Situation: three kids (siblings) I work with, ages 10, 11, 16. Two girls, one boy. All adopted through highly-reputable agency. 16-yr-old: has been self-mutilating for several years after being molested by older boy. Been in counseling all this time. Depressed and obese. Finally went in for day treatment and they immediately sent her away to residential treatment center. 11-year-old boy is extremely intelligent but socially awkward. Wrote paper to teacher expressing suicidal thoughts and father allegedly hitting him. Family does okay financially, big house, nice neighborhood, nice cars, kids involved in school, church, sports. Inside of their house is unsanitary, extremely cluttered, no food. Only eat fast food. Rat droppings everywhere. House is never cleaned. Kids do not sleep with sheets on bed, and they are rarely required to bathe. Dirty clothes, dirty hair. Parents pretend nothing is wrong. They don't do drugs, but have just lost control and won't admit there's a problem.
2007-05-16 08:23:36 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Well, I would not just report this and believe that CPS will take any appropriate action as they treat those, like the people you mentioned, differently than those on welfare or the poor. (And please, no one try to argue with me about this point! I spent 16 years investigating child abuse so I KNOW!)
Get the number of the administrator of child abuse, and the number of the commissioner of DHHS and call them. You need to make sure that CPS worker that investigates the assessment goes to their home without writing them a letter telling them they will be out next week, which is what some assessment workers do. They are lazy and it gives them plenty of time to clean up the mess!
I have done assessments where I went back to the home, and stood struck as I watched people remove food from the refrigerator that they had loaned them for the assessment. In reality they had no food!
Depending on the state you will get different responses, that is primarily because states like mine are state run and you get a response that is pretty equal from district office to district office, depending on the experience of the worker and how lazy they are or aren't, and many states like California, are county run with state oversight. They get paid by the case!
I believe they could do a much better job, however they gey little support from the public and are in a no-win situation. They either pull kids too soon (They are all by court order) or too late and we have some dead kids! Dirty houses are not a high priority, though they should be, but when you are doing 40 assessments and you are suppose to have 12, people have to make decisions on risk! So your advocating will put a fire under their behind to make a home visit WITHOUT CONTACTING the people first. It needs to be unannounced.
2007-05-16 08:47:59 · answer #1 · answered by cantcu 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
CPS will perform an independant investigation, and determine suitable action if needed. They won't swoop in and take the kids away from the parents, but they can force the parents to clean up their act, then if they don't comply, further action such as removing the children from the home could occur.
2007-05-16 08:30:20 · answer #2 · answered by madaharry 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CPS will send an agent to investigate the living conditions and make recommendations based on that.
2007-05-16 08:27:32 · answer #3 · answered by Pancakes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally it wouldn't hurt and I would , after what happened to those kids that all died from a very disturbed child with problems like you stated GO FOR IT PLEASE! you just might save a persons life and that would be awsome!
2007-05-16 09:06:20 · answer #4 · answered by arls 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are in a heap of trouble.
2007-05-16 10:58:17 · answer #5 · answered by thevillageidiotxxxxx 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋