In January I wrote a blog about a disgusting story where a mother killed her four children. This happened in Washington D.C.

According to the report six workers were being fired over because of lack of follow through causing the girls’ death.

Now it seems that Washington D.C. social services has swung so far the other way and is being overly cautious and has removed three children from their home after the injury of an eight month old child.

This article gives the details of the new story.

According to the article, an eight month old girl was trying to push herself up and fell, hurting her head. There was no obvious bruising, but when the little girl started to vomit, her mother took her to the emergency room to have her checked out. I believe that’s what a responsible parent would do.

The incident happened over a holiday so there was no one available to run whatever tests were necessary to determine if the child had been abused, so social services came in and removed the other children from the home. HUH?

The test revealed there was no evidence of abuse and a judge ruled the same way, but the children still remained away from the parents, the parents were forced to move out of their home and the kids’ grandmother moved in to live with them.

The family spent $75,000 defending themselves and were still ordered into anger management classes, counseling, and unannounced visits from social workers. How can they do this if it was determined there was no abuse?

The reporter on this story points out different statements made by social services stating that this family was being treated differently because they were an upper middle class family, or as the director of the agency called them, a family of “privilege.” So now having financial resources means that you are likely to abuse your child?

The people responding to the story agree with the reporter. They feel that it is an “over correction” by social services for negligence in another case and that this family is being targeted because they are better off financially.

To make matters even worse, this happened over six months ago and the couple is still listed on the child abuse registry.

There is something wrong with our system if this is allowed to happen and continue with other families. We should not punish innocent families because social services fell down on the job someplace else.

The worst part of all of this is the effect it has had on one of the children. One of the little girls is now scared to be away from her mom and cries if her mom is out of her sight.

She was only away from her mother for a couple of weeks, but obviously, it has had a long term effect on her. If this doesn’t explain effect that foster care has on kids, I can’t think of anything that will.

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