The 6 & 7 y/o girls starved by stepmom? Their school reported abuse TWICE

[elehhhhna]

before anything was done. WTF?

School reported possible abuse twice before arrests
Two girls were found starving in basement

The Associated Press

Sunday, July 30, 2006

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Wichita — Wichita school Supt. Winston Brooks said school employees told the state they suspected two girls were being abused or neglected 10 months before the children’s parents were charged with abusing the children, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Teachers or staff at L’Ouverture Elementary School made two reports to the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Brooks told The Wichita Eagle on Friday.

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/jul/30/school_reporte...

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Apparently you have to some anonymous dipshit call in that the kids

are having their pictures taken in the nude while camping, and then the law will go into action and destroy everyone's lives and take the kids away within minutes.

But if it's just starving or hitting or burning with cigarettes or sexual abuse, or whatever, then, you know, who cares? Until it's photographed, Johnny Law don't care.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. You got it.

If some male teacher bumps into a female student, you got lawyers and prosecutors akimbo. But if the kid comes to school missing a limb, dropped off by a parent gnawing on said limb, it's merely a private family affair.

Once this stuff all shakes out, serial killing will be an olympic sport and the US will be the gold medal team, in perpetuity.

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. Nicely said! You are very correct -

bumping into a student can cost you your job, a lot of money, your career, and even your name. Or taking pictures of your kids skinny dipping on a famil camping trip can cause months and months of agony and possible loss of your children with an immediate legal intervention.

But, if you just beat the hell out of your children, the worst is that it might result in some discomfort with Johnny Law, but that's only assuming they ever show up or care; I mean, it's only physical violence intended to break bones and disfigure. It's not NUDITY, for Christ's sake.

[TahitiNut]

17. Should've reported them seeking an abortion while burning a flag.

Jus' sayin'.

[Blue_Tires]

24. i wonder how fast the response would have been

if the teachers also told the state that the parents were a gay couple? (hypothetically, of course)

[Rabrrrrrr]

33. Probably a lot faster. Or said they're giving her "Al Qaeda" symbols

for bruises.

[lpbk2713]

3. I'm glad........

On Friday, Sedgwick County Jail staff put Jennifer Wood in a cell by herself because she had been threatened by other inmates



Tough shit. Deal with it.

[elehhhhna]

9. The next part says her lawyer wanted her bail lowered because

she'd be in danger form inmates in the jail. THE F'ing NERVE!

Bloody GOOD on the inmates, imo.

[w8liftinglady]

13. I agree.I have no symapthy for child abuse.

[Nutmegger]

21. Do you condone prison violence / rape?

I don't.

And I don't condone this woman's alleged actions either.


Oh and I'm anti-DP.

[elehhhhna]

25. DId I say I condone prison violence and rape? No. I expect prisons to

isolate potential victims. But I hope her fear is deep and wide. She deserves to be terrorized by her own thoughts. She's earned it.

[Nutmegger]

28. "Bloody GOOD on the inmates, imo"

That didn't sound like it but wasn't sure. Glad we're on the same page.

[elehhhhna]

32. Okay, I get it. SOmetimes I think I'm clear and lol it's far from...

Good on 'em didn't mean "tear her limb from limb".

[Horse with no Name]

35. You get what you give

It's that karmic force in action.

[bumblebee1]

20. Alot of the female inmates are mothers and grandmothers.

[elehhhhna]

26. and most of them miss their children desperately.

[Broken_Hero]

4. damn, saddening...:(

It's a Mad World...

[lapfog_1]

5. Soon to be a "Mad Max" kinda world. n/t

[w8liftinglady]

6. I have taken care of kids with much worse abuse.The child protective

services in my state is grossly underfunded.It is a travesty that these children should suffer this way.I cannot condone it.No excuses.

[w8liftinglady]

7. and might i add...these case workers do their best,with what they have to

work with...

[Erika]

10. Declare the kids embryos and W and the right wing

would open our tax pockets to you. It will also help if you identify yourself as an evangelical approved by Falwell and Rove.

[w8liftinglady]

12. I had a 3 year-old with his penis burned with a lighter-by grandma

there are some f*cking evil people out there,folks.Love your children...and help the ones who have no one.

[Erika]

14. My sister was a special ed teacher

She had one boy whose parents had told him he was a monkey, and refused to allow him to speak. He was told to act out what he wanted.

The state took custody. W has cut those funds to Special Ed by 35% because of federal cut backs. Damn Bush.

[w8liftinglady]

19. That infuriates me.

my friend is a special ed teacher.These children suffer so much.I love and respect her so much for what she does.

[Erika]

22. Yep. It's very sad, no, it's heart breaking

But the public is out there pretending it doesn't exist.

They want to go on to some other cause, like embryos, etc. It is enough to make one sick.

[Erika]

8. Kansas has been far more worried about creationism

than those created.

[Mabus]

11. If that were true the kids would still be at home

That's apples and oranges. School curriculum matters at the state level does not equate abused and starving children on the local level. People abuse their children in every state regardless of whatever else is going on politically.

[Erika]

16. Look at the reduced federal intervention n/t

[lonestarnot]

29. reduced federal everything that means anything. All going to war crap.

[MoseyWalker]

15. Sad, but people don't always realize

the limitations that social workers work under. They investigate, they talk to people, but they are limited.

A lot of people think they are like the police, or maybe Superman, but they are not. If someone says they can't enter the house, then they can't enter the house. There are new laws that have been passed that say that parents actually have to approve before the social worker even talks to the child. Do you recognize what that means?

They have so many regulations protecting people's rights that it is almost funny when thinking about this country sliding into fascism, yet protecting the rights of people who may, or may not be, abusers.

I guess that's the way it's supposed to be, but it sure as hell is ironic.

[Erika]

18. School teachers have it even rougher

They know the abuse is there but unless they see bruises they are intimidated into being silent.

[elehhhhna]

27. Not the teachers I know, thank God. They tell all & let the chips fall.

[gumby]

23. What's The Matter With Kansas?

Sorry, couldn't help it.

Child abuse is the ultimate atrocity.

[Toots]

30. Maybe now those kids will forget their fool notion of Evolution

just saying....

[Bridget Burke]

31. Perhaps privatization of CPS hasn't helped the social workers...

CPS is being partially privatized in Texas; there have been problems already. Here's what a Democratic rep had to say:

"There have been tremendous problems in two states that went ahead and privatized CPS – Kansas and Florida. The services didn't improve, the cost went up."

www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A...