This is tragic and honestly disgusting, but it is coming from a city that re-elects a mayor that had been caught smoking crack with a hooker.

This kind of thing is a tough situation. (We went through a big DFACS overhaul in Georgia under somewhat similar circumstances in Georgia several years ago.)

Obviously it matters if people competently do their jobs. And if someone dies on your watch and your action, had you followed protocol, might have saved lives, well, it's hard to why that wouldn't be a career ender.

But when the case load assigned in active cases is so much higher than what can actually be managed in the best of circumstances, it bothers me a little when the only some people get fired.

That was almost 20 years ago.....siiigh....make it relevant if you are going to use that...

How about this is the same city that houses a president that got us screwed in Iraq?

But how about, more importantly, she wasn't a hooker!

I am just disgusted by the whole story which we have been following on our side of the Potomac. If the mother (and I use that term loosely) is found mentally incompetent to stand trial, I really hope that she gets an equivalent term of incarceration in a mental health hospital.

What's even more disturbing is that SOMEONE called CPS numerous times to have them and POLICE to go check on the home and guess what...no one went...

I agree that human services dropped the ball. The idea that a social service agency will write off a case by assuming that the family has moved into MD is disturbing. It would be ideal if there could be open communication between the CPS orgs of DC and the nearby MD and VA areas.

That being said, the murderer still needs to be in a mental hospital for a long, long time.

As a member of a VA Social Service agency, I agree with the above. Its HARD to get info about a family without having to fax over shared release of info statement, and even then, its not guaranteed. Because this area is so transient and agencies cant communicate effectively, things like this happen. This is an extreme case, but, unfortunately, I can see how and where the communication breakdown occurred.

Southernfrat: Barry has not been mayor of DC for a long time now, so that's apples and oranges.

UGAAlum: you are so right. I was told three years ago when I was hired that my caseload would be about 300 to 450. As of today, my active caseload is about 600. And I am only doing benefits. :(