Fifty-five employees with criminal records....
No, I did NOT say 'former employees'....
Where do they work, you ask?
Why, right here in Arizona at our own Child Protective Services...CPS...and we just had another murder of a three year old little girl who was beaten to death by a 'friend' of the family...a little, helpless three year old girl to whose house CPS has been called at least EIGHT TIMES in the past after hearing complaints about child abuse...and CPS never found a problem in that house...
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN!!??
Morning local radio talk show host, Bruce Jacobs, has been holding call-in lines open the past two days for ANY legislator that is willing to step up to the plate in support of REAL REFORM in CPS, but only one has taken advantage of the opportunity...
...and our governor? You saw her last year at the Democratic National Convention...Janet Napoletano...all talk and no action...yep, that's our Janet...
According to this article by Laurie Roberts, the lone voice of reason at the AZ Republic:
Despite all the vows over all the years and all the reforms actually enacted last year, nothing ever seems to change.
Not so, says the Governor's Office. Gov. Janet Napolitano's press aide sent me eight pages of changes at CPS since the governor set her sights on reform in 2003. They include more money for child abuse prevention, more joint investigations with police and a commitment to investigate 100 percent of the calls alleging abuse or neglect.
That's news to Bob Meko, principal at C.O. Greenfield School in south Phoenix. Since August, he and the school nurse, Jennifer Dennis, have called CPS about four students they believe are being abused or neglected. CPS followed up on one.
According to a report from ABC, last year CPS INSTIGATED a policy that case workers had to pass a background check...that's right...it was NEVER REQUIRED PRIOR TO THAT...after the background checks were performed, FIFTY-FIVE CASEWORKERS WERE FOUND TO HAVE CRIMINAL BACKGROUNDS!!
Those criminals weren't fired on the spot...oh no...can't do that...nope...they still are on the job...collecting their paychecks...we, the taxpayers, are still contributing to their retirement fund...yep...the wonderful world of CPS under Janet Napoletano's watchful eye...
In November, CPS notified the governor's office of the situation...Napoletano has continued to declare "CPS reform is a success"...but the criminals are still on the job...still collecting paychecks...and children are still suffering and dying...
Governor Napoletano, the Democrat legislators, and the Arizona Republic (which is NOT a newspaper - it is the propaganda tool for our guv) - all of them chastised...screamed about the 'stingy Republicans' for not throwing more money to CPS...so the purse strings were opened...money has been directed at CPS...and now we find out that criminals are on the payroll...and children are still suffering and dying...
Roberts writes:
It has been the same old story since China Marie Davis. CPS put her into foster care in December 1992 and spent 10 months ignoring her injuries. By the time she died in October 1993, the 2-year-old had endured two broken collarbones, six arm fractures, a broken rib, a broken hand, two broken legs, two broken wrists and a compression fracture of the spine. CPS did an internal review and vowed to change. Just as they've done so many internal reviews since then, on so many dead children they were supposed to protect. Just as they've made so many vows to change.
And yet Angelene Plummer died last week. This, after eight reports of abuse in that home and eight findings from CPS that no abuse had occurred.
"Generally speaking, I've never seen or felt that CPS does what it's supposed to do," said Meko, a principal in Arizona for 27 years. "But now, it's worse than ever."
And still...more children are suffering and dying...
...and now we know why...
Governor Janet Napoletano and the thugs she hires would rather keep criminals on the payroll than protect our children...and she DARES to tell us that she is a person with family values...
DR
