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BOSTON— House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi said Massachusetts has the nation’s third-highest rate of child abuse and neglect cases, and he pointed yesterday to the case of a severely beaten 11-year-old Westfield girl as an example of social services policies in need of reform.
DiMasi opened the testimony before the House Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect by saying, “The number of children confirmed as abused and neglected in 2005 — 35,214 children — would fill Fenway Park. Half were aged 7 and younger.”
DiMasi formed the special committee after Haleigh Poutre allegedly was beaten into a coma by her adoptive parents in 2005 after the Department of Social Services decided against taking her away from the couple despite the girl’s previous injuries.
Social work reform urged... Mass. child abuse rate cited in policy review
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"We want to make sure that tragedies don't occur," said state Representative John H. Rogers, a Norwood Democrat and chairman of a new committee that held its first hearing yesterday.
New legislative panel to review child protective services
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What else would one expect in liberal Massachusetts? Child abuse is strongly associated with liberal philosophy and its attendant welfare culture.
Of course the liberals will try to blame anything else they can think of.