Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:If you want it screwed up beyond recognition, get CPS involved.

A friend of mine is an ADA in the family violence unit in San Antonio & from the stories he's told I couldn't agree more (he would agree as well). Not that it's entirely the fault of the caseworkers themselves. From what he's told me, CPS is woefully understaffed & many of their caseworkers are fresh faced kids right out of college, many times lacking the maturity & wisdom (which can only come from experience) to handle the difficult positions they are thrust in.

Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:My experience has been that if you want something screwed up, get the government involved.
If you want it screwed up beyond recognition, get CPS involved.

They jumped the gun and overreacted, and as a result they may have lost the chance to take the steps that needed to be taken. It is pretty clear to me that some of those kids needed to be removed, and if this opportunity is lost then they may disappear and the situation may never get corrected. It is also clear to me that removing all the kids in one fell swoop was overkill. By overstepping their bounds CPS and the law enforcement agencies blew it.

But what do you expect? CPS was involved.

There was a way to do this right. A competent agency would have figured it out, done it that way, and saved what I'm guessing may be 50 or so kids from a disgusting and terrible future. But pulling 400 kids out based on an anonymous tip (which may have been a hoax, though I'm not sure how relevant that is) is not the right way to do it. I just hope some legal way to remove the kids that really are being abused can be found--and quickly, before they are spirited away to another jurisdiction.

Discussion alkready underway on Fox News this morning about Federal Civil Rights lawsuits against State of Texas for this mess.

These guys will risk a civil contempt finding by the State Court Judge for removing the kids from the State. It will be a mad dash back to Arizona.