Dead Children: Sent Legally and Officially to Die

They had names and faces once.

They had names and faces once. Now they have coroner's numbers.

Social workers call them their "worst outcomes".

Those children's voices call out from small graves to those who truly care about child welfare.

How many are battered, bruised, heartbroken and neglected to death before all who order their housing and ignore them to death are made accountable?

Check this partial listing of names and pictures ( http://suncanaa.com ).
If abuse and neglect reporters, many anonymous and also non-accountable, make an error in sharing suspicions it can be the beginning of the end for that child.

When a report is mistaken or malicious, the child is traumatized. In those worst cases a child’s life may be totally needlessly changed. In those non-cases taxpayers have paid exorbitant expenses and have been defrauded. When is anyone involved prosecuted?

Too often, when a child is truly in danger, real abuse may be ignored u ntil the child is dead or brain-damaged. Parents who cannot or should not have children at home must be monitored or children moved. When they are not who answers when the child is killed?

Decades ago the child protection system was dubbed “the child abuse industry” because so many people profited. All supposedly cared about children and put their expertise on the line: from guardians ad litem and mental health evaluators and counselors to nurses and doctors, prosecutors and the ultimate person approving and immunizing the plan and planners by ordering where a child will live and with whom. That is the judge.

Constitutional safeguards—for children, parents or caretakers—are purposely lacking in most family courts as well as CPS agency process. Yet, children are removed, adopted to strangers or returned to dangerous living arrangements and the child deaths persist.

How high must that pile of dead child bodies become to get the attention it has begged for decades? If many children vanished in railroad cars instead of one or a couple of children from various places in county cars, would that make a difference?

Read the site mentioned above and weep. In tight financial times, with more stress and poverty, children cannot afford more mistakes minus basic accountability that everyone else operates under.

Is there someone to speak for children so that their unfinished lives do not slip silently away?
If hundreds and hundreds of predictably and preventably dead children is not enough to inspire action, what is? If you choose not to act, who will? If not now, when?

Children Who Didn't Have to Die - Website http://suncanaa.com/

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smokinjo29@yahoo.com says ... on Wednesday, Feb 23 at 10:10 PM

You people are not reading the story. IT is CPS, a state agency formed by the DSHS who processes children for money gains. Foster parents receive 400 a month plus foodstamps. Hundreds of children die nation wide yearly and no CPS worker goes to jail.

Allen says ... on Monday, Apr 6 at 11:08 AM

Maybe people need to spend a little more time and money and learn how to use birth control. I am going to guess that most of these abused kids were an accident and more or less unwanted. Stop bad/dumb people from having kids and down goes the abuse.

Shelley says ... on Sunday, Apr 5 at 2:44 AM

To ObamaRama: Your attitude is exactly why this problem has gone on for so long. People like to turn their heads and act like they didn't see anything and/or stick their heads in the sand. Things really are as bad as it seems.

ObamaRama says ... on Thursday, Apr 2 at 3:59 PM

Aww, cheer up. Things aren't as bad as they seem.

Mayra says ... on Wednesday, Apr 1 at 10:49 PM

This is a sad story but sometimes the law don't do what they suppose to do, because their are some kids that they really need their help and don't help them, I wish I take all the kids that need help but my budget doesn't allow me .

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