Stressing the Need to Followup on Abuse Reporting

This Indiana CPS Fail story Report: Indiana hotline caller pleaded for home check [WTHR 3/12/12] stresses the need to followup and/or continue to report abuse or any other unethical circumstance that continues after your report.

Ten-year-old Tramis Sturgill was tortured and beaten to death despite efforts to report suspicions of abuse to Indiana DCS. DCS tried to cover up this not-so-flattering information until this week.

“A news report says an anonymous caller to the Indiana Department of Child Services’ child abuse hotline pleaded 20 minutes for someone to check on conditions in a South Bend home six months before a boy living there was tortured to death.

The South Bend Tribune reported Monday the person wanted to get the report of abuse on the record before anything happened to the children in the house.

The call was made six months before police found 10-year-old Tramelle Sturgis tortured and beaten to death in that home.

The newspaper published the story Monday after the Indiana attorney general’s office asked the Indiana Court of Appeals to dismiss the child services agency’s bid to block its publication.”

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