From: lindae@netcom.com
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Children's Services
Date: 31 Aug 92 14:12:47 GMT
Expires: Wed, 30 Sep 92 07:00:00 GMT
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From: Beverly.Burke@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Beverly Burke)
Date: 26 Aug 92  19:49:00
Message-Id: <Fredgate.715025721@fquest>
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: In Response...
To: lindae@netcom.com
Status: OR

* In a message originally to Lindae, Bill Hall said:

 > As a parent who has gone through the the emotional turnmoil
 > of looseing a child to parental kidnapping (I finally found
 > him about 4 months ago), I am totally for people getting
 > envolved with agencies trying to find children but I am
 > totally against sicking agencies such as CPS and the IRS on
 > people when you do not have one bit of evidence ... but just
 > some gut feeling that may change tomorrow.  A bruise on a leg
 > today may have been the result of falling off of a new
 > bicycle yesterday.

        Bill, I am so happy for you, that your found your child again however,
I totally disagree with your statement about Childrens services, or whatever it
is called down there.....sure there are times when they make the wrong judgment
call, on both ends of the scale, not investigating throughly and taking a
child, when there is real evidence of abuse, and sometimes yes, they get
involved in situations where there is no abuse....however, place yourself in
their position...it would be very hard to make that judgment call, they are not
GODS, or whatever. I would prefer them making mistakes in cases where there is
no abuse, instead of them making them in cases where there is...and the child
is beaten to death....I have heard of this happeing alot more, and it sickens
me....

        In may own case, I went to Childrens Welfare when I was 15, I had lived
with the abuse for so many years, but I had just had enough, after getting two
black eyes for Xmas....and nothing else...I went to them, they in turn talked
to my Dad and my Mother, it made my life that much more difficult when they
found out I had reported them...and at that time I only had the guts to talk
about the physical and not the sexual....however to make a sad long story
short, I was told to take it and lump or leave home and try to make it on my
own....yeah like right...a 15 year girl, with no work skills, and Learning
Disability, making it own her own....

        Luckily after many many years, of making bad judgments and decisions, I
am finally a Survivor instead of a Victim...I for one, want Childrens Services
to me more involved with the child as a child, and not just another number in
the system...I have worked with juvinlles for many years, and find it sad, that
once they are in the system, that they are just another face amongst so many
other faces.....so I guess the real answer lays, in that us people that do
care...to get more involved. to care more about the young....ours or other
peoples....  
 
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