[monkeyshine]

Where was CPS before this kid became so far gone?

[hanamizu]

Where was CPS before this kid became so far gone?

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Your faith in CPS is touching! But likely CPS couldn’t do anything even if they cared enough to try. The general rule is that the best place for a child is with his parents no matter how unfit they are.

When I was (very briefly in the business) the first order of business after a kid was taken from ‘home’ was to plan to get him back. One kid being abused/neglected out of say 7 in a family was no grounds to do anything with the other six. And don’t even think about placing a black kid with a white family—that is racist.

CPS likely doesn’t have enough foster parents to house all of the potential 14-year-old murders in the city anyway.