Boy hanged self after visit from LA County workers

[proud2BlibKansan]

Authorities investigating an 11-year-old's suicide threat say they didn't learn key information about an abusive stepfather who answered the door at his house until after the boy hanged himself.

A story in Sunday's Los Angeles Times says the investigators lacked key information on the boy because of communication difficulties at the Department of Children and Family Services.

On June 11, the workers visited the boy's home in Montebello after he told a school counselor he wanted to kill himself. Los Angeles County records show he was found dead hours after the visit.

They did not learn until after the suicide that the stepfather who answered the door had a history of drug abuse and domestic violence and a court had barred him from living in the home.


http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/25/2105727/boy-hanged-self-after-visit-from.html

[tavalon]

1. Good to see CPS is still doing a great job.

When I was a child, my father beat me black and blue. I ran away and someone took me to CPS. They took pictures of my body, top to bottom (I was 11 at the time and yes, they were all over my body). CPS put me in a foster home for a three day "cooling off" period and even though I begged them not to, they sent me back home and never came back to check on me. When I ran away again two years later, I handled my own escape, without intervention from the useless ones. I've never trusted them again.

[Greyhound]

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