What's so special about this?
The difference is the life of a child is rarely afforded the same legal recognition.
In the foster care system, a child is a ward of the state, be it temporary or permanent. This means the person responsible for caring for the child is the same legal person who possesses the parental rights, meaning the state.
The state will not sue itself as there is an inherent conflict of interest.
With that said, I would like to put this out there:
Do the States take out insurance policies on children in foster care and if they do, do the States pay premiums, how much are the premiums and do the States collect on the policies if a child dies in its care?
Why is it a jury will award such an amount for the death of an elderly person but will dismiss and degrade a parent of a child who was killed in foster care when such a suit of similar means arises?
Is it due to the systemic design stigma placed on the preconceived idea that the child was placed in care because the parent was bad? If that is the case then the States must re-examine why there is a negative connotation to foster care beyond its own reputation of producing poorly, civic-minded individuals. The term most will identify with is "age out".
What saddens me the most is when a child is Legally Kidnapped, ritualistically sodomized and forced to perform group fellatio, physically locked in 3 x 5 urine and feces filled cells for 2 to 3 days at a time with the light constantly on and a loud speaker in the ceiling with adults ridiculing and laughing, beaten daily, injuries left untreated, doped up to the point of tardic dyskinesia and multiple cardiac infarctions from being prescribed psychotic medication just to meet funding eligibility, for years, and the only response from the public is,
"Well, at least you got your kids back."
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