Trial Set for Mom Accused of Locking Starved Girl in Closet

If you talk to a CPS worker, they will tell you that typically it is so that the most outrageous cases are ignored and punted back to them by the Courts.

There are many reasons for this. One is the attitude that kids should stay with families, and the government is there to "help families work" (a liberal fallacy, of course; only when there is extreme dysfunction, as in this case, should the government step in and then it should be with the welfare of the CHILDREN in mind, not some bogus, long-discredited Feminist notion of "helping these women learn skills.")

Another is that the courts are simply overburdened, resulting in many cases falling "through the cracks."

You will get a lot of bloviating here on FR against CPS, but the fact is the great majority of CPS workers have very frustrating jobs in which they are privileged to see children abused on a daily basis with no one to help them.

Well, what I want to know is: Where is the Father in all this? Shouldn't he be "on trial" too, just like Russell Yates?

You must have missed this part of the article:

Atkinson's former husband, 34-year-old Kenneth Ray Atkinson, is awaiting a new trial date after a judge agreed to a request for a separate trial last week. He also faces a sexual abuse charge.

re:
"..There's been no shortage of such people in any generation...."

Every generation seems to feel that it's only the current
generation or the one directly preceding it, that's at fault
for "today's problems". Placing blame seems to have always
been in vogue.

In all actuality, things are improving in these passing years.
We've all become more involved; more apt to report
acts of violence we hear or see happening on someone
else's house. But that has become the irony of the Conservative's
and Libertarian's demand for "freedom and rights" of parents.

We can no longer ignore the peril of children at the hands
of uncaring or abusive parents; We can no longer ignore
the abuse of anyone we see, that are in abusive and hostile
relationships. And I'd like to think of our interference as
"civility", not some sort of "liberal" nosy cause.

We expect our courts to pass judgment and make correct
decisions, but hear howls when they are reluctant to remove
children from what might appear as an abusive environment,
or howls when they do remove children from parent's homes.

The placement of blame and the howling about interference
of our courts and law enforcement in personal lives, is continual
and more pronounced among "Conservatives" and "Libertarians"
than their Liberal counterparts.

It shouldn't be odd at all, that caring about fellow humans is not
deemed "conducive to conservative causes" by those viewing
from "outside the conservative circle".

[just another of my criticisms of our "conservative appearance"].

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