A Megaphone is what is used in many hostage situations. The point here is that time constraints pretty much eliminated that possibility.
In addition to the Court's ruling to maintain the "visitation plan," of a man who had just been told that the only way a change in custody would take place would be revisited after he completed the necessary court-ordered psych evals, was the fact that the State's Department of Social & Health Services somehow believes that it was A-OK to send a contracted worker into such a volatile situation.
Why is it that DSHS would send a contracted worker versus an employee who has had at least 4 or 5 years education and training to "supervise" any Court-ordered visitations...no less send such a worker to supervise those of a suspected murderer? It's just unbelievable.
Social Workers (workers with BSWs, MSWs and LCSWs, whose focus is youth and families) are specifically trained. They are educated/trained. They are taught to be skeptical of a parent or guardian's behaviors, actions and to read between the lines. Through coursework in Human Growth and Development, specifically childhood development and through repeated dealings with all types of family arrangements and guardians they are familiar with the many childhood attachment disorders. They learn that children, no matter how extremely abused, will often want to be with their abusive parent/guardian. It is very common but that does not mean that the parent has the interest of the child as his priority. Social Workers are trained to see these subtle nuances. A contracted worker who is required to go through a 20 hour course on foster care, who is physically out paced by 5 and 7 year olds and who could be so easily overpowered, by a man (suspected of murdering a woman...his wife) who was half her age should never have been sent to supervise any court-ordered home visits.
Denying custody to a natural parent is not done in a vacuum. The courts do not do this on a whim. There is typically ample evidence or suspicion before a child is taken away and then kept out of the family home and away from their natural parent/parents. At the very least, the supervisor/worker must keep that at the forefront of their mind. The courts have deemed this parent, for the time being, as unfit. The courts have continued to require supervision. So, in the court's view, there is some reason to believe that the parent or guardian requires supervision. Yet, DSHS thinks it fine to send the least skilled/trained/educated/prepared workers out on their most dangerous cases (court-ordered supervised visitation) and at the home of the court deemed unfit parent, to boot. Now, does that make any sense?
In addition to the Court's ruling to maintain the "visitation plan," of a man who had just been told that the only way a change in custody would take place would be revisited after he completed the necessary court-ordered psych evals, was the fact that the State's Department of Social & Health Services somehow believes that it was A-OK to send a contracted worker into such a volatile situation.
Why is it that DSHS would send a contracted worker versus an employee who has had at least 4 or 5 years education and training to "supervise" any Court-ordered visitations...no less send such a worker to supervise those of a suspected murderer? It's just unbelievable.
Social Workers (workers with BSWs, MSWs and LCSWs, whose focus is youth and families) are specifically trained. They are educated/trained. They are taught to be skeptical of a parent or guardian's behaviors, actions and to read between the lines. Through coursework in Human Growth and Development, specifically childhood development and through repeated dealings with all types of family arrangements and guardians they are familiar with the many childhood attachment disorders. They learn that children, no matter how extremely abused, will often want to be with their abusive parent/guardian. It is very common but that does not mean that the parent has the interest of the child as his priority. Social Workers are trained to see these subtle nuances. A contracted worker who is required to go through a 20 hour course on foster care, who is physically out paced by 5 and 7 year olds and who could be so easily overpowered, by a man (suspected of murdering a woman...his wife) who was half her age should never have been sent to supervise any court-ordered home visits.
Denying custody to a natural parent is not done in a vacuum. The courts do not do this on a whim. There is typically ample evidence or suspicion before a child is taken away and then kept out of the family home and away from their natural parent/parents. At the very least, the supervisor/worker must keep that at the forefront of their mind. The courts have deemed this parent, for the time being, as unfit. The courts have continued to require supervision. So, in the court's view, there is some reason to believe that the parent or guardian requires supervision. Yet, DSHS thinks it fine to send the least skilled/trained/educated/prepared workers out on their most dangerous cases (court-ordered supervised visitation) and at the home of the court deemed unfit parent, to boot. Now, does that make any sense?