It really doesn’t matter. People are slick. They know when to expect CPS, the house & kids are all cleaned up, fridge is stocked & it looks like the Brady Bunch home. Or, like in the AJ case, the parent says the kid is sleeping (which might imply he’s in recovery from his last beating). Even if they checked 3X a day, an abuser can find ways. Ply a kid with candy or ice cream, he’ll look like the happiest kid on the block. Abuse does not have to leave marks. In my town, the head honcho at CPS has the nastiest houses in her subdivision. She lives in deplorable conditions, so she expects less or doesn’t recognize what another person might. To be fair, I do think the judge makes his decision based on CPS findings.
...WTF?
Doesn't CPS get treatment in things like "how to recognize hoarding", for example? I live in a large apartment complex in NYC with a lot of senior citizens, and they tell me our maintenance staff is trained to recognize hoarders. Also, whenever the city is involved in awarding any type of subsidized housing (NYCHA, middle class HUD-based programs, etc.), they require a home visit by a third party firm. Shouldn't the government require the same thing from a CPS field worker before licensing?
I do think you are right about CPS visits in the main; but I've heard stories from the aforementioned subsidized housing inspectors... "I've seen it all," one said. "One place I went, they were storing tires on the bed." And these people knew they were going to be getting a home visit, and when.
I think that in general, hoarders take a look around a house with things like tires stored upon a bed, and say "Eh, looks good enough to me..." I think it takes a really evil minded person to clean up until it looks like you could eat off the floor, send the kid to bed to hide the fact they are recovering from concussions, smear their faces with chocolate to cover up bruises (a tactic made infamous in the case of England's poor sweet "Baby P")... where are the standards in CPS evaluation?? This disgusts me.
As for poor sweet Maleah, I don't think there's any doubt what happened with at minimum DV, whose brain trust thought it was a great idea to be driven to the ER in the car he had reported stolen.
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Clearly there were no abductors, nobody needs to find a body in the interim to know what to do and what has happened... lock him up. RIP sweet little beauty Maleah...