A child said he was being sexually and physically abused by his father. The father alleged the mother was brainwashing the child against him. One reporter dug into years of case files to understand how courts decided to interpret the facts.
A child said he was being sexually and physically abused by his father. The father alleged the mother was brainwashing the child against him. One reporter dug into years of case files to understand how courts decided to interpret the facts.
I don’t understand how the child protection agency here could think these medical, mental health, and educational professionals would all risk their reputation and licensure to somehow help Christine.
I hate to say this but CPS are staffed with, well, regular people. And regular people come with all sorts of biases and bad takes, some even with abusive tendencies and even history.
Add to that the extreme stress of that kind of work, and the poor conditions (bad pay, staff shortages, not enough training), and you far too often get a bunch of jaded people just ticking boxes without much concern for what they’re looking at.
When we say defund the police, it’s services like CPS we hope the money will go to instead, because they are in absolute dire need of it.
I didn’t get that feeling from the article. The reports from the professionals were overwhelmingly about specific concerns raised from the child.
The doctors aren’t exactly writing reports which consist solely of “Mother is concerned with X, I’ve done nothing else but put this on paper.” They might include the mothers concerns as a history or for some context, but they focused on their observations and examinations.
The reports weren’t exactly mentioned as fabrications. The bruises, rashes, and accounts of what happened seem to have been validated. Wether or not the accounts were rehearsed is up for debate, but the medical professionals might be hesitant to make that call for a variety of reasons.