A women was sentenced to five years in prison for killing her month old son in the microwave. Elizabeth Renee Otter mother of Joseph Lewis Martnez, born August 18, was discovered in a microwave early morning after relatives searched their home in Lanexa. With no memory of the killing, Otte’s only defense epilepsy which caused her to blackout and become disoriented mistaken the baby for a…
Although being seen at regular intervals by social workers and health professionals there were many people and organisations that let him down. There was an obvious high level of concern for the childs welfare but the actions seemed to lack urgency and thoroughness. Social workers and police failed to sufficiently challenge the parent about his injuries, that the paediatrician had stated appeared non accidental.…
Impact on internal and external stakeholders When it comes to the impact of this negligent event, it is needless to say that the child, Courtnie Williamson, suffered the worse consequences of all, she will be affected physically, emotionally, and intellectually for the rest of her life; with therapy and willpower she might be able to recover to a certain extent, but there is no certainty on the success of any treatment. This negligent act limited the future of this child and the way that she might be productive and contribute to society; just as important are the enormous consequences for the parents. As much as the courts insist that the parent-child relationship does not have the same dependency as the child-parent bond, there is going…
ii. Also tended to have more money and policies that appealed to their financial interests…
Less hierarchy-poorer people now reacquired to be treated with the same respect as their wealthy counterparts…
The United States has child protective services. These are services put in place regardless of the child’s age or race (CPS manual). When child protective services get involved they look out for the best interest of the child. They asses the environments and secure law enforcement in case it is not up to code (CPS manual). If Miss Fairfield lived in present day times she would not have gotten away with the strangulation of her infant child.…
I feel the reason so was because of all the changes. I feel they felt as if they picked the option of engaging in free trade, that it would clear all problems in reference to U.S industrialization. How ever in regard to business, it was booming. People were coming up with new tactics to control and get every customers money. The reason I say this is because of one act of “monopoly”. This act is basically when a company controls everything. It gives them the power and illegibility to do anything and everything they want to get money. Of course this is not good including the act of horizontal companies producing similar products joining forces. Clearly, because their bound to fail eventually. During this whole period, workers were all held accountable for keeping these processes going. It also came with a down fall which was their treatment. Their work hours were ridiculous and their bosses had no pity on their injuries they endured. Which I might add occurred a lot. However, the knight of labor, the American federation of labor and violent strikes turned this all…
The Nation’s attention was being caught by a series of stunning news reports depicting the most tragic consequences of child maltreatment. In this chapter, partially, we…
Many professionals tried their best to help vulnerable children, and billions of dollars are devoted to child welfare. Not every case were success or fail in protecting children. As Myers (2009) stated, “the only time child protection makes the front page or the evening news is when something goes terribly wrong” (p. 462). For example, service provider fails to remove an endangered child or remove child who should not. Of course, public know about service providers failure to protect some children, and sometime under values the services of the…
It is reported that children have died from abuse or neglect and that it has been their parents or carers…
What really surprised me was the continued neglect of these children. It just seems like such a foreign concept to me to continually neglect children. Now it appears to be an easy concept, if a child is neglected, he/she needs more attention and care. I do realize that this is often hard in situations such as children in the foster care system, so how do we give these children the right amount of attention with limited resources?…
lives with each other and the government was not as corrupted, the people lived together with…
Society and government seek both to protect children from abuse and to defend the rights of the family. Weighing those two goals and determining which is more important in a particular situation poses a serious challenge. Child welfare experts constantly struggle to balance the risk of causing psychological damage to children by removing them from their families with the risk of exposing them to physical harm by leaving them with abusive parents or guardians. This decision is especially difficult when the evidence of abuse is unclear.…
Victoria had been a part of multi agency child protection plan and had visited and been visited by multiple hospitals, social services teams, police and churches before her death on 25th February 2000 at just 8 years and 3 months old. All agencies involved were too willing to listen to her Aunties stories of incontinence, possession and behavioural problems. The social services teams didn’t even follow up a disclosure of sexual abuse towards Victoria with an investigation after her Aunty retracted the allegations she had made towards her partner. All agencies seemed very trusting of Victoria’s Aunty who was reinforced by her presentation and behaviour. She co-operated with meetings and visits from professionals, initiated communication with professionals and even responded positively to offers of help.…
Safeguarding and working to protect children has come about in the past 50 years after weakness in the system were highlighted through high profile cases such as Victoria Climbie in 2000.…