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Toddler taken from Roxbury home with serious injuries has died
By adamg on Tue, 02/02/2016 - 6:19pm
Boston Police report the boy, 3, rushed to the hospital from 23 Alpine St. Sunday night with traumatic injuries, died today.
Police did not announce any arrests in the case. The Herald reports his family was under DCF supervision, and that DCF has removed another child from the home.
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WTF
Why are kids taken away only when they're dead?
Breaks my heart
I dealt with DCF with a neglectful relative over a period of 7 years. The family filed 51As based on what we saw and what the kid would tell us. The social worker would interview the kid at home with the mom in the next room with the door open. I told him to interview the kid at school where it was safe. He never did. The school filed many 51As over many years and he never visited the school because suburbans schools didn't understand how urban people lived and they exaggerated things. We even called the police on mom for leaving kids unattended. DCF gave her a warning. The worst was when the kid complained to school counselors and they filed a 51A. The DCF worker called mom and told her what they said before the kid got home from school. At that point, the kid just stopped telling people and decided it was not worth the trouble. I called supervisors and supervisors of supervisors. Everyone promised to help, no one ever did. Even called the State House - no help. DCF sucks.
Same reason all bad stuff happens
There's no magic way to predict who's dangerous with complete certainty, no money to intervene for everyone who might be, and no appetite for sweeping up more than a few marginal-looking but otherwise good-hearted people even if the resources were there to get everyone.
Though one does hope that some ground can be made up for on item 1 with modern data analysis techniques. Unfortunately most of that stuff tends to be buzzword stew, but if trying to save some lives only costs some time behind the computer...
Heartbreaking, that poor baby
Heartbreaking, that poor baby.
After the anger and sadness.
Uhubbers, how about act of kindness in this child's memory?
Tragic. That poor kid.
Tragic. That poor kid.
Budget cuts, no money, too many families assigned to one person which makes it impossible to really help. I don't have the answers but I'm fine with paying more to fix this broke ass system.
Police did not announce any
With respect Adam, perhaps they haven't yet made any arrests in this case. But why should that stop the media from inferring that information is being deliberately withheld by the evil government authorities.
(sorry, but this increasingly WAAHHambulance attitude among reporters and editors is becoming a pet peeve of mine)
Perhaps it is not yet known
Perhaps it is not yet known whether arrests were made.
Projecting?
I read that line as a factual statement.
It seems you read it as full of innuendo and implicit criticism.
I think it's logical that when a child dies, the next question out of any reader's mind is "have they arrested anyone yet?" Adam answered that, pretty much as straightforward as one possibly can while still respecting the English language, and yet you still felt that he is making some sort of grand anti-government corruption statement or something.
How about
"No arrests have been made yet". Factual and straightforward, yet neutral. And if you don't know wheter or not arrest have been made, then don't say anything until you do have that information.
Once upon a time, that's exactly the type of phrasing the press would use to describe such a situation. Until if because fasionable to bash the authorities for no legitimate reason.
How do you state that no
How do you state that no arrests have been made if you don't know? And the info was actually in the linked article, so.....
Presumption
So, rather than stating the lack of any announced arrests, you would prefer that Adam switch it so that it presumes arrests will be coming. Which implies a ton more, in my mind, than simply saying "no arrests were announced."
I really think you read wayyyy too much into the first statement due to your own personal biases (whatever they are, I'm honestly not trying to denigrate your motives) than Adam ever intended. I just wanted to counterbalance your first post and stick up for Adam (not that he needs it).
People commenting are blaming
People commenting are blaming DCF... I blame the child killer.
I do too
but if the bank gets robbed and my hoard of gold coins is stolen, I blame the bank for letting it happen as much as I blame the robber for doing it.