'Protected' Children Died as Government Did Little

Washington Post ^ | 9/9/2001 | Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham and Sarah Cohen

[B. A. Conservative]

The decision sealed the fate of 2-month-old Wesley Lucas. D.C. social workers were assigned to protect Wesley from his neglectful, cocaine-addicted mother. So they allowed the baby to stay with his mother's boyfriend. The 69-year-old man was dying from lung cancer, but the workers promised to provide a caretaker to help.

[B. A. Conservative]

What can anybody say? Government fails at everything. Dumokrauts fail on every issue because their solution is always more government.

[SlickWillard]

A child is a child is an unviable tissue mass, dude.

So what? Who cares? Get over it!

[Salvation]

Slick Willard
Did you read the stories?
Or are you being sarcastic?

Any life that is lost affects someone else.

[Salvation]

Bump to the top!

[rabidralph]

good ol' DC government. They can't balance their books without embezzling a few thousand, they elect a crack-smoking mayor, and their workers don't care about providing services to the public. Yet they want 100% Home Rule, statehood and more federal money. Oh and they like to blame their problems on Republicans and white people. Let's bring on the gentrification! Sorry for ranting, I just hate how the city's been mismanaged for decades and the black people in charge aren't interested in fixing the problems.

[fone]

If any person here can read the link(s) and not be sickened, to the point of physical revulsion;
then we need to rename this country "The Fourth Reich."