The Department of children and Families has the responsibility to intervene
in the cases of children whose families have failed to provide a safe and nurturing
home environment. The Florida DCF’s mission on myflorida.com. “The mission of the Department of
Children and Families is to Protect the Vulnerable, Promote Strong and
Economically Self-Sufficient Families, and Advance Personal and Family Recovery
and Resiliency.” When it comes to children, every time the organization
considers any abnormality in a family home environment, it would step in to
assure stability. But very often, matters turn worse with DCF.
The child welfare system has seen yet another scandal. A child has
died, and the social worker is charged with falsifying documents.
DCF has had a reputation for doing a bad job. This is no surprise.
In fact, this mother Rachel Fryer had been dealing with the Department for a
while. The twin brother of her two-year-old son Tariji Gordon who died in
February on Feb. 11, 2014, had previously “suffocated under his mother’s foot while sleeping with her on a
couch.” Tariji and his three other siblings were placed in the care of the child
welfare organization. They were supposed to return to their mother in the
coming month.
Then,
Tajiri was found dead, buried under shallow dirt after a few days missing from
his mother’s Seminole county home. Yet, the bad part is, both the mother and
the social worker had been arrested. It is believed that the mother killed the
child, while the social worker neglected him. The latter claimed to have
visited the child and recorded that everything was fine, when apparently it was
not. When the body was discovered, “medical examiners documented cigarette
burns that were “not fresh,” and patches of hair that appeared to have been
ripped from Tariji’s head. “The hair loss,” the medical examiner wrote, “was a
result of the forceful pulling of her hair.””
According
to the investigation, the case worker Jonathan Irizarry lied and falsified
documents. He reported that he visited the children and conducted inspections
of the home environment and the children. But, investigators contended that if
he did, he would not have missed the signs of abuse on the child before he disappeared.
By any mean, they concluded, one way or another, the social worker has lied. At
the end, child welfare is on the hot seat again. Children are continued to be
abused and neglect under its supervision.
By E.C. GRANMOUN
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