Saul Relative – Thu Apr 21, 10:26 am ET
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A disturbing survey out of Pittsburgh could be a warning marker for other states when dealing with mandatory reporters in child abuse cases. According to the survey, at least 20 percent of the people charged by law with reporting suspected cases of child abuse (mandatory reporters consist of law enforcement, medical professionals, teachers, and others in positions of authority with regard to children) do not really understand their legal duty or what is required of them when making a report. Some even made the surprising comment that they didn't know what to do when their calls to ChildLine, the child abuse hotline, went unanswered.
The Protect Our Children Committee, which commissioned the survey, reported that the data showed that as many as 6 percent of respondents did not know their legal obligations. Another 14 percent said they were not trained in the proper procedure to follow when they suspected abuse.
"Even when people said, 'Yes, I'm a mandatory reporter,' their comments suggested, 'I don't really know what that means,'" Cathleen Palm, executive director of the Protect Our Children Committee, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "They're the hugely critical front line of child protection efforts in Pennsylvania." FULL STORY
I left a big comment there-
False Allegations and Malicious Prosecutions by malfeasant CPS agents are PANDEMIC and completely out of control. This unconstitutional system of NO DUE PROCESS is absolutely insane and 100% unaccountable.
"Eighty-one percent of all abuse last year was neglect, a percentage that has changed little in recent years. Neglect refers to a denial of critical care, defined as the failure of a caretaker to provide adequate food, shelter, clothing or other care necessary for the child's health and welfare when the caretaker is financially able to do so or is offered financial or other reasonable means to do so".* --LEE ROOD 4-2-2011 (*A.K.A "Reasonable Efforts", which IS NOT HAPPENING)
"There are more than half a million children and youth in the U.S. foster care system today. Studies reveal that children are 11 times more likely to be abused in state care than they are in their own homes, and 7 times more likely to die as a result of abuse in the foster care system." -John Walsh Show April 16, 2003
"Since most referrals come from professionals, the fact that three-quarters were eventually judged unsubstantiated or otherwise disposed of is troubling. The public is very distrustful of anything that appears to be a witch-hunt when it come to child abuse; therefore, over reporting damages the system's credibility and also wastes resources; at the same time under reporting leaves the victims at risk. This figure appears to indicate the need for better means of identification and some additional professional training." - Marty Richman 4-5-2011
"As many as 75 percent of all children in foster care, upon leaving the system, will have experienced sexual abuse. One study by Johns Hopkins University found that the rate of sexual abuse within the foster-care system is more than four times as high as in the general population; in group homes, the rate of sexual abuse is more than 28 times that of the general population." --Sexual Abuse: An Epidemic in Foster Care Settings? -By Orlow, Orlow & Orlow July 17, 2009
"If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked." -Gerald Gilder
"Destroy the family, you destroy the country." -Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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