Posted on 07/17/2006 8:00:34 PM PDT by dread78645
LOS ANGELES Jul 17, 2006 (AP)— A teenage girl reunited with her father last year after a decade in foster care is suing Los Angeles County for taking so long to bring them together.
County supervisors had said in September that the reunion of Melinda Smith, now 17, and father Thomas Marion Smith was the result of a "groundbreaking effort," and congratulated county agencies for locating the father.
But the lawsuit alleges that the Department of Children and Family Services failed to use "due diligence" to locate Thomas Smith. It claims the agency never notified Smith, who had continued making child support payments, that his daughter was in foster care and never gave him a chance to claim her.
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That may be a little harsh but for some reason there are a lot of fruits in government.
I think the tax payers do deserve punishment for the pain that results from their actions and inactions. This girl doesn't deserve millions but she does deserve to be repaid for the real damage of leaving her in the foster care system.
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