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- From: lindae@netcom.com
- Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
- Subject: Children's Services
- Message-ID: <pqhnr=c.lindae@netcom.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 14:12:47 GMT
- Expires: Wed, 30 Sep 92 07:00:00 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- From: Beverly.Burke@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Beverly Burke)
- Sender: Fredgate@fquest.FidoNet.Org
- 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
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- * In a message originally to Lindae, Bill Hall said:
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- > 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....
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- 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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