Posted on 01/18/2006 4:33:35 AM PST by ecsredeye
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg vowed yesterday to punish any city workers who are found to have mishandled the case of a 7-year-old Brooklyn girl who the police say was killed by her stepfather.
It was the strongest sign yet that the mayor is dissatisfied with the city's actions in the events leading to the death of the girl, Nixzmary Brown, and officials say it also reflects his concern that there was a communication breakdown between child welfare caseworkers and police detectives involved in the case.
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You won't remember any uproar in the press at that time because there was none.
Scopetta got to wear his fireman's hat and as an afterthought a replacement for him was sought.
"Punish" how? By frowning at them?
Government employees almost never experience genuine consequences for failing to do their jobs. Even when they commit felonies, they're still on the payroll as they head off to jail.
Other related threads:
EVIL STEPDAD'S SADISTIC RAGE - 7 year old Nixzmary , Bound, beaten, starved, killed (TORTURED)
January 13, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557676/posts
TWO MONSTERS (Nixzaliz Brown will try to use the bogus Hedda Nussbaum defense)
January 13, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1558834/posts?page=1
TRAGIC CHILD TOLD ME HER SAD SECRET: 'I WISH THEY WERE DEAD' (7 Year old Nixzmary Brown)
January 14,2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557951/posts
HEADS MUST ROLL (killing of Nixzmary--fourth child to die in two months)
January 14, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1558043/posts
'I WAS AFRAID HE'D HIT ME,' SAYS MOM OF HORROR NIGHT 'MISCHIEVOUS' NIXZMARY DIED
January 16, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1558833/posts?page=9
ISLE VISIT A BRIGHT SPOT IN GIRL'S LIFE (Nixzmary Brown)
January 16, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1558835/posts
Of course, the cocktail party circuit in this town is saving its moral outrage for George Bush and the NSA.
Death penalty for cop killers.
Zero tolerance for child abusers.
Apparently everybody who was anybody was at the Canaan Baptist Church on Monday.
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