Child welfare failed girl nearly starved by grandparents

Misc CDN | 207361 hits | Sep 17 12:57 pm | Posted by: Hyack

No less than three child welfare bodies failed on some level to protect an aboriginal girl who nearly starved after she was moved from the care of the B.C. government to her grandparents in Saskatchewan, according to B.C.'s child watchdog.

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by Hyack
Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:09 pm
What is it with grandparents starving and mistreating their grandkids these days? We have Jeffrey Baldwin from 10 years ago that we just heard about who died weighing just 21 pounds. Now we have another in Saskatchewan who was kept in a windowless room with a cement floor in the home of her grandparents near Regina.
by Public_Domain
Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:30 pm
It seems to me that family services does its best work when trying to break up solid good happy families. Otherwise, they are out of sight and out of mind, apparently.

Stories like this are absolutely heart-wrenching. It's hard to think about without that feeling of utterly deep crippling sadness.
by BartSimpson
Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:41 pm
"Public_Domain" said
It seems to me that family services does its best work when trying to break up solid good happy families. Otherwise, they are out of sight and out of mind, apparently.

Stories like this are absolutely heart-wrenching. It's hard to think about without that feeling of utterly deep crippling sadness.

This is where I find myself appreciating you. You have a heart.

Myself, I want to find the grandparents and strangle them with their own intestines.
by Public_Domain
Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:09 pm
Some people don't deserve the magic that is children, never mind compounded magic that is grandchildren.

Shame that some people don't appreciate it, and instead seem to enact their hatred on the young for little reason other than aged spite...

Again, I'm having trouble really dwelling on this; my imagination goes into over-drive and I think about a study I heard was done decades ago on monkeys... They separated a monkey from its mother at birth and kept it alone, caged, in the dark, for its entire life... It became irreversibly psychotic.
by saturn_656
Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:46 pm
The policy at fault is "family reunification".

Problem with that policy is some families aren't fit for children. This child never should have been given to the grandparents.

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