We never talked to girl - NYPD City policy called for cops to investigate Nixzmary Brown's injuries alongside child welfare caseworkers - but detectives never even talked with the girl, according to the NYPD and the notesFull Story
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Archives of Rudolph W. GiulianiMAYOR'S MESSAGE
Mayor's WINS AddressSunday, February 15, 1998
New Instant Response Teams Will Protect Children Firstby Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani
MAYOR GIULIANI ANNOUNCES INSTANT RESPONSE TEAM PROGRAM TO TARGET MOST SERIOUS CHILD ABUSE CASES Hey Mike, what's up with the Instant Response Teams?
ARCHIVES OF THE MAYOR'S WEEKLY COLUMNArchives of Rudolph W. Giuliani
City's New Children's Center a Monument to Caring
As a delegagte of my local union 371 SSEU I tried mightily to stop the move to this center. For one thing there was an issue of concern over formaldehyde, since the Children's Center is a renovated morgue.
Additionally most staff come and go by private automobile and they enter and leave work at odd late hours. Parking is very tight and there are heavy fines and towing fees. We emergency children's services workers get no breaks in this regard. When one's car is in the "No parking after 8:00 AM'' zone and eight o'clock comes and one is in a precinct or hospital miles away from the car one is very very much out of luck. I don't understand how this situation helps us to investigate child abuse, do you?
I emailed virtually every City Council member and State Legislator from the city but after a delay of a few months the move went forward. We union members met with staff from Betsy Gottbaum's office but to no avail.
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How many children died in ACS care or under ACS investigation during Giuliani's term in office?
PRESS RELEASEState child fatality reports show continuing failure of child welfare agency to learn from mistakes and of state to require changes.
From Gotham Gazette during Giuliani time no, not the Daily News, not The New York Post, not any big media, because teflon was in effect>
See past monthly updates for Children.
by Caroline HowardGuest Reporter
Children's Services
The agency whose job it is to keep the city's children safe, the Administration for Children's Services, is now a permanent agency, thanks to a charter proposal that the voters passed in November, after a six-year separation from the Human Resources Administration. But Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta, widely hailed as the mastermind behind the agency's reinvention, is stepping down and his replacement has yet to be announced. At the same time, as if to mock all their best intentions, tragically, at least six children under the age of seven have died recently, allegedly at the hands of their abusive parents.The list is a heartbreaking reminder of the agency's grave responsibility: Inez Bennett, 7, found dead in her family's Bronx apartment with a smashed jaw and hot water burns, cuts and bruises covering her body; Signifagance Oliver, 4, drowned in the bathtub by her mother in an exorcism ritual; Sylena Herrnkind, 3, beaten to death by her mother in the Staten Island home she shared with four siblings; Sidney Achan, 2, who died from multiple skull fractures and brain injuries; and Kyron Hamilton, 15 months, beaten to death by his mother who said the baby was bothering her while she watched television. A Brooklyn man was charged with second-degree murder in the death of De Andrew Monroe, the 15-month-old son of his girlfriend. According to police, the baby was shaken to death because he would not stop crying.
If the Administration for Children's Services is......
You won't remember any uproar in the press at that time because there was none.
To understand the situation you should read these articles I have posted on this blog:
- ACS worker to The Commissioner - My Boss Says Some Things to The New York Daily News - And I React.
The Commissioner speaks of more aggressive interviews.
- The Nixzmary Brown Case - Daily News gets its hands on the case record, more....
I ask if the failures seen in these excerpts provided by The News are typical or not and offer a simple way of finding out. I also point out that the famous NYPD Special Victims Unit of television fame was deep in this case. Of course the police commissioner is not on the spot nor his staff.....
- Nixzmary Brown, 7 Is Dead, Known to Child Welfare Authorities
How Scopetta and Giuliani "Reformed" Child Welfare in NYC
11:00 pm NEWSFLASH: COP WHISPER CAMPAIGN AGAINST CASEWORKERS GETS PUSH FROM NY Times:
''The Sunday News reported that the Children's Services case file on Nixzmary said the detectives had helped interview her relatives, but then chose not to pursue a criminal case. The police have disputed that account, and a police official went further yesterday, providing more details of the detectives' actions.
The police official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the caseworker called the detectives from the Brooklyn Child Abuse Squad to the school out of a fear that Nixzmary's stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, might show up and try to interfere. Normally, such a call would have been referred to uniformed officers, but since the detectives knew one of the Children's Services workers, they went, the official said.
But by the time they arrived at the school, the caseworker's interviews with Nixzmary and her siblings were finished, the official said, and Mr. Rodriguez had already appeared on the scene without incident. At no time did the police interview Nixzmary or Mr. Rodriguez, nor did the caseworkers ask the police to take any further action, the official said. The child welfare workers then traveled to the family home to continue their work, without the police detectives accompanying them.
The official said that Deputy Inspector Ann Marie K. Connell, the commanding officer of the Special Victims Division, which oversees all child abuse squads, was present at the meeting in City Hall on Sunday and provided those details.''
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/nyregion/17mayor.html?pagewanted=print
If we want to believe that Special Victims Unit Detectives provide security for ACS caseworkers inside school buildings we are ready to believe anything at all. There is a protocol that lays out the cooperation that is supposed to take place between NYPD and ACS in such matters. It is called the Instant Response Protocol. The Special Victims Detectives were at the school to do their jobs which is to investigate crimes against small children in this instant. It is incredible what is being said now by NYPD both off the record and on the record. Schools employ security officers. Special Victims Detectives are not school security officers. This investigation smells more and more like an old fashioned lynching to me....
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