Texas CPS Fails to Protect Children
22 November 2006
by Christian McPhate, Contributing writer for AnaiRhoads.org
AnaiRhoads.org - The State of Texas Family Code Subtitle E. Protection of the Child states the definition of abuse include the following acts or omissions:
1. Mental or emotional injury to a child that results in an observable and material impairment in the child’s growth, development or psychological functioning.
2. Causing or permitting the child to be in a situation in which the child sustains a mental or emotional injury that results in an observable and material impairment in the child’s growth, development or psychological functioning.
3. Failure to make a reasonable effort to prevent an action by another person that results in physical injury that results in substantial harm to the child.
And yet according to the Dallas Morning News, each year more than 3 million children go through the careless fingers of the Child Protection Agency (CPS) that in turn harvests the children out to overcrowded foster homes or ignore the reported abuses until the negligence becomes fatal because of understaffed, underpaid and overworked case workers:
1. In Hays County, Texas, a 3-year-old was placed in the foster care of Cesar Mojica, 22, and Sara Amaya, 21, where she was tortured with repeated attacks of biting all over her body and kept from food. Law enforcement officials described her condition as “skeletal-like."
2. In Corsicana, Texas, 16-month old Christian Nieto died after sustaining injuries to his head from the loving care of his foster parents. His foster mother is in jail on a capital murder charge while his brother is back in the care of their reformed heroin addict parents who placed in the predicament the first place.
3. In Bowie, Texas, CPS authorities removed seven-year old Dena Johnson from her negligent meth-addicted mother and handed her over to her grandmother. After several meeting with a child psychologist, it was revealed that the mother’s junkie friends had sexually molested the young child. With the report of the abuse in hand, CPS returned the child to the home after the mother passed a drug test.
With the recent tragedies in the foster care system and the bumbling incompetence of the CPS department, as well as the "oil democratization of the Middle East, building a Berlin Wall to keep illegals out, do I have enough hair spray on my hair" junkie politicians, child advocates are worried and alarmed by the system entrusted with more than 30,000 Texas children.
The CPS overhaul by governor Rick Perry has created even more problems with the system, overloading the foster care environment as the year-old state effort to hire more investigators has swelled the number of children removed from unsafe homes, yet with no place to put the neglected children.
It has become republican incompetence at its finest.
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