Is it just me or does anyone else see something terribly wrong here?  She ran away from foster care to be with her mother.  She wants to be with her mother.  I think someone should file a request for investigation to the Michigan Bureau of Children and Adult Licensing to look into why Lutheran Social Services did not make reasonable efforts to keep mother and daughter together.

I want everyone to close their eyes and imagine the moment when the police raid the home to return her, screaming and crying, to foster care, a tax payer entitlement program.  They will probably drug her up on psych meds so she will be too doped up to run again, creating more reasons to keep her in care.

11-year-old girl missing in Detroit

Tavia Bentley

By Megha Satyanarayana

Detroit Free Press staff wr

Detroit police are looking for Tavia Bentley, an 11-year-old who police believe ran away from her foster home early today in an attempt to be reunited with her mother.

Bentley had been in the home for about two weeks, said Audrey Burton, director of Lutheran Social Services, and police said she left the home, near Kelly Road and Moross in northeast Detroit, at about 4:15 a.m. Her mother’s home is in northwest Detroit, and Burton said the girl’s biological parents have been notified.

Bentley was last seen in all white clothing and black-and-white boots. She is 4-foot-9 and weighs about 70 pounds. She has a medium brown complexion and has brown eyes and hair. 

Anyone with information can call Detroit Police at 313-596-5900.