These are legitimate examples why all data used in child welfare, especially in child abuse and neglect policies should be considered as suspect.
Pennsylvania Judges Imprisoned For Kickback Scheme
February 9, 2010
Two judges have each agreed to plead guilty and serve more than seven years in prison for receiving kickbacks from a private juvenile detention facility. Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, both of the Luzerne County Common Pleas Court of Pennsylvania, were alleged to have received over $2.6 million for decisions from the bench that benefitted the construction, expansion and operation of a private juvenile detention center and also to the placement of juveniles in those facilities. In one case in 2004, it is alleged that an agreement resulted in the placement of juvenile offenders worth $58 million...
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How many children and parents are still were harmed with improper removals, malicious prosecution, and illegal incarceration? Were the state and federal data amended to reflect these horrific transgressions?
Of course not, the money continues to flow.
Ex-caseworker says she faked documents after girl’s death
February 9, 2010
By Nathan Gorenstein
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Within hours of 14-year-old Danieal Kelly's death, officials at the social services company responsible for her safety were rushing to produce back-dated paperwork, an effort that apparently included forging the signature of the teen's mother on a form, according to testimony today in federal court...
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If it happened in this case, how many other cases did it happen in, and how many parental rights were terminated because of it? How many children were improperly and unnecessarily removed and placed in foster care? How many children were falsely placed for adoption because of these practices?
No one will ever know.
How many of these children of this child placing agency were reunified? None.
Did the Pennsylvania Attorney General Medicaid Fraud Control Unit prosecute and recover the funds? Of course not.
For States to take any action to stop child welfare fraud, it would unravel the nation's history of abuse and neglect, being economically, technologically, politically and religiously not feasible. Therefore, the
child abuse propaganda machines keep fighting for
more and more money to stay in the business, with only very few
voices advocating for the ones whose lives have been masticated and mangled by this very machine.
