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2020-09-12 -Lurid Crime Tales-

U.S. Marshals Service Reveals Majority of Rescued Sex-Trafficked Children Came From Foster Care

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-12 02:40|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Well, knock me over with a feather!

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-09-12 08:10|| 2020-09-12 08:10|| Front Page Top

'Gateway' crime? You decide.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-12 08:33|| 2020-09-12 08:33|| Front Page Top

#3 'Child snatch' horror: Man is wrestled to the ground after 'trying to abduct' four-year-old at a South African restaurant as terrified mother tries to hold on to the girl

Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-12 09:08|| 2020-09-12 09:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Doesn't say much for the Department of Child and Family Services Care. I wonder how well are DCFS personnel vetted?

Posted by JohnQC 2020-09-12 09:45|| 2020-09-12 09:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Way things are going, cynic in me, I wonder if they were vetted well. That is, a dirty little secret like abortion clinics selling baby parts.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-09-12 16:50|| 2020-09-12 16:50|| Front Page Top

#6 My wife and I were foster-parents for a private group. We had much interaction with different social services workers. Some were great, others were useless. The biggest problem is that social services budgets depend upon case loads, so there is incentive to keep case loads high, and little incentive to actually do things that HELP CHILDREN. There's also a lot of politics involved, from the top down. As for vetting, been there, done that. Even the best vetting fails to identify people who should never be around children. The whole system is a mess, and it won't change until enough people get mad enough to hold politicians accountable. Which pretty much applies to anything government gets involved in.

Posted by Old Patriot 2020-09-12 18:55|| 2020-09-12 18:55|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ You've just told us a lot about yourself OP. There is a special gated golf community in heaven awaiting you, I am certain of it.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-12 20:09|| 2020-09-12 20:09|| Front Page Top

#8 When my wife and I decided we wanted to adopt or foster another child, we began the seven step process our county requires. We got to about step four before we decided "f__k this!" Here are two quotes from the county adoption employee we interacted with that have stuck with me over the years:

1) "You have a child with Down syndrome? Well, you don't want any of our kids. All they'll do is beat her up!"

2) "Hope you don't have any ideas about getting black child. We put like with like here: white with white, black with black, Mexican with Mexican."

I remember hating this woman very, very much.

Several months after we dropped out of the program, we took in a teenage girl we'd known since she was little in a private arrangement with her family: no government involvement. (It's a complicated story with no villains, but they weren't able to take care of her.) It's been four years, she's almost 18, and we'e still her guardians. She's a great kid and I'm very proud of her: no different from my biological child.

My advice is to avoid social workers, CPS, and all the rest of them. Work with a private agency, or directly with a family that isn't able to take proper care of a child. (There are a lot of them.) The later is a balancing act, but it can be made to work. After all: it's about the child, not you.

Posted by Secret Master 2020-09-12 21:25|| 2020-09-12 21:25|| Front Page Top

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