Unfortunately, the state’s incompetence will cost me, not them.
Starving boy given OK to sue state agency
KING 5 News has learned that a court has paved the way for a little boy to sue the state agency who was supposed to protect him.
Snohomish County Sheriff’s deputies found 4-year-old Shayne Abegg starving to death in an Everett apartment in March. He weighed just 22 pounds, which is half of what a normal 4-year-old should weigh.
That’s not just the worst of it.
If you follow this link, you’ll see and read that this boy and his brother were taken out of a foster home after the foster mother went to court to adopt the child. The bio-dad found out and sued for custody. The courts ignored all previous evidence of abuse and gave him the boys.
Two months before the Sheriff’s Deputies rescued the boys, a state employed social worker supposedly went and inspected the home. The report from that visit said that there were no problens. In my opinion, ten will get you twenty that no visit was made.
If the state is going to waste money to promote “green awareness” programs while underfunding social services like this, someone needs to go to jail for writing that budget.
I’m not for children being taken out of homes where the acusations of abuse are in question. Guilty until proven innocent is no way for The State to operate, even in the case of those who are too small to defend themselves. But if they are going to remove kids after obvious signs of abuse, they should bear criminal liability for returning them to their abusers. Judges, case workers, the lot.