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January 27, 2003
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I'm reminded more often than I'd like of how lucky I am to work where I do and not in someplace like Chicago.Officers searching a home for drugs and weapons found a 3-year-old boy chained by the neck to a bedpost, authorities said.
A 10-foot (3-meter) chain was wrapped three times around the boy's neck and held in place by a padlock when he was found Saturday in a South Side home.
This was a child welfare foster placement. In its infinite wisdom, child welfare had placed 6 "very troubled" children with a 69 year old woman. The foster mother had chained him to the bed for "stealing food," a very common behavior with abused/neglected kids. It gets worse. After finding this child chained to the bed, they only removed 5 of the 6 children from the foster home.
What the hell is wrong with you people? Are you so damned stupid that you think it's ok to leave a child in this home just because he or she is "older"? Or is it just too much trouble to find an emergency placement? Absolutely inexcusable. The whole damned bunch should be publicly horsewhipped or executed or something.
Posted by Rita at January 27, 2003 06:45 PM