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Subject: Re: Emotional Plague - Fri, 8 Mar 1996 01:35:38 -0500
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 01:35:38 -0500
From: orgone@shore.net (true paranoia..reads)
Message-Id: <199603080607.BAA05627@relay1.shore.net>
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Re: Emotional Plague
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
A sad post. Unfortunately this sort of thing goes on all the time. The Child
"Protection" agencies often do far more damage than they do good. I've had
personal experience and I don't have much faith in their abilities, their
compassion or their expertise. As for children and religion, Frank Zappa put
it pretty well; (loosely) "if your bringing up children anywhere near a
church you're asking for trouble".
- dave huisken
>>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.
>
>
>--
>Chris Caruso Check out: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ccaruso/
>ccaruso@sas.upenn.edu http://www.igc.org/fair/
>Philadelphia, PA USA http://www.mcs.com/~jdav/league.html
>
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