Why Children Go Into Foster Care In Detroit - The Work Of "The Elected Ones"

This is what happens every day across the nation.

This is how the disabled live.

I hope she did not come out the foster care system.

This is how the foster care agencies keep their doors open.

Then they lie in the courts and in federal filings of cost reimbursements to Medicaid.

There is the Child Protective Service worker, the Guardian Ad Litem for the children, the Magistrate, the Child Placing Agency, the case worker, the case manager, the supervisor, the director.

There will be therapy, counseling, psychotropics.

There will be new pilot programs, with new reunification terminology, that she will not pass the classes.

Her SSI payments for her children will be suspended and intercepted by the State.

She will fall deeper into poverty.

There will be a breakdown that one day she misses her bus to take her back across town to services and or that precious one hour visitation with her children just because she lost her bus pass.

The case will remain open for six months, where there is only hope a worker will find her another place of quality and affordability, which would not be in Detroit because there is no Section 8 Housing.

This is what is called sustainability.

This is what you call forced migration.

This is what you call gerrymandering.

This is what you call the work of the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending).

This is the work of "The Elected Ones" because they are going to keep a paycheck and look good.

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (FOX 2) - A Highland Park woman faced losing her children over the condition of her house after she had issues getting her landlord to fix it up.

You may remember a house on Orleans Street on the Detroit/Highland Park border. FOX 2 was out there in October because the ceiling caved in. The landlord fixed that, but now there are other problems.

"A big picture window being broken out, holes in the floor and problems with rodents, namely a squirrel in the attic," said attorney Tracey M. Martin.

What's worse now is that the Department of Health and Human Services is threatening to take away Shawndale's three children, ages 15, 5, and 4, because the house is not safe. The owner says the broken window is the fault of the "They are alleging that they're backing away from any responsibility," Martin said.

"I didn't break no window. I went to church one Sunday and came back to my window broke," Shawndale said.

Generally, repairs such as a window would be the responsibility of the landlord. FOX 2 contacted the landlord as did the lawyer and window glass was delivered -- although the window has to be installed. But what about those squirrels?

When FOX 2 was there, squirrel traps were being set. The tenant was planning on doing the work and withholding the rent in an escrow account until a judge decides.

In a letter, the landlord says the tenant is not authorized to do any work on the window or withhold the rent.

Shawndale is behind about $1,700 in rent. Her attorney says that she is eligible for state emergency relief because she is low income and has children and that should take care of the back rent.

"She may very well be going into another property if these issues are not remedied with this current property owner," Martin said.

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