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Florida's DCF messes up again...and another child dies
this ties in with the info that we recently learned that so many calls are totally shelved and ignored....what a mess. Apparently not even a JUDGE can get DCF to "move" and act
DCF ignored case of baby who later died
A Broward Circuit judge sought state intervention repeatedly for a vulnerable baby. But help for Bryce Barros came too late.
BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER
cmarbin@MiamiHerald.com
For six months, Broward Circuit Judge Eileen O'Connor had been struggling to referee Alberto and Jocelyn Barros' nightmare of a marriage.
A former federal prosecutor who presides in the county's specialized Domestic Violence Court, she knew all too well how badly such things can end.
But O'Connor was less worried about the warring adults than their infant son Bryce, whom she feared might well become collateral damage. Three times in February and March, she faxed the state's child-abuse hot line: ``The court is deeply concerned about the welfare of the minor child.''
Child welfare administrators finally accepted the case on July 3. By then, Bryce Barros was dead. He was just shy of 2.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1163407.html?storylink=mirelated
Thousands of abuse reports to a DCF hot line go unheeded every month because of a new screening process intended to keep the strained system functioning.
A finding of the joint review: About 46 percent of the cases studied by the two administrators -- BSO's James Walker and DCF's Kimberly Welles -- ultimately were phoned back to the hot line by BSO investigators who concluded the children remained at risk, said Riordan, a DCF spokesman in Broward.
Statewide, Abramowitz said, about 6 percent of prevention referrals are phoned back to the hot line.
the rest of the article is here...
http://www.miamiherald.com/569/story/1356292-p3.html
the "new system" means they just ignore a lot of the calls due to budget cuts
this ties in with the info that we recently learned that so many calls are totally shelved and ignored....what a mess. Apparently not even a JUDGE can get DCF to "move" and act
DCF ignored case of baby who later died
A Broward Circuit judge sought state intervention repeatedly for a vulnerable baby. But help for Bryce Barros came too late.
BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER
cmarbin@MiamiHerald.com
For six months, Broward Circuit Judge Eileen O'Connor had been struggling to referee Alberto and Jocelyn Barros' nightmare of a marriage.
A former federal prosecutor who presides in the county's specialized Domestic Violence Court, she knew all too well how badly such things can end.
But O'Connor was less worried about the warring adults than their infant son Bryce, whom she feared might well become collateral damage. Three times in February and March, she faxed the state's child-abuse hot line: ``The court is deeply concerned about the welfare of the minor child.''
Child welfare administrators finally accepted the case on July 3. By then, Bryce Barros was dead. He was just shy of 2.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1163407.html?storylink=mirelated
Thousands of abuse reports to a DCF hot line go unheeded every month because of a new screening process intended to keep the strained system functioning.
A finding of the joint review: About 46 percent of the cases studied by the two administrators -- BSO's James Walker and DCF's Kimberly Welles -- ultimately were phoned back to the hot line by BSO investigators who concluded the children remained at risk, said Riordan, a DCF spokesman in Broward.
Statewide, Abramowitz said, about 6 percent of prevention referrals are phoned back to the hot line.
the rest of the article is here...
http://www.miamiherald.com/569/story/1356292-p3.html
the "new system" means they just ignore a lot of the calls due to budget cuts