I know I have said this before, but Covid did so much damage to kids whos only respite sometimes was school.
I spent a large part of lockdown dealing with the fall out of a DV divorce. My former stepkids were living in a trap house, left school in 2019, did not see a dr, dentist or anyone in authority for years. Schools passed them. They never opened a chromebook. I called CPS, schools, counselors, police, truancy court, everyone I could think of, to let them know cps missed three of the seven kids. That they were always hungry, living in a apartment piled high with trash and drug paraphernalia.
No one cared. It made me wonder, how many other kids, are like my stepkids? Being kept off grid, isolated from their peers or other family, and I started to see, it seems to have happened a lot due to covid and the laws in place that prohibit the state from stepping in. From what I read, they were out for a welfare check in Mach of 2023. She never went back to school after lockdown ended, and that school had a responsibility to know she was being educated.
We will be hearing more stories like this, where the child has not been seen in years. Many times the child passed during covid, and no one ever looked for them. Look at Harmony Montgomery, Oakley Carlson, Karreon Franks, all lost their lives to their parents and it took years for anyone to even notice Harmony, Oakley and many others missing. It is so easy to do. Look at the Blake Deven case. Kept those kids isolated from the world and now two are missing as well.
Cash Gernon lost his life because he was dumped by his addict father with his ex girlfriend, leading him to encounter his killer. We, as a community, have got to start paying attention to the children around us and in our lives. Because the state is not going to.
I actually do think people called CPS. They don't have record because it was screened out at the call center.