Kentucky revising way it probes child abuse
By Deborah Yetter • dyetter@courier-journal.com • December 15, 2010
FRANKFORT, Ky.- After a lengthy review of children’s deaths from abuse or neglect, Kentucky’s social services agency is making substantial changes in the way it investigates cases of suspected mistreatment, a top state official told lawmakers Wednesday.
“We are revamping our process for investigations,’’ Patricia Wilson, commissioner of social services, told a meeting of the interim House-Senate Health and Welfare Committee. “We are doing our very best to make sure we leave no stone unturned.” FULL STORY
As much as we could hope that real improvement might come from the pledged revision, over the years we have seen this same story again and again across the US and every westernized country in the world. Nothing ever really changes except an occasional coat of white wash.
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