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Originally Posted by Pebcake
I may be wrong, but I did watch a segment on 20/20 where the parents were on the program because there had been a complaint that there was abuse happening in the household. The social worker came, couldn't decide if it might be true or not, so took the child just to be safe. Turns out the call had been made by a disgruntled nanny. In the meantime, the child was raped in the foster home. I don't remember which state the story focused on.
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Terrible tragic things happen everywhere. Anecdotes are not statistics. What if the SW had left the child and the father raped her.
After a complaint is made, an investigation occurs, and a child is only taken if the case worker either determines the situation is unsafe or is unable to determine that the situation
is safe.
The terrors of the foster care system is a problem that needs to be fixed, but not at the expense of children staying with abusive parents.
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