Home of Dead Foster Child Was Called Clean by Agency

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Home of Dead Foster Child Was Called Clean by Agency http://tinyurl.com/gpvl

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<sarc>The newspaper is being totally unfair. The place was clean when
the good and decent caseworkers came by to pay a visit. The cops just
caught the loving foster mother on the cusp of her cleaning cycle. She
was just beginning to throw out the trash. Naturally, she started with
the dead foster kids. </sarc>

I don't know how they break things down in NY. The NY Times identifies
CPS as "the city's Administration for Children's Services", and it
contracts to apparently several companies, such as the "Variety/Cody
Gifford House for Children with Special Needs and its parent, the
Association to Benefit Children". CPS will put the problem off as an
innocent mistake in made in choosing contractors. There'll be a little
paper shuffling, and if things get really bad, the aforementioned
company will have to close down and reopen under another name. What a
hassle!

Two other foster kids "have been removed from her [Renee Johnson] care".
Were these kids sent back to their parents now that it's obvious the
state has placed them in a horrible situation? No, not a chance. They
won't go back even if the original "reason" for removal was a
"dangerously cluttered home". CPS can never be found to be neglectful or
abusive.

For those of you who can't click through on links, here's the article:

Home of Dead Foster Child Was Called Clean by Agency
By LESLIE KAUFMAN and MICHAEL BRICK

City officials said yesterday that the home of the severely disabled
8-year-old girl whose body was found in a garbage truck on Wednesday had
been visited a total of four times by three different caseworkers since
March and each time was reported to be clean.

But law enforcement officials stood by earlier statements that the house
was disgusting and unsanitary to the point that it should have been
detected by anyone visiting.

At the arraignment on Thursday of the girl's foster mother, Renee
Johnson, prosecutors said her Queens home was littered with fecal
matter, vomit, maggots and hypodermic needles. Yesterday, law
enforcement officials said they had a video of the house to prove it.

On Wednesday, Ms. Johnson confessed to wrapping the 28-pound body of her
foster daughter Stephanie Ramos in a garbage bag and leaving it on an
Upper East Side sidewalk. The body was later found crushed in a garbage
truck. Ms. Johnson told the police that Stephanie, who was blind and had
cerebral palsy and diabetes, had died from an illness, which had caused
Ms. Johnson to panic and dispose of the body.

But on Thursday in Manhattan Criminal Court, the assistant district
attorney, Joan Illuzzi-Orbin, implied that neglect could have played a
role in the child's death, calling the conditions in the home "the most
despicable, filthy, horrible situation."

Law enforcement officials said that to see why the filth was overlooked,
they would be looking into the relationship between Ms. Johnson and
Variety/Cody Gifford House for Children with Special Needs and its
parent, the Association to Benefit Children, which was under contract
with the city to to oversee Stephanie's foster care. Both organizations
have steadfastly refused to take repeated calls from reporters.

Maclean Guthrie, a spokeswoman for the city's Administration for
Children's Services, said the agency was in the midst of its own
extensive review of the case. But as of now, she said, "Our records
indicate no unsatisfactory living conditions."

She said that a city caseworker had visited the home in March and that a
different caseworker from the Association to Benefit Children had
visited the house once each in April and May. Both caseworkers reported
the house satisfactorily clean, if a little cluttered. In addition, Ms.
Guthrie said, an inspector from the Association to Benefit Children
visited the home in June and recertified it as appropriate for foster
children.

Two other foster children who were living with Ms. Johnson at the time
of Stephanie's death have been removed from her care. Ms. Johnson, who
has been charged with tampering with evidence and with illegal disposal
of a body, remains in jail in $50,000 bail.

Since Stephanie is believed to have died in Queens, it would be up to
Richard A. Brown, the borough's district attorney, to file additional
charges related to the child's death. His spokesman said yesterday that
Mr. Brown was considering such charges but was awaiting multiple reports
from the medical examiner, evaluating the cause and time of death as
well as the presence of drugs in the girl's body.

The toxicology report is intended to investigate whether medications
were administered to the girl, who had a variety of ailments and
disabilities, and if so, whether they were administered properly.

Law enforcement officials said that determining whether a crime had been
committed in the girl's death would be difficult because the life
expectancy for such a profoundly disabled child is brief and because the
girl's body had been mangled by the garbage truck. If the autopsy is
inconclusive, the condition of the house could be a crucial factor in
determining whether criminal neglect occurred, they said.

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[Greg Hanson]

> "Our records indicate no unsatisfactory living conditions." (sarcastic leer)

Law enforcement officials said that determining whether a crime had been committed in the girl's death would be difficult because the life expectancy for such a profoundly disabled child is brief and because the girl's body had been mangled by the garbage truck. If the autopsy is inconclusive, the condition of the house could be a crucial factor in determining whether criminal neglect occurred, they said.

They would NOT say this if it was a BIO parent.
Then they would PRESUME it's a homicide.