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Subject: Emotional Plague - Wed, 6 Mar 1996 16:19:19 -0500
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 16:19:19 -0500
From: ccaruso@sas.upenn.edu (Christopher G Caruso)
Message-Id: <199603062047.PAA23968@mail2.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Emotional Plague
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
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>From the Philadelphia Inquirer's on-line site:
:"A DHS Vow Didn't Protect Girl From Scalding"
:Philadelphia Inquirer, 3/6/96
:
:The moment she was born in April 1987, "Tara M." began bouncing
:from one foster family to another. By the age of 6, she had lived in
:at least eight homes- and was sexually and physically abused in
:some of them.
:
:In 1994, in a long-running lawsuit filed against it by the American
:Civil Liberties Union, the city's Department of Human Services
:signed a consent decree promising to provide better care for 17 child
:plaintiffs, including Tara. DHS said it would find adoptive parents
:who had been trained to deal with such a troubled little girl.
:
:Two years later, her lot has not improved.
:
:Last week, Tara, now 8, was scalded and sexually assaulted by her
:latest set of foster parents, according to police. She remains at St.
:Christopher's Hospital for Children in fair condition with burns
:over 50 percent of her body. When admitted Wednesday, she also
:had two healing black eyes and puncture wounds on her back.
:
:Since filing suit in 1990 in U.S. District Court, the ACLU has
:"shone a spotlight on a handful of children," Stephan Presser, legal
:director of the state ACLU, said yesterday. "[DHS] should have
:insured the safekeeping of at least these children."
:
:Tara's injuries, he said, "just raises the concern again for the
:thousands of children for whom there has been no litigation."
:
:According to the police, the foster parents- Elman Gradiz, 36, and
:his wife Anna, 42, of Rhawnhurst- found the child fondling herself
:on the evening of Monday, Feb. 26. To punish Tara, they stripped
:her, forced her into the bathtub, and poured buckets of scalding
:water on her. To dissuade her from touching herself again, Anna
:Gradiz allegedly concocted a mixture of red pepper and Vick's
:Vapo-rub and smeared it in the child's genitals.
:
:The couple drove last Tuesday to the Jersey Shore and stopped at a
:hospital, where the girl complained of pain. The emergency room
:staff became suspicious and notified the Atlantic County
:Prosecutor's Office.
:
:On Wednesday, the girl was transferred to St. Christopher's.
:Philadelphia police arrested the couple that day and charged them
:with numerous offenses including aggravated indecent assault and
:involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.
:
:According to police, the couple said they punished her because of
:their religious beliefs.
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Chris Caruso Check out: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ccaruso/
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