Here are a couple more CPS failures that you should read about. The first is from Senator Roach’s blog, it has a link to the newS story with all the stories about this starved little boy, that Washington CPS failed to protect. The second story is from a blog I found today, it is the story about Alexis Grover who was basically sent back home by Virginia CPS to die. Although the mother in this case has not been charged with murder, the police are investigating Alexis’s death as such and the mother has been charged with Felony Child Neglect.
http://pamroachreport.blogspot.com
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Starved Boy…KING5 And Suzanna Frame Expose More CPS Wrongs
Here is another story you must see. Thanks again to KING 5 News we have another documented account of why the state gets sued. Read and view the story.
Please mark your calendar and plan to attend the Feb. 5th noon Families First Rally in Olympia. Help stop CPS abuse.
Posted by Pam Roach at 11:38 PM
Second Failure
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Alexis Glover: an update
Manassas, Virginia – According to reports by MSNBC and the Washington Post police and child protective services were called six weeks before Alexis Glover was found dead after she went to a neighbour with a gash on her head and told him that her mother had beaten her. As reported by the Washington Post:
Byers said his wife saw Lexie, wrapped in the kind of tarp used to cover a barbecue, wile warming up her truck to go to work about 5 a.m. that day last month. Realizing her condition, she invited Lexie inside and gave her some clothes.
Lexie told the couple that her mother had used a stick she kept in the garage to reprimand her for wearing a piece of clothing.
“She didn’t want to tell me her name or where she lived, because she said they kept sending her back and her mother had hit her numerous times,” Byers said.
Byers said he was reluctant to call police because he feared they would send her home again. After a couple of hours, Lexie mentioned the name of a counselor she had met with at a psychiatric hospital, whom Byers then tried to contact. He was referred to a child protection hotline, which he called, and then received a call from someone at social services.
“The woman said, ‘We’re going to protect your privacy, and we’ll show up with police when they get to your door,’ ” Byers said. “Not quite an hour after that, the police showed up with no social services.”
The police officer told Byers that Lexie had a history of running away. He called for an ambulance when Byers showed him the gash on her head. Before leaving for a nearby hospital, the phone rang, he said. It was Gregg-Glover, who somehow had gotten Byers’s number, and asked to speak to the officer, he said.
“I hand [the phone] to the officer, and he had this real perplexed look on his face and he mouthed to me, ‘It’s her mother,’ ” Byers said. “Even the officer was flustered about that. He said, ‘That’s wrong. [Social services] shouldn’t have” shared Byers’s phone number.
As reported in previous FRIDA posts, the body of Alexis Glover, who was developmentally disabled, was found submerged in a creek on Friday 9 January, 2009. Her mother, Alfreedia Gregg-Glover, has since been arrested and charged with felony child neglect and filing a false police report in connection with her daughter’s death. It is not known whether Alexis was dead when she was placed in the creek or whether she died in the water but her death is being investigated as a murder. Alfreedia Gregg-Glover has not been charged with Alexis’ death.
Full details are http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28697428/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/15/AR2009011504096_pf.html
4 Comments
I’ve been a child care provider for 25 years between Fairfax and Prince William Counties, and I cared for Lexie Glover for a few weeks in the summer, 4 years ago, when she was only 9 years old. AT THAT TIME I called her worker at social services as she was still a foster child at the time and I was being reimbursed through the county. She was afraid to eat anything offered her because she was terrified her “mom” would get mad at her. After repeated attempts with gentle coaxing I finally convinced her it was O.K. to eat, but she begged me not to tell her “mother”.
In addition to that, every time I asked her mother what did Lexie like to do so that I would know what other activities I could provide for her (I ususally only cared for infants through 3 year-olds), she always responded that Lexie didn’t need anything, and she was very obviously unconcerned with her needs or happiness while in my care. When Alfreedia Gregg-Glover picked her up each day, Alexis would say “I love you Mom!”. Ms. Gregg-Glover never responded with any kind of love or affection at all. I couldn’t understand it because I knew Lexie was in the process of being adopted by Ms. Gregg-Glover. I made the decision to contact Lexie’s social worker in charge of her child care arrangements, which is not something I do lightly, in fact, in my 21 years of taking care of children, this was the first time I had made such a call. FOUR YEARS AGO social services was alerted by myself, and I have no idea how many times since then or possibly before then people who noticed something was terribly wrong tried to bring it to someone’s attention. This was a sweet little girl, who sought nothing but love, and later help, from adults, to rescue her from the nightmare she was living. Something is terribly wrong in the system and we need to determine what it is and address it. I held a Virginia State license to provide child care for a short time, but was what I considered to be nearly blackmailed at the time to relinquish it, approximately 3 years ago. I asked the monitor who came to my house for the opportunity to bring myself and my paperwork and child care environment up to the standards to keep the state license, but was told if they allowed me another 3-4 months to do so, they would have to post my violations on the internet (which were mostly paperwork violations), and with a grin on her face, the monitor told me that I would never be able to bring things up to standard. But she said if I singed the back of my state license that was in effect at that time saying I relinquish my license, nothing would be posted on the internet, and then, since I would no longer be state-licensed, they wouldn’t come out and “bother” me anymore, but that I COULD STILL CONTINUE TO CARE FOR UP TO 5 CHILDREN.
What does this say? I invite anyone to come review my records of the past 20-25 years, including each and every monitor visit, or to interview any of the parents whose children I cared for, and determine for themselves if I was a person fit to care for children. I’ll venture to say that they will find that I was not only a loving, caring, and nurturing provider, but that I loved and cared for the entire families as well and tried to accomodate different situations when families ran into financial difficulties, etc. When I had a child with special needs come under my care as I did at different times over the years, including a child with autism, a child paralyed from the waist down, a young boy with Asperger’s Syndrome, and others, I’d try to learn as much as I could about their condition in order to be a better caretaker for them.
I am crushed, as are many, many others familiar with Lexie’s story are. Please help us address this. Thanks.
It is so sad that you were making reports about this child, while there was still time to save her. You did everything you could and it is not your fault that CPS failed to save this child. That responsiblity belongs on their shoulders.
They tell you if you suspect child abuse, to report it, but when you do they ignore it, fail to investigate it, or come after you. It is very frustrating when you are witnessing the abuse of a child and you can do nothing to stop it.
I am moving your comment into an update post on this case. You can find it later this week on this blog.
my name is landa. I have 2 kids. both of my kids are still in foster care. cps dont care about kids. cps is all about money. cps workers lie all the time. my case worker went to court & lied on me. my kids have marks on them. my kids are still in the same foster home. we need to report bad case workers. we need to ban cps. I live here in canton ohio. Im trying to start my own organization to help families. we need support here in canton ohio. it is up to us to stop cps. anyone live here in ohio. we all need to come together to fight cps. lets not give up on our kids. we have to fight for our rights. we want our kids home stop cps. anyone reading my story send me a e-mail kindnessohio@att.net Im online checking my e-mail everyday. come on families wake up. we have to fight cps.
Hang in Landa….don’t give up!
Make sure that you are keeping a note book and documenting everything!!!!!