How Could You? Hall of Shame-Foster Daughter case

This will be an archive of heinous actions by those involved in child welfare, foster care and adoption. We forewarn you that these are deeply disturbing stories that may involve sex abuse, murder, kidnapping and other horrendous actions.

From Alaska, a foster daughter “was sexually abused by her foster father.” “The caseworker was alerted to the alleged abuse, but it was several months before the girl was removed from the home.”

Her biological “father, who lived out of state, was trying to get custody of his daughter.
According to the report, he called the caseworker more than 130 times.”

“The Office of Children’s Services Director, Christy Lawton, has responded that the main reason behind the complaints is due to the worker’s case load being too high.

“I guess what I would say is that Director Lawton has spoken with regards to this report about the crushing burdensome workload that our workers are facing. In the area where this occurred in our South Central area, we’ve got caseloads that are up to 43 cases per worker and when you consider that the national average is 12 per worker, that’s a pretty stunning caseload.”

State Representative Tammy Wilson does not believe that is an acceptable excuse, especially when a child is sexually abused in the process.

She believes Lawton should be removed from her duties as Director.

“When we looked at it and saw Christy Lawton, who is the director, her response was, ‘Well we are overloaded and things happen.’ That’s just unacceptable. A child was sexually abused when taken out of a home by the state. We have seen that there are issues. It’s time for the governor and for the commissioner to say, we need a change and it starts with the director. Ms. Lawton for whatever reason, in my opinion, has lost touch and it’s time to say we are not going to let our children be injured.”

Young girl sexually abused after OCS places her in foster care

[Web Center 11 6/29/17]

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