After reading today's developments, I am beyond sick.
I am a LSW/ RN who has worked for a Tribal CPS program. There were so many times that I was ordered to return children to families who had no right to have their children returned to them, and to remove children from families who should never have been removed. Case loads are heavy and you have to go by what your supervisor says most of the time whether or not you agree. You can disagree in your report, but for the most part, you must abide by your supervisor's ruling. However, had this case come in front of me, I would have ordered both children removed, job be damned. CPS dropped the ball here. Majorly. You don't just return children because you cannot decide who the abuser is. Sick, sick, sick. In most cases, especially in Tribal cases, the child must be placed with a suitable relative if at all possible, but you know that the excluded parent is going to have visits and in most cases there is nothing we can do about it. I know that the preference with regular CPS as well is to place children with families, but in this case with the flight risk I would have ordered them placed in the system with no contact from family until it was sorted out. This case just makes me sad.
What makes me the saddest is (IMO) I think the abuser may have been Sini. I remember a while back (sorry, can't remember the source but I believe it was MSM) that stated that Wesley was the main caretaker and that Sini was not very involved in Sherin's care. I wonder if Wesley was the one who pushed for the adoption and Sini was not on board with it and took it out on Sherin. I wonder that Wesley isn't just taking the blame for everything to protect her so she will (unlikely as it seems) get the bio daughter back (although I don't see that happening at all, or at least I hope not.) Ugh. This case just makes me so sick.
JMO, of course
