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Re: little 6 year old body found. -Sad
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Posted by fixerupper on March 15, 2007 at 20:10:55 from (206.72.37.202):
In Reply to: little 6 year old body found. -Sad posted by Dave from MN on March 15, 2007 at 19:11:57:
Our juvenile protection system is running amok because of underfunding. Our legislators create stronger child abuse laws but then down the road a ways, they pull some of the funding used to enforce these laws, and use the money somewhere else. Less money means understaffing in the agencies that are expected to enforce the laws. They are so over worked that they don't have nearly enough time to devote to each individual case. Serious offenders are turned loose, and at the same time innocent people who are turned in by a revengeful step-daughter,for instance, are rubber stamped 'guilty' and sent to prison. Seems like our legislators are passing child abuse laws just to impress the voters, but they don't want to back the laws up with proper funding. Jim
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