The Crazy Rants of Samantha BurnsSick & Messed Up
In Wakeman, Ohio, 11 kids were removed from their adoptive home by authorities after 8 of them were found sleeping in cages. The reasoning the couple gave for this atrocious act was that a psychiatrist recommended they make the children sleep separately.
Although the neighbours and authorities stated that the kids were polite, well-behaved, well-dressed, and appeared well-fed, there is something appalling about keeping kids in cages with mats rather than having a proper bed. The house was also said to have a strong urine odor to it.
As if this story isn't disheartening enough, some of the kids had conditions such as autism, fetal alcohol syndrome, and HIV. As if the kids don't have it rough enough, they had to sleep in horrid conditions as well.
Who in there right mind...? And this just goes to show how embarrassing the social services are in our society - Canada, equally as bad. What else is out their in our society? Maybe I don't want to know.
Comments
Yep, Samantha! I posted this on http://balancednewsblog.com too. From what I read, the idiots acted like they didn't think anything was wrong with it. Invited the inspector right in! People are just crazy.
Posted by: mel | September 14, 2005 06:08 PM
And just think they are all liberals. I have no respect for them. They cover up everything causing untold trauma's to people. To me proof that thier policies are whacked.
Posted by: ron | September 14, 2005 07:56 PM
this one hit home with me. I live in Ohio, and it's hard to believe it's just down the road.
This seems crazy too, but why would anyone be allowed to have 11 foster kids? Isn't that a bit much? Does this kind of thing happen often, I mean excessive foster children in a home?
Posted by: moonbat monitor | September 14, 2005 08:00 PM
I'm a Brit but work in the Far East, I get sick and tired of stories like the above happening back home every two minutes, all I ever hear is the excuse from the child welfare agencies as they're referred to now (in my childhood days they were called the cruelty man),that the social services have too big a workload and there was a communication breakdown between the local government, police and the social worker responsible, then they say "but lessons have been learned" fortunately in the case you highlight above it appears no kid has been starved or beaten to death as far as we know. These things happen far too frequently and the authorities are more concerned with covering their asses than protecting the victims.
Posted by: Stevo in HCM | September 15, 2005 05:17 AM
Ron, you're prognosticating on public policy and yet you think that the word 'traumas' - indicating plural occurrences - is formed by making use of a possessive apostrophe before the 's'?
Tisk, tisk.
Posted by: Jason Saultry | September 15, 2005 05:44 PM
Er, the social service agencies do have to be properly funded to do their jobs -- otherwise people fall through the cracks. I volunteered with a group (Court Appointed Special Advocates) that monitored children whose parents were being accused of abuse/ neglect, and the group was necessary b/c there simply aren't enough social workers around to do the job.
Unless you want to give your time to such organizations, figure out how much of your tax dollars you're willing to give to have the agencies patrol our homes to ensure that children aren't being abused.
I'm willing to give quite a lot, actually, but then I'm a liberal.
Posted by: PG | September 15, 2005 10:03 PM