Yes, it does happen. And why aren't citizens clamoring for very harsh prison terms for people involved in committing crimes like this? And why aren't the perpetrators facing jury trials and getting huge monetary judgments against them, that will ruin THEIR lives? Seems to me that would be a more productive avenue than campaigning for the abolition or severe hand-tying of all government child protection agencies. The two chief perpetrators in this story apparently weren't charged with anything at all -- Mewborn ran off to Louisiana a free man (hopefully he's one of the 1000 who didn't survive Katrina), and the CPS supervisor is still on the taxpayers' payroll, now with access to vulnerable elderly people.
Cox, one of the successful attorneys in this case says "I have no sympathy for child abusers. They should rot in jail for the rest of their lives". But he, and the citizens, need to make clear that there WERE real child abusers in this case, and THEY need to be charged, tried, convicted, and sent to rot in prison. Until we make a scary example of some of these people, it'll keep happening frequently.
Because the media trade in constant cases that were so bad that CPS could do nothing to prevent them?
And why aren't the perpetrators facing jury trials and getting huge monetary judgments against them, that will ruin THEIR lives?
Statutory immunity.
Seems to me that would be a more productive avenue than campaigning for the abolition or severe hand-tying of all government child protection agencies.
That Constitution thingy really bothers you, doesn't it? I suggest you move to Sweden.
The two chief perpetrators in this story apparently weren't charged with anything at all -- Mewborn ran off to Louisiana a free man (hopefully he's one of the 1000 who didn't survive Katrina), and the CPS supervisor is still on the taxpayers' payroll, now with access to vulnerable elderly people.
Agencies with power protect themselves. That's how it's always been.
But he, and the citizens, need to make clear that there WERE real child abusers in this case, and THEY need to be charged, tried, convicted, and sent to rot in prison. Until we make a scary example of some of these people, it'll keep happening frequently.
Ahem... IT DOES HAPPEN FREQUENTLY. What is rare is when someone within CPS breaks ranks so that a lawsuit even has a prayer.