all disappeared. What comes of our society when a pedophile is allowed by the very institution set up to protect the children allows the abuse to go on? We are in BIG trouble! I am doing my part and making you aware, and it's up to you to do the rest....I'm just saying!
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