I have an idea................................
LETS TALK ABOUT A REAL PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Consider:
Here is yet another damning article condemning the Child Welfare people!
With some comments of my own in brackets):
Child Welfare opened files on Charlie but never once met the neglected, starving boy! He reached this pitiful state despite MCFD knowing about him and his desperate family situation for a decade.
Dr. Jennifer Charlesworth, the B.C. Representative for Children and Youth, presented her damning report, Alone and Afraid, to the B.C. legislature this week. Office of the Representative for Children and Youth in British Columbia.
By Christie Blatchford
Published: December 11, 2018, 4:11 PM EST.
Filed under: Full Comment/ Post Media
To the searing annals of wholesale child-welfare failures across the country — Sara Podniewicz, Jordan Heikamp, Matthew Vaudreuil, Phoenix Sinclair, Jeffrey Baldwin are just those cases I personally covered and/or have written about — we can now add the name of Charlie, from British Columbia.
Charlie is the pseudonym given him by Dr. Jennifer Charlesworth, the B.C. Representative for Children and Youth, in her damning report, Alone and Afraid, to the B.C. legislature this week.
She had to use a pseudonym because Charlie, unlike the other children I’ve named, lived.
He was rescued — saved — by police and paramedics who on Jan. 20, 2016 arrived at Charlie’s home, alerted by a concerned citizen who had called the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) to report her fears for the little boy.
He answered the door, a naked, grotesquely malnourished 12-year-old who weighed 65 pounds and whose wasted frame was covered in dirt, sores and small bruises and notable for its protruding bones. The mere sight of him left the first responders traumatized. Charlie was all alone of course, and while the rest of the house was tidy, his room was covered in garbage and smeared with fecal matter.
They rushed him to hospital. He clung to the paramedics.
As Charlesworth noted, he reached this pitiful state — a special needs child, with autism, who nonetheless as the three years since demonstrate capable of so much — despite MCFD knowing about him and his desperate family situation for a decade.
It was in 2006 that police first alerted the ministry.
But over the next 10 years, despite a total of eight reports from concerned school principals, a hospital social worker, BC Children’s Hospital, nurses and others that Charlie was being neglected and that his mother couldn’t or wouldn’t care for him, not one of the myriad of child-protection workers and supervisors who were involved with the family ever once saw the little boy.
Instead, they busied themselves by reading Charlie’s file.
They consulted with peers.
Sometimes, they made phone calls.
They consulted with their supervisors.
Once in a while, they even deigned to make a “home visit.”
(A SANE person would have to ask what is the good of a “home visit” if you do not ever get to SEE the child you are allegedly worried about?? And if you never actually see the filthy room he is living in???????????)
(But then there is HARD EVIDENCE that Child Welfare civil service union HOGS would NOT have taken any real action anyway! The day before Sara Podniewicz DIED of Pnemonia caused by breathing difficulties from her BROKEN RIBS- a Welfare Hog CAME TO THE HOUSE in Parkdale- and met with the kid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
During the meeting the Hog put a bracelet onto the girls ankle- WITHOUT NOTICING the leg was BROKEN!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Sometimes, Charlie was even there, but there is no evidence, Charlesworth says, that any one of these workers actually saw — in the literal, clamped-eyes-upon sense — Charlie. His mother would say he was sleeping. Or that he was anxious about strangers. Or that he was playing in another room.
Now and then a worker would actually look around the home, but never did one venture into Charlie’s room.
One worker tried six times to contact Charlie’s mother by phone, unsuccessfully. She made a busy little plan to conduct a home visit. Then she went on vacation.
In her absence, no one did a thing.
Another worker called Charlie’s mom before closing the file. Mom reported that things were going along swimmingly. The child-protection worker didn’t speak with the pediatrician or any of the other people who were supposedly involved in Charlie’s care before consulting with her team leader, who of course approved closing the file.
The worker “had still never seen Charlie” nor spoken to his often-absent father or his older brother.
Yet, nonetheless, the worker sent the mom a closing letter on June 16, 2008, cheerfully telling her she was “doing an incredible job, a job that so many of us could never do, even with all the services you were lacking.”
(Gosh! Praising the Mom like that illustrates an even more delusional mindset than that of Wynne-bag Ontari-owe LIE-berals who told us repeatedly all was well even as they turned Ontari-owe into the most indebted sub national political entity on the planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
With all the respect it deserves — none — how the hell would the worker know that? She’d never seen the boy.
It was not as though Charlie was ever doing well.
When he was four, his parents (the father had yet to be given the boot from the house) finally took him to a doctor because he was bleeding from the mouth; of course he was, because his teeth were rotting. The doctor prescribed penicillin and referred him to a dentist at the Children’s Hospital and for an autism assessment.
Alas, if his parents got the penicillin, they took it, because Charlie never got it and the infection raged until he stopped being able to walk.
Most of his baby teeth had to be removed. He was always, at best, painfully thin and pale. His legs were swollen.
At the hospital, various professionals referred Charlie’s parents to various other professionals and services and benefit programs, and though a counsellor worked for a time with Charlie’s mother, the file was eventually closed.
(How much of this close the file crap is an unspoken admission that NOTHING CAN BE DONE because of the LIE-beral commitment to keeping the family together at virtually ANY PRICE?? LIE-berals insist the Morther/child bond is sacred even as the Mother is killing the kid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The only way to save the kid is to take him away from the scumbag Mom and LIE-berals REFUSE to do that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! )
They might just as well have been speaking in pig Latin.
At various points, there were concerns that Charlie’s parents were using cocaine and later, when the boy was finally apprehended from his mother and blood tests revealed crystal meth in her system, why, she was “shocked.”
(Oh? Drugs were involved? Such a surprise! The mother of Sara Podniewicz was working as a hooker in Parkdale to keep herself and hubby supplied with crack and it is likely that Sara was seen as the child of one of her Johns and thus was disposable- although the welfare money given for her was HANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The boy is now living in foster care and is back in school.
There are staggering similarities with Charlie’s case and the others I mentioned — clear signs of neglect being ignored; social workers’ and the agency’s obsession with paperwork over people; most gallingly, the repeated failure to understand that in child welfare, the child is the freaking client, not the parent, however sad he or she may be.
(LIE-berals would rather see a child DIE than set up an “adversarial relationship” between parent and child!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Child protection is no easy business, nor is it for the faint of heart. But for all the value of Charlesworth’s tough investigation, she and I part company where, early on, she said, “This report is not meant to cast blame on individual social workers or their supervisors,” but rather to shine a light on the problems.
(Oh yes- the problem is the LIE-beral interpretation of the law- that dictates that a BAD MOM is better than no Mom! And of course blame DOES COME BACK to the civil service union HOGS because they prefer LIE-beral gravy over common sense and legal logic and vote accordingly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
What happened to Charlie has happened too many times in Canada, to too many children, is so well-known and understood that the light is blinding. It is well past time to cast blame; God knows, there’s enough to go around, and around again.
(Our Child Welfare system has been colonized by the same sort of social justice warriors that Professor Jordan Peterson warned us were operating in our arts, political science and Women`s Studies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(The Social Justice Warriors are out to rebuild our society into a Brave New World in their own POISONED IMAGE!! They want to build a dictatorship where the only things that works fast and effectively are LIE-beral govt propaganda ministry and the Human Rights Kangaroo Courts that will be used to SILENCE CRITICS of LIE-beral govt and the greed and mismanagement of civil service union HOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)