What the heck is this guy doing in the Administration for Children's Services? . . .
Oh, wait a minute . . . that's Don Mattingly, not John Mattingly. Never mind.
Posted on 01/14/2006 7:24:31 AM PST by Liz
Memo to Mayor Mike: When a city agency fails so badly in its mission that a helpless 7-year-old winds up dead, it's hardly a time to be cutting slack for those responsible.
Four days after the brutal killing of little Nixzmary Brown, Hizzoner should be serving up heads on a platter. And a perfect neck to start with might be that of John Mattingly, who runs the Administration for Children's Services, the agency that failed the girl.
But not Mayor Mike. He's spent the past few days making excuses. Filibustering. Passing the buck. Yesterday, he actually praised Mattingly as a "nationally recognized expert" in his field. "Until I see something contrary," Hizzoner said, "I think he's probably doing a good job."
Where's Mike been this week? On another planet?
If not, he'd surely know that a little girl in Brooklyn just died at the hands of her parents, while — under Mattingly's watch — ACS dithered and dallied.
He'd know that there were numerous points when the agency — which exists expressly to intervene and prevent such tragedies — could have acted. And he'd know that Nixzmary was the fourth such child to die in just the past two months, despite numerous red flags being waved at ACS.
Doesn't he see any problem at all here? And isn't anyone in particular at fault? Or does the mayor still believe that everyone failed the girl, "the city, the country, the world," as he said Thursday?
Meaning that no one at all is responsible. What a copout.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
How many more times do we have to hear of cases where the "live-in" abuses children fathered by another man?
These men clearly see innocent children as a threat to their manhood, particularly in melting pot cultures.
The real father of this little girl reportedly said he wants to kill his daughter's killer.
And so the cycle of violence continues.
Not that it's relevant, but who in their right mind would name a kid 'Nixzmary'??? Whats next? 'vb;3gqfy,@'??
The real father is ALSO not the real father. He met the then pregnant mother in get this a homeless shelter and then want on to father 2 children with her. He has seen none of his children in 5 years including the dead child who's father still remains unknown.
All the supposed extended family coming out of the woodwork smell MONEY, they city is going to be facing a huge payout on this one and these family members who kept silent for all these years are hot on the trail.
What a great legal system we have.......(sarc off)
After reviewing more details Mommy dearest had 6 children with 4 different men.
The first father of the dead child is unknown.
Then the next man fathered the next 2. ( but is laying claim to the dead child)
The 4th child father still unknown.
The killer fathered the 5th and 6th and it is reported those are the only 2 he did NOT abuse.
In addition to brutalizing tragic 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown, Rodriguez, 27, also took a belt and his fists to the three other stepchildren in his crowded home — Javier, 9, Edward Jr., 5, and Selena, 4.
But in a sick twist, the sadist was selective in his abuse and apparently never laid a hand on the two kids he fathered with Nixzaliz Santiago — Cesar, age 6 months, and Augustine, age 18 months — a source said.
source of this is NYPost.
That happens to be my middle name, thankyouverymuch.
This is what happens when government employment is allowed to become a socialist make-work program. (I'm a government employee, so I know whereof I speak.) Blame CSEA/AFSCME for the girl's death as much as the state agency. "My" union makes it impossible to either reward excellence or punish incompetence in state service. And their outrageous wage demands mean fewer high-paid workers on the job rather than more well-paid workers. More caseworkers might have made it easier to keep track, and saved the girl's life.
And let's not forget that the management of government workers and agencies in NY ranges between benign neglect and thundering incompetence, with generous helpings of corruption.
To kill an innocent child is the most henious crime known to humankind. To kill a killer in defense of the innocent is the noble and sacred work of the Warrior.
A person came into our HR office to apply for a job, his mother named him Barabas. Can you imagine that?
The Post should be careful what they ask for. Child Services occasionally errs, because to err is human, and this is a government bureaucracy.
But on the whole, if you have to screw up, it's better to screw up by leaving kids with their families than to run around taking kids away from their families at the least excuse.
This happens about every decade or so. Some poor little kids suffers from family abuse, the media publicize it, and for the next three or four years they take numerous kids away from their parents on the basis of false testimony or trivial incidents like spanking a misbehaving kid in the supermarket.
Be careful what you ask for.
I lived the same way but my dad was a cop!
What the heck is this guy doing in the Administration for Children's Services? . . .
Oh, wait a minute . . . that's Don Mattingly, not John Mattingly. Never mind.
That's not a "sick twist" at all. In fact, what you've described here is not all that unusual. Perpetrators of this kind of abuse in a dysfunctional family situation like this follow a pattern that is well-established among primates like baboons -- in which a dominant male will establish himself as the head of his "tribe" by gathering a harem of females and killing off any of their offspring that were fathered by other males.
I saw the NY Daily News next to the NYP which I read daily. On the front page is the head of the ACD. The headline reads something like "We are overwhelmed, we are short of staff and we don't have enough money". I am of the opinion that when you fill positions to promote diversity you end up promoting incompetence. About once a month some kid that "fell through the cracks" dies down there. What you never read about is what becomes of the case workers or in this instance, the commissioner.
my fault, it's ACS.
At least 'Barabas' has some traditional foundation (a character in Marlowe's "The Rich Jew of Malta", also a biblical reference). But 'Nixzmary'? Looks like she either just threw a bunch of letters together, or was trying to keep track of the fathers by prefixing a mutilated possessive (ie. "Nick's Mary").
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