Foster Mom Charged In Killing, Abuse November 14, 2008
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Crime, Foster Parents, Milwaukee, Political Correctness, Uncategorized.trackback
But the bureaucrats and social workers always know better.
Tell that to the little boy and little girl who suffered abuse at the hands of the foster mother, in which care they were placed after the children were yanked out of a loving home with a couple who tried to adopt them and placed with their abusive aunt.
The little boy, an infant, is dead, and the two-year-old girl is suffering from repeated abuse and is at Children’s Hospital.
A 24-year-old Milwaukee foster mother was charged Thursday with beating her infant nephew to death and severely abusing her 2-year-old niece. State officials placed the siblings in the woman’s care in June, after a West Allis couple who had been caring for the boy tried to adopt him.
Police say Crystal P. Keith began harming the girl almost as soon as she arrived at Keith’s home in the 3000 block of S. 12th St., and began abusing the boy, Christopher L. Thomas Jr., in October. According to investigative reports, Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare case workers who are required to have monthly contact with the children, had not been to Keith’s home since Sept. 23. Christopher died Tuesday.
Bureau officials have vowed to review the case, which one homicide investigator called one of the worst infant abuse deaths he has seen.
“There are not many cases where there’s torture that goes on for a period of months,” Milwaukee Police Lt. Alfonso Morales said.
That’s right. There was supposed to have been monthly contact yet the bureaucrats hadn’t been there in six weeks.
And these were children who had been taken from their abusive mother and thug father about a year ago.
The boy and girl were taken from their mother about five months after the boy’s birth on Oct. 14, 2007. The mother suffered from mental illness and admitted to shaking her daughter, who was diagnosed at the time with failure to thrive. The mother told police she punished the children twice a day.
The boy’s father was arrested in late 2007. He pleaded guilty in June to manufacturing/delivering cocaine and is now in custody at the House of Correction, according to court records.
Needless to say, the West Allis foster parent who had been trying to adopt the little boy and girl was devastated.
The West Allis foster mom who wanted to adopt Christopher burst into tears when she learned he was dead.
“We loved him so much,” said Darlene M. Logan, 63, a retired teacher.
The little girl had been in the care of a veteran foster parent in Germantown. The two children are black. The birth parents are black; the foster parents in whose home the children suffered are black. The foster parents in West Allis and Germantown are white. Do you see a pattern here?
Race, you see, trumps everything. Child welfare Nazis willing to take children out of loving, supportive foster homes and placed into the homes of blood relatives simply because the foster parents are white and the blood relatives are black, never mind the quality of the environment of the homes of those blood relatives. We’ve seen this type of story over and over again. Looking through the eyes of political correctness, those two children didn’t belong in the loving, caring, nurturing foster homes because the foster parents were white and the children were black. There’s a mentality in the child welfare bureaucracy based out of political correctness that black children must only be raised by black parents.
If that isn’t racist, then I am not sure what would qualify. This from the same people, many of whom push for homosexual couples being allowed to be foster parents and to adopt.
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1. A good friend of mine is a social worker in Milwaukee. She is overloaded to literally three times the amount of cases she should have. This isn’t because of a lack of qualified people to work as social workers; it’s because of budget cuts and outsourcing to private, for profit firms. I have seen her CRY, she feels so bad that she simply does not have time in her week to make the home visits and other obligations she has, even when she is routinely working 70 and 80-hour weeks. Please don’t blame the social workers.
2. I think the children’s placement had more to do with the woman being a blood relative than with her being black, though I would like to know more about why the boy was taken from the West Allis family. How does that help children, moving them from place to place? Isn’t stability what they need?
3. You leave us hanging with the comment about homosexual couples adopting. What do you think about that?
How did you determine the placement was due to race? Isn’t the higher goal to return children to their families, including close relatives?
The confessed child abuser wasn’t a “blood relative”; she’s married to the brother of the father of the dead baby (…and where was this guy while his niece and nephew were being beaten regularly?).
John Foust–that’s what I’m trying to get someone to explain to me. Why is it a “higher goal” to shuffle Christopher off to a shirt-tail relative than to make sure he was living in a safe, healthy home? The “right” of this woman to collect his monthly foster check from the state should not have trumped his right to see his second birthday.
There is an attitude among the social worker/child welfare community that minority children are better off culturally with a foster family of the same race. This came up back in the 1990s with an infamous case in Chicago when a black child was ripped out of the hands of a loving white family by the system, punctuated by a heartless liberal judge, and returned to the culture of crack in the ghetto. I seem to recall a similar case here in Wisconsin as well that got a lot of attention.
John’s point about returning children to their families is correct, unfortunately. It fails to consider whether that is in the best interests of the children. Would these kids have been better off with the loving family in West Allis? Or with someone with a history of mental illness and child abuse married to a blood relative who’s a drug dealer and now in the Crowbar Hotel?
You don’t need to work for NASA to answer that question.
Yes, they try to put kids back with their families. No, not all those bad, drug-pushing black families are doing as well as the comfy loving white families who have the means to be foster parents or adoptive parents. Please consider removing the racial assumptions from your post. Perhaps you should have a long talk with the people in the foster care system, both parents and administrators. They all make lots of difficult choices. To me, the proper blame in this situation could come only after examining the decisions made by the admins knowing the evidence they had in hand.
To take your suggestion and run with it, how much of a bad situation must exist before you’d take a kid from their “bad” family and put them with the “good” one?
John,
I believe there is a racial component in the process. There is a mentality that exists which doesn’t want to presume the white suburban culture is superior to the black, urban, hip-hop thug culture.
I do agree that there needs to be a complete investigation of who had what information when and didn’t do what (or did do …), but I also don’t think it will make much of a difference. People who screw up here never are held accountable, let alone fired. If anything, they’ll get promoted.
how much of a bad situation must exist before you’d take a kid from their “bad” family and put them with the “good” one?
That is a good question. I am not sure I have a precise answer, to be honest. I believe if you use a modicum of common sense, we could make good decisions. But when have bureaucrats ever shown that modicum of common sense? They live in the world of zero tolerance and “rules are rules.”
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