Blair
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While there may be heavier press attention given to certain players in this grotesque thing, I cannot help but comment about what seems to me to be a thorough lack of actionable accountability of the various "systems" that were involved.
Seriously, has nobody at any of the agencies (or whatever they are called) lost their job... or even been hung out to dry? Talk about being "Teflon"!!!! I'd like to know the names of those people. Get some hardball interviews with them. Ask them the really tough questions.
I think some of the local news orgs in the area might be trying -- I'm not local, but I base that off what I see being reported on the internet (uh, for what that's worth).
I know Victoria Martens has come up a couple times previously in this thread. There are some significant similarities between the cases (and some major differences, to be fair) but both cases brought calls for investigations into LE & DYFS or the equivalent b/c of these apparent major gaps in oversight. (And I can't recall the child's name off the top of my head, but I know there was a WS thread on the most egregious one of these "what the hell were you doing while you were NOT helping this kid, social services?" type crimes in my recent memory -- the poor little boy who was calling 911/CPS on his OWN and pleading for help and still ended up being beaten to death by a parent.)
There was just a report on the investigative findings into the LE errors released in the Martens case and it's infuriating to read b/c there's so little accountability for major oversights. It's so frustrating. But at least, in that case, there isn't this looming specter of possible other victims -- maybe not victims of homicide, but victims of abuse/mistreatment by SP & DP or others -- like there is here.
One of things that really hurts about this case is that adoption is supposed to signal the *end* of one struggle for kids coming from troubled homes. In this case, it just removed the safety net that GP had & left her solely in the care of SP & DP even when the other foster children were removed.